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  2. AGREEMENT REACHED.

    An agreement in the mining dispute providing for increased wages was reached yesterday as a result of a conference, presided over by Mr. ...

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  3. HEAVY LOSS.

    The floating dockyard at Newcastle, which cost £502,000, loses £22,396 a year, and it costs the State Government £3000 a year to keep a channel dredged ...

    Article : 628 words
  4. GAS STRIKE.

    Seven hundred employees of the Metropolitan Gas Company's West Melbourne and South Melbourne works are idle, as the result of the ...

    Article : 629 words
  5. STATE OF SIEGE AT SHANGHAI.

    A message from Shanghai states that a state of siege has been proclaimed in the Chinese territory in the city. The Chinese are digging trenches and building barbed wire entanglements. The proclamation follows the shooting of Sub-Lieut, Isao ...

    Article : 286 words
  6. TWO MEN LOST IN BUSH.

    Anxiety is felt for the safety of two employees of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, who have been missing in the wilds of the Grose ...

    Article : 372 words
  7. PARALYSIS IN SPAIN.

    Both sides in the Spanish civil war are paralysed by lack of the man power necessary to garrison the 1150-miles front, winding from the Pyrenees to ...

    Article : 647 words
  8. PROSPECTS OF OIL.

    Dr. A. Wade, a member of the Commonwealth Oil Advisory Com[?]ee, in a report to the Federal Government, expresses the opinion that there are ...

    Article : 575 words
  9. MARRIAGE BAN ON POLICE.

    In the New South Wales police force there are about 500 young single men, and many of them want to marry; but the regulations will not permit at least ...

    Article : 409 words
  10. JAPAN'S FOUR DEMANDS.

    The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Nanking states that the Mayor of Shanghai, who is negotiating with the Japanese, says that Japan, in ...

    Article : 798 words
  11. THREE NEW CASES.

    Three new cases of infantile paralysis —a boy aged 7, of North Melbourne, a girl aged 4, of Carlton, and a girl aged 5, of St. Kilda— were reported to-day ...

    Article : 489 words
  12. 40-HOUR WEEK.

    The Labour party will not demand that the Labour Premiers of Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania should introduce a 40-hour week to ...

    Article : 259 words
  13. TAXI FARES.

    A move may be made in Sydney shortly to increase the standard taxi fare of 6d a mile, after the flag fall of 1/, to 9d a mile. ...

    Article : 441 words
  14. TROUBLE IN SYRIA.

    One Arab was killed and 30 were wounded when rioting broke out at Antioch against the Turks. It is reported from Damascus that French ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. CONSPIRACY CHARGE.

    At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Sheridan, S.M., John Bernard, 53, commission agent, and Charles Merton, 42, salesman, were charged with having, at ...

    Article : 440 words
  16. CLASH NEAR GREAT WALL.

    News of the first fighting between Japanese troops and troops of the Central Chinese Government reached Tokyo from the front yesterday. The ...

    Article : 230 words
  17. FOUR WESTERN PITS IDLE.

    To-day, on the western field, four mines, involving 780 men, were idle. The Idle mines were Steelworks, Renown, Hermitage, and State mine. ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. IRAQ MILITARY LEADERS.

    General Bekir Sidky, Chief of the Iraq General Staff, and Ali Jowad, head of the Iraq Air Force, were assassinated at Mosul (Mesopotamia), while on their ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. EXPLOSION FEARED.

    The tension here is near breaking point. The arrival of the Japanese naval reinforcements, the refusal of the Chinese to withdraw their troops, the occupation of the North ...

    Article : 111 words
  20. MASS DEMONSTRATION.

    A meeting of union executives, shop delegates, and the Trades and Labour Council was held last night to consider organisation for putting into effect a 40-hour week. ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. NO WORK AT BULLI.

    At a meeting of the South Bulli miners, held this morning, it was decided not to work to-day, on the ground that the owners had had sufficient time to come to some agreement ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. NORTHERN PITS.

    Abermain No, 1 and Pelaw Main collieries were thrown idle to-day in protest against the delays in the Sydney negotiations with the owners. Burwood and Stanford Main No. 2 ...

    Article : 58 words
  23. HOSPITAL SHIP BURNT

    An outbreak of fire in the medicine store gutted and necessitated the scuttling in Naples Harbour of the hospital ship Helouan (7156 tons). ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. IRON ORE SUPPLIES.

    Japan's imports of iron ore from the Yangtze Valley have hitherto been 1,000,000 tons annually, and of pig iron from Soviet Russia 500,000 tons annually. ...

    Article : 82 words
  25. NO ATTEMPT AT RESCUE.

    At an inquest at Rochford (Essex) it was alleged that three young men watched a middle-aged woman drown a few feet from the bank of a tidal creek. ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. AIRMAN FALLS FROM PLANE.

    An Air Force officer at Point Cooke overbalanced and fell from a Wapiti machine when flying at a height of 3000 feet to-day. but he was saved by ...

    Article : 211 words
  27. GERMAN DOCTOR.

    The High Court yesterday reserved its decision in the case in which the Medical Board of Victoria appealed against the order of Mr. Justice Lowe, of the Supreme Court of ...

    Article : 216 words
  28. PENSION RATE

    The Government will announce in the Budget an increase in the maximum rate for old-age and invalid pensions from 19/ to £1 a week. ...

    Article : 174 words
  29. N.S.W. NORMAL.

    The Director-General of Health (Dr. Morris) said last night that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in New South Wales was not in any way abnormal, and the ...

    Article : 63 words
  30. THE ANTARCTIC.

    The possibilities of the Australian sector of the Antarctic and its commercial and scientific value to Australia were discussed in an address last night by Professor Debenham, ...

    Article : 152 words
  31. FIVE PERSONS SHOT DEAD.

    Five persons were shot dead in Glasgow by Upindarl Biswas, an Egyptian dental student, who subsequently committed suicide. Biswas visited his father-in-law's home and ...

    Article : 106 words
  32. THIEVES BUSY DURING FUNERAL.

    Six members of the family of Mr. J. Bateman, of Myamyn Street, Malvern, suffered losses when thieves broke into the house while they and other relatives were attending the ...

    Article : 107 words
  33. MRS. BONNEY'S FLIGHT.

    I left Bulawayo at 7.50 a.m. and reached Fort Victoria at 9.45 a.m. yesterday. I left Fort Victoria at 7.40 a.m. to-day and arrived at Pietersburg at 10.35 a.m. I departed again ...

    Article : 147 words
  34. WRONGLY IDENTIFIED.

    The Rev. V. O'Meara, a Jersey clergyman, identified as that of his wife a body found at Pevensey Bay (Sussex). The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide, and Mr. O'Meara ...

    Article : 74 words
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