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  2. EXCHANGE.

    All the banks, including the Commonwealth Bank, have agreed upon the details of a scheme in the nature of a pool for exchange. ...

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  3. PUBLIC SERVICE.

    The definite determination of the Government not to restore to the State Civil servants the right of access to the Arbitration Court was announced by the ...

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  4. WHARF-LABOURERS

    It was learned yesterday that, the proposals tentatively accepted by the interstate conference of the Waterside Workers' Federation to fight the shipping ...

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  5. THE LAND.

    A sub-committee of the State Cabinet decided yesterday that immediate, steps should be taken to push ahead with land settlement. ...

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  6. NE TEMERE.

    The Moderator of the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales (Rev. William Robertson), in a statement yesterday, in ...

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  7. LATE CABLE NEWS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Pekin telegraphs that General Feng Yu-Hsiang completely controls the capital. He has issued a proclamation denouncing the war, which, he says, ...

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  8. PEKIN SEIZED.

    A wireless message picked up by a United States warship last night confirms previous reports of the city's isolation, and adds "The position is peaceful. There is no cause for ...

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  9. ELECTIONS.

    The "dear food" cry has again been raised Conservative headquarters claims to have definite information that Liberals up and down the country are reviving it. Consequently, in ...

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  10. SOUTH AFRICA.

    A substantial increase in shipping freights from South African ports to England came into force on September 1, according to details received in Sydney, ...

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  11. PORT NICHOLSON.

    The Port Nicholson has been surveyed. The divers report that there is no apparent damage except a large hole in the starboard quarter leading into the tunnel. The vessel ...

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  12. FRENCH TENNIS TEAM.

    Reutor's Paris correspondent telegraphs that although the statement is not yet officially confirmed by the French Lawn Tennis Federation, it appears. certain that Borotra ...

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  13. MINE STOPPAGES.

    A trenchant criticism on the incessant stoppages and strikes on the northern coalfields was made by Mr. John Brown in an interview with a "Herald" representative this ...

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  14. IRELAND.

    Mr. Joseph B. Fisher, late editor of the "Northern Whig," Belfast, has been appointed the third boundary commissioner. ...

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  15. PROHIBITION.

    Official admission that corrupt politics is defeating the enforcement of prohibition is contained in a remarkable letter from the hand of Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, Federal ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. THE ENGLISHMEN.

    The Westorn Australian team to meet the English eleven on Saturday in the second State game was chosen last night as follows:—R. Hewson, L. Freemantle, R. ...

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  17. SURGEONS' CONFERENCE.

    At to-day's session of the Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. B. Robertson, of Auckland (N.Z.), read a paper on "Septicaemia and its Treatment by Intranenous ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. BILL THIS PARLIAMENT.

    This declaration was made by the Minister for Justice (Mr. Ley) when opening a new wing of the Protestant Federation's home at Dulwich Hill yesterday afternoon. ...

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  19. PURSER CASE.

    It has been decided that the appeals of George Tye and J. R. Corteen (owners), C. T. Godby (trainer), and H. Cairns (jockey) against their disqualification for 12 months in ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. ENGLISH TEAM.

    The English team for to-morrow is:— Gllligan, Douglas, Bryan, Chapman, Hobbs. Strudwick, Hearne, Hondren, Howell, Freeman, Tate, and Whysa[?] as twelfth man. ...

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  21. TAXATION CHARGES.

    The file relating to Sir Sidney Kidman's land taxation was examined to-day by Judge Edwards, of New South Wales, the Royal Commissioner inquiring into the charges of ...

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  22. GREECE'S APPEAL.

    News comes from Geneva that Greece has requested that a meeting of the League of Nations Council should be held at Brussels next week to consider the ...

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  23. ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    All leaders of Opposition groups in the Italian Chamber of Deputies conferred and decided that members of their respective parties should not take their places in the ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. THE CATHKIT.

    Messages received in Sydney by wireless yesterday gave a more reasscuring statement of the condition of the scow Cathkit, which has been 49 days making from ...

    Article : 347 words
  25. SEARCH FOR WOMEN.

    The Douglas Mawson Relief Committee is being unuudated with telegrams from persons anxious to go to the relief of the white women. A number of men want to go ...

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  26. POPE LEO XIII.

    From Rome it is reported that the remains of Pope Leo XIII. were transferred last night privately from St. Peter's to the Lateran Basilica, which was chosen by him ...

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  27. MR. M. CHARLTON.

    Mr. M. Charlton, who was the guest of the Australian 'Natives' Association, speaking in reply to the toast of his health, said he was especially struck on arriving in London with ...

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  28. WIRELESS.

    A telegram from Athens says:— Signor Marconi, who is visiting Athens, being on a Mediterranean cruise of experiment aboard his yacht, says that he ...

    Article : 75 words
  29. GENERAL STRIKE RUMOUR SCOUTED.

    Rumours were circulated in Newcastle this evening that there was a possibility of a general coal strike being launched on the northern coalfields during the week-end. This ...

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  30. MISSIONARY DISBELIEVES REPORTS.

    Mr. A. J. Dyor, who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Arafura, does not believe that white women, survivors from the Douglas Mawson, are held captive by the natives of ...

    Article : 224 words
  31. SENSATIONAL FIRE.

    An explosion in the promises of the Ideal Film Company and Topical Film Company, Wardour-street, blew out the windows. The flames leaped across the road, and set fire to a ...

    Article : 150 words
  32. THE WORLD'S PEACE.

    Although the Dawes reparation plan has been in operation but a short time, "there is more hope and more goodwill and more charity abroad in Europe than at any time ...

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  33. ARMED MEN.

    Frederick Walter Anderson, of Wallflower-st, Flemington, while holiday-making at Yerrinbool, near Mittagong, was robbed by two ...

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  34. LAND HUNGER.

    Bishop Hayden, speaking here on the question of land settlement, condemned the introduction of immigrants while Australians were eager to secure land sufficient to ensure a ...

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  35. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—It is quite evident that very few of those supporting or opposing what has been called the No Temere Bill have road the mensure or understand the meaning of clause 3. ...

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  36. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Sultan of Neid has telegraphed to the Moslem Supreme Council, which offered to mediate between him and the King of the Hejaz, saying that Huslen's attitude recently ...

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  37. SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    At Childers yesterday, after an extensive examination of two sugar mills, and a tour of sugar farms of the Isis district, the Prime Minister said he could give no definite ...

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  38. 'BUS ACCIDENT.

    A mishap to a 'bus in Old South Head-road, Waverley, yesterday morning threw the steering gear out of use. The vehicle, completely out of control, raced across the footpath ...

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  39. JAPANESE MIGRATION.

    The Mexico newspaper "El Mercurio" states that two representatives of the Japanese General Staff, ten Japanese financiers, and industrial experts have arrived there to direct ...

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  40. COTTON GROWING.

    Lord Derby, who presided at the general meeting of the Empire Cotton-Growing Corporation, said that the development of cotton cultivation in the Empire during the past ...

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  41. CANBERRA.

    The Federal Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Hill) has returned to Melbourne, after paying his first visit as a Minister to the Federal capital and the river Murray. ...

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  42. BRISBANE TRAMS.

    The brisbane Tramways Trust's £1,500,000 loan, bearing 5¼ per cent, interest, issued at and repayable between 1944 and 1954, has been heavily over-subscribed. ...

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  43. MORE MIGRANTS.

    A party of 80 immigrants from the United Kingdom for New South Wales reached Sydney by the Ormondo. Among the third-class passengers were over ...

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  44. GIFT OF £5000.

    It is announced that Sir John and Lady Higgins have distributed £5000 amongst the various Victorian charitable institutions and hospitals and the Melbourne University. ...

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  45. CHARGE OF VITRIOL-THROWING

    In the Criminal Court the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in a case in which Dorothy Dowason, a widow, was charged with having done grievous bodily, harm to Bert ...

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  46. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM LOTON.

    Sir William Loton died at his home yesterday, at the age of 85 years. He was one of the delegates to the Federal Conference in 1891 in Sydney, and was Mayor of Perth on ...

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