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  2. Advertising

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  4. AUSTRALIA'S DRAWBACK.

    "Australia under existing conditions would be the last place in the world where I would invest money, either in manufacturing, commercial, farming, or any other ...

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  5. BOUND AND GAGGED.

    Our Port Victoria correspondent wrote on January 16:—The barque Socotra, loading wheat for J. Darling & Son, expects to complete the cargo shortly. The captain, ...

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  6. HOSPITAL ENQUIRY.

    The Chief Secretary (Hon. F. S. Wallis) has given some consideration to the report of the Adelaide Hospital Board of Enquiry appointed to investigate charges made ...

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  7. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The New Year honours included a G.C.M.G. for Sir George Le Hunte, a former popular Governor of South Australia. For some time Sir George was ...

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  8. PORTABLE STONE CRUSHERS.

    The Treasurer stated on Wednesday:— "In response to requests from different parts of the State, the Government is contemplating the purchase of portable stone ...

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  9. WEATHER FORECAST.

    South Australia (issued at 9 p.m. Wednesday).—Continued fine weather, with rising temperature. South-east to north-east winds. ...

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  10. RAILWAY REVENUE.

    The railway earnings for the week ended January 13 amounted to £44,591, against £45,385 for the corresponding period last year. ...

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  11. LARGER BABIES.

    Is a race of giants growing up in London? This would certainly seem to be the case in the Marylebone district. This was mentioned by Dr. Ezekiel Boyd, of ...

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  12. SHIPPING.

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  13. AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.

    An announcement in the Government advertisement column states that all primary schools in the Education Department will resume work on Monday, January 22, and ...

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  14. PASSING IT ON TO THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The attention of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration (Hon. C. Vaughan) was called on Wednesday to a statement by the Federal Minister for ...

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  16. THE ORIGIN OF CHESS.

    Of all the theories which have been advanced as to the unknown origin of chess, the most plausible appears to be that the ancient Buddhist priests invented the game ...

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  17. WOMAN WORKERS.

    An important problem concerns the status and general condition of the woman worker, and her economic relation to the State. The number of ...

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  18. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The fight was on almost throughout Wednesday. It was not a victory for England until the last ball had gone for 4. Hundreds of business men, and ladies, too, hurried to ...

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  19. HAT HABITS.

    Although the straw hat las a serious rival in the variegated felt which is coming into vogue, it still holds its own as the fashionable summer headgear (says The ...

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  20. AN EXPENSIVE INKSTAND.

    "Twenty-one years ago exactly, when Sir Henry Irving was getting ready for the production of Ravenswood at the Lyceum," writes George Worley in an article on "The ...

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  21. The Register. ADELAIDE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.

    The welcome news is conveyed by a cable message in The Register to-day that the new Conservative Government at Ottawa is desirous of promptly ...

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  22. A DRIFTING LOW.

    On Wednesday the temperature ranged between a minimum of 54.5 and a maximum of 79. Rain fell in the tropics, between Broome and Darwin. The latter ...

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  23. FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE.

    A magnificent reward has been accorded to Maggie Peters; an American maidservant, who in recognition of her 25 years' faithful service has been informed that her ...

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  24. COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL CARDS.

    The regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act provide that "all qualified persons at whose habitations enrolment cards have been left in connection with an ...

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  25. CASUALTIES.

    An accident happened to the Henley Beach mail cart on Wednesday morning, and it was delayed an hour. The pony slipped on the tramline and the bridle felt ...

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  26. THE KING PAYS HIS FARE.

    There is no foundation for the impression prevailing in some quarters that when the King travels by train he does not pay for the accommodation provided. Although, no ...

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  27. BLACKSMITH SHOP UNROOFED.

    HAMLEY BRIDGE, January 17.—During the duststorm on Sunday a whirlwind entered an open door in Mr. J. G. Traeger's agricultural implement factory and lifted ...

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  28. THE MATCHLESS ACT.

    The first application from a municipality to have the Matches Act extended to its territory, has come from the Shire of Bairnsdale (says The Melbourne Herald). ...

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  29. ANCIENT WEDDING CUSTOMS.

    The bride of ancient Rome had a cake broken over her head as a symbol of plenty. She carried three ears of wheat in her hand, and the early English bride wore wreaths ...

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  30. AN ALLIANCE QUERY.

    The Alliance council has resolved to ask only one question of candidates at the forthcoming election in the following form:— "Are you in favour of the democratic ...

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  31. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Lady MacDonnell, left the Port on Wednesday afternoon by the steamer Lubra for Wallaroo, then) to begin the ...

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  32. SCHOOL INSPECTOR'S END.

    BRISBANE, January 17. — The body of Mr. Joseph A. Canny (State School Inspector) was found floating in the river near the Victoria Bridge this ...

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  33. FATAL FALL OF EARTH.

    HOBART, January 17.—A fall of earth occurred on Tuesday night in a shaft at the Ridgeway Reservoir works, in which three men were working at a windluss. Two ...

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  34. DANGERS OF HIGH HEELS.

    The high heels at present so fashionable with elegant Parisiennes do not meet with the approval of the French medical faculty (says The Daily Mail). It is asserted that ...

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  35. DECLINED WITH THANKS.

    The list of successful books which have been declined by publishers is a long one. Miss Beatrice Harraden's best-known novel, "Ships that Pass in the Night," has a place ...

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  36. SAINT OF OLD MAIDS

    Nobody quite knows (wrote the Paris correspondent of the London Express of November 26) why St. Catherine, who died at 18, should be the patron saint of old ...

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  37. VICTIM OF MELANCHOLIA.

    PERTH, January 17.—Thomas Aitken, a horticulturist, aged 47, owning 70 acres of land at Clover Dale, was packing tomatoes for market this morning when his brother ...

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  38. RECORD OF WRECKS.

    Last year no fewer than 10 vessels were wrecked off the coast of New South Wales. These disasters involved the loss of 41 human lives, and the financial loss ...

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  39. J. M. BLACKHAM FUND.

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  40. THE SIMPLE LIFE.

    Threepence-halfpenny a day is sufficient to provide ample nourishment per person in Protectionist America. An official test was recently completed, extending for a ...

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  41. BEN TILLETT.

    As a boy Mr. Ben Tillett (General Secretary of the Dockers' Union) travelled the country with a circus troupe, and later was sent to work in a brickyard. At ...

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  42. CHILD'S REMARKABLE ADVENTURE

    PERTH, January 17.—A sensational railway episode occurred between Perth and Fremantle. While a train was travelling 20 miles an hour, a child of Mrs. Duval ...

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  43. Family Notices

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  44. "AN ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE."

    At a meeting of the Temperance Alliance on Tuesday afternoon the following motion was passed:—"That this Alliance is of opinion that officers of the police who have ...

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  45. A SNAKEBITE.

    SYDNEY, January 17.—Last night Mr. A. R. Desailley (Manager of Talawanta station at Brewarrina), on proceeding to a waterbag to obtain a drink, was bitten on ...

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  47. "PROMISING YOUNG MEN."

    John Bigelow, aged 94, journalist, diplomat, and historian, and Andrew Carnegie, Ironmaster, author, philanthropist, and Laird of Skibo, aged 76, celebrated their ...

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  48. BARQUE ON ITS BEAM ENDS.

    NOUMEA, January 17.—The Norwegian barque Mataura, bound from Westport (New Zealand) to New Britain with coal, put in here in a leaking condition. She ...

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  49. STEAM BOILERS' ACT.

    A proclamation has been issued declaring that the Steam Boilers' Act shall come into operation on March 1. The measure provides for the registration and inspection ...

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  50. MAIL NOTICES.

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  51. NO RELATIVES IN AUSTRALIA.

    BROKEN HILL, January 17.—A. Ayling, aged 22, who was injured on the North Mine on Monday through a sheet of iron falling on him, died at the hospital ...

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  52. CAMPAIGN AGAINST SYPHILIS.

    The State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) has made arrangements for two special wards in the Alfred Hospital and the Women's Hospital to bo set aside for the treatment ...

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  53. WEST COAST.

    On Wednesday morning the Marine Board steamer Governor Musgrave left Port Adelaide for tie west coast. The President of the Board (Mr. Arthur Searcy) ...

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  55. WIRELESS COMPANY'S ACTIONS.

    Regarding the Marconi Company's action for alleged infringement of patents, & writ has been issued against Huddart, Parker, and Company, here. The case will ...

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