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  2. THE POPULATION PROBLEM.

    The Prime Minister has received a communication from Mr. Jenkins (Agent General for South Australia), dated London, August 25, on the subject of ...

    Article : 507 words
  3. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Observe a Unionist weekly, published in London, states that the Imperial Government has decided to purchase the commercial docks at Singapore in the ...

    Article : 398 words
  4. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,

    In the Polish city of Warsaw on Saturday evening the police surrounded the pubic parks and searched thousands of Jews who were promenading at the close of their ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. HUNGARY.

    The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary on Saturday gave an audience to M. Franz Kossuth and other leaders of the Hungarian political majority. The ...

    Article : 151 words
  6. NEW SOUTH WALES LAND SCANDALS.

    The Lands Commission was further concerned to-day with improvement leases, but little testimony of importance was forthcoming Representatives of several of ...

    Article : 266 words
  7. SNOW IN EASTERN STATES

    The unseasonable weather which created to much discomfort on Sunday continued to-day with increased intensity, and for the first time for 20 years snow foil in ...

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    The death is announced of Mrs. Serjeant, a lady pioneer of Ballarat, and widow of. Mr. R.M. Serjeant, who for many years Was manager of the Rand anil Albion . ...

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  9. TRANSVAAL COLONY.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of The Daily Mail says that the outrages committed by Chinese coolies who had deserted form the mines have stirred the whole of ...

    Article : 169 words
  10. VICTORIA.

    At a meeting of the State Cabinet the Minister for Water Supply (Mr. Swinburne) obtained authority to draft an Appropriation Bill to provide for the ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

    It is believed that the success of the Karlstad Conference, in arranging a basis of dissolution between Sweden and Norway, was rendered possible by Sweden ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. A PROFESSOR RELEASED.

    A month ago the Russian Government, as predicted by the St. Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, followed up the proclamation of the Czar's ...

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  13. CHINESE REFORM.

    The commission appointed by the Empress Dowager of China to visit the principal countries of the world and report upon he methods upon which the various ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. RICH GOLD FIND.

    The Secretary to the Mines Department (Mr. W. P. Anderson) has received intimation of a. rich pocket found in the Bright district by two prospectors named ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS.

    The weather is cold. Snow has fallen in the mountains. SYDNEY, September 25. The temperatures have been unusually ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

    The work of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia was continued today. Mr. W. Wood, of New South Wales, submitted a motion that the ...

    Article : 204 words
  17. THE SUEZ CANAL BLOCK.

    The engineers charged with die removal of the wreck of the Chatham from the channel of the Suez Canal have decided that the only safe course is to blow up ...

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  18. ANONYMOUS LETTER TO A MINISTER.

    A meeting of the congregation of St.George's Presbyterian Church has been held at Geelong to consider an anonymous letter received by the Rev. J. Jackson, who was ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. ART UNION SWINDLER.

    Sentence Was passed to-day by Judg Chomley upon William Patrick Naughtor who was found guilty last week of havin obtained prizes of £300, £100. £50. £30, ...

    Article : 397 words
  20. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A severe shock of earthquake has greatly alarmed the inhabitants of Perthshire and Stirlingshire, two counties of Scotland occupying the Tay and Forth basins. The ...

    Article : 120 words
  21. AN ACCOUNTANT'S SUICIDE.

    Harry Lotherington, accountant in the office of Howard Smith Company, Limited, shot himself to-night at his parents' residence East Melbourne. Lotherington, who ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. THE ARBITRATION.

    The docks which it is proposed to take Over are at present in the occupation of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, which owns at Singapore 11.000 ft. of wharfs: ...

    Article : 327 words
  23. HAGUE CONFERENCE.

    M. Witte, the Russian peace plenipotentiary, who has been instructed by the Czar to interview the Kaiser at Berlin before returning to St. Petersburg, has arrived at ...

    Article : 84 words
  24. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Thieves obtained admittance into the millinery establishment of Miss Macdougall, in Pitt street, and carried off goods (principally silk stuffs) to the value ...

    Article : 228 words
  25. BANKRUPT IN COURT.

    The examination in connection with the bankruptcy of Moses and Minnie Cohen trading as M. Cohen, outfitters, of Bathurst street, was held to-day, before ...

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  26. A MAD MURDERER.

    A curious murder case has occurred in Harming street, in the Chinese quarters. Last night Kum Yong, a feeble old Chinaman. was shot by a person who walked ...

    Article : 250 words
  27. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver—The price of bar silver to-day, is 2/43/2 an increase of ½d ...

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  28. EARLY SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The new River Murray paddle steamer Gundagai made its trial excursion to Milang on Wednesday, September 18. The next new steamer is to be called the ...

    Article : 362 words
  29. A SCHOONER WRECKED.

    The scow Moana, bound from Wellington to the Mokau River to load timber, was blown ashore as Mokau Heads this morning. It is supposes that all the seven men ...

    Article : 353 words
  30. COMMONWEALTH AND STATE.

    Speaking to-night at a smoke social tendered to Mr. McCntcheon, M.L.A., in St. Kilda Town Hall, Mr. Irving M.L.A., exPremier said a difficulty ?which thinking ...

    Article : 510 words
  31. RUSSIA IN THE NEAR EAST

    The Slovo, the. organ of M. Witte's party in an article on the present relations between Great Britain and Germany, implies that the policy of Russia in the ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. QUEENSLAND,

    It is believed that the grounds on which the police at Cairns asked for the remand of Percy W. Levaux, solicitor, who was charged with the murder of. Peter ...

    Article : 108 words
  33. SOUTH AFRICAN CON­STABULARY.

    A cable message, dated Johannesburg, September 23, has been received by the Governor-General from the High Commissioner for South Africa to the effect that ...

    Article : 287 words
  34. NEW HEBRIDES CUSTOMS.

    The Rev. John Gillan, who has laboured in the New Hebrides for 18 years, to-night told the Presbyterian General Assembly that in Malukula Island cannibal feasts ...

    Article : 201 words
  35. BRITISH AND JAPANESE.

    The Admiralty intends that early in October after the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan shall have been ratified, the British Far Eastern Squadron and the ...

    Article : 226 words
  36. A CURIOUS PEACE TREATY.

    For past few weeks a conglomerate warfare lias been in. progress in Transcaucasia The Government troops have been making strenuous efforts, often by harsh ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. THE OUTER HARBOUR.

    In order to show their practical interest in public works of the State the members of Union Parliament sought permission from the contractors for the Outer ...

    Article : 524 words
  38. ACCIDENT TO FUNERAL PARTY.

    Last evening a carryan, the property of and driven by Cr. J. P. Thomas, broke down while returning from the funeral of Mrs. Phillips, wife of Mr. John Phillips ...

    Article : 90 words
  39. TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The members of the Tariff Commission arrived this morning and will take evidence regarding mining and collateral industries on Wednesday. Sir John Quick ...

    Article : 284 words
  40. UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

    A conference representatives of the union affiliated with the Trades Hall and branches the Political Labour Council for the purpose of a devising a practicable ...

    Article : 267 words
  41. DOCTORS AT VARIANCE.

    Considerable interest is being evinced in the disagreement between the allopathic and homeopathic sections of Bendigo doctors. For some time certain of the ...

    Article : 136 words
  42. A MALEVOLENT GIRL.

    On Saturday the seven-year-old daughter of Mr. C. L. Greene, of Oraigmitchell, Bairnsdale, was accosted by Ada Harris, 14 years of age, who said to her. "You are ...

    Article : 224 words
  43. IMMIGRATION LAWS,

    At a meeting of the Federal Cabinet held this afternoon, consideration was to amendments which the Prime Minister has framed with a view to alter ...

    Article : 103 words
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  45. COMMONWEALTH NOTES,

    Some time ago the Railways Commissioner of the various Suites agreed to increase the railway charges for carrying postal matter by a large amount The ...

    Article : 199 words
  46. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The civil sittings of the Circuit Court were opened by Mr. Justice Burnside. Frank Fordham Brown, engine driver, of Kanowna. sued John Lewis Martin. ...

    Article : 97 words
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