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  2. THE POPE ENTHRONED.

    LONDON, Monday.--His Holiness Pope Pius X. was yesterday enthroned in the Chair of St. Peter, at Rome, in the presence of a distinguished gathering, and amid a scene ...

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  3. PERSONAL.

    A few weeks ago Sir Herbert Chermside, the Governor of Queensland, refused to attend a pigeon-shooting match. The Society for the protection of Animals in Melbourne wrote to his ...

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  4. THE BALKANS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Ten thousand insurgents, divided into four camps, are operating in the Monastir district, while there are 10,000 others in Kastoria. They ...

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  5. THE HUMBERT FRAUDS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Humbert trial was commenced yesterday in Paris. Crowds remained all night outside the ...

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  6. AN AGRICULTURAL QUESTION.

    The dry years following the flood wave of 1893 have taught farmers, even on the coastal belt, the imperative need for the introduction of suitable systems of water and fodder ...

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  7. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Sir Edmund Barton, Senator O'Connor, and Senator Drake, together with several other members of the Federal Parliament, left Sydney last night for Melbourne. The Prime Minister ...

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  8. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The labor members of the House of Commons have signed an appeal to the workmen of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, to defeat the ...

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  9. AN UNCONFIRMED STATEMENT.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The statement made in yesterday's "Dally Mail" to the effect that the officials of the Board of Trade and Treasury Departments had ...

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  10. ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--In the Bulgarian question, England supports the Austro-Russian attitude, believing that the latter Powers are still striving to restore ...

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  11. THIBET AND RUSSIA.

    LONDON. Monday.--Router's correspondent at St. Petersburg reports that Thibet is greatly excited owing to a secret treaty having been arranged between the Dalia Lama and Russia. ...

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  12. AFFAIRS IN SOUTH-EAST RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Serious strike disturbances have taken place in the Nikolaiff district of south-eastern Russia. A mob, tried to storm the Government spirit ...

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  13. OMAR PASHA ON THE MARCH.

    LONDON, Monday.--The insurrection in Macedonia is spreading in the direction of Salonika and Usbuk. Omar Pasha, Turkish commander in the ...

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  14. MORE TALES OF HORROR.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Turks accuse the Bulgarians in Macedonia of massacring men, women, and children, at Zjivarek and Djlva- rckokrida, and also with burning some ...

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  15. WOMAN AND HER VOTE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--A large meeting was held at the Town-hall to-night, to urge women to exercise their franchise at the next Federal elections. The audience contained a majority ...

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  16. BROKEN-HILL WATER FAMINE.

    BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--There is now a good stock of water in the city mains and the town service reservoir. On Saturday 93,000.gallons were pumped into the mains, but nonce ...

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  17. EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Three persons have been killed by an explosion of dynamite in the centre of Philippopolis. It is believed that the police surprised, some ...

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  18. THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Referring to the appointment of Lord Northcote to succeed Lord Tennyson as Governor-General of Australian, the British newspapers agree in stating that ...

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  19. RUSSIAN CONSUL SHOT.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--A Turkish gendarme has shot M. Rostkovsky, the Russian Consul at Monastir, during an altercation which arose in connection with an ...

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  20. DISASTER AT A BASEBALL MATCH.

    LONDON, Monday.--During a baseball match in Philadelphia on Saturday an elevated plank walk crowded with spectators collapsed. Four persons were killed on the spot, and out ...

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  21. THE CRISIS IN HUNGARY.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary has accepted the resignation of Count Khuen-Hedevary, Premier of Hungary. ...

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  22. FRENCH DOMESTIC POLITICS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The French Premier, M. Combes, yesterday delivered an important ad- dross in Marseilles at a banquet which was attended by 3500 school-teachers. ...

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  23. PETER'S PENCE.

    LONDON, Monday.--The foreign Cardinals now in Rome propose that an International Commission be appointed to man- ago the funds accruing from the annual ...

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  24. NOTES FROM MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--It was stated by Sir George Turner in his budget speech that ho would convene a conference of Slate Treasurers to consider the question of federalising the ...

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  25. PENNY POSTAGE SCHEME.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Post-office annual report regrets the failure of the efforts which I were made to extend the penny postage to Australia. ...

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  26. WORK AT THE MINES.

    The following is an extract from a letter dated 5th August, received by Sir John See from Mr. G. D. Delprat, Broken-hill:--"We are getting over our water famine very nicely. The ...

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  27. PROPOSED TRAMWAY TO MENINDIE

    The Minister for Works yesterday received the f following telegram from A. Hendry, Mayor of Broken-hill:--"Water committee respectfully desires that you arrange for Public Works ...

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  28. THE LATE PHIL MAY.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The funeral of the late Phil May took place yesterday, the remains being interred in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green. There was a great gathering of artists and Journalists, including ...

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  29. BEFORE THE BANQUET.

    LONDON, Monday.--As M. Combes was proceeding to the banquet at' Marseilles a man threw a tomato at him. When the assailant was pursued a companion ...

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  30. A BOATING DISASTER.

    LONDON, Monday.--A boating disaster occurred yesterday at Brightlingsea, on the coast of Essex. Eleven stokers and some other persons, ...

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  31. WHERE BEECHWOKTH WOULD PLACE THE CAPITAL.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Shire Council of Beechworth has by resolution strongly urged Mr. Isaacs, M.H.R., to support the claims of Albury as a site for the Federal capital. in ...

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  32. SCIENCE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The commissioners of the 1851 exhibition have awarded a Science Research scholarship, worth £150 per annum, to Mr. Arthur Boyd, of the Sydney University. ...

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  33. STRIKE TROUBLES IN GIPPSLAND.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--At an early hour yesterday morning an attempt was made to blow tip a cottage near the Outtrim. coal mine, occupied by David Inglis, a carpenter. Somebody threw ...

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  34. BRISBANE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--At the quarterly meeting of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce today the president, in moving the adoption of the report, referred to the recent changes in the ...

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  35. THE NEW PONTIFF.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--King Victor Emmanuel III., of Italy, was agreeably surprised by the election of Cardinal Sarto, Fatriarch of Venice, to succeed the late ...

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  36. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Royal standard was hoisted at Government House, and flags wore flying over various, promises in the city to-day, in commemoration of the anniversary of the Coronation of the ...

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  37. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

    LAUNCESTON, Monday.--Dr. F. J. Bonnin, of Adelaide, has been appointed house surgeon to the Launceston Hospital, during the temporary absence of Dr. Barnard, who is in charge of ...

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  38. ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION BILL.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--A meeting of the Federated Employers' Union was held at the School of Arts to-day of protest against the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Bill now ...

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  39. TASMANIA.

    At the half-yearly meeting of the Cascade Brewery Company to-morrow the directors propose paying a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent., to carry forward £1783. The report further ...

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  40. THE ESCAPED PRISONERS.

    WYALONG, Monday.--The young men Green and Barnes, who escaped from custody on Saturday evening, were arrested yesterday morning at Yalgogrin. They were discovered by ...

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  41. CHAMBERS OF MANUFACTURES.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--An inter-State conference of delegates from the Chambers of Manufactures in the States was opened this afternoon. The following delegates were present:-- ...

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  42. SURGICAL OPERATIONS.

    There was a full, attendance of both lay and professional members of the Adelaide Hospital Board this afternoon, when the charges made by the City Coroner, Dr. Ramsay Smith, ...

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  43. QUEENSLAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--The twenty-sixth annual prize meeting of the Queensland Rifle Association was commenced on the Toowong rifle range to- day. The weather condition were ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The death is reported at Reichenhall, Bavaria, of the ex- Boer, Colonel Schiel. Colonel Schiel, a Gorman officer, Joined the ...

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  45. CONFERENCE IN' ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--At a conference of representatives of the Chamber of Manufactures, Federated Employers' Council, General Employers' Union, Pastoralists' Association, ...

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  46. CHARGES OF HOUSE-BREAKING.

    Charles and Henry Donnelly were again before the Criminal Court to-day charged with house-breaking. Charles was found guilty, but the Jury disagreed with regard to Henry. Charles, ...

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  47. NEW ZEALAND CABLE.

    A cable was received yesterday by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company from the cable steamer Restorer, stating that the repairs to the New Zealand duplicate cable had ...

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  48. THE HOOLEY FRAUDS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--In the House of Commons on Friday, Sir Robert Finlay (Attorney-General) stated that the Director of Public Prosecutions was considering the question of ...

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  49. THE TAIYUAN AT THURSDAY ISLAND.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Monday.--The China Navigation Company's steamer Taiyuan arrived to-day from China,"and continued her voyage to Sydney, during the day. ...

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  50. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF A MARINE ROARD.

    The Strahan Marine Board states that it cannot continue to pay interest on the Macqurie Harbor breakwater loan and meet its ordinary expenses, unless the Government consents to ...

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  51. WRECKAGE ON KANGAROO ISLAND.

    Captain J. Sheridan, master of the cutter Enchantress, has reported to the Marino Board that his son, H. Sheridan, when half a mile west of Western River, Kangaroo Island, on July ...

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  52. GREAT EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER.

    LONDON, Monday.--A great explosion of gunpowder has occurred at Kiangin, in North China. The report was heard 70 miles away, No lives were lost. ...

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