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  2. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Minister for Defence informea Senator Grant that the amount involved for separation allowances overpaid was 12,31,. Where the overpayment ...

    Article : 395 words
  3. Industrial Upheaval

    Public alarm has abated, because the railway and tramway services are greatly improved compared with the previous two days. To-night there are ...

    Article : 192 words
  4. THREAT OF SLAUGHTERMEN.

    The slaughtermen having threatened to leave their employment in sympathy with the strikers, the State Cabinet decided to-day to suspend certain ...

    Article : 94 words
  5. ARSENIC TABLOIDS

    May Crees, a little girl, living with her parents at North Fitzroy, picked up a tube containing 25 arsenic tabloids opposite her home yesterday. Thinking ...

    Article : 83 words
  6. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    Staff Sergeant-Majors W. R. Hodgson and H. Bond have been selected to attend the machine gun qualifying course now in progress at the Randwick ...

    Article : 786 words
  7. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

    A number of questions relating to the strike were again put to Ministers in the State Assembly this afternoon. Mr. Dooley asked the Aeting Premier ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. MILITARY UNIFORMS AND TITLES

    At a meeting of the board of directors of the Australian Natives' Association to-day it was decided to urge on the Federal Minister the ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. RECRUITING.

    A recruiting meeting was held at Lower Barrington on Monday night. At the conclusion three offered their services. One has been medically ...

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  10. GIRL LEADS RECRUIT BY THE HAND.

    At a recruiting meeting at Echuca (Vic.), in response to an appeal by Sergeant Bliss, live men came forward, one being led up by a young girl friend amid ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. STRIKERS' BELATED OBJECTION.

    The belated objection which is now offered by the strike defence committee to the time cards system states that the American Taylor system, which ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. BENNETT'S CLOCK SILENT.

    For the first time in 40 years Sin John Bennett's famous clock in Cheap- side has gone on strike. Gog and Magog, Venus and old Father Time, ...

    Article : 865 words
  13. THE QUEENSLAND TROUBLE

    A message from Clorcurry says that the strikers are orderly here. they hold meetings daily. The police are stationed at the central railway station, which ...

    Article : 228 words
  14. MAINLAND FIGURES.

    At the Town Hall to-day 27 men volunteered, and 16 were accepted. ...

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  15. A STRIKE PROCESSION.

    There was a huge procession of strikers through the city to-day, four abreast, and extending over nearly a quarter of a mile. The procession pursued its ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. THE CHILDREN'S £20,000.

    Some time ago Mr. McCoy (the Director of Education) paid a visit to Lower Barrington state school in connection with the war savings certificatea ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

    The Chief Commissioner (Mr. Fraser) announced that 61 trains were brought into Sydney and North Shore stations this morning. In normal times the ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. THE REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Speaker took the chair at a 3 o'clock. The Prime Minister told Mr. Boyd (Vic.) that he believed a Dutch ...

    Article : 438 words
  19. A NEW MOVE.

    An announcement by the strike de- fence committee to-day suggested that the strikers, having been made desperate by the failure of their strike move, had ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. WARATAH BANK EXCEEDS £1000.

    The city council has granted the Education Department the free use of the City Hall to enable the pupils of the State High School and of the city ...

    Article : 188 words
  21. MANY FREE FIGHTS.

    A message from Barcaldine stated that considerable friction developed over strike matters; and there were many free fights in the town last night ...

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  22. SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

    At a meeting of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce to-day a motion was carried condemning the unjustiliable action of the northern railway men in ...

    Article : 69 words
  23. CONFERENCE WITH MINISTERS.

    However, as a result of the conference, nine representatives of unions which are not yet involved in the strike, but which were represented at the conference, ...

    Article : 246 words
  24. FURTHER TROUBLE THREATENING.

    Further trouble is threatened by the members of the Draymen and Trolly-men's Union, who refuse to cart goods from the railway premises. The ...

    Article : 193 words
  25. SHIPPING HELD UP.

    Mr. Wareham, of the Adelaide Steamship Co., read a telegram from Mackay to-day, saying it was believed the railway men there would go out on ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. WAR LECTURES

    Brigadier Wonters, of the Belgian army, gave his illustrated lecture on the war in the A.M.A. Hall, Gormanston, last night. There was an excellent ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. MEAT WORKS LIKELY TO CLOSE.

    All the northern meat works will cease work this week if the strike is prolonged, and will not reopen this year. Two thousand men will be dismissed. ...

    Article : 58 words
  28. ZEEHAN COUNCIL

    The monthly meeting of the Zeehan Municipal Council was held to-day. War. den Fisher presided. Correspondence of a routine character was read, ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. AMUSEMENTS

    At the Academy of Music to-night the J. and N. Tait company makes its first appearance in Launceston in the successful comedy "Turn to the Right." ...

    Article : 650 words
  30. AUSTRALIA'S DUTY

    In the course of a speech to-day at Malvern Sir William Irvine indicated the possibility of some action being taken in the near future that would ...

    Article : 174 words
  31. ACTING PREMIER IN REPLY.

    Replying to the statement issued by the defence committee setting out the strikers' objection to the time card system, the Acting Premier (Mr. Fuller) ...

    Article : 231 words
  32. EFFECT ON THE COAL TRADE.

    The effect of the strike on the coal trade is becoming more pronounced daily. To-day the whole of the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland ...

    Article : 145 words
  33. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    The Rev. F. R. Morze, of Westbury, conveyed the sad news to Mr. and Mrs. D .Broward, that their son, Private W. Breward, who was reported wounded ...

    Article : 208 words
  34. WAR ANNIVERSARY.

    The third anniversary of the war on Saturday was celebrated at Pioneer. There was a large attendance of the residents at the Pioneer Hall on ...

    Article : 133 words
  35. NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

    Arrangements are being made with the authorities for sending home oil furlough as many men as possible of the main expeditionary force. giving the ...

    Article : 42 words
  36. PERCENTAGE OF STRIKERS.

    The Chief Commissioner (Mr. Fraser) announced to-night that on Tuesday night 10,819 railway workers of the wages staff were at work, and 17,349 ...

    Article : 57 words
  37. Advertising

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    Advertising : 257 words
  38. A TRUE AND TRIED REMEDY.

    No medicine sold in Australasia is sc generally used by all classes as Dr. Morse's Indian ,Root Pills. Rich and poor alike use them for the "little ills" ...

    Article : 84 words
  39. COMING EVENTS

    3 p.m. and 7.55 p.m.—Pictures at the Majestic. 8 p.m.—Pictured at Princess. 8 p.m.-"Turn to the Right," Academy ...

    Article : 60 words
  40. CARD SYSTEM EXPLAINED.

    The Railway Commissioners, in statement issued a few days ago, give the following explanation of the card system:— ...

    Article : 447 words
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