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_ -• ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. TROUBLE IN TH!E KITCHEN. THE POLITICAL LABOUR PLATFORM. Per United Press Association. • By Electric Telegraph;— Copyright. CHARTERS TOWERS, Jan. 30. Albert Clarke shot Alice Williams, and then blew out hia own brains. The girl is in a critical state. Rejected love was the cause. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. • TroTible has occurred in a number of city hotels over the Arbitration Court's award in the case of cooks and kitchenmen. In several hotels there has been a wholesale discharge of employes. Employers state that they have taken action owing to the high-handed procedure of the employ--1 e» since the award. Residents in hotels are considerably inconvenienced. •The Labour Conference has anally adopted the following fig,hting platform :— Resumption of land ; closer settlement ; amalgamation of savings and post office banks ami Advances to Settlers Board into a Stale , bank ■; abolition ' of the Legislative j Council, State Governors and other unnecessary oflicers ; initiative and )9 referendum ; free education s cessAtiou
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Southland Times, Issue 19265, 1 February 1904, Page 3
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161AUSTRALIAN CABLE Southland Times, Issue 19265, 1 February 1904, Page 3
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