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THE DAY'S NEWS
Special Features.
The British and Japanese" delegation
at Geneva conference have reached am
agreement for tho limitation- of naval
armaments. .
Thc general strike in Vienna has
ended, order restored, and public services
resumed. During tlic rioting 70 jjereond
were killed.
General,
Specimen labels avo being exhibited
in London by -the ilimpiro .Marketing (
Board for adoption throughout the Um
pire for jams, fruit and similar exported)
goods. .
a\ it industrial dispute- of ;t miuoii
nutiue took placo 'it a Newcastle cloth,
ing. factory on Saturday. This was tbo
lirst dispute that had arisen with em
ployes of tlic company for thc past 915
years.
Thc burial of the Countess Markici
viez was prvented by armed troops- on
Sunday, on account of the trade union's
rules forbidding funerals on Sunday.
The death occurred in Sydney yes-
terday of Sir J". Gut-van, at ono time
chairman of directors of tho Common
wealth Bank. Tributes to his useful
career were paid by tlio l'rimc Minister
and the Federal Treasurer.
Four American and Canadian profes
sors have completed a translation of the
Old Testament in a modernised conversa
tional style.
In a manifesto dealing with the pro-
posal to reform the British House ot
Lords several of its members describe it
as thc weakest second chamber in the
world.
Sunday expresses between Mclliou rud
and Adelaide will be inaugurated on Sun
day next.
At the Sunshine works yesterday tile
100 engineers who absented themselves
from work on Saturday went out on shite
because six engineers hud worked lor tho
firm on Saturday morning.
Organised opposition lo piece work,
and an objective of a -10-hour week and a
basic rate of £5 10/. was decided bv the
Federal conference of the Australian Ball-
way Union yesterday.
State Government has voted £300
for tho relief of victims ot the Bungareo
cyclone.
Fori- people were injured, several
seriously, when a verandah, on which tin
auction sale was being conducted collapsed
at Quilpil, in Western Queensland.
Ballarat city council last night
vigorously discussed the electne power
iraneliise. in which a weakening of sup-
poll. im the Yallouru scheme was mani
fest. No finality was reached. Domligo
city council at a special meeting gave
its approval to the selieme.
The University Council yesterday
passed tho report; ot the sub-comimtleo
appointed to impure into the financial
position, which recommended an annual
grant ol £110,000 as the minimum neces
sary.
At Forth yesterday. Hie dead body
ot a grammar school head master wn,
found in a lavatory. .Micro was a bullet
wound iu the- head.
'1 he agenda paper ol the conference'
c. ,V'U— 1 -A'.'-stralihn Labor party in New
-Smith Wales, which will be opened on
balm-day, contains some ..lmpoVtant pro- -
posuJs. T'— strength . of - the opposing -
factions will bo tested.
Proposals tor a settlement of tlio
dispute nt South Johnstone .sbgar miU
were prepared by the comerence of in
terested parties yesterday. These will
be- presented to the strikers to-day for
ratification. An armistice was -declared
yesterday.
A party of four Melbourne res,,
dents returned yesterday from ail ex
ploration of Central Australia by aero
plane. J he region tor tho most part
was described as a typical desert, in
hospitable and dismal, with little possi
bility ot development.
. During 1020-27 the Railway- depart
ment paid £22.9Gb in compensation ior
goocls lost, damaged or delayed-
According to iRcv. W. Amo,. who -
has spoilt, many years in the Pacific-
.Islands. Canada, Japan and other coils-
tries had encroached on the Pacific trade
to the detriment of Australia.
Melbourne City Council vestec-dav
agreed b.v sixteen voles to one to permit .
llu-erect ion of u cantilever verandah in
Collins-street in front of the pnrtly-
eonstructed T. nnd G. Building on thc
south-west corner of Jtussell-street
An aged and feeble pensioner .was-
burnt to death at Yurrawongu when ii
hut iu which he was living was destroyed
by fivo.
At Perth an aviator was killed wli'an
an aeroplane got out -of control, became: "
entangled in high-tension cables and burst
into llaines. - . .
Women's Section.
An aecoiiiit of the interesting work
'urn? by the \ ietona Le-jguo w given in
the Women's Pnge. Other nrticlcs of topi-- .
en I interest deal with the prohleniH facing
iiienin public life. JlJKl with Alie work
oL the International Council ot Womcn-
Ir» thn home section icatures oi spe
cial interest include the needle work nird
general information, also an article deal
ing with wedding cake novelties-
A comprehensive review is given of
womeii rt activities, and snccial interest at
taches to the proposed formation ot ar
Housewives Association m Canberra.
Country Section.
The area under wheat m thc Bat,
l-aiiald district this season will bo sub, "
slautially increased.
Prospects in the north-western nal4
lee liavc been appreciably improved by
recent rams, and early crops are showing
iiji well. .
Sporting Section.
. ' '«»"> fie suecessiul Sydney
jockey, who was recently suspended foe .-
twelve months, appealed to tlio AJG,
against the stewards' decision- The an,-.".-
peal, witli that of a trainer coucerried,
was dismissed.
1 .Handicaps were declared . lost . night
inr thu six events to fie decided at Moortce
valley next Saturday.
Women's Page .. ... 5-8-7
Country Section .. .. « "t. ja
Commercial and Mining .... T.- -u
Sporting .. .. . |4,|g
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