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  2. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    Advices from China states that the price of beche-de-mer has reached £600 a ton. A number of luggers are being fitted out to fish for beche-de-mer on the reefs near ...

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  3. SUDDEN STRIKE

    A railway strike which was begun by switchmen in the Chicago district without the sanction of their union has suddenly spread throughout the United States. ...

    Article : 389 words
  4. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    Both Houses of the Federal Parliament will resume their sittings on Wednesday. The Easter recess was welcomed by Ministers and members generally, and was taken ...

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  5. SEPARATE PEACE.

    The United States House of Representatives has adopted a resolution for the declaration of peace between America and Germany. To allow the motion to be dealt ...

    Article : 162 words
  6. RELATIONS WITH FRANCE.

    An authoritative statement has been issued in London regarding the AngloFrench situation which has arisen over the action of France in sending troops into the ...

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  7. RUSSIA TO-DAY

    Sergeant-Major J. G. Gray, of Richmond, Melbourne, formerly of the 18th Battery, has returned to London from Russia, where he was engaged in the British Secret ...

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  8. PRINCE OF WALES.

    A message from San Diego Southern California, on Thursday afternoon states that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, after a ball which lasted till midnight, spent ...

    Article : 227 words
  9. CRIME IN IRELAND.

    A party lying in ambush at Nenagh, County Tipperary, fired at three constables. One was killed on the spot, one succumbed later, and the third is dying. ...

    Article : 139 words
  10. WAR WORKERS' EXPERIENCE.

    Discussing the possible effects of the new tariff, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said on Saturday that if new industries were established and existing ...

    Article : 251 words
  11. IRISH PICKETS ARRESTED

    Irish pickets have reappeared at the British Embassy at Washington, and have been arrested. Those who were previously arrested ...

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  12. AEROPLANES SHOT DOWN.

    Captain Corbesco and Lieutenant Grassa, Italian aviators, who are flying from Rome to Tokio, have arrived at Bagdad. They state that two other machines which ...

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  13. MOTOR TRANSPORT SOLD.

    It is officially announced that the Government motor depot at Slough, near London, was sold for £3,150,000. It cost £2,500,000; thus the nation realised a profit of ...

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  14. REPATRIATION.

    Properties aggregating 88,410 acres were purchased by the Closer Settlement Board during March in connection with the scheme for settling discharged soldiers on the land. ...

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  15. TRAGEDY AT RICHMOND.

    Staggering into the Homoeopathic Hospital at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening in a dazed condition, Henry Wharton, 52 years of age, of 2 McNall street. South Richmond, ...

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  16. PARTIES IN PARLIAMENT.

    At the official luncheon at the Port Phillip Stevedores' Union picnic at Bacehus Marsh on Saturday, Mr. Frank Hall proposed "The Early Restoration to Sound ...

    Article : 298 words
  17. Blackpool Murder.

    The Home Secretary (Mr. Shortt) has refused to reprieve the ex-army officer Frederickf Rothwell Holt, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Katheleen ...

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  18. STRANDED EX-SOLDIERS.

    Distress among discharged Australian soldiers in London waiting for passages to Australia is becoming acute. A number of the men are on the verge of starvation, and ...

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  19. Flight to Australia.

    Captain G. C. Matthews, with Sergeant T. D. Kay in a Sopwith Wallaby aeroplane will leave Singapore at 6 o'clock on Monday morning in continuation of his ...

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  20. UNITED STATES NAVY.

    In evidence before the Senate committee which is inquiring into United States naval affairs, Rear-Admiral Washington stated that there have been so many desertions ...

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  21. "Dud" Shell Kills Nine Persons.

    Nine farm workers have been killed near Lille, France, through the explosion of a buried German bomb, which was struck while the ground was being ploughed. ...

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  22. NEW TARIFF.

    Manufacturing chemists complain that the duty imposed upon "crude drugs" will hamper the Australian manufacturer. The term is applied to certain herbs and other ...

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  23. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    As the time for the opening of the session of the State Parliament approaches more [?] usual interest is being shown in State questions. There is evidence that country ...

    Article : 181 words
  24. TIRED OF LABOUR EXTREMISTS.

    ROCKHAMPTON (Q.), Sunday.—At a joint meeting of the Nationalist supporters in the Rockhampton and Fitzroy clectorates Mr J. C. Stewart, who was a Labour ...

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  25. Latin-American Alliance.

    The Congress of Salvador, one of the Central American Slates, after receiving the United States interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, decided to attempt the ...

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  26. PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

    In addressing a large audience at Wesley Church yesterday afternoon on the coming prohibition struggle the Rev. T. S. B. Woodfull claimed that this year would ...

    Article : 243 words
  27. Australian Pictures Shown.

    The Society of Australian Artists in London is holding a representative show. Those who are exhibiting include Allport, Bryant, Evergood, Coates, Leist, Dora Meeson, ...

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  28. Antwerp Wool Sales.

    Australian wool sales opened at Antwerp on April 8. There was a large attendance, and competition was brisk. Prices were 5 per cent. above recent rates. There were ...

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  29. UNCONSCIOUS FOR TWELVE DAYS.

    TALLANGATTA, Saturday.—Mr. Roy Nichol, of Tallangatta Valley, was seriously injured last week by a fall from a horse. He went after some cattle, and the horse ...

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  30. MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE.

    Public appreciation of the action at the Lord Mayor (Councillor Aikman M.L.C.) in providing free Sunday night concerts was again shown on the occasion of the second ...

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  31. Prohibition in Britain.

    "Pussyfoot" Johnson the American prohibitionist campaigner, who is returning to America from England, interviewed by the "Daily Chronicle," said:—"I am going back ...

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  32. FATAL SHOOTING INCIDENT.

    William James Thomas, a wharf labourer and returned soldier, aged 25 years, died in the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday from the effects of a bullet wound received in a ...

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  33. RUN OVER BY TRAIN.

    Early on Sunday morning a railway employee named Tomlinson found the body of a young man on the rails between South Kensington station and the bridge over ...

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  34. ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHERS.

    Speaking at the conference of the Catholic Women's Social Guild on Saturday afternoon, Archbishop Mannix said that the Catholic teachers in the ...

    Article : 144 words
  35. IRRIGATION IN THE NORTH.

    Sir.—I wish to direct attention to the position the northern irrigation districts are drifting into. At the present time no irrigation water is being supplied although the ...

    Article : 335 words
  36. DEAD MAN UNIDENTIFIED.

    The police are anxious to establish the identity of in elderly man who was knocked down by a bolting horse attached to a lorry at the corner of Flinders and Spencer ...

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  37. BANNING THE BOOKMAKER.

    WELLINGTON, Saturday.—New regulations have been gazetted restricting the use for betting purposes of the services provided by the Post, Telegraph, and Telephone ...

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  38. INDUSTRIAL.

    A compulsory conference between representatives of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Federation and the Merchant Service Guild was ehdl before Mr. Justice Higgins at the Law Courts on ...

    Article : 135 words
  39. CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—At the close of the Australian congress of the Consumers' Cooperative Societies in Sydney on Saturday, it was decided to convey to the Prime ...

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  40. POLICE NEWS.

    Yasuichi Takata, a Japanese sailor, who was acquitted at the Court of General Sessions on Friday of the alleged manslaughter of a fellow Japanese, Sohebl [?] was rearrested shortly afterwards. ...

    Article : 109 words
  41. A RESULT OF PEACE.

    Mr. John J. Virgo British Empire secretary of the Young Men s Christian Association, in the course of an address to men in the Auditorium yesterday said that when ...

    Article : 167 words
  42. QUEENSLAND BY-ELECTION.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Polling for the Herbert by-election, rendered necessary by the appointment of Mr. Lennon as Lieutenant-Governor, took place on Saturday. ...

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  43. SELBOURNE CHAMBERS—ROOM 9.

    Sir,—My attention has been directed to an inaccuracy in the concluding paragraph of the article by me which appeared in "The Argus" of to-day. A scheme had been ...

    Article : 70 words
  44. WEEK-END ROBBERIES.

    The factory of William Lawrence, dyer, at 40 Ellis street, South Yarra, was broken into on Friday morning and clothing valued at about £100 stolen. It consisted ...

    Article : 62 words
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