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  2. SECOND EDITION

    Shortly before 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning a blaze occurred at the furniture factory of Messrs. Cox & Cameron, adjoining Blackeby's confectionery making ...

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  3. LONDON WOOL PRICES.

    A cablegram has been received by Sir John Higgins (Chairman of the Central Wool Committee, Melbourne) from the Director-General of Raw Materials ...

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  4. MARITIME DISPUTE.

    The official reply of the Federated Seamen's Union to the demand by the ship-owners for guarantees for the peaceful working of the industry will be considered ...

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  5. INEFFECTIVE SERVICES.

    Sir Conan Doyle in a farewell interview in Sydney to-day said:—"I love the Australian people for their naturalness and un-affectednees. Where my impressions are ...

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  6. TRADE WITH AMERICA.

    The British Empire Chamber of Commerce of the United States, established under charter of the Imperial Board of Trade, to-day held its inaugural meeting. ...

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  7. TRANSATLANTIC YACHTING.

    The Belgian Ambassador at Washington has announced that King Albert has offered a cup emblematic of the yachting championship of the seas, for an ...

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  8. AUSTRALIA FELIX.

    Many public questions were discussed at the annual luncheon of the Australian Natives' Association, at the Exhibition Building to-day. The gathering marked ...

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  9. REPRISALS IN IRELAND.

    The Ulster leader (Sir Edward Carson), in a vigorous speech at Torquay to-day, resented the action of the Radical press and a few other newspapers in condemning ...

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  10. BOLSHEVISM.

    French police, in a systematic search of large areas of the suburbs of Paris, discovered a secret printing press used for the production of Bolshevik propagandist ...

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  11. THE BASIC WAGE.

    The interstate conference of trades unions further discussed to-day the position created in regard to the basic wage. The conference considered the best means ...

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  12. WHEN WHEAT IS "BLACK."

    PORT VICTORIA, January 29.—The absurd lengths to which the zeal of strikers and their partisans will go is exemplified here by the holding up of the ...

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  13. PERTH POST OFFICE.

    In evidence before the Federal Public Works Committee to-day. Mr. Arnott, the contractor for the erection of the Perth General Post Office, said that the building ...

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  14. AMERICAN AND JAPANESE BUYING

    Another series of wool sales was opened in Sydney to-day, when the Pastoral and Finance Association and Goldsbrough, Mort, & Co., offered catalogues totalling ...

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  15. FATHER DOMINIC IN GAOL.

    The court martial at Kilmaniham, which recently tried Father Dominic (the chaplain who administered the last rites of the church to Aid. MacSwiney) on a charge ...

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  16. APPLE EXPORTS.

    The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. J. B. Hayes). commenting upon a cablegram from London that it was proposed to reduce the space for apples for March ...

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  17. LATE CABLES.

    Gen. Kemal Pasha, the Turkieh Nationalist leader in Asia Minor, is preparing a general offensive on all his fronts. ...

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  18. WRECKAGE IN REPRISAL.

    Crown forces, in reprisal for a recent Sinn Fein ambush, in the vicinity of Dublin, have systematically destroyed the interior of Cullenswood House, a fine ...

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  19. SHIPPING POSITION IN TASMANIA.

    The matter of the steamer services between Tasmania end Victoria was considered by the shipping committee to-day. One suggestion was that the Tasmanian ...

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  20. QUEENSLAND LOAN

    To-day was the last day for the lodgement of applications for the State loan of £2,000,000. The chief organizer remarked to-night that it was yet impossible to have ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. THE INTERALLIED CONFERENCE.

    The French press, reviewing the whole of the work of the Paris Conference, is unanimous in emphasising its having reconstituted the Allies' united front which ...

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  22. BOMB AT HOME FOR INCURABLES.

    During last night a bomb was thrown into the grounds of the Protestant Home for Incurables at Cork. The noise of the explosion terrified the inmates, but no ...

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  23. MINISTERS AT MILLICENT.

    The Premier (Mr. Barwell), the Commissioner of Crown Land (Mr. Laffer), the Commissioner of Public Works (Mr. Hague), Messrs. Reldy and Petherick ...

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  24. ALLEGED BRIBERY.

    Frank Charles Bryce, grazier, of the Winton distrct, was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with having, on or about September 23 last, promised to give the ...

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  25. SIR NORMAN LOCKYER.

    The death of Sir Norman Lockyer last August (writes the Government Astronomer, Mr. G. F. Dodwell, B.A.). removed one of the most vigorous and able modern ...

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  26. TASMANIAN TREASURER'S GRIEVANCE.

    The State Treasurer (Sir Elliot Lewis), who wrote to the Queensland Treasurer (Mr. Fihelly) protesting against the Queensland Government advertising in ...

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  27. BELGIAN MINISTER SATISFIED.

    The Chairman of the Interallied Supreme Conference (M. Briand, French Premier), in acknowledging Mr. Lloyd George'e closing tribute to the work of the conference ...

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  28. SEVEN YEARS FOR LAY PREACHER.

    For what he described as "a diabolical crime," Lord Mackenzie, in the High Court at Glasgow on December 21, sentenced Enoch Reid, a lay preacher and an ...

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  29. DRAMATIC FIRE RESCUES.

    Exciting scenes accompanied a fire which broke out at 6 a.m. on December 21 at a Church Army Hostel, 136 Seymour place, off Oxford street, London. The premises ...

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  30. CURRENT TOPICS DISCUSSED.

    The Premier (Mr. Barwell), in a brief address, said the Ministerial visit was prompted by the Government's interest in the south-east, which was a tract of ...

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  31. THE VARIABLE MARGIN.

    The Paris newspapers, outlining the genesis of the reparations agreement in its final form, pay a tribute to M. Jaspar (Belgian Minister of Economic Relations) ...

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  32. FLOUR PRICES.

    As the result of the unsatisfactory state of affairs in regard to the price of flour, the manager of the Defiance Milling Company has given a week's notice to all the ...

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  33. THE "JOB CONTROL" QUESTION.

    The Victorian officials of the Federated Seamen's Union have been advised that the Federal secretary has given the guarantees required by the shipowners that "job ...

    Article : 166 words
  34. CASUALTIES.

    Two fires occurred in the metropolitan area on Monday afternoon. At about 20 minutes after 2 o'clock Che Adelaide Fire Brigade received a call to the premises of ...

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  35. A.W.U. ON I.W.W.

    A proposal for the amalgamation of the Australian Railway Union and several other trades unions with the Australian Workers' Union was discussed further at ...

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  36. STATE REVENUE.

    The State revenue returns for January show that receipts from "Government sources" amounted to £781,719, compared with £1,028,531 for January of last year. ...

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  37. GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN ISLAND STATE.

    The Governor-General (Lord Forster this morning visited the submarine flotilla, and boarded the Jl, which did not submerge as intended. During the afternoon ...

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  38. FOUR FISHERS MISSING.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), January 31. Four residents of Masterton left Castlepoint on a fishing expedition in a fiat-bottomed boat. The craft was swamped ...

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  39. THE REAL NAVAL QUESTION.

    The Daily Chronicle'e forecast of the report of the subcommittee on Imperial defence shews that the controversy which requires immediate settlement is not the ...

    Article : 87 words
  40. BARRIER NEWS.

    A meeting of municipal employes called to consider the council's reply to their claim for increased wages and new conditions, was held at the trades hall ...

    Article : 114 words
  41. THE COUNTRY.

    PORT AUGUSTA, January 31.—Mr. Harrie B. Lee (chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Melbourne) left this morning for Adelaide after having inspected the Commonwealth ...

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  42. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The financial returns of Western Australia for January show:—Receipts, £343,434; expenditure, £599,052; deficit for month, £255,618. This increases the deficit for ...

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  43. AN IRISH AMBUSH.

    A lorry containing a dozen soldiers was ambushed at Drenure, a euburb of Dublin, on Saturday night. An officer and a soldier were seriously wounded, and seven ...

    Article : 61 words
  44. AMATEUR DINGHY CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The St. Kilda Pier and foreshore were lined with spectators to-day, when the second race to decide the 14-ft. Dinghy Championship of Australia took place. The ...

    Article : 93 words
  45. WHEAT BOARD DEBIT.

    The total debit shown in the financial statement of the Australian Wheat Board for the week ended January 24 is £381,000, compared with £280,000 on January 17. ...

    Article : 60 words
  46. Advertising

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  47. YOUNG WOMAN STUNNED AND ROBBED.

    While sitting with other persons in the Lithgow Park at a band concert last night a young lady was seen to fall backwards. It was thought she had fainted, but ...

    Article : 64 words
  48. FREEMASONRY IN TASMANIA.

    The Most Worshipful Pro. Grand Master (Bro. H. L. D'Emden) has been selected to fill the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Tasmania ...

    Article : 53 words
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