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  2. SOLDIER SETTLERS

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has forwarded a letter to the Premiers of the respective States concorning the position of soldier settlements. ...

    Article : 724 words
  3. CANCER.

    It was a new experience to-night to see a small queue waiting for the issue of the medical paper "Lancet," in which papers by Dr. Gye and Mr, J. E. Barnard, descriptive ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  4. SPOILS TO VICTORS

    The State Government recently appointed Mrs. Greville as official visitor to the Mental Hospitals,and dismissed Mrs. Dillon, who had ...

    Article : 319 words
  5. BILLS PASSED.

    The Navigation Bill and the Immigration Bill, giving the Federal Government power to suspend the coastal clauses of the Navigation Act, and to deport Industrial peace ...

    Article : 902 words
  6. BRITAIN'S NAVY.

    Iu the House of Commons, Sir John Simon with the object of extracting a statemort' from the Government on its building pro gramme, moved a small reduction in the ...

    Article : 466 words
  7. AUSTRALIAN LOAN.

    A Commonwealth loan of £5,000,000, at 99[?], bearing interest at 5 per cent., with £1 bonus payable with the first instalment of interest, re[?]mable in 1945-75, is being underwritten ...

    Article : 56 words
  8. EFFORTS FOR PEACE.

    The Seamen's Union has requested a conference with the Commonwealth Steamship Owners'Association. The association yesterday fixed a conference for 2.00 p.m., on Tuesday next. ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. SECURITY PACT.

    The German draft reply to the French Note regarding security was drawn up by the German Cabinet yesterday. Strict secrecy has been observed in regard to it, but the Berlin ...

    Article : 192 words
  10. CONFERENCE.

    The Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association has conceded the request of the Seamen's Union for a conforonco, and will meet delegates from the union at 2.30 p.m. on ...

    Article : 630 words
  11. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the matches at Dublin, the Australian women lawn tennis players beat Ireland by six-to two. In the doubles, Mrs. Harper and Miss ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. DR. EVATT.

    The move initiated to have Dr. Evatt, M.L.A., appointed to the Legislative Council, to make room for the appointment of Mrs. Kate Dwyer to the Legislative Assembly, has ...

    Article : 379 words
  13. THE IDLE FLEET.

    Inclusive of coastal colliers and small coastal vessels idle in other States, the number of vessels affected by the strike of seamen now number nearly 90, Unemployment [?] ...

    Article : 213 words
  14. DRAWING NEARER.

    We are now near enough to Sydney to begin to feel the Says drag. In the wardrooms, in the Junior officers' messrooms, and in the sa[?]ors' quarters the talk drifts more and ...

    Article : 307 words
  15. DAVIS CUP.

    In the Spain-Mexico Davis Cup match, Manuel Alonso (Spain) beat Claud Butlin (Mexico), 6-2, 6-1. 6-2. Eduardo Flaquer (Spain) beat Ignacio ...

    Article : 330 words
  16. NAVIGATION ACT.

    Steps have already been taken by cable to obtain from England the Royal Asscat to the bill to amend the Navigation Act, so that having now passed [?] Houses of the ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. BETTING.

    At the annual meeting of the League of N.S.W. Wheelmen the question of legalising betting at sports meetings was raised. ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. CIVIL SERVICE.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. McTiernan) yesterday received a deputation of representatives of the Australian Clerical Association, who presented a series of demands that had ...

    Article : 386 words
  19. WIRELESS.

    Mr. R, Mason-Allard, who has been appointed to the Imperial. Wireless Committee, and Mr. E. T. Fisk, manager of Australian Wireless, have arrived in London. On being ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. MAN BEHIND THE GUN.

    Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, speaking at a luncheon given by the Royal Colonial Institute in his honour at the Hotel Victoria, prior to his departure for India, said that he ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. SEAMEN'S LEADERS.

    A strong delegation from the Senmen's Union left Sydney last night for Melbourne, where they will discuss settlement proposals with the shipowners next week. The delegation ...

    Article : 194 words
  22. NATIONALISTS.

    Mr. Ball, formerly Minister for Works, states that he believes that Sir George Puller will retire from politics at an early date. That ...

    Article : 186 words
  23. OVERSEA SHIPS.

    "As long as members of the Seamen's Union are on vessels carrying interstate cargoes we will work them," said the Brisbane secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation (Mr. ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Majesty the King knighted Mr. J. A. M. Elder, Commissioner for Australia in the United States, who is now on a visit to London, and invested him with the insignia of ...

    Article : 444 words
  25. SUGAR FLEET.

    A serious aspect of the shipping dispute was brought home to North Queensland to-day when the hold-up extended even to the mosquite fleet operating between Port Douglas ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. ATTEMPT TO SWIM CHANNEL.

    Lilian Harrison, the Argentine swimmer, who twice attempted to swim the Channel in 1924, entered the water, at Cape Grianez at 4.2[?] this morning, and, swimming for nine ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. BOYCOTTED.

    After a long and lively debate the Trades ind Labour Council at its meeting on Thursday night decided to boycott the American fleet on its visit to Sydney next week. ...

    Article : 278 words
  28. STATE PREMIER HOPEFUL.

    The State Premier (Mr. Lang) said yesterday that he was hopeful that the conference in Melbourne on Tuesday next between the interstate shipowners and the union ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. RUSSIAN TO BE EXPELLED.

    The Russian Dosser has been ordered to be expolled from the international settlement as an undesirable. The charge of being in possession of inflamatory literature of a ...

    Article : 89 words
  30. TASMANIAN PRODUCE.

    Speaking with roference to the shipping trouble, the Promier to-day said the seamen has recognised the special claims of Tasmania by [?]ing prepared partially to maintain the ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. PHOSPHATES DEPOSITS.

    The "Cape Argus" reports the discovery of valuable deposits of phoBpbates in a considerable area within 26 miles of Capetown. After making fruitless prospect for oil, one ...

    Article : 126 words
  32. 1917 STRIKE.

    The ultimatum issued by the State Government to the Railway Commissioners to the effect that the participants in the 1917 strike should be given such positions In the ...

    Article : 148 words
  33. VOLUNTEER CREWS.

    From an early hour yesterday there was a steady stream of volunteer labour offering at the wharfs of the coastal shipping companies. The men were all fully-qualified ...

    Article : 459 words
  34. DELUGE IN HONGKONG.

    A deluge of rain this morning, following the torrential rains of the last few days, caused the collapse of seven houses at Po-hing-fong, near the disinfecting station at ...

    Article : 86 words
  35. IDLE MINES.

    "Unless the shipping strike is settled by the middle of next week between 9000 and 10,000 men associated with the mining industry on the northern fields will be throen out of ...

    Article : 157 words
  36. RABBIT MENACE.

    T[?] Premier (Mr. Lang) announced yesterday that the Commission which was issued by the previous Government to Mr. D. G. Stead to Inquire Into the rabbit menace bad been ...

    Article : 67 words
  37. PLEA FOR EMIGRATION.

    The "Morning Post" editorially urges adoption of a scheme of later-Imperial emigration upon a large scale. The article ays: The people of Australia have created a vacuum, ...

    Article : 101 words
  38. METHODIST UNION.

    The Wesleyan Conference, sitting at Lincoln, has adopted a resolution by 397 votes, to 126 in favour of union of Methodist Churches, provided substantial agreement is secured ...

    Article : 60 words
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