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  2. 44-HOURS WEEK.

    To-day the award of Judge Beeby in connection with the 44 hours week in the engineering industry is to come into operation. The employers intend to insist on observance of the clause which gives them a right to ensure that the men shall work, at ordinary rates, four hours ...

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  3. BOYS DROWNED.

    Three boys, aged 11, 10, and 7 years respectively, were drowned in a water filled brick pit in May street, St. Peters, to-day ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. NOT PESSIMISTIC.

    The Australian Press Associations representative says:—"American and Japanese quarters to-day are inclined to the view that the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. ...

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  5. DIVIDED INDIA.

    In view of the acute tension existing in India between Moslems and Hindus, a little conflict took place during the Mohurrum (the biggest Moslem festival of ...

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  6. RAZOR SLASHING.

    Charged with having slashed Rupert Carr, a coloured man, with a razor, in Druitt place, on April 18, Claude Taylor, aged 41 years, wharf labourer, was to-day ...

    Article : 115 words
  7. CANCER SCOURGE.

    "Cancer," said a well-known authority, "in a disease the mere mention of which fills us with dread, and the fear that it may fall ...

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  8. MOTOR TRUCK BURNED.

    A bright fire and attendant column of smoke on the slope of the Belair Hill as the evening shadows fell, on Wednesday ...

    Article : 492 words
  9. INFECTED CATS.

    At Townsville to-day, it was announced by Dr. Baldwin, of the Commonwealth Institute of Tropical Medicine, that the examination of cats found dead at Ross ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. POLITICAL ENEMIES.

    Mr. J. Wheatloy (Labour member for Shettleston in the House of Commons, who was Minister of Health in the Ramsay MacDonald Cabinet), has ...

    Article : 386 words
  11. GEN. PANGALOS.

    The discovery of a mysterious motor boat cruising outside the Fort of Izzedin, in the Island of Crete, where the Greek ex-Dictator Gen. Pangalos is ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. BOOT TRUNK MYSTERY.

    At the Old Bailey to-day Charles Robinson, who stands charged with the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bonati (the victim of the Victoria Station boot trunk tragedy) put ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. ADVERTISING EXHIBITION.

    "Good packing brings good business" will be the Empire Marketing Board's motto for a display at the. Advertising Exhibition at Olympia next week. The ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. ALLEGED HUMAN BONES.

    The most striking part of the evidence given in the City Police Court to-day, in relation to the charge against Denis Hastings Regan, and James Graham St. Jack ...

    Article : 538 words
  15. A LONDON FIRE.

    The New Zealand High Commissioner (Sir James Parr) and Lady Parr, had an exciting experience late last night, when a fire broke out in a building in ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. WRECKED ON LONDON REEF.

    The French steamer St. Francois Xavier, which is well known in Australian waters, has been wrecked and has become a total loss ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. VICTORIAN HARVEST.

    The wheat harvest in Victoria for the coming season is estimated at 40,000,000 bushels, a decrease of seven million bushels compared with the harvest of last ...

    Article : 80 words
  18. AUSTRALIA'S SECRETARY.

    "Distinguished service to the Empire, was a constantly recurring phase among the high tributes paid to Mr. M. L. Shepherd (official secretary of the ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. SCIENCE AND SHEEP.

    The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. A. M. MacRobert), in the House of Commons to-day, announced that the Ministry of Agriculture and the Scottish Board of ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. DR. PAGE AT CASINO.

    The Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page), in a speech at Casino, said that the new State movement would live, and now was the time for the movement to make ...

    Article : 236 words
  21. AWAITING EVENTS.

    Reticence is being observed by some officials of unions affected by the recent award of Judge Beeby concerning the action to be taken by them if the award is not ...

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  22. PROHIBITION LAW.

    A survey of United States Prohibition law activities during the year which ended on Jane 30 has revealed the paradox that more persons were arrested and boats ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.

    On June 16 a Russian naval and military tribunal sentenced to death M. Klepikoff, who formerly commanded a vessel of the Baltic Fleet. On a charge of ...

    Article : 292 words
  24. THE PROPORTIONAL VOTE,

    The French Chamber of Deputies to-day adopted, by 320 votes against 234, the Electoral Reform Bill. France thus returns to the single-member constituency ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. SHIP ABANDONED.

    The crew of the auxiliary schooner, Anciura, which has been abandoned by her American owners and arrested here for debt, after carrying a cargo of timber ...

    Article : 180 words
  26. MIGRATION AND INDUSTRY.

    I told the meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association a few arguments against the Australian tariffs which had been found true in practice, said the ...

    Article : 119 words
  27. SUNDAY WIRELESS WORK.

    In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. F. A. Macquisten, K.C. (Conservative, Argyll) asked if the Board of Trade were aware that Mr. Norman, lighthousekeeper ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. THE KOLAPORE CUP.

    The Kolapore Cup, one of the principal trophies of the Bisley Rifle Meetings, was won to-day by Canada, with 1,133 points. Great Britain came second with 1,123 ...

    Article : 188 words
  29. SWIMMING MARATHON.

    At Lake George, New York, William Keating, a New York swimming instructor, won the 24 miles swimming Marathon, on Lake George, finishing at Lake ...

    Article : 87 words
  30. LIEUT. DUFFIELD'S SENTENCE.

    Lieut. Duffield, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Col. F. Fitzgerald, Commander of the 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment, stationed at ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. MAYORS AND NEW SETTLERS.

    As a means of assisting new settlers and of fostering Empire trade, the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Rowland Blades, Bart.), has circulated, a brochure ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. SHOPS BURNT AT CAMPERDOWN.

    A are at about 7.39 to-night destroyed a building of two floors, comprising five shops, at the corner of Parramatta road and Mallett street, Camperdown. Alfred ...

    Article : 98 words
  33. COAL EXPORT TRADE.

    In the House of Commons to-day, during a long debate on the situation in the coal trade, the Opposition members called attention to the seriousness of low wages ...

    Article : 177 words
  34. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  35. QUEENSLAND'S FINANCES.

    "While admitting that the Commonwealth financial arrangement which takes the place of the per capita payments is sound, and that it has my support. I ...

    Article : 111 words
  36. A RELIEF FILM.

    At Hollywood, the newly organized Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts contemplates the production of a three-reel film, in which Douglas Fairbanks. Pols ...

    Article : 106 words
  37. THE BEECHAM ESTATE.

    Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery Division of the High Court to-day, granted an order for the compulsory winding-up of the Beecham estate, which comprises many ...

    Article : 40 words
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