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  2. DIRECT ACTION.

    Following upon the recent outbreak of "job control" among the waterside workers in almost every port in Australia, plans are being made by the ...

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  3. 83 DEAD.

    According to despatches received here, 80 passengers, the captain, and the first and second engineers of the brazilian river steamer Paes de ...

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  4. SHOTS FIRED.

    A strange shooting incident is said to have occurred at Scott's Boarding-house, Roma-street, about 7 o'clock last night. One of the boarders, ...

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  5. CYCLONIC STORM.

    A cyclonic disturbance worked its way in a south-easterly direction across New South Wales yesterday, and this morning, causing torrential rains, accompanied by terrific winds. The town of Wellington ...

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  6. THE WAR DEBTS.

    A lucid explanation of Britain's position in respect to the inter-Allied debts was made by Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons ...

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  7. AN ANGRY CROWD.

    A serious development in connection with the strike at the North Australian Rubber Mills took place outside the works in Upper Melbourne street, West End, shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when ...

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  8. GRUESOME FIND.

    Propped against a stunted box tree, the body of an unknown woman, who had been dead several hours, was found in Chadstone-road, Oakleigh, at 20 ...

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  9. FORESTRY SCHOOL.

    In the course of an interview the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) said that the Australian Forestry School had opened its first session at the Adelaide University on ...

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  10. WARNING TO SHIPPING.

    The following storm warning was issued from the Brisbane Weather Bureau at 11 a.m. yesterday:—"Masters of vessels leaving the port of Brisbane southward ...

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  11. FATAL COLLISION.

    At the Warwick Farm level crossing, near Liverpool, this afternoon, George Solomons (28), of Clyde, the driver of a laden motor lorry, wat run down by a ...

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  12. COAL CRISIS.

    The Prime Minister of Britain is grappling with the coal industry crisis. On Wednesday he met in conference representatives of the owners and ...

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  13. DESTRUCTIVE POLICY.

    Interesting comments on the industrial situation were expressed by the chairman and managing director of Messrs. Howard Smith, Ltd. (Mr. H. B. Howard ...

    Article : 255 words
  14. RAIN IN WEST.

    The Far West, particularly in the Cunnamulla and Thargomindah areas, has received further copious rains, and at Quilpie and Cunnamulla the ...

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  15. NEW GOVERNOR.

    It was currently rumoured in the city yesterday that an appointment to the position of Governor of Queensland, rendered vacant by ...

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  16. "GREAT HOPE."

    The Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, in the statement which it proposes to submit to the annual conference of the Australian Labour Party to be held ...

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  17. STILL UNDER TEST.

    Dr. Smalpage, in a letter to the Press, states:—"I wish you would make it clear to the public that my advice to those afflicted with ...

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  18. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    Persistent ramours in the Federal lobbies to-day indicated that the secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. Jas. R. Collins) would not go lo Canberra when ...

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  19. COASTAL STRIKE.

    Unsuccessful attempts were made today to reach a settlement of the coastal shipping strike. The ship owners held a long conference with the ...

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  20. "MOST FAVOURABLE."

    "America's war debt settlements with European nations are the most favourable obtainable short of force," declared the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr ...

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  21. NO INTERVENTION.

    The Minister for Railways has declined to intervene in the Townsville railway dispute. The req at for intervention was made ...

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  22. FALL THROUGH CEILING

    William Joseph O'Neill (17), employed at the General Post Office as a telephone mechanic, fell through a fibro ceiling yesterday afternoon, and sustained a ...

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  23. WIRELESS SUCCESS.

    The "Evening Standard" says that Sir Oliver Lodge, after three years' secret experiments at the Penivate laboratory, announces that he has succeeded in doing ...

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  24. FIRE AT BUDERIM.

    The store and billiard saloon owned by Sion Singh, and occupied by Mr. W. H. Trotter, was completely destroyed by fire last night. The fire, which was first ...

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  25. NIKOLAIEVSK MASSACRE.

    The Upper House this morning passed a Bill granting gratuities to the bereaved families of Japanese killed in the Nikolarevsk massacre in 1920. The ...

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  26. SEAMEN'S UNION.

    With the departure of several leading officials of the Seamen's Union from Melbourne to-day there is a likelihood of a lall in the internal dispute for a few ...

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  27. HIGH TREASON.

    An official bulletin issued by the metropolitan police announces that the Supreme Court this morning gave a verdict of capital punishment for high treason ...

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  28. BURNING ACCIDENT.

    Elizabeth Bruse, a single woman (56 years of age), who was burnt on the legs and lower part of the body through her clothes catching fire, when employed as a ...

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  29. MINERS MAROONED.

    Owing to the flooding of the Murchison River, communication with the Three Sisters Mine, at Galena, has been cut off, and from 15 to 20 men are ...

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  30. ALLEGED HOMICIDE.

    Bruce Havelock Strong (26) appeared before Mr. W. S. Bromhead, P.M., in the Murwillumbah Police Court yesterday, charged with having, on Monday ...

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  31. "BLACK" KANNA.

    No attempt was made to discharge coal and general cargo in the Union S.S. Co.'s "black" steamer Kanna to-day, and the vessel still lies in idleness at Ocean Pier, ...

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  32. VICTORIAN BUSH FIRES.

    Practical sympathy with those who suffered in the recent Victorian bush fires continues to be shown, and yesterday the "Courier" fund was increased by an ...

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  33. RAIN IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

    The Minister for Federal Railways (Mr Hill) has given instructions for the cancelling of railway transport arrangements for Stock in the drought-stricken listricts ...

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  34. SESSION ENDED.

    An Imperial decree was issued to-day ordering the closure of the Diet tomorrow, with the customary ceremonial. As the Regent will not attend, the Prime ...

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  35. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN.

    The underwriters are saddled with 76 per cent. of the New South Wales loan of £4,000,000 Dealings this morning opened at a ...

    Article : 41 words
  36. SHALE OIL.

    After years of experiments the production of shale oil on a commercial basis in Tasmania is approaching accomplishment. The commercial size Bronder retort ...

    Article : 60 words
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