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  2. HUNTSMAN TRAGEDY

    Richard David Parry, who was found lot guilty on the ground of insanity of the murder of Thomas Jordan at Huntsman's Bottom, near Deloraine, and ...

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  3. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

    Polling in the Legislative Council divisions of Tamar, Derwent, and Westmo[?]land will take place on Tuesday next, May 5. ...

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  4. NAIRANA HELD UP.

    For the second time within a few weeks the Nairana has been delayed on a trip from Launceston to Melbourne. Recently four firemen from the vessel ...

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  5. STATE ELECTIONS

    Mr. L. A. Procter opened his campaign at Lilydale on Wednesday night. There was a splendid attendance of electors, Mr. E. E. Bennett occupied the chair, ...

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  6. BRITAIN'S BUDGET

    In the House of Common to-day, at the committee stage of the Budget, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Philip Snowden) declared that the ...

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  7. RETURN TO GOLD

    The House of Commons to-day read a first time the Gold Standard Bill and the Windows and Orphans and Old Age (Contributory Pensions) Bills. The ...

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  8. Penetrating the North

    Michael Terry (who is about to make an exploratory tour of North-Western Australia) and his colleagues, R. A. Prescott (topographical survey expert) ...

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  9. GENERAL CABLES

    Australians exhibiting at the Royal Academy include Harcourt, Septimus Power, Coates, Gotch, Gordon Coutts, Altson, Cohen, Cumbrae Stewart, Heber ...

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  10. DETAILS OF THE MEASURE.

    The Gold Standard Bill repeals the sub-section in the previous act, under which the holder of a currency note is entitled to obtain gold payment at face ...

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  11. AUSTRALIAN CADETS.

    The Young Australia League cadets were given a Mayoral welcome at Manchester to-day. After being tendered a luncheon they received the city's ...

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  12. HEAVY DRUG HAUL.

    The police to-night visited an address in West Central London and seized a large trunk full of opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine, and other deadly drugs, ...

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  13. BANKERS SATISFIED.

    The probable effects of the return to the gold standard on Australian exchange are arousing considerable interest in banking circles. A ...

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  14. LABOURITE FAVOURS MIGRATION.

    The Premier of West Australia (Mr. Philip Collier), speaking at Plymouth, where he was entertained by the Mayor, said that he approved of the group ...

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  15. Postal and Absent Voters

    Postal voting facilities are now available from the three returning officers, but the necessary papers will be issued till Monday only, and the completed ...

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  16. GOOD EFFECT ON CHANGE.

    The Budget statement was very well received on the Stock Exchange to-day, and had a most stimulating effect. Certain specialities, especially artificial silk ...

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  17. FASCISM WIDESPREAD.

    At a meeting in Rome of the Grand Fascist Council, attended by the Premier (signor Mussolini), the secretary-general of Fascist organisations abroad, ...

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  18. DESIGNS ON MINISTER'S LIFE

    It is reported that a plot has been discovered abroad to assassinate the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Austen Chamberlain). Official circles in London ...

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  19. THE WESTMORLAND SEAT.

    In furtherance of his election campaign Mr. L. S. Bruce, one of the candidates for the Westmorland seat, addressed a fairly large meeting of electors at the ...

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  20. MUTE GRATITUDE.

    A message from Paris states that, in recognition of the late Emile Zola's efforts to obtain his pardon Colonel Dreyfus (who was exiled from France and ...

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  21. GERMANY'S FOREIGN POLICY

    The Chancellor (Dr. Luther), in a speech at a meeting of industrialists to-day, emphasised the necessity for continuity in Germany's foreign policy in ...

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  22. LESSON FROM WAR GAME

    The administration will ask Congress for increased appropriations to strengthen the defences of Hawaii as a result of the technical capture of the ...

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  23. TEST MATCH PROGRAMME

    The dates and places of the respective Test cricket matches during the Australians' tour of England in 1926 are as follow:—June 12, Nottingham; ...

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  24. STATISTICIAN'S OPINION.

    The following article has been issued by the Tasmanian branch of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, over the signature of Mr. L. F. ...

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  25. NEW SOUTH WALES

    Charles Passmore, aged 50 years, who was described by the police as "the king of the underworld" in Sydney, was fined £50 at the Central Police Court ...

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  26. COMMUNISM BLAMED.

    The evening papers publish the story announced by the Central News Agency that the Foreign Office was recently warned by one of the foreign Legations ...

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  27. AERIAL ADVANCEMENT

    The Air Chief Marshal. (Sir Hugh Trenchard), lecturing before the Cambridge Aeronautical Society to-night, predicted that within fifty or a ...

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  28. A GIRL'S PERSECUTION

    That Mumtaz Begum (the girl figuring in the murder and attempted kidnapping trial) was anxious to escape, not because she wanted to leave the ...

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  29. SKELETON KEYS.

    Arthur Frank Lord, aged 29 years, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day to answer 139 charges in relation to robberies from city offices in ...

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  30. MINOR MATCHES.

    The advisory county cricket committee resolved that the hours of play against the Australians would be 12 noon to 6.30 p.m. on the first and so [?]ad ...

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  31. NEW REFRIGERATOR SHIPS

    The Blue Star line has received tenders for eight 12,000-ton refrigerated meat ships from British, Dutch, and German shipbuilders. The ...

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  32. COMMUNICATIONS REFUSED

    Marked disappointment was expressed in the city to-day at the refusal of the Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) to deal with the proposal of the Premier ...

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  33. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

    At a meeting of the Executive Council twelve acres of land in the town of Woodbridge was proclaimed an area of Crown land available for sale or lease ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND ITEMS

    The police are still searching the Waitaki River for Philip Hudson, who is wanted on a charge of the murder of Olive Rutherford. One Waimate ...

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  35. WALSH ISLAND TROUBLE SETTLED.

    Following the ultimatum issued by the management of the Government, Dockyards at Walsh Island, Newcastle, that owing to the strike of crane drivers ...

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  36. SOUTH AFRICAN TARIFF

    Speaking in the Budget debate to-day, Mr. Boydell, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, said that Great Britain was not going to be placed at a ...

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  37. MOTOR VEHICLES COLLIDE

    A serious motor collision occurred on the North Motion road a few miles out of Ulverstone about 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ...

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  38. STATE RIGHTS

    At a meeting held in the Council. Chambers last night a branch of the Tasmanian Rights League was formed. There were twenty present, and Mr. A. J. ...

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  39. WEMBLEY EXHIBITION

    The standing committee of the House of Commons, dealing with the bill increasing the Government guarantee for the Wembley Exhibition to £1,100,000, ...

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  40. SUBSTANTIAL SURPLUS.

    The financial year, which ended on March 31, closed with a revenue surplus of £1,235,000, which is considered eminently satisfactory in view of the fact ...

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  41. PROHIBITION TO CEASE.

    The Acting Minister of Finance (Sir Francis Bell), referring to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement that the prohibition of the export ...

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  42. ROAD WORK

    Mr. W. H. Reece, organiser of the A.W.U., waited on the Secretary for Works (Mr. E. O. Rowland) in the absence of the Minister, and urged that the ...

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  43. UNEMPLOYMENT

    The unemployment problem is assuming serious proportions in the South, more especially in the metropolitan area, and at the present time it is estimated ...

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  44. TWELVE YEARS' GAOL

    Twelve years' imprisonment with hard labour was the sentence imposed by his Honor Sir Leo Cussen in the Criminal Court to-day on Howard Edward ...

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  45. MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE PARKIN

    An appeal has been issued to perpetuate the memory of Sir George Parkin by means of a library relating to the history of the British Empire and the ...

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  46. SEAMEN'S UNION

    The Commonwealth Shipping Board to-day applied to Sir John Quick in the Arbitration Court for a rule nisi for the cancellation of the registration of the ...

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  47. RAILWAY REVENUE

    For the quarter ended March 30 state railway earnings amounted to £933,231, against £925,083 for the corresponding period of 1924. Working expenses for the ...

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  48. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

    The municipal elections throughout the Dominion took place yesterday. The issue in most places was Labour versus Anti-Labour. In Wellington City Mr. ...

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  49. TO-DAY'S EVENTS

    "Made in Australia" Week. 1 p.m.—All Australia luncheon, Brisbane Hotel. 2.30 and 8 p.m.—Picture, Princess and ...

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