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  2. MISSING STEAMER.

    A telegram from Thursday Island states that the steamer Douglas Matyson is four days overdue. There are fears for her safety. The vessel was chartered by the ...

    Article : 360 words
  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    The foundation stone of the new touse at Gladstone, for the Bishop of Willoehra (Rt. Rev. Dr. Gilbert White) will be laid by Mrs. A. Nutter Thomas on Tuesday ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. GOAL DISPUTE

    A resolution was passed at a meeting of miners in the Knrri districts that all the mines in the districts should be closed once weekly. When Major Crane presided at ...

    Article : 445 words
  5. ABORIGINES AND HALF—CASTES.

    An important mission into the interior of Australia is about to be undertaken by Sir W. Baldwin Spencer, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government. Sir Baldwin ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. COSTLY NAVAL BASE.

    After the expenditure of more than £l,000,000 in the preliminary work of establishing a naval base at Cockburn Sound the Minister for Works and Railways ...

    Article : 370 words
  7. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 words
  8. LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE.

    Lord Willoughby de Broke took the first part of his name from the manor of Willoughby, in Lincolnshire, and the second from Broke, in Wiltshire. He is really a ...

    Article : 112 words
  9. NURSES REGISTRATION ACT.

    Regulations under the Nurses Registration Act, relative to the training and examination of midwives appear in the Government Gazette this week ...

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  10. WILLIS ISLAND WIRELESS.

    Officials of the Home and Territories Department are enquiring whether, the meteorological authorities at Cairns, Queensland, were notified by the Willis ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. ROMANCE OF A BOOT BUSINESS.

    Memory of an industrial romance as well as of old Liberal associations was awakened by the death at Mnlton Grange, Northants, recently, of Mr. Harry Manfield, a former ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. ARREST OF A SUSPECT.

    Plainclothes Constable Kennedy and Cctetable Judd were responsible for the arrest on Friday of Amas Arblaster, a middle—aged man, on a charge of having on ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. DOPE!

    We roost of us dope on occasion. I don't mean that we take cocaine or alcohol. Other things, just as paralysing to action. There is the idealist's dope: he ...

    Article : 486 words
  14. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 words
  15. CLOSED AREA FOR BIRDS.

    The Executive Council, at its meeting on Wednesday, decided to declare as a a closed area for birds generally, the following: Comprising that portion of the ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. GERMANS INVITED TO OXFORD.

    Twelve German students are to spend a month in Oxford at the invitation of English graduates and undergraduates. Much bitterness of feeling has been caused (says ...

    Article : 213 words
  17. CONVENT GIRL'S ADVENTURES.

    After a three days hunt, Iolene Carter, the 15-year-old girl, who ran away, from the Convent of Notre Dame de Sion, Worthing, was discovered in a labourer's ...

    Article : 311 words
  18. EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), addressing the British Epire Exhibition Commission to-day, advocated the exhibition as splendid opportunity for advertising ...

    Article : 328 words
  19. ROYAL WEDDING DRESS.

    Lady Elizabeth Bowes—Lyon has chosen to have her wedding—dress made by a woman. The wonderful dress of shimmering silver. pearl and white, in which ...

    Article : 99 words
  20. ANOTHER CURTAILED SCHEME.

    The changed naval policy has led to a curtailment of the original scheme for the establishment of a naval base in Westernport Bay, Victoria, but unlike the larger ...

    Article : 352 words
  21. MRS. KENDAL HURT.

    Mrs. Kendal. the famous actress, recently met with a slight accident at her house in London. She slipped and fell as she was crossing the hall. In falling ...

    Article : 52 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND WHEAT.

    The New Zealand Minuter of Agriculture (Mr. Norsworthy)' states that in view of the fact that evidence clearly points to there being sufficient wheat in ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. BARTOHLOMEW FAIR.

    Bartholomew Fair, which it is proposed to revive in connection with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. SOPRANO TRIUMPH AT EISTEDDFOD.

    Although only 11 years old. Miss M. M. Morgan, of Ammanford, South Wales, has already won 200 Eisteddfod prizes. They hare been awarded her for soprano sinking ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. AN UNWELCOME STRANGER.

    At the Oakleigh Police Court to-day Aibert Edmund Williamson, aged 42 years, a manufacturing chemist, was charged with having been found on the premises ...

    Article : 137 words
  26. TWO KINGS MEET.

    King Sobhnga, the Paramount Swazi Chief, accompanied by the members of his party and several European officials, was received by the King at Buckingham ...

    Article : 237 words
  27. CLEVER SEAGULLS.

    The Patawalonga creek, although at low tide somewhat smellful, is nevertheless a very intertsting place for a rambler, and a stroll along its sandy shore and ...

    Article : 735 words
  28. PREACHED FOR 66 YEARS.

    Mr. W. Cooke, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, who .preached his first sermon in 1860, when he was 15 years-old, has rendered continuous voluntary ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. WHERE RELIGION COSTS. 12/6 A YEAR.

    There are certain remote districts in Central China, where the people believe that the more religions they profess the better it is for them. On behalf of the ...

    Article : 173 words
  30. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS REVIEWED.

    The President of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Maitland Paxton), on opening to-day the annual meeting of the affiliated Chambers of Commerce of New ...

    Article : 505 words
  31. SELF-GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION.

    On Wednesday evening; the Workers Educational Association of South Australia began he sixth annual conference in the Institute lecture Hall, North terrace. Dr. Heaton ...

    Article : 301 words
  32. SIR FREDERICK TREVES

    Sir Frederick Treves, the great surgeon, who last month was 70 years of age, celebrated his birthday with the latest of his many books ...

    Article : 123 words
  33. A RACE Of CARD PLAYERS.

    The Jewish element is very strong in most London and in many provincial clubs. In almost all club card rooms you will see Jews, and generally you will find ...

    Article : 610 words
  34. MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS.

    Miss Helena Stewart, aged 21 years, and a few months, is the youngest girl chemist in Great Britain, who has a chemist's shop Ct her own, which she runs ...

    Article : 166 words
  35. BEAUTIFUL MRS. SANDS.

    A famous society divorce suit of more than 20 years ago was recalled by the death of Mrs. Maud Sands, then known as "the beautiful Mrs. Sands." She died ...

    Article : 288 words
  36. STOLEN GOODS.

    The sentence of me Bench is two years imprisonment." Uttering a shriek, the Youns woman who was thus punished "collapsed on the floor of the Fitzroy Court ...

    Article : 200 words
  37. BELL—RINGING JUDGE.

    Mr. R. R. Cherry, K.C., who was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1914 to 1916, has died in Dublin. After unsuccessfully contesting the Kirkdale Division of ...

    Article : 107 words
  38. UTE COMMERCIAL

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 words
  39. A TRAMP'S WEALTH.

    When William Mason, of no fixed abode, was charged at Leamington,, England, with being: drunk, be had in his possession 50 £1 Treasury notes and 16/4 in loose cash ...

    Article : 107 words
  40. SIR J. LAVERY'S PORTRAIT GALLERY.

    Sir John Lavery, R.A., is painting the portrait of Mr. Cosgrave, the Premier of he Irish Free State. When completed, the portrait will form one of the ...

    Article : 143 words
  41. LADY ELIZABETH'S WEDDING GOWN.

    The dress of the bride of the Duke of York will be specially designed for her, but the beautiful models now being shown in Paris, and which frill later be brought ...

    Article : 127 words
  42. BLIGHT ON EUCALYPTS.

    The Government Biological Laboratory las been, experimenting with ladybirds as a remedy for the scale blight on Eucolypts. The insects prey only on this ...

    Article : 71 words
  43. AUSTRALIAN OUOTATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 words
  44. PRINCESS AND EX-RIDING MASTER.

    The announcement of the betrothal of the Princess Yolanda to Count Calvi has been received with great surprise and suppressed indignation by Roman society, ...

    Article : 177 words
  45. BRITISH LIBERAL WHIP.

    Air. J. H. H. Hogge, M.P., who has been joint Chief Whip of the Indendent Liberal Party, With Mr. George Thorne, M.P., since 1918, resigned his ...

    Article : 119 words
  46. LOST IN THE HILLS.

    Confusion of place names is said to have brought about the death of William Lloyd, aged 73, who returned to New Zealand recently, after a visit to ...

    Article : 103 words
  47. PARSON'S PRESENTATION IN PUBLIC HOUSE.

    A public house was the scene recently of a presentation to the Rev. T- H. Liddiard. who is leaving Oxford for Caversham (says The London Morning ...

    Article : 115 words
  48. THE LORE OF THE BUSH.

    Though in this respect the Australian bush lags far behind the richer and more varied forest growth of New Zealand, there is no lack of useful vegetation in ...

    Article : 316 words
  49. LATE MINING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 366 words
  50. MODERN SCHOOLBOY'S DRESS.

    Schoolboys are much more "dressy"; than their fathers to-day (according to a London paper). The critical manner in which the modern schoolboy chooses ...

    Article : 280 words
  51. Advertising

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    Advertising : 101 words
  52. NAZIMOVA.

    Alia Nazimova, the famous cinema actress has announced her intention tp give up acting for the "movies" and to return to the stage, because she craves ...

    Article : 99 words
  53. THE GOLDFISH.

    While angling from Eastbourne (Ens.) pier, Mr. Thomas F. Foreman, of the Wye Agricultural College, Kent, landed a weighty metal object, containing what ...

    Article : 58 words
  54. 77 YEARS WITH ONE FIRM.

    Who holds, the national record for long service in industry? (asks a London daily). People who have done half a century ;or more with a, single firm are ...

    Article : 143 words
  55. A NEW ZEALAND BY-ELECTION.

    The Labour Party is not contesting the Oamaru by-election, which will be a straight contest between the Government and the Liberals ...

    Article : 35 words
  56. DRIVERS AND CARTERS' AWARD OPPOSED.

    The-Carters and Drivers Union resolved to telegraph a protest against the Federal Conciliation Court awarding reduced wages also to inform the Federal ...

    Article : 51 words
  57. FROM GENERAL TO BANK CLERK.

    The wife and children of General Wrangei (the former Russian army leader) have been compelled, Owing to lack of funds, to abandon a house they had ...

    Article : 73 words
  58. THE BIGGEST.

    An unusually large mango grown by a Rockhampton (Q.) resident is the latest sensation there. It weighs 2 lb. 4½ oz. Lengthwise it measures 17 in round, while ...

    Article : 72 words
  59. WHAT EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT.

    There are two kinds of things about which people talk," Bays a writer, in The New Statesman. "There are the permanent subjects of conversation—the ...

    Article : 402 words
  60. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY REVENUE.

    Taking the official returns for the 48 weeks, of the financial year, it is unof[?]rcially forecasted that the railway department for the complete period will show ...

    Article : 49 words
  61. A GREAT PHILATELIST.

    Mr. E. D. Bacon. C.V.O., the Curator of the King's stamp collection, has just retired from the presidential chair of the Royal Philatelic Society on the grounds ...

    Article : 133 words
  62. FRIENDSHIP.

    Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A nan may have authority over, others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own—Thomas ...

    Article : 30 words
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