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  2. SOLDIERS' LAND.

    Mr. Justice Street, as Royal Commissioner investigating the administration of the soldiers' settlement branch of the Lands Department, heard further evidence yesterday. ...

    Article : 392 words
  3. GENEVA.

    Two very important statements were made to-day, by the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, at a meeting that was held of Ministerial supporters. The first announcement was that: ...

    Article : 549 words
  4. SCENE IN ASSEMBLY.

    The tense feelings of members of the Legislative Assembly broke out into flagrant disorder last night. On the motion for adjournment, Captain ...

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  5. RACE PROBLEMS.

    "The Americans have a wonderful opinion of us, and to be an Australian is quite a mark of distinction," said the Rev. Ernest Davies, president of the Congregational Union ...

    Article : 492 words
  6. LATE CABLE NEWS FATAL EXPLOSION.

    A Tokio message states that live were killed, nine fatally injured, and others slightly wounded by the premature explosion of a shell aboard the Japanese battle-cruiser Haruna ...

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  7. EMPIRE AFFAIRS.

    The Australian Press Association learns authoritatively that the Imperial Conference will not be held in Canada in 1921. The Colonial Office is desirous of perpetuating a ...

    Article : 288 words
  8. COAL. MINERS' DEMANDS.

    The publication of the official figures revealing the last quarter's mining profits has perturbed trade union circles and destroyed the miners' contention that there is a disposable ...

    Article : 561 words
  9. FEDERAL SESSION.

    In the House of Representatives to-day comparatively little interest was taken in the New Guinea Bill, which provides for the acceptance of the mandate over the former ...

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  10. JAPAN AND AMERICA.

    A report from Marion (Ohio) states that Senator Harding conferred with Governor Stephens, of California. Mr. Stephens said: "California looks to the Federal Government ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. CANADIAN TARIFF.

    A message from Winnipeg states that the Canadian Manufacturers' Association has urged the Government to revise the tariff in the direction of a stable fiscal policy of ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. POLITICAL PRISONERS IN U.S.A.

    The "New York Times" correspondent in Washington states that, despite the pleas of Mr. Gompers and members of the Socialist party, Mr. Palmer (Federal Attorney-General) ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The draft scheme for the institution of a permanent Court of Internatioual Justice has been published by the League of Nations. The scheme, which appears in a ...

    Article : 518 words
  14. 44-HOUR WEEK.

    Alderman Burke, M.L.A., at the finance committee of the City Council yesterday, moved that a 44-hour week, with no Saturday work, with the exception of sh[?] work, be made ...

    Article : 490 words
  15. GENERAL CABLES.

    A Chicago message states that the Federal Justice has reaffirmed the sentence passed on Jack Johnson, the pugilist, in 1913— namely, one year in prison and a 1000 ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. AMERICAN SCHOONER.

    Late on Tuesday evening the Lighthouse Department at Port Adelaide received a telegram from the keeper of the Cape Willoughby lighthouse stating that the four-masted schooner ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. POLAND.

    Advices have reached Copenhagen from Helsingfors that Trotsky is planning a great winter campaign against the Poles. New Red armies are being organised in the ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. BOLSHEVIK MONEY.

    The board of directors of the "Daily Herald" to-day declined the offer of £75,000 from the Third International (Moscow), and accepted the resignation from the board of Mr. Francis ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. MONDAY'S BREAD.

    The Master Bakers' Association and the Bread Carters' Union waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday and naked that the Act which prohibits night baking be amended as ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. IRRITATION STRIKE.

    All work has been stopped in the State coalmines as an "irritation" strike to compel the Government to accede to the demand to replace the men dismissed owing to the ...

    Article : 106 words
  21. BARRIER STRIKE.

    When the Broken Hill strike tribunal resumed yesterday Mr. Justice Edmunds said: There are many things which both side agree must absolutely be done. ...

    Article : 592 words
  22. SINN FEIN.

    A Sinn Fein balance-sheet and report, prepared by the "Irish Republic Finance Mininer," states: "Although we have heard of considerable sums being in the hands of our ...

    Article : 68 words
  23. Y.W.C.A. APPEAL.

    The gift of Kodak (Australia) Limited of £260 to the fund for the erection of the girls' central building was received by the Y.W.C.A. campaign committee yesterday. ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. CHILDREN'S DAY.

    All roads led to the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday for the school children of the metropolitan area. The occasion was the annual sports meeting of the Public Schools' ...

    Article : 264 words
  25. IMMIGRATION.

    New Zealand emigration officials in London discount the Colonial Office report on openings for women workers in New Zealand. They say the report discloses nothing not known. ...

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  26. SIR THOMAS EWING.

    Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing, K.C.M.G., a former Minister for Defence of the Commonwealth, died at a private hospital at Darlinghurst yesterday. He was born at Pitt ...

    Article : 251 words
  27. IRISH LOYALISTS.

    The proposed formation of an armed citizen force in Ireland is much debated. The Government's idea is to put the restoration and preservation of order in Irish hands as largely as ...

    Article : 161 words
  28. GRASS TREE GUM.

    The Premier (Mr. Theodore) has received the following cable from the Agent-General for Queensland:—"Mr. Strivens, representing a company interested in grass tree gum, has ...

    Article : 100 words
  29. U.S. PRESIDENCY.

    A message from Marton (Ohio) says that Senator Harding (Republican candidate for the Presidency), in a speech to the California delegation, said he believed the Oriental racial ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. RECENT STRIKE.

    The amalgamated engineers, boilermakers, and stovemakers will present themselves for work at the private shops and the Government and private dockyards this morning. ...

    Article : 222 words
  31. CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

    The match between the champion county (Middlesex) and the Rest of England was contined yesterday, Middlesex being all out for 318. Bowling: Wilson, four for 41; Douglas, ...

    Article : 135 words
  32. ANOTHER £60,000.

    A section of the municipal fruit market is reserved for the storage and freezing of rabbits. For some months there have been proposals before the City Council for the ...

    Article : 355 words
  33. JOHN McCORMACK.

    The newspapers publish a cable from Mr. John McCormack, saying that he wants to sing in London, because he knows that British audiences will receive him or his merits ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. TOWN HALL.

    The finance committee of the City Council yesterday considered applications on behalf of the State Conservatorium for the use of the Town Hall for a series of ...

    Article : 118 words
  35. THE SENATE.

    In the Senate to-day the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Russell, in reply to Senator Gardiner (N.S.W.), said that clerical officers of the Sydney G.P.O. whose ...

    Article : 276 words
  36. MESOPOTAMIA.

    A War Office communique from Mesopotamia mentions the employment of a mountain gun at a range of 700 yards as being very effective in repulsing nocturnal ...

    Article : 97 words
  37. FRENCH PRESIDENT.

    A message from Paris states that the resignation of President Deschanel, who has been suffering from ill-health for some time, is regarded as certain. The summoning of the ...

    Article : 39 words
  38. LONDON INFLUENCE.

    The Premier, Mr. Theodore, speaking at South Brisbane, said he had to admit quite candidly that heretofore our Government had always been subject in London to certain secret ...

    Article : 143 words
  39. IMPERIAL COMMERCE.

    Oversea delegates to the Imperial Congress of Chambers of Commerce, to be opened in Toronto on the 18th inst., are arriving by each incoming steamer. One hundred landed in ...

    Article : 57 words
  40. A FREE NATION.

    When the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, visited the annual conference of the National Federation at Geelong to-day he had a rousing reception from delegates and citizens. Mr. ...

    Article : 146 words
  41. AUSTRALIAN CHEESE.

    The cheese importers, who contracted for [?] purchase of 1500 tons of Queensland cheese [?] per lb. f.o.b., are now willing to increase the price by a halfpenny, as the ...

    Article : 61 words
  42. THE SEAMEN.

    The dispute between the Federated Seamen's Union and the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Limited, was settled yesterday. Mr. Raeburn (secretary to the Sydney branch ...

    Article : 69 words
  43. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Dr. St. Hamer, Germany's representative in Britain, has now been appointed Ambassador. A message from Paris states that a fire at the Dunlop Company's works caused damage ...

    Article : 72 words
  44. ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    Electoral lists (which after revision will become the electoral roll) for the year 1920 relating to the following State electoral disstricts are now on exhibition at every ...

    Article : 55 words
  45. CHINESE FACTIONS.

    According to a message from Peking, an unverified report from Hongkong states that the anti-millitarist forces under General Chan Ching Ming captured Waicbow, and are ...

    Article : 45 words
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