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  2. COUNTERMANDED.

    The decks seem to be clearing for a long fight. It appears that the scheme of the strike congress for raising funds will not be directly hampered by the railway authorities. Mr. Lee, the Acting Premier, said last night that the instructions ...

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  3. NICARAGUAN REVOLT.

    Several United States citizens at Managua and elsewhere in Nicaragua have been imprisoned for refusing to contribute to General Zelaya's war funds. ...

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  4. BUDGET AND LORDS.

    The House of Lords yesterday resumed consideration of the motion for the second reading of the Finance Bill, and of the amendment moved by the Marquis of ...

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  5. WILL VISIT MR. LEE.

    "We have replied to Mr. Lee's letter," said Mr. Hughes yesterday, "accepting his invitation to wait upon him to-morrow morning. Yes. I've heard of the mineowners' refusal to ...

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  6. "COMPLETE BACK DOWN."

    "After a night's rest, and a careful perusal of the morning papers, the Government have hurriedly receded from their position," said Mr. Hughes, on being made acquainted ...

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  7. CITY ELECTORS FAVOUR.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, in reply to a petition signed by 2000 City electors in favour of the Budget, said that he welcomed such a weighty memorial, ...

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  8. CANADIAN NAVY.

    The Ottawa correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that it is practically settled that the vessels constituting the nucleus of the Dominion navy will be constructed ...

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  9. INDUSTRIAL LAW.

    "I have pointed out many times in what way Mr. Wade's Act fails. As a means to settle conditions in times of peace it has much to recommend it; as a tribunal ...

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  10. PRIVILEGES OF COMMONS.

    During discussion by the House of Commons, of amendments made by the House of Lords in the Development Bill, the Speaker (Mr. J. W. Lowther) ruled that a ...

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  11. THE GENERAL ELECTION.

    It is expected that the Imperial Parliament will be prorogued at the end of next week, and that the elections will be held early in January if the House of Lords ...

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  12. THE CAMPAIGN.

    The strike congress has issued the following manifesto, which will be distributed during the next couple of days amongst all the unions through Australia:— ...

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  13. CONGO FREE STATE.

    Mr. Edmund D. Morel, hon. secretary to the Congo Reform Association, speaking at Hull, announced that an understanding had been reached between Great Britain and ...

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  14. COUNTERMANDED!

    When seen at 10 last night, the Acting Premier had just completed his reply to Mr. Hughes on the Industrial Disputes Act. To a question as to what would be a ...

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  15. THE IRISH LAND BILL.

    The House of Commons, by 246 votes to 49 votes, rejected a vital amendment made by the House of Lords in Mr. Birrell's Irish Land Bill, requiring an appeal to be ...

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  16. AN ELECTION OUTRAGE.

    At the Old Bailey yesterday Mrs. Chapin was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for assaulting the returning officer at the Bermondsey election, and Miss ...

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  17. GORSE HALL TRAGEDY.

    The inquest on the body of George Storrs, a contractor, who was murdered at his residence, Gorse Hall, Stalybridge, was concluded yesterday. The jury returned a ...

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  18. DECKS CLEARED.

    The strike is rapidly settling down into a simple fight between two parties. The only thing that is not simple about it is that one party is fighting the other party by means of ...

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  19. CONCILIATION.

    The strike congress yesterday accepted the Acting-Premier's offer to meet the proprietor of the three districts in his presence to-day. ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN-CANADIAN LINE.

    Representatives of the trade of Eastern Canada have applied to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of the Dominion, for aid on behalf of the Toronto Imperial ...

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  21. THE RAILWAY MEN.

    "There's not the slightest likelihood of the congress calling out the railway men in answer to the Railway Commisioner's action," emphatically said Mr. Hughes yesterday. ...

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  22. NO SPECIAL CONSTABLES.

    The Chief Secretary, Mr. Wood, who is the Minister controlling the police, was asked last evening if the matter of swearing-in special constables had been under consideration. He ...

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  23. ABDUL HAMID'S WEALTH.

    Transfer to the Porte by the Reichsbank of a deposit by the ex-Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, amounting to £640,000, has been withheld until production of a special ...

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  24. THE WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 words
  25. FIRST ORDERS AT NEWCASTLE.

    The latest statement in regard to the policy to be pursued by the Railway Department in regard to the haulage of coal is looked upon as a complete backdown in Newcastle, for ...

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  26. MR. LEE'S INVITATION.

    The Acting-Premier's offer was sent in the following letter:— Premier's Office, Sydney, November 25, 1909. Sir,—I venture to inquire whether your association ...

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  27. UNION SYMPATHY.

    The acting secretary of the Miners' Federation to-day received a number of messages conveying congratulations and offering support from various unions in other States. ...

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  28. THE NORTHERN DELEGATES.

    In the event of Mr. Hughes persuading the strike congress to agree to the present dispute being settled by the Federal Arbitration Act in an amended form, as suggested in an ...

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  29. RAMMING OF THE IKHONA.

    The Russian Prize Court has awarded the British-India Company £61,994 for the loss of the steamer Ikhona, which was rammed by the Russian cruiser Teretz, in ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Dominion Trades Congress is recalling Mr. Trotter, its representative sent to Great Britain to dissuade workers emigrating to Canada. This act is interpreted ...

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  31. CONGRESS REPLY.

    Mr. Hughes, M.P., wrote on behalf of the men, in the following terms:— Trades Hall, November 26, 1909. ...

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  32. AT BROKEN HILL.

    Mr. J. Brennan, secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, addressed a mass meeting outside the Trades Hall last night. On the motion of Messrs. Coulls and ...

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  33. COAL HAULAGE.

    A statement regarding the coal haulage question was made yesterday by the Acting-Premier. Instead of no coal being hauled except for railway purposes, the Chief ...

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  34. ORDERS IN THE WEST.

    The owners of Coomber coal mine received a letter from the Railway Commissioners stating that no more trucks will be supplied unless for coal consigned to the Railway ...

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  35. SOUTHERN OWNERS.

    The following letter was sent to Mr. Lee by the Southern Coal Proprietors' Association:— Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 25th inst, addressed to the president of ...

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  36. ILLAWARRA COKE WORKERS.

    A meeting of the Illawarra Coke Workers' Association decided that coke workers during the present crisis shall not handle or load small coke, known as "breeze," nor slack ...

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  37. THE NATAL COAST.

    The Government of Natal has accepted the offer made by the Admiralty to supply a warship to survey the coast of the colony from May to July. There will be ...

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  38. THE EMISSARIES AT WORK.

    Mr. Watkins, M.P., and Mr. Edden, M.L.A., left to-day for Tasmania for the purpose of seeking assistance for the strikers. Messrs. Charlton and Estell, Ms.L.A., ...

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  39. NOT A FEDERAL MATTER.

    In the House of Representatives this morning the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Fisher, directed the attention of the Prime Minister to reports that had appeared, in the press ...

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  40. NEW YORK WORKGIRLS.

    In response to the exhortation of Mr. Gompers, president of the Federation of Labour, 20,000 workgirls—blousemakers— in New York struck for shorter hours and ...

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  41. IMMIGRATION AGENT'S TROUBLES.

    The hearing of the evidence in the action Bromhend v Salter was concluded to-day. Walter Sidney Bromhead, an immigration agent, is seeking to recover £1000 damages for ...

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  42. WESTERN OWNERS.

    The Western proprietors sent the following letter:— Sir,—We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25th inst., inquiring whether our association will ...

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  43. THE MINERS' MINES.

    Locally Mr. Bowling's proposal to work collieries in the Newcastle district is anything but popular. The feeling appears to be that as the coalminers generally stopped work ...

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  44. DISASTER IN JAPAN.

    Reuter's correspondent reports that an explosion occurred in Onowra Colliery, at Fukuoka, Japan, and entombed 228 miners. ...

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  45. OVER-WATERING LIQUOR.

    Three Cootamundra hotelkeepers and one from Bethungra were each fined £3 and costs for having too much water added to grog, the percentages ranging from 17½ to 7 ...

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  46. NORTHERN PROPRIETORS.

    The Acting-Premier received a telegram last night from Newcastle stating that the northern colliery proprietors had not had time to consider the invitation, and under the ...

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  47. THE ILLINOIS DISASTER.

    The St. Paul's mine, Cherry, Illinois, has been closed down, as the fire in the galleries is spreading. ...

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  48. MINES STILL TO WORK.

    At the conclusion of the session of the Strike Congress yesterday, Mr. Hughes said: "Notwithstanding what has been ordered by the Railway Commissioner in the matter of ...

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  49. THE MEETING OFF.

    After having received the replies to his invitation, Mr. Lee last night wrote, to Mr. Hughes, informing him that, inasmuch as two of the proprietors' associations had written ...

    Article : 65 words
  50. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LORDS.

    In response to an appeal by Liberal organisations, two thousand demonstrators, including the Hooligan element, assembled in Parliament Square yesterday, singing ...

    Article : 55 words
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