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  2. FEDERAL SESSION ENDS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The House of Representatives concluded a sitting of 40 12hours at 3 o'clock this morning, to finish up the work of the session. ...

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  3. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. Hughes, in the House of Representatives to-day, outlined tho subjects to be submitted by the Government for consideration by the Imperial Conference to be ...

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  4. "UNION TYRANNY."

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the subject of "union tyranny," which was so prominent towards the close of last session, was once more raised. In his speech on the ...

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  5. MINISTRY WINS.

    Continuing the debate in the Legislative Assembly on the Address-in-Reply and the censure amendments, Sir. Wood began to speak at 3 a.m., and ...

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  6. ATTENDANCE OF MEMBERS.

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  7. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    William Grant, the boiler-maker's laborer who sustained a fractured skull through falling from a plank on the steamer Corio at Mort's Dock on Wednesday, died at the Balmain ...

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  8. A CHANGE FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

    The State Premier declares that the Labor Party is in favor of immigration, and in that case hero is its chance. No one can deny the great unsatisfied demand for domestics or argue that immigration would displace our own workers in that occupation.--News item. THE N.S.W. HOUSEWIFE:--"Why not bring out a few shiploads of British domestics? The country would ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. LORRY-DRIVER INJURED.

    Arthur Campbell (28), living in Ethel-street, Erskincville, was driving a lorry along Botany road, Waterloo, yesterday afternoon, when his vehicle collided with a tram. Campbell was ...

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  10. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. --It has been decided by the Federal Parliamentary Library Committee to invite applications tor the position of cutaloguer, at a salary beginning at £250 a ...

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  11. THE LATE MR. J. L. PURVES, K.C.

    The late Mr. James Liddell Purves, K.C., whose death occurred at his residence, Domain- road, South Yarra, Melbourne, on Thursday, was born in that city on August 23, 1843, and ...

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  12. LABOR.

    LITHGOW, Friday.--Mr. Hoskins' attention was drawn to the discussion in the House of Representatives on the wages at tho iron mines at Carcoar. "I would like to make a little ...

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  13. A SERIOUS SLIP.

    George Caterer (43), a visitor from Green- thorpe, near Grenfell, had the misfortune to break his left thigh at Watson's Bay yesterday. He was walking along in the vicinity of The ...

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  14. DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS.

    While Hannah Aukern (90), a widow, living at Spring-street, Balmain, was ascending a flight of stairs at her residence, she slipped and fell and was picked up at the bottom. She ...

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  15. WEALTH OF THE CHAFFINCH.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--In consequence of the glowing accounts from Southern Cross of recent surface developments on the Great Chaffinch property, and the receipt of satisfactory ...

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  16. FOUND IN A DAM.

    WEST MAITLAND, Friday.--The body of James Newett, a laborer, who had been missing from the Rutherford Hotel since Sunday, was found yesterday morning in a dam in ...

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  17. COAL MINERS' BALLOT.

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  18. FINDING OF A SKELETON.

    MURWILLUMBAH, Friday.--The skeleton of a man was found by Mr. J. T. Gray this morning on a scrubby ridge immediately overlooking Burringbar railway station, The ...

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  19. CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR THE POOR.

    Sir,--The near approach of the Christmas season and the fact that, despite the great prosperity enjoyed by this State, there are many suffering poor to whom we would like to ...

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  20. HELENSBURGH P.L.L.

    HELENSBURGH, Friday.--The Helensburgh branch of the P.L.L. has decided to call for nominations in the Labor interest in connection with the coming shire elections. ...

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  21. A COACH OVERTURNED.

    KEMPSEY, Friday.--While the mail coach was on its way from Kempsey to Bellinger on Wednesday it capsized near Clybucca. It seems that the driver pulled in to pass a bullock ...

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  22. KILLED BY A FALLING TREE.

    LAUNCESTON, Friday.--William Page, well-known farmer at Gressy, was killed on Monday whilst engaged felling trees in the busk At the inquest the medical testimony showed ...

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  23. PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES. SOUTH AUSTRALIA WANTS AN INCREASE.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Attorney-General, Mr. Denny, obtained leave to introduce a bill for an Act to increase the payments to be made to members of Parliament from £200 to ...

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  24. GIRL'S FATAL BURNS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A girl, Marjorie, Kavanngh, residing at Coleraine, was night standing near the fireplace when clothes caught fire, and the upper part of her ...

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  25. CASE OF BEN HABDAH.

    Mr. Garland, M.L.C., who was Solicitor-General in the late Government, yesterday made a statement with regard to the charges made by Mr. Holman in the Legislative Assembly in ...

    Article : 343 words
  26. VICTORIAN WAGES BOARDS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Legislative Assembly sat till 7.15 this morning. The Opposition stonewalled an amendment by the Premier to omit clause 2 of the Factories Bill ...

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  27. KILLED INSTANTANEOUSLY.

    LAUNCESTON, Friday.--At alate hour night, Mrs. Alfred Gllliard, wife of a farmer near Ulverstone, was thrown,from whilst returning home from Wirth's circus, and ...

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  28. CONTROL OF THE MIND.

    In "Man's Supremo Inheritance," a copy of which is to hand from Mcthuen and Co., London, F. Matthias Alexander puts forward his theory "of the present aud future trend of man's ...

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  29. THE FIVEFOLD TRAGEDY.

    PERTH, Friday.--No definite explanation of the fivefold tragedy at M'Callum's farm, Tornang, is yet forthcoming. Mrs. M'Callum was 30 years of age, and her four children ranged ...

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  30. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CONSTRUCTORS.

    "I feel sure that the Acting-Prime Minister was in earnest when he stated that the present Federal Government was prepared to do justice to the lower-paid branches of the public ...

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  31. BIG HAUL OF OPIUM.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Information was received by Detective-inspector Christie recently that a consignment of morehandise-- which would arrive by the Japanese steamer Nikko ...

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  32. MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--An exciting motorcar accident occurred on Burrumbeet-road, Ballarat, at a late hour on Thursday night. The car, which belonged to Mr. Thompson, of ...

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  33. NATIVE LABOR IN PAPUA.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--In a report on the native labor supply in Papua, which was tabled in the Senate to-day, the Administrator the Territory stated that an increase of the ...

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  34. TELEPHONE RECEIPTS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A return in the House of Representatives to-day shows that the actual revenue received from telephone subscribers throughout the Commonwealth for the year ...

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  35. CONVERSAZIONE TO MR. C. G. WADE.

    Final arrangements for the conversazione to Mr. C. G. Wade, which will take place on Monday night in the Town -hall, have now been made. The fund in connection with the ...

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  36. MODEL TOWNS AND STATE HOTELS.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--At the sixth annual dinner of the Public Service Association last night Mr. J. Allan, M.L.A., responding to the toast of "Parliament," referred to the transcontinental ...

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  37. Advertising

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  38. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION.

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  39. Advertising

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