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  2. THE ELECTIONS.

    The state of parties as the result of the State elections on Saturday was not altered by the further batch of figures received on Thursday. The effect was to ...

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  3. IMPORTANT ELECTION DEVELOPMENT.

    There were rumours in Adelaide on Thursday night that an important development had taken place in connection with the East Torrens election, the poll for ...

    Article : 531 words
  4. FEDERAL CRISIS

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Jowett (V.), on a motion for adjournment, discussed the excessive ocean freights charged on the exportable ...

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  5. MISS DOROTHY BRUNTON.

    It is sometimes advantageous to be a "hoodoo," for Miss Dorothy Brunton won this pseudonym on account of a remarkable sequence of happenings on the stage ...

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  6. MONTHLY ENGLISH MAILS.

    According to further information made available to-day it appears that the subsidy to the Orient Company will be nearer £170,000—the amount payable under the ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. CHEAPER MEAT AT LAST!

    The important bearing of the price of meat upon the household exchequer naturally causes consumers to watch closely the fluctuations in the cost of that commodity. ...

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  8. BRITISH CRISIS.

    The Government has announced that in the event of the threatened extension of the strike being acted upon, it will use the fullest power of the State to protect the ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. GENERAL WAGES REDUCTIONS.

    Widespread proposals for reduction of wages to meet post-war conditions include the lowering of engineering and shipbuilding employes' weekly rates by 6/, also the ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. BASE METALS INDUSTRY.

    Speaking at the half-yearly meeting of the Amalgamated Zinc (Debavays) Ltd., held to-day, the chairman (Mr. W. L. Baillieu, M.I.C.), referred to the general ...

    Article : 426 words
  11. AMERICA AND GERMANY.

    In the United States Senate to-day Sr. Knox introduced a motion to end the state of war with Germany. It provides that although the United States has not ratified ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. A LACK OF ENTHUSIASM.

    The seamen and firemen's ballot to the present is against a strike. The miners' leaders make no secret of the fact that the railwaymen and transport workers have ...

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  13. A NAVAL HOLIDAY.

    Sr. Borah has reintroduced his motion to authorize the President to open negotiations between Great Britain and Japan for the reduction of future naval building. ...

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  14. WISER COUNSELS HOPED FOR.

    In the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd George announced the decision of the railwaymen and transport workers to strike, but said he hoped that wiser ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. MEAT AT STATE FISH SHOPS.

    Beginning next Monday butchering departments will be opened at all the State fish depots, where, according to an advertisement in the daily press, customers ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. EASTERN SIBERIAN RELATIONS.

    The Washington correspondent of The New York Times says that the American State Department has received another Note from the Eastern Siberian ...

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  17. TAXATION MACHINE.

    The Federal Taxation Commissioner (Mr. Ewing), in his address to the Chambers of Commerce Conference to-day, explained the amalgamation of the Federal and State ...

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  18. SMALLPOX.

    There were no developments to-day in connection with the outbreak of smallpox on the steamer Gracchus. Abdul Gabbar, the seaman who is at the quarantine ...

    Article : 106 words
  19. TARIFF WALL DENOUNCED.

    The American Importers and Exporters' Association has passed a resolution that the Fordney tariff would destroy the American export trade, since the United ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. LABOUR PROTEST IN PARLIAMENT.

    A Labour Party motion to amend the emergency regulations will be submitted in the House of Commons to-day (Thursday). It will protest against the Government's ...

    Article : 49 words
  21. GERMANS ON THE SEAS.

    The Berlin special correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says:—Herr Cuno, head of the Hamburg-America Steamship Company, addressing the German National Shipping ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. THE CARDINAL'S HAT.

    The Rome correspondent of The New York Times says:—Those acquainted with the trend of feeling at the Vatican have received the impression that Archbishop ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. DUTCH BOYCOTT DECIDED ON.

    The transport workers of the Dutch port of Rotterdam have deided that if a general strike is proclaimed in Great Britain they will refuse to tranship goods from ...

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  24. THE SYDNEY SUFFERERS.

    One of the cases of smallpox from the steamer Gracohus, at the quarantine station to-day, became serious, and was diagnosed a semi-confluent. The other ...

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  25. FIFESHIRE MOB AT WORK.

    A large body of miners at midnight last night intimidated the signalmen engaged at Thornton Junction, Fifeshire, and forced them to leave the boxes. Heavy ...

    Article : 90 words
  26. RAILWAY TROUBLE THREATENED IN THE WEST.

    The Locomotive Union, which stopped railway traffic last January, thereatens to strike again if there is further delay in submitting the claims of the men to the ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. INDUSTRIALISTS' MANIFESTO.

    The Industrial Triple Alliance has issued a manifesto which says:—"If the miners are forced to accept the proposed terms it will be the greatest disgrace in the history of ...

    Article : 99 words
  28. GERMANY AND THE ALLIES.

    The German Foreign Minister (Dr. von Simons) has hurriedly returned to Berlin from London in consequence of the decision of Herr Hugo Stinnes and the People's ...

    Article : 74 words
  29. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    It is a fact not generally known that the Right Hon. Robert Lowe (Chancellor of the Exchequer), holds a sufficient number of shares in the Burra Mine to qualify ...

    Article : 365 words
  30. RABBIT.

    Leading rabbit importers state that they have asked for a reduction in freight to 130/. Despite the reduction announced yesterday, it is quite impossible, they say ...

    Article : 107 words
  31. PROGRESSIVE SUMMARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 words
  32. HIGHLANDERS ON GUARD.

    Rioting continues in a few districts, especially in East Fifeshire. where marines and soldiers have arrived, and are now protecting the volunteer workers, who are ...

    Article : 106 words
  33. IRISH SITUATION.

    The latest Sinn Fein devices include shootings of army horses and the seizure of loyalists' motor cars. Masked and armed men held up the ...

    Article : 65 words
  34. SPORTING.

    In the fourth round of the covered courts tennis singles competition at Queen's Club to-day, Crawley beat Doust, 7-5,1-6,6-2, 8-6 ...

    Article : 29 words
  35. COMMERCE CONGRESS.

    The Chamber of Commerce Conference concluded its sittings this morning, when the following additional resolutions were adopted:—1. In favour of reciprocal trade ...

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  36. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

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  37. P. & 0. STEAMER FOR WYNDHAM.

    In response to a request by the Agent-General for Western Australia (Sir J. D. Connolly), the P. & 0. Branch Service will send the Palermo to Wyndham, on ...

    Article : 166 words
  38. Advertising

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  39. DOUST INJURED.

    During the doubles contest at Queen'a Club Doust fell heavily and broke a tendon of the left leg. ...

    Article : 21 words
  40. GOLF.

    Ockenden and Raynes Park (professional), returning in 139, led a field which included Edward Ray, James Braid, H. Vardon, Abe Mitchell, and Q. Duncan, in ...

    Article : 133 words
  41. CORK PRISON ATTACKED.

    Late last night a party of unknown men opened fire on the eastern wing of che Cork prison. The military guard sent up Verey lights, and the gunners on the ...

    Article : 53 words
  42. 44 HOURS WEEK.

    A special meeting of the State Cabinet to-day decided to give almost immediate effect to the recommendation by Mr. Justice Beeby that 44 hours should constitute a ...

    Article : 145 words
  43. A DISABLED SCHOONER.

    The schooner Thuraka, bound for Timaru and Hobart, put into Wellington for repairs to-day. ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLES.

    In the Senate this afternoon, a motion by an ex-President of the Chamber (Col. Reitz), disapproving of the granting of titles within the Union, was rejected ...

    Article : 95 words
  45. TAX OX PARIS VISITORS.

    The Municipality of Paris, at the instance of the French Government, has introduced in the Chamber of Deputies a Bill specifying Paris as a watering place. ...

    Article : 63 words
  46. THE MELBOURNE FIRE.

    The belief that the fire which partially destroyed Nunan's Buildings in Swanston street, City, last night, had resulted in the death of one of the inmates, was ...

    Article : 147 words
  47. THE TAX ON GERMAN EXPORTS.

    All the speakers in the French Chamber of Deputies, discussing the Bill sanctioning the imposition of a 50 per cent. tax on German exports to pay for reparations ...

    Article : 139 words
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