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  2. TEST TEAM.

    SWANSEA, Aug. 2—Inclement weather, which has already caused nearly 90 hours' delay on the present tour, again held up play to-day, when the Australians began ...

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  3. INDIAN NATIONALISTS.

    CALCUTTA, Aug. 2.—Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Vallabhai Patel, and three other prominent Nationalists were arrested in Bombay this morning ...

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  4. GIANT LINERS.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—The Board of Trade, with the approval of the Treasury, has agreed to undertake at a premium portion of the insurance of a new Cunard ...

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  5. GOVERNMENT WORKERS.

    Employees of the Government Printing Office, where some of the workers had taken a week's leave without pay, met at the Perth Trades Hall on Saturday ...

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  6. AVIATION.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—Captain Barnard, who made a non-stop flight from Lympne (England) to Malta yesterday, returned to—day, again covering the 1,250 miles in a ...

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  7. AIRSHIP R100.

    MONTREAL, Aug. 1.—"We never had a bump all the way across the Atlantic," said Commander Sir Dennistoun Burney to-day, referring to the flight of the ...

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  8. THE SALES TAX.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 3.—Importations and sales made after the commencement of the Sales Tax Acts, but before actual registration, are dealt with by the ...

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  9. BRITISH AGRICULTURE.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—The Government's agricultural policy was stated in the House of Commons to-day by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden), who said ...

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  10. AROUND-THE-WORLD RECORD.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—In attempting to take off from Harbour Grace (Newfoundland) for Dublin, early this morning, the City of New York, a Lockheed Vega ...

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  11. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—At the request of the Carters and Drivers' Union, the central executive of the Victorian Labour Party yesterday decided to call a special ...

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  12. COMMONS LIBEL.

    LONDON, July 31.—Members of the House of Commons and the newspapers generally consider that the ending of the affair of Mr. Sandham (a Labour member ...

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  13. DISTRICT ALLOWANCES.

    The West Australian Police Union is acting independently of other organisations in resisting the efforts being made by the Government to obtain a review of ...

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  14. EUROPEAN CONTEST.

    BERLIN, Aug. 1.—Thirty-seven of the competitors in the around-Europe air contest have completed the course. Twenty have been eliminated, and the remaining ...

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  15. REPAIRS UNDER WAY.

    MONTREAL, Aug. 2.—Repairs to the damaged stabilising fin of the airship R100 were well under way to-day, while the vessel was moored 200 feet above ground. ...

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  16. GERMANY TO UNITED STATES.

    REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Aug. 3.—Herr O. Weller, the sporting journalist, who, with Herr Wolf Hirth, is attempting to fly from Germany to Chicago in a ...

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  17. AN AMERICAN OFFER.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The Secretary of the Navy (Mr. C. F. Adams) has informed Commander Burney of the R100 that facilities at Lakehurst ...

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  18. RELIEF IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 3.—The State Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) announced yesterday that the amount collected by means of the unemployment relief tax, levied on wages ...

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  19. DOUBTFUL POINTS.

    The following rulings relative to the application of the sales tax have been received by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in this State (Mr. E. A. Black), ...

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  20. SCHNEIDER TROPHY CONTEST.

    LONDON, Aug. 2.—The Royal Aero Club has issued a statement denying the suggestion that it is declining to organise the Schneider Trophy contest for next ...

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  21. NEEDS OF REGULAR SERVICE.

    LONDON, Aug. 2.—The airship R100, which is now swinging at the mooring mast at the St. Hubert air port, Montreal, after her flight across the Atlantic, ...

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  22. ACCIDENTS.

    So serious were the injuries received by Walter Large (28), widower, of 50 Margaret-road, Midland Junction in a collision between his motor cycle and a motor car ...

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  23. LABOUR IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—The Royal Commission on Labour in India, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Whitley, expects to complete its sittings in London by the middle ...

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  24. CONSERVATIVE PARTY

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—"I am never going to see our great historical party become a great hysterical party," said Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Leader of the ...

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  25. THE LORD MAYOR'S FUND.

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  26. SYDNEY TO ENGLAND.

    News was received in Perth from Wyndham that Mr. Andrew T. Cunningham, the pilot who left Sydney on Thursday on a flight to England, had arrived at Wave ...

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  27. AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The Navy Department announced to-day that a tentative decision had been made for the retirement from commission of the ...

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  28. UNCLE AND NEPHEW.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—Cricketing circles were recently interested in the announcement that Ranjitsinhji had promised to reward ward with £1 every run made by his ...

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  29. ACHIEVEMENT ACCLAIMED.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—The whole Press acclaims the flight across the Atlantic of the airship R100 as an inspiring achievement, and one significant from the viewpoint of ...

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  30. WOMAN'S THIGH BROKEN.

    Miss Emmaline Reynolds, of Broadway, Nedlands, fell from some steps at her home yesterday afternoon and fractured her left thigh. The St. John ambulance ...

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  31. A TOUR OF INQUIRY.

    LONDON, Aug. 1—.Mr. Esmond Wilshire, vice-captain of the Aero Club of New South Wales, has arrived from the United States, where he flew 3,500 miles, and ...

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  32. TRAMCAR PASSENGER HURT.

    Harry Holt, of Hubert-street, Victoria Park, dislocated a shoulder on Saturday-night, when he fell while stepping off a tram car near his home. The St. John ...

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  33. SUSPECTED FOR TWO YEARS.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—Jean Matras, who was conductor of the Casino orchestra at Le Touquet at the time of the murder of Mrs. Wilson, two years ago, when be ...

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  34. IN THE SUBURBS.

    Working in conjunction with the Belmont Road Board, a committee is dealing with unemployment at Belmont, where 40 cases have been registered. The ...

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  35. MAIL 'PLANE'S SLOW TRIP.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—Held up by head winds, the mail 'plane, from Sydney yesterday took 6½ hours for the trip. The 'plane was forced to rise to 16,000 feet and ...

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  36. A SANDRINGHAM SOUVENIR.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—As a memento of the Australians' visit to the King and Queen at Sandringham on June 8, an autographed leather-bound album, containing ...

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  37. MISHAP AT OBSERVATORY.

    Falling from a ladder which he had mounted to examine files on a high shelf at the Perth Observatory on Saturday night, Montague O'Dowd, employed by ...

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  38. LEAGUE COVENANT.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Locker-Lampson (Conservative) raised the question of the proposed amendments (drawn up at the ...

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  39. THE NAVAL TREATY.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—It was announced in the House of Commons to-day that the British instrument of ratification of the London Naval Treaty had been signed by ...

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  40. KILLED BY ELECTRIC TRAIN.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—While out for a walk yesterday afternoon Edward Duke (63), accountant, of Service-street, Hampton, was struck by an electric train at the ...

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  41. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—There is much conjecture, whether the Labour Government in drawing up the programme for the Imperial Conference, will follow the ...

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  42. INTREPID WOMEN.

    PARIS, Aug. 1.—Although the British teams have been eliminated in the international motor cycling trial, individuals, notably five women who are the only ...

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  43. Armadale.

    At a recent meeting of Armadale residents, over which Mr. W. L. Owen (chairman, of the Armadale-Kelmscott Road Board) presided, it was decided to ask the ...

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  44. STREET FATALITY.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—While crossing Spencer-street yesterday morning, a man who has not been identified was knocked down by a motor car. His skull ...

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  45. CONFUSION IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—When his attention was drawn yesterday to the confusion which has been caused in Melbourne by bringing into operation the ...

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  46. THE BODY OF LENIN.

    BERLIN, Aug. 1.—Experts now admit that the embalming of Lenin's body, which, it was supposed would preserve it for all eternity, was of inferior character. ...

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  47. STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—Fatal injuries were received by Joan Lake (12), of Thanet Grove, Caulfield, when she was knocked down by a motor car in ...

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  48. WHARFSIDE WORKERS.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—Judge Beeby, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court on Friday, altered the afternoon picking-up time for waterside workers at ...

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  49. OPEN RAZOR FLOURISHED.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—During a quarrel at the Salvation Army Men's Home, a'Beckett-street, last night, it is alleged that a man threatened several other men ...

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  50. SHEARERS' STRIKE.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 3.—A pronounced improvement in the sheep-shearing position during the week was reported to-day by Mr. J. W. Allen (general secretary of the ...

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  51. Importance of Issues.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—That the forthcoming Imperial Conference would consider issues that were of tremendous importance to Australia was the opinion ...

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  52. LATE MR. E. HOOK'S FAMILY.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—The Rev. Charles Barry, vicar of Emanuel Church, West Wickham (Kent), is appealing to the public on behalf of the widow and two ...

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  53. North Perth.

    A public meeting will be held in the North Perth Town Hall at 8 o'clock to-night to consider unemployment in the district, and to determine a course of ...

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  54. NERBUDDA BEACHED.

    GIBRALTAR, Aug. 2.—The British India Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Nerbudda (7,911 tons), which collided with a Spanish steamer in the Mediterranean. ...

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  55. FOUR FATALITIES IN SYDNEY.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 3.—Four persons were killed and many others were injured in motor accidents in Sydney during the week-end. Harry Slater (30), of ...

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  56. Gosnells.

    The Commercial Travellers' Association concert orchestra, assisted by Miss Jessie Chrystal (soprano) and Mr. A. Hull (tenor) gave a concert at Gosnells on ...

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  57. OFFENCE AGAINST A GIRL.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 3.—In the Full Court of the Supreme Court on Friday, before Mr. Justice Ferguson, Mr. Justice James and Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, Percy Matthew ...

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  58. Conflicting Policies.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—Reviewing the Imperial Conference agenda, the "Daily Telegraph" says:—"The policy of reciprocal trade agreements within the Empire, which ...

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  59. FITZROY MURDER.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—Arthur Skeritt (48), the coloured labourer who was found guilty in the Criminal Court last Thursday of having murdered John Alfred ...

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  60. OFFICE SAFE STOLEN.

    HOBART, Aug. 3.—Early yesterday morning the premises of Wise and Stirling, auctioneers, at the rear of the City Hall, were broken into and a safe was stolen ...

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  61. SOUTH AFRICAN POSITION.

    CAPE TOWN, Aug. 1.—The unemployed presented a petition to the Prime Minister (General Hertzog) to-day aboard the steamer on which he was leaving for ...

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  62. GOLF CLUBS WORTH £96 STOLEN

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—On returning to the club house yesterday afternoon, members of the East Geelong Golf Club found that the lockers bad been ransacked and ...

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  63. AUSTRALIA HOUSE INQUIRY.

    LONDON, Aug. 1.—Mr. P. E. Coleman, M.H.R., who is investigating the organisation of Australia House, to-day finished interviewing officials of that ...

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  64. FEDERAL ABORIGINES GRANT.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—Various Australian missions view with concern the announcement by the Federal Government that the grant for the care of the aborigines ...

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  65. HUNTSMAN FOUND DEAD.

    LONDON, Aug. 3.—The master of the Cottesmole Hounds, Colonel Sidney Green, who was reputed to be extremely wealthy, was found lying dead on a road near his ...

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  66. TRADE WITH NEAR EAST.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—A conference has been convened by the Minister for Markets (Mr. Moloney) to be held in Sydney on August 11 to consider questions of ...

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  67. TASMANIAN FINANCES.

    HOBART, Aug. 3.—The State revenue for July was £206,027, compared with £191,977 for July of last year, an increase of £14,050. Last year the contribution ...

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