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  2. TICK MENACE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The "Daily Telegraph" this morning devotes a leading article to the tick menace in the Northern Rivers district. ...

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  3. BLOSSOM LIKE A ROSE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir Joseph Cook speaking to the British Science Guild at the Mansion House, said Australia hoped by scientific irrigation to make the M'urrumbidgee blossom ...

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  4. ARRESTS AT ESSEN.

    PARIS, Tuesday.—The "Echo de Paris" says that during a round-up at Essen a quantity of arms and documents were found and 150 German agents provocateurs were ...

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  5. THE YARRA MYSTERY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The inquest concerning the Yarra mystery opened in Melbourne to-day. Dr. Mollison, who made a post-mortem examination of the body, ...

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  6. FREIGHT RATES REDUCED.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Executive Council to-day approved of alterations to the railway by-laws which were submitted by the Railway Commissioners. The new ...

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  7. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—There was a large attendance at Parliament House to-day when the Chief Justice, Sir Adrian Knox, and Mr. Justice Isaacs met new ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    There passed away in a private hospital, at Sydney, on February 4, Mrs. Margaret Josephine Considine, widow of the late M. P. Considine, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, ...

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  9. GIRL IMMIGRATION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The overseas settlement committee has informed Mr. Lawson that they propose to send a deputation of women to Australia to inquire into the ...

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  10. BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Lord Curzon addressing the Aldwych Club reviewed the home and foreign situation. He claimed things were improving slowly and surely, but expressed a ...

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  11. 350 TO 400 WEEKLY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The overseas settlement committee states it is now moving emigrants at the rate of 350 to 400 weekly. It is hoped this figure will soon be ...

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  12. FRANCE'S DEBT TO BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Replying to a question in the Commons, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said the total sum owing by the French ...

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  13. STATE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Ley, Minister for Justice, speaking at Sandringham, said the Education Department was not one where diminishing expenditure could be ...

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  14. NORTHERN PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—When Lord Ahercorn opened the North Parliament there were renewed scenes of enthusiasm when he read the King's speech. ...

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  15. H.C.L. IN PARIS.

    PARIS, Wednesday.—The cost of living is rapidly rising for the retail prices of food in Paris are 209 per cent, above that of 1914. ...

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  16. A WORLD COURT.

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Washington reports that the, Senate Foreign Relations Committee has instructed Senator Lodge, to obtain the administration's clarification of ...

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  17. TRAINING OF DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Government, is now considering a proposal to establish a board to attend to the education and training of defective children. The matter is being ...

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  18. SECURITY OF BORDERLAND.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir James Craig, in the Ulster Asserably, stated that arrangements had been made to assure the absolute security of the borderland. ...

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  19. MADE IN GERMANY.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The Chamber of Commerce has urged the Government to postpone the lifting of the embargo on trade with Germany until January next ...

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  20. SENATE.

    In the Senate Senator Thompson (Q.) moved the address in reply. It being seconded the debate was adjourned, and the House rose. ...

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  21. DE VALERA REFUSES TRUCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—De Valera informed a neutral that the Republican Army Association cannot agree to the proposed truce which would be regarded on both ...

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  22. COLONEL BRUXNER'S OBSERVATION.

    TENTERFIELD, Wednesday. — Colonel Bruxner, leader of the Progressives, referring to the report, of the Cabinet that the Cabinet and Railway Commissioners ...

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  23. TWO POINTS OF POLICY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—At a meeting of the Nationalist party Mr. Bruce stated he had come to an agreement with Dr. Earle Page on only two points of policy. These ...

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  24. TO MAKE WORLD BETTER.

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The Supreme Court has approved of the certificate of incorporation of the Carnegie endowment in Europe, which is an organised attempt to ...

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  25. "FULLER'S JACKAROOS."

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Louglilin, exMinister for Lands, says the State Progres sives while boasting their independence are chiefly concerned with protecting the ...

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  26. KEMAL FOR PEACE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The "Daily Express" correspondent at Constantinople says it is understood that Kcmal Pasha will adopt a Cromwellian policy if the Angora ...

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  27. PRISON HORRORS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Donald Grant, an ex-I.W.W. prisoner, says some of the unfortunates in the Bathurst gaol while he was there served sentences aggregating 4000 ...

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  28. SENATE POSTPONES ACTION.

    The Foreign Relations Committee virtually has decided to postpone action in regard to President Harding's proposal until next session. No vote was taken, but Senators ...

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  29. FREE FROM INFECTION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Senator Wilson, Federal Minister for Health, states that ithe Department of Health working in co-operation with the States, the Territories and ...

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  30. HALF BUCKET OF COAL DUST.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. McDonald, representing the northern collieries, referred at the coal tribunal to the trouble at the Whitburn colliery. ...

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  31. AUSTRALIAN DRIED FRUITS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—A meeting of the London representatives of the Australian Dried Fruit Association decided to fix the minimum price for three crown tumults for ...

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  32. COTTON CULTURE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The report by a British expert has discounted the hopea entertained of successful cotton culture in the north of Western Australia. ...

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  33. ANGORA PEACE PARTY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Lord Curzon, addressing the Aldwych Club, believed that the pence party of Angora to which Ismet Pasha belonged would prevail. Lord ...

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  34. MR. LEY IS UNCONCERNED.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Ley, Minister for Justice, says he will not recommend either a Royal Commission or a Parliamentary committee to inquire into the prison ...

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  35. OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Australian conference and Commonwealth lines concurrently announce that the points of difference between them have been-settled 011 the lines ...

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  36. LEVIED FOR OTHERS DEBT.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Pull Court gave judgment, ordering the Manly Municipal Council to refund £94 paid by a consumer of electricity. This sum had been levied in ...

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  37. NIAGARA WILL SAIL.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The officials of thp Union Company are confident that the mail steamer Niagara will sail from Sydney to-morrow for Vancouver on schedule ...

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  38. AMERICAN ALOOFNESS.

    WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—The Federal Council, of Churches representing practically every denomination in America has called on the Government to take the ...

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  39. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— When the allegations of Mary Rynn were placed, before Mr. Steele, Deputy-Comptroller of Prisons, he said Mary Ryan used to knock herself about ...

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  40. SO-CALLED HERBALISTS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Police Association's conference to-day a motion was passed protesting against the indiscriminate issue by the Chief Secretary's Department ...

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  41. HELLO! GIRLS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Men crying beside the switchboards and girls in hysterics were the conditions described by a witness who appeared before the Commonwealth ...

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  42. MINISTER'S SOLE DUTY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—At the annual conference of the Sailors and Soldiers Fathers' Association at Geelong a resolution was carried urging that the ...

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  43. ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two young men visited the store of an aged Chinese at Mudgee, knocked him down, beat him and ransacked the place, taking 30 sovereigns and ...

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  44. PEACETIME'S HEROES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—During the voyage of the damaged barque Sterna from Sweden to Melbourne a member of the crew was sent aloft to furl sail, when he ...

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  45. MARKING OF MERCHANDISE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir Phillip Lloyd Graeme (Director of the Overseas Trade Department) replying to a question in the Commons said the question of marking all ...

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  46. SOLICITOR'S LAPSE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Wyalong Quarter Sessions Arthur Berman (solicitor) pleaded guilty to two charges of misappropiation of trust fluids, the amounts involved ...

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  47. GALES ON ENGLISH COAST.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Galea, 70 miles an hour, are raging in many districts of Britain. Even the Cunard liner Berengaria is stormbound off the Isle of Wight. A ...

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  48. SYDNEY'S ROYAL SHOW.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Never previously have entries been received in such volume as for this year's show of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. On present ...

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  49. DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATORIUM.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Education made it clear this afternoon that Australian candidates will by no means be overlooked when applications for the ...

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  50. AN OPIUM FIND.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—De tectives raided the Chinese quarters and found the Chinese in the act of burying opium from a distributor. When the cases ...

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  51. LATE SIR ARTHUR PEARSON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Duke of York, unveiling Orpen's portrait of the late Sir Arthur Pearson at St. Dunstan's subscribed by blinded soldiers, said:—Sir Arthur ...

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  52. METHODIST CONFERENCE.

    SYDN'EY, Wednesday.—The 22nd annual conference of the Methodist Church was opened to-night. The Rev. T. F. Potts, exgeneral secretary, was elected president and ...

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  53. PORT KEMBLA STRIKE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The strike at Port Kembla has ended, the man having agreed to start work pending a conference with the management. ...

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  54. SYDNEY HOSPITAL

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Sydney Hospital has now an overdraft of £160,000 and an immediate request for assistance is to be made to the Government. ...

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  55. RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decided to confer responsible Government on Rhodesia, which since 1889 ...

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  56. KING AND QUEEN.

    ROME, Tuesday.—The King and Queen of England during their visit to Italy will be officially received by the Pope. ...

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  57. EXAMINATION RESULTS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In consequence of complaints made to the Education Department regarding delays in issuing the country examination results the Minister for ...

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  58. SYDNEY MUNICIPAL RATES.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The estimates approved by various committees of the City Council are understood to make any reductions in municipal rates this year impossible. ...

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  59. PROPERTY STOLEN.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Thieves have been busy at shops in the business section of Randwick this week, anil have stolen from five places about £250 worth of ...

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  60. Advertising

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  61. BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Returns that the total number of unemployed in Britain is 1,340,000, a reduction of 145,678 since January 1. ...

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