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  2. AUSTRALIAN WOOL SCHEME.

    A full meeting of the British Wool Federation held at Bradford to-day recived its deputation's report on the interview with Lord interview (Minister of Munitions ...

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  3. THE RIOTS AT BROOME.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) announced to-day that in response to a request made by the white residents of Broome for the dispatch of a warship there ...

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  4. A SEASONABLE CHRISTMAS EVE.

    People who like hot weather felt aggrieved when Christmas drew near and the summer seemed to hang fire, but the present week has made amends ...

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  5. FIUME SITUATION.

    Major Gabriele D'Annunzio has declared Fiume in a state of -war, and a proclamation which has been issued forbids the population to leave the town, and ...

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  6. STATESMEN AND THE COMMONS.

    The big figures in Imperial statesmanship—what are they? Australians have to gather their impressions from fugitive references in the newspaper, but the scene at ...

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  7. INTERSTATE CRICKET.

    The Sheffield Shield cricket match between New South Wales and Victoria was commenced today in very hot weather, and a trying north wind. The Victorian team ...

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  8. EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA.

    The United States Press Association cor respondent at Shanghai says it is reported that 2,000 lives have been lost in an earthquake in the Kansu province of China ...

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  9. THE SHIPPING STRIKE.

    There is now little hope of the shipping strike being settled until early in the new year. A meeting of the Transport Workers Federation was held to-day, and ...

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  10. MR. MAHON'S DEFEAT.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), referring to the result of the Kalgoorlie by election, said to-day that the voting was a complete vindication of the Federal ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. SCIENTISTS CONGRESS.

    Aa a result of the shipping strike, an important conference of the Australasian Association for the Advaancement of Science, which was to have been held at ...

    Article : 315 words
  12. AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

    I well remember, on first visiting the Mediterranean in 1863 (says Lord Teignmouth, in The London Daily Mail) a "yarn" that went the rounds of the ships on that ...

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  13. RELIEVING TEE FAMINE.

    The New York Times correspondent at Pekin reports that the Ministers of America, Britain, and France, upon the solicitation of the Chinese Government ...

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  14. POLITICS AND FINANCE

    Speaking at Magaliesberg, Gen. Smuts said there were signs ail over the country that the Nationalists were becoming scared of their secession policy, realizing that it ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. COOLER ON THE COAST TO-DAY.

    The following weather bulletin for South Australia was issued at 9 o'clock last night:—Except on the far west coast, where it was cool (Eucia 75 deg.), warm ...

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  16. BARRIER NEWS.

    The comparative table of infectious diseases in Broken Hill, submitted to the city council at the meeting last night, shows that there was only one case of ...

    Article : 592 words
  17. HARDING AND THE LEAGUE.

    The New York Times correspondent at Marion learns authoritatively that Mr. Harding, following a series c conferences with leading publicists, is in favour of the ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. A CHRISTMASTIDE DILEMMA.

    It is strange how a dilemma will often come from good fortune. Such an experience has been ours to-day. "You will be glad to know? that Father Christmas ...

    Article : 420 words
  19. GENERAL CABLES.

    The bank strike has been settled. Both aides have accepted Gen. Smuts's proposal to submit the depute to arbitration and establish a conciliation board for the ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The building known as a Baptist place of worship in Chapel street, Norwood, has recently been rented by the Christian Disciples, and Mr. Jesse Colbourne, from ...

    Article : 171 words
  21. TASMANIA'S ISOLATION.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said to-day that no action would be taken by the Commonwealth Government to divert Commonwealth Government line steamers ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    The last session of the present Western Australian Parliament terminated at 5.30 this morning. The Assembly was intermittently engaged throughout the night in ...

    Article : 286 words
  23. LABOUR TROUBLES IN THE WEST.

    The Trades Hall officials say they are continuing their efforts to prevent a railway strike on December 31, but see no prospect of settlement. A mass meeting of the ...

    Article : 190 words
  24. SPORTING CABLES.

    Joe Lynch in a contest at New York won the world's bantamweight championship over Pete Herman in a 15-rounds bout ...

    Article : 28 words
  25. THE PRISONER OF SELF.

    Wanderlust is sometimes incurable (writes "The Occasional Philosopher." in Saturday's Journal), so that its victin must always be moving on ...

    Article : 564 words
  26. LOVE LETTER IN CODE.

    A letter in cypher, for which the wife of the co-respondent provided the key; a wife who visited him in hospital, accompanied by the co-respondent, "like a man and ...

    Article : 448 words
  27. MUSICAL MADNESS.

    There are still a great many people who regard one concert as being typical of all the rest, in the same way that they fail to distinguish between one turnip and ...

    Article : 414 words
  28. OUT OF COMMISSION.

    The steamers Suva and Aramac, on their arrival at Brisbane to-day from Northern Queensland ports, were placed out of commission owing to the stewards strike. The ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The State Parliament ended its session at 5.10 a.m. to-day. The Government, although it failed to secure the passage of the Profiteering Prevention and Fair Rents ...

    Article : 165 words
  30. WATERSIDE WAGES.

    Mr. Justice McNaughton, in the Arbitration Court, gave judgment in the application by the Queensland branch of the Waterside Workers Federation for a State ...

    Article : 222 words
  31. CASUALTIES.

    On Friday morning Mr. Leonard Lean, of Port road, Alberton. employed as a driver by Messre. Cowell Brothers & Co., timber merchants, was backing a dray and ...

    Article : 84 words
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  33. LOST EXPLORERS.

    Information reached the Home and Territories Department to-day that the party sent to investigate the fate of the two New Guinea explorers, Mr. E. D. Bell and Mr ...

    Article : 99 words
  34. FIRE IN A WHEAT CROP.

    YORKETOWN, December 21.—On Friday last a fire occurred on the farm of Mr. Charles Farrow, Wool Bay. Mr. Fischer was assisting the owner to take off his ...

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  35. A SEVERED EAR.

    EUDUNDA, December 23.—On Wednesday afternoon a two-year-old son of Mr Guitow Briar, of Brownlow, met with an accident when riding on the top of a load ...

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  36. A HOLIDAY ON THE GOLDEN MILE.

    Owing to the shortage of firewood, the mines on the Golden Mile will be closed down from to-day until January 4, or later. The date of resumption will depend ...

    Article : 100 words
  37. SELFISH BRIDGERS.

    We all suffer from them. A man betrays his character nowhere more clearly that when be is playing auction bridge. And, as there are a great many selfish people ...

    Article : 399 words
  38. MEAT FOR THE CONTINENT.

    The dread of a huge cany-over of Imperial Government meat in New Zealand stores has been removed by the loading of beef for the Continent, on behalf of Vestey ...

    Article : 39 words
  39. ROMANCE OF A PICTURE.

    There is always a fascination in the buying of old pictures, not in the full cold light of the auction room, but rather in the dork depths of some gloomy little shop ...

    Article : 276 words
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