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  2. DOCKERS' STRIKE. Settlement Effected.

    The delegates representing the dock [?] met in conference to-day, and de[?]ded to endorse the terms of settlement and to call off the strike. Work ...

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  3. MIGRATION. Families for West Australia.

    The first group of families at Leeds who are to make their homes in West Australia under the group scheme were given a civic farewell to-day at Leeds[?] ...

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  4. BRITISH SQUADRON. Due at Fremantle To-day.

    Having spent Christmas at Capetown, and since then visited the cast coast ports or South Africa, Ceylon, and Singapore, the ships of the British Special ...

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  5. LEFT ON A WRECK.

    The inquest on a member of the crew of the ketch Farne, which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kentish coast, on February 15, was ...

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  6. GERMAN REPARATIONS. British Import Levy.

    Mr. William Graham, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, announced that an agreement ...

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  7. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Proposed Economie Committee.

    In the House of Commons to-day, Dr. Chapple (Liberal) asked whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Thomas) had reached a decision ...

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  8. EMPIRE AIRSHIPS. No Subsidy by British Government.

    In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to Major Rep[?]er, the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) said the Government at present did not intend ...

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  9. AMAZING ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

    James Lakie, an employee of the Baxter Limo Co., at Curdie's River, has had an extraordinary escape from death. While stoking the kiln, a knot on a ...

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  10. RAILWAY STRIKE.

    The members of the National Union of Railwaymen at Hull went on strike to-day, owing to the dismissal of hundreds of checkers employed at the ...

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  11. THE BURNEY SCHEME.

    The late Conservative Government— it fell two days ago—was favourably disposed towards the formation of a company which would construct airships ...

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  12. TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE.

    While out prospecting in the bush some eight miles from Zeehan, a man named William McIntyre had a narrow escape from a lonely death. He entered ...

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  13. PROHIBITION.

    The raiding squadron of 250 men which the Police Commissioner of New York (Mr. Enright) organised for the purpose of cleaning up the saloons, has ...

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  14. THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.

    Replying to questions in the House of Cummons to-day, Mr. Lunn (Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department) said it was the ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH'S MISSION.

    General Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army, passed through Colombo yesterday by the Orsova [?] route for Austra[?]. During the course ...

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  16. ROYALTY ON CABLEGRAMS.

    Commander Bellairs suggested that when Imperial communications and trade were dealt with so as to extend existing preferences, the Colonial ...

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  17. THE VERSAILLES TREATY.

    Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Ronald [?]Neill, Unionist member for Canterbury, Kent, and others closely questioned Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the ...

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  18. MYSTERY OF THE AIR.

    On Septermber 23, 1920, two aeroplanes left the Central Flying School at Point Cook, near Melbourne, to search for the missing schooner Amelia J., which had ...

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  19. CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.

    The text of the Criminal Justice Bill of Lord Haldane's (Lord Chancellor) has just been issued. The bill is down for debate in the House of Lords on ...

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  20. OIL LANDS SCANDALS. AMERICAN MINISTER, COURTS INQUIRY.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. Daugherty), in connection with the oil lands scandal, has pub[?]cly acknowledged in a letter to Senator Willis that he has ...

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  21. GREEK ADMINISTRATION.

    According to a message received to-day from the Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express," M. Cafandaris's Government has fallen in consequence ...

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  22. DOMINIONS AND TURKEY.

    In the House of Commons to-day, Sir E. Grigg (Liberal) asked whether the Imperial Conference discussed the obligations contained in the ...

    Article : 168 words
  23. AMERICA'S WOMEN.

    At a time when the Congressional halls resound with class con[?]ict and the bitterest partisan warfare, Mr. Blanton to-day, in the House of ...

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  24. THE BOGUS MESSAGE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald), in the House of Commons to-day, said a telegram had been published in Melbourne alleging that certain ...

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  25. INTER-ALLIED CONTROL.

    It is stated on most reliable authority that Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, desiring to cooperate with France, has ...

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  26. LATE BARONET'S AFFAIRS.

    Sir John Stewart, of Dundee, the whiskey distiller, who recently committed suicide at Fingask Castle, Perthshire, left liabilities amounting to ...

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  27. THE BAVARIAN REVOLT.

    The Munich correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the trial of General von Ludendorff and Herr Adolf Hittler, leaders of the Bavarian ...

    Article : 318 words
  28. PLACING ORDERS ABROAD.

    The "Daily Express" says that the War Office has set a bad example by handing over a contract to the value of £50.000 for canned meat to a ...

    Article : 298 words
  29. MESSAGE FROM THE ADMIRAL.

    The official secretary to the Governor-General (Lord Forster) telegraphed as follows to "The Mercury" last night:— The following message from ...

    Article : 157 words
  30. FRENCH POLITICS.

    The speech delivered by the former Minister (M. Briand) at Carcassonne, near Toulouse, may be regarded as the opening of the French electoral ...

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  31. ROBBERY AND MURDER.

    Robbery was the probable motive of the murder of Mrs. Gosling, who was found to-day with her head battered at a house at Bradford. Affixed to ...

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  32. STRIKES IN. EGYPT. MALCONTENTS RESUME WORK

    The strikers at the Filature (spinming) works have now resumed their occupations. Five of the leaders have been taken back, and the workers' ...

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  33. SUMMARY OF PARLIAMENT.

    After putting it off for a week, the Legislative Council got down to business on the Appropriation Bill last night. Several members criticised the measure, ...

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  34. VISIT TO HOBART.

    Messrs. J. G. Turner and G. W. R. Ife and Colonel J. E. C. Lord yesterday waited on the Chief Secretary (Hon. J. Allan Guy) as a sub-committee of the general ...

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  35. A LOST IDENTITY.

    A mystery in connection with a deaf and dumb soldier, who is also suffering from loss of memory, is deepening. Already he has been claimed as ...

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  36. OIL WORKS SEIZED.

    The Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that workmen in the employ of the Egyptian Oil Co. at Alexandria have followed the ...

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  37. MOTOR RAIL TRACTION.

    A demonstration was given at Slough to-day with a motor-rail vehicle. When the rubber tyres were removed the vehicle ran on an ordinary railway, ...

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  38. BRITISH DAIRY STOCK.

    In the House of Commons to-day, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Buxton) confirmed the statement that the Canadian Government had offered to ...

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  39. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    Information was received hero to-day that Mr. W. J. Good, secretary of the Calcutta Port Commissioners, whi[?]e spending a holiday, in the ...

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  40. INSURANCE CLAIMS.

    While the [?]rger Tokio companies are [?]red to pay 10 per cent. "sympathy" [?]ce claims, the Government to-day decided to assist the weaker ...

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  41. MURDERS AT BERLIN.

    A "Jack [?]e Ripper" scare has arisen at Berlin, the mutilated bodies of a number of women having been discovered. ...

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  42. TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

    The Bru[?]le correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that negotiations are proceeding between the Soviet Government and Antwerp ...

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  43. TENNIS.

    Japan has challenged for the Davis Cup. The probable selected team will be Shimidzu, Fukuda and Tharada. The last named is a Yezo University player. ...

    Article : 36 words
  44. NEW ZEALAND IMPORTS.

    The Parliamentary Secretary to [?] Over[?] Trade Department (Mr. Lunn), in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said that ...

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  45. WAR BONDS CA[?].

    Major ZonnI, of Arg[?]tina, who intends in May to embark on a flight round the world in a British aeroplane, purchased a quantity of bedding at a ...

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  46. BURGLARY AT A POST-OFFICE

    Thieves forced on entry at the Gen[?] Post Office during the week-end, and took from safes £70,000 in cash and bonds. The police are unable to locate ...

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