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  2. REPEAL OF SUGAR DUTIES.

    The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, said to-day that he consulted his colleagues before taking the step he did in regard to the sugar troubles in Queensland, and he also gave the matter hip close and earnest consideration ...

    Article : 115 words
  3. BROOKVALE-NARRABEEN TRAMWAY.

    The ceremony of turning the first sod in connection with the three miles extension of the Manly-Brookvale tramway towards Narrabeen was performed yesterday afternoon by the ...

    Article : 447 words
  4. SECRET DEBENTURES.

    In his annual address to the members, Mr. J. M. Paxton, President of the Chamber of Commerce, criticised the limited scope of the existing Joint Stock Companies Act. "The Act," said Mr. Paxton, "is in many ...

    Article : 675 words
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    Advertising : 215 words
  6. WHEN FREE LABOR CARGOES ARRIVE.

    Up till the present no trouble has been experienced, with the unloading of sugar from Queensland. The wharf laborers in Sydney maintain the same peaceful attitude so long ...

    Article : 280 words
  7. THE SUGAR STRIKE.

    Sir,—With reference to the report which appeared in your last issue on "The Sugar Strike," I desire to say that the remarks attributed to me are not correct. In the first place, I told ...

    Article : 198 words
  8. ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY—WHAT THE RENEWAL DOES FOR AUSTRALIA

    Had the British Laborites and Radicals succeeded in their attempt to keep the naval estimates at the level of 1908-9—actually they wanted to reduce them below it—there would ...

    Article : 782 words
  9. CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.

    At Bundaberg to-day E. Brady, town clerk, and secretary to the trustees of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, was charged with misappropriation of £2600, ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. JAVA AND AUSTRALIA.

    In the course of a lecturette on Java, which was given by Mr. R. Crowe, of the Agricultural Department, this week, under the auspices of the Photographic Association od Victoria, ...

    Article : 621 words
  11. KEEPING THE RAILWAYS UP TO DATE

    At the Commercial Travellers' Association dinner last night, in response to remarks of his railway policy, the Chief Commissioner, Mr. T. R. Johnson, stated that the linking of the Western and the North-western lines, and the ...

    Article : 328 words
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    Advertising : 208 words
  13. WORKERS WANTED.

    Mr. G. M'Rae, assistant Government Architect, said, during the past few years, though the number of Government contracts had increased, the number of tenders received had gone down. ...

    Article : 302 words
  14. A STEEL TRUST DEAL

    In his evidence before the Steel Trust Inquiry Committee of the House of Representatives last month, Mr. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, related details of the Steel ...

    Article : 307 words
  15. POPULATION FIGURES

    An inquiry into the matter of census discrepancies in Australia reveals the fact that for many years past the population tables of the various States have been unsatisfactory. As ...

    Article : 665 words
  16. N.S.W. MONT DE PIETE DEPOSIT AND INVESMENT COMPANY.

    The N.S.W. Mont de Piete Deposit and Investment Company, Limited made a gross profit of £11,295, and a divisible surplus of £8581 for its past half-year's business. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. ANIMALS BURNT TO DEATH

    Our Perth correspondent wired last night:—Late yesterday the livery stables of Mills and Co., Fremantle, caught fire. One horse was burnt to death and several others seriously ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. BONE-SETTING AND THE MEDICAL FACULTY.

    An important article appears in the "English Review," from the pen of Mr. Walter Whitehead. F.R.C.S., an ex-president of the British Medical Association, in vindication of the art and ...

    Article : 223 words
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  20. CO-OPERATION IN FRUIT-GROWING.

    The Minister for Customs has decided to have inspection of fruit in Victoria done at railway stations nearest the orchards, instead of having it all done in Melbourne, as heretofore. ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. DEATH OF MRS. A. SHEDDEN.

    Mrs. A. Shedden, mother of Alderman H. M. Shedden, Mayor of Newcastle, and Mr. W. M. Shedden, town clerk of. Wickham, died to-day after an illness extending over, several weeks. ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. COMMONWEALTH GAZETTE.

    The following candidates were successful at an examination of female telephonists held 24th. June—Ree Turner, Ramsay, Harrison, Brown. McMillan, Waldron, Snow. Mann, Pocock, Nihill, Abraham, Richardson, ...

    Article : 346 words
  23. A TORTOISESHELL CRADLE.

    A novel baby's swing, made by a black father for his youngest infant, was to be seen in a grass-built house on one of the small islands of the Torres Straits. Suspended from the low ...

    Article : 112 words
  24. "LET 'EM ALL COME."

    Among the destroyers which have just returned from the Mediterranean to be broken up is the Boxer, a 27 knot ship completed in 1893. This is the ship of which Lord Fisher of ...

    Article : 74 words
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