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  2. LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT.

    With the passing through the Legislative Assembly yesterday of nine bills the Ministry has made rapid strides in overhauling arrears of its legislative ...

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  3. MORTGAGES BILL.

    Now that the Financial Emergency (Mortgages) Bill has been passed by the Legislative Council, with important amendments, it is interesting to review the present ...

    Article : 562 words
  4. POSTAL ROBBERY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—At the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Thomson, Paul Grierson, mechanic, aged 32 years, was sentenced. He was found ...

    Article : 384 words
  5. GAOL FOR SEVEN YEARS.

    "Your crime discloses callousness and brutality that startle me," said Mr. Justice Lowe in the Criminal Court yesterday in passing sentence on Ernest Kitchener ...

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  6. WHY MR. CLEARY RESIGNED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The reasons for the resignation of Mr. W. J. Cleary as chief transport commissioner were disclosed by the Premier (Mr. Stevens) to-night. They ...

    Article : 449 words
  7. WAR DEBTS.

    War debts payments to the United States were made to-day by Britain, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania, while France, Belgium, Poland, Esthonia, ...

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  8. FIRE IN HUGE STORE.

    An enormous eight-story department store in the Shirokiya district of Tokio caugtht fire to-day. The fire began on the third floor at 9 o'clock this morning, and ...

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  9. AS PROSPERITY RETURNS.

    As industries recover from deporession worker should share in the returning prosperity. This was the principle laid down by the Full Court of the Arbitration Court ...

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  10. GERMAN MINISTRY.

    "We are ready to arm our soldiers with knives and paper shields if our neighbours do likewise," said the new Chancellor (General von Schleicher) in a braodcast ...

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  11. DUTIES ON IRISH GOODS.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Hore-Belisha) said that the receipts to December 3 from the duties ...

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  12. LABOUR "EXCLUSIONS."

    Attacks on the central executive for having "excluded" several members of the State Parliamentary Labour party because they had supported the Premiers' plan form ...

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  13. CAPTAIN DE GROOT PAID.

    SYDNEY, Friday.— Referring in the Legislative Assembly to-day to the settlement of the action in which Captain de Groot brought actions claiming heavy ...

    Article : 174 words
  14. YACHT FRANKLIN SOLD.

    After having been laid up at Rabaul for about 12 months, the steam yacht Franklin, of 288 tons, has been purchased from the Commonwealth Government by a ...

    Article : 265 words
  15. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The House of Commons will adjourn on Tuesday, December 20, and will reassemble of February 7.—British Official Wireless. Aiding Allotment Holders. ...

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  16. FRENCH CABINET.

    Following the resignation of the Herriot Ministry owing to the refusal of the Chamber of Deputies to endorse the Cabinet's decision to make the December war debt ...

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  17. £20,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED.

    In a writ which was issued on his behalf yesterday by Mr. J. J. Oliver, solictor, Newton James Francis, Solicitor, of Little Collins street, and St. Kilda street, ...

    Article : 482 words
  18. South American War.

    World support of a new plan to stop the unofficial but bloody war between Bolivia and Praguay, over the possession of the Gran Chaco, a large sparsely peopled ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. DUTCH AIRMAIL OFFER.

    "It is extraordinary that official and semiofficial statements predicting the rejection of the tentative offer of Royal Dutch Airways Company for the carriage of airmail ...

    Article : 378 words
  20. ANGLO-PERSIAN DISPUTE.

    This year the representative of the Irish Free State is acting as President of the Council of the League of Nations. At the meeting next week, when the connell will ...

    Article : 83 words
  21. MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS.

    BALLARAT, Friday.—At the foot of Anthony's cutting, on the Melbourne side of bacchus Marsh, a car driven by Frederick Cook, aged 28 years, naval stoker, of ...

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  22. ASSAULT VICTIM DIES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Elizabeth Isabel O'Connor, aged 16 years, the victim of the burtal assault which occured in National Park on Wednesday night, died ...

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  23. Canadian Trade Balance.

    Canada's favourable balance of trade has rise to 40,249,224 dollars (normally £8,049,845) during the eight months ended November 30, of the present fiscal year. ...

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  24. HORTICULTURAL HALL.

    Following the proposal made on Wednesday night at a meeting of the Nurserymen's and Seedsmen's Association, that a hall of horticultura should be erected as a ...

    Article : 190 words
  25. Illegal Totalisators.

    The High Court of Justice has declared illegal "tote clubs" and totalisators at greyhound tracks. It is estimated that £10,000,000 a year passes through the ...

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  26. United States Farm Crops.

    The acreage of all farm crops harvested in the United States this year is reported to-day by the United States Department of Agriculture to have been 352,825,000 acres, ...

    Article : 111 words
  27. TRADE SHIP.

    According to present indications the trade ship Nieuw Holland will leave on its tour of the East in April next year with a full complement of passengers and with ...

    Article : 365 words
  28. GOVERNMENT LOAN REPAID.

    About 10 years ago the Commonwealth Government made a loan of £50,000 to the Geelong Returned Sailois and Soldiers' Woollen and Worsted Co-operative ...

    Article : 147 words
  29. Canadian Produce.

    Total value of the field crops for 1932 of all Canada is estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics of 424,057,900 dollars (normally £84,811,580), compared with ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. FINE WEEK-END LIKELY.

    The "invansion" of a tropical depression which was lying over Victoria, by the cold winds of a southerly depression caused the heavy rain which fell early yesterday. Good ...

    Article : 128 words
  31. STEVENS MINISTRY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The Ministry was defeated by 35 votes to 31 in the Legislative Council to-night, when an amendment moved by the leader of the State Labour ...

    Article : 132 words
  32. LOAN TO MT. ISA MINES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—At an extraordinary general meeting of Mount Isa Mines Ltd. to-day a resolution was passed confirming the action of the directors in borrowing ...

    Article : 106 words
  33. Rebellious Tribesmen.

    Several hundred S[?]nthalis (aborigines of Western Bengal) were concerned in serious rioting at Malda yesterday. Under their tribal leader, Tony, they occupied a ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. WINE AND BEER.

    The House, Ways, and Means Committee to-day ordered the reporting of a bill to legalise the manufacture and sale of beer containing 3.2 per cent. alcoho, and ...

    Article : 59 words
  35. BETTING IN TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Friday.—It will be at least three weeks before regulations for the control of bookmakers, under the bill passed last night, will operate. A committee of ...

    Article : 120 words
  36. PARLIAMENT IN BRIEF.

    Good progress was made by the Legislative Assembly yesterday with the proposed legislation that still remained on the notice paper and nine bills were passed. These ...

    Article : 218 words
  37. BARWON HEADS FORESHORE.

    In reply to a question in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Mr. Vinton Smith (U.A.P. Oakleigh), the Minister for Launds (Mr. Dunstan) said that the matter of the ...

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  38. SEAMEN'S MEMORIAL SERVICE.

    In memory of the late Miss A. Sibthorpe Tracy, who died on December 12, a service will be held in St. Peter's Seamen's Memorial Chapel, Missions to Seamen, ...

    Article : 118 words
  39. African Flights.

    Miss Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison) left Beni Ounif this morning for Oran, Algeria, in continuation of her flight from Cape Town to London. She cannot hope to ...

    Article : 112 words
  40. ASSURANCE COMPANIES.

    Arrangements have been made for the National Mutual Life Assocaiation of Australasia to take over the management of the Assurance and Thrift Association of ...

    Article : 140 words
  41. FISHING LAUNCH MISSING.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—A small fishing launch, which left Newcastle Harbour before dawn to-day with four men aboard, had not returned to port late to-night. A ...

    Article : 94 words
  42. Price of Gold.

    The price of gold to-day is £6/4/9 an ounce. ...

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  43. CHRISTMAS HAMS.

    Wholesale prices for hams have been somewhat irregular recently owing to the presence in the market of hams from Tasmania and South Australia, and to the ...

    Article : 108 words
  44. TRUTH WILL EVENTUALLY PREVAIL.

    Every day the public faith in advertisements as advertisements is being strengthened and maintained. Every day the advertising columns are being more and more ...

    Article : 122 words
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  47. FORESTS BILL.

    The Forests Bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly yesterday, and transmitted to the Legislative Council. ...

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  48. DEATH FROM THIRST.

    PERTH, Friday.—John Gallagher, aged 55 years, a stockman from Queensland, has been found dead from thirst five miles from Leopold Station, near Fitzroy ...

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