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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  3. CALL FOR MEN.

    Only 61 men were accepted for active service yesterday of the 135 who presented themselves for enlistment. The following are the details supplied by the military ...

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  4. COMPULSORY TRAINING.

    In a regulation under the Defence Act gazetted yesterday the Commonwealth Ministry has enlarged the Military Board by adding a new member, to be known as ...

    Article : 233 words
  5. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Having been advised by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that, for reasons which had to be regarded as confidential, it had been found to be impracticable to ...

    Article : 973 words
  6. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    Prisoners who are selected from the tree-planting camp at French Island are given inducement to become industrious and of some service to the community. The ...

    Article : 1,261 words
  7. WATERSIDE DISPUTE.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—Further developments occurred to-day in connection with the trouble which has arisen in Brisbane between the Waterside Workers' Federation ...

    Article : 302 words
  8. Display Advertising

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  9. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At the half-yearly meeting of the Gas Company on Thursday the chairman (Mr. J. Y. McDonald) stated that increased business had brought in bigger revenue. The net amount available for ...

    Article : 1,172 words
  10. WHEAT SCHEME.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) yesterday conferred with officials of the Australian Wheat Board and the Victorian Wheat Commission on questions ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. FORTUNE TELLING ALLEGED.

    Before Mr. Notley Moore, P.M., Captain Russell, and Messrs. Lavery and Wallis, J.P.'s, at Prahran Court yesterday, three women were charged, on the information ...

    Article : 422 words
  12. £250 DAMAGES FOR LIBEL.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—In the action brought by John Dunn, a shearer, against Edward Grayndler, general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, for £1,000 ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    The danger of alighting from trams without first seeing that the road is clear from passing traffic was emphasised at an inquest held at the Morgue yesterday, concerning the death of ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. THE LIQUOR BILL.

    Sir,—You report Mr. Farthing, M.L.A., as arguing last night in the Legislative Assembly and quoting statistics in alleged proof of his statement "that restrictions ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. INDUSTRIAL.

    NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.), Thursday. — Mr. Justice Edmunds, of the Industrial Court, to-day gave his decision on an application by the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. ...

    Article : 106 words
  16. THE RAILWAYS.

    In the annual report of the chief engineer for railway construction (Mr. M. Kernot), it is stated that during the year ended June 30, 1916, 841 miles of railway ...

    Article : 461 words
  17. SPORTING ITEMS.

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  18. SHIPPING CHARGES.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. — Representatives of New Zealand shipping companies, who are meeting in conference at Christchurch, have decided to increase ...

    Article : 182 words
  19. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    Japan's methods of securing techmeal efficiency were referred to by more than one speaker at Sunshine last night, when the third annual distribution of prizes to the ...

    Article : 374 words
  20. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

    BRISBANE. Thursday.—The debate was resumed in the Legislative Assembly to-day on the second reading of the Capital Punishment Abolition Bill. Mr. Appel ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. STEAMER OVERDUE.

    Some anxiety is being felt for the safety of the small steamer Douglas Mawson, which is several days overdue here from Port Huon, Tasmania. She is reported to ...

    Article : 158 words
  22. QUEENSLAND SUGAR AWARD.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—Representatives from all the sugar districts of Northern Queensland, fully empowered to act on behalf of all growers, are now in Brisbane. ...

    Article : 206 words
  23. QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. Ryan) stated in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the visit to England of the late Premier (Mr. Denham) cost ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—Mr. Weir, engineer surveyor of the Marine Board, reports that the holds of the Arawatta have been surveyed, and the damage was negligible. It was considered that ...

    Article : 199 words
  25. NON-PAYING LINES.

    Sir,—The Railways department points out losses amounting to over £300,000. Perhaps some would pay well if allowed to do so. The farmers of Korumburra South have a ...

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  26. EX-STAFF SERGEANT ARRESTED.

    Thomas Wellington Lyons, 40 years of age, formerly staff-sergeant in the pay-office at the Victoria Barracks, was arrested yesterday afternoon by the detective police and locked up at the ...

    Article : 103 words
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