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  2. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    Again the galleries of the Legislative Assembly were well filled last night in anticipation of speeches by Mr. Holman and Captain Carmichael. The latter made his speech after ...

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  3. LIQUOR TRADE.

    At a special meeting of the State Council of the New South Wales Alliance the Government's licensing proposals were considered. The following resolutions were carried ...

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  4. LATE LANDING.

    If all had gone well, the 358 men for New South Wales who came by the troopship Prinz Hubertus would have landed about 3.30 yesterday. There was a delay of over an hour, ...

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  5. LATE CABLE NEWS.

    Sir John Bradbury, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed the principal British representative on the Reparations Commission in Paris. ...

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  6. TO AVERT CHAOS.

    Mr. Brownlie, chairman of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, has written to Mr. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Trades Union ...

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  7. SOUTH RUSSIA'.

    The war office reports that General Denikin's advance is continuing rapidly all along the line. A detachment of volunteers landed at Odessa after two days' bombardment, and ...

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  8. RAINFALLS.

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  9. DUTCH FRONTIER.

    The dispute between the Dutch and Belgian delegations at the Commission considering the revision of the treaty of 1839 became so violent that the Belgians decided to return to Brussels. ...

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  10. HOMEWARD BOUND.

    For 24 hours the Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Cook have been rushing through the vast, empty spaces that begin at a little east of Kalgoorlie, and stretch for 800 miles ...

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  11. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

    Increased wages are demanded by 1,500,000 workers in the United States. Strikes and lockouts are costing the country £100,000,000 daily. ...

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  12. MR. HENDERSON AND RUSSIA.

    Mr. H. A. L. Fisher (a member of the last Ministry) challenges the accuracy and demands documentary proofs of Mr. Arthur Henderson's statements that he was offered the ...

    Article : 64 words
  13. ROUMANIA WARNED.

    The Supreme Council has sent a telegram expressing surprise that Roumania has not [?] definite Pledges of a changed attitude towards Austria-Hungary. This is interpreted ...

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  14. PUBLIC SERVANTS.

    Mr. Fred. C. Wills, the general secretary of the Public Service Association of New South Wales, wrote on Tuesday to the Premier as follows:—"At a special meeting of my ...

    Article : 529 words
  15. THE AGENCIES-GENERAL.

    Probable vacancies in four of the Australian Agencies-General raises the question whether it is not possible to secure closer co-ordination in Australian official representation in ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. ALIENS BILL.

    An obligation [?] see that they are officially registered is placed upon all aliens by the Aliens' Registration Bill, introduced in the Senate to-day by the Acting Minister for ...

    Article : 358 words
  17. U.S.A. AND EUROPE.

    The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has adopted an amendment of the Peace Treaty, eliminating the United States from membership on the commission to determine ...

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  18. AUSTRIAN TREATY.

    The Peace Conference's reply to Austria declares that Austria's pre-war debt and war expenses shall be borne pro rata by Austria and the countries lately Austrian, but Austria ...

    Article : 99 words
  19. WHARF TROUBLE.

    No member of the Wharf Labourers' Union offered for work on the wharfs to-day. It was said on behalf of the men that they would not be "picked up" at the bureau, but that ...

    Article : 250 words
  20. MILITARY SYSTEM.

    The Acting Judge-Advocate, General Ansell, giving evidence before the Senate Military Committee, said that Mr. Baker (Secretary for War), and other members of the War ...

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  21. TINPLATE INDUSTRY.

    The Welsh tinplate industry is sending a delegation to the United States with a view to organising the Welsh industry on an upto-date basis, scrapping antiquated machinery, ...

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  22. FIUME PROBLEM.

    It is semi-officially understood that Italy is willing to accept a compromise regarding Fiume, under which the town goes to Italy, while the League of Nations leases the free ...

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  23. WAR TO PEACE.

    The British Admiralty has suspended the construction of 60 light cruisers, destroyers, and submarines in 20 yards. An expert committee is considering whether the ships shall ...

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  24. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the competition between Britain and France, the doubles resulted as follows:— Gobert and Laurentz beat Roper Barrett and Turnbull, 6-0, 6-1, 12-10. ...

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  25. GERMAN PROPAGANDA.

    The "Petit Parisien" has caused a sensation by publishing a telegram from Von Jagow (then German Foreign Minister), dated December ll, 1914, to the High Commissioner, von der ...

    Article : 79 words
  26. FEDERAL SESSION.

    "Did the British Government at any time during the war or subsequently make proposals to the Commonwealth for the representation of Australia and the dominions upon ...

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  27. PROHIBITION.

    In an address before the Health Society of New South Wales on "Health, a National Asset," the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond declared that the three great enemies of health were ...

    Article : 240 words
  28. MAIL BAGS.

    Among the cases heard at the Sydney Quarter Sessions yesterday was one in which two men stood charged with stealing a mail bag, containing letters, from a Manly steamer. The ...

    Article : 183 words
  29. SINN FEIN.

    The prospectus of a Sinn Fein internal loan states that the issue be £250,000, at 5 per cent., payable six months after the Irish Republic has received international recognition, ...

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  30. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Giving evidence before the Low Grades [?] Commission at Johannesburg this morning, Mr. Pritchard, Director of Native Labour, uttered a grave ...

    Article : 280 words
  31. SYDNEY FERRIES.

    Mr. R. W. Nelson, public accountant, auditor of the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., continuing his evidence at the twenty-fourth sitting of the Royal Commission yesterday, stated that if the ...

    Article : 230 words
  32. SNOWY RIVER IN FLOOD.

    Reports from Orbost and Sale state that a big flood came down the Snowy River on Tuesday night. A very large area of flats is now under water. The losses of live stock are ...

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  33. COALITIONS.

    Some curiousity aws shown by Labour members in the House of Assembly to-day regarding the continuance of the coalition Government. Mr. Edwards referred to a Press ...

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  34. SYDNEY HOSPITAL.

    On Monday last an anonymous donor placed in the hands of the organiser for the Sydney Hospital Peace Offering Fund a definite offer for £1000 provided this amount was ...

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  35. AERIAL DERBY.

    The correspondent of the "New York Times" at Toronto stated that Major Schroeder, an American, probably will prove the winner of the Aerial Derby. He completed the trip from ...

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  36. ANOTHER ROBBERY.

    It was reported late last night that a mail bag which was in course of transmission from Revesby Point post-office. East Hills, was stolen from the front doorway of the ...

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  37. £10,000 WRIT.

    The leader of the Opposition, Mr. Tudor, obtained leave to announce in the House of Representatives this afternoon that the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union Lad to-day ...

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  38. A BARRIER AWARD.

    The Mining Industry Wages Board, constituted under the State Arbitration Court, this afternoon gave its award concerning the claims of T. and T.L. Union with regard to surface ...

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  39. GOVERNOR AT GRENFELL

    His Excellency the Governor and Lady Davidson were welcomed in Grenfell on Monday. They had stayed the night at Mr. W. W. Priddle's, of Glenelg. Quite a number of ...

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  40. SEAPLANE RACE.

    Mr. Harry Hawker has entered for the international sea-plane race, to be held on September 19. The race will comprise ten laps on a 20-mile course, embracing Bournemouth, ...

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  41. GREAT EXPLOSION.

    A message from Rome reports that a terrific explosion at a munitions depot at Pellegrino, devastated a valley and uprooted trees a mile distant. ...

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  42. BRITISH FINANCE.

    Mr. Lloyd George (Prime Minister), in a letter to his colleagues dated Aug 20, urges the immediate cutting down of expenditure for which there is a strong feeling in the ...

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  43. HORSES AND MULES.

    The first day's sale of second-hand Australian stores at Horseferry-road. London, realised £12,285. O1d boots which had been repaired fetched extremely good prices in small ...

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  44. ASSISTANT TEACHERS.

    A mass meeting of Public school assistant teachers was held in the Protestant Hall last night. Mr. Gilchrist (president of the Assistant Teachers' Association) presided. After ...

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  45. RABBIT-TRAPPING INDUSTRY.

    Forty-three rabbit trappers held a meeting at Binda to discuss the problem of getting refrigerating space on the boats so that trapping operations could be carried on ...

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  46. THE CHILDREN.

    A meeting at North Broken Hill on Monday night formed a committee to provide midday meals for school children in want. One speaker said that about 500 children required ...

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  47. NIGHT BAKING.

    Mr. D. A. M'Kenzie, president of the Operative Bakers' Union, writes that a mass meeting of the members would be held on Saturday morning next, and they would then be pleased ...

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  48. MAN AND WOMAN SHOT.

    A shooting affray took place in Belmore Park last night, a man and a woman being seriously wounded. At about 9 o'clock Annie Schuck, 26, a ...

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  49. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Peninsular and Orient Company is resuming the weekly special trains to and from Marseilles, in connection with its Australian and Indian liners, commencing on ...

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  50. THE CINEMA AND THE CHILD.

    Sir,—1. The article in your paper by the Rev. A. Deans, B.A., on "The Cinema and the Child," has just come under my notice. I wish to clear up one assertion which, in its ...

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  51. TROUBLE AT BLAST FURNACES.

    The trouble at the blast furnace is still unsettled. The Department of Labour was notified on Monday afternoon shortly after the trouble first definitely appeared, and on the ...

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  52. NURSE CAVELL'S BETRAYAL.

    Georges Quien, a Frenchman, who is charged with betraying Nurse Cavell, after she had befriended him, when examined stated that he gave the French Military Attache at the Hague ...

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  53. CASUALTIES.

    The City Coroner (Mr. Hawkins) yesterday inquired into the death of Henry Jose, 41, a coal-lumper, lately living in Palmer-street, East Sydney, who died on August 17. ...

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  54. PRISONERS IN LEGIRONS.

    The Acting Minister for Defence said in the Senate to-day that it was a fact that prisoners of war, members of the A.I.F. or of the naval forces had been removed from Long Bay to ...

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  55. SIR SAMUEL GRIFFITH.

    The Federal Acting Attorney-General, Mr. Groom, announced in the House of Representatives to-night that owing to the impossibility of securing a full Cabinet meeting ...

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  56. SILESIAN REFUGEES.

    A report from Cracow states that it is estimated that 20,000 people from Upper [?] have crossed the frontier into Poland in order to avoid harsh treament. ...

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