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  2. TROUBLE BREWING.

    The Bellin correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" learns that the Bavarian Republic has declined to accept the new national law for the protection ...

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  3. THE FINAL STRUGGLE. ADVANCE ON CORK.

    Free State forces are advancing on Cork, which is being prepared for an attack in a similar manner to Limerick. The National troops have a most ...

    Article : 147 words
  4. ENCOURAGING A STRIKE.

    The case in which the A.W.U. and two of its officers—Arthur Blakeley (president) and John Barnes (acting secretray)—were charged, together with H. E. ...

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  5. ASTRONOMICAL SENSATION.

    What is characterised as the most outstanding recent astronomical development is the announcement that Dr. J. S. Plaskett, Director of the Dominion of Canada ...

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  6. SEARCH FOR OIL.

    Although the recent investigations at Beaudesert gave negative results so far as the presence of oil is concerned, the search for petroleum has not been ...

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  7. THE STEEL INDUSTRY.

    To enable the steel industrty to carry on, the railway workers' branch of the A.W.U. has agreed to accept lower wages, provided that when the position of the ...

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  8. INDUSTRIAL NEEDS.

    Mr. T. R. Ashworth, president of the Victorian Employers' Federation, in an interview with a representative of "S.M. Herald" on Friday, said that, although ...

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  9. ON THE LAND. WOOL. THE 1916-17 CLIPS.

    At the extraordinary meeting of Bawra in Melbourne last week, a resolution submitted by the Wool Growers' Council was agreed to as follows:—"That this ...

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  10. WAGE REDUCTIONS. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

    In the Arbitration Court yesterday, before the President (the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice M'Cawley), representatives of the Railway Commissioner and the affected ...

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  11. EUROPEAN FINANCE

    "Le Temps," discussing the visit of the Prime Minister (M. Poincare) to London, which is fixed for about August 1, declares that Frenchman generally expect ...

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  12. BRITISH STATISTICS.

    The Registrar-General's statistics for 1920 show the highest marriage rate ever recorded (20.2 per 1000); the highest birth rate since 1909 (25.5 per 1000); the highest ...

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    MARSHAL WILSON'S SUCCESSOR, REV. J. M. SIMMS, D.D., Who has been elected unopposed for North Down, in succession to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. CONTRACT WORK. WATER BOARD PROPOSALS.

    Tenders for the construction of certain sewerage work by contract were sought by the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board recently, and ...

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  15. EASTERN AFFAIRS.

    The Council of the League of Nations has finally disposed of the highly controversia questions arising out of the Palestine and Syria mandates, which will be ...

    Article : 381 words
  16. IMMIGRATION

    Referring yesterday to the opposition of the Trades, and Labour Council to-wards the League and Immigration, Mr. L. T. Maplestone (general secretary of ...

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  17. SALARIES OVER £300 PER ANNUM.

    A reduction of 5 per cent. in the pay of those Government employees in receipt of £300 per annum, and over, was ordered by the Government recently. It ...

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  18. DISPUTE SETTLED.

    A settlement of the dispute which had rendered the Clyde engineering works idle is reported to-night. The company was carrying out a contract for the ...

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  19. ARBITRATION.

    Business men in Sydney take strong exception to certain remarks made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) in his speech at Bendigo on Saturday. It is ...

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  20. LAWN TENNIS.

    Mlle. Lenglen, the French tennis champion, has not left for America, because the American Tennis Association has written to the French tennis authorities ...

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  21. A TOOWOOMBA RESOLUTION.

    "The Toowoomba branch of the A.L.P. enters an emphatic protect against the action of the Government in reducing the salaries of Public Service employees, and ...

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  22. WOOL CASE.

    The hearing was resumed to-day before the High Court, his Honour Mr. Justice Isaacs presiding, of the case of the Commonwealth Government and the Central ...

    Article : 539 words
  23. AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT.

    The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Austrian Kronen are now 165,000 to the £, compared with the par value of ...

    Article : 162 words
  24. OUR ENGLISH WOOD LETTER.

    The West Riding textile industry is very largely dependent upon the supply of merinos from the Commonwealth, and it is pleasing to know that Queensland ...

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  25. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION.

    At the City Council yesterday, the following was part of the supplementary report of the Finance Committee:—"The request from the Local Authorities ...

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  26. EGYPTIAN OUTRAGES.

    Lord Allenby has written to Sarwat Pasha, stating that the British Government views with apprehension the recent series of outrages on British officers and ...

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  27. "GO SLOW."

    There were rival exchanges and at times disorder at the conference of the Trades Union Secretaries at the Trades Hall to-night, when the policy of the ...

    Article : 338 words
  28. COAL CONTRACT.

    Mr. W. M. MacFarlane, who conducted the recent inquiry into the pillaging of cargo in various Australian ports, will hold, an inquirty as soon as possible into ...

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  29. WORLD FLIGHT.

    Major Blake, who is attempting to fly round the world, reached [?], Baluchistan, on Sunday. He was unable to reach Quetta, owing to mist, and on his return ...

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  30. ALLEGED FORGERY.

    When Mr. Matthew Vjeevitch was summoned to his bank a fortnight ago he made the startling discovery that about £350 had been withdrawn from his ...

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  31. TENDERS AND ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE.

    Four tenders for the construction of the Breakfast Creek branch sewer were received at the meeting of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board yesterday. ...

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  32. 48-HOUR WEEK.

    A Bill to provide for a reversion to the 48-hour week in New South Wales will be introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-morrow by the Attorney-General (Mr. ...

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  33. WAR TROPHIES.

    The following clause appeared in the Works Committee's report presented to the Brisbane City Council yesterday:— "The two field guns handed over to the ...

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  34. TRAIN DISASTER.

    Fourteen persons were killed and nineteen injured in a train disaster on the Russian side of the Polish frontier. The affair was due to malicious action ...

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  35. MAIN ROADS.

    Consequent on the recommendations of the Main Roads Board, the following roads, or sections of roads, have been proclaimed as main roads:—Main ...

    Article : 171 words
  36. LOWER TRAM FARES.

    In the course of a statement on the Railway finances on Saturday night the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Fraser) promised that if the 48-hour working ...

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  37. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

    The awards made to Victorians by the Royal Humane Society were distributed by his Excellency the Governor (Earl Stradbroke) in the Town Hall to-night. ...

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  38. "A CORNER OF BLIGHTY."

    Mrs. Beckles Willson, founder of the famous Paris canteen known as "A Corner of Blighty," died while praying in Mitcham Church. ...

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  39. BURNING FATALITY.

    Gordon Collie, 2½ years of age, son of Mr. J. Collie, Rappville, died in the Casino Hospital this morning from burns received when his flannclette ...

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  40. DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    Allan Christon (aged 2 years), son of Mr. John Christison, of Tivoli, was missed from his home this morning. His body was subsequently found in a waterhole ...

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