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  2. THE FEDERAL SESSION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The work of the session just closed has in six months changed the Government of the Commonwealth, readjusted party relations by ...

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  3. AUSTRALIAN BUSH NURSING.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Several hundreds of ladies and gentlemen assembled to-night by invitation in the ballroom at Federal Government House to consider the Australian bush ...

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  4. PERSONAL.

    Lord Chelmsford, the Misses Thesiger, and Master Thesiger, accompanied by Sir Alexander Napier, visited Sutton Forest public school (near Moss Vale) yesterday afternoon. ...

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    THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOR PARTY'S CHOICE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. WEST WALLSEND PROTESTS.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--An enthusiastic mass meeting of minors was held at West Wallsend to-night. The feeling throughout the big crowd that gathered outside the Museum ...

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  7. "TRAITORS TO THE KING."

    A speaker who mounted a platform in the vicinity of the Trades-hall last night moved a resolution to the effect "that the members of the Wade Government were traitors to his ...

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  8. COAL FOR SYDNEY HOSPITAL.

    A well known firm in the city has very generously offered to keep the Sydney Hospital supplied with coal during the strike free of charge, provided that arrangements can be' ...

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  9. MR. LEWIS REMANDED.

    GUNNEDAH, Wednesday.-- Mr. Amram Lewis was again before the Police Court to-day, the warrant for his arrest having arrived. The accused was remanded to Newcastle. Bail was ...

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  10. POSITION IN THE WEST.

    LITHGOW, Wednesday.-- At a special general meeting of the Eskbank Iron and Steel Workers' Association, to consider the situation at the ironworks, it was decided to let things go on as ...

    Article : 615 words
  11. THE ZOO AFFECTED.

    The influence of the strike has extended to the Zoological Society's Gardens at Moore Park. At yesterday's meeting of the council of the society it was reported that the attendance was ...

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  12. FEDERAL ARBITRATION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Referring to-day to Mr. Justice Isaacs's decision not to intervene in the coal dispute, Mr. Webb, president of the Victorian Coal Miners' Association, stated ...

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  13. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--It is expected that the first of the new torpedo-destroyers will be launched in January. She will reach Melbourne in the middle of next year. ...

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  14. THE COMING OF CHRISTMAS.

    None of the southern or western owners had heard of a rumor current in Newcastle yesterday that the miners in those districts were about to return to work. One and all were ...

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  15. AFTER THE STRIKE-- CO-OPERATION.

    Sir,-- Twenty thousand men out of work for one month at an average of 7 per day represents in wages alone £210,000. Think of it! This huge sum of money irretrievably lost to this country, which has the ...

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  16. MONEY IN DUST HEAPS.

    KATOOMBA, Wednesday.-- Messrs. Jones Bros., of Sydney, have purchased from Mr. J. B. North the slack from his mine here. Before the strike this was considered useless rubbish. ...

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  17. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    ORANGE, Wednesday.-- This afternoon as Mr. Moore, proprietor of the Orange freezing works, accompanied by Messrs. Fox, Martin, Mrs. Moore, and Mrs. J. Barry, and Mrs. MacBarry, ...

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  18. AID FOR THE STRIKERS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- The secretary to the Trades-ball Council, Mr. S. Barker, to-day, on behalf of the council, remitted to the secretary of the Sydney Trades-hall Council the sum ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. WE SHALL GET WHAT WE DESERVE.

    Sir,-- I am deeply grateful to your correspondent, "Straight Wire," for his commonsense way of putting the whole matter. It is, indeed, merely a case of "survival of the fittest." As Dickinson points out in his "Modern ...

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  20. YESTERDAY'S CONGRESS MEETING.

    The Strike Congress was sitting for several hours yesterday, and at its conclusion its mouthpiece remarked that there was nothing for publication. ...

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  21. THE NEW PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE.

    Our London correspondent wrote on November 5:--The appointment of Mr. R. D. Watt, M.A., B.Sc., F.C.S., the first Professor of Agriculture ...

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  22. PECKED IN THE EYE BY A SNIPE.

    BELLINGER, Wednesday.-- Mr. Tulle, of Hydes Creeke, met with a peculiar accident, which may result seriously. He had fired at and wounded a snipe, and, having secured the bird, was ...

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  23. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,--Two things may be done: either insist on the coal mines being worked within 48 hours (with free labor it if necessary), or the Government should import foreign coal in large quantities, and sell to the public at cost ...

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  24. THE SHIPPING.

    The steamer Nairnshire, of the F.H.S. Line, from Liverpool, finished the discharge of Sydney cargo yesterday, and left during the afternoon for New Zealand with the balance. She has ...

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  25. STATE COAL MINES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- A bill providing for the establishment of a State coal mine was passed by the Legislative Assembly to-night. ...

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  26. THE PRESENT COAL CRISIS.

    Sir,--To my mind it seems that the cause of the whole trouble is the excessive power put at the discretion of the trades unions, the which, when that power is exercised even to a limited degree, it becomes a menace to the ...

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  27. DEATH OF AN INFANT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- At the inquest on the body of the Illegitimate child of Margaret M'Kay, at Warrnambool, to day, Margaret M'Kay stated that on the evening of November ...

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  28. ME. O'SULLIVAN, M.L.A., AND THE STRIKE.

    Sir,-- Owing to my efforts to get more labor member, into the City Council, and a breakdown in health over it, I have not been enabled to take part in the press discussions and meetings in connection with the strike. ...

    Article : 444 words
  29. A DRASTIC PROPOSAL.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Mr. Graham, the Victorian Minister for Agriculture, thinks that the New South Wales Government should take possession of the Newcastle mines in the name ...

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  30. NOVITIATE TRAINING COLLEGE.

    BATHURST, Wednesday.-- The St. Joseph's Mount Novitiate Training College, recently presented by Mr. John Meagher, M.L.C., to the Convent of Mercy, was officially opened today ...

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  31. "BROTHER-WORKER."

    Sir,--Through the various stages of the present strike none to me presents such a ludicrous phase as the writing by the union's to their "brother-worker" in Japan, asking his sympathy and help. I wonder what our ...

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  32. "IN THE WASTE-PAPER BASKET."

    PERTH, Wednesday.-- The local court some few weeks ago gave a verdict for £60 against H. B. Albert, book agent. The amount was claimed under a contract for ...

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  33. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Mr. Deakin, in reply to Mr. Mahon (W.A.), in the House of Representatives to-day, said that the next Federal elections would take place about a fortnight ...

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  34. ANOTHER STORY.

    While it would appear that the workers as a body have nothing but abuse to throw at the present Government, because of its industrial legislation, it comes somewhat as a surprise to ...

    Article : 223 words
  35. THE COMBINES.

    Sir,-- As referred to by Judge Heydon yesterday, the public, that is the nation as a whole, suffer through: (a) The Arbitration Court not being in full control of all industrial disputes, whereas the authorities ...

    Article : 201 words
  36. VICTORIA.

    The theory at first entertained, that the death of Mrs. Wihelmina Opper, near the St. Kilda Cricket Ground, may have been due to foul play, has been abandoned. The police now ...

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  37. TO-DAY.

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  38. COMBINES AND UNIONS. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,-- Would any of your numerous readers be good enough to inform an ignoramus who seeks knowledge the difference between combine and union? Some of my funny friends tell me it has just the same meaning as ...

    Article : 180 words
  39. LATE SPORTING.

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  40. SALES OF TALLOW.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 words
  41. MELBOURNE-SYDNEY MOTOR RECORD.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Mr. G. G. White, the well-known Adelaide sportsman, is about to attempt to lower the motoring record from Melbourne to Sydney, and at the same time as ...

    Article : 122 words
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    The Harbor Trust directs attention to the provisions of the Sydney Harbor Trusts (Reclamations and Leasing) Act, 1905, under which the rights granted by the Crown to reclaim certain lands on the foreshores of Port ...

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  43. OUR CHANCE.

    Sir,--I am only a poor free laborer, and have only been a few years in Australia. I came to this country hoping to better my condition, and by hard work get on, and see my boys in a better position than I was. ...

    Article : 247 words
  44. Advertising

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  45. THE SOUTHERN MINES.

    Sir,-- As I am a disinterested party, having no share in coal mines or factories using coal, may I be allowed to say a word as to the folly of the southern miners losing the trade that has with great difficulty been built up ...

    Article : 560 words
  46. THE MISSIONERS.

    A MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- The three New South Wales members of the Parliamentary Labor Party and Mr. Watkins, M.H.R., have concluded their mission to Victoria and ...

    Article : 109 words
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