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  2. BRITISH TRADE REVIEW.

    Buoyancy in gilt-edged investment securities characterises the Stock Exchange. These markets are not booming as they did in the middle of February, but the ...

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  3. EX-EMPEROR KARL DEAD.

    The death is announced of the ex-Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, who had been suffering from double pneumonia. [Born on August 17, 1887, Karl ...

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  4. IRISH FREE STATE.

    The House of Lords having decided yesterday that it would not insist on its amendments to the Irish Free State Bill, the Royal assent was immediately given. ...

    Article : 359 words
  5. WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—While the Washington Disarmament Conference had not made war impossible, it had tremendously diminished the likelihood of war in the ...

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  6. AMERICAN COAL STRIKE.

    The coalminers' strike began at midnight, and it is estimated that 600,000 men obyed the order, 500,000 being unionists and the balance non-unionists. ...

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  7. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.— The allotment of preference votes was continued by electoral officials during the week-end. The election position is rapidly becoming clearer. At the ...

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  8. RAND REBELLION.

    The Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa (General Smuts) announced in the House of Assembly that, as the refusal of the Ministry to appoint a ...

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  9. CHARITIES FINANCE.

    ST. ARNAUD, Sunday. — From the platform of one of the lawns in the Botanic Gardens, the Treasurer (Mr. Mcpherson) this afternoon led the annual appeal for ...

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  10. SPORTING CABLES.

    Every year there is an outburst of indignation following the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, in consequence of the fatal accidents due to the ugly fences and ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. Senate May Act.

    Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Labour Committee, stated that unless the coal industry is reorganised in the interests of the public the only solution of the ...

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  12. KING GEORGE'S HORSES.

    At the Newbury meeting to-day His Majesty the King's colt Wcathervane, by Lemberg—Vain Air, won the important Greenham Stakes for three-year-olds, ...

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  13. FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

    Mr. Meredith Atkinson, who recently resigned from the professorial staff of the University of Melbourne to become editor of "Stead's Riview," arrived in New York ...

    Article : 180 words
  14. North-South Agreement.

    The President of Dail Eireann (Mr. Arthur Griffith), in the course of an interview said:— "If the document signed last night is carried out in the spirit of the ...

    Article : 186 words
  15. Betting by Cheque.

    A meeting of bookmakers and sportsmen has passed a resolution demanding the amendment of the Gaming Act of 1835, under which, according to a judgment of ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. GENOA CONFERENCE.

    In spite of reports which say that the Bolshevik Prime Minister (M. Lenin) is at the point of death, M. Lenin is alleged to have made an important speech at the ...

    Article : 318 words
  17. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

    On Saturday for the fourth time in succession Cambridge won the University boat race on the Thames from Mortlake to Putney, a distance of 4½ miles. ...

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  18. PEOPLE FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The British Government Hospitality Committee entertained the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Barwell) and the Premier of Western Australia (Sir James ...

    Article : 404 words
  19. DISCUSSION IN COMMONS.

    While the House of Commons was giving consideration on Friday to the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Irish Free State Bill, the Secretary of ...

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  20. New Commonwealth Loan.

    Finacial newspapers approve of the £5,000,000 loan being issued by the Commonwealth on a 5 per cent basis. The "Investors' Chronicle" states that "in ...

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  21. GOLF.

    J. H. Kirkwood tied with P. Doyle for third place in the North-South Championship at the Pinehurst links. Kirkwood astonished the spectators in the first ...

    Article : 185 words
  22. COALITION MAJORITY.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—In an official statement issued late to-night by the National Association, it is stated that the returns received confirmed the assurance of a ...

    Article : 217 words
  23. MOTORING MISHAPS.

    LANG LANG, Sunday.—Mr. John McKenzie and his wife and child were returring from Cranbourne to their home at Sherwood, near Tooradin, on ...

    Article : 116 words
  24. Debate in Commons.

    The Speaker (Mr. J. H. Whitley) has given priority to the Labour no-confidence amendment in the debate on the Genoa Conference, to be held in the House of ...

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  25. Revenue Returns.

    The revenue of Great Britain for the financial year was £1,124,879,000, while expendituie amounted to £1,079,186,000, and the floating debt was £1,029,520,000. The ...

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  26. Versailles Treaty.

    During a debate in the Chamber of Deputies M. Poincare said:— "Neither directly nor indirectly will France permit any revision of the Versailles Treaty to be raised ...

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  27. Disarmament Treaties.

    The State Department of the United States has sent Notes to the eight Powers which were represented at the Washington Conference, advising them that the United ...

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  28. STEERING GEAR FAILS.

    SYDNEY, Sunday. —Four persons were in [?]ed, three of them seriously, when a motor-car in which they were driving got [?] of control in Lady Carrington Drive, ...

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  29. PRINCE IN MALAYA.

    (By Sir PERCIVAL PHILLIPS, Special Representative of the Australian Press Association with the Prince of Wales.) SINGAPORE, April 1. ...

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  30. Tennis.

    Owing to indisposition, Ritchie could not defend the title in the final of the covered courts tennis championship of Europe, at Dulwich to-day. Norton (South Africa) ...

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  31. America's Rhine Army.

    It is reported that the French and Belgian Governments have accepted in its entirely the claim by the United States in connection with the costs of the Rhine ...

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  32. EXPELLED FROM LABOUR PARTY.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—"This expulsion is not going to change my political faith," declared Mr W. W. Rateliffe, one of the newly elected members for Botany ...

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  33. Work or Be Shot.

    A Strange story comes from the Brukpan mine, the scene of the massant of March 10. It appears that the attackers actually had some idea of working the mine after ...

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  34. Felton Bequest Purchase.

    On behalf of the trustees of the Felton Bequest the picture "At the Watermill" has been bought for the Melbourne National Gallery. The price paid was 2,500 ...

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  35. GENERAL CABLES.

    Owing to financial difficulties, 148 daily newspapers in Germany have closed in the last quarter. The Hamburg-Sud Amerika Line has ...

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  36. EMPIRE AIR SERVICE.

    Commander Burney, R. N. R., of Vickers Ltd, who is largely responsible for the proposed Imperial airship scheme, states that the company proposes to build six ...

    Article : 163 words
  37. Three Brothers Shot.

    Much capital is made by the Nationalists and Labourites of the alleged shooting in cold blood by members of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment of three Afrikander ...

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  38. INDIAN PRESS ACT.

    Despite a certain amount of opposition from influential Indians, who were convinced that the country was not sufficiently settled for such a measure, the ...

    Article : 262 words
  39. TASMANIAN REVENUE.

    HOBART, Sunday.—The State revenus for March was £163,751, an increase of £12,211 on the corresponding month last year. The aggregate revenue for the nine ...

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  40. Employment at Mines.

    A forecast of the final report of the Unemployment Commission indicates that there will be drastic recommmedations regarding the mines. The commission ...

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  41. Mount Everest Expedition.

    While the majority of the members of the Mount Everest expedition has already set out for the Himalayas, Captains Finch and Crawford have remained at Darjeerling ...

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  42. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    Margaret Smith, aged 83 years, of Victoria street, Windsor, fell down a flight of stairs yesterday. She was admitted to the Alfred Hospital suffering a fracture of both forearms, scalp wounds, and ...

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  43. Charge Against Captain.

    Captain Avern, the master of the Commonwealth Government steamer Moreton Bay, was charged at Bow street with having assaulted Burns, a ...

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  44. Snowstorm in England.

    One of the heaviest snowfalls in recent years occurred over Wales and the north, east, and west of England. The Welsh railways were blocked, and football matches ...

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  45. Major-General Sykes Resigns.

    Major-General Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes has resigned the position of Controller-Geenral of Civil Aviation, to which he was appointed in February, 1919. The reason ...

    Article : 57 words
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  47. Flight Across Atlantic.

    Portuguese aviators, who are making a trans-Atlantic flight to South America, have covered the first stage. They reached the Canary Islands—710 miles from their ...

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  48. LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

    Applications are invited by the [?] Settlement Board from returned soldiers holding qualification certificates for allotments comprising Dyer's Estate, 5.058 acres, and situated within two ...

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  49. FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—An interesting break in the proceedings of the forestry conference was a visit on Saturday to the Imbil State forest, ...

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  50. Viceroy of India.

    In the House of Commons, the Undersecretary for India (Earl Winterton), replying to a question, said that it was untrue that the Earl of Reading had resigned his ...

    Article : 44 words
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