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  2. THE BUTTER SEASON.

    The butter season has not yet closed, but the bulk of the trade has been done, and it is possible to see the effect of the new Federal commerce regulations; which came ...

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  3. THE END.

    Last Thursday advices which had come to the hand from the Tibetan capital stated that a force of native troops and artillery had bombarded a monastery, which was ...

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  4. THE SCARLET THREAD.

    The Admiralty authorities have announced that, as a result of official communications with the Government of New Zealand, the offer of the people of the ...

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  5. NEW MILITIA SCHEME.

    The proposals for the re-organization of the militia forces from July 1 next have been explained in lectures by the Adjutant-General (Col. Chaveuly) and the Director of ...

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  6. CHURCH BAFFLES.

    In the course of his Presidential address at the Ballarat Anglican Synod to-day, Bishop Green strongly commented on the practice of holding riffles for church ...

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  7. LOST LIVES.

    The official enquiry into the foundering of the White Star liner Titanic was continued to-day. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon testified that his ...

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  8. THE CHAMPION PAIR.

    When play was resumed after lunch this afternoon in the match between M.C.C. and the Australian Eleven 5,000 spectators were present to watch the play. They saw ...

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  9. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    Mr. Denison miller, who has been appointed Governor of the proposed Commonwealth Bank, reached Melbourne by the Sydney express to-day. He had a long ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. THE SOUTH AFRICANS.

    After luncheon, the Oxford University made a good stand against the South Africans. The students took their score from 110 for 5 wickets to 278. The Indian ...

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  11. LONDON, May 21.

    In showery weather to-day the cricketers from the South African Union continued their innings in reply to the Oxford total of 278. But for the outstanding work of ...

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  12. SENTENCES REDUCED.

    The Home Secretary has considered the evidence tendered against Tom Mann, who on May 9 was awarded six months' imprisonment in the second division for having ...

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  13. SUGAR COMMISSION.

    This afternoon the hearing was continued in the Water Police Court of the case in which Sir Henry Normand Maclaurin is charged with having failed, without ...

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  14. DRAWN INTO TOUCH.

    Mr. Balfour, addressing the Victoria League last evening, said he had often been amazed at the unhappy readiness of human beings to find reasons for segregating ...

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  15. EARLY MARRIAGES.

    The Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) today expressed some important observations in the Criminal Court in regard to the offence by young people of making false ...

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  16. HIGH AND LOW.

    In September last Count Bogdan Ronikier, a polish nobleman, who had been arrested 16 months before on a charge of having murdered his bother-in-law, aged ...

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  17. DAZED BY CATASTROPHE.

    Mr. Lightoller, continuing his statement before the committee yesterday, remarked that in his experience of seafaring he had never known the speed of a liner to be ...

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  18. A VICTORIAN REPORT.

    R. Crowe (Exports Superintendent for the Department of Agriculture), in a review of the Victorian butter export trade for the season 1911-12, states that the ...

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  19. AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

    Surprise was expressed to-day by the naval authorities that dissatisfaction should exist among the warrant officers who had been recently drafted from the Imperial ...

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  20. LOST HIS FIANCEE.

    News has been received from Chicago that a German nobleman, Count Heinrich von Armenthal, the owner of considerable property in the Western States, has ...

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  21. FRUIT COMMISSION.

    The fruit Commission arrived by train this morning, and immediately began to take evidence. E. H. Ramford, fruit inspector, stated that the export of fruit and ...

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  22. KEEPING PACE.

    The Daily Express states that the Admiralty intends to meet the German naval programme by accelerating the current year's battleship construction proposals to ...

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  23. PAROLE SLANDER.

    The slander suit brought by Mr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) against the publishers of Blackwood's Magazine for having alleged that he broke ...

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  24. INDUSTRIAL TURMOIL

    Lightermen and bargemen employed at the Victoria and Albert Docks have struck work. This is an extension of the "nonunion" trouble at Millwall. ...

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  25. CASUALTIES.

    At about 10 o'clock on Monday evening a serious block congestion of the railway passenger traffic on the Port line occurred at the Bowden Siding. While a goods train ...

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  26. MOROCCAN MENACE.

    The Tangier correspondent of the Times recounts a serious state of affairs in Moroco. The French residents and army of ...

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  27. PETITION TO THE CZAR.

    In the House of Common last evening the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated that miss Maleeka had been granted 14 days in which to decide whether to ...

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  28. A.U.S.N.

    It is believed that the new steamer ordered by the A.U.S.N. Company mentioned in the cable messages, will be one of the finest on the Australian ceast. The ...

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  29. "GREAT OPPORTUNITY."

    Speaking today at a garden party, the Rev. N. Hey, of Mapoon, said he thought the Presbyterian Church had a great opportunity to do work for the benefit of the ...

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  30. MINERS' DISTRESS.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. is distributing the gift of the Neweastle Colliery Employes' Federation in districts where distress is keen owing to the non-starting of coal ...

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  31. RADIO-TELEGRAPHY.

    Mr. Charles Bright, F.R.S.E., an emineat London specialist on wireless, will represent the Commonwealth at the Radio-Telegraphic Conference to be opened in London ...

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  32. RAILWAY NATIONALIZATION.

    The Prime Minister stated on Monday, in reply to ta deputation from the Trade Union Congress, that he did not think that those who favoured a scheme of ...

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  33. PASSED ON.

    A product of the foreign section of the East-End, Errico Malatesta, was brought up at the Old Bailey yesterday on a charge of having libelled as fellow-countryman ...

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  34. THE RIVALS.

    At Dayton, Ohio, from which centre President Taft has been conducting a sevendays' speechmaking campaign, that gentleman predicted the wreck of the Republican ...

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  35. FEDERAL CAPITAL DESIGNS.

    At a meeting of the Federal Cabinet to be held to-morrow one of the most important subjects to be brought forward will be the reports of the commission ...

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  36. BULLET IN THE MOUTH.

    William Henry Bennett, aged 60, of Tolmer place, Norwood, was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday, suffering from a bullet wound in the mouth. He ...

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  37. FOUR MILLIONS POORLY PAID.

    The Hon. J. R. Sinclair, member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, in a letter tot The Daily Mail points out that there are about four millions of adult ...

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  38. The Second Day.

    The sky was overcast, and ther were not many spectators at Lord's this morning to witness the continuation of the Australians' innings. Macartney and Bardsley found a ...

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  39. NAVIGATION BILL.

    A deputation from the town council today met the pearl Commissioners in their capacity as members of the Legislature, and pointed out their views regarding ...

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  40. MISSING.

    A messeger of the American Express Company in Berlin has absconded with £5,000 in paper money. No clues regarding his whereabouts have yet been ...

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  41. TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE

    James Hood, the cowboy, whose con-duct at the St. Kilda Railway Station caused a sensation on Saturday night, was before the Local to-day on two ...

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  42. DISESTABLISHMENT.

    In moderate liberal circles it is reported that the Government, probably at the committee stage, will amend the Welsh Disestablishment Bill so as to leave the Welsh ...

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  43. PERSIAN TRIBESMEN.

    A message from Simla (the summer seat of Indian Government) reports that the native tribesmen who threatened the Persian seaport of Bunder Abbas (which is ...

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  44. DRIVER'S LEG BR0KEN.

    Thomas Walton, driver, employed by Messrs. Cocking & Co., carriers, met with a serious accident on Tuesday afternoon. He was about to drive a team of five horses ...

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  45. SUEZ DUES.

    The Suez Canal Administrative Council has announced a reduction in the tariff to 6.227 francs per ton, to come into force with the new year. ...

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  46. WINDOW-SMASHERS.

    The suffragette champions, Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence (editors of "Votes for Women"), stood their trial yesterday in connection with the recent outbreak of ...

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  47. COASTAL STEAMER.

    The North Coast Steam Navigation Com-pany's new steamer Tambar has been launched at Grangemouth. ...

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  48. STEAMER IRISHMAN.

    The cost of the extended detention of the steamer Irishman in quarantine will probably be heavy. It is estimated that the caterers' bill alone will be not far short ...

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  49. THE WESTERN LINE.

    Although the work of laving the Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie Railway has been already started in a small way, the official turning of the first sod will not take place ...

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  50. SERIOUSLY SCALDED.

    ORROROO, May 21.—On Monday morning a son, aged one year and eight months of Mr. George Arthur was scalded. He went into the separator room, and pulled ...

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  51. AUSTRALIAN BOWLERS.

    The visiting team of Australian bowlers defeated South London, whose team included four international players, by 35 points. ...

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  52. FIRE IN HOTEL.

    TEROWIE, May 20.—A fire occurred at Mr. D. Mildren's Royal Hotel early on Sunday morning. Some lodgers, who were sleeping in an outside bedroom, were ...

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  53. HENRY HOLLANDS APPEAL.

    There was brought before the full Court To-day an appeal by Henry Holland against the conviction and fine of £100 recorded against him at the Globe Court on a charge ...

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  54. LIBERAL CONFERENCE.

    Following a gathering of the Liberal organizations of the Commonwealth here in November, a new conference of the same bodies was opened to-day. All the ...

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  55. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    The conclusion was reached to-day of the suit brought by Albert George Ingleman against the Railways Commissioners, claiming £2,000 damages in respect to injuries ...

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  56. TRAP ACCIDENTS.

    PRICE (Y.P.), May 10.—On Wednesday afternoon, while driving in a two-wheeled vehicle, Mrs. E. Burt, of Clinton Centre, and Miss Ninke were thrown out through ...

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  57. BOXING.

    Ad. Wolgast and "Packy" McFarland, America's most famous "white" boxers today are negotiating for a 10 round [?]. The chief difficulty is to decade when the ...

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  58. BAR-BOUND DETCH.

    MELBOURNE, May 21.—The keten Topsy, which left Cunninghame on a fishing cruise about three weeks ago, and for whose safety fears were entertained, is ...

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  59. SAVED BY WIRELESS.

    Telegrams from Cordova, Alaska, convey the news that the United States lighthouse tender America was driven ashore on a rocky coast and was pounded to pieces ...

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  60. EXCITEMENT AT SPENCER STREET.

    MELBOURNE, May 21.—Excitement marked the departure of the 6.30 passenger train from, Speneer street to Port Fairy this morning. The engine bumped into the ...

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  61. CUT HIS THROAT.

    PERTH, May 21.—John Glennon, a young man, committed suicide by cutting his throat at his lodgings this morning. Deceased, until yesterday, was employed ...

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  62. CRUSHED TO DEATH.

    KALGOORLIE, May 21.—At the Karrawang Railway Station last evening James McConnochie, aged 12, was crushed between the buffers of two trucks, and died within ...

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