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  2. NOTORIOUS NATIVE.

    Zeto, the notorious outlaw chief, who for many years has terrorised the inhabitants of Vella Lavella, in the Solomon Islands, has at last been captured, much to the ...

    Article : 230 words
  3. THE COAL STRIKE.

    When the compulsory Mining Board resumed at Newcastle to-day Mr. Charlton. M.L.A. (for the miners), said, in view of the seriousness of the position, he had ...

    Article : 179 words
  4. UNITED SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Premier of the Transvaal (Mr. Louis Botha), replying to an address from the Het Volk organization at Pietersburg, said he hoped that at the coining election the ...

    Article : 391 words
  5. FEDERAL CAMPAIGN.

    To-day writs authorizing an election of a new House of Representatives and a number of Senators on April 13 were issued. The writs for the election of the House of ...

    Article : 330 words
  6. BRITAIN'S COASTS.

    Several speakers at a session of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (which consists of 30 shipowners' associations, and communicates with the ...

    Article : 70 words
  7. MILITARY SERVICE.

    At a meeting of the shopkeepers of London on Saturday night, under the auspices of the National Service League, an address was riven by the Hon. Robert McNab. ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. MEAT EXPORT.

    Some time ago complaints were received by the Minister for Customs (Sir Robert Best) in regard to the condition in which Australian produce (particularly meat) ...

    Article : 1,761 words
  9. STATE REVENUE RETURNS.

    Although there was a general increase in the receipts from purely State resources during February, the total revenue for Victoria (£702,063) fell by £50,311 for the ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. NAVAL CHANGES

    Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, who has been Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth since the appointment of Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet as Governor of South Australia, ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. DEFENCES OF NEW ZEALAND.

    The Wellington correspondent of The Times states that the military maneuvres arranged by the New Zealand Government in connection with Lord Kitchener's visit ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. RED-FLAG DEMONSTRATION.

    The legality of the regulation under which those who took part in the red-flag demonstration were convicted was raised in the Full Court to-day, when an application ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The revenue returns for February show a slight decrease due to a shrinkage in the returns from the Commonwealth. Receipts from business undertakings of the State ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. DREADNOUGHT FUND.

    Since the decision by the subscribers to the Dreadnought fund to have the money distributed equally between the proposals for a Naval College and the establishment ...

    Article : 140 words
  15. CRICKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 words
  16. THE NAVAL RAGE.

    At a private sitting of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives at Washington, Mr. George Meyer (Secretary of the Navy) foreshadowed the laying down ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. MR. DEAKIN AT BENDIGO.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) delivered an address to-night at a meeting in the Princess Theatre, convened by the local branch of the Commonwealth Liberal Party. ...

    Article : 752 words
  18. ENGINE DRIVERS' ATTITUDE.

    One phase of the coalmining dispute is to come before the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Mr. H. A. Mifchell (Secretary of the Federated ...

    Article : 275 words
  19. SOLICITOR AND CLIENT.

    The privilege attaching to communications between solictior and client was concerned in an interlocutory matter dealt with by Mr. Justice Hodges to-day. It ...

    Article : 472 words
  20. WOOLCLASSING.

    On an application for a board in the woolclasing industry to-day, Mr. Milner Stephen asked that the West Darling district should be excepted and have a board of its own ...

    Article : 145 words
  21. RHODES SCHOLARS.

    Dr. William Ray, of Adelaide, the South Australian Rhodes scholar for 1907, has been elected at Oxford University to a Philip Walker studentship, worth £200 a ...

    Article : 450 words
  22. OCEAN MONSTER.

    The Daily Mail states that the Hamburg American Steamship Company has placed with a shipbuilding firm at Hamburg an order for a new steamship of 50,000 tons. ...

    Article : 87 words
  23. CANTERBURY MATCH DRAWN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 words
  24. OPAL INDUSTRY.

    A telegram from White Cliffs states that a meeting convened by the progress committee has been held to consider the best means of encouraging the development of ...

    Article : 132 words
  25. TEN IN THE WAY.

    It is said that at the most not more than 10 men are standing in the way of the resumption of work by the northern miners. These men it is stated, would displace the ...

    Article : 120 words
  26. LAND-GRANT RAILWAY

    Messrs. Reid & Co., the Canadian railway constructors, have agreed to build 260 miles of branch railway lines in Newfoundland, for which they are to receive £3,000 per ...

    Article : 47 words
  27. ROW AT A CONFERENCE.

    The warmth of the debate at the Methodist Conference on Friday over the affiliated college question culminated to-day in a straight-out row. when mutual ...

    Article : 514 words
  28. CZARS MEET.

    In connection with the state visit of the Emperor Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and the Empress Elcanora to the Czar of Russia at St. Petersburg a banquet was held at the ...

    Article : 81 words
  29. A SYDNEY SUBWAY.

    The public works committee had before it for the first time to-day the expediency of constructing a subway from Moore street, city, to Lavender Bay, for the ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. ARBITRATION ACT.

    Application was made by Mr. Mearthur on behalf of the Commonwealth to the High Court to-day for leave for the Commonwealth to intervene in the Conciliation ...

    Article : 109 words
  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Government has decided to proclaim Barrow Island, on the north-west coast, a reserve for the protection of native flora and fauna. The island contains, among ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. DAVIS CUP.

    A cable message has been received by Mr. Hicks (Secretary of the Australasian Lawn Tennis Association) from Dr. James D. Wright (President of the United States ...

    Article : 62 words
  33. FRENCH WINES.

    The French Minister, of Finance (M. Cochery) recently submitted a proposal in the Chamber of Deputies for the sale to winegrowers of a State label, to he affixed ...

    Article : 106 words
  34. SOUTH WALES COLLIERIES.

    Negotiations for, the settlement of the dispute between the colliers and the mineowners in South Wales have ended in failure, Consequently, the men's ...

    Article : 161 words
  35. DROUGHT AND BORES.

    The Chief Inspector of Rabbits (Mr. Crawford) recently returned from the Gascoyne district, and reports that he saw hundreds of dead emus and kangaroos. The ...

    Article : 82 words
  36. EGG COLLECTING.

    It is probable that Victoria will shortly follow South Australia in the adoption of the corporative system for the collection and distribution of eggs. The Minister ...

    Article : 542 words
  37. VICTORIA.

    An outbreaK of pleuro-pneumonia at Preston has resulted in the wiping out of 78 head of cattle, the whole dairy herd of a farmer. The chief veterinary officer, ...

    Article : 64 words
  38. Advertising

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    Advertising : 375 words
  39. STATE AND FEDERAL LABOURITES.

    Referring to the resolution passed on Friday by the Metropolitan District Council of the Australian Labour Federation, protesting that members of the State ...

    Article : 148 words
  40. MONEY IN MOTORS.

    The French Chamber of Deputies has, by a large majority, voted an increase in the motor car tax, which already produces a revenue of £2,440,000 annually. ...

    Article : 38 words
  41. LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

    Including the covering tenders from the banks, £779,000 was subscribed for the Board of Works' 4 per cent. loan of £250,000. The public offered £529,000 or ...

    Article : 73 words
  42. ESPIONAGE.

    Herr Weissel, a merchant in the East Prussian City of Algerburg, has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude for espionage. ...

    Article : 32 words
  43. UNITED MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN.

    For some months representatives of various denominational missionary movements have been in consultation with regard to a united missionary campaign throughout ...

    Article : 58 words
  44. "MADE IN GERMANY!"

    Curious statements concerning the furniture trade were made by an employer before the Wicker Workers' Wages Board to-day. He said:—"We are not allowed to ...

    Article : 139 words
  45. PIGEON SHOOTING.

    Galletti has won the great triennial pigeon-shooting championship at Monte Carlo, with a maximum of 25 hits. Campbell, the Australian competitor, ...

    Article : 46 words
  46. KONIGEN LUISE AT FREMANTLE.

    The G.M.S. Konigen Luise arrived this morning with the following passengers:— For Melbourne—Messrs. Robarth, Baron von Bissing, Martin, and Berry; ...

    Article : 86 words
  47. MONO-RAIL.

    Mr. Louis Brennan's mono-rail trial car carried 60 passengers in a test run near the town of Gillingham in Kent, a speed of 22 miles an hour was ...

    Article : 134 words
  48. QUEENSLAND.

    The agitation for the removal of aborigines from the Barambah reserve has been renewed. The matter will remain in abeyance until the Home Secretary visits ...

    Article : 104 words
  49. SHORTAGE IN SHOWERS.

    There has been a general shortage of rain in New South Wales during February, and only four isolated stations received rain in excess of the average, and they ...

    Article : 73 words
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