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  2. Can Anglo-Saxons Flourish in the Northern Territory?

    It is not often that medical science is called upon to deal with the larger problems of statesmanship. It is true that the questions of public hygiene have ...

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  3. CURRENT TOPICS

    Some years ago it was discovered that the dressing of furs by women and girls in a certain part of London was carried on at their homes under very insanitary ...

    Article : 534 words
  4. Government Pawnshops.

    When a correspondent asks for a usury law fixing the rate of interest receivable on loans, he overlooks that for centuries every State in Christendom tried to ...

    Article : 457 words
  5. GOT PLAGUE FROM A SQUIRREL.

    A case of bubonic plague was discovered at Los Angeles last month. The patient is a boy named Mulholland, and he is convalescent. ...

    Article : 83 words
  6. SATURDAY AFTERNOON!

    At the joint meeting of the Saturday Half-holiday League and the Shopkeepers Half-holiday Association in the Town Hall on Thursday night, Mr. David Storey, ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. Kings and War.

    "War is a game which, if nations were wise, kings would not play at," is a dictum which a generation or two ago was regarded as incontrovertible, and which ...

    Article : 329 words
  8. WHY THE SERVIANS CAN'T FIGHT.

    A striking warning of the desirability of the Commonwealth being able to manufacture, if not its big guns, at least its big-gun ammunition, comes from Eastern ...

    Article : 197 words
  9. "Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy."

    For a moment the British Radicals had allowed a doubt to enter their minds as to the Kaiser's intentions in pushing on the construction of so huge a navy for ...

    Article : 488 words
  10. THE HOSE FOR THE SUFFRAGETTES.

    The Mother of Parliaments must be falling into dotage when it has to assemble 5000 foot and 200 mounted police to protect it from a parcel of women whom a dozen ...

    Article : 66 words
  11. ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN NAVY PROPOSAL.

    An ambitious scheme of naval defence was propounded last week before the "Women's Patriotic Club. It is to ask Britain to make Port Darwin, for ten ...

    Article : 734 words
  12. THE PACIFIC FISHERIES, LIMITED.

    In our issue of Sunday last reference was made to the fact that this company, which recently commenced operations, had been overwhelmed with inquiries for fish. ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. A BARRIER STRIKE.

    In New South Wales the law is supposed to deal equally with everybody except M.'sP. But the intending strikers at Broken Hill expressed their resolution in ...

    Article : 254 words
  14. Australian Military Alertness.

    During the defence debate in the Federal Parliament Colonel Foxton quoted the assertion of an English drill-instructor that so apt are Australians to fit ...

    Article : 345 words
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  17. HERE AND THERE

    Prince Buclow, in a recent interview, reminded England that William the Conqueror was our last, successful invader. But, says a London writer, we do not ...

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  18. SAFETY MOTOR CAR!

    A new safety motor car appeared in the streets of Paris last month. Instead of dodging pedestrians it drives straight towards them, picks them up, and places ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. Atherton Defies Asia.

    Hard by where Cape York Peninsula begins to project from the continent there is a tiny township called Atherton. Atherton has about as many people in it as can ...

    Article : 191 words
  20. TELEPHONE CALLS AT A FARTHING EACH.

    A considerable reduction in telephone charges is foreshadowed in a correspondence between the British Postmaster-General and Mr. Charles Lancaster, of ...

    Article : 32 words
  21. A LUCKY SYNDICATE.

    A syndicate of six—three of whom are in the "Argus" office, Melbourne—has struck remarkable luck during the past twelve months in connection with ...

    Article : 75 words
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  23. GREAT FALL IN EMIGRATION.

    The number of emigrants who left Bremen and Hamburg during the first eight months of the present year was 80,965, as compared with 301,716 in 1907. ...

    Article : 94 words
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  25. TO ATHENS BY RAIL.

    The inauguration of the railway between the Piraeus, Athens, and Larissa took place last month, and the entire line is now in complete working order. ...

    Article : 116 words
  26. BLUNDER COSTS £150,000.

    The Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden has sustained a loss of £150,000 by an extraordinary blunder in the construction of a railway tunnel near Forba[?] ...

    Article : 39 words
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