Mr. Charlie Chaplin, the famous film comedian, intends to visit Australia shortly after the completion of his present tour of Britain ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 241 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Interviewed to-night by "The Advocate's" representative, Mr. Lyons said: "It is a matter for themselves to decide if ...
Article : 67 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — William Thomas (21), of Brighton, was killed when his racing car somersaulted in Hotham street, East St. Kilda, ...
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Article : 579 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Gordon Henry Cantrill, a youth, had to be forcibly placed in the dock and held down yesterday at Carcoar at the inquest into ...
Article : 61 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Dashing downhill in Little Collins Street this morning, a driverless car scattered the Salvation Army band, and injured one ...
Article : 42 wordsFinancial and political circles here consider that Mr. Scullin should wait for the British, political situation to clear before ...
Article : 346 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Only by threatening to shoot did the police escape the fury of 500 people in a starting price betting raid in ...
Article : 110 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. — A remarkable sequel to the suicide of a Chinese leper who hanged himself rather than face the future is the anxious search ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Although the description of the man who murdered Arthur Brennan (48) outside his home in Rowe street, North Fitzroy, ...
Article : 311 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Because of floods in the Yangtse River, which have destroyed the rice crop, the Chinese Government is buying great quantities of ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — The Prime Minister (Hon. Ramsay MacDonald) unexpectedly returned to London from The Chequers last night, and conferred ...
Article : 397 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Falling down a cliff at Port Hacking to-day, the secretary of the Permanent Trustee Co. of New South Wales, Mr. Norman L. ...
Article : 67 wordsThree thousand people at Essendon aerodrome this afternoon saw Kingsford Smith make his final test of his machine. This was ...
Article : 351 wordsJUNEE (N.S.W.), Sunday. — Last night Constable Hoy, of Hay, was attacked by two prisoners he was taking from Hay to Sydney on the Albury mail when the ...
Article : 80 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The seventeenth fire in two years in Major street, Fawkner, occurred when Mrs. Harriet Dunstan's eight-roomed house ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. — Mr. E. W. Crooke, a director of Brett and Co. Ltd., made the following statement yesterday regarding the clash that ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The desire expressed by Mahatma Gandhi that the Federal Structure Sub-committee should proceed is quickly as possible is fully ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—A temporary emergency tariff of a simple character is urged by the Federation of British Industries in a manifesto issued to-day. ...
Article : 142 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Walter Lindrum, the billiard champion, has received what he describes as a "huge offer" to visit the United States and ...
Article : 228 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — As the result of a special conference of about 300 members of union executives at the Trades Hall to-day co-ordinated ...
Article : 61 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The River Derwent overflowed its banks in the upper reaches yesterday, with the result that a number of hop fields were inundated. ...
Article : 42 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Lyons), veteran of many debates, speeches and political battles, made a speech to-day ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Railways Commissioners have been instructed by the Premier that, pending his consideration of the position, notices of ...
Article : 66 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Responding to cries for help from a tramways bus near the Firle terminus about 10.30 last night, C. Aspinall, who lives nearby, ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—Reductions are announced in the pay of civil servants, other than industrial staffs, whose salaries are not subject to the automatic ...
Article : 78 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday.—After three weeks' search, the body of Warwick Stanton (19) has been found on Mount Ruapehu, on the banks of a ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Owing to unexpected difficulties, the Air Ministry has decided that the specially-built racing engine will not be used in the air ...
Article : 69 wordsNANKING, Saturday, — Colonel Charles and Mrs. Lindbergh, the American aerial tourists, after disappointing Nanking officialdom and population and a ...
Article : 83 wordsVANCOUVER, Saturday.—If both Dominions buy reciprocally, the volume of trade between Canada and Australia can be swelled by millions of pounds, ...
Article : 102 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Buried beneath 10 tons of earth when portion of the Bransgrove gravel pit collapsed late yesterday, Herbert Hargreaves Boyce, ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 21 Sep 1931, Page 5
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