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  2. FEDERAL SESSION. MINISTRY'S PLANS.

    Plans for the opening of the new Federal Parliament on Wednesday next and arrangements for the work of the session were further advanced to-day, when the Prime ...

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  3. DAVIS CUP.

    According to Mr. Norman Brookes, the Davis Cup team will be selected after the final test match with the Japanese in Sydney, and not at the conclusion of the Australian ...

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  4. INFORMAL VOTES.

    The poll for the recent East Sydney byelection will be declared at noon to-day at the Paddington Post-office. The United Australia party organisation ...

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  5. MR. BRUCE. MANY TRIBUTES.

    Several members of the Country party yesterday expressed approval of the appointment of Mr. Bruce. Mr. Abbott, M.P. for Gwydir, said that Mr. ...

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  6. SHANGHAI. SHORT TRUCE.

    The Chinese and Japanese to-day agreed to a four-hour truce commencing at 8 o'clock to-monow morning to enable Chinese and foreign relief ...

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  7. EDGAR WALLACE.

    Mr. Edgar Wallace, who had been staying at Beverley Hills, California, died there at 4.45 o'clock this morning. Last Sunday he was stricken with influenza, pneumonia developed ...

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  8. DISARMAMENT.

    At to-day's session of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva the Italian Foreign Minister (Signor Grandi) said that Italy was prepared to abolish capital ships submarines aircraft ...

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  9. AUSTRALIA.

    Although little or no loan money will be available in London this year it is not improbable that Australia in common witn other dominions will be able to find reasonable ...

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  10. REMARKABLE CAREER.

    Richard Edgar Horatio Wallace, in his way, was one of the most remarkable men in London, where, through his indefatigable authorship and frank love of publicity, he was ...

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  11. BONDHOLDERS.

    An endeavour is being made by the Commonwealth Government to ascertain the exact amount which it will have to obtain to meet the payments due by New South Wales to ...

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  12. BRITISH TARIFF.

    In the House of Lords to-day Lord Snowden, as a member of the minority freetrade group in the Cabinet, warmly defended the Cabinet's "agreement to differ" on the tariff issue. ...

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  13. LONDON OPINIONS.

    Though some official quarters profess that they were not surprised at Mr. Bruce's appointment as Resident Minister in London, it was generally not expected in the city. ...

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  14. TAXES ON BOOKS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to-day declined to agree to the request of a representative deputation that sales tax and primage duty should no longer be levied on books and ...

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  15. REDUCED GRANT.

    Indignation was expressed at last night's meeting of the Lithgow Hospital board when a letter was read stating that the New South Wales Hospital Commission, owing to the ...

    Article : 355 words
  16. WELL FORTIFIED.

    An extensive system of defence against a hostile invasion prevails in the International Settlement at Shanghai, which is now said to be a base for part of the Japanese operations ...

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  17. TELEGRAM RECEIVED.

    A telegram was received at the Treasury yesterday afternoon from the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) asking that the New South Wales Government should make available £701,763 ...

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  18. LABOUR AMENDMENTS

    The Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas), replying to a question in the House of Commons said that there had been no consultations with the dominions before ...

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  19. SHIPPING DISPUTE.

    Following the inter-union conference held at the Newcastle Trades Hall to-day, to consider the B.H.P. shipping dispute, it was learnt that delegates from the mining craft and ...

    Article : 431 words
  20. ITALY.

    With stately ceremony, Signor Mussolini and the Pope met to-day for the first time, thus setting the seal on the restoration of religious peace in Italy. The meeting was the climax ...

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  21. WOOL RECORDS.

    America paid /38¼, the season's record price for merino wool, at yesterday's sales. The previous record, /33¼, was established only the day before. ...

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  22. UPPER HOUSE.

    Consideration has been given by the Fedeial Ministry to a suggestion that the Commonwealth should intervene in the appeal by the New South Wales Government to the Privy ...

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  23. DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

    Dr. Francis George MacNeill Simpson, aged 45, formerly of Sydney, and his wife, were found dead at their residence in Harley-road, Hampstead ...

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  24. GOVERNMENT WHIPS.

    Senator Foll and Mr. Gardner have been elected Government Whips in the Senate and the House of Representatives respectively. Although it is not expected that there will ...

    Article : 122 words
  25. WORLD SWITCHBOARD.

    The Postmaster-General (Sir Kingsley Wood), speaking to-day at the laying of the foundation-stone by the Lord Mayor (Sir Maurice Jenks) of a new London telephone ...

    Article : 140 words
  26. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    Miss Ethelwyn Wrench, a former art mistress at Napier High School, New Zealand, has been asvarded £1500 damages in an undefended breach of promise suit against ...

    Article : 158 words
  27. THE TARIFF.

    "As soon as Parliament meets next week immediate steps should be taken for the removal of prohibitions and super duties and the reduction to a minimum of all duties on ...

    Article : 157 words
  28. DISABLED STEAMER.

    The Japanese freighter Capetown Maru reached here to-day towed by the tug Uco. The Capetown Maru lost her propeller about 350 miles west of Cape Leeuwin when bound ...

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  29. ADELAIDE SEAMEN.

    The Port Adelaide branch of the Seamen's Union has decided to appeal to the Federal Arbitration Court for a compulsory conference with the representatives of the Adelaide ...

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  30. AVIATORS' TRIP.

    Messrs. H. Jeffrey and H. Jenkins, the Melbourne aviators who completed a leisurely flight from England to Australia yesterday, said that, for the most part, they had good ...

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  31. PHAR LAP.

    A message from Agua Callente says that Phar Lap was to-day installed as a hot favourite in the 50,000-dollar handicap, notwithstanding that the race is not run until ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. NATIONALIST SUCCESS.

    The by-election for the Roebourne seat in the Legislative Assembly, made vacant by the death of Mr. F. W. Teesdale (Nationalist), was won by Mr. J, H. Church (Nationalist) from ...

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  33. ARMED ROBBERY.

    Two young men, one of whom was armed, bailed up a clerk and auditor at the office of James Hood and Co. Pty., Ltd., maltsters, of Islington-street, Collingwood, this afternoon, ...

    Article : 53 words
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