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  2. TELEGRAMS.

    The were no fresh developments this morning with respect to the porters' strike, but from remarks passed in union circles it is believed the trouble is likely to spread at any moment. ...

    Article : 355 words
  3. MR. COOK'S SPEECH.

    At Parramatta on Thursday night Mr. Joseph Cook unfurled the banner of Liberalism. He said, referring to the proposals submitted by the Government:—"Shortly stated, the issue ...

    Article : 666 words
  4. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    It is as important to have the right sort of poster on the hoarding as it is to have the right sort of pictures in the art galleries.—Mr. Frank Rutter. ...

    Article : 37 words
  5. CABLE NEWS.

    A preliminary agreement has been reached between the President, Dr. Wilson, and Mr. Oscar Underwood, leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives, on the ...

    Article : 322 words
  6. COMMERCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 752 words
  7. ALMA-TADEMA'S REASONS.

    Alma-Tadema painted white marble because he liked it, and because it seemed to him the only substance beautiful enough for Miss Ponsonby de Tompkins to sit on.—Mr. ...

    Article : 31 words
  8. EDUCATION'S FUNCTIONS.

    The function of education is to foster growth, to give the child nutritious food and opportunities for the exercise of his faculties; when the teacher has provided these he may stand ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. DRASTIC METHODS.

    By the time the eugenist has perfected the human race he will have partly exterminated it by the process.—Mr. J. G. Stone. ...

    Article : 24 words
  10. WHY WOMEN WRITE.

    Some women novel writers become authors merely to show the kind of life they would have lived if they had ever had the chance.—Mr. E. C. Lucas. ...

    Article : 31 words
  11. THE SIMPLE LIFE.

    It does not hurt people in the country to go barefoot, and I should not mind it myself.—Mr. Cecil Chapman. ...

    Article : 24 words
  12. SERVANTS ALL.

    We are all born to service, and the man who shrinks from that service is a thief or a beggar.—Mr. Bernard Shaw. ...

    Article : 24 words
  13. REWARD OF THE UNAMBITIOUS.

    I have a suspicion that, though the un-ambitious may do less than the others for their generation, Heaven will be fuller of them.—Professor Sadler. ...

    Article : 31 words
  14. AERONAUTICS.

    Mr. Cody, the well-known inventor and airman, has invented a method, of flying swift aeroplanes over Zeppelin airships so as to destroy the latter by means of steel hawsers ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. THE ROOT OF THE EVIL.

    The competition of free men in the presence of a minority of owners produces all the evils of our industrial society.—Mr. Hilaire Belloc. ...

    Article : 30 words
  16. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

    Mrs. Pankhurst, charged with inciting militant supporters of woman suffrage to blow up a house which was being built for Mr. Lloyd George, declined to testify at her trial. Her ...

    Article : 129 words
  17. THE PROGRESSIVES.

    What would the world be without its optimists? Why, we should still be in a state of savagery, barter as a means of exchange, and as-you-were-ism all round.—Mr. J. ...

    Article : 34 words
  18. MILITANT SUFFRAGISTS BILL.

    The second reading of the Militant Suffragists' Bill was carried in the House of Commons by 296 votes to 43. Mr. Keir Hardie moved a hostile amendment which secured only ...

    Article : 111 words
  19. LIVE LITERATURE.

    We may or may not deplore the forms that literature is choosing, but there is no gainsaying the fact that it is still very much alive.—Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. COURTESY.

    Courtesy needs training and imagination, and a respect for other people. Let us, for instance, honour and respect a bishop, not because he is a bishop, but because he is a man. ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. TARIFF REFORM.

    In the House of Commons yesterday a tariff reform motion embodying Mr. Bonar Law's Edinburgh policy was rejected by 279 votes to 196. ...

    Article : 99 words
  22. THE BALKANS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Adrianople throughout the siege states that the Bulgarians' thirty batteries fired unceasingly for three days. The Turks were exhausted and in a panic. The ...

    Article : 329 words
  23. BUNGENDORE.

    The freezing works have again resumed work Rabbits are coming in very plentifully. The late strike caused an increase in prices. The district registrar (Mr. J. J. McJannett). ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. THE BURDEN BEARERS.

    Wherever I have been I have found that men of British descent are always happiest when they feel that they are carrying, not only their share, but more than their share, of the ...

    Article : 39 words
  25. OUR STATUES.

    Although I do not wish to say a word against the statues and busts with which our public streets and our public building are so full, yet sometimes, when I ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

    General Delacroix, in an article in the Temps, says it is a fallacy to argue that the British Navy is worth half a million men to France. He contends that it makes no difference to ...

    Article : 106 words
  27. GOULBURN PRICES CURRENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 words
  28. COLLECTOR.

    Cricket.—The following have been selected to represent Collector against Gunning on the latter's wicket next. Saturday:—P. Reardon, W. Sheridan, H. Dillon, H. Poidevin, N. Corish, D. ...

    Article : 83 words
  29. TOMMY BURNS v. PELKEY.

    Tommy Burns to-day fought a six-rounds draw with Arthur Pelkey, of New York. ...

    Article : 22 words
  30. FRENCH AND ENGLISH.

    More English people talk French of sorts than French people talk English, but the Frenchman who talks very little English uses that English ever so much more than the ...

    Article : 48 words
  31. PROVINCES OR STATES?

    Speaking at a gathering of the Canadian Club yesterday, Mr. Scadden, the Premier of Western Australia, said a better day would dawn when Australia had provinces instead of States, ...

    Article : 148 words
  32. BLOODSHED.

    I sometimes wish people who write novels with a purpose could be put together under one head, and that head be cut off.—Dr. G. A. Greene. ...

    Article : 147 words
  33. GUNDAROO.

    The absence of your correspondent during the Easter holidays accounts for no reference having been made to the death of Mr. Arthur Leary, sen., of Willow Farm, Yass River, near ...

    Article : 595 words
  34. SYDNEY MARKETS.—THURSDAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 words
  35. SALE OF "LYNTON" ESTATE.

    Do Lauret and Co. report the sale of the above estate on account Mr. Henry Harris, on a walk-out walk-in basis, to Mr. W. T. Edwards, late of Maharatta Station, Bombala, at ...

    Article : 435 words
  36. NOTES FROM GININDERRA.

    At Last.—I understand that the timber and other materials required to erect the long-promised new school at Mulligan's Flat are now being carted to the school-ground, and it is said ...

    Article : 281 words
  37. GOULBURN POLICE COURT.

    Before Mr. Belcher. DRUNK. One defendant for drunkenness was fined £1 or 3 days. ...

    Article : 147 words
  38. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,079 words
  39. HOMEBUSH STOCK SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 words
  40. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' ART UNION.

    Attention is directed to the above art union, will be drawn on May 5. Splendid prizes have been secured, the first being at gold watch and chain (on view at Mr. J. Baxter's window); ...

    Article : 69 words
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