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  2. DOG RACING.

    Replying to an all-party deputation of members of the House of Commons, which called attention to the increase in dog racing, and especially to the ...

    Article : 399 words
  3. DOUBLE TRAIN SMASH.

    Three freight trains were Involved in a collision on the 12-mile stretch between Perth and Fremantle on Wednesday night. A stock train, resuming after delay caused by engine trouble, was rammed by a wheat train, and extensively damaged. In the midst of ...

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  4. THE S4.

    Officials are convinced that the six men who had responded to the hammer taps on the sunken submarine S4 must be dead by the time the sea has ...

    Article : 258 words
  5. BISHOPS CHASTISED.

    Dean Inge, writing to The Evening Standard regarding the rejection of the new Prayer Book by Parliament, states:—"The bishops brought the defeat upon ...

    Article : 279 words
  6. THE BUS WAR.

    What is known, generally, as "the motor bus war," reached a climax on Thursday night, when, at a meeting of members of the ...

    Article : 329 words
  7. JAIL BREAKER RECAPTURED.

    John Charles Stewart, aged 23 years, was arrested at Unders, near Kyabram, at half-past 1 o'clock this morning on a charge of having escaped from legal custody at the Yatala Labour Prison, Northfield, South Australia, where he was serving a life sentence for murder. ...

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  8. THE ESCAPE.

    Stewart escaped from Yatala Labour Prison on October 20. He had been at work with other men in the prison reserve, and was last seen shortly before ...

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  9. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

    When meeting a taxicab on the first bend below the summit of Mount Lofty shortly after 1 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a motor car descending the hill ...

    Article : 184 words
  10. BISHOPS AND PARLIAMENT.

    The Daily Express says:—"We understand that the Church leaders dealing with the Prayer Book revision have been engaged in unofficial secret ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. FOREIGN POLICY.

    In the House of Commons to-day, replying to a question by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby (Labour, Brightside) as to whether there was any hope of a resumption of ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. THE BALDWIN AXE.

    An important group of Conservative members of the House of Commons has been conducting a long correspondence with the Government on the subject of ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. QUEENSLAND RAIN.

    Reports were received at railway headquarters to-day, that further rains in the central west had caused washouts on the Longreach-Winton line. Capella ...

    Article : 204 words
  14. TIN HARE RACING.

    The first prosecution in Victoria for betting on mechanical coursing was heard to-day at the Footscray Police Court. Arthur Thomas (38) a labourer, was fined ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. FOR LOVE OF A LADY.

    Following police investigations into his story of a sensational encounter with a burglar in Arundel street. Glebe, early on Wednesday morning. Joseph Wirz has ...

    Article : 183 words
  16. BANK FRAUD.

    John Neighbour (35), salesman, and Athol Blake Ricketson (32), manager, who were convicted at Quarter Sessions, of having conspired to defraud the ...

    Article : 359 words
  17. CANNED FOODS.

    The Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir. Granville Eyrie), in an address at a luncheon of the Food Canning Council, appealed to Empire canners to co-operate ...

    Article : 181 words
  18. MACHINERY TAMPERED WITH.

    Interference with the machinery controlling the mechanical hare at the Mascot Greyhound Racing Meeting to-night caused an hour's delay in the start ...

    Article : 103 words
  19. BANKRUPTCY CASES.

    Robert Edward Bradley (75), who for 60 years was engaged in one of the legal departments in England and was consulted by the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in ...

    Article : 323 words
  20. SERIOUS COLLISION.

    A collision between a motor bus and a motor lorry occurred on the Western road, Dear Wentworthville, early to-night. Five persons, who were riding on the ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. NAVAL PROGRAMMES.

    The Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Headlam), in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said that until further details were ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. METAL WORKERS IDLE.

    It is expected that about 20,000 men employed in the metal trades industry will be dismissed tomorrow and Saturday in accordance, with the recent decision of ...

    Article : 190 words
  23. KING'S SPEECH.

    The King's Speech, delivered on the prorogation of Parliament, dwells with satisfaction on the enthusiastic reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ...

    Article : 305 words
  24. IMMIGRANTS' PASSPORTS.

    Further evidence was heard at the Central Police Court to-day in the case in which Vincenzo Scarchelli was charged with being a prohibited immigrant in that ...

    Article : 224 words
  25. A WELL-KNOWN ACTOR.

    The death is announced of Mr. Charles Courtice Pounds, a well-known actor and vocalist, who in 1895 made a tour of Australia. In England his played in many ...

    Article : 186 words
  26. GALLIPOLI FILMED.

    The Embassy Film Company's picture, "Gallipoli," which is to be released in the Australian capitals on Anzac Day (April 25) next, was to-day privately shown at ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. RUSSIA'S CHRISTMAS.

    The Soviet Government's antireligious organization has issued a detailed programme for the Christmas holidays. It instructs workers how to spend the ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. Lithgow Steel Works.

    Christmas will be anything but a festive season for many workers in Lithgow. All mills and furnaces at the steel works will be idle until some time after the New ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. TRADE WITH AMERICA.

    The Australian Trade Commissioner (Sir Hugh Denison), addressing the British Empire Chamber of Commerce, said he was returning to Australia to confer with ...

    Article : 155 words
  30. COLD CHRISTMAS.

    Wintry conditions, exceeding all records within living memory, are being experienced throughout Great Britain and the west of Europe. The remarkable weather freak has resulted in London alone in 2,000 people having to be treated in hospitals for injuries, and the French capital ...

    Article : 362 words
  31. CHRISTMAS ORANGES.

    A feature of the Christmas wholesale markets this year has been the enormous supplies of Spanish oranges, of which 209 millions have been sold at auction in ...

    Article : 75 words
  32. A.L.P. AND A.W.U.

    Much speculation has taken place in union circles on the question whether the Australian Workers' Union, which in the largest industrial organization in the ...

    Article : 193 words
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  34. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  35. MOTOR FATALITIES.

    The New York Travellers' Insurance Company predicts that there will be 23,000 deaths and 700,000 injuries next year owing to motor vehicle accidents. The ...

    Article : 97 words
  36. INCENDIARY FIRE.

    The second incendiary fire this year in the Pasay Nipa district resulted in the death of three children, made 2,500 residents of the Philippines capital homeless ...

    Article : 78 words
  37. THE GOLD STANDARD.

    King Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree issued by the Italian Cabinet, under which the gold standard of currency will become effective on Thursday. ...

    Article : 34 words
  38. DEATHS IN FRENCH CAPITAL.

    Unique scenes occurred to-day in Paris, similar to those reported from London. Four hundred people were sent to hospital, some with serious fractures. Four or five ...

    Article : 128 words
  39. SKJELLERUP.

    British astronomers are still searching vainly for the Skjellerup comet. Mr. Stevenson says it may have stopped coming north, and is going south again ...

    Article : 54 words
  40. ASSAULTED WHITE GIRL.

    The Darwin Town Council has sent a protest to the Government against what is regarded as the extreme leniency of a sentence of two months' imprisonment ...

    Article : 56 words
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  42. "O.B.U." PROPOSED.

    Members of the metal trades group of the Labour Council at a recent meeting unanimously adopted a plan for the formation of the One Big Union in the ...

    Article : 115 words
  43. THE ITALIAN LIRA.

    The lira has reached a new parity of about 92 to the pound sterling. ...

    Article : 23 words
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