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  2. IRON STRIKE.

    As the iron trades dispute continues the feeling between the various unions on strike and the employers is not becoming my kindlier, and the position is further complicated by the ...

    Article : 371 words
  3. CRICKET.

    Much Bulli soil is finding its way citywards these days. The noise of the grass mower is heard in the land. There is a great creaking and squealing of rollers. Swirling water sprays ...

    Article : 869 words
  4. WHEAT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--It is estimated by members of the Australian Wheat Board, which continued its session to-day, that, with the present bright prospects continuing, a total ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. STRIKE FIGHTING.

    Government is evidently preparing for u worst in case the miners' leaders prove obdurate, and it has begin organising the distribution of food in the event of a strike. ...

    Article : 321 words
  6. WOOL POSITION.

    Sir Arthur Goldfinch, Directer-General or Raw Materials, in an Interview with the Australian Pross Association, said that the wool situation had reached a point within the last ...

    Article : 473 words
  7. TIMBER.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In a Ministerial statement in the Senate to-day regarding the proposed acquisition by the Repatriation Department of Queensland of sawmill properties at ...

    Article : 667 words
  8. "GETTING READY."

    After the few hectic moments of Tuesday night, yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Assembly was tame. It was not, however, without its surprise for ...

    Article : 1,472 words
  9. TWEED PRICES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Statements, startling at the first view, were made in the Senate to-night in regard to the price of tweeds, and on the derived profits. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 597 words
  10. CARGO ARRIVES.

    A large cargo of wheat arrived at Sydney yesterday from Victoria by the ship Cardinia. The vessel loaded at Geelong. She is discharging at Pyrmont. ...

    Article : 29 words
  11. OVERSEA PRODUCTION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The following cable message, dated Liverpool, September 4, has been received by a Melbourne Company in reference to the oversea position:--"United ...

    Article : 46 words
  12. MURDER IN IRELAND.

    The "Star" states that Mr. Lloyd Georges oiler to release the Irish hunger-strikers, if murders of police cease, has not been taken seriously in Dublin. Such a condition is ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. TRADES UNIONS.

    The Trades Union Congress its meeting at Portsmouth to-day, but it again maintained complete silence on the vital questions of the hour, and confined itself to ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. LOCK-OUT ALLEGED.

    It was stated by Mr. Perkins, secretary of the Federated Moulders Union, that, as a result. of the action of the stovemaking firms in closing down their works, about 100 members of ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. TOPS AND YARN.

    MELBOURNE. Wednesday.--In a statement in the House of Representatives to-day regarding the position of the wool-scouring industry, the Prime Minister said that when be made the ...

    Article : 278 words
  16. TYPHUS OUTBREAK.

    The League of Nations points out that the sum that the various Governments have been asked to subscribe for relief and for combating the typhus epidemic in Poland and Galicia is ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. STRIKE IN PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA.

    The trouble at Laurence Marques. Portuguese East Africa, is spreading, and the whole of the Government services are on strike. Tramway men and taxi drivers have struck in ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. STOVE-MAKERS' UNION.

    Dealing with the same subject, the secretary of the Stovemakers' Union issued the following statement:-- "Matters have slated that, owing to a ...

    Article : 292 words
  19. ARCHDEACON BOYCE.

    Archdeacon F. B. Boyce, of St. Paul's Rectory, Cleveland Street. Redfern, was married yesterday morning to Mrs. Burton, widow of the late Captain Burton, R.N.R. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 254 words
  20. BRITISH TRADE.

    There was a remarkable shrinkage in the adverse balance of trade in July. Whereas the imports for July last year exceeded exports by £76,000,000, the difference last July was only ...

    Article : 194 words
  21. CONFERENCE IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The woollen interests of Australia were represented at a conference before the Prime Minister to-day to consider a proposal that wool and sheepskins ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. MESOPOTAMIA.

    Replying to numerous anxious inquiries in regard to the safety of the camp at Kirind, Mesopotamia, where British women and children are quartered, the War Office announces ...

    Article : 174 words
  23. UNHAPPY HAPSBURGS.

    A Geneva telegram states that the ex-Empress of Austria, who is living at Pranglns (Switzerland), declares that so members of the Hapsburg family, chiefly archdukes and ...

    Article : 82 words
  24. IRON-WORKERS' ASSISTANTS.

    The members of the Ironworkers' Assistants' Union, who have not been allowed to start work at the Clyde Engineering Works, and various other shops in the metropolitan ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. SPEEDING-UP.

    Complaints are being made by various iron trade unions, the members of which are employed at the railway and tramway workshops, that the Railway Commissioners have ...

    Article : 176 words
  26. EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY.

    A message front Romo states that severe earthquake shocks have boon experienced at Genoa, Milan, Florence, and many other towns, especially in Tuscany. ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. SWIMMING RECORDS.

    Duke Kahanamoku, the world's champion swimmer over short, distances, covered 100 yards at Exeter in 55 2-5sec. Norman Ross, the champion over middle ...

    Article : 49 words
  28. FRENCH LOAN IN AMERICA

    Mr. J. P. Morgan announces the flotation of a French loan of 100,006,000 dollars, at eight per cent.. issued at par. and repayable in twenty-five years. at 110 dollars. ...

    Article : 70 words
  29. SHORTER WEEK.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. J. S. Ferguson (N.S.W.), who appeared for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Ltd., and certain other employers, in opening their cases against ...

    Article : 271 words
  30. BOXERS' CONTRACTS.

    Pete Herman has cancelled his match against Jimmy Wilde. Mr. C. B. Cochran, the promoter of this and other big matches, has decided to relinquish ...

    Article : 112 words
  31. DIRECT ACTION OPPOSED.

    Mr. O. Bryant, secretary of the Australasian Society of Engineers, explained yesterday that the recent ballot of the iron trades unions was against precipitate action such as had ...

    Article : 474 words
  32. DAFFODILS.

    A visitor going the rounds of the principal hospitals in and about Sydney yesterday, would be struck by the beauty of huge bunches of glorious daffodils in every ward of almost every ...

    Article : 251 words
  33. FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

    A Paris message says that it has been reported that the Government has notified Russia that unless French citizens are repatriated by October 1, naval operations will be instituted ...

    Article : 39 words
  34. REPLY BY EMPLOYERS.

    Mr, Smedley, secretary of the Iron Trade Employers' Association, replied yesterday to the statement of various unions that men were being locked out. He said that in Justice ...

    Article : 138 words
  35. D'ANNUNZIO'S PIRATES.

    According to a message from Rome, seven of D'Annunzlo's legionaries were hidden in the hold of the steamer Cogne. which was carrying a miscellaneous cargo to Buenos Ayres, valued ...

    Article : 55 words
  36. POSTMASTER ARRESTED.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--In connection with the report of the theft from the Catherine Hill Bay Post Office and the fire among documents, which occurred early yesterday ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The War Precautions Act will cense to operate, so the Prime Minister told Mr, Gabb (S.A.), in the House of Representatives to-day, three months after the ...

    Article : 70 words
  38. BUTCHERS ON STRIKE.

    About 20 men employed in the tripe making department at the Homebush Abattoirs went on strike yesterday. They claimed £1 is per week wages ...

    Article : 44 words
  39. TROTSKY'S SON KILLED.

    It is reported from Vienna that a Cracow newspaper states that. Trotsky's son was killed in recent lighting at Pultusk ...

    Article : 28 words
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