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  2. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    By 42 votes to 16 the members of the House of Representatives yesterday decided to request the Ministry to increase their Parliamentary salary to a sum not ...

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  3. BUILDING TROUBLE ENDS.

    After having been in progress for nearly five weeks the dispute in the building trade on the 40-hours' question came to a sudden termination last night. So strong was the ...

    Article : 618 words
  4. FRENCH GENERAL STRIKE.

    There is no confirmation of the report that the French Government is discontinuing its action against the General Confederation of Labour. Paris messages ...

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  5. THE PRINCE'S TOUR.

    HOKITIKA (N.Z.), Thursday.—The ball given here last night in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales was a tremendous popular success. After a public reception ...

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  6. COASTAL SHIPPING.

    A strong recommendation that the Commonwealth should immediately arrange for the most suitable vessels of the Commonwealth line to be employed in the ...

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  7. TURKISH TREATY.

    Although there is considerable resentment it the seventy of the terms of the Turkish Peace Treaty, details of which were published in Constantinople on ...

    Article : 574 words
  8. JOHN BULL & CO.

    Mr. Watt, the Commonwealth Treasurere, was the guest of a luncheon in London on Wednesday, given by the Empire Parliamentary Association. The Government was ...

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  9. NAVY IN THE WAR.

    Further sensational statements were made on Tuesday by the Secretary of the United States Navy (Mr. Josephus Daniels) when giving evidence before the Senate Naval ...

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  10. POLISH ADVANCE.

    That the first phase of the Polish offensive ended in a success was due to the extraordinary rapidity of the infantry march. They advanced 62 miles in 30 hours, and ...

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  11. Distress in Petrograd.

    A representative of the Paris "Excelsior" has returned after an exhasutice tour of Russia. He declares that 300,000 persons died in ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. CORK OUTRAGE.

    The shooting of three policemen leaving the Lower Road police station in Cork on Tuesday, when two of the officers were killed and one dangerously wounded, was ...

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  13. Italian Crisis.

    Following upon a debate in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the domestic administration of the Government, a vote was taken which went against the ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. FIUME PROBLEM.

    It is understood that the conference of Jugoslavs and Italians at Patanga has reached an agreement. Italy will accept President Wilson's ...

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  15. SHORTER WORKING WEEK.

    The Railways Reclassification Board yesterday concluded the "outside" wages board phase of its investigations. Mr. W. Smith, who appeared for the ...

    Article : 667 words
  16. Dearer Coal in Britain.

    Mr. W. Brace (Labour) moved the adjournment of the House of Commons on Wednesday to direct attention to the increased price of domestic coal, which he ...

    Article : 382 words
  17. British Budget.

    The House of Commons on Wednesday agreed, without a division, to the second reading of the Finance Bill, which embodies the important Budget proposals of the ...

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  18. PRINTERS' STRIKE.

    Negotiations for a settlement of the strike in the printing trade were continued yesterday, when a further conference took place between the delegates from the sections of ...

    Article : 172 words
  19. Prize-Court Decisions.

    The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping (Colonel Leslie Wilson), replying in the House of Commons to Mr. Alfred Davies (Labour), said that, ...

    Article : 120 words
  20. FACTORY ENGINE-DRIVERS.

    As the employers have not acceded to the claims of members for increased wages, preparations are being made by the Engine Drivers and Firemen's Associatin for the ...

    Article : 335 words
  21. Sunken Gold.

    The salvage steamer Racer has left London for the north of Ireland to salve £3,000,000 remaining in the hold of the sunken White Star liner Laurentie. ...

    Article : 140 words
  22. ALIENS IN THE EMPIRE.

    The Aliens Naturalisation Bill, which is being introduced into the House of Lords by Earl Stanhope, has been published. The measure provides that no ailen may ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. COMMONWEALTH FINANCE.

    Interesting comment, on varoius questions of Commonwealth finance are contained in the second general report of the joint Committee of Public Accounts, ...

    Article : 307 words
  24. German War Criminals.

    The first list of names of those whom the Allies desire to be brought to trail at the German Imperial Court at Leipsig for inhumane conduct during the war ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. Queensland Cotton-growing.

    The Queensland Agent-General (Mr. Hunter) goes from London to Liverpool on Thursday, and to Manchester on Friday, to investigate the cold storage accommodation, ...

    Article : 157 words
  26. Bank Officials Threaten Strike.

    The danger of a strike of bank officials at Cape Town is not yet over. In addition to recognition of the already cancelled soceity, the officials demand an increase in ...

    Article : 66 words
  27. Restoring Order in Ireland.

    Replying in the House of Commons on Wednesday to Major O'Neill (Coalition Unionist), Mr. Bonar Law, on behalf of the Government, stated that General Sir ...

    Article : 126 words
  28. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLICE.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—For the first time for many years the Government, in its selection of a commissioner of police, has departed from the principal of appointment ...

    Article : 171 words
  29. MARINE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash has been appointed to preside over the tribunal to dertermine certain matters arising out of the recent ...

    Article : 198 words
  30. MAFFRA SUGAR FACTORY.

    Maffra beetgrowers view with alarm the prospect of the Federal Government taking over the product of the State sugar factory at a price which will probably be £35 ...

    Article : 261 words
  31. GENERAL CABLES.

    The British ice-breaker Sviatogor is hurriedly preparing at Bergen (Norway) to go to the reseue of the Solov[?] which is dr[?] ing westwart in the Kara Sea, portion of ...

    Article : 175 words
  32. French Troops in Frankfort.

    The Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association of America reports that the Germans will not withdraw, as was reported, from the Spa conference with the ...

    Article : 119 words
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  34. FINANCING STRIKES.

    That a trusst fund be established and the sum of £50,000 be raised for the purpose of financing unions when their members are on strike was a proposal placed before ...

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