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  2. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--In the Legislative Council during the debate on the second reading of the Railway Deviation Bill, Bowefels to Diwana, Sir Allen Taylor ...

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  3. THE FARMERS' CONFERENCE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The report of the political committee was responsible for a lengthy discussion at the Farmers' Conference to-day. Some delegates expressed ...

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  4. NEXT SEASON'S WHEAT.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Attorney-General states that the Government does not intend to acquire compulsorily any of next season's wheat crop. The Government will be ...

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  5. THE LATEST CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday.--Arrangements for treating the Australian wounded in England at the present moment are in a state of transformation. Sir George Reid and ...

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  6. THE TURKS SUSTAIN FURTHER REVERSES

    LONDON, Thursday.--General Hamilton, referring to the fighting on 12th instant, stated that the troops, including the French corps, succeeded in carrying two strongly ...

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  7. WOUNDED IN EGYPT.

    LONDON, Friday--Major Chapple, of the Royal Army Medical Corps and ex-New Zealander, who visited the chief hospitals at Cairo and Alexandria, returned to ...

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  8. A GRAVE CHARGE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Before Judge Docker at Tamworth Quarter Sessions, Charles Edward Stevens and Ernest Vincent Farrar pleaded not guilty to having feloniously ...

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  9. DASH OF FRENCH INFANTRY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Successes of the French in Alsace are chiefly due to the magnificent courage of the infantry and the Alpine troops. Germans fortified their ...

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  10. FURTHER MOTIONS CARRIED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Farmers' Conference passed the following resolutions: That the Government be urged to introduce a system of preferential voting. ...

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  11. PROCESSION OF WOMEN.

    LONDON, Friday.--A procession of 5000 women, including many in society, marched through London on Saturday, demanding the right to serve the State and make ...

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  12. REPULSE OF GERMANS.

    PARIS, Friday.--A communique states that two German attacks at Haute Chevauchee and Bourevilles were repulsed Matters are quiet elsewhere. ...

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  13. QUEENSLAND BUTTER SUPPLY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A deputation of Brisbane butter and cheese shippers waited on the Premier and pointed out that, owing to the approach of spring, Queensland now ...

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  14. A SHOOTING INCIDENT.

    LONDON, Friday.--Georges, a retired army captain, declares that the shooting was accidental, and was due to Young trying to take a revolver. Accused added that he was ...

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  15. CONDITION OF TURKISH WOUNDED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The "Times" correspondent at Mitylene states that horrible accounts have been received of the condition of the Turkish wounded. They have ...

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  16. KNIVES FOR TRENCH WORK.

    LONDON, Friday--The "Daily Mail" Flanders correspondent states that French soldiers are arming with short knives, finding fixed bayonets too long for rough work ...

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  17. SUCCESSFUL BOMBARDMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A British battleship, acompanied by four destroyers, on Saturday bombarded Gaba Tepe. Two hundred shells were fired with marked success. An ...

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  18. GERMAN COAL INDUSTRY.

    AMSTERDAM, Friday.--A Berlin official message states that the Government has decided to assume control of the coal industry and fix the price in the public interest. ...

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  19. COURAGEOUS AUSTRALIANS.

    LONDON, Friday--British wounded from the Dardanelles have arrived. Some, in giving their impressions, pay a tribute to the reckless courage of the Australians. ...

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  20. RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACKS.

    PETROGRAD, Friday.--A communique states that the enemy captured several trenches in the Pissa Shiwa region, but, owing to his heavy losses on Wednesday, ...

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  21. WELSH MINERS STRIKE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, meets the leaders of the Welsh coal miners, now on strike, to-morrow. The secretary of the ...

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  22. RECRUITING ACTIVELY PROCEEDING

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Of 214 volunteers for service abroad 162 passed all tests at Victoria Barracks yesterday. It is estimated that nearly 600 cricketers have ...

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  23. PRISONERS MAKE MUNITIONS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Gaols and convict establishments throughout the country have become one vast factory forewar-stores. Prisoners have doubled the output, when ...

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  24. WELSH MINERS CEASE WORK.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Cessation of work in South Wales is now general. Upwards of 120,000 men are idle. The enforcement of the Munitions Act stiffened resistance. The ...

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  25. BUTTER AND SUGAR PRICES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A meeting of the Executive Council this afternoon authorised the issue of proclamations fixing new prices for butter and sugar as follows: Butter, ...

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  26. ALLIED AIRMEN ACTIVE.

    AMSTERDAM, Friday.--The "Telegraph" correspondent states that the Allied airmen, continue actively to bomb German trenches. English airmen destroyed an ammunition ...

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  27. LACK OF HOSPITAL SHIPS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The chief trouble in the Dardanelles has been the lack of hospital ships. A contingent of Australian doctors and ...

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  28. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Norwegian steamer Ryn was torpedoed in the North Sea without warning. The second engineer was killed, and the rest of the crew landed. ...

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  29. PRICES OF COMMODITIES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Members of the Federal Opposition formed a deputation to ask the Minister for Customs to remit the general duty of 10 per cent on jute goods. ...

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  30. THE ALLIES ADVANCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--General Hamilton reports: On Monday we captured two strong lines of the third Turkish trenches and progressed 400 yards. ...

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  31. SUGGESTION TO MINERS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Pritchard Morgan, addressing a meeting at Merthyr, advocated taking possession of the mines and working them for the nation. ...

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  32. BRITISH AT KIAO-CHAU.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Edward Grey says anxiety respecting British traders at Kiao-Chau will be certain to continue until the future of the port is finally settled. ...

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  33. DARDANELLES OPERATIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A French official version of the operations in the Dardanelles relates that General Hamilton describes how the second line of trenches was carried by ...

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  34. LIVING AT LIVERPOOL CAMP.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The inquiry concerning the Liverpool Camp conditions was resumed to-day. Mr. Manning, who appeared to assist the Commissioner, said the Crown ...

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  35. TURKISH TRAFFIC SUSPENDED.

    LONDON, Thursday--Passenger and goods traffic on the Constantinople-Adrianople railway is suspended and air services are being requisitioned for the transport of ...

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  36. ALLEGED GERMAN SUCCESSES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Berlin message states that repeated attempts by the French to re-take captured positions in the Argonne collapsed. Despite the use of vast ...

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  37. SINGLE MEN FOR RECRUITS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Senator Bakhap, discussing conscription in the Senate, said inquiry had been made in Victoria as to whether recruits were married or single. The ...

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  38. BOUNTIFUL RUSSIAN HARVEST.

    LONDON, Thursday.--There is a splendid harvest in Russia and the country will be able to satisfy its own and its Allies' needs for the year if necessary. The Minister for ...

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  39. ITALIAN ASSAULTS AT GORZ.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Italians are delivering terrific assaults around Gorz. Austrian prisoners admit that the situation of their troops is grave, but declare that Bavarian ...

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  40. SOUTH AFRICAN SUCCESS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The House of Lords expressed thanks to Generals Botha and Smuts and the South African troops for their signal services in conquering German ...

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  41. INCREASED MILK PRICES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--At a special meeting of the Executive Council, a proclamation was ordered to issue raising the price of milk from 9d to 11d per gallon. The Necessary ...

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  42. A GERMAN'S MISREPRESENTATION.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--At Newcastle on Wednesday among the men who enlisted for the front was one who said he was a Russian. He passed the medical test and was ...

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  43. NORTH COAST RAILWAY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Good progress is being made on the section of the North Coast railway between Wauchope and Kempsey. Bridges over the various rivers and Creeks ...

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  44. GERMAN v. GREEK.

    LONDON, Thursday.--At the instigation of Germans, persecution of the Greeks in Thrace and Asia Minor has been renewed. Sixteen thousand Greeks, mostly destitute, ...

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  45. TERMS OF PEACE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Asquith refused to reply to a question with respect to the terms of peace Germany would be likely to entertain. ...

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  46. AUSTRALIAN ARSENALS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Munitions Conference are unanimous that the Australian manufacturers could fix up plant and machinery for shell-making. It was agreed ...

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  47. RETURN OF CONVALESCENTS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The convalescent soldiers, returning by the Kyarra, will probably proceed from the steamer to waiting trains to be despatched to their homes. ...

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  48. MINING TROUBLES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Cardiff miners decided not to accept the recommendation of the council to return to work. Latest advices state that a portion of the ...

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  49. LAND LAW ANOMALIES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--While the Minister for Lands, Mr. Ashford, was proceeding with the Bill to correct certain anomalies in the land law, it is understood, as a result of the ...

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  50. BRIGHT HARVEST PROSPECTS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Victorian Government consider that next season will be the most productive the State has ever experienced. A serious shortage of harvest labour ...

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  51. A FATAL FIRE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Barton Egan, an unmarried man, was burned to death in fire which completely detsroyed the Croydon Hotel, 18 miles from Melbourne. The ...

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  52. TERMS OF PEACE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Wise, addressing the Empire Club, said when the congress of Europe met to settle terms of peace, it would be of the highest importance that ...

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  53. DEPLETION OF DAIRY HERDS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Victorian dairymen are asking the Government for financial assistance to renew depleted dairy herds. Seventy-three dairymen within a radius of ...

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  54. AMERICAN PRODUCE EXPECTED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The steamer Golusa is expected in Sydney on Monday from San Francisco, with consignments of wheat, butter and cheese. ...

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  55. UNRELIABLE TURKS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Owing to German successes in Galicia, Young Turks decline to make adequate concessions to Bulgaria and negotiations are broken off. ...

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  56. JUNIOR UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The list of candidates who passed the Junior Public Examination, held in June last, is made available. The number of candidates who presented ...

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  57. WRECK OF A SCHOONER.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A wireless reached Suva, stating that the Pacific Cable Board's auxiliary schooner is a total wreck. Eight of the crew were rescued, but the ...

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  58. AN EXPLOSION AVERTED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A plug of gelignite was found among coal in the hold of the steamer Kooyong at Port Adelaide. The captain believes it was intentionally placed there. ...

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