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  2. PARLIAMENT. IMPERIAL POLICY.

    In the House of Representatives to-day the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Charlton) resumed the debate on the motion of the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) that the papers be ...

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  3. STATE SESSION.

    The pre-sessional meeting of the Nationalist party was concluded yesterday, when the programme for the coming session was finally considered. There was a full attendance of ...

    Article : 587 words
  4. SETTLED.

    Representatives of the mineowners and miners conferred again yesterday regarding the dispute as to the resumption of work with machines at Pelaw Main. A ...

    Article : 541 words
  5. DAVIS CUP.

    The opening games in the Davis Cup series of matches were won by the Japanese players, who won both singles from the Canadians. ...

    Article : 312 words
  6. AVIATION.

    Sir Samuel Hoare (Minister for Aviation), announced in the House of Commons that the Government bad approved in principle the scheme for an Imperial airship service. ...

    Article : 584 words
  7. LAUSANNE.

    The Turk may be a bad ruler, but he is a prince of anglers. The cunning patience with which he lands the most refractory fish once he has hookod it is beyond compare. What ...

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  8. EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT. Future of Industry.

    Interesting references to trade and its development were made by Mr. Baldwin in a speech, at Glasgow and by Sir Alfred Mond in the House of Commons. Sir Alfred Mond said that the only loan which could not be launched in ...

    Article : 687 words
  9. DEMOCRACY'S TASK.

    Dr. Woodrow Wilson, in an article written for a Boston magazine, arraigns capitalistic society, asking whether it has not exploited the strength and brains of men for its own ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. REPARATIONS.

    British interest is at the moment focussed upon the conferences on the Continent concerning reparations and the Ruhr. The French and Belgian replies to the British ...

    Article : 580 words
  11. SOUTH AFRICA.

    In a speech to his constituents at Durban, Colonel Creswell (leader of the Labour party), referring to the Nationalist-Labour compact, said the former party was mainly the Dutch ...

    Article : 386 words
  12. A SEAOUAKE.

    A severe earthquake shock in mid-ocean was experienced by the barque Gathgarry, which arrived in port yesterday morning after a voyage of 90 days from Callao. ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. RECIPROCITY.

    The Empire Development Union has drawn up, for presentation to the Imperial Conference, an appeal for preferential treatment to dominion producers. Preference is asked by ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. PRESIDENT HARDING.

    President Harding has arrived en route to the Unitod States from Alaska. He was welcomed by the largest crowds ever seen in British Columbia, except on the occasion ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. PORT OF LONDON.

    The Government has granted the Port of London Authority a loan of £4,300,000 for 30 years at 3½ per cent, to proceed with the programme of projected improvements. ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. COLLAPSE OF STRIKE.

    Eleven hundred dockers have resumed work at Tilbury docks. It is announced that all ships are now working. ...

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  17. FOOTBALL CONTROVERSY

    Major Stanley, the Oxford representative on the Rugby Union, sued George Harnett (formerly a member of the Rugby Union Committee) and the "Pall Mall Gazette " for ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. TRUST FUNDS.

    An action involving the responsibility of trustees in the investment of funds came before the Chief Justice, Sir William Irvine, in the Banco Court. William Jeffrey charles ...

    Article : 232 words
  19. BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

    The immunity of State-owned enterprises from taxation is specially discussed in the Federation of British Industries' second interim report. The hope is expressed that the ...

    Article : 166 words
  20. PARK-STREET.

    It was learned at the Town Hall yesterday that there is a definite majority of the City Council in favour of widening Park-street by the resumption of the land required on the ...

    Article : 215 words
  21. TRAINING SHIP CADETS.

    Sir Joseph Cook, distributing prizes to cadets on the training ship Worcester, off Greenhithe, urged the boys to help double the brain-power of the world. The motive power ...

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  22. THE KENYA DISPUTE.

    The members of the Indian delegation from Kenya, now in London, have cabled to the Indian Government, declaring that the Imperial Government's decision in the Kenya ...

    Article : 232 words
  23. SALE OF A NAVY.

    Mr. Bennett, of Albany, Jones, and Company, shipowners, of Cardiff, has purchased 13 battleships from the Soviet Government for £2,000,000. The battleships will be sent to ...

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  24. A JURY'S DISTINCTION.

    Tho correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Brussels says that fifteen Belgian Communists accused of plotting against the security of the State have been acquitted at ...

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  25. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

    News comes from Paris of a tragedy of the Grand Guignol type, recalling the most lurid pages of Zola, which overtook a family named Vauchet, living in a miserable flat in the ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. WORLD'S WHEAT.

    A despatch to the New York "Journal of Commerce" says: The possibility of an international orderly marketing agreement on Canadian, Australian, and Argentinan wheat has ...

    Article : 151 words
  27. THE PUKAKI.

    The steamer Pukaki has been floated off the Nukkae reef, on which she became stranded last Sunday night. She is resuming her voyage. ...

    Article : 96 words
  28. BROKEN HILL.

    The recent visit to Broken Hill of the Governor (Sir Walter Davidson) and Dame Margaret Davidson was the cause of the following mayoral minute being presented to ...

    Article : 252 words
  29. GENERAL CABLES.

    Gadshill Place, where Charles Dickens lived and died, was offered for 'sale by auction today, but was withdrawn at £5000. Miss Phyllis McDonald, a Sydney violinist, ...

    Article : 222 words
  30. JOCKEY SUED.

    An unprecedented lawsuit commenced before Mr Justice Darling this morning H. J. Paum, owner of Iron Ore, is suing M. Beary, the jockey who was riding Golly Eyes in the ...

    Article : 241 words
  31. PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    The State Department at Washington has received an official report from the Japanese Government in accordance with the JapaneseAmerican Treaty signed at the Washington ...

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  32. THE DISCOVERY.

    The Colonial Office has appointed Lieutenant Stenthouse (formerly second-in-command ot the Aurora) to command Captain Scott's vessel the Discovery, which was ...

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  33. NEW RAILWAY.

    With a view of pushing on the construction of the east coast railway, the Government has decided to call for tenders in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and New ...

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  34. FATAL MINING MISHAP.

    Four persons were killed and two were seriously injured by a fall of coal in the Gwm-gw-rach colliery, South Wales. A hundred rescuers worked heroically for three ...

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  35. SPORT ABROAD.

    Lancashire, 291, beat Worcester 135 and 125. Middlesex 489 for 6 wickets declared against Essex (Hendren 200 not out and Mann 122). LAWN TENNIS. ...

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  36. NEW NOSES FOR OLD.

    Dr. Gillies demonstrated at the Medical Congress that almost any defect of the face can be remedied. Lantern illustrations showed the most unprepossessing women growing ...

    Article : 93 words
  37. CITY FIRE.

    Shortly after midnight a pedestrian, in passing the fruit shop of Mr. A. Virgona at 156A King-street, city, noticed flames in the interior. The fire brigade was notified, and ...

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  38. LONDON'S FREEDOM.

    The Corporation of the City of London has decided to extend the Freedom of the City to Mr. Bruce on his arrival to attend the Imperial Conference. The Freedom of the City will be ...

    Article : 54 words
  39. WOMEN JUSTICES.

    The Legislative Council has rejected the bill providing for the appointment of women justice of the peace. ...

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  40. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    The Wesleyan conference designated the Rev. Amos Burnet, senior secretary of the wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, as president of the 1924 conference. ...

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