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  2. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    The Assembly sat until 1.10 on Sunday morning, having met at 10.30. At 10 p.m. the chairman put the whole railway vote under the standing order. This was carried on ...

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  3. THE ST. LEGER DAY.

    Although a dour, grey sky grudged any promise of pleasurable weather on Saturday morning, the Australian with his usual downrightneas in the matter of holiday-making ...

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  4. MOORISH RAIDERS.

    Hoping to destroy the Fig[?]g section of the Oran railway, in the Algeria hinterland, 3000 Moorish horsemen and 2000 foot soldiers, organised by preachers of a jehad ...

    Article : 134 words
  5. AFTER THE SMASH.

    The injured passengers at the hospital are getting on fairly well. Edward Potts, of Hurstville, is the most seriously injured. He is suffering from slight concussion of the ...

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  6. A VICTORIAN TRAGEDY.

    At Murrumbeena, near Oakleigh, a few miles out of Melbourne, on Saturday night, Captain William Henry Lee, lately patrol officer of Papuan police, shot his young wife, Lily Lee, ...

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  7. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The shipwrecked officers and sailors of the Dutch barque Emanuel, recently lost on the coast of New Caledonia, arrived at Sydney yesterday by the French mail steamer ...

    Article : 554 words
  8. SAFETY FOE MR. CHURCHILL

    The issue of a writ for the election of a representative to the House of Commons for Wolverhampton East, vacant by the elevation of Sir H. H. Fowler, Chancellor ...

    Article : 136 words
  9. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

    Up to a couple of years ago the Victorian railways had the reputation of having by far the most derailments and minor accidents in Australia, varying them now and then with ...

    Article : 678 words
  10. PERSIAN INCURSION.

    Five hundred Persian brigands, attacked Russian frontier guards at Bellasuverski, on the north-east frontier of the province of Azerbaijan, and killed four ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. CRIMINALS IN CANADA.

    Dr. Bruce Smith, Inspector of Prisons in Ontario, attributes the fact of there being more prisoners in the State gaols than in the last 20 years to Ontario becoming the ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. UNIFICATION OE RAILWAYS.

    Mr. Conacher, an English traffic expert, has presented to all the South African Governments a report, strongly advocating the unification of the South African ...

    Article : 97 words
  13. QUEBEC BATTLEFIEDS.

    Five ex-Governors-General of Canada propose that the British public should subscribe £250,000 towards the Dominion scheme to convert the battlefields of ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. A BRIG ON FIRE.

    The brigantin[?] Garin, a wooden vessel of 269 tons, owned by Messrs. R. and M. Dendy, has been practically destroyed by fire. The vessel has been out of commission for some ...

    Article : 186 words
  15. ORIENTAL IMMIGRATION.

    Mr. Munro-Ferguson, M.P., and other prominent Liberals urge the Government to convene an Imperial Conference to discuss the problem of Oriental immigration. ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. THE RAILWAY DISPUTE.

    The Board of Trade will intervene in the dispute between the North-eastern Railway Company and its employees on account of the company refusing to grant ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. THE FAWN FOUNDERS.

    News of the total loss of the recruiting schooner Fawn in the New Hebrides Group was brought to Sydney yesterday by the French steamer Pacifique. It appears from ...

    Article : 223 words
  18. UNITED COMMERCIALS.

    The thirteenth annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australasia, Limited, was opened on Saturday morning. Those present included from ...

    Article : 603 words
  19. SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN.

    Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman passed a restless night, and his condition is weaker. April l8. The King yesterday drove to ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. ATTACKED BY A TIGER.

    Mr. Leopold Acland, a New Zealand landowner, wounded a tiger in the Khuln[?] district, India, but the tiger disappeared in the jungle. ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. A DANGEROUS LINE.

    Railway men consider that the stretch of line between Murrurundi and the Liverpool rang[?] is one of the most dangerous in the State. Coming down from the range the ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. MR. HOLLIS'S VIEWS.

    "I have been," said Mr. Hollis, "very much dissatisfied with the apathy of successive Treasurers in cases where serious accidents on the railways have occurred. They ...

    Article : 975 words
  23. PARIS LOCKOUT ENDED.

    The lockout in Paris among the stonemasons has terminated. The masters were divided. Many of the men accepted, with one or two of the employers, a ...

    Article : 116 words
  24. CHINAMAN OVERBOARD.

    The loss of a Chinese who disappeared from the Swedish steamer Opland at midnight on Friday whilst she was on the voyage from Wallaroo, South Australia, to Melbourne is ...

    Article : 464 words
  25. SOLDIER'S AFTER-EFFECTS.

    Private John M'Donnell, of the 2nd A.I.R., who was travelling by permission with the 4th in the train which suffered in the Murrurundi collision, was on Saturday morning ...

    Article : 95 words
  26. JUPITER'S SATELLITES.

    Jupiter's eighth moon has been discovered by observers at Greenwich. The sixth and seventh satellites of Jupiter were discovered in 1904-5 by Perrin[?], the ...

    Article : 94 words
  27. THE MILK TRADE TROUBLE.

    Practically the trouble in the milk trade is over. The boycott of the companies that distribute milk in the metropolitan areas only lasted two days as far as the Fresh Food and ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. COOMA ESCAPEE CAPTURED.

    There was great excitement this morning when news of the capture of William Johnson, altas Wallace, who escaped from Cooma gaol, was received. ...

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  29. LUCKY CIRCUS CLOWNS.

    The New York correspondent of the Central News Agency staten that Charles Meredith, a clown in Cole Brothers' Circus, performing in America, and his ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. DEPRESSION IN TRADE.

    Owing to the depression of trade 1200 employees of Singer's Sewing Machine Works at Kilbowle, Dumbartonshire, have been dismissed. ...

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  31. COMPANIES AT VARIANCE.

    Mr. James Moir, chairman New South Wales Fresh Food and Ice Company, states, in reference to the remarks made by Mr. Cameron, of the F. and D. Company, on Saturday: ...

    Article : 241 words
  32. INDIAN TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

    Renter's correspondent reports that a five weeks' trial of the system of Mr. Newland, an expert from the English Telegraph Office, will be given on the Indian ...

    Article : 114 words
  33. BANKS' AMALGAMATION.

    The New York correspondent of the "Standard" reports that negotiations are in progress providing for the absorption of the National Bank of Commerce by the ...

    Article : 108 words
  34. SECULAR FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    The sixth grand annual movable meeting of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild was opened in St. John's schoolroom this morning. The Warden-General, Mr. T. J. McCabe, ...

    Article : 156 words
  35. RUSH FOR C.P. LEASE.

    Patrick J. Banney was the successful applicant for the conditional purchase lease at Boat Harbour. There were 775 applicants. If the rich reserves in the Upper Tweed were ...

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  36. THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

    Mr. Tong Chai Chih, editor of the "Tung Wah Times," received communications from Adelaide, South Australia, and an important country town in Queensland, on Saturday, as ...

    Article : 321 words
  37. "A COOL REQUEST."

    What the shire clerk called "a cool request" was made to the Macquarie Shire Council at its monthly meeting by the Registrar of the Land Tax Department. There ...

    Article : 140 words
  38. A BARQUE ASHORE.

    The barque Joseph L. Eviston, 662 tons, from Haiphong, Tongking, to Newcastle, New South Wales, was badly damaged by stranding on a reef. She got off, and ...

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  39. DRESSES AND ATTENDANCE.

    Saturday was not a day favourable for the display of new dresses, and coats and skirts were sensibly worn by a large majority of the ladies. The shape of the coat this year ...

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  40. OHIO COLLIERS' STRIKE.

    The strike of 200,000 colliers in Ohio has ended. The men resume work practically on the old scale of wages. ...

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  41. A CHINESE FAMINE.

    On Friday evening a meeting of the Lun Y[?]ck Tong and Chinese Merchant Society was held, and a cable message from the Tung Wah Hospital and Canton Charitable ...

    Article : 138 words
  42. THE AMUR RAILWAY.

    The construction of the Amur railway from Kujenga to Khabarovsk, which has been agreed to by the Russian Duma will cost £22,250,000, and must be built entirely ...

    Article : 41 words
  43. AMERICAN CURRENCY.

    The currency committee of the United States House of Representatives will examine Mr. E. B. Vreeland, a representative of New York, whose bill, substituted ...

    Article : 114 words
  44. THE ALLANDALE CRIME.

    The police are still engaged searching for clues in connection with the Allandale [?] der. All efforts to discover the weapon with which the deed was committed have been in ...

    Article : 77 words
  45. MOUNT MAGNET DISPUTE.

    The Premier last week wrote to the chairman of directors of the Magnet mine, stating that the miners had agreed to arbitration, and suggesting that Sir John Dodds should ...

    Article : 150 words
  46. HEAVIER GUNS.

    Japan is rearming the warships she captured from Russia with heavier guns. The warships captured by Japan from Russia are at present armed battleships with ...

    Article : 55 words
  47. WALKING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The Easter Handicap, 10-mile walking match for the championship of Australia, took place at the Electric Light Carnival Association Cricket Ground on Saturday evening ...

    Article : 70 words
  48. PLAYING AT CIRCUS.

    A co[?]driver named Thos. H[?]witt was thrown by a buckjumper at D[?]nver's circus on Thursday night, and sustained a compound fracture of the wrist. ...

    Article : 39 words
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