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  2. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--At Benalla, Victoria last night, Mr. Hughes the (Prime Minister) pledged, himself not to enforce inscription either by statute or regulation ...

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  3. AUSTRALASIA.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--There is a balance of £1,500,000 in the Common wealth fluids in aid of discharged soldiers and their dependents. ...

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  4. OPEN COLUMN.

    Sir,--For many years past I have taken a great interest in good fodder plants, for which thers is always a good demand, but' as yet it appears to me that owners of stock ...

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  5. LATEST SPORTING.

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  6. ANOTHER NAVAL BRUSH.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir D. Haig reports:--The enemy endeavored to re-attack our new position in the neighborhood, of Gavrelle. Our artillery barrage caught the advancing ...

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  7. AMERICA IN THE WAR.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--It is announced that Mr. A. Balfour and Mr. McAdoo, the United States Treasurer, have reached a complete understanding on the questions of ...

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  8. AGAINST SHOUTING

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Before the National Council of Women yesterday Mrs. Lawer Owen advocated that a petition be sent to the Government against shouting, and that ...

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  9. MR. HUGHES REPEATS HITS PROMISE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--We hope and believe, he added, that the tide of victory is now flowing strongly for the Allies, and that before long they will be triumphant. We shall ...

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  10. CONSCRIPTION BILL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Conscription Bill is expected to pass the United States House of Representatives by a majority of 70. ...

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  11. ANZACS AND FRENCH ARRIVE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Another batch of sick and wounded soldiers, accompanied by 10 French, who were en route to Noumea, reached Sydney to-day and were given an ...

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  12. FRENCH REPRESENTATIVES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--President Wilson cordially welcomed General Joffre and M. Viviani. ...

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  13. FOOD PROBLEM.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The food situation in Britain is undeuiably grave. There is serious danger of famine conditions unless consumption is immediately curtailed. The ...

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  14. AVIATOR KILLED.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Lieut. Powell, of Coburg, Victoria, while flying at Northolt lost control of his machine, which crashed to the ground, killing him. ...

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  15. CASINO WEIGHTS.

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  16. THE RIGHT TO CRITICISE.

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.--The President announces that he is opposed to any system of censorship that would deny to the people of the United States their indisputable right ...

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  17. NEED OF REINFORCEMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Chaplain-General McKay, of Victoria, who returned from the front in an interview said: "After what I have seen at the various fronts it is startling ...

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  18. THE INDIFFERENT VOTER.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Archbishop Wright states that at last elections there were 200,000 missing voters; he trusts they will register on Saturday week. ...

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  19. ENEMY ATTACK FRENCH POSITIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The enemy north of the Aisne vainly re-attempted to drive, the French away from Plateaux Chemaide, also twice powerfully but unsuccessfully ...

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  20. WHEAT ADVANCE.

    CHICAGO, Thursday.--Wheat has advanced by long jumps to a new record. ...

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  21. OZANNE'S CANDIDATURE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Sergeant-Major Greshani, addressing a meeting at Geelong in support, of Sergt. A. T. Ozanne, said he was prepared to disbelieve General ...

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  22. THE BALKANS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Prisoners' statements indicate that the English attack near Lake Doiran on Tuesday was intended to have far reaching result's, but, according to ...

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  23. GERMAN ADVANCE CLAIMED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A German report says Attacking waves thrice stormed our positions southwards of the Scarpe, and we were thrice compelled to withdraw our ...

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  24. GREAT SACRIFICES NECESSARY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Lord Lytton stated in the House of Lords, referring to the situation of Britain, that the position of our enemies was infinitely worse than ours. ...

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  25. CORNDALE WAR CHEST.

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  26. ENEMY TRENCHES CAPTURED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A French Macedonian communique says:--The British attacked west, of Lake Doiran on the nights of the 24th and 25th and captured trenches ...

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  27. RIGID SELF-DENIAL URGED.

    LONDON, Friday.--The whole press speaks in the gravest tone of the food menace, exhorting everybody to realise that the situation is serious and must be resolutely ...

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  28. GERMAN SACRIFICES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Reuter's correspondent at headquarters says it is clearly evident the Germans intend to make every sacrifice. Though they are lacking well ...

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  29. A NATIONALIST STALEMATE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Pratten, one of the Nationalist candidates, speaking at Young said we are not conscriptionists and added that a Nationalist, victory in the ...

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  30. NAVAL ENGAGEMENT

    PARIS, Thursday.--A naval communique says:--A squadron of German destroyers bombed Dunkirk for 30 minutes on the night of the 25th. The coast batteries replied. ...

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  31. WAR CHEST-MEETING.

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  32. WILD PROMISES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Speaking in support, of the candidature of Mr, Nicholls, the Labor candidate for Macquarie, Senator Gardiner said "Mr. William Watt, who ...

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  33. ALLEGED DEFRAUDING.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The case in which Thomas Waters, an officer of the Works Department, was charged with inciting to conspire and defraud the King of large sums of ...

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  34. REPATRIATION

    Sir.--Next to winning the war repatriation is the subject of many fine empty speeches Senator Millen has now taken the subject in hand and he must needs talk in a large ...

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  35. ENEMY'S LOSSES.

    PARIS, Thursday.--"Le Matin" says that, fighting is momentarily less intense The trenches of the enemy are full of bodies, the losses being 20 per cent, of ...

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  36. COMPULSORY RATIONING.

    LONDON, Friday.--The "Times" political correspondent, says the Government, sees no alternative but for compulsory rationing and food tickets coming in a few weeks, and ...

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  37. A PRIEST'S FEAT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Fr. Clune, brother of the Bishop of Perth, and an old, white boarded padre in the N.S.W. Battalion, and who is famous for haunting the front, of the ...

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  38. ATTEMPTED RAID DRIVEN OFF.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Field Marshal Sir D. Haig reports:--We drove off an attempted, raid south-eastward of Ypres. There has been considerable reciprocal artillery ...

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  39. THE SOLDIERS' VOTE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Australian soldiers are displaying increased interest in the political situation and all on furlough are voting. Mr. McGrath expresses the ...

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  40. PRINCE KARL'S BODY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons Lord Robt. Cecil said a neutral sovereign on behalf of the Kaiser asked that Prince Karl's body be sent to Germany. The ...

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  41. SUBMARINE STRIFE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The American schooner Percy Bardall was destroyed without warning by submarine gunfire. The survivors were rescued. ...

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  42. MR. PIGGOTT' AND WHEAT FARMERS.

    SYDNEY, Friday,--Mr. Piggott, the National candidate for Calare, declares that in three years the farmers of Australia have lost £6,485,000, and the reason was because ...

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  43. GERMAN ATTACKS NOT RENEWED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Frensh communique records great reciprocal artillerying in the west end section of Belgium. The Germans have not renewed their attacks ...

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  44. GRAVITY OF THE POSITION.

    LONDON, Friday.--In the House of Lords Lord Beresford said the submarine losses were terrifying the public, who should be told more of the gravity of the position. ...

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  45. IRELAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law indicated the possibility of a solution of the Irish question. Mr. Lloyd George would make a ...

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  46. AN APPEAL FOR SOCKS.

    An urgent appeal, for 100,000'pairs of machine 'or hand knitted socks, by the end of May, for the troops at the front comes from Mr. Budden, of Sydney War Chest. To speed ...

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  47. SHIPPING FIGURES.

    PARIS, Friday.--Official:--The arrivals for the week: ended April 22 were 993 and the sailings 923. The sinkings comprised one vessel over 1600 tons and two fishing ...

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  48. LABOR AFFAIRS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Newcastle iron workers are giving 14 days' notice of their intention, to cease work unless their claims are granted. ...

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  49. NEUTRAL VESSELS

    AMSTERDAM, Friday.--A Berlin report states that the Germans have offered safe conduct to neutral vessels sheltering in British harbors with foodstuffs for their ...

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  50. ENEMY TEMPORARILY EXHAUSTED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Robinson, the "Times" correspondent, reports that the last 24 hours were comparatively quiet. The Germans attempted to develop further ...

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  51. SENATOR MILLEN'S TOUR.

    GRAFTON, Friday.--Senator Millen, a candidate for the Senate, addressed successful meetings at Dorrigo to-day and Grafton to-night. ...

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  52. RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Reuter's Petrograd correspondent says the Germans are unremitting in their attempts to parley with the Russian soldiers, displaying placards Don't ...

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  53. BROKEN HILL MINERS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Broken Hili miners intend to hold, a referendum on the question of the abolition of night, shift in the mines. ...

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  54. A PHASE OF THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The correspondent Robinson says:--A much more valuable present phase of the war is to kill 50,000 Germans and gain half a mile than to gain five ...

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  55. SPAIN

    MADRID, Friday.--The Reformist Party, in a manifesto, demands the abandonment of neutrality aud a rupture with Germany. ...

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  56. SENATE ELECTION, 5TH MAY.

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  57. BOARD OF APPEAL.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The Minister for Local Government received a deputation from representatives of the Local Government. Clerks' Association inviting his ...

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  58. RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY AWARD

    SYDNEY Friday.--The enormous additional expense entailed in the rail way service was referred to by Judge Rolia in the Industrial Court to-day, when judgment in the ...

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  59. ANOTHER PEACE KITE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The "Daily Mail" reports that rumors from Hague, Berne aud Amsterdam show the Germanic Allies are preparing another peace, kite. ...

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  60. BONAR LAW'S SON A PRISONER.

    AMSTERDAM, Friday.--The "Lokal Anzeiger" says that Mr. Bonar Law's son is a prisoner of the Turks in Palestine. ...

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  61. POSSIBLE DARDANELLES CONCESSION.

    LONDON, Friday.--Count Reventlow informs the German press that Talaat Pasha is visiting Germany and conferring with the naval and military experts regarding ...

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  62. METHODICAL PROGRESS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Robinson reports:--There has been methodical progress on the Queant line, particularly near Gaemappe and Gavrelle. We advanced ...

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  63. AUSTRIAN IRON TRUST DISSOLVED.

    ZURICH, Friday.--The Austrian Iron Trust has been dissolved. This is a blow to German industrial influence in Austria as the trust was backed by German capital. ...

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  64. A VALLEY TRAGEDY.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--A tragic shooting case occurred at Brunswick-st., Valley, this morning. Henry Smith, a returned soldier, shot his wife, Johannah, in the head with a ...

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  65. THE WAR LOAN.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The most important feature which has occurred in Sydney financial circles for close on twelve months is the fact that the war loan has been at a premium ...

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  66. EAST AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Large operations in East Africa have been suspended in consequence of the wettest season on record. A large German hospital surrendered owing to ...

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  67. UPPER HOUSE.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--Argument was concluded in the application of certain members, of the Legislative Council tor an injunction restraining the Government from taking a ...

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  68. STATE POLITICS.

    PERTH, Friday.--Mr. Holman, in the course, of a brief interview at Fremantle, remarked: "It cannot be too definitely stated that the National Government has come to ...

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  69. A CONFERENCE AT STOCKHOLM.

    STOCKHOLM, Friday.--The Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark will confer at Stockholm from 9th to 11th May. ...

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  70. AERIAL ACTIVITY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--It is reported the newest Zeppelin has been destroyed in a storm during its trial and the crew killed. Such of the cable news on this page as is ...

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  71. FIRE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A fire broke out at Narrabeea early this morning and resulted in a motor garage with its contents of two motor buses and three motor cars being ...

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  72. A.M.P. SOCIETY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--There was a large attendance at the annual meeting of the A.M.P. Society. The Chairman, Mr. Meeks, M.L.C., said that the operations pointed to a ...

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  73. MAIL ROBBERS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--In connection with the recent robberies of registered mail at the G.P.O., a Board of Inquiry has been sitting for the past two months inquiring into the ...

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  74. GERMAN STRIKERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A report from Amsterdam states that a million German men and women munition workers threatened a food strike on 1st May. The Government ...

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  75. GOVERNOR FEASTED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--An enthusiastic farewell dinner was tendered the State Governor at the Town Hall. His Excellency emphasised the need for all classes ...

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  76. FORGED NOTES CIRCULATED

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--About, five dozen forged £5 notes have been circulated in Melbourne. ...

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  77. MINING RETURNS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The mining output of New South Wales for last year was nearly £11,000,000. ...

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