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  2. INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE.

    The conference called by the Prime Minister to deal with the industrial outlook was opened yesterday and adjourned until this afternoon. A friendly note characterised this momentous assemblage of nearly 40 delegates, representative of capital and labour practically throughout Australia. ...

    Article : 140 words
  3. BRITISH TRADE.

    British firms doing business in Australia are strongly opposed to the abolition of the Department of Oversea Trade, as is recommended by the Geddes' Commission. The ...

    Article : 195 words
  4. STRIKE VIOLENCE.

    A Johannesburg message states that the commande system among the strikers is resolving itself into terrorism. Several alleged "scabs" have been kidnapped ...

    Article : 105 words
  5. RAILWAY THREAT.

    The proposed "regulation strike" in the railway service decided on by the annual conference of the Australian Railway Union has been declared "off." ...

    Article : 393 words
  6. IRELAND.

    About 3000 delegates attended the Sinn Foin Congress known as the Ardiheis. Mr. do Valera, who presided, invited the meeting to decide whether the vote on the Treaty should ...

    Article : 786 words
  7. STRIKES.

    Before the war the Sulphide Corporation, Ltd., raised and treated in normal years about 200,000 tons per annum. In the financial year 1916, when, owing to a miners' strike, ...

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  8. LATE CABLE NEWS

    Mr. De Valera, at the Sinn Fein Congress, known as the Ardfheis, announces that a split has been averted. The meeting adjourned for two months. The ...

    Article : 45 words
  9. PRINCE IN INDIA.

    The Prince of Wales arrived here this morning for a three days' visit, which is in the nature of a rest after his heavy week in Delhi. The usual ceremonial visits were ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. LABOUR DISPUTES.

    In rejecting Mr. Hertzog's motion to appoint a permanent body to decide industrial disputes, the Premier, General Smuts, in the House of Assembly, this afternoon, said the ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. GUN-ALLEY CRIME.

    An attempt to prove an alibi, chiefly by showing that the accused man was at home at the times when he is alleged to have been near the locality, was made to-day by the defence ...

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  12. COLOMBO TEA SALES.

    The tea sales to-day totalled 1,250,000lb. There was a fair selection, and the quality, with few exceptions, showed signs of falling off. There was not the same activity and ...

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  13. DELEGATES OVERCROWDED.

    The conference was opened in one of the rooms in the Commonwealth Bank buildings frequently occupied by Parliamentary select committees and commissions. Into it poured ...

    Article : 500 words
  14. GENOA CONFERENCE.

    A message from Paris states that the Government has requested Italy to postpone the Genoa Conference for three weeks. ...

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  15. STRIKERS KILLED.

    At Pawtucket (Rhode Island) the police fired on a crowd of textile strikers before the Jonckes Spinning Company's mills, following their refusal to disperse. ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. "A JUST PEACE IN THE ORIENT."

    A Paris message says: M. Bouillon, who concluded the Angora agreement, writing to the "Matin" regarding the conditions of a just peace in the Orient, says that Smyrna ...

    Article : 129 words
  17. "FOOLING THE WORKER."

    The deputy leador of the Opposition (Mr. Oakes) referred yesterday to the railway and tramway strike of 1917, and to Mr. Justice Edmunds's report. Mr. Oakes said: "Just ...

    Article : 567 words
  18. MARRIAGE PROBLEM.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in Berlin states that social conditions are so changed that a serious marriage orisis has arisen. The better class professional and ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. SYDNEY ASTRONOMERS.

    It is proposed to have an expedition, composed of ten or twelve members of the New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association, to observe the total celipse of ...

    Article : 189 words
  20. AIRSHIP DISASTER.

    A message from Norfolk (Virginal) states that the United States army's Italian-built airship Roma was destroyed to-day, when she crashed down and exploded over the Norfolk ...

    Article : 345 words
  21. VERDUN ANNIVERSARY.

    A Paris message states that the sixth anniversary of the Battle of Verdun was the occasion of a touching ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides. General Petain remitted the ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. THE PLAGUE.

    Two more rats and a mouse suffering from the plague were found yesterday. One rat was discovered in the Liverpool-street area, and the other, together with, the mouse, was ...

    Article : 372 words
  23. MR. HUGHES'S ADDRESS.

    Mr. Hughes, at the outset, thanked the gathering for the response which had been made to the invitation. Here the Prime Minister was interrupted by ...

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  24. OIL PROSPECTTNG.

    Dr. Jensen, Government Geologist, in a report on the oil prospects of the Tambo[?] district, expresses the view that so [?] as available evidence goes the geological ...

    Article : 146 words
  25. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. Austen Chamberlain, addressing a meeting of the central council of the National Unionist Council, which was called to discuss the Conservative party's future policy, ...

    Article : 431 words
  26. ZINC CONCENTRATES.

    There was a debate in the House of Commons on a supplementary estimate of £601,200 to cover the estimated loss on concentrates and spelter purchased in Australia. The ...

    Article : 200 words
  27. MANNING STEAMERS.

    In a review of the work of the N.S.W. manning committee appointed under section 424 of the Commonwealth Navigation Act. issued yesterday by the Deputy Director of ...

    Article : 186 words
  28. BEACH MYSTERY.

    The City Coroner (Mr. Jamieson) held an inquest yesterday regarding the finding of humun remains, supposed to be those of Norman Whitley, 22, a surveyor, who dinappeared ...

    Article : 288 words
  29. ROYAL WEDDING.

    Princess Mary's bridal gown consists of an underdress of woven silver cloth, with a marquisette overdress of tullo, embroldered with pearls and silver thread, the latter being a ...

    Article : 277 words
  30. RUSSIAN FAMINE.

    Sir Beujamin Robertson, the Indian famine expert, who went to Russia on behalf of the Red Cross Society, has returned. He confirms Sir Philip Gibbs's harrowing stories, ...

    Article : 133 words
  31. CASUALTIES.

    Passongers on the tram, while passing Lyne Park yesterday morning, were horrified to ace a man standing in the water at Rode Bay, cutting at his throat with a penknife. ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. EX-GERMAN PROPERTIES.

    Rogulations have been issued by the Federal Executive Council, under the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act, 1919-1920, by virtue of which the properties taken over from their late ...

    Article : 226 words
  33. FELL UNDER A TRAIN.

    In attempting to rejoin a train at Zillmere this morning, Alfred Piles, 45, married, of Sandgate, slipped and fell under the guard's van. His left leg was almost severed between ...

    Article : 46 words
  34. REMARKABLE TOW.

    A Durban message reports that a remarkable tow was accomplished by the Swedish steamer Unden, bound for Australia, which towed the sailer Garthforce, also bound for ...

    Article : 70 words
  35. EUROPE'S ECONOMICS.

    The meeting of the Inter-Allied Committee to draft a scheme for the economic reconstruction of Europe prior to the Genon Conference was opened in London yesterday. British, ...

    Article : 81 words
  36. AUSTRALIAN TARIFF.

    The Sheffield Chamber of Commerce gave a luncheon to Sir Joseph Cook (High Commissioner for Australia), who advised those British manufacturers troubled by the ...

    Article : 60 words
  37. GERALD RIVIERE.

    Gerald De La Riviere, who absconded from his ball in London in December, when charged with obtaining £1000 by a confidence trick from an engineer namod Watkins, has been ...

    Article : 70 words
  38. MOTOR VEHICLES COLLIDE.

    A collision between a motor lorry and a motor car in Boomerang-street yesterday morning resulted in Captain Charles Green sustaining a fracture of the left leg and ...

    Article : 80 words
  39. WAR GRAVES.

    The imperial War Graves Commission to-day aacepted the Commonwealth's offer to undertake the constraction and maintenance of war cemeteries and the care of war graves in ...

    Article : 68 words
  40. AMERICA AND JAPAN.

    A message from San Francisco states that Admiral Kato, addressing the Japanese Society in America, said he believed the moral and educational value attached to the ...

    Article : 101 words
  41. CHILD IMMIGRATION.

    At the council meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society to-day, the president, Mr. J. Wallace Sandford, reported that the council had given consideration to a communication ...

    Article : 126 words
  42. THE PACIFIC TREATY.

    Senator Brandegee offered the Foreign Relations Committee on the Pacific Treaty his reservations, stipulating—firstly, that the United States is not under an obligation ...

    Article : 111 words
  43. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (Unionist) has been returned unopposed for North Down. Scores in the Inman and M'Connchy billiard match are:—M'Conachy (receives 2000) ...

    Article : 88 words
  44. VIOLENT STORM IN TASMANIA.

    A Storm of unprecedented fury broke over the west coast at midday yesterday, 80 points of rain falling. The gale ripped verandahs off the houses. A five-ton cattle waggon was ...

    Article : 70 words
  45. LAWN TENNIS.

    The United States Lawn Tennis Association has received requests from France and Czecho-Slavakia to include them in the draw for challengers for the Davis Cup, which will be made ...

    Article : 76 words
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