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  2. THE BRITISH TARIFF.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—The Import Duties Bill, which imposes a general ten per cent. ad valorem duty on imports into Britain, with the exception of certain specified ...

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  3. LIGHTHOUSE RAIDED

    HONG KONG, March 1.—Yesterday 100 Chinese raiders stormed the Breaker Point lighthouse near Swatow and carried off all the inhabitants, numbering nine, ...

    Article : 91 words
  4. GOLD RESERVE.

    CANBERRA, March 1.—The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Scullin) to-day suggested that the gold reserves held by the Commonwealth Bank should be ...

    Article : 468 words
  5. NATIONAL REVENUE.

    CANBERRA, March 1.—Comparative returns for February, 1931, and February, 1932, show an increase of £68,865 in customs revenue and a decrease of £550 ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. RISING IN FINLAND.

    HELSIXGFORS (Finland), March 1.—The militant Lappists (the Finnish Fascists) continue to concentrate under General Wallehius, formerly Chief of Staff ...

    Article : 167 words
  7. WAGE REDUCTION ORDERS

    Yesterday the State Arbitration Court granted to eleven trade unions leave to apply to the Court for the cancellation or variation of orders made by the Court ...

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  8. SHANGHAI STRUGGLE

    Though the peace proposals which were discussed by the Chinese and Japanese military representatives aboard a British cruiser at Shanghai are now before the two Governments, and a more hopeful atmosphere lias been created at Geneva, fighting in the Shanghai ...

    Article : 910 words
  9. ARBITRATION COURT.

    "I have always held that this Court has full jurisdiction in industrial matters, without hindrance from other Courts. Apparently something else happens now. I ...

    Article : 393 words
  10. QUEENSLAND FIGURES.

    BRISBANE, March l.—State revenue, for February amounted to £1,172,976—a decease of £6,923, compared with February of last year. For the first eight ...

    Article : 110 words
  11. STRICT CENSORSHIP.

    RIGA, March 1.—All communication with Helsingfors has been severed. The city is controlled by the military and is virtually in a state of siege, the whole ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. TASMANIAN COLLECTIONS.

    HOBART, March 1.—The consolidated revenue returns for the eight months of the present financial year to the end of February, compared with those of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. NEW TOBACCO DUTIES.

    MELBOURNE, March. 1.—Before he left for Canberra this afternoon, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Gullett) said that it was very desirable that all parties to the ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE MOVE FOR PEACE.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Hope continues to be entertained that a cessation of hostilities at Shanghai and a settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute will be attained ...

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  15. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.

    DUBLIN, March 1.—The Free State generally believes—or at least is anxious to believe—that the Fianna Fail's bite in office will not fulfil its bark when in Opposition. ...

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  16. OVERSEAS DEBT.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Arrangements have been completed for the prompt payment of £450,000, being the Commonwealth interest due in March, and £100,000. ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. EXTERNAL CONVERSION RUMOUR

    LONDON, March 1.—The financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" applauds the striking improvement in Australia's balance of trade and says that those who ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. PREVIOUS MINISTRY'S CONCERN.

    CANBERRA, March 1.—Although the alterations of the duties on tobacco embodied in the tariff schedule tabled in the House of Representatives last week ...

    Article : 295 words
  19. INDIAN UNREST.

    CALCUTTA, March 1.—The growing lawlessness in the province of Bihar and Orissa, due to Congress propaganda, was exemplified yesterday when, for the third ...

    Article : 239 words
  20. EMPIRE WIRELESS.

    LONDON, March 1.—The serious position of the Imperial Communications Company was mentioned by Sir Robert Donald (vice-chairman) at the Empire Press ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. AMERICAN NAVY.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—As a result of orders issued by the Navy Department, almost the entire strength of the United States Navy will shortly be in the Pacific. ...

    Article : 149 words
  22. EFFECT ON EMPLOYMENT.

    BRISBANE, March 7.—Emphatic protests against the proposed reduction of the duties on cotton and tobacco have been sent to the Federal authorities by the ...

    Article : 211 words
  23. A GENERAL SURVEY.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for India) in the House of Commons to-day, in the course of a general survey of conditions in India, said ...

    Article : 168 words
  24. BRITISH FILMS.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Sir Arthur Balfour (who has taken a keen interest in Imperial affairs and was a member of the Imperial Economic Committee in 1930), ...

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  25. GUESTS DECAPITATED.

    BELGRADE, Feb. 29.—A 30-years-old peasant invited his neighbours to call and have wine and cakes on his birthday to-day. The first arrival, an octogenarian. ...

    Article : 104 words
  26. MELBOURNE APPLICATIONS.

    MELBOURNE, March 1.—A conference of the emergency committee of the Australasian Council of Trade. Unions, the arbitration committee appointed by the ...

    Article : 192 words
  27. JAPAN'S OBJECTIVE.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—"The Times" gives prominence to a statement from an authoritative Japanese source re-affirming that the Sole Object of the Japanese operations ...

    Article : 163 words
  28. HONOLULU LYNCHING.

    HONOLULU, Feb. 29.—The trial of Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Thomas Massey and a naval rating, on a charge of lynching a native, is likely to be ...

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  29. GERMAN BEER STRIKE.

    BERLIN, Feb. 29.—At first regarded as a joke, a "strike" against the increased price of beer had become a national crisis. Cafes and bier-gartens ars afraid to flout ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. STEAMER SUNK.

    TOKIO, March 1.—In the Moji Straits in Southern Japan at 4.30 o'clock this morning the Kinryo Maru (4,300 tons), collided with and sank the Yakumo Maru ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. WARSHIPS ESCAPE DISASTER.

    SHANGHAI, March 1.—The Shanghai waterfront was twice rocked to-day when attempts were made to destroy Japanese warships in the harbour. Depth mines ...

    Article : 248 words
  32. LAST MOMENTS OF FREE TRADE.

    LONDON, March 1.—During the last moments of free trade the London Customs House was full of drama. A score of anxious importers stood at a table at ...

    Article : 213 words
  33. FALL INTO GRAVE.

    COLOGNE, Feb. 29.—Almost on the completion of the burial service of one of his parishioners here, the Pastor of Hilburg fell forward into the open grave. The ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. CANADIAN FINANCE.

    OTTAWA, Feb. 29.—In the House of Commons to-night, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. B. Bennett) said that an investigation of the entire credit and ...

    Article : 92 words
  35. EMDEN'S NAME PLATE.

    BERLIN, Feb. 20.—The Chancellor (Dr. Bruening) has expressed to the official secretary to the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Trumble) his Government's ...

    Article : 155 words
  36. CRUDE OIL ENGINE.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Experts are showing keen interest in the crude oil engine designed by Mr. Edlin Stewart, of New Zealand. An engine is being built for a ...

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  37. HIMALAYAN CUMBERS.

    CALCUTTA, March 1.—A memorial is to be erected at Darjeeling, facing the peak of Mt. Kanchenjunga to commeomorate a dozen English and other ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. AN ENCOURAGING SIGN.

    LONDON, March 1.—In a leading article. "The Times" states that the fulfilment of M. Boncour's condition that hostilities must cease before a peace conference ...

    Article : 106 words
  39. NEW GUARD RALLY.

    SYDNEY, March 1.—It was announced at a rally of the New Guard at Epping to-night that more than 100,000 men were standing solidly behind that organisation ...

    Article : 166 words
  40. MURDER OF WOMAN.

    BRISBANE, March 1.—A crowd of spectators packed the rear of the Police Court to-day when, after a hearing which extended over five days. Frederick Emanuel ...

    Article : 94 words
  41. PUBLICANS HARD HIT.

    ADELAIDE, March 1.—The extent to which publicans were hit last year by the economic depression is shown by the annual report of the Superintendent of ...

    Article : 142 words
  42. MONEY THROWN AWAY

    NICE, Feb. 29.—Either smitten by conscience or suddenly remembering a scriptural injunction, a well-to-do New England woman who for the first time was ...

    Article : 66 words
  43. DANGER OF GENERAL CONFLICT.

    LONDON, Feb. 29.—Mr. Henry Wickham Steed, proprietor and editor of the "Review of Reviews," and a former editor of "The Times." in an address to the ...

    Article : 212 words
  44. FROZEN PORK.

    LONDON, March 1.—Four hundred frozen pigs, the first shipment from the Government freezing works at Brisbane, were displayed to-day at the "Empire Pork ...

    Article : 65 words
  45. THE BOYCOTT PROPOSAL.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—It ia now definitely established that the United States Government is completely opposed to any plan of economic boycott against ...

    Article : 99 words
  46. GOLD MINER INJURED.

    KALGOORLIE, March 1.—William Robinson (22), while working underground in the Croesus Proprietary Mine yesterday, received head injuries. He was ...

    Article : 34 words
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