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  2. SHEARING RATES. OPERATIONS IN FULL SWING.

    The New South Wales Graziers' Association reported yesterday that good progress was being made with shearing operations throughout New South Wales. ...

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  3. LEAGUE OF NATIONS FINANCIAL PROBLEM ACUTE.

    The representative of the Australian Press Association in Geneva is authoritatively informed that the gravest question facing the League of Nations in the coming year is that ...

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  4. NORTH SYDNEY.

    Difficulties which had arisen over the candidature of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) for the North Sydney electorate were overcome yesterday with the withdrawal of Mr. ...

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  5. EARLY ELECTION.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) announced at a meeting of the executive of the National Association yesterday afternoon that it had been decided to hold the general election as ...

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  6. LATE CABLE NEWS THE EGYPT.

    The court of inquiry into the wreck of the Egypt found that the loss of 87 lives was mainly due to default on the part of the master and chief officer in failing to take ...

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  7. STRIFE IN IRELAND.

    The Irish Labour party intends to press the Free State Government either to prove the revolt crushed, or compromise with the rebels. ...

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  8. EARTHQUAKES.

    The postmaster at Tokaanu has telegraphed the Secretary of the Post Office stating that since early on Sunday morning over 100 earthquakes were, felt at Tokaanu. Last night the ...

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  9. OFFICERS BLAMED. LOSS OF THE EGYPT.

    The court of inquiry into the loss of the P. and O. steamer Egypt, sunk on the night of May 20 in collision during a fog with the French steamer Seine, gave its finding to-day. ...

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  10. M. POINCARE'S REPLY

    As originally drafted, M. Poincare's reply to Earl Balfour's Note regarding cancellation of war debts contained the following:—"The United States entered the war to defend ...

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  11. CHARGE OF FRAUD.

    Mrs. Rita Marguerite Fiske, an Australian, who was prominently associated with the entertainment of wounded Anzacs during the war, was charged at the Mansion House with ...

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  12. RAILWAY FACULTIES.

    The Railway Commissioners' annual tour of inspection of portion of the Western line and branches began at Emu Plains yesterday morning, and embraced all platforms and ...

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  13. DISTURBANCE IN INDIA.

    There has been another conflict between police and Akalis outside Amritsar. A Hindu magistrate ordered them to disperse, but they refused. Consequently the police were ordered ...

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  14. ECHO OF THE WAR.

    A message from Berlin says the Reichstag Committee has issued a report on the 1917 peace overture. It finds that an earnest desire for peace existed then, but the ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. MOTOR CAR OVERTURNS.

    Owing to the bursting of a front tyre, a motor car "zigzagged" for 100 yards along the Mount Alexander-road near the fire station. Essendon, early yesterday morning, and then ...

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  16. LIMBLESS SOLDIERS.

    Disabilities and injustices suffered by men who were maimed as the result of war service were discussed at the second annual conference of the Commonwealth Council of ...

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  17. CASE AGAINST A.W.U. SECRETARY.

    At a special police coutt to-day Ebenezer Daniel Hedley Virgo, secretary of the Stockowners' Association, charged Francis Walter Lundie, secretary of the Adelaide branch of ...

    Article : 510 words
  18. A.I.F. CEMETERIES.

    The representative of the Australian Press Association in Geneva says that Sir Joseph Cook (High Commissioner for Australia) and Lady Cook toured the battlefields in France, ...

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  19. PRIME MINISTER.

    Matters of great interest to business men were discussed at an informal conference which took place yesterday morning between the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and ...

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  20. HIGH SCHOOL FEES.

    The Minister for Public Instruction (Mr. Bruntnell), speaking at a banquet at Auburn Town Hall last night, replied to the criticism levelled at his proposal to impose High school ...

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  21. CASUALTIES. TRAM CONDUCTORS INJURED.

    Frederick Bainbridge, 28, a married man, residing in O'Sullivan-street, Surry Hills, was assaulted on a tram in Elizabeth-street, near King-street, yesterday afternoon. ...

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  22. GERMAN POLITICS.

    A message from Berlin says that a conflict has begun between the Government and Herr Hugo Stinnes. The latter published a stinging article in the "Deutsche Allgemeine ...

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  23. WOOL AND MEAT.

    Mr. James Clark, a leading Queensland pastoralist, speaking of the reduction just made in the freights on wool and meat, said that he had now got figures from New Zealand ...

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  24. POSTAL EMPLOYEE'S DEATH.

    The inquiry into tho death of Frederick Leslie Bell, a postal employee, who fell 85ft or 90ft from a landing on the sixth floor of the G.P.O. on August 21, was resumed at the ...

    Article : 115 words
  25. WIRELESS DIRECTOR.

    Difficulties that have arisen over the appointment of a seventh director of the Amalgamated Wireless Company, Ltd., do not appear to have been overcome yet. There are ...

    Article : 225 words
  26. REPARATIONS.

    Advices from Paris state that Herr Klotz a former Finance Minister, asked M. Poincare if the eventual reduction in Germany's exterior charges mentioned in the Reparation ...

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  27. INDIA AND JAPAN.

    Taking India and Japan as their respective subjects, the Rev. P. A. Micklem and Professor A. L. Sadler, M.A., delivered interesting lectures to the members of the Australian ...

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  28. INFANT MORTALITY.

    The president of the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies (Mr. S. R. Innes-Noad), in endorsing the leading article in Saturday's issue of the "Herald" on the ...

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  29. GIRL KNOCKED DOWN BY RUNAWAY HORSE.

    Ada Loveday 12, who resides in Addison-road. Petersham, was knocked down by a runaway horse in Bent-street, Stanmore, yesterday afternoon. It appears that the horse, ...

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  30. MURDER OF BELGIANS.

    A report from Paris states that the German Government has expressed regret for the murder of the two Belgian soldiers at Obercassel. The police believe they have secured ...

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  31. DEATH ON CRICKET FIELD.

    Whilst playing cricket at Lyncbe's Creek on Saturday Mr. Lawler, when running between the wickets, dropped to the ground, and died in a couple of minutes from heart ...

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  32. THE NEAR EAST.

    A report from Paris states that the Italian Government has been formally requested to convene a Near Eastern Conference, an Anglo-French agreement regarding the terms ...

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  33. BURNT TO DEATH.

    The charred remains of an old man, Harry Hovenden, were found close to the tent in which he lived about half a mile from the Trangie town boundary. The old man, who ...

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  34. PUBLIC SERVICE.

    A meeting of the State Cabinet was held yesterday at the Premier's Office. The meeting was a special one, convened for the purpose of discussing the arbitration proposals ...

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  35. MISSIONARIES FAREWELLED.

    In St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon a farewell service was held in honour of Canon and Mrs. Burns, who will leave to-day on their ...

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  36. AUBURN INDUSTRIES.

    At the invitation of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, members of kindred associations yesterday made a tour of inspection of the industries in Auburn and the ...

    Article : 86 words
  37. SWIMMING THE CHANNEL

    The American Toth, after having been eleven hours in the water, abandoned his task of swimming the Channel when five miles from Grisnez, owing to a strong wind and ...

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  38. TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.

    The bodies of Thomas and Colin Lyons, brothers, aged 14 and 12 years respectively, have been found in Te Aute Lake. They were drowned while boating. A distressing ...

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  39. STREET BETTING.

    Following on a raid upon local bookmakers in Dean-street on Saturday, Henry Thomas, James Kilroy, John Joseph Delaney, Michael William Abbott, and James Long were charged ...

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  40. ATTACKED BT A STALLION.

    Mr. M. Quinn, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Queen-street, Gratton, is lying in hospital in a serious condition. Yesterday evening Mr. Quinn, an elderly man, noticing that the rug ...

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  41. KINGLY KINDNESS.

    His Majesty King George, who is shooting in Scotland, personally assisted the victims of two accidents. The first was a veteran Balmoral ...

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  42. SAFETY DEVICE FOR GUNS.

    Yesterday a demonstration of the Barnard safety gun attachment was given in No. 3 committee room, Parliament House. The attachment is simple in operation, and it is ...

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  43. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    Due to the explosion of a revolver at Botany yesterday two boys, David Clingan, 15, of 97 Bayswater-road, Darlinghurst, and Albert George Arthur Tyler, 15, of 31 Surrey-street, ...

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  44. COST OF LIVING.

    According to figures issued yesterday by the Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith), the general level of food prices during August showed an increase compared with the ...

    Article : 88 words
  45. THOMAS ROSE, FIRST SETTLER.

    Sir,—Mr. Joseph H. Rose, of Picton, takes exception to a statement which appeared in your issue of the 22nd ult., respecting "Thomas Rose, of the Rose and Crown, and of Mount ...

    Article : 242 words
  46. PROTECTION OF NATIVES.

    Representatives of the Society for the Preservation of Native Races, who waited upon the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, at the Commonwealth Bank Building yesterday ...

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  47. ROBBERY AT BATHURST.

    About 2.30 a.m. yesterday morning Miss Eiloon Meagher was awakened by the presence of a man in her bedroom at the residence of her father, Mr. Michael Meagher, in ...

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  48. JAM SHIPMENTS.

    As no indication could be found in either the Federal Estimates or the Budget papers regarding the commitments the Commonwealth entered into last year in respect of ...

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  49. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    News comes from Berlin that Silesia voted against autonomy, and in favour of remaining [?] Prussian province, by 513,126 votes to 50,400. Seventy-four per cent. of the eligible votes ...

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  50. SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    Mr. George Henry Pritchard, secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association, gave evidence to-day before the Federal Joint Committee of Public Accounts, which is ...

    Article : 135 words
  51. THREE MEN MISSING.

    A report received by the police states that four young men, Edgar Rushton, Harold Weight, Victor Green, and K. J. Dickenson, who went out in a sailing boat on Wilson's ...

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  52. QUEENSLAND'S WHEAT CROP.

    Provided there is a satisfactory fall of rain in the near future, the prospects of a record wheat crop of about 5,000,000 bushels thin year, as anticipated in official estimates, will ...

    Article : 88 words
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