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  2. NAVIGATION BILL.

    When the Amending Navigation Bill was under consideration in the House of Representatives to-day the Minister for Customs, Mr. Massy Greene, explained that a request ...

    Article : 636 words
  3. CANBERRA.

    On the consideration of the Loan Bill for Public Works, including an item of £150,000 for works at Canberra, the Senate to-day, following the example set last week by the ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  4. COAL CRISIS. PEACE PROSPECTS.

    The newspapers generally anticipate that no strike will take place without another ballot. It is estimated that a little over another hundred weight of coal is required of each ...

    Article : 346 words
  5. SAMOA.

    Both the white population and the natives are disappointed at the operation of New Zealand's mandate over Samoa, and are imploring, that the country be withdrawn from the ...

    Article : 490 words
  6. GENERAL BIRDWOOD

    Mr. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) presided at the Australian and New Zealand Club's luncheon to General Sir William Birdwood. The company numbered 159, ...

    Article : 661 words
  7. IRISH PROBLEM.

    Viscount Grey's proposal for a settlement of the Irish problem is receiving strong support. For example, the "Times" declares that nothing short of some such policy can lead ...

    Article : 611 words
  8. COAL MINES.

    A further award was issued by the Coal Tribunal yesterday afternoon covering all classes pf adult labour in the coalmining industry. ...

    Article : 504 words
  9. £3,000,000.

    An official intimation of the intention of the New South Wales Government to float a further local loan of £3,000,000 was made by the State Treasurer last night. ...

    Article : 868 words
  10. JAPAN AND U.S.A.

    The Tokio correspondent of the United Press states that the Foreign Office, when interviewed, stated that Japan is considering the appointment of a High Commission as a ...

    Article : 209 words
  11. FEDERAL SESSION. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    The Treasurer, Sir Joseph Cook, informed Mr. Muck[?]y (Q.) in the House of Representatives to-day that the question of paying old-age and invalid [?]sions to the treasures of the ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. STATE SESSION.

    The Legislative Assembly sat all night on Thursday debating the Government.s bill granting re-registration in the State Arbitration Court to a number of uuions which had ...

    Article : 141 words
  13. N.R.A. MEETING.

    The National Rifle Association's meeting, to be opened on Friday, October 22. at the Anzac Rifle Range at Liverpool, will be of special interest because of the presence of ...

    Article : 353 words
  14. FIRE IN CALVESTON.

    A message from Galveston (Texas) says that a serious fire has occurred on the waterfront, and two piers have been destroyed. The British steamers Hornby Castle, Gloria ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. BUNBURY LUMPERS.

    The Bunbury lumpers have refused to lead the Japanese steamer Yechigo Maru with timber on the ground that it is a foreig[?] vessel competing in the interstate trade. The vessel ...

    Article : 106 words
  16. THE SENATE.

    In the Senate to-day the Vice-President of the Executive Council (Senator Russell) stated that the Treasurer was prepared to make provision so that blind persons might earn more ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. ITALY.

    [?]gnor Gio[?]tti, Premier of Italy, has brought in an urgency bill to disarm the civil population. It ordains six months' imprisonment for anyone carrying firearms. ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. INFLATED CURRENCY

    "It is perhaps rather humorous that there should be any controversy as to depreciation of our currency when, in 17 months, we have purchased £6,340,723 of it for £4,974,217 in ...

    Article : 391 words
  19. THE CONSTITUTION.

    Speaking in the Assembly on a motion by Mr. Young for the appointment of an [?]terstate convention to consider the Federal Constitution with a view of revising and ...

    Article : 313 words
  20. BRITISH FINANCES.

    Whereas, the six months ended September 30 last year showed a large excess of expenditure over revenue, the corresponding returas to September 30 this year indicate a ...

    Article : 82 words
  21. MOORE-STREET.

    The Lord Mayor stated yesterday that the question ef Moore-street extension will come before the City Council at its meeting on Tuesday evening, and that it will then be open ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. BRUSSELS CONFERENCE.

    The correspondent of the Australian Press interviewed Sir James Allen (High Commissioner for New Zealand), who has relumed from Brussels. He staten that the ...

    Article : 121 words
  23. FEDERAL REVENUE.

    If the returns of Commonwealth revenue for the three months ended on September 30 are any criterion, the Treasurer's estimate for the financial year 1920-21 are likely to be ...

    Article : 186 words
  24. PRICE-CUTTING.

    The Federal Reserve Board says that pricecutting has taken such a hold of wholesalers that substantial benefits to the consumer will be felt at an early date. The great wave is ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. THE UNIVERSITY.

    It was announced at yesterday's annual meeting of the Sydney University Union that the senate had granted the request for extensions to the union premises, and it was ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. THE TERRITORY.

    "We have long been urging the necessity for beginning the North-South raliway," said the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Barwell), when interviewed yesterday. "We are naturally ...

    Article : 237 words
  27. H.M.S. RENOWN.

    H.M.S. Renown will be paid off at the earliest possible moment after arrival, and will net be recommissioned. ...

    Article : 27 words
  28. BASIC WAGE.

    When the Board of Trade renumed ita inquiry into the basic wage yesterday Mr. H. R. Lee (representing the Metalliferous Mines and Metals' Association aud the Country Traders' ...

    Article : 343 words
  29. GIRLS' CAMPAIGN.

    The weekly luncheon of the workers for the Girls' Month Campaign was held at Sargent's yesterday, and the returns, as they were reported by each of the organisere, called forth ...

    Article : 261 words
  30. CHURCH UNITY.

    The Assembly of the Congregational Union has passed a resolution expressing its appreciation of the brotherly spirit which breathed through the Lambeth Conference's ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. DINNER TO THE PRINCE.

    Mr. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia, and Sir Timothy Coghlan, Acting Agent-General for N.S.W., have fallen into line With the majority of Agents-General, who ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. MISSING AIRMEN.

    In consequence of a further report that rockets which appeared to be Verey lights were seen in the vicinity of St. Helen's Point, on the north-east coast of Tasmania, on ...

    Article : 222 words
  33. BARRIER AWARD.

    Opinions of unionists regarding Judge Edmunds's award are very divided. Some members of the Miners' Union regard the position favourably as indicating there has been a ...

    Article : 335 words
  34. FAMINE IN CHINA.

    An appeal is being made throughout the world to relieve the distress caused by the famine now raging in China, due to the failure of the summer crops. The outlook for the ...

    Article : 160 words
  35. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Sir Eyre Crowe (Assistant Under-Secretary of State) has been appointed Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in succession to Lord Hardinge. ...

    Article : 192 words
  36. AMERICAN LABOUR

    The American Federation of Labour, in a statement in its official organ, has declared its independence of radical and revolutionary European Labour movements, repudiates ...

    Article : 76 words
  37. NEW POSTAL RATES.

    A special "Commonwealth Gazette" was issued to-night proclaiming the operation of the new Post and Telegraph Rates Bill, which passed Parliament and received the assent of ...

    Article : 229 words
  38. LIQUOR DUTIES.

    Mr. J. D. Durham (secretary of the U.L.V.A. of N.S.W.) stated yesterday that the various State branches of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of Australia have forwarded to ...

    Article : 184 words
  39. HORSE MAIMING.

    After Percy Geyer, of Mile End, had drives his horse some distance, yesterday he discovered in its neck a cut about 6 inches long and an inch deep. The animal is expected to ...

    Article : 69 words
  40. U.S.A. CENSUS.

    The Census Bureau has issued a statement to the effect that the United States is not growing as rapidly as was expected. The population increase during the period 1910-20 is ...

    Article : 69 words
  41. QUEENSLAND FINANCES.

    The Treasurer's comparative statement for the quarter ended September 30 discloses that the excess of expenditure over revenue was £65,590, despite a considerable increase in ...

    Article : 112 words
  42. NEW ZEALAND.

    Negotiations in connection with the dispute regarding the enginedri[?]ers at the Pukemiro coalmine having broken down, a serious pos[?] tion arises, with the possibilities of ...

    Article : 85 words
  43. IDLE QUARRIES.

    The quarrict and works of Dunstan and Son, Limited, Burnside, which supply numbers of municipalition, the Tramway Trust, builders, and others with stone products, closed down ...

    Article : 57 words
  44. PNEUMONIC INFLUENZA AT NAURU.

    A severe epidemic of pneumonic influen[?] has been raging in the Island of Nauru, according to [?] received there. Thirty-one white men and 500 natives were suffering from ...

    Article : 66 words
  45. BUILDING OF ZEPPELINS.

    Reports from Berlin received in Paris state that the Zeppelin Company has agreed with an American syndicate to transfer to the United States the construction of dirigibles ...

    Article : 59 words
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