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  2. LATE EMPEROR

    The "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent says:—Vienna messages declare that when Emperor Francis Joseph's condition, gave anxiety General ...

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  3. BRAVE NEW ZEALANDER

    The "Evening Standard" says the heroic colonel mentioned in Mr. Gibbon's story is Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Cyrill Freyberg, a New Zealander, 27 ...

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  4. ANTWERP EXPEDITION

    Mr. Churchill in a concluding article in the "Sunday Pictorial" argues that no more important results were achieved in the present war, by forces so limited ...

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  5. THE COAL STRIKE

    The public of this state is exceedingly anxious over the continuance of the strike. The curtailment of the suburban train services on each line to-day was ...

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  6. FINANCIAL POSITIONS

    In an interview Mr. McKinnon Wood (Chancellor of the Duchy of Launcaster) said the financial position of Great Britain followed the policy of openness ...

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  7. NAVY DEPARTMENT'S ORDERS.

    The Navy Department has decided that manufacturers must not use brown coal, as proposed by the State Government without a permit. It is pointed ...

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  8. ABOUT PEOPLE

    In a letter received by Mr. E. J. Adams, of Trewalla, from his son Horace, in France, is the following:—"I have just seen poor old Vern's grave ...

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  9. SUNDAY SCHOOL FESTIVALS

    The annual festival services in connection with St. John's Sunday school were held yesterday in dull and showery Weather. The celebrations were ...

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  10. IN AUSTRALIA

    In connection with the scheme recently announced by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), to establish an army reserve in Australia, the State ...

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  11. COLD DINNERS.

    The embargo against using gas for cooking purposes during the day, however, was not lifted, and cold dinners were therefore fashionable. ...

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  12. STRIKE PAY.

    In the absence of any announcement of the disbursement of strike pay, public curiosity naturally has been excited as to the probable extent of the miners' ...

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  13. LATE EMPEROR'S WILL.

    The late Emperor Francis Joseph's will thanks the nation for faithful love in times of happiness and hardship, also the navy and army. He was proud of ...

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  14. NEW ZEALAND FORCES.

    The names have been gazetted of 4000 men who were selected by ballot from the first division of the expeditionary force reserve to fill the vacancies in the ...

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  15. ENORMOUS FORTUNE.

    The will was written in 1914, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death. It bequeaths the bulk of his enormous fortune to members of the family, ...

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  16. SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

    Thomas McMichael, a grazier, of Macalister Valley, on returning from a paddock to his house on Friday, found his wife dead on the verandah with a ...

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  17. THE BODY.

    The coffin lies in the room where the monarch died, and is guarded by soldiers. Sisters of Charity are praying by its side. The body is dressed in a ...

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  18. HOUSE OF COMMONS

    In the House of Commons Captain Pretyman, Secretary to the Board of Trade, foreshadowed further railway restrictions. ...

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  19. CASE FOR THE MINERS.

    Mr. W. Brennan, secretary of the Northern branch of the Coal Employees' Federation, speaking to-day of the conference, said it was hard to anticipate ...

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  20. ENEMY GOODS.

    The war precautions regulations, forbidding the sale of goods of enemy origin in Australia, whether purchased before the war or not, come into operation on ...

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  21. SCHOOL OF MINES

    At a meeting of the Mount Lyell School of Mines committee last night, the recommendation in Messrs. McCoy and Nangle's report that the plans for ...

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  22. COMING CORONATION.

    Advices from Budapest declare that all provincial organisations meet after the funeral to decide the coronation ceremony. The old pageant will be ...

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  23. NEW ZEALAND MINISTERS

    Right Hon. W. F. Massey (Premier of New Zealand) visited the Belfast shipyards, and the Lord Mayor entertained him at luncheon. In proposing the ...

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  24. ATTEMPTED RAID

    The Admiralty reports that during Thursday night six German destroyers attempted to approach the north end of The Downs. The enemy when seen by ...

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  25. RECRUITING.

    There were 231 volunteers., in Melbourne this week and of these 136 were accepted. ...

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  26. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

    Following General von Koerber's advice Emperor Charles summons the Austrian Parliament for January, thus reversing Emperor Francis Joseph's ...

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  27. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

    The Federal Parliament is to meet on Wednesday, and the days to follow promise to constitute one of the most interesting chapters in the history of ...

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  28. EMPEROR TAKES COMMAND.

    Vienna telegrams state that Emperor Charles assume the supreme command of the army. ...

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  29. THE FIRST WREATH.

    The first wreath to reach Schonbrunn was that from Countess Lonyay, inscribed "From your grateful and over loving Stephanie." ...

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  30. A GREAT WELCOME.

    On arrival at Limavady, County Derry, his native place, Mr. Massey was accorded a great welcome. The railway line was studded with fog signals ...

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  31. REFERENCE IN SPAIN.

    The Republicans refuse to associate themselves with the official message of regret at the death of Emperor Francis Joseph. They cannot forget that ...

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  32. CONDITION OF IRELAND

    An Order-in-Council signed yesterday prohibits military drill and evolutions except by the Royal naval and military forces and the police, and also empowers ...

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  33. OLD MAN MISSING

    An old man named Harry Milbourne, who for many years has occupied a house boat, known as "Jacob's Ark," at the site of the old ferry, between East and ...

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  34. NEW RULER AND PEACE.

    Graf von Weigand, cabling from Vienna, says the Emperor Francis Joseph often expressed the hope that he would live to see peace. Emperor Charles ...

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  35. ENEMY REPORTS

    A Berlin communique reports the capture of Orsova ad Turnusverin. In the Dobrudja the Bulgarians attacked and drove back the Russians. General ...

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  36. AMUSEMENTS

    The programme to be screened at the National for the next three nights is of special interest, inasmuch as it includes the final episode in the sensational serial, ...

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  37. COMBINED SERVICES.

    Yesterday for the first time the Chalmers, Sandhill, and Invermay Presbyterian Sundays schools combined for the purpose of celebrating anniversary services. ...

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  38. SIR E. CARSON'S SPEECH.

    At a gathering of a new Ulster Association in the Hotel Cecil, Sir Edward Carson, K.C., M.P., said he did not want to boast of what Ulster had done. Their ...

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  39. NEW V C'S.

    Seven Victoria Crosses have been conferred, notably one to Lieutenant Bradford, of the Durhams (temporary lieut.-colonel), who assumed command of two ...

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  40. ADOPTING ALTERNATIVES.

    Before business hours on Saturday it was noticeable that far more people than usual were walking to business. This was because the transit services were ...

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  41. FACTORIES CLOSED DOWN

    In Victoria yesterday fully 7000 factories out of 7500 were either compelled to close or the major portion of their business was cut off, throwing ...

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  42. HOW TO SHORTEN THE WAR

    The "Observer" says the employment of an additional 250,000 British troops n the Near East would do more to shorten the war than the employment ...

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  43. POWER FOR PICTURE SHOWS.

    As a result of representations made yesterday, the Navy Department agreed to motor power being supplied to picture theatres from 7.30 p.m. till 11 p.m. until ...

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  44. DO THE RIGHT THING

    Speaking at Bradfield College, General Sir William Robertson said we were now passing through some stress. It was not a very great stress, yet they ...

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  45. THE COMPULSORY CONFERENCE.

    The meeting of the Federal Cabinet which was to have been held yesterday to consider the position created by the failure of the conference which sat on ...

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  46. AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE

    The chairman of the Public Service Board, Mr. R. J. Meagher, when seen this morning, wished to have it made clear that the Public Service Board had ...

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  47. SCARCITY OF COPPER

    The "Berliner Tageblatt" declares that owing to the scarcity of copper Germany's new pfenning will be made of aluminium. ...

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  48. ST. PAUL'S SUNDAY SCHOOL.

    At St. Paul's Church yesterday three well attended services were conducted by Ven. Archdeacon Beresford, whose first text was "Remember now thy Creator in ...

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  49. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

    The Conference of Chambers of Commerce has passed resolutions favouring daylight saving, and the prevention of naturalisation of aliens from enemy ...

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  50. FROM VIENNA.

    An Austrian communique reports that the vanguard of the forces advancing beyond Oraiova reached the Alt River. The enemy offered a most tenacious ...

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  51. Advertising

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  52. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

    Arrangements have been concluded for the exchange of 20,000 French and German civilian prisoners between December 4 and 25. ...

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  53. REPORT FROM SOFIA.

    A Bulgarian communique reports that near Ghighen, Grehovo, Lom, and Vidin we occupied the islands on the Danube. ...

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  54. WAR PROFITS TAX

    It is understood that the Federal. Government has decided to exempt gold miner from the operation of the proposed war profits tax. ...

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  55. INTERSTATE FIGURES.

    On Saturday 39 volunteered and 28 were accepted. To-day's figures were:—Volunteered, 18, accepted, 14. ...

    Article : 17 words
  56. WOUNDED AND SICK.

    Some 18,848 wounded and sick prisoners of various belligerents are now in Switzerland, ...

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