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  2. WHEAT.

    The Legislative Council rejected the Wheat Marketing Bill last night by 52 votes to 19. Mr. Kavanagh, as the representative of the ...

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  3. AN APPEAL.

    New South Wales always responds to a worthy cause, and I feel confident that the Warriors' Day appeal will commend itself to the people of this fain State. ...

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  4. ARMISTICE DAY.

    For two minutes to-day the widely-separated parts of the British Empire will be bushed in solemn quiet in memory of the heroic dead. ...

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  5. BUSH FIRES.

    Reports from the outlying districts received in Cobar yesterday indicate that the grass fires are not so fierce as they were a few days ago. The extent of the fires has been ...

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  6. WASHINGTON.

    The Washington correspondent of the United Press learns that President Harding, in his opening speech at the Disarmament Conference, may announce the suspension of all ...

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  7. APPOINTED.

    At to-day's meeting of the Ministerial supporters in the Senate and House of Representatives the Prime Minister announced that the Cabinet had asked the Treasurer, Sir ...

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  8. LATE CABLE NEWS

    The receipts for the year of the Pacific Cable Board totalled £633,313, of which £620,051 was from traffic. After placing £245,000 to the reserve and ...

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  9. WAR'S AFTERMATH.

    At the Guildhall banquet last night the Marquis of Curzon (Foreign Secretary), proposing the toast of the Ambassadors, said: "The war has left many ups and downs. It ...

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  10. MR. HUGHES'S MESSAGE.

    The Prime Minister, in making a special appeal to-night on behalf of returned soldiers who are out of employment, stated that the serious character of existing conditions called ...

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  11. IRISH CRISIS.

    Some quarters continue to profess to hope that the Ulstermen after making a, final protest will compromise more or less on the lines submitted by Mr. Lloyd George. They ...

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  12. BRITISH FINANCE.

    Sir Robert Horne (Chancellor of the Exchequer), reviewing the financial outlook, stated in the House of Commons that already the £97,000,000 which was relied upon to balance ...

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  13. A FORGERY.

    The Foreign Office informs the Australian Press Association that the alleged secret Turco-British Treaty, published in the "Matin," is a stale forgery. It is ...

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  14. NEW STATE.

    At a meeting of the South Coast League, held here, and attended by delegates from Nowra and all centres from there to the Victorian border, it was decided to ...

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  15. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES £1000.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, informed Mr. Walter Marks, M.P., acting president of the Warriors' Day Committee, to-night that the Commonwealth ...

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  16. RAIN EXPECTED.

    According to a forecast issued by the State Meteorologist (Mr. D. J. Mares) yesterday, general rain is likely to fall ofer the whole State within the next 48 hours. The rain will ...

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  17. SYDNEY FERRIES.

    Intervention on the part of the Government in regard to the ferries formed the subject of a deputation to Mr. M'Tiernan (Attorney-General) at Parliament House last ...

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  18. DEFENCE.

    An explanatory statement regarding the defence estimates, prepared under the direction of the Minister of Defence, was tabled in the House of Representatives. It was the ...

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  19. SAVE THE CHILDREN.

    Lord Weardale, chairman of the Save the Children Fund, writing from London on October 4, makes the following appeal:- You are probably aware that in Australia ...

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  20. THE MARK REACTS.

    On exchange, the mark reacted sensationally to-day from 1250 to £1 quoted yesterday. It closed at 950 to £1. NEW YORK, Nov. 9. ...

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  21. UNEMPLOYED.

    The Director of Labour Exchanges stated last night that at the end of September last he estimated that the number of unemployed in the metropolitan area was not fewer than ...

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  22. HUNGARIAN CROWN.

    A Budapest message reports that the Assembly carried the third reading of the Crown Forfeiture Bill. Only 70 out of 220 present voted, the antl-Karlists abstaining as a ...

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  23. THE KANGAROOS.

    The Australasian football team played a match against Bramley this afternoon. The team comprised:—Norman, Blinkhorn, Craig, Vest, Horder, Capies, Johnston, Schultz, ...

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  24. THE STAGE.

    "It is only left to the stage to produce the literature of insignificance," said Professor Christopher Brennan, of the University of Sydney, in a caustic and humorous address on ...

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  25. THE PLAGUE.

    Although numerous rats were caught yesterday, none was found to be infected with plague. Dr. Armstrong, Director-General of Public Health, said last night that the ...

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  26. SERBIAN YOKE.

    The latest news received in Rome from Albania is of the gravest character. The Montenegrins, taking advantage of the SerbianAlbanian conflict, have risen in an effort to ...

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  27. NOW A VOLUNTARY POOL.

    Mr. A. K, Trethowan, M.L.C., immediately after the defeat or the Wheat Marketing Bill in the Legislative Council last night, said:- "The farmers will now avail themselves ...

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  28. RAILWAY SLEEPERS.

    A deputation which waited on the secretary for railways yesterday urged that the construction of the Griffith-Hillston railway line be extended an additional 14 miles from the ...

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  29. UNKNOWN WARRIOR.

    The "New York Times" correspondent in washington states that unprecedented impressivencss marked the conveyance of the body of the American unknown soldier from the ...

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  30. MR. JOWETT, M.P.

    Members of the Federal Country party at a meeting held to-day discussed at length the question of overseas markets for Australian produces. The following resolution was ...

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  31. BATTLEFIELD GRAVES.

    Sir Laming Worthington Evans (Secretary for War) stated that since the Armistice the whole of the battlefield area in France and Flanders had been systematically searched ...

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  32. HOTEL POSTER'S DEATH.

    At the Central Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. Jennings, S.M., Darcoy Edgar Jackson, aged 23, a taxi cab driver, was charged with tho murder of Alphonsus James ...

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  33. BISHOP NEWTON.

    The Bishop of Carpentaria, the Right Rev. Henry Newton, has accepted the Bishopric of New Guinea, taking over the duties at the end of January. Bishop Newton, who is a ...

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  34. COMMENTS ON TEST MATCH.

    Press comments on the Test match dwell on Collins' defective strategy in declaring too late, thus giving the South Africans a chance of forcing a draw. It is generally agreed that ...

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  35. FORTUNE-TELLING.

    It was decided by the Chief Justice (Sir George Murray), on the hearing of an appeal case, that the telling of fortunes was a punishable offence, notwithstanding that the ...

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  36. ASYLUM SCANDAL.

    Questioned in the House of Commons, Mr. Ian M'Pherson declined to institute an inquiry into the allegations that more than 6000 exservice men, mental cases, were confined in ...

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  37. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Cecil Harmsworth (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) stated in the House of Commons that, in accordance with the Brussels Conference decisions, France has voted Russia ...

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  38. GOLD YIELD.

    The Sute gold yield for the expired portion of this year shows a considerable increase compared with the corresponding period of last year, though the figures for last month ...

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  39. GOULBURN SYNOD.

    The synod adopted the interim report of the diocesan boundaries commission, and the report of the informal conference of Goulburn and Riverina churchmen. It also asked ...

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  40. WEEK-END CABLES.

    The Pacific Cable Board announces that the Atlantic Cable, by which the "week-end" rate messages are transmitted, has been restored. "Week-end" rate messages for the United ...

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  41. FREIGHT RATES.

    It was announced to-day by the Overseas Shipping Representatives that the freight on rabbitskins and furkins to the United Kingdom had been reduced to 2d a pound. The ...

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  42. FIRE AT EMMAVILLE.

    Last night' a big fire occurred here. The fire originated in the Empire Refreshment Rooms, about 1.45 a.m. The place was totally destroyed. The fire then extended to ...

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  43. UPPER HOUSE ABOLITION BILL.

    A proclamation was issued to-day notifying that the Legislative Council Abolition Bill had been reserved by the Government for the, King's assent under the Australian States ...

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  44. JAPANESE DEFICIT.

    A message from Tokio states that the Finance Minister, Viscount Takahashi, has informed the cabinet that Japan faces a deficit of 30,000,000 yon for the Dresent year. ...

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