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  2. SHIPS IN DANGER.

    The steamer Karemu, 934 tons, and the steamer Kekerangu, 3,246 tons, are disabled and in danger off the South-West Cane of Tasmania, some 120 miles from Hobart. The Karemu, which left Strahan with a cargo of calcines for Hobart on Tuesday is leaking. She has no steam, and is drifting. ...

    Article : 441 words
  3. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 44 words
  4. WORLD'S RECORD TOW OF 13,000 MILES COMPLETED.

    The steamer City of Singapore, on which a sensational explosion occurred at Port Adelaide on April 26 of last year, resulting in the loss of three lives and injury to 10 people, left Port Adelaide on Saturday, April 11, in tow of two powerful Dutch tugs for Rotterdam. The hazardous trip hu now been completed, a distance of 13,000 miles having been covered, constituting the world's record tow. The voyage occupied 20 "weeks. The City of Singa-pore was practically a new ship on her arrival at Port Adelaide in April, 1924, and she will probably be rebuilt. The boat was purchased by Mr. W. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 259 words
  5. THE GALILEE SKULL.

    Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known authority on ancient types of man, referred eulogistically today, in an address at Southampton, before the British ...

    Article : 486 words
  6. TRANSPORT WORKERS' ATTITUDE. QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE MOOTED.

    The subcommittee appointed to draft the constitution of the proposed new alliance of railwaymen, transport workers, engineers, and miners, met in London to-day ...

    Article : 413 words
  7. EDUCATION CONTROVERSY

    In reply to the statement of the Minister of Education (Hon. L. L. Hill) published in The Register on Wednesday, Sir Henry Barwell said yesterday.— ...

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  8. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. The President (Mr. Givens) took the Chair at 3 p.m. Distillation Bill. ...

    Article : 211 words
  9. SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL.

    At a meeting od the umpire and permit committee of the South Australian Football League held on Wednesday night, the following umpires were chosen for the ...

    Article : 77 words
  10. EMPIRE PRESS DELEGATION

    One of the chief functions to-day in connection with the visit of the imperial Press delegates was a civic reception. The visitors were warmly ...

    Article : 339 words
  11. CONSTRUCTIVE DESERTION.

    Two remarkably worded letters written by the respondent wife to the petitioning husband were read in the First Civil Court to-day, when Mr. Justice Weigall ...

    Article : 250 words
  12. LOSSES IN NORTH QUEENSLAND.

    Among the people held up here owing to the railway strike are 30 members of the Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company. Mr. Wilkie states that it will now ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. GIRLS' CLUBS.

    At the Exhibition Building on Wednesday night the fourteenth annual competitions of the Central Council of Girls' Clubs was concluded. The only event ...

    Article : 741 words
  14. LATE TELEGRAMS.

    Arrangements hare been made for a Special meeting of the executive of the Trades Hall Council to-morrow morning for the purpose of discussing ...

    Article : 266 words
  15. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Speaker (Mr. Watt) took the Chair at 3 p.m. Peace Officers Bill. The Speaker's announcement that the ...

    Article : 870 words
  16. RAILWAY STRIKE SETTLED.

    The first move in the proposal to enforce the establishment of the rotary system for the election of waterside, labour in Queensland ports was made to-day, when ...

    Article : 244 words
  17. GIRL ABDUCTED.

    After more than two weeks of searching the police to-night arrested a woman in connection with the abduction of Marjorie England, the daughter of a Melbourne ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.

    The London Daily Herald, in a leading article, states:—"The Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has frightened the Commonwealth into giving power to ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. SKIN-WOOL CASE.

    At the close of the argument of Mr. Dixon, K.C., on behalf of Bawrs and other defendants in the skin-wood appeals before the Full Court of Victoria to-day ...

    Article : 289 words
  20. A WIFE'S DEATH.

    At the City Police Court to-day Alfred John Dobson was charged with having, on or about August 16, wilfully murdered his, wife, Lillian Margaret Dobson, aged ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. AT SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

    It is understood that strong representations arc being made by the Hertzog Government throughout the country regarding the existing serious menace to ...

    Article : 515 words
  22. OFFER REJECTED IN MELBOURNE.

    By a unanimous decision, a meeting of about 500 British seamen who are on strike in Melbourne, decided to reject the offer of the overseas shipowners guaranteeing ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. TRAMWAY CONVERSION STRIKE.

    Mr. Justice Powers will preside at a compulsory conference to-morrow in connection with the strike by members of the A.W.U., who were to have been employed ...

    Article : 65 words
  24. LATE SPORTING.

    The hurdle racer Plain Airs, valued at £500, owned by Mr. Donald Fairburn, of Deniliquin (N.S.W.). and leased by Mr. J.W. Dove, Moonee Ponds, has been ...

    Article : 47 words
  25. ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Attorney-General moved the second reading of the Abolition of Capital Punishment Bill, the object of which, he said ...

    Article : 70 words
  26. ATTORNEY-GENERAL EXPLAINS. SYDNEY, Wednesday.

    The Attorney-General said that Messrs. Bavin and Hoskins had attacked him for taking a brief from the solicitors for Messrs. Walsh and Johnnsen, because ...

    Article : 122 words
  27. SCRATCHINGS.

    [?] spring meeting,—Caulfield Guineas—Dalkeith, Darmoor, Valicare, Pierrence filly, North Logan, October Days, Boomerali, Spring Days ...

    Article : 80 words
  28. THE NEW TARIFF.

    The only reference to newsprint in the now tariff proposals, is the following extract from Mr. Pratten's speech:—"There in yet the question of the development of VICTORIAN POWER HOUSE STRIKE. A strike has occurred at the powerhouse and works of the Victorian Electricity Commission. More than 100 men are involved, and the output temporarily has ...

    Article : 147 words
  29. DAMAGES FOR HUSBAND KILLED.

    The case in which Marion Elizabeth Harwell claimed £2,250 from Norman and John McDonald in respect to the death of her husband in an accident during the ...

    Article : 89 words
  30. CARDS ON BOARD SHIP. QUEENSLAND AL MINES.

    When the Jervis Bay reached Melbourne on Monday from Sydney, detectives boarded her and arrested five men, on the complaint of passengers that the men had According to statements made before the coal tribunal to-day, the Government mines in. Queensland last year suffered a long of £70,000. The opinion was ...

    Article : 185 words
  31. CHANGSHA DISABLED.

    Battered and storm tossed after having suffered engine trouble and a breakdown in the teeth of a Rale off the north coast, the Australian-Oriental liner Changsha ...

    Article : 169 words
  32. SPAHLINGER TREAMENT.

    Dr. Valintine, in a letter to the Minister of Health, states that in company with Dr. Chisholm (of Hanmer Hospital) and Dr. Orenstein (of South Africa) he ...

    Article : 159 words
  33. LATE SHIPPING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 words
  34. MILLOWNERS' TAXATION EVASION.

    At the Boonan Police Court to-day J. S. Cossart & Sons, sawmillers, were fined £100 on a charge of making false income tax returns. The firm was also ordered ...

    Article : 62 words
  35. CLERK CHARGED WITH THEFT.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.),Wednesday. At the Christchurch Magistrates' Court to-day Mervyn Banks was charged with the theft of £10, the moneys of the ...

    Article : 53 words
  36. LATE CABLES.

    Despite threats to hold up the liner Majestic at Southampton, Waterloo Station this morning was a mass of happy faces when 2,600 passengers booked their ...

    Article : 113 words
  37. ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE PROBABLE.

    Cable advices from London announce that the offer of the Minister of Labour (Mr. Creswell) to preside over a roundtable conference of shipowners and seamen ...

    Article : 69 words
  38. MOTOR CAR OVER BANK. Continued from Page 9.

    A bloodstained hat found at the place indicates that Mr. Jackson has possibly wandered off in a dazed condition into the bush. ...

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  39. W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE,

    The Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention will be continued in Villard Hall to-day. Department reports special interest will be given by ...

    Article : 108 words
  40. ORANGES AND FEATHERS.

    The Fruitgrowers' Co-operative Exchange to-day telegraphed to the Acting Premier, strongly urging that the Government should take steps to protect the interests ...

    Article : 178 words
  41. BASKET BALL.

    The Adelaide Methodist Ladies' College to-day defeated a Melbourne University team at basket ball by 26 goals to 18. ...

    Article : 24 words
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