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  2. PREFERENCE TO SOLDIERS.

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Straight-out preference to returned soldiers and sailors in employment on Commonwealth works has been abolished by the Federal ...

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  3. DUCHESS OF BEDFORD.

    The Duchess of Bedford, in her Fokker aeroplan, piloted by Captain Barnard, landed at Croydon at half-past 5 o'clock this afternoon. She left Lympne on the ...

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  4. CENTRAL RESERVE BANK.

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—"The proposal is to establish an importatn new financial institution," said the Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) in the House of Representatives ...

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  5. COAL DEADLOCK.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Contrary to hopes and expectations another conference on the coal disppute ended to-day without succdss. Representatices of the Northern Colliery ...

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  6. GANDHI'S ARREST.

    The arrest of Gandhi, the leader of the "civil disobedience" campaign in India, is imminent. According to the political correspondent ...

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  7. OPOSSUM TRAPPING.

    The issue of licences to trap opossums ceased yesterday, on the decision of the Chief Secretary (Mr. Tunnercliffe), who controls the Fisheries and Game ...

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  8. MAWSON EXPEDITION.

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Sir Douglas Mawson's expedition will return to the Antarctic towards the end of the year to continue the work it began there last ...

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  9. AUSTRALIAN XI.

    The Australian's first match against Worcestershire was resumed on the Worcester ground to-day. With the score one for 199 Woodfull and Bradman resumed ...

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  10. MUNGANA LEASES.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—Nearly all this morning at the Mungana leases inquiry was taken up with the production of documentary evidence. Mr. A. D. McGill (for the ...

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  11. AMBULANCE APPEAL.

    "This is not a plan to save money, but to save life," said Sir Stephedn Morell yesterday in launching an appeal for £10,000 for extensions to the Victoria Civil ...

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  12. DAVIS CUP.

    The Australians saw the Swiss Davis Cup players on the practice court to-day. The Swiss displayed good form, and there should be some close matches in the Davis ...

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  13. WOMEN'S BAD TEMPER.

    Sir William Wayland (Cons.) moved in the House of Commons that the new duty on beer should be reduced from 3/ to 2/6 a barrel. He said that, though every other ...

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  14. ITALIAN FRUITERERS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Metiopolitan fruitgrowers sent a deputation to the Department of Labour and Industry to complain that Italian shopkeepers were ...

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  15. Australian Pastoralist.

    Mr. Henry Twitchin, a retired pastoralist of Western Australia, where his pastoral stations amounted to 1,500,000 acres, left property in England valued at £56,148, ...

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  16. HIGH COURT BENCH.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Labour supporters are keenly interested in the filling of vancancies on the High Court Bench. The retirement of Sir Adrian Knox and ...

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  17. SETTLEMENT AT NARMBOOL.

    BALLARAT, Thursday.—"We have about £600 rates outstanding on the settlement blocks at Narmbool, and it is a serious matter for the council, because ...

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  18. Earthquake in Japan.

    News has been received from New York that a serious earthquake has occurred near Tokio. No nests of the occurrence has, however, been received in London from ...

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  19. BANK RATE.

    The bank rate has been reduced from 3½ per cent, to 3 per cent. ...

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  20. NEW FREEZING PROCESS.

    The Commissioner-General for Australia (Mr. Herbert Brookes) investigated, the "Birdseye quick freezing process foods" at Gloucester (Massachusetts), and expressed ...

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  21. KING ALFONSO.

    The Socialist leader, Senator Indalccio Prieto, will answer in the Law Courts for a speech in which he accused King Alfonso and members of the Royal family of ...

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  22. WESLEY OLD BOYS.

    Telephonic messages of goodwill and greeting from Sydney, Adelaide, and Shepparton were heard by old Wesley Collegians at the annual founders' day dinner last ...

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  23. DEFENCE BOARDS.

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Replying in the House of Representatives to-day to Mr. Crouch (V.), the Minister for Defence (Mr. Green) said that the annual cost of ...

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  24. EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS.

    The Egyptian Premier (Nahas Pasha) has been advised from Cairo that his courier is leaving there on Thursday to deliver new instructions, and will arrive in London ...

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  25. RATIONING OF WORK.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Although officials of the Australian Railways' Union rejected the proposal of the Chief Railways Commissioner (Mr. W. J. Cleary) for the rationing ...

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  26. BOYS FIND SKELETON.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Boys playing on the cliffs at Coogee to-day found in a crevice of the rocks the skeleton of an old man, who had apparently been dead for ...

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  27. CITY PROPERTY SOLD.

    Messrs William Diummond and Co. have bought the premises that they occupy at 344 Collins street. The property was offered at auction on Wednesday afternoon, ...

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