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  2. A SERIOUS SITUATION

    The outlook for the coal-mining Indus try was give attention at question-time in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. Lane Fox said that since, November 1 ...

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  3. BIG TENNIS

    The Wimbledon championships were continued to-day under grey skies, and with a cold wind prevailing. Overcosts were again the order of the day. ...

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  4. PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.

    Delegates from China, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia to the Institute of Pacific Relations, addressing the Pan Pacific Club to-day, expressed the ...

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  5. BIG TROUBLE BREWING

    Developments to-day point to a serious extension of the shipping dispute. The Marine Transport Group of Unions, representing the water front ...

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  6. VICTIMS OF THE ARCTIC A Lost Expendition

    Mr. H. A. Snow, the big game hunter and explorer, has just returned from two years of Photographing and exploration in the Arctic regions. He ...

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  7. GENERAL CABLES

    The steamer Waimate (7015 tons), which was sold a month ago to an Italian firm is ashore near Cape St. Vincent. She has become a total loss, but ...

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  8. THE CLOUD DARKENS

    It is reported from Amoy that the situation is graver owing to the students insisting on demonstrating against foreigners in the international settlement. ...

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  9. EMPIRE WIRELESS.

    The Imperial Wireless Services Committee met to-day for the first time, under the presidency of Viscount Wolmer, the Assistant Postmaster-General. ...

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  10. ITALIAN WORLD FLIGHT.

    The National Fascist Congress at Rome to-day unanimously passed a resotion congratulating Major di Pinedo on his flight to Australia. ...

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  11. MARTIAL PREPARATIONS.

    The East Surrey Regiment has been ordered to stand by at Hongkong. The American gunboat Helena and a detachment of 60 Punjabis are en route ...

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  12. DISCHARGE SUSPENDED.

    The Bankruptcy Court suspended for four years Robert Slevier's discharge when the Official Receiver reported that Slevier was guilty of misconduct in ...

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  13. REFUGEES FLOCK TO HONGKONG.

    The steamer Honam arrived from Canton to-day with about 600 refugees, comprising British, American, Portuguese, and Indian men, women, and children and ...

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  14. TRADE TREATY.

    Referring to reports that the proposed trade agreement between Australia and Canada had been dropped, the Acting Finance Minister (Mr. J. A. Robb) ...

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  15. GOVERNOR GENERAL ROBBED.

    Duncan Macmillan, the overseer on the estate of the New Zealand Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) at Kilker ran, was sentenced to-day to a year's ...

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  16. GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG STAYS.

    The departure of the Governor (Sir Reginald Stubbs) for London on the expiration of his term of office on Thursday has been postponed. ...

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  17. M. PAINLEVE SURVIVES

    A referendum within the Socialist Parliamentary Party on its attitude towards the Government resulted in a motion in favour of complete liberty of action, ...

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  18. CONVERSATION WITH PREMIER.

    The crisis in coal mining was the subject of an interview with Mr. Baldwin by Mr. A. J. Cook (secretary of the Miners' Federation) at the Premier's ...

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  19. A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

    As befitting the largest city in the Union, Johannesburg gave the Prince of Wales a tremendous and overwhelming reception to-day. The short route from ...

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  20. TROUBLE BREWING AT CANTON.

    The situation at Canton is more disturbed this morning. The British naval commander is taking all precautions, anticipating possible further trouble ...

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  21. LADIES' SINGLES.

    A start was made with the women's matches, but Mrs. Edgington scratching deprived the crowd of a sight of Mille. Suzanne Lenglen, who meets Miss Ryan ...

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  22. FRENCH MERCHANT KILLED.

    Thousands of students, workmen, citizens and soldiers paraded along the bund and around Shameen this afternoon. When opposite the Victoria Hotel, in ...

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  23. NO CREW FOR FORDSDALE.

    A second call was made this afternoon for a crew for the Fordsdale, but no men offered. There will be no further calls for this vessel, which will be laid up ...

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  24. PREMIER APPEALS FOR ADOPTION.

    On the resumption of the debate on the trade treaty with Australia, the Premier (Mr. McKenzie King) said that Canada had been trying for twenty years ...

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  25. NATIONALISATION REFUSED.

    The Prife Minister received a deputation from the General Council of the Trades Union Congres, and rejected their proposal for the nationalisation of mines ...

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  26. STATEMENT BY OWNERS.

    With the storm centre transferred to Sydney, there were no developments at Melbourne to-day in the dispute between the Federated Seamen's Union on ...

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  27. MOROCCAN SITUATION.

    The Chamber of Deputies was packed when the Premier (M. Painleve) made his statement on the Moroccan situation. He emphasised the Government's wish ...

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  28. LONGER HOURS HINTED AT.

    At a meeting of a joint sub-committee of the enquiry into the coal industry sitting in London, the coalowners informed the miners that they were giving ...

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  29. OFFICIALS ADDRESS MEN.

    Seamen in Sydney to-day acted on the advice of the union officials and refused to offer for engagement on the Commonwealth Line steamer Fordsdale. It ...

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  30. FURTHER DISTURBANCES.

    An unconfirmed private telegram from Wuchow (Kwangtung) states that the Japanese Customs Commissioner was killed and two other Japanese were ...

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  31. GENERAL COMMENTS.

    To-day's championships provided no thrills equalling yesterday's in the Anderson match. The weather was still cold, with a burst of warm sunshine in ...

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  32. TREATY PASSES THE COMMONS.

    The treaty passed through all stages in the Commons, and now goes to the Senate. When the bill was up for the second reading a division was called for ...

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  33. REVOLUTIONARY PUNCHED.

    The indignation was intensified by M. Painleve's reading of a statement by a Communist Deputy, Ms Deriot, foretelling the defeat of France. He then read ...

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  34. TRIP THROUGH THE COUNTRY.

    The Prince spent the morning touring for 35 miles in East Rand, and was tumultuously Welcomed in the numerous mining towns which turned out en masse. ...

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  35. THE CHINESE REBUFF.

    The Powers replied to-day to the Chinese Foreign Minister's Note as follows:— "The representatives of the interested Powers regret to state that the ...

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  36. ALLEGATION AGAINST OWNERS.

    The Socialist organ, the "Daily Herald," affirms that the mineowners, intending that no agreement shall be reached by June 30, will post notices ...

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  37. "I AM GOING MAD!"

    A tragedy marked by several mysterious features consists in the discovery to- day in the Shoreditch public library of the dead bodies of Thomas Deddles (60) ...

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  38. SOCIALISTS COMPROMISE.

    The debate terminated early this morning. M. Painleve defined the Franco-Spanish negotiations aiming at the provision of co-operation between ...

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  39. "MANY HAPPY RETURNS."

    The telegrams and cables of congratulations to the Prince on the occasion of his thirty-first birthday (the second spent in the dominions) numbered over ...

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  40. CASE OF BUBONIC PLAGUE

    The young married woman suspected to be suffering from bubonic plague was reported this morning to be doing remarkably well. The bacteriological ...

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  41. RAIL MOTORS

    The question of the construction in Victoria of all the mail motors required for Tasmanian services was referred to in the course of a conference, last night ...

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  42. WOOL INDUSTRY

    Until the woolgrowers and representatives of other sections of the woolgrowing industry have received more information concerning Sir John Higgins' ...

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  43. ORCHARDISTS AGGRESSIVE.

    The British Columbian fruitgrowers are protesting vigorously to Ottawa against the proposed treaty as affecting fruits and vegetables produced in ...

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  44. AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.

    The Chamber passed a vote of confidence in M. Painleve by 510 votes to 30.—Reuter. ...

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  45. AMERICAN FLEET

    Admiral Hugh Rodman (retired) arrived to-day aboard the cruiser Memphis (which will call at Hobart). He will make the Australian cruise as a ...

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  46. EUROPEAN PEACE

    The Parliamentary Labour Party passed a resolution today condemning the proposed security pact as not calculated to secure France-German conciliation ...

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  47. ENEMY DEFEATED.

    The enemy's determined attack on the French lines north of the Wezzan was repulsed to-day. Heavy fighting continues in the region of Jebel Bibane. ...

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  48. PRESENT FROM RAND MINES.

    The Rand Chamber of Mines and municipality presented the Prince with a magnificent gold casket, modelled on the lines of the Roman Pantheon, made ...

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  49. PRIME MINISTER'S SATISFACTION.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) received the news of the passage of the treaty through the Canadian House of Commons with satisfaction, and said that he ...

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  50. PRESS CABLE RATES

    In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Sir Harry—Brittain (Lib.), Sir Mitchell Thomson (the Postmaster-General) said that he acquiese[?]d in the ...

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  51. "PLAGUE INFECTED."

    Queensland has been declared by the federal authorities to be "plague infected." This means that all shipping will be subject to a rigorous inspection, and ...

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  52. IN A TENT

    The story of an unhappy marriage was told in the Divorce Court to-day, when Katherine Mary Festing, of Hobart, petitioned for the dissolution of her ...

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  53. AUSTRALIANS IN PARIS.

    The Australian pilgrims to the Roman Catholic festival attended a special mass at I'Eglise de Madeleine this morning for the repose of the souls of the ...

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  54. THE AGE OF YOUTH

    Speaking, at a luncheon given by, the Australian Speakers' Association, the Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) said that it was a serious matter that so few ...

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  55. EVACUATION OF THE RUHR.

    The Cabinet has approved of the measures decided on by the Premier (M. Painleve) and the Foreign Minister (M. Briand) with a view to carrying out the ...

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  56. ANOTHER COLLAPSE

    There was another building collapse in the heart at the city this afternoon, but fortunately on this occasion there were no casualties. About 3.30 p.m. a ...

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  57. GERMANY WANTS MORE DETAILS.

    It is learned that Germany has sent a questionnaire to Paris respecting obscurities in the French Note received in answer to Germany's security pact ...

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  58. SHORT-LIVED WEALTH

    The heirs to Mme. Pellern, who lived in seclusion and apparent poverty, were astonished to learn that the police had discovered 820,000 francs' worth of ...

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  59. CONSTABLE CHARGED

    Leslie John Frazier, the policeman who was arrested in the Fitsroy Gardens last night, appeared before the City Police Court to-day on charges of ...

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  60. TO-DAY'S EVENTS

    2.30 and 3 p.m.—Pictures, Princess and Majestic Theatres. LIGHTS ON VEHICLES. From Till. ...

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  61. ALL POWER TO FASCISM

    The Premier (Signor Mussolini) in a speech at the National Fascist Congress today defended his bill excluding non Fascists from Civil Service. He ...

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  62. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

    Issued to-day, the annual report of the Federal Public Works Committee chronicles the fact that during the year the committee enquired into 16 different ...

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  63. MAE MURRAY FOR GERMANY

    The "Examiner" publishes a story to the effect that Ma[?] Murray, the film actress, has signed a starring contract for a year with the Upa Film interests, ...

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