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  2. TUG CREWS STRIKE.

    The crews of 400 tugs used for convoying and towing shipping into the harbor struck on Thursday night until a demand for higher wages and shorter hours ...

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  3. LATEST GABLE NEWS.

    The Norge landed in darkness. The landing was assisted by searchlights. Three hundred soldiers of the Red Army towed the dirigible to a hangar. ...

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  4. PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN.

    The Minister of Trade and Customs (Mr. H. E. Pratten) said to-day that doubtless Mr. Lang meant well by issuing a Government order fixing tie terms ...

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  5. VIEWS AND COMMENTS.

    From MRS. A. K. GOODE:—A paragraph appeared in Friday's issue in reference to my remarks on the probation intern at a meeting of the Liberal Women's ...

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  6. HOURS REDUCED.

    In the Federal Arbitration Court, today, Mr. Justice Powers delivered judgment granting the application of the Marine Stewards" and Pantrymen's ...

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  7. THE NORGE.

    The Norge landed at Catena, 38 mile south of Len[?] at 7.30 this evening. ...

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  8. THE COUNTRY.

    April 15.-A meeting of citizens was held to-night in the institute to consider the "Black to Port Pirie proposal. The Mayor (Mr. J. C. Fitzgerald, M.P.) ...

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  9. CANADIAN BUDGET.

    In the House of Commons on Thursday the Minister for Finance (Mr. Robb) delivered his Budget Speech. The Minister announced tax reductions ...

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  10. GOLF AT ROE HAMPTON.

    [?] ...

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  11. A LABOR SHORTAGE.

    The Labor Department has reported that the United States is facing a serious employment problem, with the prospect of the first widespread labor shortage since the ...

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  12. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    The Australian cricketers arrived in Paris last night. All are well. They are visiting Versailles to-day. Macartney, Malley and Gregory have gone to London. ...

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  13. THE GILLEN-LAFFER CASE.

    The Privy Council has granted the former South Australian Minister of Re[?] (Mr. G. R. Leffer) special leave to appeal against the judgment of the ...

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  14. PROSPECTING GRANTS.

    The Minister for Home and Territories (Senator Pearce), interviewed to-night regarding the caustic criticism by the Minister of Mines (Mr. Troy) on the assistance ...

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  15. AUSTRALIANS OF TO-DAY.

    At a banquet last night, in honor of his visit, the Governor-General (Lord Stonchaven) said that it was up to every Australian to contribute his little bit ...

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  16. ATTACKED WITH PENKNIFE.

    "Your Honor never gave me the fighting chance that I gave to my country," said Jeremiah Patrick Daly, after he was sentenced this morning by Acting Judge ...

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  17. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

    Daring a series of meetings in Melbourne this week the recently appointed members of the executive committee of the Institute of Science and Industry have familiarised ...

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  18. EMPIRE BILLIARDS.

    The second match (2,000 up) in the Empire billiards championship, was concluded to-night at Thurston's when Earlam (England) 2,000, beat McCluney (North of ...

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  19. A [?]

    On April 11, Mr. P. J. Calber, of Linwood, celebrated his [?] birthday. He was born in [?] [?] ...

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  20. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. H. G. Wyndham Gray, of Compton Pauncefote, Somerset, and formerly of Canterbury, New Zealand, left an estate of £79,523. ...

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  21. WRESTLING IN AMERICA.

    At Portland to-day Thye defeated Billy Edwards, of Kansas City, by two straight falls. ...

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  22. DANGEROUS TRAFFIC.

    From "SAFETY ALWAYS":—In view of the danger caused by the congestion of traffic in Rundle-street, could not the traffic regulations be amended to the ...

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  23. COMMONWEALTH POSITIONS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) left for Sydney this afternoon to attend a Cabinet meeting, this will decide, among other tilings, the future holders of several, or ...

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  24. "WILDFLOWER."

    The latest J. C. Williamson musical comedy, "Wildflower," will be presented at the Theatre Royal to-night. Miss Marie Burke, who will play the temperamental ...

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  25. PETERBOROUGH.

    April 16.-At the Police Court to-day, before Mr. W. J. [?] S. M. James P. Keane, licensee of the Federal Hotel, Peterborough, was charged with having on ...

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  26. VERA LADY CATHCART.

    On behalf of Vera Countess Cathcart, the United States Federal Court was recently asked for a writ of habeas corpus by Mr. Arthur Garfield Hayes, counsel ...

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  27. AUSTRALIAN CLERICAL ASSOCIATION.

    Mr. L. G. [?] the general of the Australian [?] stated to-day that he had [?] Mr. [?] ...

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  28. THE FREMANTLE RAIDS.

    Arising out of the raids by detectives on three constables' [?] at Fremantle on Tuesday night, [?] have been issued for the arrest of Constable Daniel Samuel ...

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  29. TRANSPORT UNION GROUP.

    In future no one section of the transport group is to declare a strike unless and until the group has thoroughly discussed the issue at stake. The transport group, which ...

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  30. [?] OFFENCE.

    The report of the Food Council on [?] weight and [?] the President of the Board of Trade was recently mode public ...

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  31. ELECTION REFORM.

    The Federal Election Reform Committee continued its sittings to-day, when Mr. R. H. Allars, Commonwealth Electoral Officer, resumed his evidence. He said that under ...

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  32. KNOCKED DOWN BY A MOTOR CAR

    At 7.20 p.m. on Friday Mr. David Fisher, of Glanville, was knocked down by a motor car in Commercial-road, Port Adelaide He was not serlously injured. ...

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  33. LOSS MEMORY.

    An extraordinary case of a woman who temporarily lost her memory and walked about the city streets for tours carrying £2,000 in notes in her hand, was reported ...

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  35. OVER-LOADING SHIPS.

    The Royal assent has been given to last session's Bill, raising to £1,000 the maximum fine for ships entering New Zealand ports with their loadline submerged. The ...

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  36. AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.

    The Australian Commissioner (Sir James Elder), in an address at Seattle to-day, on the conclusion of a tour of America, which, lasted 18 months, said the trade ...

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  37. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The Chess Championship of Australasia was won last night by Mr. Spencer Crakanthorp, of New South Wales. Woinarski was second, C. J. S. Purdy third, and ...

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  38. GERMAN REPATRIATION TRUST

    Mr. F. Davison, the representative of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on the German Verge Repatriation Trust, has resigned ...

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  39. RATES OF EXCHANGE.

    The following are the rates of exchange in London, previous quotations being shown in parentheses:— (128.00) Brussels (parity 25.22½ franes to ...

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  40. MELBOURNE PROPERTY.

    By the purchase of the "Argus" office building, in Collins-street, Sir George Tallis and Mr. John Tail have completed a series of notable property transactions ...

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  41. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    The Coroner has decided that an inquest is unnecessary in connection with the death at Flinders Park on Wednesday evening of Miss Ruby Elsie Burgoyne, who ...

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  42. WHAT IS LIFE?

    Another step towards solving the riddle, "What is life?" has been made by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the Botanical Research Department of the Carnegie ...

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  43. BROKEN HILL MINE FATALITY.

    Mr. Reginald James Stewart (20), single, a mullocker, was killed by falling down an ore chute at the 350-ft. level to-day. He was engaged in mulllocking operations, and ...

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  44. OZONE THEATRE, ALBERTON,

    The old story of the girl who wants to marry a man, and the mother who objects to the union, will be viewed from a new angle at the O[?] Theatre, Alberton, to ...

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  45. THE SEAMEN'S UNION.

    The Newcastle seamen held a meeting to-day, and heard an address by Mr. T. Walsh, the ex-president of the Seamen's Union. Although Mr. Walsh received an ...

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  46. A JOCKEY INJURED.

    J. Case, the rider of Scarlet Direct at the Junee trotting meeting on Wednesday was, after the horse fell, found face downward the mud, and almost smothered ...

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  47. AUSTRALIA'S PROGRESS.

    Bishop Robert L. Paddock, of the American Episcopal Church, who, with his wife, arrived on the Diogenes to-day, expressed the opinion that Australia had progressed ...

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  48. KILLED BY A COUNTER-WEIGHT.

    K. Oswald Montfort (30), electrician, was struck on the head by a connterweight in a lift well of a building in Oxford-street to-day and killed. ...

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  49. OZONE THEATRES: PORT AND SEMAPHORE.

    The inscrutable desert, which Edwin Carewe pictured in such masterly fashion in bis photo-drama. "Son of the Sahara," will again be seen in National's ...

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  50. PLAYING SAFE

    A troupe of amateur actors, whose existence as such was due solely to their ambition, has been booked to appear in a rough mining town out West. ...

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  51. RUN OVER BY A TRAP.

    Jean Bradbrook, the eight year old daughter of Mr. F. Bradbrook, of Kadina, while playing with others in the vicinity of the public school yesterday afternoon, ...

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  52. OPIUM TRAFFIC.

    Leo Hing, an elderly Chinese, who [?] his fifth. appearance on a charge of having been in possession of opium suitable per smoking was fined £50 in the City Court ...

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  53. VICTIM OF MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    Miss Rubby Slater (28) of Paddington, who with four others was seriously injured in a motor car accident at Parramatta on March 7, died on Thursday. ...

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