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  2. THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE.

    No consideration or criticism of the conditions which now prevail in the Federral Service can be just or useful which ignores the fact that these conditions ...

    Article : 1,538 words
  3. AVALANCHE IN THE ALPS.

    The top of the Calcaire Pyramid, which is the summit of Mont Blanc, became detached to-day, and caused a formidable avalanche. Huge masses of ...

    Article : 81 words
  4. STATE PARLIAMENTS. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Assembly sat from 11 a.m. on Friday until 5.50 this morning, when the prorogation took place. Consideration of the Lottery and Gaming Bill to ...

    Article : 300 words
  5. THE QUEENSLAND TIMBER PURCHASE.

    Col. J. Walker, D.S.O., Commissioner for War Service Homes, in a statement on Saturday on the subject of the interim report tabled in the ...

    Article : 455 words
  6. RUSSIA BOLSHEVIK THREAT TO INDIA.

    Reports received in Athens from Moscow, the headquarters of the Russian Bolsheviks, state that the Bolshevik commander on the Turkestan ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. LEAGUE OF NATIONS CHOLERA AND TYPHUS IN POLAND.

    It is estimated that it will cost £2,000,000 to stamp out typhus fever in Poland alone. The League's appeal for subscriptions has only reached ...

    Article : 186 words
  8. IRELAND ROUNDING UP THE SINN FEINERS

    As a result of the widespread raids by the military and police in Dublin, lists of members of the Republican army have been seized, and these have ...

    Article : 296 words
  9. DR. MANNIX.

    It is authoritatively stated in Liverpool that Dr. Mannix, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, will be the central figure in a ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. GREAT BRITAIN AND PERSIA.

    Consternation has been caused at Teheran, the capital of Persia, by the delivery of the British Minister's Note to the Persian people, saying that the ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. POLAND AND RUSSIA.

    The Polish troops, in response to Bolshevik protests, are evacuating various districts recently occupied by them, and as a consequence the peace ...

    Article : 47 words
  12. REPATRIATION.

    Discharged Australian soldiers besieged Australia House in the Strand all day to-day, demanding advances on their war gratuities. Successive ...

    Article : 346 words
  13. THE PLIGHT OF ARMENIA.

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that advices received by the State Department indicate that the Russian Bolshevik ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. AMERICA AND GERMANY.

    The German Government contradicts a report circulated in New York that the United States Government is granting Germany a credit of ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. MONTENEGRO.

    Two years ago M. Poincare and M. Pichon (France), on behalf of the Allies, induced the King of Montenegro to remain in Paris, assuring him in ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Home Secretary moved the introduction of a bill to amend the Local Authorities Act of 1902-17 to provide ...

    Article : 518 words
  17. AMERICA AND JAPAN.

    The Japanese newspaper "Yamato Shimbun" announces that the Tokio police have discovered a stowaway agency engaged in surreptitiously, ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The House of Commons this afternoon, on the motion of Colonel G. A. Gibbs, the Unionist member for West Bristol, appointed a committee to ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. ARREST OF THE SINN FEIN VICE-PRESIDENT.

    Mr. Arthur Griffith, the Vice-President of the so-called Irish Republic, and Professor John McNeill, Professor of Constitutional Law and Dean of ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. THE LEAGUE'S BUDGET.

    The Commission dealing with the Budget of the League to provide for the allotted contributions of each country, in formulating the basis of ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND TRADE.

    A conference of Chambers of Commerce has carried a resolution urging the Government to enter into negotiations with the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA.

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the American Federation of Labour declares that there are more than ...

    Article : 68 words
  23. NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA.

    Mr. Howell, an American geologist who was prospecting in a wild part of British Baluchistan, on the north-west frontier of India, and a Hindu ...

    Article : 75 words
  24. MORE MURDERS OF SOLDIERS.

    Yesterday at Menagh, in County Tipporary, masked Sinn Feiners shot dead a man named Denis Carey. An incendiary fire in Cork yesterday ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR.

    M. Leygues, the Prime Minister of France, who is now paying a visit to Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of England, placed a wreath on the ...

    Article : 60 words
  26. DISSATISFIED MEMBERS.

    Dissatisfied with the Commission's decision not to accept amendments to the Covenants, it is understood that Argentina will test the matter in the ...

    Article : 67 words
  27. ROWDY FOOTBALLERS.

    The Ilfracombe (Devonshire) Association football ground has been ordered to be closed for a fortnight, and two players have been suspended for a week ...

    Article : 60 words
  28. EMIGRATION.

    The Victorian Emigration Department is despatching to Melbourne 112 emigrants by the Militiades, and 60 by the Orsova. Of the total 132 are ...

    Article : 39 words
  29. AVIATION.

    The first aerial Derby in Australia was flown on Saturday afternoon, and was won by Captain G. C. Matthews on a Sopwith Gnu machine. Nine ...

    Article : 369 words
  30. THE MURDERED BRITISH OFFICERS.

    Preceded by an escort of Household Cavalry and Foot Guards, and the massed bands of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, and Irish. Guards, the ...

    Article : 196 words
  31. ORGANISING THE MANDATORIES.

    The Council decided to appoint a permanent Commission for the examination of the annual reports of the mandatory Powers under Article 22 of ...

    Article : 50 words
  32. ITALY AND JUGO-SLAVIA.

    The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by 226 votes to 10, yesterday approved of the proposed treaty with Jugo-Slavia for the settlement of all Adriatic ...

    Article : 40 words
  33. SHIPPING. SCANDINAVIAN AND AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    At a conference of Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish steamship companies, which was held yesterday at Gottenburg, it was resolved to resume ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The South African Union Parliament will be dissolved at the end of December, and the elections will take place in February, the new Parliament ...

    Article : 39 words
  35. PROGRESS OF THE WORK.

    Lord Robert Cecil, who was one of the framers of the Covenant of the League, and is representing South Africa at the Assembly, addressing ...

    Article : 365 words
  36. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    It is proposed to raise £250,000, for the extension of the Prince of Wales Hospital as a personal tribute of the whole Empire to the Prince on the ...

    Article : 44 words
  37. SCULLING.

    Ernest Barry, the champion sculler of the worl, arrived in London to-day from Australia. In an interview be reiterated his determination to retire ...

    Article : 100 words
  38. LAUNCH OF P. AND O. STEAMER.

    Messrs. Harland and Wolfe launched from their Belfast yard to-day the P. and O. liner Baradine, which will run in the Australian service. The vessel ...

    Article : 41 words
  39. THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

    There is marked activity in the timber industry in almost every quarter of the North-West Coast, as is evidenced by the weekly shipments from ...

    Article : 121 words
  40. LABOUR AND THE SOVIET.

    The International Trade Union Congress now meeting in London adopted yesterday a resolution submitted by Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour member ...

    Article : 91 words
  41. CONTRACTS FOR WOODEN SHIPS.

    The inquiry by the Commonwealth Public Works Committee into the advisability of relieving Messrs. Kidman and Mayoh of their obligation to ...

    Article : 186 words
  42. THREATENING LETTERS.

    Sir Hamer Greenwood, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, uses a bullet-proof car in driving about London. Five ex-service men guard the outer door of ...

    Article : 183 words
  43. THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND

    Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in a speech in London to-day, said that during the German rout at the battle of Jutland, a swarm of torpedo-boat destroyers ...

    Article : 80 words
  44. WEIGHT OF BAGS OF SUGAR.

    Following upon the refusal of the wharf labourers to handle sacks of sugar weighing over 2001b., a proclamation was issued on Saturday ...

    Article : 75 words
  45. MARSHALL FOCH.

    The "Sunday Express," in a lengthy article to-day, narrates how, at the instance of Lord Milner, the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, ...

    Article : 67 words
  46. THE GREEK THRONE. CONFERENCE OF THE ALLIES.

    Pending the arrival in London of Signor Sforza, the Italian Foreign Minister, Mr. Llyod George, the Prime Minister of England, and M. Leygues, ...

    Article : 83 words
  47. PUBLIC SERVANTS' CLAIMS. ATTITUDE OF NATIONALIST PARTY.

    The conference of the Nationalist party to-day passed a motion relating to the Federal basic wage, after the standing orders had been suspended to ...

    Article : 129 words
  48. THE ECONOMIC BLOCKADE.

    The International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations has made a suggestion to divide the Court of Justice into two bodies—one for ...

    Article : 270 words
  49. LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT.

    Overtaken by a train at a level crossing near Carrum early on Saturday afternoon while riding in a motor-car, Walter Robert Francis, a retired civil ...

    Article : 58 words
  50. THE RESTORATION OF ORDER.

    In accordance with the plans for the restoration of order in Ireland, 5,000 rifles and ammunition have been landed at Londonderry for the Ulster ...

    Article : 93 words
  51. BETTING BY CHEQUE.

    In the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice yesterday, Mr. Justice Rowlatt decided that under the Gaming Act bets made by cheque are ...

    Article : 187 words
  52. ROYAL COMMISSION ON TAXATION.

    A striking instance of the extent to which the revenue would suffer from the averaging of incomes for taxation purposes is afforded by a statement ...

    Article : 172 words
  53. EX-KING CONSTANTINE'S RETURN.

    The Athens newspapers state that an official delegation will proceed to Lucerne, after the plebiscite is taken in Greece, and bring back ex-King ...

    Article : 43 words
  54. SENIOR CADET CYCLISTS.

    Having been carried nearly 1,400 miles around Victoria in the care of 250 Senior Cadet cyclists, who rode in relays, a despatch from the State ...

    Article : 133 words
  55. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES TO BE PRODUCED.

    Exception has been taken to the action of the Public Service Commissioner in demanding the production of the marriage certificates of postal ...

    Article : 130 words
  56. CRIMES AND REPRISALS.

    At to-day's proceedings of the National Liberal Federation Conference now being held at Bradford, in Yorkshire, Mr. Asquith, the leader of the ...

    Article : 141 words
  57. GREAT DISASTER IN ITALY.

    A bad shell dump at Vergato, to the south of Bologna, exploded yesterday with terrific force. It resulted in the wrecking of five ...

    Article : 65 words
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