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  2. PROLONGED HEAT WAVE.

    In the book of Australian weather, February is recognised as one of the worst months of the summer. As each year goes by one or two scorching heat waves are ...

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  3. FOURTH TEST MATCH.

    The fourth test match was resumed to-day in sultry weather, with every indication of a change. There was early in the morning thunder with heavy rain in some ...

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  4. THE GREAT UNREST.

    The existing differences between the employing class and the employed were deplored by His Excellency the Governor (Sir Archibald Weigall) at Birdwood on ...

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  5. SHIPPING HOLD-UP.

    In relation to the shipping trouble, important developments are expected at a special mass meeting of the Seamen's Union to-morrow morning. A motion that ...

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  6. THE FEDERAL MINISTRY.

    It is possible that until the return to Australia of the Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Millen); in a few weeks, no announcement will be made of Sir Joseph Cook's ...

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  7. DAME MELBA.

    Dame Nellie Melba is seriously [?] with influenza at Monte Carlo, where the disease is widespread. She has been confined to her bed for a week. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. THE MIDSUMMER MENACE.

    A disastrous bush fire broke out on the Bridgewater property of Mr. J. B. Hughes, of St. Peters, at about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Mr. Hughes has recently ...

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  9. RULES OF THE AIR.

    The first regulations for the control in Australia of civil aerial navigation were approved by the Federal Executive Council on Friday. They are based on those ...

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  10. IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED.

    Important developments in the industrial position are expected this week. Having abandoned their efforts to obtain Government mediation the delegates from the ...

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  11. CASUALTIES.

    On Sunday afternoon a plucky rescue of two little girls named Marchant, was effected in the Glenelg Baths by Miss Eileen Farrelly. One of the children about eight ...

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  12. FIRES ON SOUTHERN TORRE'S PENINSULA.

    YORKETOWN, February 10.—During Sunday last a fire broke out in the scrub near Cape Spencer, and within a couple of miles of the Peninsula Plaster Company's ...

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  13. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATION.

    The Perth Trades Hall cannot send delegates to the Labour Conference on the shipping crises to be held at Melbourne on February 17, the notice being too short ...

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  14. AEROPLANE FIRED AT.

    In a message from Nowra on Saturday, Pte. Potts reported that his aeroplane was fired at while on the way from Berry to Nowra. He said:—"I had been taking ...

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  15. NATIONS AND FUTURE PEACE.

    The Leader of the Opposition (M. Kato), in the Japanese House of Representatives to-day expressed the opinion :hat no responsible statesman would dare to ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. AMERICA AND JAPAN.

    According to a telegram received from Salem, Oregon, Sr. Lodge has advised against any State legislation dealing with the Japanese problem, because the new ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. HORSE AND TRAIN In COLLISION.

    At 6.15 p.m. on Saturday, a horse attached to a masher dray, owned by Mr. T. N. Gillard, of Semaphore road, Exeter, and driven by Mr. W. J. Quick, came into ...

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  18. SMASH ON THE BAY ROAD.

    Shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday night a collision occurred on the Bay road between a horse and trap and a spring dray. Mr. James Campbell a jockey with ...

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  19. GERMANY AND WORLD'S TRADE.

    The French Ambassador at Berlin (M. Laurent) state that Germany has been preparing for months for a tremendous industrial and commercial effort to ...

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  20. WILHELM ON THE WAR.

    The representative of the United States Press Association at Berlin has obtained from Herr Heinrich Petermeyer, who was formerly tutor to the sons ...

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  21. AN AMERICAN'S WARNING.

    In the Senate to-day Sr. Borah urged that unless naval disarmament were reached among the Great Powers, the situation now developing would inevitably lead ...

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  22. A COMMONSENSE SETTLEMENT.

    Viscount Inouye, a member of the Japanese Diet, who has arrived at San Francisco to purchase £200,000 worth of steelmaking machinery, said he was confident that the ...

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  23. MEN WITH THE PISTOL.

    The Assistant Public Service Commissioner (Mr. Munt). replying to the lightkeepers' claims before the Public Service Appeal Board said the [?] ...

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  24. DISTRESS AT PIRIE.

    The citizens' relief committee met last night. The organizations represented were:— Town Council, the Mayor (Mr. J. Firmin Jenkins Crs. M. L. Warren and A. W. ...

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  25. AUSTRALIANS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The attendance was very good at the second day's play in the cricket match Wellington v. Australia. The weather was fine and cool. Bogle and Liddicutt resumed ...

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  26. AN ENGINE DERAILED.

    The Commissioner of Railways received advice on Friday night that the engine of the 1.30 p.m. down goods train from Mile-End had been derailed that day at ...

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  27. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Although he is certain of a majority over all parties of between 23 and 26, the Prime Minister (Gen. Smuts) feels deeply the loss of Mr. De Wet, whose has refused the ...

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  28. ALLEGED SMUGGLING OF JAPANESE.

    At Galveston, Texas, American federal officers seized the Japanese steamer Fnkuye Maru, from Marseilles, on a charge that it had smuggled Japanese subjects into the ...

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  29. MORE SHOOTING AT VLADIVOSTOCK

    The Vladivostock correspondent of the Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun says:—It is unknown who fired on five American sailors at Vladivostock on Tuesday, when ...

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  30. A FATAL FALL.

    John Killery (52), a butchery died at the Adelaide Hospital shortly before midnight on Saturday. He was admitted to the institution on Wednesday, suffering from ...

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  31. UGLY RAND STRIKE.

    The direct actionists are intimidating the Eland miners and the strike outlook is growing uglier. ...

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  32. BARRIER NEWS.

    Mr. C. J. Emery (President of the Mining Managers' Association), has received the following telegram from the Under Secretary to the Minister for Labour and ...

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  33. GENERAL CABLES.

    The White Star Shipping Company has purchased the former German liner Bismarck, the largest steamer in the world, from the Reparations Commission for the ...

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  34. "I LED THE FIGHT TO KEEP PEACE."

    Herr Petermeyer asked, "Does that mean the death sentence for ever?" The ex-Kaiser replied. "Nobody knows that; only Almichty God can help there ...

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  35. LABOUR QUESTIONS.

    Following upon the Cabinet conference with representatives of the master builders on the subject of the dilution of labour with partially skilled workers—mainly ...

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  36. MOTOR MISHAPS.

    WOODSIDE, February 10.—At about 7 p.m. last Sunday Mr. H. Snook, a civil servant, was riding a motor cycle, with a sidecar attached, from Blanchetown to ...

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  37. WOOL SALES.

    A total of 120,000 bales of Government and free wool trill be offered at the sales commencing on February 22. A subcommittee of the Wool Merchants' ...

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  38. CANADIAN WOOL.

    The President of Canadian Woogrowers Limited, a concern owned and operated by sheep breeders, announces that the organization Gold 3,400,000 lb. of wool last ...

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  39. A BOTTLE BURST.

    YORKETOWN, February 10.—Wednesday afternoon Mr. Roy Rohrig, an employe in Erichsen's store in this town, was endeavouring to open a bottle of lemonade ...

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  40. A HORSE-RACING SCHEME.

    In the King's Bench Division to-day Archibald Wall, a wealthy merchant, sued William Charles Warren, a bookmaker, for £15,000 Wall stated in evidence that he ...

    Article : 177 words
  41. DIVIDENDS WITHHELD.

    The British Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, has announced that, curing to the fire at Port Pirie, it will be unable to distribute any dividend until the ...

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  42. A LIFT FELL.

    SYDNEY, February 13.—Early on Saturday morning, the goods lift at the produce stores of Foley Brothers, in Sussex street, fell, as the result of the breaking of the ...

    Article : 63 words
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  45. "IN THE LONG GRASS."

    Two black prisoners. "Long George" and "Murdering Tommy," escaped from the Fanny Bay Gaol last night. The grass in the bush is everywhere more than 10 feet ...

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  46. WESTERN POLITICS.

    The Primary Producers' Association has passed a resolution hostile to Mr. Baxter, the Country Party member, who, as Honorary Minister, is in chaw of the ...

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  47. A BROKEN LEG.

    HAWKER, February 11.—Mr. John Liddy met with an accident on Wednesday evening at north-west terrace, Hawker Mr. H. O. Gregory, farmer of the ...

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  48. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    DARWIN, February 12.—Frank Dowler, a native of Geelong a carpenter, aged 34, has died at the hospital as the result of the recent railway accident. ...

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  49. A DEATH SENTENCE.

    Reginald Mathews was to-day found guilty of the murder of Clarence Wagstaff at Timaru, on October 27 last, and was sentenced to death. ...

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  50. BRITISH RAILWAYS.

    Lord Colwyn's committee on the railway war-time agreement shows that as time went on the agreement was amended in the direction of bettering the companies' ...

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  51. DOUBLE BATHING FATALITY.

    MELBOURNE, February 13.—While bathing together at the beach between Hampton and Sandringham this afternoon, a girl and a young man, neither of whom ...

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