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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 143 words
  3. TRADE AND FINANCE.

    If Lord Fitzwillam does clear out of his lands in the United Kingdom and invest abroad he will be only in the fashion. For the past two years external investments have been the ...

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  4. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--At to-day's London colonial wool sale there was a good selection, and the bidding was still more animated. The American buyers were operating freely in good ...

    Article : 66 words
  5. MR. WATSON AND HIS SEAT.

    The selection of a Labor candidate for South Sydney at the coming Federal elections invites attention to the peculiar position of Mr. J. C. Watson, at present officially ...

    Article : 414 words
  6. MINIMUM WAGE ACT.

    The Minimum Wage Act has always furnished abundant topic for discussion, hence the working of the measure, as referred to in the report of the Department of Labor and Industry, is of ...

    Article : 279 words
  7. THE METAL MARKETS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Copper on spot closed yesterday at £58 1s 3d to £58 6s 3d (unaltered): and at three months at £58 15s to £59 (2s 6d lower). Electrolytic copper, at £59 15s,' was 5s ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. CHINESE AND FURNITURE.

    The Chinese, at least so far as those who live in Australia are concerned, has always manifested both a liking and an aptitude for the construction of various articles of ...

    Article : 137 words
  9. WHEAT CARGOES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The cargoes of Australian wheat, by the Gretchen and the Hartrodt both realised the same price, 45s 1½d per quarter. ...

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  10. AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The visible supply of wheat in the United States is 14,699,000 bushels, as compared with 16,592,000 a week ago, and with 18,660,000 in the corresponding week last year. ...

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  11. Advertising

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  12. PUBLIC COMPANIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British Broken-hill Proprietary Co. announces that it is remodelling its lead-mill, and adding a zinc-extraction plant on the Elmore process. It has arranged with ...

    Article : 85 words
  13. INCREASING THEIR BURDENS.

    The dissatisfaction among postal officials is likely to increase with the inauguration of Federal old-age pensions, as they will be called upon to add to their other duties the payment ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. MILITARY STAFF TRAINING.

    Very satisfactory progress is being made with the work of the course of training for tho Instructional Staff of the Military Forces, now in progress at Victoria Barracks. All branches of ...

    Article : 190 words
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    Advertising : 36 words
  16. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 words
  17. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 707 words
  18. IN FEDERAL SESSION.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The debate on the "no-confidence" motion was carried on again this afternoon and to-night. Some of the Labor members sought to interpose another discussion ...

    Article : 205 words
  19. THE QUESTION OF OVERTIME.

    The report on the working of the Factories and Shops Act admonishes shopkeepers generally for the apparently lax manner in which they are inclined to treat this particular measure. ...

    Article : 343 words
  20. "THEY WOULD TURN UP THEIR NOSES."

    Railroad travellers often tell, the yarn about the tough beef steak commonly met with at the wayside refreshment room, which permits initials to be carved upon it. The rest of the ...

    Article : 211 words
  21. THE PROBLEM OF THE WORKLESS.

    The pathetic character of the difficulty represented to Mr. Wade by an unemployed deputation yesterday is emphasised by the difficulty of doing anything to effectually ...

    Article : 382 words
  22. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR.

    By the retirement of Prince Bulow from the office of Imperial Chancellor Germany loses the most brilliant and forceful holder of that high office since Bismarck. Prince ...

    Article : 766 words
  23. Advertising

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  24. IN STATE SESSION.

    Members of the Legislative Assembly met at 4.15 yesterday afternoon to go through the formula of calling upon the Governor and presenting him with the Address-in-Reply. No ...

    Article : 497 words
  25. IMMIGRATION ADVERTISEMENTS.

    Last evening the Premier stated that in view of Mr. Carmichael's statements about wild advertisements of certain agents in London with regard to immigration as having been ...

    Article : 223 words
  26. MR. REID AS A LAND REFORMER.

    In his references to land policy in the Federal Parliament on Wednesday Mr. Reid said that he was referring to the question "in general terms." Generalising, ...

    Article : 866 words
  27. FEDERAL QUARANTINE.

    Dr. W. Perrin Norris, the newly-appointed Director of Quarantine, passed through Sydney yesterday on his way from Melbourne to Brisbane and took advantage of his short stay in ...

    Article : 144 words
  28. HOW TO THINK.

    "Knowledge consists of mental connections or relations," so Professor Francis Anderson, M.A., in the course of his lecture at the Trades-hall last night. Finding connections may be hard, ...

    Article : 164 words
  29. ESTATES FOR RESUMPTION.

    The Minister for Lands has given the Legislative Assembly notice of his intention to move, under the provisions of the Closer Settlement (Amendment) Act, 1907, that the House approves ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. THE CRIMINAL'S CHANCE.

    Only a qualified, consolation is to be extracted from the statistics contained in the annual report of the Police Department for the year 1908, for though fewer arrests ...

    Article : 345 words
  31. Advertising

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  32. MORALITY OF SATURDAY CLOSING.

    A great many arguments have been advanced in evidence before the Saturday Half-holiday Commission in opposition to the proposal for a universal half-holiday on Saturday in the ...

    Article : 248 words
  33. SMALL BIRDS AND PESTS.

    A word of warning to those, who ruthlessly destroy the natural fauna of a country was given by Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bart, at a meeting of the Wild Life Preservation Society last ...

    Article : 149 words
  34. GENERAL NEWS.

    "The committee do it now, and they're irresponsible," explained Speaker M'Court, when lamenting before the Public Works Committee yesterday afternoon the absence from the ...

    Article : 273 words
  35. THE MAILS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 words
  36. RELIC OF BULLY HAYES.

    The schooner Concord, which recently returned to Honolulu after a cruise among the islands brought back a brass swivel gun which was part of the equipment of "Bully" Hayes, the famous ...

    Article : 274 words
  37. OUR BLACK BROTHERS.

    In connection with the references made to aboriginal camps, during the censure debate, a report on an aboriginal school just issued' by Inspector Henderson of Grafton district, is of ...

    Article : 258 words
  38. IRRITATING OFFICIALISM.

    The port of Sydney will speedily earn an unenviable reputation among shipmasters and passengers if the preposterous action of the Customs officials in holding up the ...

    Article : 385 words
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