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  2. SUGAR INQUIRY.

    Interesting revelations concerning the purchase oversea of sugar by the Commonwealth Government, were made to-day by Benjamin Joseph Lee, merchant and importer, who gave ...

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  3. BLOWN TO SEA.

    After a trying experience of three days at sea without food, and buffeted by wind, the trew of the 11-ton auxiliary ketch Ruby were relieved when their small craft was picked ...

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  4. GO-SLOW POLICY. ENGINEERS' EXECUTIVE OPPOSED.

    A section of the members of the Australasian Society of Engineers propose that stopwork meetings, and a system of "go slow on the job," should be introduced in the various ...

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  5. CIVIC REFORM.

    The 17 Citizens' aldermen met in conference last evening to discuss the Lord Mayor's proposals in reference to the reorganisation of the city surveyor's department and the Lord ...

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  6. DEFENCE FORCES.

    Several amendments to the bill providing for compensation for retired military officers will be urged upon the Minister for Defence (Mr. Massy Greene) when consideration of the ...

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  7. LATE CABLE NEWS CENTRAL ASIA.

    The death of Enver Pasha from bayonet wounds has created little comment in the Press of India, which dismisses the incident with the statement that "One of his few good ...

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  8. GERMANY'S DEBTS.

    A message from Berlin states that Sir John Bradbury, chief British representative on the Reparations Commission, and M. Manclere (president of the Committee of Guarantees) ...

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  9. BLAKE'S 'PLANE MISSING AT SEA.

    Captain MacMilian and Mr. Malins set off from Calcutta on Saturday morning for Akyab, in Burma—a four hours' journey. Subsequently no news was received of their ...

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  10. INDIA'S AIR FORCE.

    Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Maitland Salmond, who has been touring the frontier, says that India is woefully behind the times in air force equipment, but is improving, and in a ...

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  11. CASUALTIES. MAN'S FATAL FALL.

    Frederick Bell, 31, living at 63 Annandaleroad, Annandale, a monitor in the telephone exchange at the G.P.O., fell from the balcony of the fifth floor at the rear of the building ...

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  12. LABOUR COUNCIL'S OBJECTIVE.

    In a letter to the Editor regarding the attitude of Mr. Higgins towards the Labour Council's industrial policy, Mr. J. S. Garden says:— "Mr. Higgins complains that I quoted text ...

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  13. FLIGHT TRIALS.

    Marteus, an engineering student of Hanover, made a flight lasting 66 minutes from a height of 300 feet in a motoriess aeroplane. He fiew 10 kilometers in a direct line in 23 ...

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  14. UNIFICATION.

    The Chief Secretary (Mr C. W. Oakes), in the absence of the Premier, yesterday made a statement regarding the unification of gauges question. ...

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  15. THE CIVIL SERVICE.

    A deputation waited on the Viceroy at Simla in regard to Mr. Lloyd George's recent speech on the Indian situation and civil service. Lord Reading completely controverted ...

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  16. TRAM CONDUCTORS INJURED.

    Two tram conductors, Arthur Wood, of Verdun-street, West Kogarah, and Walter Bains, of Waratah-street, Hurstville, received injuries through being swept off cars ...

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  17. FALL DOWN STEPS.

    Michael O'Sullivan, 50, living at Bourkestreet, Surry Hills, fell down the steps leading to a lavatory in Central-square, shortly before 7 o'clock last night. The Civil ...

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  18. DONATION REFUSED.

    The Bishop of Rangoon announces a decision not to accept a donation from the turf club for charitable institutions. The diocesan conference having characterised it as "tainted ...

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  19. UNIQUE HONOUR.

    Miss Lorna M. Hodgkinson, of Sydney, has had conferred upon her by Harvard University the degree of Doctor of Education. It is the first occasion, it is understood, upon ...

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  20. FALL FROM BUILDING.

    Herbert Day, 38, living at William-street, Paddington, was working on a new buildiug, in course of erection in Old South Head-road, Rose Bay, yesterday afternoon, when he fell ...

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  21. TROOPS AMBUSHED.

    News comes from Teheran that 250 troops have been ambushed in the Bakhtiari Mountains, and practically annihilated. ...

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  22. PUBLIC SERVICE.

    In South-Australia the retiring age for Civil servants is 70 years, but when the Commonwealth took over the control of the Postal Department in 1901 it assumed responsibility ...

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  23. LITTLE GIRL BURNED.

    Lyla Wilks, 14, of Brereton-avenue, Marrickville, was lighting a copper yesterday when her clothes caught fire. They were practically burned off her body. The ...

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  24. SOLDIER SETTLERS.

    Fully 50 soldier settlers assembled at Bective to hear addresses by Messrs. W. R. Evans and W. J. Sloper, vice-president and general secretary respectively of the Soldier ...

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  25. AMERICA'S STRIKES.

    A message from Chicago states that, on the Michigan Central railway, a train wreck occurred, which the officials allege was due to the withdrawal of spikes, thereby permitting ...

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  26. MAN COLLAPSES IN TRAIN.

    Shortly before the Melbourne express left No. 2 Platform at the Central Railway Station last night an intending passenger, named William Pollock, collapsed in one of the ...

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  27. FATAL DRIVING ACCIDENT.

    A fatal accident occurred on the Crescent Head-road late on Thursday night. George Potter, in company with an elderly man named Foster, was driving home ...

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  28. SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

    Dela Ferguson, his wife, and three daughters were discovered dead in their burnt-down home at Nullo Mountain, 27 miles from this town. It is a lonely spot, the nearest house ...

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  29. SUNDAY SPORT.

    The first Sunday football match in the history of Orange took place yesterday between Orange Old Boys and Mandurama for the Hordern challenge cup. Much difficulty had been ...

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  30. STRIFE IN IRELAND.

    A bomb was thrown and 30 shots were fired at Mr. Michael Collins' empty car, when it was entering Dublin to-day. The driver was gravely wounded. ...

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  31. SAD DROWNING CASE.

    Word was received here of a drowning case in sail circumstances in Burke's Creek, near The Rock, late on Saturday night. It appears a teamster had camped on the bank of the ...

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  32. WOMAN'S ADVENTURES.

    A bride, of 15 and a mother a year later, next a Russian prima donna, and at the same time a member of a secret society plotting against the Czar, then a woman soldier ...

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  33. THE COLLIERIES.

    One of the keenest problems facing mine proprietaries at present is the difficulty of disposing of the stocks of small coal which are produced. At every mine on the northorn ...

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  34. DISFRANCHISED RATEPAYERS.

    At the meeting of the Hume Shire Council this afternoon, Cr. G. A. Bell moved, "That, as one of the chief underlying principles of democracy and the most important part of ...

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  35. SOUTH AFRICA.

    General Smuts has concluded a three-week's tour of Rhodesia, where he had an enthusiastic reception. In his speech General Smuts emphasised ...

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  36. FAR EAST.

    "I have always believed that Australia should push her trade relations with the Far East," said the Minister for Defence (Mr. Massy Greene) on Saturday night, when ...

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  37. CONTRACT FOR DREDGES.

    A deputation to the Minister for Marine (Mr. J. G. Bice) to-day asked the Government to give a contract for building certain dredges to Messrs. Poole and Steele, in the Port ...

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  38. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., addressing the railwaymen in Chester, said that unemployment could only be settled by labour attaining power and changing fundamentally Britain's foreign ...

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  39. ELECTRIC CURRENT FOR LITHGOW

    Further details in connection with the Railway Commissioners' proposed electric current scheme from the installation to be established in or about Lithgow show that the ...

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  40. N.Z. BUTTER AND CHEESE.

    The new season's output of butter and cheese is expected to be a record. For prompt shipment during the next three or four weeks an offer of 1/8 per 1b for butter ...

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  41. DEATH OF A BOXER.

    The death occurred this morning of Frank Griffin, who won a boxing contest at the Globe Stadium on Saturday night, when he met Curly Parkes, of Port Kombla. The contest ...

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  42. CHARACTER AND KNOWLEDGE

    Sir,—I have just read, with very great interest, your admirable leader on "Character and Knowledge" (in Saturday's issue), and entirely agree with you in placing character ...

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  43. GOAT ISLAND.

    A deputation, representing a number of municipal councils, waited upon the Treasurer (Mr. A. A. C. Cocks) yesterday with a request that the Government should acquire ...

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  44. SPORT ABROAD.

    The following are the [?]ading batting averages:—Hobbs 64.26, Hendren 62.40, Mead, 61.87, Hardinge 60, Russell 59, and Ashton 56.11. Leading bowling averages are:—Rhodes 84 ...

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  45. BOY IMMIGRANTS.

    Another batch of 70 farm apprentices for South Australia, under the Barwell Government scheme, arrived from England by the Ballarat this morning. They are of a very ...

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  46. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.

    Sidney Harper, on ball from the Redfern Police Court was charged at Tweed Heads Police Court with falsely pretending to Ida Clapham at Tweed Heads, that he was chief ...

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  47. THE TYPHOON.

    The China-Australia Mail line steamer Victoria, which arrived in Sydney yesterday afternoon from Hongkong, reported having passed through a section of the recent ...

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  48. ESCAPEES RECAPTURED.

    Two young men, Arthur Johnston and Claude Davidson, who were on remand, charged with breaking and entering and stealing from a dwelling, escaped from the Scone Gaol early ...

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  49. A DISPUTED WILL.

    Alexander Haig, of Jordan-street, Malvern, who died on June 8, 1922, aged over 80 years, left estate in Victoria and New South Wales to the value of about £9000. He made two ...

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  50. LIGHTING THE THREE KINGS.

    The Minister for Marine, replying to a deputation of the Merchant Service Guild, said the difficulties of effectively lighting the Three Kings were very great. The ...

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  51. THE TIMBER BORER.

    Sir,—Two of your correspondents in Wednesday's "Herald" refer to the fact that freshly cut timber is not affected by borers, but only timber cut some time. This is so. In bygone ...

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  52. BOILERMAKERS' DEMANDS.

    In a letter to the Editor a correspondent, under the nom-de-plume of "industry," writes that the decision of the boilermakers' and the iron trades unions to prevent the adoption of ...

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  53. ALLEGED SHOOTING WITH INTENT

    In the Police Court on Friday, before Mr. Parry, S.M., William Stanley Hunt was charged with having, on August 4, at Yancoglen, near Broken Hill, maliciously shot ...

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  54. STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) has received advice from the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, warning New Zealanders against trying to find work in Great ...

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  55. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A charabane conveying 25 people returning to Ashford. Kent, from a beanfeast at Hastings, overturned in a ditch and filled with water. Eight of the occupants were killed by ...

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  56. TARIFF TREATY.

    The Tariff Treaty between New Zealand and Australia will come into operation on September 1. A proclamation will be issued shortly in each country providing for the ...

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