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  2. SECOND EDITION

    The steamer Wakefield, which was chartered to make a search for the missing Blue Anchor liner Waratah, reached Kerguelen Island on April 7. ...

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  3. LABOUR LUNCHEON.

    Mr. Fisher responded to the least of the Federal Parliament at the luncheon held in connection with the Eight-hours demonstration. He said the people of Victoria ought ...

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  4. THE NEW MINISTRY.

    "The Hon. Andrew Fisher waited upon his Excellency the Governor-General to-day and accepted his Excellency's commission to form a Ministry. Mr. Fisher, anticipates being ...

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  5. DISAFFECTED CHANGSHA.

    The British Consul at Changshu, Mr. Hewlett, who fied, to Hankau' when the consulate at Chaugsha was burnt by the mob, has returned to Ghangsha. He ...

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  6. THROUGH THE AIR.

    M. Decaters, aeroplaned from Chalons to Djion, with a passenger, on a Farman biplane with two motors, one of which stopped over the destination. ...

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  7. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Lord Salisbury,. in a letter to the "Times," says that if Conservatives attempt to force a food tax upon a reluctant nation when a constitutional revolution is ...

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  8. EGYPTIAN SITUATION.

    For weeks several English newspapers have commented on the serious unrest in Egypt. According to an article in the "Times," ...

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  9. PARTY WARFARE.

    While Mr. A. Fisher has refused to allow himself to be carried away by the enthusiastic demonstrations made in his honour since Federal polling day, and has maintained a ...

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  10. M. LATHAM'S NEW RECORD.

    Six aeronauts' aeroplanes raced from Nice to Cape Ferrat and back, a distance of 15 miles, yesterday. M. Latham, who was first to complete ...

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  11. THE ANDERSON DEBATE.

    The "Spectator," commenting on the action of Mr. Winston Churchill closuring the debate on Sir Robert Anderson's pension, says that the closure waa used not ...

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  12. LONDON TO MANCHESTER.

    In regard to Mr. G. White's attempt to fly from London to Manchester the gale so damaged his aeroplane that it will take three days to repair the structure. Mr. ...

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  13. PARTY MACHINES.

    The "Times" sympathises with Mr. Rider Haggard's protest against party machines controlling great numbers of constituents from headquarters in ...

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  14. COTTON FRAUDS.

    Some cotton is turning up in America, representing portion of the shortage for Europe, which has tended to relieve anxiety in Liverpool. ...

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  15. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    A draper's assistaut named Bower, aged 25, has been awarded damages amounting to £100 for breach of promise of marriage against Mrs. Jesusa Edsworth, aged 54, a ...

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  16. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The postponemept of the American Antarctic expedition, proposed to be led by Captain Bart[?]tt, is due to lack of funds. The Geographical Society of ...

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  17. THREE AUSTRALIANS IN HUNAN.

    "T[?]ere are three Australian missionaries, as far as I know, in Hunan, the province in which the Chinese have risen upon the missionaries," said Mr. P. Ambler, secretary in ...

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  18. HALLEY'S COMET.

    Halley's comet is clearly visible to the naked eye at Malta. Its tall has sloped up to an angle of 40 degrees, its apparent length being twice the moon's diameter. ...

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  19. NAVAL COURTESIES.

    Owing to a mistake the battery at Capetown Castle returned a salute of 21 guns from the Japanese armoured cruiser Ikhoma with 12 guns. ...

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  20. THE STRIKE SETTLEMENT.

    After an adjournment of a week, during which Judge Scholes was engaged in connection with the western award, the Northern Mining Board resumed its sittings at ...

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  21. MR. FISHER INTERVIEWED.

    "All I can say at this stage," said Mr. Fisher when he was seen at his house to-night, "is that we shall carry out our pledges to the people." In reply to questions as to ...

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  22. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

    During the general elections in France an elector, while voting at Cognac, fatally shot the Mayor, who was presiding over the polling booth. ...

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  23. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT.

    At the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting last evening the Premier announced that Mr. Alexander Gordon, K.C., had been offered, and had accepted, the vacancy on the Supreme ...

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  24. MR. ROOSEVELT IN PARIS.

    Mr. Roosevelt, who has arrived in Paris, received an ovation in the Sorbonne. He delivered an address on citizenship. Without mentioning anti-militarism, he ...

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  25. THE RUBBER BOOM.

    The United Malaysian Rubber Company has been floated with a capital of £2,000,000. The shares issuing are 400,000 at par. The ...

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  26. THE FUTURE OF BRITAIN.

    Lord Methuen, speaking at Johannesburg, referred to the examples set by the Dominions in the matter of conscription. Referring to the Australian defence ...

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  27. POLICE V. GANG.

    Late on Saturday night a disturbance tools place at the Royal Hotel, Rydal.. A gang of platelayers employed here began to "paint the town red." One of the number ...

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  28. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.

    A fire at Lake Charles, Louisiana (U.S.A.), caused 2,000,000 dollars' worth of damage, and rendered 2000 people homeless. ...

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  29. "EVADING JUST TAXATTON."

    The magistrate at Christchurch gave Judgment in the case in which Bowron Brothers, of Christchurch, were charged with making a false return under the Land and Income Tax ...

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  30. IMPATIENT SPANISH MOB.

    A mob at Durango, Vizcaya, a province of Spain, enraged at prolonged waiting for an aviation display, wrecked the aeroplanes and burned their protecting sheds. ...

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  31. "IMPERIAL PIONEERS."

    The so-called "Imperial Pioneers" held a meeting in Rofherhithe, which ended in a free fight after a resolution in favour of freetrade had been carried, Radicals who ...

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  32. THE MALEKULA WRECK.

    Captain M'Phail (master), Mr. Dobson (mato), and Mr. Shapland (engineer), of the recently wrecked auxiliary schooner Malekula, are passengers by the steamer Cooma, which ...

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  33. SEVERE STORM IN MELBOURNE.

    A heavy storm wab experienced in the city and suburbs to-night. Many small buildings in and about Melbourne were badly damaged. The Crystal Palace Skating Rink at ...

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  34. MISSING FRENCH GUN.

    Deschamps, a corporal in the French army, who was recently arrested in Paris on a charge of stealing a machine-gun the construction of which was secret, from the ...

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  35. JAMBED IN MACHINERY.

    The six-year-old son of Mr. w. Brown, engineer, of Mildura, was the victim of a shocking accident on Friday. The boy was on a small steam fishing boat with his father, ...

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  36. RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL THEFT.

    The peasant Femin, who stole the precious relies fiom Uspenski Cathedral, Moscow, was discovered inside the cathedral, despite the fact that the building had been ...

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  37. LIFE OF BATTLESHIPS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Standard" foreshadows legislation in 1911 fixing the life of battleships at 15 years, and providing for a large increase in ...

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  38. VEHICLE OVERTURNED.

    A fatality resulting from the overturning of a cart on the deviation works at Clarence occurred on Saturday afternoon. A man named Arthur Lafterty was sitting on a cart ...

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  39. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

    A narrow escape from a terrible death is reported to have occurred to a man who was sleeping in the open air at the foot of the slag tip at the blast furnace. About 2 o'clock ...

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  40. GENERAL CABLES.

    King Edward and Queen Alexandra will attend the concert in celebration of the festival of Empire on May 24. M. Isvolsky, the Russian Premier, has ...

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  41. HOMEBUSH YARDS.

    Complaints continue to be made by a number of fat stock selling agents and sheep classers at the insufficient penning accommodation and inadequate facilities for giving sheep a ...

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  42. WORLD'S CYCLING TOUR.

    Mr. Roy Astley, who, with Mr. Dran Trawets, is engaged on a cycling tour of the world, arrived at Bathurst on Saturday. Mr. Trawets, a young American journalist, ...

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  43. NEW GUINEA DEVELOPMENT.

    The British New Guinea Development Company has purchased the steamer Bentinck to trade between New Guinea, Sydney, and Brisbane, after discharging her ...

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  44. NGARUAHOE IN ERUPTION.

    Ngaruahoe volcano is again active, and to-day was emitting great clouds of dark smoke. ...

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  45. TUGS BREAK DOWN.

    While the tug Gamecock, belonging to Messrs. J. and A. Brown, was approaching the port yesterday afternoon, with the barquentine Alexa, timber-laden, from New Zealand, ...

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  46. CHARGES AGAINST SCHOOL TEACHERS.

    Recently Mr. Henderson school inspector hold an inquiry at Coff's Harbour State School into complaints made against the head teacher, Mr. H. C. Kiddle. The roport of the ...

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  47. GERMANY'S DEFICIT.

    Germany's realised deficit is £8,000,000 sterling, instead of £12,000,000, as previously estimated. ...

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  48. SENSATIONAL MOTOR MISHAP.

    A motoring party had a sensational experience in Manawatu Gorge. Turning a dangerous corner, the car went over the edge, and raced down a steep bank, ...

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  49. STATE AID TO SCHOOLS.

    Bishop Carroll paid his first official visit to Maclean this afternoon. Replying to an address of welcome Dr. Carroll commended the patriotic and democratic spirit of ...

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  50. J. W. ALEXANDER DISABLED.

    The Government Pilot Steamer, Captain Cook, picked up the tug J. W. Alexander, with a punt in low, in a disabled condition off Sydney Heads on Saturday last, and towed ...

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  51. LATE SHIPPING.

    Tarcoola, s, 2646 tons, Captain W. K. Leiper, from Newcastle. G. S. Yuill and Co., Ltd., agents. ...

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  52. Advertising

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  53. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE (1084m).—Arr: April 25, Port Hunter, s, from London. Dep: 25, Emanuele Accame, bq, for Newcastle; Suffolk, s, for London. PORT PIRIE.—Arr: Period, s, from Newcastle; ...

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