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  2. FEDERAL SESSION.

    Such slow progress was made in the Senate with the War Gratuity Bill last week that it will again be before senators when Federal Parliament meets on Wednesday. In the ...

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  3. 44 HOURS.

    The Building Trades' Employees' Federation's annual picnic was held on Saturday at The Avenue, Lane Cove River. Speeches were delivered affirming that the men were ...

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  4. BROKEN HILL STRIKE.

    The conference concerning the Broken Hill industrial dispute between the mining companies and delegates from various trades unions will be resumed in Melbourne on ...

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  5. HAWAIIAN BANQUET.

    The feast given to the Prince of Wales at Honolulu, which is called the Royal Luau, is reserved exclusively for Royalty. It contained a feature which had not been ...

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  6. IRISH POLICY.

    The "Evening Standard" states on high authority, that the Government has received Lord French's resignation from the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His decision is final. ...

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  7. SUPREME COUNCIL.

    Monday's Inter-Allied Conference at San Remo is arousing the keenest interest. Paris messages state that the British have drafted a stern Note to Germany domanding ...

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  8. GERMAN CRISIS

    A Paris report states that Mr. Lloyd George sent a wireless message to M. Millerand confirming Britain's intention to reintroduce the blockade in the event of another ...

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  9. M'CAWLEY CASE.

    In a letter received by the Crown Solicitor, Mr. W. F. Webb, from Messrs. Freshfields and Leese, the Queensland Government's solicitors in London, the view is expressed that the ...

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  10. WOMEN'S CLAIMS.

    At a meeting of the council of the Government Service Women's Federation on Saturday it was decided to urge the Commomvealth Government to apply the £6 war bonus ...

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  11. SCHOOLS' REGATTA.

    The Great Public Schools' rowing championships, which for years have been held on a Wednesday, took place on Saturday on the Parramatta River. It will be a memorable ...

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  12. PEACE OF EUROPE.

    A Paris message states that the Belgian War Minister informed the Brussels correspondent of the "Journal" that a military alliance between England, France, and ...

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  13. HOLIDAY PAY.

    Representatives of the Public Works employees on strike owing to the dispute about holiday pay met the Minister for Works (Mr. George) on Friday, and discussed the ...

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  14. STARVING AUSTRIA.

    A message from Rome says that Italy is advancing Austria 20,000 tons of wheat, to be repaid after the arrival of American and Australian wheat, as Austria is on the point of ...

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  15. VICTORIAN PRINTERS' STRIKE.

    A meeting of the Sydney commercial printing employees was held on the 8th inst., to consider the strike of the Victorian commercial printing employees for higher wages and, ...

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  16. PAPUAN MISSIONS.

    The London Missionary Society has transferred from the London committee to an Austraiasian committee the work of administering the Papuan Missions. The society out here ...

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  17. THE FAR EAST.

    A message from Tokio states that the Japanese hold all the important centres [?] Eastern Siberia, except Kahbarovsk, which is being besiged. Many Russians have escaped ...

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  18. MINERS' BALLOT.

    The miners, by a majority of 65,000 votes, have accepted the Government's offer. The Yorkshire miners voted largely in favour of peace. ...

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  19. COTTON CRISIS.

    The leaders of the Lancashire cotton spinners' card-room workers, who are demanding a 60 per cent, increase in wages, refused the employers' offer of arbitration, and terminated ...

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  20. VOTING MACHINES.

    Ex-Senator J. Stewart, who was a Labour stalwart for many years and who is contesting the Keppel plebiscite in the National interest, in a letter to the Press says: "I wonder ...

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  21. POLICE KEEP WATCH.

    Fearing an attempt to break into the Brooklyn post-office, the police took special precautions last Friday. Acting on instructions from Detective-Inspectors Leary and Fowler, ...

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  22. DESERT TRAGEDY.

    Lieut. Pruvust, commander of a search party which found General La Perrlne, who was killed in the Sahara, narrates a tragic story. General La Perrlne and two companions were ...

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  23. GERMAN SHIPS.

    An Amsterdam report states that the Shiping Congress at Bremen carried a resolution protesting against the recent surrender of German steamers to the Allies, adding that ...

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  24. EUROPEAN RUSSIA.

    A message from Paris states that the Russian Commissary of Foreign Affairs has sent a wireless message to M. Millerand asking the Allies to intervene in peace negotiations ...

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  25. BOAT CAPSIZES.

    A sailing boat capsized in Botany Bay on Saturday, and as its two occupants are still missing it is supposed that they have been drowned. ...

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  26. THE CANCER SCOURGE.

    A meeting of the Court of Governors of the Middlesex Hospital agreed on the amalgamation of the Cancer Research Department and the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology, with ...

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  27. MUNITIONS ESTIMATES.

    In the House of Commons on the Ministry of Munitions estimates, Mr. F. Hope (Financial Secretary) stated that at the end of the financial year the Ministry would have handed ...

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  28. TIMBER TRADE.

    During the hearing in the Arbitration Court of the Australian Timber Workers' Union's plaint claiming shorter hours and improved conditions from John Sharp and Sons and ...

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  29. THE PROGRESSIVES.

    Mr. G. S. Beeby, deputy leader of the Progressives and a member for Murray, addressed a meeting of his supporters to-night. Mr. Beeby said the first action of the Sydney ...

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  30. MONARCHIST PLOTTERS.

    A Berlin message states that the Monarchist leaders, Generals Luttwitz and Bischoff, have teen arrested. They are being taken to Leip[?]ig with a number of conspirators. They ...

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  31. LIQUOR TEADES.

    Nearly 2000 members of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union attended the twelfth annual picnic at Clifton Gardens on Saturday. Mr. John McInnes, ...

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  32. TWO MEN CHARGED.

    At the Hornsby Police Court on Saturday morning John M'Donald, aged 39, an electrical engineer, residing at 32 Challis-street, Marrockville, and Ernest Kenneth Drury, 30, a ...

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  33. U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE.

    The railway authorities have issued an ultimatum to the workers to return to work by noon on Sunday. Men returning to work will be reinstated immediately. However, the ...

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  34. POSTAL EMPLOYEES.

    The recent criticism of the Post and Telegraph Department by Mr. J. Perry, M.L.C., was referred to at the last committee meeting of the N.S.W. branch of the Post and ...

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  35. MEXICAN REVOLT.

    Mexico has asked the United States for permission to move troops in American terriery in order to attack the revolting State of Sonora, on the northern frontier. It is ...

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  36. LOSS OF THE CARAWA.

    It is feared that the Commonwealth liner Carawa will be a total loss on Galapagos. The crew will probably land at Guayaquil. ...

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  37. PRICE OF SUGAR.

    The Food Ministry foreshadows an increase in the price of sugar. It is understood that, owing to the fact that contracts or suppiles were made well ahead, Great Britain has ...

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  38. A DOMAIN SPEECH.

    Speaking at the Labour party meeting in the Domain yesterday Alderman Bramston, of the City Council, said that the HughesHolman National party had shown them a ...

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  39. SIR JOHN MONASH.

    In explaining the reason for his decision to withdraw his nomination for the position of president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, Lieiuenanl-General Sir John ...

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  40. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Lord Milner (Secretary of States for the Colonies) has announced that the Imperial Conference will probably meet in 1921. The Admiraity has issued an order ...

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  41. CRASH INTO A DEAD-END.

    Another shunting accident occurred at the Orange railway station at 1 o'clock this mornin, the damage being estimated at £1000. A shunter named Latham was sending down ...

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  42. TROUBLE IN CHINA.

    A report from Shanghai-states that Chinese officials have received advices that serious disturbances, due to the change of military governors, are occurring in Honan, and civil ...

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  43. ROBBERY IN A TRAM.

    The robbery of about £400 in a handbag was carried out in a daring manner. Mr. Bayard, junior, left the premises of Bayard and Co., South Brisbane, with a bag for the ...

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  44. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

    When the statement of Lord Inverforth was read to Sir John Higgins to-day he stated that he was awaiting the receipt of figures from the Imperial authorities before he would ...

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  45. BUILDING COLLAPSES.

    A billiard hall at Wolverhampton collapsed. There were 120 people inside. Several of these were killed. Also several passers-by. The building collaspsed without warning, and ...

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  46. NEW ZEALAND WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    The new agreement accepted by the water-side workers covers 25 ports, and provides tor an increase of 3d per hour ordinary time, bringing the rates up to 2/3 an hour ordinary, ...

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  47. BRITAIN'S OVERSEA TRADE.

    Sir William Clark, Comptroller-General of Oversea Trade, describing the work of the department at a meeting in London on Thursday night, said it aimed at creating a machine ...

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