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  2. THE REPARATIONS.

    The time limit imposed by France under which Germany in to give guarantees to pay £2,000,000, due August 15, expired at noon yesterday. It is considered ...

    Article : 406 words
  3. IRISH REVOLT.

    The Free State Government has published the correspondence between Mr. Collins and the Cork organisation which endeavoured to arrange a compromise ...

    Article : 285 words
  4. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    In reply to criticism in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, said that though it was desirable that peace should be established, ...

    Article : 174 words
  5. HIGHER EDUCATION

    "Only three per cent of the school population will be affected by the change, and we think, that in the interests of the remaining 97 per cent. ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. DISTRICT NEWS.

    The first annual meeting and smoke concert of the Merewether District Cricket Club was held in the School of Arts on Saturday night last. The Mayor, ...

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  7. ODD GLEANINGS.

    The Government of Sweden has decided that the consultative plebiscite on prohibition shall take place on August 27. ...

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  8. TRADE IN BRITAIN.

    Under the combined influence of the approaching holidays, the slump in the mark, the erratic movements of other exchanges, and the possibility of a ...

    Article : 755 words
  9. THE AMERICAN STRIKES.

    It is reported from Cleveland that the Big Four Brotherhoods, the engineers, conductors, firemen, and trainmen, telegraphed to President Harding that ...

    Article : 370 words
  10. DEAF AND DUMB CHURCH.

    South London's first church for the deaf and dumb is to be built, as soon as funds are raised, on a site in Clapham-road, S.W., which has been given ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. HIS FIRST TOOTH.

    The youngest dental patient to attend East Ham's Municipal Clinic is a baby aged three weeks. It was born with a tooth, and owing to the tenderness of the ...

    Article : 49 words
  12. SIR WALTER.

    The chief justification for this paragraph is the name. Sir Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, died at Acland Home, ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

    Papers of age sometimes republish their news, that is from 50 years ago, or 100. One of the London papers republished this on May 19, as having happened on ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. ALL OUT OF LACE.

    Estate of £2,144,219 has been left by Sir Thomas J. Birkin, Bart. pioneer of the Nottingham lace and curtain trade, chairman of the Mercantile Marine ...

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  15. TEACHERS' OPPOSITION.

    At a council meeting of the Teachers' Federation yesterday, a motion : "That the imposition of fees in high schools is a retrograde step, and not in the ...

    Article : 187 words
  16. THE GREEK CLAIM.

    A message from Athens reports that replaying to the Allies' No[?]a, Greece states that she wanted to occupy Constantinople in the belief that drastic ...

    Article : 55 words
  17. BOUND FOR SYDNEY.

    Reference was m[?]le in the Probate Court, London, to an ocean, mystery, a motion being heard to presume the death of Sir Hylton Ralph Brisco, Bart., of ...

    Article : 167 words
  18. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    The monthly meeting of the Newcastle District Friendly Societies' Association was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, on Saturday night. Bro. R. R. Little, ...

    Article : 472 words
  19. WAGES OF WOMEN.

    The House of Commons has adjourned, and will reassemble on November 14. On the motion for the adjournment, ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. AUSTRIA'S CONDITION

    A message from Vienna states that the Austrian Government is petitioning the British Government to call an Allied Conference and grant credits, otherwise the ...

    Article : 141 words
  21. HOOKS AND EYES.

    Amusement was caused in the House of Commons by a grave discussion on hooks-and-eyes. Colonel Archer-Sheequestioned Mr. Stanley Baldwin, ...

    Article : 215 words
  22. THE MAYOR'S APPEAL

    At the request of the Newcastle District Citizens' Unemployed Relief Committee, which has been actively engaged in collecting funds, and distributing same ...

    Article : 212 words
  23. FIGHTING IN INDIANA.

    At Staunton, Indiana, hostilltics started when the troops took control of the mines for operation by the State. The strikers fired from ambush, and troops returned ...

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  24. THE WORLD FLIGHT.

    Major Blake, who is on a world's flying tour, telegraphs from Ambala as follows:— "Since arriving we have been doggoo ...

    Article : 84 words
  25. VICTORIA.

    A Chinese named Ah Ken, living in Elsternwick, was driving a vehicle along Orong-road, East St. Kilda, last night, when a motor car driven by Norman do ...

    Article : 138 words
  26. OPINIONS IN FRANCE

    "Le Temps" protests that Mr. Lloyd George, by delaying the settlement of German reparations has usurped the place of arbiter between France and ...

    Article : 141 words
  27. NO SWEARING IN VERONA

    It is reported from Rome that reformers claim that the campaign against swearing, instituted at Verona, had reduced bad language in that city ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. ANOTHER FLIGHT.

    The Air Ministry has informed a representative of the Australian Press Association that the world flight recently referred to by Captain Guest, ...

    Article : 85 words
  29. 4½ PER CENT.

    The English papers still pound New South Wales over that 4½ p.c. loan that failed. On the Straits Settlement following suit, a London Journal said:—It will be ...

    Article : 194 words
  30. GRETA.

    Greta third grade Soccer defeated Cessnock (West End) by 5 to nil. Bell (2), Hepplewhite (2), Givens (1) scored for Greta. ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    The cross-country championship of Queensland was decided over a ten miles course on Saturday. The country traversed comprised ploughed folds, fences, and ...

    Article : 214 words
  32. GOLF IN AMERICA

    At Rochester, New York State, Kirkwood and Hagen defeated Robeson and M'Kenna, 5 up and 4 to go. The winners' beast ball score was 68, and that ...

    Article : 103 words
  33. TYPHOON AT SWATOW.

    A typhoon at Swatow, a Chinese port at the mouth of the Han, 225 miles east of Canton, caused heavy mortality among the native population. ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. NEWCASTLE DISTRICT CITIZENS' UNEMPLOYED RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 words
  35. BRITISH-GERMAN TRADE

    Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme, Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, stated that ...

    Article : 50 words
  36. HAMILTON.

    The St. Peter Church bazaar, which was successfully conducted during the concluding part of last week, will be continued this evening. ...

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  37. LAMBTON.

    At a meeting of the relief committee, thirteen orders were issued. The secretary reported that a further parcel of blankets obtained by Mr. Skelton, ...

    Article : 126 words
  38. CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

    Newspapers are urging a revision of the system of deciding the county championship. The "Evening Standard" says:—"The ...

    Article : 278 words
  39. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.

    The Commercial Secretary to the British Legation at Prague reports that Czechoslovakia has won for herself a reputation as the one State Control Europe which ...

    Article : 68 words
  40. THE PYRAMIDS.

    The Egyptian seems to have believed that the preservation of the mortal body was necessary to the life of the soul. At times the departed spirit would ...

    Article : 576 words
  41. PEERS, LTD.

    Following the example of other great property owners, including Lord Howard de Walden and the Duke of Grafton, Lord Plymouth and the Marquis of Bute haven ...

    Article : 242 words
  42. BRITISH ZINC WORKS

    Sir William Mitchell-Thompson, secretary to the Board of Trade, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, stated that Australian concentrates were being ...

    Article : 70 words
  43. THE ITALIAN STRIKE

    The Rome correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that the end of the strike was declared by a mysterious triumvirate of the Labour Alliance. What ...

    Article : 212 words
  44. WALLSEND.

    Mr. James Cooper Newtown, whose death took place recently in Wallsend Hospital, at the age of 55 years, was born at Buttai, neat Minmi, and had ...

    Article : 223 words
  45. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The whole of the telephone services of the United States and Canada were suspended for one minute at the hour of Dr. Graham Bell's funeral at Baddeck, Nova ...

    Article : 426 words
  46. LAST WEEK'S WEATHER.

    The cyclonic storm which was operating over the coastal area of New South Wales during the previous week was stillcentred off the South Coast at the ...

    Article : 480 words
  47. NEWCASTLE REPATRIATION RELIEF FUND FOR UNEMPLOYED RETURNED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 words
  48. SEAMEN'S CONGRESS.

    A profound eleavage has been manifested in the Seamen's Congress in Paris, especially between the British and French delegates, when the Congress passed a ...

    Article : 79 words
  49. INTERESTING PRESENTS.

    The Prince of Wales during his visit to British Asia, etc., was given these present:—Three black leopards, 3 tigers, 2 leopard cats, 2 binturongs, 3 deer, 2 ...

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  50. DEATH OF MRS. J. MORRIS

    The death took place at about 8 o'clock on Saturday night of Mrs. Gertrude Morris, wife of Mr. Joseph Morris, the Licenses of the George Hotel, Newcastle, Her ...

    Article : 349 words
  51. SOUTH PACIFIC PEOPLES.

    An ethnological expedition in the South Pacific has been undertaken on behalf of the British Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Scoresby Routledge, whose previous ...

    Article : 286 words
  52. TENNIS IN AMERICA.

    New York messages state that the report that O'Hara Wood would be unable to play against France is untrue. He has been practising daily, despite a slightly ...

    Article : 172 words
  53. NOTABLE OPERATION

    A youth of 19 died following an operation in Guy's Hospital. The evidence at the injuest showed that the heart had ceased to beat during the ...

    Article : 57 words
  54. AGED 132.

    Sergeant Jan Krasinskl, a Pole, who claims that he fought at the battle of Borodino, 110 years ago, and that he is the sole survivor of Napoleon's ...

    Article : 228 words
  55. A RECORD IN GOLD.

    A mystery involving the disappearance of close upon £15,000,000 worth of gold and sliver specie and bullion in at present being investigated by the Dutch ...

    Article : 232 words
  56. OIL IN MACEDONIA

    Mr. George Laeon formerly of Christ church, and now in London has informed the Australian Press. Association that he believes Macedonia will become a new ...

    Article : 101 words
  57. COTTON MILLS FOR CHINA.

    It is reported that manufacturers of textile machinery la "Lancashire are receiving large orders from China for the equipment of cotton mills, which are about to ...

    Article : 66 words
  58. Advertising

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    Advertising : 42 words
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