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  2. THE STORM. GALES AND HIGH SEAS.

    As the result of a tropical pressure depression during the week-end a cyclonic disturbance developed off the extreme north coast, and the unsettled conditions yesterday showed ...

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  3. CAPITAL CITY.

    Members of the Canberra Vigilance Committee in the Federal Parliament will wait upon the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, this week in order to urge an expenditure for ...

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  4. LATE CABLE NEWS

    Thibet is suffering from acute economic distress due to unfavourable exchange, high cost of living, and heavy cattle mortality. The middle-class people have been reduced to a ...

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  5. NORTH-SOUTH LINE.

    The Surveyor-General, Mr. T. E. Day, who, with the assistant engineer for railways construction (Mr. W. W. Andrews), was appointed by the Government to ...

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  6. LOWER WAGES. A.W.U. SCHEME.

    The officials of the Railway Workers' branch of the A.W.U. have for some time past been carrying on negotiations with the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and Rylands' ...

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  7. FEDERAL FACTORIES

    A report outlining the activities of the Commonwealth Government factories during the year ended June 30, 1921, has been made available. While the work of the Small Arms ...

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  8. IRISH REBELS. WAITING AT CORK.

    The rebels are now concentrating in the vicinity of Mallow Junction, on the DublinCork railway. It is expected the final struggle with them will be on the outskirts of Cork. ...

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  9. EUROPE'S DILEMMA. PLIGHT OF AUSTRIA

    The Vienna correspondent of the "Bally Chronicle" says the kronen is now 165,000 to the pound. The public fear it is going the way of the Russian rouble. The ...

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  10. WEATHER REPORTS. SERVICE TO BE RESTORED.

    It is expected by Federal members that the Minister for Home and Territories (Senator Pearce) will announce cither to-day or tomorrow, after the meeting of the Federal ...

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  11. TWO NEW SUNS.

    What is characterised as the most outstanding event in astronomical development is an announcement by Mr. Plashett, director of the Canadian Astro-physical Observatory, that he ...

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  12. REPARATIONS.

    A message from Paris says that "Le Temps," discussing M. Poincare's visit to London, which has been fixed for about August 1, declares:— ...

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  13. AUSTRALIAN BEEF.

    Official confirmation of the report that all the old stocks of Australian beef had been removed from the London market has been received by the Minister for Customs, Mr. ...

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  14. SHIPPING IMPERILLED.

    The cyclonic disturbance which has developed during the past 24 hours off the north coast, with the promise of a continuance of the severe conditions generally along the ...

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  15. SEVERAL RECORDS.

    The Registrar-General's statistics for 1920 show the highest marriage rate over recorded, 20.2, and the highest birth rate since 1909—namely, 25.5, also the highest natural ...

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  16. GERMANY.

    A correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune" at Berlin learns that the Bavarian Republic declines to accept the new national law for the protection of the Republican form of ...

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  17. PRESENTATION TO MINISTER.

    Mr. C. W. Oakes (Minister for Health), speaking at Bondi last night, said that when he first entered Parliament 21 years ago his ideal then was that Parliament assembly would ...

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  18. CITY v. COUNTRY.

    Figures supplied by the Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. R. T. Ball) show that in the last three and a half years the amount of money spent by the State in railways and ...

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  19. UNREST IN EGYPT.

    A message from Cairo states that Lord Allenby has written to Sarwar Pasha, stating:—"The British Government views with apprehension the recent series of outrages on ...

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  20. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The Council of the League of Nations has finally disposed of the highly controversial questions arising out of the Palestine and Syria mandates, which it will ratify on ...

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  21. CASUALTIES. KNOCKED DOWN BY A MOTOR CAR.

    While crossing the street at the intersection, of Martin-place and Castlereaghstreet last night, William Caley, a middleaged man, who resides in Clarence-street, ...

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  22. INCREASED OUTPUT.

    The Premier yesterday commented upon some observations made recently by Mr. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labour in the United States, regarding the attitude of ...

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  23. MAJOR BLAKE'S FLIGHT.

    Major Blake, who reached Sibi, Baluchistan, on Sunday telegraphs: "We were unable to reach Quetta owing to mist, and on our return the under carriage was damaged. We ...

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  24. SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL.

    Bimbi, a village 20 miles from Grenfell, is in a fever of excitement. The village has, perhaps, 40 dwellings all told, and there is little chance of its improvement, because of ...

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  25. STRUCK ON THE HEAD.

    During an altercation in Waverley early last night John Scales, 32, a carter, residing in Albert-place, Paddington, was struck on the head. The Eastern Suburbs Ambulance ...

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  26. GOLF IN AMERICA.

    In a game played to-day Guilford and Ouimet, two amateurs, defeated Hagen and Kirkwood, 4 up and 2 to play. Sarazen and Kerrigan defeated J. H. Taylor ...

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  27. TRAVELLER SERIOUSLY INJURED.

    John Borrowman, 30, a traveller, who resides in Herbert-street, Rockdale, was severely injured by falling under a tram at the Central-Railway Station late yesterday ...

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  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A message from Paris states that Mdllehonglen has not left for America because the American Tennis Association has written to the French tennis authorities to keep her in ...

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  29. MINISTER'S CONCESSION.

    As a result of the representations made by the leader of the Country party (Dr. Earle Page), to the Minister for Home Affairs (Senator Pearce), the department, it is stated, has ...

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  30. ALLEGED BREACH OF PROMISE.

    Both sides were subjected to a spirited cross-examination to-day in the case in which Mrs. Minnie Ingram, a soldier's widow, of Erskineville, Sydney, is suing Joseph Henry ...

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  31. CURL CURL LAGOON.

    At last night's meeting of the Manly Council Alderman Lindsay Thompson moved that the engineer be instructed to prepare an estimate of the cost of improving Curl Curl ...

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  32. FREEZERS STRIKE ENDED.

    Large numbers of unionists offered to-day for employment at the North Canterbury Freezing Works. Some say that the strike has been declared off. Many found to-day ...

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  33. FOUND WITH THROAT CUT.

    The discovery of a man lying with his throat cut in a pool of water under a culvert was made by a man close to Marulan, near Goulburn, this morning. When the police arrived ...

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  34. NEWCASTLE.

    At the meeting of the Hunter District Water supply and Sewerage Board to-day a letter was received from the Under-Secretary of the Treasury, informing the board that the ...

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  35. FEELING IN COUNTRY.

    Torrential rain is falling, and as it is just a year ago since Kempsey's big flood, the public are much perturbed regarding the discontinuance of weather reports at the post-office. ...

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  36. FIRE ON STEAMER.

    An outbreak of fire in the lower part of No. 3 hold of the steamer Arawa, which arrived at Wellington from Napier, has not definitely been located, but is believed to ...

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  37. BITTEN BY POISONOUS SPIDER.

    The death has occurred in the Goulburn Hospital of Reginald William Clarke, aged four years, from general septicaemia, the direct result of a bite from a poisonous species ...

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  38. YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE.

    Sir,—Your leader of Saturday last, "Travel and Empire," treats a subject that must appeal to every man and woman who has the welfare of Australia and the Empire at heart. ...

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  39. DEFENCE PROSECUTION.

    Before Mr. Hamblin, S.M., at the Bathurst Police Court on Friday the Defence Department proceeded against ex-Lieutenant J. F. Wyndham on charges of having taken. ...

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  40. BURNT TO DEATH.

    Thomas Meredith, an old resident of the district, and a painter by trade, was on Sunday found af Thirroul burnt to death in his hut, which was totally destroyed. The ...

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  41. THE LATE ADMIRAL DUMARESQ.

    A naval memorial service for the late RearAdmiral Dumaresq will be held at the Garden Island Church on Sunday next. Relatives of the late Admiral have been invited to ...

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  42. HUME FEDERAL SEAT.

    Efforts are being put forth to induce several well-known men to come forward as candidates for the Federal seat at the next elections in the Country party interests. Messrs W. ...

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  43. MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY.

    At the inquest into the circumstances of the death of Horace Clyde Brumpton, of Boomi, the victim of the motor cycle accident on the Garah-Morce road on Tuesday, June 27, ...

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  44. OPOSSUM SKINS.

    Charles Frederick Smith was charged at the Albury Police Court this morning with having 287 opossum skins in his possesion. He was fined in the angregate £71/15/. ...

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  45. NON-PAYING RAILWAYS.

    Sir,—The report of the speech of the Chief Railway Commissioner and your sub-leader in to-day's issue give further prominence to the disability the Commissioners are under in ...

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  46. AMERICAN SCHOOL TEACHERS.

    A party of six American lady school teachers from Honolulu arrived in Sydney by the steamer Manuka yesterday. The visit is quite unofficial, and as one remarked, "We ...

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  47. HEAVY COASTAL RAIN.

    Unsettled weather developed over New South Wales on Sunday under the influence of a disturbance to the north-east of a cyclonic character, and resulted in rain and ...

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  48. ALLEGED FORGERY.

    When Mr. Matthew Vieviteh was summoned to his bank a fortnight ago he made the discovery that about £350 had been withdrawn from his account without his knowledge. Mr. ...

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  49. A.I.F. CANTEEN FUND.

    In the socond annual report of the A.I F Canteen Fund Trust, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on Friday, it is stated that altogether the sum of £628,498 ...

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  50. VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS.

    The week-end was marked by a series of serious vehicular accidents. Robert Holder, who is deal and dumb, was stanading near the intersection of Daylis and Edward streets, ...

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  51. BUTTER PRICES.

    The wholesale price of butter was reduced to-day by 10/ a cwt, equivalent to about 1d a lb. Selling agents in Melbourne decided upon this course in consequence of the ...

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  52. SEARCHING FOR OIL.

    Although recent investigations at Beaudesert gave negative results so far as oil was concerned, the search for petroleum has not been abandoned in the district, and the ...

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  53. RAIN IN THE COUNTRY.

    BATHURST, Monday.—Soaking rain has been falling in Bathurst and district since about 10 o'clock last night. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon 160 points had fallen in town, and it is still raining. The ...

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  54. WOMAN COLLAPSES IN TRAM.

    Complaining, it is said, of the "stuffiness" occasioned by closing the doors of the tram in which she was travelling, Mrs. J. Wilson, who lives at Clyde, Scully-street, Randwick. ...

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  55. PORCELAIN WORKS DESTROYED.

    Drayton Bros.' porcelain works at Sunshine were destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at £12,000. The building and contents were insured in the Colonial Mutual ...

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  56. RESULT OF A HIT.

    A son of Mr. Stewart North, of Balgownie, s taken to Wollongong from Mittagong suffering from an injured leg, the result of a hit from a bucket. Mortification set in, and ...

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  57. LATE SHIPPING.

    Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s steamer Ulimaroa, from Wellington (N.Z.), arrived in Sydney Harbour just before midnight. ...

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