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  2. NEWS IN BRIEF

    Weather forecasts issued at 9 p.m. yesterday for 24 hours ensuing:—Cool and cloudy at times, with some further showers, particularly over the ...

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  3. DAY BY DAY

    NEW ideas about food appear to be attracting more and more people. Not so long ago we were rather inclined to talk of faddists and cranks when the ...

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  4. MAINLAND NOTES

    A CONCISE and definite statement of what British merchants expect from Australia under the terms of the Ottawa agreement was made by Mr. W. ...

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  5. LETTERS

    Sir,—I followed with interest the passing through our State Parliament of the Removal of Doubts Bill, and could not but meditate upon the difference of ...

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  6. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

    The battle of Ottawa began in the House of Representatives to-day, when Mr. Scullin, as the leader of the attackers, fired the first shot at the ...

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  7. RED CROSS APPEAL

    RECURRENCE of the month of November will for long to come —always perhaps—be associated with Armistice Day, when at the eleventh ...

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  8. Wonders Never Cease

    That this is a world of remarkable happenings is one of the things proved every day. That it is also a world full of the things that delighted the heart of ...

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  9. Hard Cases and Law

    During the second reading debate of the Farmers' Relief Bill, which was passed through all stages in the Legislative Council last night, several ...

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  10. Stete Schools' Choral Festival

    Sir,—One feels that all too often correspondents use your columns to ventilate complaints, or make suggestions for improvements concerning ...

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  11. Strap Hanging

    Sydney is chuckling to-day at the official announcement that tenders are to be invited for a new type of tramcar designed to bring Sydney trams up to ...

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  12. The Mercury.

    WITH the money already available, and that which will be added when the new loan is floated, the Government will be in a position to ...

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  13. WOOL SALES

    Wool sales were held to-day at the Sydney Wool Exchange, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,391 bales. The sales included private transactions. The ...

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  14. Stealing Houses

    Poor owners of dwellings in some industrial suburbs are having a thin time. Not only is the payment of rent out of fashion, but it is dangerous lo leave ...

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  15. Exit Barred

    It is not often that, a member of Parliament is debarred from leaving the floor of the House, but the Latrobe representative for Wilmot in the ...

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  16. Trumps in Opposition

    After weeks of conferences and manoeuvring between party managers, the State Ministry finds itself in a position into which it has steadily been ...

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  17. Guy Fawkes Day

    Sir,—Saturday is Guy Fawkes's Day! And shall we look in vain for the palanquined masqued effigies and chanting of rhymed doggerel, and cursing candle ...

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  18. ALL OR NOTHING

    A PRACTICE, and a valuable one, has grown up lately of the issue at regular intervals of circulars from the heads of large banking institutions ...

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  19. Unlicensed Drivers

    The plethora of convictions the is obtained almost daily against persous found guilty of driving motor-vehicles without being licensed continues to be ...

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  20. PERSONAL

    The Prince of Wales paid an informal visit lasting an hour to-day to the London headquarters of the Dominion students, where 40 are residing. His Royal ...

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  21. School Dentists

    Sir,—The Hon. C. J. Eady's commendable criticism of the withdrawal of the services of the school dentist, reported in "The Mercury," is a hopeful ...

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  22. STRIKE IN INDIA

    A strike of nearly 6,000 men has been declared in the Madras and Southern Mahratta railway workshops at Perambur, and there is sign of it spreading to ...

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  23. A Minority Majority

    The peculiar position arose to the House of Assembly yesterday that, although there was a majority in favour of the principle of local option polls, the ...

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  24. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY

    The Legislative Council met at 11 a.m. yesterday. Further consideration was given in committee to the Estimates, and the ...

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  25. The East Coast

    S. T. Laughton, Bellerive, writes in praise of the East Coast, especially Schouten Main, with its varied and beautiful scenery and a climate that ...

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  26. Advertising

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  27. THE YACHTING SEASON

    There is no more characteristically British sport than yachting, none that calls for sounder manhood, and none freer from the taint of commercialism. ...

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  28. MANCHURIAN PROBLEM

    During the debate in the House of Lords on Manchuria to-day, Lord Ponsonby (Labour, a former Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) asked the ...

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  29. An Apt Nickname

    The founder of Toc H. the Rev. P. B. Clayton, is far better known as "Tubby" Clayton, and the motive for the bestowal of this nickname was made clear ...

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  30. SUGAR AGREEMENT

    The Assistant Minister for Customs (Mr. Guy) introduced into the House of Representatves to-day a bill to ratify the revised sugar agreement. The first ...

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  31. Conviction Ensured

    "Is Mr. Blank the famous barrister that he is reputed?" asked a friend of a rival lawyer. "Yes, I suppose he is," was the answer, "at any rate he never ...

    Article : 49 words
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