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  2. MR. HUGHES ON TOUR.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) arrived in Queensland to-day, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception all along the line from Wallanganra. So soon as ...

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  3. THE REFERENDUM BILLS.

    The Premier (Hon. A. H. Peake), referring on Monday to the Bills designed to give greater powers to the Commonwealth Government to deal with profiteering and ...

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  4. FLINDERS CHASE.

    One can hardly realize that the Chase has at last been constituted. When we look back over many years of battling to achieve this purpose, the old barriers and obstacles ...

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  5. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    The Prime Minister has expressed a hope that Parliament will attend a requiem service on Friday, which will be this day week. Had he signified a desire that a ...

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  6. EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION CASE.

    Further evidence was heard before Mr. Justice Hood in the Practice Court to-day in the case in which an order nisi for a writ of habeas corpus is being sought ...

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  7. THE KAISER'S BOUNTY. SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    The Geneva correspondent of The New York Times says:—The Strassburg Neue Zeitung has published extracts from a pamphlet written last year by Herr August ...

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  8. RUSSIAN SITUATION

    Advices from Reval confirm the information that Gen. Yudenitch has reached Petrograd. He captured the railway station of Putiloff in the locality of the great ...

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  9. KANGAROO ISLAND TRAGEDY.

    Mr. A. C. Thomas, of the Crown Law Office, and Dr. Angas Johnson, of Adelaide, arrived here on Saturday evening to make further investigations concerning the death ...

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  10. DARWIN REVOLT.

    Federal Ministers are still reticent in regard to what is to be done to cope with the situation that has arisen in Darwin. All that the Minister for Home and ...

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  11. WHEAT MUDDLE.

    Giving evidence before the Wheat Commission to-day, Alfred Barton, accountant, stated that as the result of his examination of the wheat office accounts, which began ...

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  12. QUEENSLAND NATIONAL CANDIDATES.

    At a meeting of the Federal election, campaign committee to-day Mr. John Adamson was selected by a ballot on the preferential system as the third candidate for the ...

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  13. BOLSHEVIK ASSERTIONS.

    Moscow has transmitted a Bolshevik wireless message asserting that the Red Guards have recaptured Gatchine and Krasnoye Selo, and that they have retaken ...

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  14. VON DER GOLTZ'S ARMY.

    A noted French commander, Gen. Mangin, has been sent to the Baltic Provinces to superintend the evacuation of Gen. von der Goltz's army. ...

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  15. LABOUR MEN "TURNED DOWN."

    The local branch of the Australian Labour Party will meet this week to consider the position caused by the action of the executive of the party in Sydney in ...

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  16. 9,000 CAPTURED.

    It is reported that in the Don Cossack region Gen. Vorenich has captured 9,000 Bolsheviks. ...

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  17. HOLLAND AND GERMANY.

    The Berlin Tageblatt states that four Dutch financial institutions are jointly providing Germany with credits totalling £5,000,000 for the purchase of raw ...

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  18. MR. CONSIDINE'S SEAT.

    The Following resolution has been passed by the executive of the Women's National League:—"That this executive views with great indignation the resumption of his seat ...

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  19. FRENCH AMNESTY BILL.

    The French Chamber of Deputies has passed the Amnesty Bill. The debate revealed that during the war period there were 197,000 soldiers convicted for various ...

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  20. PEACE RATIFICATION.

    A despatch from Tokio says that Baron Funakoshi (Leader of the Opposition in the Japanese Diet), has made the statement that if the Tokio Government is ...

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  21. THE BAMBRA AT WYNDHAM.

    A telegram dispatched from Perth at 5.30 p.m. on Monday notified the arrival of the Bambra, at Wyndham. ...

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  22. ROUMANIANS LEAVING BUDAPEST.

    The Roumanian forces have begun to evacuate the Hungarian capital, Budapest. ...

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  23. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The re-assembly of the Imperial Parliament on Wednesday of this week will focus attention on the deplorable monetary outlook at the end of the first six months ...

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  24. THE WHIP.

    Application for an 'interpretation of the recent waterside workers' award, so far as it did or did not concern the coal workers, was made to Mr. Justice Higgins ...

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  25. THE WAR GRATUITY.

    A near proposal in regard to the proposed war gratuity is that any gratuity to be paid in Australia should take the form of Peace Loan bonds, which would be not ...

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  26. STARVING VIENNA.

    All political parties in Austria have sunk their differences, and are co-operating with a view to avert the starvation of the people. The burgomaster of Vienna has appealed ...

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  27. AMERICAN SENATE'S POSITION.

    The Washington correspondent of The New York Times says:—Sr. Lodge says that a decisive majority of the Washington Senate will vote in favour of reservations ...

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  28. MOROCCAN FINANCIAL CRISIS.

    The Matin states that a financial crisis has arisen in Morocco, owing to the fall in the value of the franc, for which the natives will give only 12 sous. Commercial ...

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  29. LABOUR AND CO-OPERATION.

    Mr. Gosling (President of the Transport Workers' Federation), in a speech delivered in London, revealed that an intimate relationship existed during the [?] ...

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  30. CANADA AND HER SOLDIERS.

    As the question of war gratuities in relation to the Australian Imperial Forces is now under discussion, it is interesting to learn from soldiers of the Dominion of ...

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  31. THE PRICE OF OIL.

    The application by the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Ltd., for an increase of 1/ a case in the selling price of kerosine was further considered by the Necessary ...

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  32. VICTORIAN ANXIETY.

    There is much speculation in State political circles concerning the outcome of the meeting to-morrow afternoon between the Premier (Mr. Lawson) and the full ...

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  33. PARIS HONOURED.

    President Poincare, in the course of a great and inspiring ceremony, bestowed the Croix de Guerre upon, the City of Paris in recognition of its valour and ...

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  34. LIVELY SESSION PREDICTED.

    It is generally admitted that the position of the Government has been greatly strengthened during the recess, owing to its firm handling of the railway strike. ...

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  35. STEWARDS' AND COOKS' CLAIMS.

    The Federated Stewards' and Pantrymen's Union has applied for a variation of the existing award. The employers have offered 35/ a month increase, and 6d. an ...

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  36. UNLESS FREIGHTS FALL.

    Giving evidence to-day before the royal commission on the high cost of living, Rp. Hill (President of the Victorian Farmers' Union) said that owing to the lack ...

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  37. DISTURBED IRELAND.

    At Dublin, near midnight last night, one of three men, without having received any provocation, fired a revolver at Constable Dowling, inflicting a serious injury, ...

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  38. SERGES STOLEN.

    Serges and other tailoring material were stolen, from Mr. R. T. Lawry's premises between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The establishment is situated in ...

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  39. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

    M. Poulet, who recently left Paris in an attempt to fly to Australia, is proceeding towards Salonika. M. Poulet was forced to descend at ...

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  40. THE WORKING MAN'S MEAT.

    Discussing the price of meat in the course of an interview with the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Oman) to-day, representatives of the butchering trade said that ...

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  41. BLIND PEOPLE'S PENSIONS.

    A deputation representing blind people waited upon the Federal Teasurer (Mr. Watt) to-day and urged that the pensoins granted, by the Commonwealth should not ...

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  42. "NO OFFICIAL NEWS."

    The Premier (Hon. A. H. Peake) said on Monday that he had not anything official to report concerning the visit of M. Poulet, and that he knew nothing of it ...

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  43. "NO IMPROPER INFLUENCE."

    "No improper influence was used by any person with the Solicitor-General or with any responsible officer of the State Crown Law Department for the purpose of ...

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  44. THE DAVIS CUP.

    A meeting of the Davis Cup management committee was held to-night to consider the cablegram received from the England Association last week. which intimated ...

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  45. COMMONWEALTH SUPPLIES AVAILABLE.

    The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Watt), referring to-day to the cable message from the French aviator. M. Poulet, to the Australian press, asking that supplies ...

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  46. REPATRIATION STATISTICS.

    The Acting Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Massy Greene) to-day made available an interesting analysis of "first" application to the department from the date of ...

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  47. STATEMENT WITHIN A FEW DAYS.

    The Minister for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook) stated to-day that the proposals of the Federal Government with regard to the payment of a war gratuity to the ...

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  49. SYDNEY FERRIES.

    The report of the royal commission which recently investigated the operations of the Sydney Feries, Ltd., was made available today. It stated:—"A company enjoying ...

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  50. DUST AND HEAT ON THE BARRIER.

    A thick duststorm, one of the worst for many month?, has enveloped the city and surrounding all to-day, with a strong wind from the north-west. The temperature ...

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  53. TASMANIAN SHEARERS' THREAT.

    The Tasmanian branch of the A.W.U. has modified the demands it originally made upon the pastoralists of Tasmania on behalf of the shearers, and for this log ...

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  54. THE BROKEN HILL STRIKE.

    A meeting of the Silverton Tramways Employes' Association was held yesterday, but according to, the secretary, nothing was done with regard to handling supplies ...

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  56. THE NAVY.

    Interesting speeches were delivered at the annual meeting of the Navy League to-night. The dependence of Australia and the Empire upon the British Navy was ...

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  57. PRISONERS' SCHEME FRUSTRATED.

    A plan on the part of two prisoners to break out of Melbourne Gaol was frustrated on Sunday. When the prisoners were about to be taken out for service, it ...

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