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  2. MINES NATIONALIZATION.

    The conference of the International Federation of Miners, now being held in London, at the instance of the French and Belgian organizations, supported by the ...

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  3. MEATWORKS FRAUDS.

    The United States Senate to-day passed a Bill relating to a livestock Commission to regulate the meatpacking industry, The measure makes unlawful any practice ...

    Article : 107 words
  4. WIVES WHO "KNOCK ABOUT."

    A Divorce Court jury yesterday found that Mrs. Dorothy Donald, wife of Dr. Pollok Donald, now of Leith and formerly of Prestwich, near Manchester, had ...

    Article : 408 words
  5. CASUALTIES.

    While employed at the Basin, at Port Adelaide, in unloading a cargo of coal from the steamer Hexham, on Tuesday morning, Mr. J. Johnson, a single man ...

    Article : 68 words
  6. THE COUNTRY.

    COROMANDEL VALLEY, January 24.—On Saturday evening the local Red Cross Circle held its ninth "kitchen social" for returned soldiers about to marry. There was a large attendance in ...

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  7. CATCHING FAIRIES.

    You remember in Barrie's "Peter Pan" how the fairy, Tinkle Bell, was fading out—dying; and, Peter said, it was because children nowadays don't believe in fairies. ...

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  8. OFF THE TRACK.

    YORKETOWN, January 21.—On Friday last Mr. J. J. Anderson, of Corney Point, accompanied by his son and a returned soldier, Mr. George Smith, went out to ...

    Article : 354 words
  9. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

    The English cricketers began a match against Hamilton to-day. For this contest the visitors were without the services of Hearne, who is still in a hospital at ...

    Article : 487 words
  10. QUEENSLAND MEAT.

    Figures illustrating the activities of the meatworks in Queensland for 1920 show a large decrease in killings, compared to the previous year. Low prices for hides and ...

    Article : 366 words
  11. A BODY RECOVERED.

    TAILEM BEND, January 24.—The body of Mr. A. Swahsen, who was reported missing last Friday, was found floating in the river on Sunday afternoon. Mounted ...

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  12. THE TAJ MAHAL.

    There is no traveller whose pulse does not quicken as he turns in through the dark red gateway a mile outside the modern city of Agra and at last catches ...

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  13. MELROSE ACCIDENTS.

    MELROSE, January 24.—Mr. H. R. Freeman, while driving a team with a load of wheat out of a paddock, last Friday, stepped down to attend to a ...

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  14. FRUIT EXPORT.

    A deputation of shippers and growers might permission from the Premier to enlist the aid of the Tasmanian Agent General in the formation of a pool of all ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. HEAT APOPLEXY.

    BROKEN HILL, January 25.—Samuel Neil Wallace, four months old, died yesterday at the home of his parents, Box Tank. There being no local doctor, the ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. GOVERNMENT WOOL.

    The Chairman of the Central Wool Committee (Sir John Higgins) has received the following cable message from the Director of Raw Materials in London:— ...

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  17. A SYDNEY AIR CRASH.

    SYDNEY, January 25.—An Avro aeroplane, piloted by John H. Summers, and carrying as passenger Sidney Francis, of Annandale, was to-day flying from the ...

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  18. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

    Present—The Mayor (Mr. H. C. Richards), Ald. Bendall, Morris, Williams, and Yelland, Crs. Croft, Dring, Hobbs, Illingworth, Lindow, Mann, [?] Reid, Sellick, and Stratton. The Mayor ...

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  19. "THE KIDNEY PUNCH" IN A TRAIN.

    At the Glenelg Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (before Messrs. a. G. Davis and W. M. Hicks) George Wheepdale, a barman, was charged, on the information of John Edward Leigh, a civil ...

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  20. BRICKLAYER'S FATAL FALL.

    SYDNEY, January 25.—A bricklayer, Sidney Moore (26), who was working on a chimney of the brickworks at Ryde today, missed his footing and fell more than ...

    Article : 43 words
  21. UNPROFITABLE MILLS.

    A deputation representative of the milling interests waited on the Commissioner of Prices to-day and asked that he would revise the prices of flour as fixed by ...

    Article : 227 words
  22. TIMBER WORKER, CLAIMS.

    The Federal Council of the Australian Timber Workers' Union has decided to make claims for higher rates of wages and improved working conditions. The union ...

    Article : 51 words
  23. FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE.

    It was decided by the Federal Cabinet today that officers of the public service who retire after 20 years of service are to be entitled to special leave. A Bill is to be ...

    Article : 84 words
  24. HEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Heat wave conditions are reported from the western and south-western parts of the State. At Menindie the thermometer reached 115 deg. in the shade yesterday. ...

    Article : 63 words
  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TOPICS.

    The Federal Public Works Committee eat at Perth to-day and took evidence from Mr. J. Smith Murdock, the Commonwealth Architect, who designed the new ...

    Article : 222 words
  26. LEPROSY IN QUEENSLAND.

    A case of leprosy has occurred in the Mackay district. The police refrain from giving information, but the report is not denied. The patient is a married man. ...

    Article : 70 words
  27. THE DEADLY GROWTH.

    Students of insect life have often observed bees with a kind of fungus or mold growing out of their body. Naturalists tell us that in some mysterious manner the ...

    Article : 155 words
  28. ALLEGED OPIUM SMUGGLERS.

    A police patrol at Circular Quay early this morning detected four Chinese leaving the steamer St. Albana. They were stopped and searched, with the result that ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. SUGAR PRICES.

    A meeting of the Sugar Council will be held next month in Brisbane. The council consists representatives of the Commonwealth and State Ministries, sugar growers ...

    Article : 138 words
  30. SEMAPHORE CARNIVAL.

    The week's carnival at the Semaphore is meeting with gratifying success. The attendance on Tuesday night was fully up to that on Monday, which constituted a record. The Tramways ...

    Article : 463 words
  31. TRADE AND LABOUR.

    The Port Adelaide branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation have notified the employers that a stop-work meeting will be held at Port Adelaide from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Thursday. ...

    Article : 67 words
  32. INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN SYDNEY.

    Dr. Purdy (Health Officer for the Metropolitan Area) states that infantile paralysis, which is always more or less present, has during the past two months, begun to ...

    Article : 104 words
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  34. GLADSTONE GAOL DISPUTE.

    The secretary of the A.G.W.A. (Mr. Nieass) stated on Tuesday that on his arrival at Gladstone in connection with the trouble which had occurred at the gaol there, the sheriff was spoken ...

    Article : 334 words
  35. LORD FORSTER IN TASMANIA.

    His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Forster) was presented at the Town Hall to-day with addresses from various public bodies. A levee was held later ...

    Article : 110 words
  36. AIRMAN IN A STORM.

    Lieut. Parer landed at Forest, near Stanley, at about 7 o'clock this evening, with five passengers for Launceston. He left King Island at about 5 o'clock, but lost his ...

    Article : 202 words
  37. RIVET BOYS' STRIKE.

    The strike of boy rivetters at Walker's shipbuilding yard, Maryborough, continues. The management telegraphed to Mr. Donnington (Chairman of the Federal ...

    Article : 115 words
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