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  2. THE GENEVA MEETING. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The inaugural sermon of the annual meeting of the League oE Nations Assembly was delivered in the Cathedral of St. Pierre by his Grace the Archbishop ...

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  3. PRIME MINISTER. THE NORTH SYDNEY, SEAT.

    The negotiations between the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and representatives of the National Association ot New South Wales were continued to-day and at a ...

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  4. INDIAN, OUTBREAK.

    Vuothei conflict between the police and the Akali Sikhs occurred outside Amritsar. A Hindu magistrate ordered the Akalis to disperse, but they refused, ...

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  5. WAGE REDUCTIONS. N.S.W. COKE WORKERS.

    The New South Wales, Coke Proprietors officially announced to-day that they proposed to reduce wages by 33 1/3 per cent. all round. The reduction ...

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  6. AN ECHO OF 1917. GERMAN PEACE OVERTURES

    The committee appointed by the Reichstag to investigate the peace overtures made in 1917 has issued its report. The committee finds that an earnest desire ...

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  7. STATE STATIONS.

    Ministers may not admit it or may try to explain it as they will, nevertheless the position of the Slate stations bought by the Government on a high market ...

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  8. PROPOSED LOAN.

    The Prime Munster (Mr. Massey), replying to the Budget debate to day, said he was quite certain that the Government would have to go to the London market ...

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  9. ON THE LAND. SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    "The high price of sugar has become a popular [?], and, broadly speaking, very few have bothered to investigate it." This statement was made by the secretary of ...

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  10. ECONOMY AND TAXATION.

    In an address, on "economy and taxation" at a luncheon given in his honour by the Millions Club to-day, the Federal Treasurer (Mr. S. M. Bruce) said that ...

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  11. THE LATE HENRY LAWSON.

    The fuueral of the late Mr. Henry Lawson this afternoon was a wonderful tribute to the memory of the poet. A continuous procession ot persons of all ...

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  12. THE NEAR EAST.

    The Italian Government has been for mally requested to convene a conference on the Near Eastern question, an agree ment having been reached between Britain ...

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    THE LATE MR. HENRY LAWSON. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. WOOL FREIGHTS.

    Mr. James Clark, a leading Queensland pastoralist, speaking of the reduction just made in the freights on wool and meat, said that he had now got figures from ...

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  15. GERMAN "REGRETS."

    The German Government has expressed its regret for the murder of two soldiers of the Belgian army of occupation by Germans at Ober Cassel. The police are ...

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  16. N.S.W. AWARDS VARIED.

    In the Industrial Court to-day, on the application of the Mastor Builders' Association, the awards for builders' labourers (Cumberland and Newcastle) and ...

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  17. CANE CRUSHING.

    The Railway Department reports thate heavy traffic is being experienced in the district at present, chiefly on account of the sugar season operations, All the ...

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  18. AUSTRIA'S PRESSING NEED.

    The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Austrian Prime Minister has been invited to discuss with the Council of the League the ...

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  19. WHEAT FUND.

    Mr. W. Harris, P.M., continued the Royal Commission ot Inquiry into the penny in the bushel wheat scheme to day, when the following witnesses were ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. SHEARING RATES.

    At a special police court to-day Ebenezer Daniel Hedley Vrirgo, secretary of the Stock Owners' Association, charged Francis Walter Lundie, secretary of the ...

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  21. FATAL FIRE.

    A fire believed to be of incendiary origin resulted in the death of eight strikebreakers and serious injury to cleven others, and the destruction of a large ...

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  22. A BENDIGO MOVEMENT.

    Mr. Simes, President of the Bendigo Chamber of Commerce, who is interesting himself in a movement for a public demonstration here to invite Mr. Hughes ...

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  23. DEMAND FOR PEACE

    The Irish Labour Party intends to press the Free State Government either to prove that the revolt is crushed or to compromise with the rebels. The ...

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  24. SUGGESTED CUSTOMS UNION.

    Signer Nitti, a former Prime Minister of Italy, considers that the suggestion for a monetary union between Italy and Austria is absurd. He believes the most ...

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  25. THE BRISBANE SEAT.

    As announced in the "Courier"' recently, endeavours are being made to induce Colonel Camerou, whose health has improved, to reconsider his decision not to ...

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  26. EGYPT DISASTER.

    As a result of the investigation into the Egypt disaster, the finding of the Court of Inquiry, which was announced to-day, is that the collision was due to ...

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  27. POINCARE'S NOTE.

    A passage in Poincare's reply to Ea[?] Balfour's war-debts note reads: "The United States entered the war to defend the principles which were the basis of ...

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  28. FRUIT FLY.

    Sydney messages report that a Grafton chemist has diseovered a new fruit fly, lure. When questioned on the subject ...

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  29. SEARCH FOR OIL.

    Captain E. de Lautpick (the Russian oil expert) to-dny returned from the South-western Oil and Shale Co.'s oil prospecting area No. 4H, which extends ...

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  30. WOOL CASES.

    Mr. Owen Dixon, K.C., senior counsel fur plaintiffs in the case of the Commonwealth Government and the Central Wool Committee against the Colonial ...

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  31. REBELS ATTACK MACROOM.

    Three hundred rebels, with 10 machine guns, two armoured ears, and trench mortars, made a concentrated attack on Macroom, but were repulsed after eight ...

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  32. LOST IN A GALE.

    Four young men—Edgar Rushton, Harold Wright, Victor Green, and K. J. Dickenson—who went out in a sailing boat on Wilson's Inlet, near Dinmark, ...

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  33. MOISTURE IN MAIZE.

    Mr. F. J. S. Wise, Field Inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Stock[?] in an interview, gave some interesting information on the moisture in maize [?] ...

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  34. REPARATIONS MUST BE PAID.

    Herr Klotz, a former German Minister for Finance, asked M. Po[?]care if the eventual reduction of Germany's exterior charges mentioned in the Reparations ...

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  35. ARMS FOR IRELAND.

    The British destroyer Doon arrested outside Cork Harbour a steamer partly laden with arms and ammunition. The vessel was steaming westward to Ireland, and is ...

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  36. TERRITORY PROBLEMS.

    Some of the difficulties encountered by settlers in the Northern Territory were described by Mr. William Henry Clarke, general manager of the Carlton United ...

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  37. WAR GRAVES.

    The High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Joseph Cook), who will represent Australia at the League of Nations Assembly, in company with Lady Cook ...

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  38. PRINTERS' STRIKE.

    The newspaper strike continues, but the negotiations suggest that the position is slightly more hopeful. ...

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  39. MISSION YACHT.

    The mission yacht Nivani left Cairns on Saturday for Samarai. She is a 14-ton boat, which Captain S. W. Muir and crew of two have successfully sailed from ...

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  40. THE HUMAN TOUCH.

    While his Majesty the King was shooting in Scotland he personally assisted the victims of two accidents. The first was Grant, a veteran Balmoral keeper, who ...

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  41. DAGGERS DRAWN.

    A conflict has begun between the Gov. [?]nment and Herr Hugo St[?]nes, the financial and industrial magnate. The latter published a stinging article in the ...

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  42. TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.

    The bodies of Thomas and Colin Lyons, brothers (aged 14 and 12 years of age respectively), have been found in the Te Aute Lake. They were drowned while ...

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  43. A BRISBANE DISPUTE.

    At a special meeting of the Furnishing Trade Union on August 30 a strike ballot, in accordance with the Industrial Arbitration Act, was taken in connection ...

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  44. EAST BEERBURRUM.

    At a meeting of the East Beerburrum Progress Association, held on September 3, the president (Mr. J. F. Lyme) in the chair, a letter was read from the member ...

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  45. CHANNEL SWIM.

    Charles Toth, the American swimmer. abandoned his attempt to swim the Channel when five miles from Gris Nez, having spent 11 hours in the water. ...

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  46. THE EXPORT FRUIT SEASON.

    The Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co. of Queensland has received from the Australian Producers' Wholesale Cooperative Federation Pty., Ltd., copies of ...

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  47. NATIVE RACES.

    Representatives of the Society for the Preservation of Natue Races, who waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) this morning, were disappointed because they ...

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  48. AVIATORS CONVALESCENT.

    The round-the-world aviators, Captain Norman Macmillan and Mr. Malins, who were res[?]ed from then wrecked seaplane near Chittagong, are convalescent, ...

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  49. AUSTRALIA'S SCENIC BEAUTIES.

    His Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Forater arrived at Lismore yesterday afternoon from the Tweed by motor car. The Vice-regal party was ...

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  50. "CONFIDENCE TRICK."

    The latest "confidence trick" is being worked hy a woman. The principal of the college at Camperdown lost £1 by this means during the week-end. A ...

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  51. MONARCHISTS MOBILISING.

    Messages from Bavaria indicate that the Mo[?]archists are carrying out secret mobilisation of their forces, and it is believed that a coup d'etat is imminent. ...

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  52. EARTH TREMORS.

    The postmaster at Tokaanu has telegraphed to the secretary of the post office, stating that since early on Sunday morning over 103 earthquakes have been felt ...

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  53. A PRUSSIAN PROVINCE.

    Silesia voted against autonomy and in favour of remaining a Prussian province by 513,126 votes to 50,400. Seventy-four per cent. of those eligible to yote did so. ...

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  54. RAT DESTRUCTION.

    No case of plague has been reported in Brisbane since March 31 last, and no infeeted rat has been caught since July 28. For the week ended September 2, 1581 ...

    Article : 53 words
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