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  2. PEACE MATTERS.

    The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has approved of five reservations, which deal with article No. 10 of the League's Covenant, the Monroe doctrine, ...

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  3. RUSSIA.

    General Denikine reports, in an official despatch:—"We have defeated the enemy on the whole of the Kamishin (Volga) front, and taken about 3,000 prisoners. ...

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  4. BRITAIN.

    The war-time liquor control experiment shows a net profit for the year (after the deduction of interest in depreciation and all charges of £109,000 on a total capital ...

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  5. "THE SILENT WITNESS."

    When the modern American playwright is dealing with affairs of the law, he generally shows the scales of justice tilted by the heavy weight of financial influences and ...

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  6. AMERICA.

    The Italian Mission informed the International Trade Conference that Italy's greatest requirement was wheat of which she must import about 3,500,000 bushels, ...

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  7. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Government of India announces in connection with the punitive expedition to Waziristan that the Waziris will be summoned to appear and be informed of the ...

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  8. AVIATION.

    A message received from Valona (Albania) reports that Etienne Poulet (the French aviator) has arrived there, after a stormy flight from Naples. ...

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  9. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    In the Senate to-day, Senator Russell, in reply to Senator Grant, said that 14 wooden vessels had been ordered in America and the order was to be fully executed before ...

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  10. FEDERAL PENSIONS.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Poynton moved the second reading of a Bill to increase the old-age and invalid pensions to 15s. per week as from January 1 ...

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  11. OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

    In the House of Representatives yesterday Sir Joseph Cook, in reply to Mr. Finlayson, set out in detail the plans for the air flight from England to Melbourne, so ...

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  12. ADMISSION OF ALIENS.

    The Congress has passed a Bill extending the war-time passport regulations in connection with the entrance of aliens into the United States. ...

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  13. DISABLED SOLDIERS.

    The employers in Britain are responding in a satisfactory manner to the King's appeal to them to absorb disabled soldiers. About five thousand of these ex-service men ...

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  14. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Greene, in reply to Mr. Laird Smith, said that inspections of imported fruit were made by officers of the State agricultural ...

    Article : 328 words
  15. CHROME ORE FROM AUSTRALIA.

    The steamer Westpoint has arrived from Australia with a cargo of chrome ore, which is said to be the first shipment of the kind from the Antipodes. ...

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  16. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Unionist Congress carried unanimously a resolution accepting the principles laid down in Parliament by the Premier (General Smuts) regarding the Britich ...

    Article : 80 words
  17. THE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Labour Group has withdrawn from the National Industrial Conference in consequence of the Employers' Group hvaing, rejected Mr. Samuel ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. THE KRONSTADT POSITION.

    The special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" at Narva (about 80 miles west of Petrograd) says:—"There are indications that Petrograd will be ...

    Article : 211 words
  19. THE FINANCIAL POSITION.

    Parliament re-assembled to-day. Mr. Austen Chamberlain announced that Mr. Lloyd George had promised that an opportunity would be afforded of discussing the ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. THE SHANTUNG PROBLEM.

    The Kansas City correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that Mr. William White, whom President Wilson appointed to be a member of the proposed ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT NEED

    To-day the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Denison Miller) laid the foundation stone of the first soldiers home to be created in South Australia under the ...

    Article : 337 words
  22. A ROUMANIAN GENERAL.

    General Holbronn, the Roumanian commander-in-chief in Hungary, has committed suicide in Bucharest owing to his having been recalled to render an account of ...

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  23. THE AMERICAN FLIGHT.

    The Director of the American Army Air Service has announced that Captain Donaldson's flying time in the trans-continental air race was 57 hours and 34 minutes, ...

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  24. BELGIAN RAILWAY WAGGONS.

    Marshal Foch has notified the Government that he has located many thousands of Belgian railway waggons in Germany. ...

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  25. CORNISH MINE DISASTER.

    Nineteen bodies have been recovered from the Levant tin mine in Cornwall, where a mishap occurred recently. Eleven men are still missing, and there is little ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. NATIONALIST COMMISSION.

    The hearing of claims from Nationalist workers by Mr. E. S. Lazarus, the Royal Commissioner, is now nearing completion, and it is hoped to finish the taking of ...

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  27. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    It is improbable that the League of Nations will meet in Washington before January. It is more likely that the first meeting will take place in February. After the ...

    Article : 204 words
  28. A FRENCH GENERAL.

    Acting on the advice of a committee of inquiry, the Minister for War has decided to try by court martial General Fourtner, who was the commandant of Maubeuge in ...

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  29. RETURNING SOLDIERS.

    The Navy Office notifies the following transport movements:— The Benalla left the United Kingdom on October 8 for Australia, via Capetown. ...

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  30. THE PETROGRAD OFFENSIVE.

    It is reported that the Finnish army is taking part in the offensive against Petrograd. ...

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  31. A PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    In the special case, Judd versus the King, the Privy Council allowed the applications to withdraw the petition being [?] [Ernest Edward Judd was arranged ...

    Article : 284 words
  32. A MODERN BLUEBEARD.

    The experts who were appointed to examine the charred bones which were found in the villa in Gambais, occupied by Landru (the "French Deeming") have ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. SKIRMISHES IN PETROGRAD.

    Skirmishes in the streets of Petrograd among the Bolsheviks caused an attempted rising. Other reports say that Bolshevik vessels ...

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  34. A GREAT CANTEEN.

    The Australian public is familiar with "Mrs. Chisnolms," the great soldiers' club, which Mrs. W. Chisholm and Miss Raina Macphillamy conducted at Kantara during ...

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  35. THE LATE COUNT TERAUCHI.

    In his domestic circle, with his military uniform laid aside, Count Terauchi (whose death was announced in our issue of Friday) was described by ...

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  36. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

    At a meeting of the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation to-day the unionists' scheme to attempt to limit the exportation of certain ...

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  37. THE UNIVERSITY.

    At a meeting of the Senate of the University of Western Australia held on Monday. October 20, there were present—The Chancellor (Archbishop Riley), the ...

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  38. DEARTH OF FUEL IN PETROGRAD.

    Owing to the dearth of fuel in Petrograd, the local Soviet is destroying all of the wooden houses in the city, and many wooden vessels and barges. About 500 ...

    Article : 56 words
  39. THE LABOUR CONGRESS.

    Germany is despatching delegates to the International Labour Congress in Washington. [The United States Congress passed a ...

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  40. ALLIANCE WITH POLAND.

    General Judenitch has sent a mission to Warsaw with the view of establishing an anti-Bolshevik alliance with Poland. ...

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  41. NEW FOREIGN SECRETARY.

    The London "Daily Express" announces that Mr. Arthur J. Balbour is about to relinquish the portfolio of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that Lord ...

    Article : 64 words
  42. THE UKRAINE.

    The Government of the Ukraine has appealed to Britain to intervene with the view of arranging peace with General Denikine, who, it is alleged, has attacked ...

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  43. RAILWAY RESPONSIBILITIES.

    Two cases of interest to the public in showing the position in which they stand with regard to the Commissioner for Railways was heard in the Local Court ...

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  44. THE EX-KAISER.

    In the House of Commons this evening Mr. Bonar Law (the Leader of the House) said that the Allies were taking the necessary steps to bring the ex-Kaiser to trial ...

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  45. PERTH PUBLIC HOSPITAL.

    It was learned last night that as the result of the audit of the books and accounts of the Perth Public Hospital and the discovery of certain matters demanding ...

    Article : 72 words
  46. THE BLOCKADE.

    The Supreme Council has refused to modify the blockade of Russia, but it says that the measures in connection with it will be applied benevolently. ...

    Article : 119 words
  47. A TREATY DEMAND.

    In connection with the demand made in the Treaty of Peace that Germany shall hand over 140,000 milch cows and ten thousand goats, a number of British ...

    Article : 150 words
  48. THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    A meeting of the W.A. divisional council of the Australian National Federation was held on Thursday evening at which there was a fully representative attendance ...

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  49. THE PEACE LOAN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 words
  50. THE FEDERAL REFERENDUM.

    At a meeting of the Adelaide Chamber of Manufactures to-day the following resolution was carried:—"This chamber views with alarm the attempt of the Federal ...

    Article : 70 words
  51. HOBART SHOW.

    The annual two days' show of the Southern Tasmanian A. and P. Society in Hobart concluded to-day in fine weather. There was a record attendance on both ...

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  52. BOXING.

    At the Holtorn Stadium "Tibby" Watson, an Australian, beat Chris. Langdon, a Welshman, in the tenth round. ed Fulton knocked out Gordon ...

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  53. IRELAND.

    In receiving the freedom of Wallasey (near Birkenhead), Lord French (the Viceroy of Ireland) said that the self-constituted and illegal Sinn Fein Government ...

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  54. RETROSPECTIVE AWARDS.

    Application was made by Mr. C. S. Beeby on behalf of the Darling Island Stevedoring and Lightering Co., Ltd., and other New South Wales shipping and stevedoring ...

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  55. FEDERAL ECONOMIES COMMISSION

    In a reply to criticisms of his office, contained in the report of the Economics Commission, the Federal Auditor-General (Mr. J. W. Israel) has presented to the Prime ...

    Article : 185 words
  56. SCHOONER REFLOATED.

    The schooner Valmarie, which ran aground on the 90-mile Beach on September 30, while on a voyage with timber from New Zealand to Melbourne, was ...

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  57. QUEENSLAND SUGAR CROP.

    The general superintendent of the Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations (Mr. Easterby) states that the probable estimate for the 1919 sugar crop is in the region of ...

    Article : 91 words
  58. QUEENSLAND LIQUOR LAWS.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Home Secretary moved that the House Cshould at its next sitting consider the desirableness of introducing a Bill to further ...

    Article : 228 words
  59. THE WEATHER.

    Fine and clear conditions predominated over all areas, with the exception of the Kimberley, at 8 a.m. yesterday, and the only rainfall recorded for the 24 hours was ...

    Article : 146 words
  60. PATENT RIGHTS.

    The High Court gave judgment to-day an appeal by the Government on the question of whether sub-section 2 of section 87B of the Commonwealth Patents ...

    Article : 129 words
  61. HAMPTON PLAINS.

    The Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Denison Miller) made an interesting statement in the course of a speech at the Commonwealth Club luncheon ...

    Article : 156 words
  62. UNION SECRETARY ON STRIKE.

    Mr. J. Abfalter, secretary of the No. 2 branch of the Australian Tramway Employees' Association, asked recently for a rise in his salary from £5 to £6 a week. A ...

    Article : 115 words
  63. THE PRICE OF SUGAR.

    There is to be no increase in the price of sugar, at least in the near future. Commenting to-day on a report that householders were endeavouring to obtain stocks ...

    Article : 120 words
  64. Advertising

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