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(By Electric Thlxgraph—Copyright.) (Pbr Prbss Association.) Australian-New Zealand C&blo Association. ADELAIDE, Oct, 22. Tho transcontinental railway is nowlinked up, and the first east to west train left to-dav. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. . Received October 23, 10.40 a.m. BRISBANE, Oct. 23. While engaged fighting a bush'fire at Warenda station, near Boniia, the vind changed and the men were compelled to race for safety. Tho fire headed them off and one white man was burned to death. Subsequently two whites and two blacks died from their injuries in the hospital. MELBOURNE, Oct, 23. The dissolution of the State Parliament takes place on the twenty-fourth, and tho elections will be held the .sixteenth. Tho police simultaneously rajded the quarters of the I.W.W. in the goldfields country and the districts of the metropolitan area.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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