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  2. SETTLEMENT DIFFICULT

    The roster system for the engagement of crews threatens to become the issue upon which the negotiations for the settlement of the shipping dispute may be wrecked. Both sides are adamant, and the prospect of a compromise is not hopeful. ...

    Article : 749 words
  3. YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT

    The House of Assembly authorised the Minister to raise £22,000 for the purchase of rail motors for the passenger traffic. The debate on the Address-in-Reply has been further adjourned. ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  4. ENGLAND'S CRUISERS

    During the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the naval estimates the Under-Secretary for the Admiralty (Mr. J. C. Davidson) stated that the ...

    Article : 78 words
  5. GOOD-BYE, AFRICA

    In perfect weather Capetown to-day bade the Prince of Wales farewell from South Africa. The Prince has enjoyed enormously his private stay in the ...

    Article : 386 words
  6. THE COAL CRISIS.

    There was much activity at 10 Downing-street early to-day at the crucial stage of the coal dispute. The Premier (Mr. Baldwin), who conferred with the ...

    Article : 119 words
  7. GENERAL CABLES

    Addressing a party of members of Parliament and business people inspecting the docks to-day, Lord Ritchie, chairman of the Port of London ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. NO LIKELIHOOD OF WAR.

    The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) moved the reduction of the vote. He denounced this expenditure, and declared that there was ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. PRIVY COUNCIL CASE.

    The Privy Council dismissed with costs, the petition of Sir Sidney Kidman, J. Mayoh, and Arthur Mayoh for leave to appeal to the Privy Council ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. EFFECT ON TIMBER MILLS

    A serious position has arisen in the timber industry through the action of members of the Timber Workers' Union in refusing to handle cargo on vessels ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

    In the Legislative Council Mr. L. M. Shoobridge was informed that the total estimated cost of the state school now being erected in the old Trinity burial ...

    Article : 879 words
  12. NEGOTIATING ALL DAY.

    Mr. Baldwin conducted continuous negotiations all day long, first with the miners and then with the owners, passing from one room to the other. As ...

    Article : 172 words
  13. EXPEDITION TURNS BACK.

    The late Captains Scott's Antarctic expedition ship "Discovery," which left on July 23 on a cruise in the South Pacific, put back to Torbay. After rough ...

    Article : 53 words
  14. UNITED STATES AND PACIFIC.

    Mr. Lloyd George (Lib.) said that there was no menace in Europe justifying this programme. He asked whether there was a menace to British trade ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT.

    The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent gathers that France is not disposed to speed up the security pact negotiations before the September ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. NO EXTRAVAGANCE.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Churchill) declared that the Admiralty had made extreme efforts to reduce the charge on the Exchequer. The ...

    Article : 100 words
  17. SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS.

    Reuter cables from Manila that the survivors of the British steamer Egremont Castle have arrived there. They say that the boat, after slipping off ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. WAGES MUST NOT BE LOWERED.

    It transpires that the miners refused the extended offer of the owners this afternoon to guarantee minimum wage rates for each district on a percentage ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. NOT CONSULTED!

    The statement was made in the Trades Hall and Labour circles to-day that the dispute over the declaring of the coastal steamer Wandana "black" had ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. BRITISH PENSIONS BILL.

    The House of Lords passed through the second reading to-day, the Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Pensions Bill. The Lord Privy Seal (the Marquis of ...

    Article : 56 words
  21. DUBIOUS ABOUT ECONOMY.

    Mr. Philip Snowden (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government) strongly attacked the Admiralty. He attached no importance to ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. JAPAN'S STEEL SHORTAGE

    Professor Charles K. Leith, of the University of Wisconsin, speaking at the Institute of Politics round table conference to-day on mineral resources ...

    Article : 152 words
  23. THE SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

    In answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day, the Under-Secretary for Pensions (Mr. D. G. F. Stanley) said that the Spahlinger treatment had ...

    Article : 75 words
  24. ENQUIRY FINDING RESENTED.

    The central committee of the Mining Association of Great Britain unanimously decided against the findings of the Court of Enquiry into the mines dispute ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. MUST HAVE CRUISERS.

    The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. W. C. Bridgeman), in replying, said—"Our need for cruisers is far greater than that of any other country, because ...

    Article : 211 words
  26. NGATORO'S CREW PAID OFF

    It has now been ascertained that the crew of the Union Steamship Company's Ngatoro were paid off last Monday. Negotiations took place between the seamen ...

    Article : 110 words
  27. FRANCE'S DEBT TO ENGLAND.

    The "Daily Express" Paris correspondent states that the financial negotiations for the payment of the French war debt are likely to break down. ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. PARTIES STILL NEGOTIATING.

    "There is not a gleam of hope," said Mr. Cook, the miners' secretary, last night on summing up the day's negotiations. The whole press agrees that the ...

    Article : 245 words
  29. MATRIMONIAL TANGLE

    Rev. Aaron Sufflin, the Anglican vicar of Waterlooville, near Portsmouth, is the central figure in a strange nullity suit. Mr. Sufflin is a Roumanian Jew, ...

    Article : 180 words
  30. TRIBUTE TO NATIONAL FIGURE

    Mr. William Jennings Bryan's funeral services here on Friday will be broadcast from several cities throughout the eastern states by the Radio Corporation ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. IN PORT AND OUT

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 words
  32. JAPANESE POLITICS

    What is was generally anticipated would prove a critical meeting of the Coalition Cabinet was held to-day for a discussion on the tax proposals. After ...

    Article : 119 words
  33. ARMING, BUT READY TO DISARM.

    The question of employment, he went on, was not the first consideration, but the programme would mean the disbursement of £45,000,000 in wages alone. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  34. THE SYDNEY SOJOURN

    The arrival of the store ship Bridge with stores for the visiting fleet, necessitated the closing down at short notice of practically the whole of the ships for ...

    Article : 278 words
  35. THE AMERICAN FLEET

    So that the "other ranks" should not feel that there was anything lacking in the warmth in their official welcome to Victoria, the Governor-General (Lord ...

    Article : 230 words
  36. PROGRAMME DEFERRED A YEAR.

    The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) announced that the statement on Thursday by the Premier (Mr. ...

    Article : 156 words
  37. CAPITALISM

    Mr. Swales, president of the Trade Union Congress, addressing the British Commonwealth Labour Conference today, made a fiery onslaught against ...

    Article : 300 words
  38. CALM IN MOROCCO

    Reports from Fez state that the en-the front is quiet. The enemy is apparently adopting a defensive attitude, and digging in everywhere. The ...

    Article : 96 words
  39. THE EVOLUTION SCARE

    Overwhelming defeat was met by an amendment offered in the Georgian State House of Representatives providing that any teacher who taught a ...

    Article : 57 words
  40. SILVERTON TRAMWAY

    The operations of the Silverton Tramway Co., Ltd., during the last financial year were interfered with because of the unsatisfactory shipping facilities ...

    Article : 274 words
  41. "THE DEATH STROKE"

    Doctor Edwin Scott, the self-styled inventor of what he terms "The Death Stroke," in the form of canned lightning which he claims will revolutionise ...

    Article : 222 words
  42. CHINESE UNREST

    Dr. Gregorenko, of the Soviet Consulate, appeared in the Mixed Court this morning on a charge of aiding and abetting Fortunatoff in attempted ...

    Article : 116 words
  43. FOR AUSTRALIAN TRADE

    Mr. D. M. Dow, official secretary to the Commissioner for Australia in America, and representing that official (Sir James Eider, who is at present visiting ...

    Article : 112 words
  44. KANGAROO FOR MASCOT.

    The Melbourne Zoo has presented a kangaroo as a mascot to the complement of the Oklahama, and by so doing has evoked a general desire among the ...

    Article : 86 words
  45. THE TASMANIAN VISIT

    An official message has been received from Melbourne regarding the arrival of the American squadron at Hobart next week. It is stated that the light cruisers ...

    Article : 127 words
  46. BIRTHDAY OF SEATTLE.

    The flagship of the fleet, the Seattle, to-day celebrated her 19th birthday. She is the oldest ship with the fleet, but as Admiral Coontz has explained, it would ...

    Article : 95 words
  47. AMERICAN HELD FOR RANSOM.

    A letter has been received from bandits who captured the American Dr. Howard from the refugee farm on the Manchurian border, demanding a ...

    Article : 45 words
  48. S. CATHAY ABOUT TO LEAVE.

    The P. and O. Co's newest liner Cathay, of 15,000 tons, is at present at Grimsby loading for service to Australia via the Cape. ...

    Article : 34 words
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