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  2. The Week's Cables and Telegrams

    A march of unemployed men along Wellington-street was stopped yesterday afternoon by the arrival of a number of mounted police, under the charge ...

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  3. Aviation

    Nothing further will be done concerning the proposal of the Royal Dutch Air Line to extend its Amsterdam-Surabaya service to Darwin until ...

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  4. Inter-State Telegrams

    A man who had been cornered in an outhouse at the rear of a shop in Bondi, defied the police for some time last night, firing several shots through ...

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  5. GOLD POOL TO BE FORMED IN CONNECTION WITH GOLD BONUS.

    As the outcome of a conference here today between representatives of the gold producers throughout the Commonwealth, Senator Daly, and officials ...

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  6. General Telegrams

    The Cunard Company has signed a contract with John Brown and Company, at Clydebank, for the construction of the first of two new £6,000,000 ...

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  7. Political

    In the Legislative Council yesterday the bill to tax sweep tickets, which had previously been rejected, but then reinstated on the Notice Paper, was ...

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  8. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE AT RANGOON.

    An earthquake of great intensity and long duration was experienced at Rangoon early this morning. The extent of the damage, however, is not ...

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  9. THE HEDVIG'S CREW RESCUED BY BRITISH CRUISER.

    After a terrifying 48 hours the crew of the auxiliary schooner Hedvig were rescued this afternoon. The British cuiser Suffolk faced to the rescue last ...

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  10. FARMERS' DEBTS ADJUSTMENT BILL.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Bill was amended in committee. During the discussion the Leader of the ...

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  11. ATTITUDE OF THE SENATE.

    The Senate has decided that it cannot carry on much longer, and it is anticipated that both Houses will adjourn shortly. ...

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  12. LENIN'S BRAIN.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that the [?]rain of M. Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, has been taken secretly from Moscow for ...

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  13. LOAD OF DYNAMITE EXPLODES.

    Thirty-six persons were killed and three buildings destroyed today, when a freight car loaded with dynamite exploded at the railway station at ...

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  14. THE PROPOSED GOLD BONUS.

    Recommendations by Cabinet for variations in the draft bill authorising the payment of a bonus on gold produced throughout the Commonwealth, ...

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  15. MISS SPOONER ATTEMPTS A RECORD.

    Miss Spooner, the winner of the King's Cup, will set out at dawn to-morrow in a dramatic attempt to fly from London to Cape Town in five ...

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  16. NEW SOUTH WALES

    The annual report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ended on June 30, 1930, states that the earnings totalled £17,826,092, and the ...

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  17. MYSTERIOUS CASES OF ASPHYXIATION.

    The inhabitants of the valley of the Meuse on the Belgian side of [?]ege are panic stricken in the grip of a terror unequalled since the war, ...

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  18. LIKELIHOOD OF A. BOUNTY ON WHEAT.

    The President of the Primary Producers' Association said yesterday that the association' executive had received a telegram from Mr. Gregory, ...

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  19. MISS SPOONER AND EDWARDS MEET WITH DISASTER.

    Flying Officer Edwards and Miss Spooner crashed in the Tyrrhenim Sea, two miles off the Italian coast, and for two hours they shouted in vain for ...

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  20. IMPRISONED FOR SEVEN YEARS.

    At the Central Criminal Court today Walter Denson (50), an invalid pensioner, was charged with having, on July 28, 1930, maliciously wounded ...

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  21. BIG FRAUD ALLEGED.

    Four men stood in the dock at the Guildhall today charged with having committed a Stock Exchange fraud, which is alleged to have been on an ...

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  22. FIRE AT CAVE HOUSE.

    Damage estimated at £5000 was caused early this morning by a fire which destroyed a section of the Cave House at Yallingup, comprising about ...

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  23. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    There was an extraordinary development in the Legislative Council tonight when, without a division, the members passed the Constitution Amendment ...

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  24. Foreign Cables

    There was an intensely dramatic scene in the Senate yesterday when M. Tardien's Cabinet resigned after a defeat by 147 votes to 139 following ...

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  25. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

    Three persons were killed and two others injured when a motor car was crashed into by a bogie tramcar and was pinned underneath the forepart ...

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  26. LIEUT. HILL'S FLIGHT.

    Lieut. Hill, who crashed at Atamboea, Timor, in October, left Sourabaya early this morning, and arived at Kupang Timor. He proposes to fly ...

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  27. FOUND WITH SKULL BATTERED.

    William Thompson (30), of Canterbury, was found in an unconscious state last night, with his skull terribly battered. He died in hospital this ...

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  28. THE DEATH FOG LIFTED.

    The creeping fog of death which brought a reign of terror to the valley of the Meuse on the Belgian side of Liege has lifted. Three deaths ...

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  29. MAIL PLANE CRASHES.

    The Hankow mail plane crashed at Shanghai this morning when taking off. Pilot, co-pilot and three passengers (including a Russian woman and ...

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  30. SALVAGE SHIP BLOWN UP.

    The Italian salvage ship Artiglio, which was employed seeking sunken treasure, has been blown up off Lorikut, and 14 men were killed, seven ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    State revenue for November amounted to £905,932, which is £113,830 less than for November of last year. For the expired five months of the ...

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  32. VICTORIA.

    Mr. Alfred Peatey was returning from fishing in a 12ft. dinghy to Rosebut when a large shark seized the gunwhale of the boat, which on ...

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  33. CITY COUNCIL BLACKMAILED.

    A shoemaker and a small farmer, when arrested, confessed to having attempted to blackmail the Magdeburg municipal authorities. Suspicion had ...

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  34. INDUSTRIAL.

    A meeting of shearers held at Roma last night unanimously decided to stand behind the Longreach manifesto that shearers who were shearing ...

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  35. DISCOVERY OF RICH PETROLEUM IN FORMOSA.

    Engineers report the discovery in a hitherto unexplored region of Formosa of widely extensive petroleum strata of great richness, rivalling America's ...

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  36. CHINA.

    Communists have occupied the town of Chang-teh (Hunan) foreign residents are believed to have been safely evacuated. ...

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  37. MYSTERIOUS POISONINGS AT MISSION STATION

    Forty-one boys at the London Mission's boarding house at Erode, in the Coimbatore district of South India, have died and 45 are dangerously ill ...

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  38. A £50 SLOGAN.

    The prize of £50 for the Loan, slogan has been given for the following: "Commonwealth Bonds are as good as Gold." ...

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  39. FEDERAL

    The Oxford University Press has published "Borrowing and Business in Australia,' a book by Dr. Gordon Woods, of the University of Melbourne. ...

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  40. BRITISH

    The present trouble in the coal-mining industry originated with the decision of the Miners' Federation to veto proposals for working a ...

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  41. HEAVY RAINS AND RUINED WHEAT CROPS.

    Following the movement of a depression from Central Australia, practically the entire State of Victoria was drenched by torrential downpours ...

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  42. WOMEN MISSIONARIES RESCUED FROM BANDITS.

    A party of Mongols has rescued Mrs. H. D. Hayward an American missionary, and Miss E. Gomersal, a British nurse, who were captured by bandits ...

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  43. APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL ANNOUNCED IN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Fenton announced the appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs as Governor-General for five years. ...

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  44. WEARMOUT[?] COMM[?] FOR [?].

    We[?]h has been committed for trial on a sh[?] of having wilfully murdered his wife at Wem[?]. ...

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  45. INDIA.

    Tarini Mukherji, an inspector of police, was shot dead at Chandpur station, on the Assam-Bengal railway, 200 miles from Calcutta, yesterday, ...

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  46. A SCHOONER ON A CORAL REEF.

    The Swedish auxiliary schooner Hedwig (149 tons) is ashore and breaking up on a coral reef off Pratas Island, about 350 miles south-east of ...

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  47. ROBBERY AT PICTURE THEATRE.

    Breaking into the office of the Broadway Picture Theatre at Victoria Park during the temporary absence of the manager late on Saturday nigh, a ...

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  48. QUEENSLAND.

    The Orford With 52 prohibited Italian migrants on board, reached Brisbane today, but only 13 italians— all of whom were naturalised British ...

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  49. FURTHER CHANGES IN CUSTOMS TARIFF.

    Further changes in the Customs tariff schedule were announced today in the House of Representatives by Mr. Forde. The items affected are tobacco, ...

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  50. RUSSIA.

    The Soviet Central Executive has commuted the death sentences passed on Professors Ramzin, Charnovsky, Karinikoff and Fedoty and the ...

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  51. DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED

    The Victorian Executive Council to-day commuted the sentence of death passed on Richard Buckley to a sentence of imprisonment for life without ...

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  52. RAILWAY WORKERS' AWARD.

    Provisions for an increase in the weekly working hours of employees in the Government railways to 48 and the general abolition of the system ...

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  53. NO GENERAL STRIKE OF COAL MINERS.

    When the Miners' Federation met to-day to consider further the question of a spread over of hours, it was decided that there should be no national ...

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  54. AUSTRALIAN PEARL FISHING INDUSTRY.

    An ordinance which has been gazetted under the North Australia Act, 1926, contains provisions designed to prevent aliens from retaining any ...

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  55. INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF PRISONS MURDERBD.

    A sensation was caused in Calcutta today by the murder of Lieut-Colonel Simpson. Inspector-General of Prisons for Bengal, by three young ...

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  56. BURMESE POLICEMAN RUNS AMOK.

    Rati Ram, a Burmese policeman, ran amok at the police station near Mourmein yesterday, and shot five persons dead and then killed himself. ...

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  57. MINING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 words
  58. SCOTCH COAL MINERS RESUME WORK.

    The Scottish coalminers who struck against the working hours provided by the new Coal Mines Act resumed work after meetings in the chief areas of ...

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  59. COMMONWEALTH GRANT ON WHEAT.

    The Commonwealth Bank Board has decided only to grant 2s. f.o.b. or 1s. 6d. at country stations on this season's wheat. ...

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  60. ALIEN MIGRANTS.

    Two hundred and two alien migrants who reached Fremantle yesterday by the liner Otranto, awaited anxiously the results of examinations by the ...

    Article : 63 words
  61. Advertising

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