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  2. THE WEATHER.

    During the 48 hours ended 8 a.m. yesterday very scattered thunderstorms, accompanied by light to heavy rain, occurred, but principally in the tropics, on the ...

    Article : 1,345 words
  3. NOTES FROM PARIS.

    The work which the Red Cross is doing is excellent, but, somehow or other, there are always some poor women who are left out in the cold. A mother with twelve ...

    Article : 1,612 words
  4. POLICE AND THE BENCH.

    Yesterday afternoon, members of the metropolitan police met in the police library and presented Mr. A. S. Roe with an oak bookcase as a mark of esteem and ...

    Article : 1,061 words
  5. STATE ABATTOIRS.

    The announcement of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. D. Johnson) that it is the intention of the Government to take into consideration the question of closing ...

    Article : 2,260 words
  6. THE STATE'S DEFICIT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,365 words
  7. REPAIRING AT SEA.

    The German naval authorities (remarks a London newspaper) appear to have planned for every eventuality, including a means whereby any of their torpedo craft or ...

    Article : 328 words
  8. SIR EVELYN WOOD'S STORIES.

    Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., commandant of the London Division of the National Reserve, speaking recently of the charges of brutality made against the ...

    Article : 396 words
  9. THE END.

    The great Russian paper, the "Novoe Vremya," makes these' notable statements with regard to the war and the work before the Allies:— ...

    Article : 446 words
  10. THE WISDOM OF BISMARCK.

    "The natural alliance is Britain, Germany, and Italy. these three powers, if placed upon a permanent war footing, would insure the peace of the world." ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. GERMAN INVASION OF U.S.A.

    Baron von Edelsheim, who foretold the inevitableness of a German war with Britain in an eighty-paged pamphlet entiled "Over-sea Operations: A Study," discusses ...

    Article : 322 words
  12. PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG.

    An interesting story at the present juncture concerning Prince Louis of Battenberg is that told by a well-known Dunedin gentleman (says a New Zealand ...

    Article : 384 words
  13. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    While awaiting the outcome of the Government's plans for finding work for the unemployed, the men's committee is keeping in touch with the Honorary Minister ...

    Article : 364 words
  14. MODERN BULLETS.

    The various bullets used by armies of civilised nations admit of being grouped in three classes. One of these classes of projectiles is called the reduced calibre, ...

    Article : 478 words
  15. PIONEERING IN AUSTRALIA.

    Some twenty years ago Mr. Simpson Newland, whose name is associated with the old school of hardy Australian adventurers, published, under the title of "Paying the ...

    Article : 344 words
  16. SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.

    To-day, under the authority given by the Act passed this session, the Grain and Fodder Board seized about 100,000 bags of wheat, sold to merchants at Port Adelaide. ...

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  17. IN A ZEPPELIN.

    A good many unfortunate people on the Continent of Europe have experienced by this time the sensation of being underneath a war Zeppelin; not so many have ...

    Article : 284 words
  18. BIG FIRE NEAR SYDNEY.

    A fire which broke out early this morning completely destroyed the linseed oil mills of Meggitt's Ltd., at Parramatta, together with about 100,000 gallons of oil. The ...

    Article : 308 words
  19. UNIFORM RAILWAY GAUGE.

    The adjourned conference of Premiers met again to-day to consider the question of a uniform railway gauge, but the meeting was sparsely attended. Sir Alexander ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. THE FLY'S STICKY FEET.

    Before the men of science terrified the world with their talk of germs, most people thought that the house fly was a harmless creature, and very cleanly in his habits, as ...

    Article : 318 words
  21. LORD ROBERTS ON DUTY.

    No one in the whole British Empire has a better right to re-echo the nation's call to arms than Earl Roberts, and no one could sound it with greater effect, (observes ...

    Article : 458 words
  22. THE CZAR'S FORTUNE.

    The Czar's private fortune has been estimated variously at between £250,000,000 and double that enormous amount (says a London contemporary). It is true that he ...

    Article : 190 words
  23. VICTORIAN REVENUE.

    A shrinkage of £23,341 is shown in the State revenue for November as contrasted with the same month in 1913. The receipts were £709,053 in 1914 and £732,394 last ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. TRAWLING FOR FISH.

    Representatives of the Trawl Fisheries, Ltd., waited upon the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day with a request that the payment of duty on a trawler from Britain ...

    Article : 244 words
  25. A TRAGIC FIRE.

    A dreadful burning fatality occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scrivens, of Barooga, two miles from Cobram, at 10 o'clock this morning, as a result of which ...

    Article : 149 words
  26. NAVAL DOCK STRIKE.

    The strike at Cockatoo Dock and the Garden Island naval works ended to-day, when the plumbers, following the example of the shipwrights, returned to work. In ...

    Article : 141 words
  27. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING CASE.

    A shooting case occurred at Richmond this afternoon, when Josephine Courtot, a boarding housekeeper, about 30 years of age, was shot in the back of the head by a ...

    Article : 74 words
  28. GERMAN TIME TABLE.

    "The German time-table is a long way out of date," says Lord Haldane, the British Lord Chancellor. "Bearing in mind that the first shock has failed, we may ...

    Article : 197 words
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