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  2. THROW OUT YOUR CHEST!

    Eighteen months ago the Department of Public Instruction issued a report on the "Physical Condition of the Public School Children of New South Wales," which attracted world-wide ...

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  3. GOOD LYDDITE PRACTICE.

    The howitzer battery-- No. 5 A.F.A.--did a good day's work yesterday. Having shelled an imaginary battery of Camden Artillery out of its supposed position on Red Bluff Ridge. ...

    Article : 776 words
  4. THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

    Top row (left to right): Messrs. B. F. Hanson (Coal Lumpers), G. Gallagher (Cold Storage), J. Broke (Wharf Laborers), Captain Dakin (Masters and Engineers), J. Woods (Progressive Carpenters), H. Hemstock (Australasian Engineers), J. M. Donald (Bricklayers), E. W. Cutter (Furniture Trades). H. Lilley (Australasian Engineers). Second row Messrs H. Thyer (United Furniture Trades), T. Storey (Amalgamated Engineers), R. Mahoney (Ship Painters), W. H. Edwards (Seamen), T. Miller (Storemen), G. Lewis (Millers) W. Macey (Wharf Laborers), W. O'Nell (Boilermakers), M'Millan (Ship Painters), H. M. Dermott (Storemen), A. W. Hampton (Boilermakers). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 215 words
  5. SOME FEDERAL CANDIDATES

    Mr. Webster represented the Gwydir electorate in the last Parliament. He is a keen debater, and possesses a rare ability for dissecting speeches. He broke all records in the way of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  6. NEWCASTLE.

    Eight of the nine miners' delegates, Messrs. Ben Rees, P. Sneddon, T. Pease, G. Neilly, F. Watson, W. Littlefair, E. Parkes, and Stenhouse, who were fined £10, or two months' ...

    Article : 334 words
  7. MR. DAVID ROBERT HALL

    Mr. Hall has a strenuous fight before him, as the Liberal Party are determined to regain this seat. He is a barrister- at-law by profession, and a forcible platform speaker, who had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 140 words
  8. NEWCASTLE SCHOOLS. MAYOR'S CHARGES REPEATED.

    At last night's council meting, the Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Reid) repeated his charges regarding the insanitary condition of the public and high schools. When the report of the ...

    Article : 555 words
  9. MAKING FOR HEALTH.

    The annual meeting of the Health Society of New South Wales was held at the Town-hall yesterday. Professor Anderson Stuart presided. The chairman referred to the work of the ...

    Article : 482 words
  10. THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--A return prepared for the Minister for Customs shows that in the years 1906-1909 inclusive, 4479lb. of opium wore seized in New South Wales, of the estimated ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. THE ARBITRATION LAW.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. Justice Higgins heard argument on behalf of the employees for an amendment to the proposed awards by the ...

    Article : 902 words
  12. "IN A NUTSHELL."

    ANXIETY TO OBTAIN CONTROL OVER THE STATES' DEBTS? THERE IS SOMETHING BEHIND IT -- THE STATES' ASSETS, SUCH AS THE ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. MR. JOHN MOORE CHANTER

    Mr. Chanter, who describes himself as an agent, and gives his address as Moama and Melbourne, entered the New South Wales Parliament in October, 1886, being returned by the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 143 words
  14. OVERCROWDED TRAINS.

    BULLI, Monday.--At the last meeting of the Bulli Shire Council Cr. Kirton stated that last Easter Monday 12 months ago he saw in a railway carriage on the Illawarra line 36 people ...

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  15. AUSTRALIA'S GRAND OLD WOMAN.

    For several years Miss Catherine Helen Spence who died full of years and work at Adelaide on Sunday, had been known as the "Grand Old Woman of Australia." And she thoroughly ...

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  16. NORTHERN TERITORY SEIZURES.

    PORT DARWIN, Monday.--A Chinese passenger by the Changsha was found by Customs Officer Pott to have 20 tins of opium concealed in a false bottom of his box. He appeared ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. CUSTOMS CLEARANCES.

    The following vessels were cleared at the Custom-house yesterday:--Aikoku Maru, str., for Manila and Kobe, with 1836 tons of coal, 654 tons of bunker coal, 38 horses and 4 cows, ...

    Article : 359 words
  18. CHEST GIRTH.

    COMPARING BOYS OF TASMANIA, AMERICA, AND NEW SOUTH WALES. Note.--The measurements of Tasmanian boys "were taken over the shirt and vest," and "at deep expiration" (Page 7 of Dr. Elkington's Report, 1906). Those relating to boys of Sydney and U.S.A. were taken over the bare skin, and are the mean between full inspiration and deep ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. A CHANGE OF FRONT.

    Many and loud have been the terms in which the Trades-union Congress has condemned what they refer to as "Wade's Act," and there are not a few of the members who would not only like ...

    Article : 421 words
  20. THE HURRICANE AT NEW CALEDONIA.

    Passengers by the French mail steamer Ville do la Clotat, which arrived late last night Noumea, tell of the havoc wrought by the hurricane which swept over New Caledonia. The ...

    Article : 292 words
  21. MELBOURNE TIMBER TROUBLE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Stone-throwing was alleged to-day in connection with the timber- stackers' strike, and in consequence of this the police patrol was strengthened during the day ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. QUEENSLAND BOWLERS VICTORIOUS

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  23. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--The Speaker, Mr. J. T. Bell, denies the rumor that he is likely to become the lender of any new party to displace the present Government. ...

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  24. QUEENSLAND.

    The total amount of sugar exported from Queensland for the month of February was 1159 tons of which Bundaberg exported 1113. The total quantity exported this season to date ...

    Article : 47 words
  25. WESTERN TELEPHONE SERVICE.

    LITHGOW, Monday.--In reply to representations as to the frequent delays in the telephone service between Lithgow and Sydney, the department states that an additional trunk ...

    Article : 144 words
  26. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--The Quarter sessions opened to-day, before Judge Gibson. James Lillas was charged with having, at Cobham, on November 20, 1909, stolen four valuable documents and a £5 note from Charles ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. RAISING RAILWAY LINES.

    The Commissioner of Railways states that no has discussed with the Minister the question of raising in certain places the line which was recently submerged by the floods between ...

    Article : 64 words
  28. THE WARATAH INQUIRY.

    Captain Hacking, the Acting-Superintendent of Navigation, will resume the preliminary inquiry into the loss of the Waratah some time during the week. Referring to the inquiry ...

    Article : 55 words
  29. RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS.

    TOWNSVILLE, Monday.--The Kumano Maru (which arrived from the East on Saturday, brought 57 Russian immigrants from Harbin, most of them being farmers with capital. ...

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  30. MISHAP TO STEAMER BRAMLEY.

    AUCKLAND, Monday.--Tho steamer Bramley, from Newcastle, bound for South America, put in here to-day with her machinery slightly deranged. ...

    Article : 31 words
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