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  2. ULTIMATUM.

    By a ten to one majority the members of the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association have decided to serve an ultimatur upon the collery owners throughout New ...

    Article : 447 words
  3. FEDERAL CABINET.

    Is the Commonwealth in a position to-day to evacuate the entire field of income taxation? Failing that, what proportion of the field can be evacuated in the light of present ...

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  4. 44-HOURS WEEK. In Five Days.

    At a meeting in the Trades Hall on Tuesday night members of the amalgamated Engineering Union who act as shop stewards in the large workshops, rca[?]med their former ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. PATRONAGE.

    The question of patronage at the Town Hall was raised at the meeting of the finance committee yesterday. This committee has control of staff appointments, and it ...

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  6. IRAQ.

    Reports from Constantinople indicate that the Mosul boundary question is again prominent, and that there are some hopes of a settlement. ...

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  7. LUNCHEON TO CRICKETERS. A Notable Function.

    There was an attendance of 500 at a luncheon given by the Institute of Journalists at the Criterion restaurant in honour of the Australian cricket team. The guests included the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin), the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. L. C. ...

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  8. PREHISTORIC SKULL.

    A cable from Australia announces a claim by Professor Colin MacKenzic, of Melbourne, that he has discovered at Columa, near the Murray River, a skull ante-dating any known ...

    Article : 293 words
  9. LITHGOW IRONWORKERS.

    Members of the Lithgow branch of the Federated Ironworkers' [?]nion have decided to hold a meeting to consider their attitude to the High Court's decision regarding the ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. FALLING FRANC.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express says: Despite the optimistic speech of M. Peret (Minister of Finance), declaring the end of the financial crisis to be in sight, the ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. THE LUNCHEON.

    The chairuinn, Mr. Alan Robbins, president of the institute, read a telegram from the Prince of Wales conveying his best wishes to the team, hoping that the team would have ...

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  12. CITY RESUMPTIONS.

    The City Council's expect valuers were soveiely criticised yesterday at the meeting of the finance committee which considered their recommendation that payment should be made ...

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  13. RADIO-PHOTOGRAPHY

    A cheque for 1000 dollars was made out in London this afternoon, and transmitted to New York by radio-photography, presented and paid within an hour. ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. DUCHESS OF YORK.

    A daughter was born at 2.40 o'clock this morning to their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York. ...

    Article : 28 words
  15. COAL INDUSTRY.

    The joint conference of coalminers and owners, which Mr. Baldwin is convening to discuss the important concession made by the owners, who, it was reported, would not ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. MOTH AEROPLANES.

    Mr. H. De Hayilland, of the Do Havilland Air Craft Company, Ltd. (England), and brother of Mr. Geoffrey Do Havilland, the well-known aeroplane designer, arrived in Melbourne ...

    Article : 344 words
  17. EMPIRE WIRELESS.

    A special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Australia's beam transmitting stati[?]n at Grimshy, and the receiving station at Skegness, are scheduled for ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. NON-ENROLMENT.

    Giving evidence yesterday before the Federal committee inquiring into electoral reform, postmen from East Sydney and Cook electorates declared that people had refused ...

    Article : 336 words
  19. THE DORRIGO.

    The inquiry was commenced to-day by the Court of Marino Inquiry into the recent foundering of the steamer Dorrigo. Captain Gray said that he had had 30 years' ...

    Article : 803 words
  20. MIGRATION.

    According to the "Daily Herald" preparations are well advanced for the Labour migration conference. Mr. J. H. Thomas, formerly Secretary of Stale for the Dominions, will ...

    Article : 210 words
  21. WATERSIDERS.

    The Waterside Workers' Federation, appareatly alarmed at the appearance of a new waterfront union, the main objects of which are to prevent strikes and lockouts, has ...

    Article : 276 words
  22. STRIKE THREAT.

    A strike of far-reaching importance is threatened. Recently the men engaged in the State Waterworks and Sewers Department asked the Minister for Public Works (Mr. ...

    Article : 184 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Forecasts of the British Budget mention the possibility of a tax on exported whisky. The death is announced in his 55th year off Mr. Lovat Fraser, journalist and special ...

    Article : 467 words
  24. BUS TRANSPORT.

    The general manager of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (Mr. A. D. Murdoch) giving evidence to-day before the South Australian Royal Commission on bus control, ...

    Article : 144 words
  25. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    In the House of Communs to-day, Mr. F. A. Broad (Lab.) asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. H. D. King), if he was aware that, though the Woolwieb ...

    Article : 200 words
  26. DISARMAMENT.

    Referring to armamount limitation in discussing international issues, in an address here to-day, the Secretary of State (Mr. F. B. Kellogg) said that the Government would ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. DEATHS AT SEA.

    Poignant circumstances surrounded the death at sea of two women, who were travelling on vessels which reached Fremantle to-day. In each iustance the deceased's only ...

    Article : 274 words
  28. MOTOR INDUSTRY.

    "I greatly regret that there are so few British makes of motor cars in Australia," said the Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven) when replying to the loast of his health at a ...

    Article : 295 words
  29. CITRUS FRUITS.

    The commercial department at Australia House disagrees with statements cabled from Adelaide that last season's citrus shipments were a failure. As a matter of fact, it is ...

    Article : 104 words
  30. ALLEGED MURDER.

    Walter Arthur Nelson, who is charged with murdering William Oliver at Yanterbangee Government Tank, 80 miles from Wileunnia, on the Parce-road, last January, came up for ...

    Article : 243 words
  31. PROHIBITION.

    Bishop McDowell, of the Methods Episcopal Church, testified to-day before the Senate Committee inquiring into prohibition. He said that the proposition to amend the existing law ...

    Article : 145 words
  32. GALES IN JAPAN.

    Owing to a violent gale, which swept over Central Japan last night, several minor outbreaks of fire, fanned by a hurricane, developed into disastrous conflagrations. ...

    Article : 119 words
  33. WHARF STRIKE.

    At the conference of shipowners it was decided to make the Camopus and Coolana, which the Lyttelton Waterside Workers refused to work, preference ships in lending ...

    Article : 80 words
  34. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

    Advice has been received by the Commissinner of Police from Poondina, a town in the Port Hedland district, that James Mulrhead, a single man, aged 59 years, committed ...

    Article : 51 words
  35. COPYRIGHT MUSIC.

    The Government has been advised by the Crown Law authorities that where entertainers in country public halls use copyright music the trustees of the hall in which the ...

    Article : 51 words
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