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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The Mails.—A mail for South Africa is notified to close at the G.P.O. to-day at 11.15 a.m. (late correspondence bearing the late fee will be accepted until noon, and of ...

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  3. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) opened the Liberal land campaign in Scotland at a big meeting at Glasgow yesterday. During the delivery of the speech ...

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  4. AFRICAN UPHEAVAL.

    In the Union House of Assembly yesterday the galleries were crowded when Mr. J. C. Smuts (Minister for Defence), speaking to the motion for the second reading of the ...

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  5. ANOTHER DISASTER.

    Tidings of another disaster along the coast line were brought to Fremantle by the fishing boat Lapwing yesterday morning. When the small steamer ...

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  6. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    To-morrow night's mass meeting of the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union will, it is expected by union officials, fall into line with the attitude already recommended by the ...

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  7. BRAZILIAN FLOODS.

    It is officially announced that over 1,000 persons lost their lives in the recent floods in Bahia State. Many villages and towns were devastated ...

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  8. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) to-day said that the Federal Parliament will reassemble on Wednesday, April 15, the first business day after the Easter vacation. Mr. Cook ...

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  9. LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY.

    The trial of George Sumner and Samuel Eltoft on a charge of having murdered Miss Bradfield in her brother's tarpaulin factory at Liverpool was commenced yesterday. ...

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  10. PERSONAL.

    A cable message from London states that Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) will accompany His Majesty the King on his forthcoming visit to Paris. ...

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  11. ANGLO-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP.

    In the Reichstag yesterday Herr von Jagow (Minister for Foreign Affairs) said that relations between the British and German Cabinets were in every way marked by ...

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  12. THE BRISBANE FIRE.

    Jane Nightingale (26) appeared on remand at the Central Police Court to-day before Mr. Egglinton, Police Magistrate, charged with having murdered Connie Denizer, ...

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  13. QUEENSLAND'S PROSPECTS.

    Mr. Denham Premier of Queensland, gave an interview to 20 London journalists yesterday. He described Queensland's position and prospects, and referred to the ...

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  14. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The State Parliament sat till 7.30 this morning, a period of 17 hours, and then, after a break of an hour and a half. continued sitting. The Estimates were under ...

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  15. EXODUS TO AUSTRALIA.

    Yesterday 150 miners from the Rand left by the s.s. Berrima bound for Australia. ...

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  16. GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES.

    In the second round of the Football Association matches for the English Cup the Sheffield Wednesday team and the Wolverhampton team tied on Saturday last. ...

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  17. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    Giving evidence before the Federal Royal Commission on powellised timber at Parliament House on Wednesday, Mr. Joseph Timms, railway contractor, stated that he ...

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  18. INCITING TO STRIKE.

    Of the strike leaders arrested on January 26 last Figueira has been released, while Connerty, Nield, Buckley, and Carson have been committed for trial on a charge of ...

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  19. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

    Three fires caused by the suffragettes broke out on Tuesday right. One occurred in Aberuchill Castle, at Comrie, in Perthshire, and destroyed a quantity of ...

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  20. INTERSTATE CRICKET.

    Douglas, the captain of the M.C.C. team at present touring South Africa, has telegraped to London in reply to the "Rand Daily Mail's" statement that his team is ...

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  21. TRIPOLITAN WAR.

    A report upon the expenditure in connection with the occupation of Tripoli and the Aegean Islands was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. This showed that ...

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  22. COMMONWEALTH TENDERS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) has sent to Senator Pearce a copy of a letter received by him from the Postmaster-General regarding articles required for Western ...

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  23. AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

    Speaking at a big meeting in the city yesterday to celebrate the centenary of the signing of the British-American peace treaty, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) ...

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  24. MISCELLANEOUS.

    At Brooklands yesterday Mr. Raynham flew an aeroplane to a height of 15,000 feet thus beating the British altitude record established by Mr. Hawker. ...

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  25. REVOLUTION IN PERU.

    In connection with the revolution in Peru a sharp fight took place in Lima yesterday. The Premier (General Varela) and another person were killed, and President ...

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  26. CHURCH DISPUTE.

    The Presbyterian Ministers' Association demands the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Asker, owing to his having stated in a sermon that he did not support the doctrine ...

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  27. BRIBERY OF OFFICIALS.

    A fortnight ago, in Berlin, Carl Richter, an employee in the Tokio office of Siemens and Shuckert, electrical engineers, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for ...

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  28. INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

    When the Interstate Commission met this morning, Mr. Joshua, the chairman of directors of the firm of Bryant and May, Bell and Co. ...

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  29. THE VOLTURNO DISASTER.

    Captain Inch, master of the s.s. Volturno. which was destroyed by fire in midAtlantic early in October last, made the voyage from New York to Plymouth by the ...

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  30. SAD SHOOTING FATALITY.

    Albert Douglas Briggs, a bright little lad of four and a half years, died at the Perth Public Hospital yesterday from gunshot wounds. ...

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  31. AMERICAN DIVORCE.

    In the Senate yesterday Senator Rensdell (Louisiana) proposed to amend the Federal Constitution with a view of absolutely prohibiting divorce throughout the United ...

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  32. A MAD AMERICAN.

    John McDevitt, of Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania, who recently created a sensation in New York by spending a large fortune in a day, arrived here by special train ...

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  33. THE MONEY MARKET.

    The stock markets are buoyant. Consols are quoted at £77 10s., and the scrip of the South Australian 4 per cent. loan of £2,000,000 is quoted at par (the issue ...

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  34. RACECOURSE INCIDENT.

    At the Geraldton Police Court to-day Charles and Robert Hanlon were charged before the Resident Magistrate (Mr. Raymond Gee) with assaulting Mr. J. N. McKay, ...

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  35. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    While a goods train from Newcastle to Sydney was going through a tunnel on the up grade between Adamstown and Cardiff the couplings broke in the centre of the ...

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  36. FINANCIAL FAILURES.

    Coulon. Berthoud and Co., foreign bankers and merchants. of Moorgate-street, have suspended payment and have announced that their liabilities amount to £400,000. They ...

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  37. THUNDERSTORM AT KALGOORLIE.

    A heavy thunderstorm passed over Kalgoorlie to-day. For a time the streets were flooded. At Burbanks the storm was the severest experienced for years. The smoke ...

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  38. AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

    In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Burnett's Immigration Bill providing for a literary test for immigrants to the United States was passed ...

    Article : 85 words
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