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  2. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    Interesting evidence concerning the purchase overseas of sugar by the Commonwealth Government was given to-day by Benjamin Joseph Lee (merchant and ...

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  3. RAILWAY OUTRAGE. VIOLENCE IN AMERICA.

    A train wreck on the Michigan Central railway, which officials declare was the to the withdrawal of spikes permitting the rails to spread, resulted in the death ...

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  4. COLLINS' ESCAPE.

    A bomb was thrown and 30 shots fired at Mr. Michael Collin's empty car when it was entering Dublin to-day. The driver was gravely wounded. ...

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  5. REMARKABLE LIFE STORY.

    A bride at 15 years of age, and a mother a year later, next a Russian prima donna, and at the same time a member of a secret society plotting ...

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  6. BASIC WAGE.

    Consequent on the alteration in the basic wage, several applications for variations of awards were granted in the Industrial Court to-day. In the shop ...

    Article : 98 words
  7. PROXY VOTING BILL.

    The Ploxy Voting Bill has been transmitted to his Excellency the Governor for the Royal assent. Unless that assent is given to-day—and in Government ...

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  8. SENSATIONAL CHARGE.

    When the charge against John Harvey Crothers Sleeman (42, journalist) and Edward Bernard Connolly (59, journalist) was called yesterday, the Central Police ...

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  9. ON THE LAND. COTTON GROWING.

    The pioneer cotton grower of the Dawson Valley (Mr. E. Bryant) writes: "As I know you will like to learn how my returns range from ratoon cotton, I can ...

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  10. LATE MR. GRIFFITH.

    A solemn Requiem High Mass was held in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning for the late Mr. Arthur Griffith. The mass was sung ...

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  11. COAL STRIKE.

    Information has been received here that a strike occurred to-day at the Newcastle coal mine at Blair Athol. It was stated that a youth employed as a horse driver ...

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  12. PEACE MOVEMENT MENACED.

    The demand of the unions for the reemployment of the strikers, and their refusal to submit the seniority question to the Labour Board, threaten to block the ...

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  13. "GO SLOW" POLICY.

    A section of the members of the Australasian Society of Engineers proposes that "stop work" meetings and the system of "go slow on the job" should ...

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  14. MARTYRED FRANCE

    The French Premier, M. Poincare, unveiling a war memorial at Triancourt, Lorraine, said: "You, who suffered so much from the relentless enemy's invasion, ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. "BLIND AND SILLY."

    The General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P.), addressing a meeting of railwaymen at Chester, said that the problem of ...

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  16. NEWSPAPER STRIKE

    The mechanical staff of the "West Australian" declined to resume work to-night, and there will be no issue in the morning The President of the Arbitration Court ...

    Article : 88 words
  17. RICH GOLD YEIN.

    The rich vein of ore in the Cockshot lease at Coolgardie (formerly portion of Bayley's Reward) still maintains its high gold values, and the lease holders, Messrs. ...

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  18. TRYING ORDEAL.

    After a trying experience of three days at sea without food, and buffeted by the wind, the crew of the 11-ton auxiliary ketch Ruby were relieved when their small ...

    Article : 230 words
  19. THE WORST FEARED

    Captain Norman Macmillan and Mr. Malins, in the new seaplane, set off from Calcutta on Saturday morning for Akyab, Burma, a four-hours journey across the ...

    Article : 190 words
  20. BERLIN MISSION.

    Sir J. Bradbury (President of the Committee of Guarantees) and Mr. Manclere have arrived in Berlin. It is popularly believed that they will again attempt to ...

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  21. ART OF DESIGNING.

    His Excellency the State Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan) distributed prizes won during the year by the pupils of the Ipswich Technical College in the Town ...

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  22. SMALL COAL.

    One of the keenest problems racing the mine proprietors at Newcastle is the difficulty of disposing of stocks of small coal. At every mine in the northern ...

    Article : 184 words
  23. AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT.

    The Austrian Chancellor and the Minister for Finance are going to Praguo and Berlin to discuss the financial situation. The Premier will later visit Rome ...

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  24. WHEAT INQUIRY.

    Mr. W. Harris, P.M., sitting as a Royal Commissioner, to-day continued his inquiry into the facts relating to the collection, vesting, management, and disposal ...

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  25. EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    Sir George Paish, adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the British Treasury on financial and economic questions, speaking at a League of Nations ...

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  26. BAG-SNATCHING.

    Bag-snatching is an almost daily occurrence in Sydney. An offender was caught in Elizabeth-street to-day after a short chase by the police. In another ...

    Article : 173 words
  27. PICNIC TRAGEDY.

    A char-a-banc conveying 25 beanfeasters returning to Ashford, Kent, from Hastings, overturned in a ditch filled with water. Eight of the holiday-makers ...

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  28. A FATAL FALL.

    Leslie Bell (age 3[?] years), a single man, residing at Annandale, and a monitor in the telephone branch at the Sydney G.P.O., this morning fell from the ...

    Article : 86 words
  29. WOMEN'S OLYMPIA.

    The results of the contests at the Women's Olympic Games give Britain 50 points, the United States 31, France 29, Czecho-Slovakia 12, and Switzerland 12. ...

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  30. DEPRECIATED MARK.

    Owing to the depreciation in value of the German mark, the sending of remittances to Germany has been forbidden. ...

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  31. FIRE AT DUBBO.

    The Castlereagh Hotel and three adjoining shops were totally destroyed by fire at Dubbo last night. At one time it looked as if the whole block would go, ...

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  32. ROMA BORE.

    The report of the Government Analyst on the specimen of floating se[?] brought to Brisbane recently from the Roma bore by the officer in charge (Mr. A. Moore) ...

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  33. GLIDING RECORDS.

    Martens, a Hanoverian engineering student, has flown for 66 minutes, at a height of 300ft., in a motorless aeroplane. He flew ten kilometres in a direct line for ...

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  34. FIVE-MILE SWIM.

    Nearly 1,000,000 persons witnessed the five-mile swimming contest through Paris, the event being won by Reyberol of Bordeaux, who covered the distance in ...

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  35. HAIL INSURANCE.

    As announced in the "Courier" a few days ago, a ballot of wheat growers is to be taken to obtain an expression of opinion as to whether they desire the ...

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  36. "COULD NOT BE FOUND."

    The whereabouts of William Michael Daley, a well-known Sydney solicitor, who is defendant in a case in which John Alexander Harrison, of Cardiff, is suing for ...

    Article : 142 words
  37. TSAR'S DAUGHTER.

    According to statements made by Madame Varvara Kassovskaia, Princess Olga, the eldest daughter of the late Tsar of Russia, is not dead, as had been ...

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  38. THOSE INTERVIEWS.

    Commenting on the recent statements by the Premier in the Legislative Assembly regarding his interview with Mr. E. Garbutt, Mr. E. E. Hunter, ...

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  39. A TEST CASE.

    In South Australia the retiring age for civil servants is 70 years, but when the Commonwealth took over the control of the Postal Department in 1901 it assumed ...

    Article : 169 words
  40. BUSH TRAGEDY.

    Dela Ferguson, his wife, and three daughters were discovered dead in their burnt-down home at Nullo Mountain, 27 miles from Rylestone. It is a lonely spot, ...

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  41. MOTOR CAR CAPSIZE.

    Late on Friday night a motor car proceeding to Southport struck a rut about four miles from Coomera, on a narrow portion of the road, and capsized.From ...

    Article : 143 words
  42. A BOXER'S DEATH.

    The death occurred this morning at Wollongong of Frank Griffin, who won a boxing contest at the Globe Stadium on Saturday night, when he met Curly Parkes ...

    Article : 96 words
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