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  2. WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE .

    "Yes; I know It can bo done, because I have done it myself." The speaker was Mrs. Sophie Corrie. We met at the Royal Show this week. ...

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  3. THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

    A general conference of the members of the Liberal and Reform Association was opened last night at the Royal-chambers, Castlereagh- street, under the presidency of Mr. J. H. ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. Deakin referred to-day to Mr. Reid's comments on the Federal political situation, made in Sydney on the previous evening. The Prime Minister ...

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  5. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Commenting this morning upon what is referred to as "the arduous problems confronting the Commonwealth."The Times" expresses anxiety ...

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  6. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--No signs of the main Japanese fleet, under Admiral Togo, have been seen since Sunday. Naval critics surmise that it is ...

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  7. THE STATE TREASURERS' CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--As the Federal Treasurer finds that it will he almost impossible to hold his second conference with State Treasurers next week, he intends to send ...

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  8. COIN-IN-THE-SLOT TELEPHONES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--It is probable that coin-in-the-slot telephones will be established in various parts of the chief cities of the Commonwealth at an early date. The ...

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  9. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. Deakin has received a formal invitation from the Bathurst Capital League to visit their site. He has not yet, however, made arrangements to visit any ...

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  10. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Johannesburg Chamber of Minos has already engaged 8000 of the 50,000 Chinese laborers permitted under the Transvaal Chinese Importation ...

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  11. FEDERAL SUPERANNUATION FUND.

    The establishment of a Federal Superannuation Fund, to which the Commonwealth should contribute annually, as proposed by the Queensland branches of the Federal public service does ...

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  12. THE POWER OF THE ROUBLE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Russians are paying huge sums for information which is likely to prove useful to them during the present conflict. ...

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  13. ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The King and Queen Alexandra proceed to Ireland on the 26th inst. While in Ireland their Majesties will visit Lord Dudley the Lord-Lieutenant), the Duke ...

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  14. FATAL TRAM COLLISION.

    A tram collision took place yesterday morning at Kensington Junction, by which Win. Snelling, aged 64, bookmaker, of 27 Hopewell-street, Paddington, was killed, and a number of other ...

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  15. IMPORTANT MINING FIND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A Ficksburg syndicate claims to have discovered a deposit of gravel of extraordinary richness in the Hope Valley of the Orange River Colony. ...

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  16. ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. P. F. Warner, captain of the English team of cricketers recently in Australia, has a satirical letter in the "Westminster Gazette," in the course of ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND.

    The Treasurer has given instructions for 20 more of the unemployed to be sent away, 10 to Gallon and 10 to Wandai. Mr. Kidston states that a good many of the men who are being ...

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  18. BRITISH IN THIBET.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The Russian newspapers protest against the British advance in Thibet, claiming that if successful it will enable Great Britain to dominate ...

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  19. CLEARING PORT ARTHUR CHANNEL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Russians are trying to destroy, by means of dynamite, the ships which the Japanese sunk near the entrance to Port Arthur. ...

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  20. OBITUARY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The death is announced of Lady M'Culloch, widow of the late Sir James M'Culloch, one-time premier of Victoria. The deceased lady was the late Sir James ...

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  21. THE DREYFUS CASE AGAIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Colonel Paty de Clam, who figured prominently in the Dreyfus case, informed the Court of Cassation that he had prepared a summary of the secret ...

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  22. JAPANESE BASE AT ANJU.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The Japanese frontal base is at Anju. Bridges have been laid across the Chang-Chung and Pak-Chung rivers, and the advance upon the ...

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  23. BREACHES OF POSTAL REGULATIONS.

    At the Brisbane Police Court to-day two persons were charged with breaches of the postal regulations, one by posting as a packet something which contained two letters and the ...

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  24. GOOD GUNNERY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Advices from St. Petersburg state that in one of the recent fights the cruiser Boyarin was struck 70 times. The vessel is being ranidly ...

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  25. MR. JUSTICE BYRNE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Justice Byrne, who succeeded Mr. Justice Chitty in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice during January, 1897, died yesterday in the 60th year of his age. ...

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  26. FEDERALISING STATE DEBTS.

    Mr. Kidston has received a communication from the Federal Treasurer on the subject of Slate debts, He does not at this stage propose to discuss with Sir George Turner the question ...

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  27. PRINCE LEININGEN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The death is also announced of H.S.H. Prince Ernest Leopold Leiningen, half-brother to the late Queen Victoria, in the 75th year of his age. ...

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  28. SERVIAN AID FOR RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Czar hits declined the offer made by 500 Servians who volunteered to light for Russia against Japan in the Far Eastern conflict ...

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  29. LOCAL BORROWING IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The aggregate indebtedness of the local authorities in the United Kingdom now exceeds £407,000,000. The total has been increased by no less than ...

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  30. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At the Criminal Court to-day, John Kelly, against whom there is a record of 22 charges within 14 years, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for stealing clothes; Nicholas ...

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  31. GENERAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Bad weather in the English Channel delays operations in connection with the salving of the submarine A1, which was sunk by the Union Castle liner ...

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  32. JAPANESE PRECAUTIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Japanese are mortifying the city of Fusan and Koje Island, on the Korean side of the Korean Strait. ...

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  33. ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Government of the Dominion of Canada has purchased the German Antarctic exploring ship Gauss, with which to survey the coast of Labrador. ...

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  34. WAR NOTES.

    Mammon is winning his way in the war. Russian gold, it is announced, has won over a Japanese officer, who divulged such valuable information to the enemy that the Japanese were ...

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  35. THE COTTON CRISIS IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Many of the American cotton-spinners are adopting the short-time system in order to curtail production. ...

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  36. ANTI-SWEATING LEAGUE.

    At a meeting of the Anti-Sweating League tonight, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. T. Scherk, M.L.A., that a deputation wait on the Government to urge that steps be taken to ...

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  37. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--At the Manchester race meeting yesterday, the Jubilee Hurdle Handicap was won by Vendale, Australian Star being second, and Longthorpe third. ...

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  38. DIVORCE OR POLYGAMY?

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Statistics show that within a period of 20 years the divorces granted in the American courts numbered 600,000, or double the number granted in the ...

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  39. MR. DOWIE'S DEPARTURE.

    The Roy. J. A. Dowie, who will leave by the Mongolia to-morrow, has chartered a special launch to convey him to the mail steamer. The launch will leave the Glenelg jetty and pick Mr. ...

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  40. NAVAL AGREEMENT.

    The Minister for Defence (Mr. Austin Chapman) left Sydney last night to show several members of Parliament the proposed sites for Federal capital at Bombala and other ...

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  41. THE STEEL TRUST.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The aggregate not earnings of the Steel Trust for the quarter ending March 31 was the smallest yet returned. Nevertheless a dividend has been declared since. ...

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  42. SAD CASE OF SUICIDE.

    This morning Mrs. Norman, wife of J. Norman, of Ridleyton, was wheeling a perambulator, containing her only child, near Croydon railway crossing. Just as the train approached, she ...

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  43. WILD BEASTS FOR ST. LOUIS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The steamer Bethanie, of Hamburg, has been chartered to carry Hagenbeek's collection of 700 wild animals to the St. Louis Exhibition. ...

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  44. SAD DROWNING CASE.

    FORT MACQUARIE, Wednesday.--The bodies of Samuel Strutt and the little girl, Jacqueline Stewart, who were drowned yesterday, have been recovered. From particulars of the ...

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  45. BETTING IN FRANCE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Betting upon the Pari-Mutuel (totalisator) in France declined £300.000 during the first five weeks of the present racing season, owing to the increase of the ...

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  46. TASMANIA.

    The revenue returns for March totalled £76,896, being an increase of £6100 over the previous month. The total for the first quarter exceeds the same period of last your by £10,500. ...

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  47. A ROUGH VOYAGE.

    The steamer Trebia, which arrived from New York this morning, had a sensational experience in a hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, during which a considerable quantity of carge ...

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  48. THE TAMBO AT NORFOLK ISLAND.

    NORFOLK ISLAND, Wednesday.--Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's steamer Turn be arrived this morning from Sydney. She and very heavy weather to Lord Howe Island and ...

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  49. TURKEY'S FINANCES.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The Turkish deficit amounts to £5,000,000. ...

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