INTERCOLONIAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 8 October 1920, Page 5

INTERCOLONIAL.

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SYDNEY, Oct. 7. Lady,]' Davidson; struck the first penny in the Sydney Mint of a coin-*1 age of £10,000 worth of Australian biionze.

MELBOURNE, Oct

Sir Arthur Cbnan Doyle, who is visiting Australia, on a, lecturing tour, responding to the toast of his health at a, British Empire League reception, reviewing the result oi the \ ar, ■said that'it waS the out-come'of the fact that Germany had lost her soul and had crushed it cut for the sake oi: state and ppwer that the British Empire-, which to some extent had saved its soul, had been victorious. We had Bolshevism and other things now, but could not have a. great cyclone without ".a ground swell afterwards. - '

PERTH, Oct. 7. When, the second residing of the Bill authorising women to sit in Parliament was moved in the Legislative Council the President put the motion without calling for a division and announced that as insufficient numbers were present the Bill was reacted. A protest was entered' against the non-ringing of the division hell .-Mid notice was given to restore the measure.