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  2. STATE CENTENARY.

    At a meeting of the executive committee for the State Centenary celebrations, held yesterday afternoon, the publicity group reported that the Newspaper Proprietors' ...

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  3. BRITAIN AND EGYPT.

    CAIRO, March 2.—The native newspapers endorse a report that Cabinet's unanimous decision is that the draft treaty proposal is unacceptable. ...

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  4. HOUSE OF LORDS.

    LONDON, March 1.—"The truth is that by degrees, this House is disappearing through inanition. It isn't that we are short of capable men. By accident, we ...

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  5. NEW DIAMOND FIELD.

    CAPETOWN, March 1.—A casual inquiry to-day in Parliament, regarding the expenditure of £2,500 elicited a statement from the Minister of Mines (Mr. F. W. ...

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  6. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    CANBERRA, March 2.—After the first two weeks of the resumed session of tho Federal Parliament had been spent in debating a censure motion moved against ...

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  7. HINKLER'S MOVEMENTS.

    BRISBANE, March 2.—The Mayor (Mr. Jolly) stated to-day that Mr. Bert Hinkler would land on the Ascot racecourse at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday. There would be ...

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  8. FREMANTLE SENSATION.

    Few details were available last night concerning a shooting affair at South Fremantle, which resulted in a woman being taken to the Fremantle Hospital suffering ...

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  9. LAND TRANSPORT WAR.

    LONDON, March 2.—An interesting development in the growing rivalry between motor road transport and the railways is contained in the statement that plans have ...

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  10. IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, March 2.—Plans for the reception of Mr. Hinkler in Melbourne were decided on at a meeting of the official reception committee to-day. The ...

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  11. FRENCH NEUTRALITY.

    PARIS, March 1.—Newspaper comment on the Egyptian situation is generally neutral. The "Gaulois" says:—"Egypt, which in faithful to French culture, has all our ...

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  12. ZINOVIEFF LETTER.

    LONDON, March 1.—To-day in the House of Commons Col. J. C. Wedgwood (Labour) inquired whether the Civil Service Board of Inquiry into the recent ...

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  13. BRITISH ARMY.

    LONDON, March 2.—Important changes in the Army were announced by the Secretary for War (Sir L. Worthington-Evans) in his memorandum accompanying the ...

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  14. FILM CENSORSHIP.

    LONDON, March 1.—In the House of Commons to-day the Nurse Cavell film led to a series of questions concerning film censorship. ...

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  15. PROPOSED MAIL SERVICE.

    CANBERRA, March 2.—Commenting to-day on a suggestion in an editorial in "The Times," London, that Australia should undertake the responsibility of ...

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  16. AMERICAN NAVY.

    WASHINGTON, March 1.—The Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives to-day authorised an appropriation of 14,800,000 dollars for the ...

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  17. AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT.

    LONDON, March 2.—Remove Australian transport from the mischievous interference of politicians and give able and patriotic Australians a free hand to administer ...

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  18. LAWN TENNIS.

    ADELAIDE, March 2.—France leads Australia by two rubbers to one. In the third test match with Australia Brugnon beat Crawford. Borotra and Brugnon beat ...

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  19. A MISAPPREHENSION.

    CANBERRA, March 2.—After an interview to-day between the Prime Minister and the Director of Civil Aviation (Colonel Brinsmead) it was learned that the report ...

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  20. PAST CRUISERS.

    LONDON, March 2.—The annual return of the fleets of the British Empire and foreign countries discloses that the speed of the cruisers that are being built for the ...

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  21. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, March 2.—In discussing Mr. Bert Hinkler's flight to Australia in the course of a lecture at the University of Leeds (the Director of Civil Aviation ...

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  22. CUSTOMS BARRIERS.

    GENEVA, March 1.—Twenty-six nations including the United States, have signed the convention for the abolition of export and import restrictions which it is ...

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  23. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS.

    Apropos of the suggestion made by Sir James Mitchell, chairman of the Centenary Historical Committee, that inquiries should be made, respecting sites and places ...

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  24. FEDERAL FINANCE.

    LONDON, March 2.—An Australian Commonwealth loan of £8,000,000 at 5 per cent, has been underwritten. The price of issue is £98. The loan is ...

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  25. AVIATION.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Secretary of State for the Air (Sir Samuel Hoare) has sent the following message to Group Captain Cave-Browne-Cave, the officer ...

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  26. AIRMAN'S WIFE.

    LONDON, March 1.—Mrs. Hinkler has arranged to sail for Australia by the R.M.S. Orama, which will leave Toulon on March 9. ...

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  27. GERMAN TRAGEDY.

    BERLIN, March 1.—An astonishing mining accident occurred in Westphalia, which resulted in the death of 12 men and serious injury to 35 others. ...

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  28. ACCIDENTS.

    SYDNEY, March 2.—While working in a sewer beneath Crescent-street, Rozelle, this afternoon two workmen were overcome by gas. They were in grave' danger of being ...

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  29. CONFIDENCE TRICKSTER.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Nice correspondent of the British United Press states that an Australian sheep farmer named William Downie, while holidaying on the ...

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  30. WAHHABI ACTIVITY.

    BASRA, March 1.—A force of 7,000 Wahhabis is preparing to march on the Shaibah, which, is an air station for Imperial Airways, ten miles from Basra. ...

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  31. SHIP STRIKES PIER.

    MELBOURNE, March 2.—Excitement was caused at the Prince's Pier to-night when the forward hawsers of the White Star liner Ceramic snapped during a squall ...

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  32. COMMONWEALTH LINE.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir Granville Ryrie) cabled the Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) this afternoon a precis of the ...

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  33. DOMINIONS IN WAR.

    LONDON, March 1.—In a lecture on "Dominion and Colonial Defence," Major Gordon Macready, Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, ...

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  34. HAMMERING A BOMB.

    SYDNEY, March 2.—George Allen (49), a labourer, of High-street, Willoughby, was tampering to-day with a bomb that his son found in the street years ago, when ...

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  35. Airmen Harass Raiders.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Basra correspondent of "The Times" says it is estimated that Royal Air Force bombs and rifles have killed 800 Akhwan tribesmen ...

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  36. ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain) in answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day said that ...

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  37. A MUSICAL CLOWN.

    LONDON, March 1.—A touching and unexpected incident occurred at the close of a command variety performance at the Coliseum. ...

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  38. RE-NAMING THE STATE.

    "If the name of the State is to be changed in the centenary year," said Archbishop Chine yesterday, "I should favour Westralia as a suitable title. It is short ...

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  39. CONCRETE PIPES FALL.

    SYDNEY, March 2.—Workmen engaged in placing some' large concrete pipes in position in Rickery-street, St. Peter's, near Cook's River, were hoisting one of the ...

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  40. DAVIS CUP TEAM.

    MELBOURNE, March 2.—Full of hope for a successful trip abroad the three members of the team to represent Australia in the Davis Cup contests left ...

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  41. AGRARIAN "REFORM."

    LONDON, March 1.—The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that it has been officially announced in Moscow that a great agrarian "reform" has been ...

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  42. TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEPHONE.

    LONDON, March 2.—The telephone rates between London and America have been reduced from £15 to £9 for three minutes. ...

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  43. Centenary Pronunciation.

    Sir,—Can you please tell us bow we should pronounce the word "Centenary"? Is it Cen-tenary accenting "Cen" ...

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  44. RAILWAY VICTIM.

    SYDNEY, March 2.—The man whose lead body was found on the railway line near Dulwich Hill on Wednesday night was identified last night by his wife as ...

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  45. INDIAN POLITICS.

    CALCUTTA, March 2.—The conference of the all-Indian political parties in session at Delhi, has agreed that Swaraj, or Home Rule constitution to be framed, should ...

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  46. STORM IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, March 2.—Accompanied by vivid lightning and a few resounding crashes of thunder a storm broke over the metropolitan area to-night. In places ...

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  47. VICTORIAN WAR MEMORIAL.

    The committee of the National War Memorial of Victoria has decided to call for tenders for the work of erecting a "Shrine of Remembrance" at a site near ...

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  48. UNCHARTED ROAD.

    CALCUTTA, March 2.—Three Frenchmen, who are motoring to French Indo-China, and have arrived at Calcutta, report the discovery of a hitherto uncharted ...

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  49. SECURITY COMMITTEE.

    GENEVA, March 1.—In the absence of a sitting of the Arbitration and Security Committee to-day, the newspaper correspondents spent the time interviewing ...

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  50. FATAL DRIVE.

    MELBOURNE, March 2.—Diving into four feet of water from a pier sit St. Kilda this afternoon, Robert Smith (19), of Swan-slreet, Burnley, broke his neck. He ...

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  51. LACOSTE'S ILLNESS DENIED

    PARIS, March 1.—The alarming reports concerning Rene Lacoste's health have been denied. It was reported that his heart was affected. Lacoste himself states ...

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  52. POLICE NEWS.

    Leslie John Hislop (25), hairdresser, was arrested by Detective G. Smith, yesterday, on a charge of having, between December 31 and January 28 last, stolen ...

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  53. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS.

    A man named Taylor, living in Francis-street. Perth, was found lying unconscious in Wellington-street last night. At the Perth Hospital, where he was taken in the ...

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  54. Alleged Stolen Oar.

    KALGOORLIE, March 2.—Upon receipt of a report that a motor car belonging to Mrs. Alixe Bates, of Mt. Lawley had been stolen, a party of police motored out ...

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  55. WANTED BY BAILIFF.

    LONDON, March 1.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that, in pursuance of a Court order, compelling Zoubkoff, the ex-Kaiser's brother-in-law to ...

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  56. DETECTIVE'S FIGHT.

    HOBART, March 2.—After having broken into a house in Augusta-road, Hobart, yesterday evening, a man was grappled. With by a detective, who had been ...

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  57. THROWN FROM BULLOCK.

    George Smith (26), shearer, of Ferguson-street, Midland Junction, was riding a bullock in the rodeo arena at White City last night when the animal threw him over ...

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  58. MELUN MURDER.

    PARIS, March 1.—A big Paris jeweller has offered a reward of 10,000 francs for the arrest of the murderer of Gaston. Truphene, the young commercial traveller. ...

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  59. POISONED BY MISTAKE.

    HOBART, March 2.—An inquest was held to-day on the death of Mary Ursula Headlam (27). who died on February 21 from the effects of a corrosive poison. She ...

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  60. DEATH IN THE BUSH.

    KALGOORLIE, March 1.—A message has been received from Norseman stating that the man whose swag was picked up on the track from Balladonia to ...

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  61. Woman Arrested.

    Mary Cook (60), was arrested by Detective-Sergeant McGinty and Detective Flanagan yesterday and charged with being in the unlawful possession of 25 ...

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