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  2. COUNTRY TOWNS.

    The Livepool streets are trafficless, but the railway services are fair. The members of the Cotton Exchange offered to do porter work. A Red Cross ...

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  3. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES. THE GOVERNMENTS OFFER.

    Referring to the Prime Ministers offer of a special commission to inquire into railwaymens grievances, Mr. Lloyd George said if the Commission were accepted it ...

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  4. LATEST TELEGRAMS. MODERNISING QUARANTINE SYSTEMS.

    The Minister for Customs estimates the cost of thoroughly modernising the quarantine systems of the Commonwealth will be a quarter of a million. ...

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  5. LATEST CABLEGRAMS CRETAN QUESTION SETTLEMENT.

    The Porte has addressed a memorandum to the Cretan protecting Powers (Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy) suggesting that the present time is opportune ...

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  6. POLITICAL SITUATION. POSITION OF MR. WILLIS.

    The Opposition members express surprise at the action of Mr. H. Willis in accepting the Speakership. Mr. Wade, Leader of the Opposition, says ...

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  7. ETHEL BRADLEYS DEATH.

    A further stage was reached at Wellington (N.Z.) yesterday in the prosecutions concerning the mysterious death of Ethel Bradley at Christchurch in February last. ...

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  8. FERRY TROUBLE SETTLED.

    It is announced that the inreatened strike among the ferry employees has been settled, and there is no danger of traffic being interfered with. ...

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  9. AMERICAN AUTHORESS DEAD.

    The death is announced of Myrtle Reed McCollough, the American authoress. Death was due to an overdose of a sleeping powder. She left a reflecting on ...

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  10. THE BATHURST SEE.

    It is reported that Bishop Frodsham, of North Queensland, is not likely to accept the see of Bathurst. ...

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  11. GUARDING RAILWAYS.

    Detachments of troops are guarding most of the Jondonstations and themam lines through the suburbs. The railway strike is only partial in London, but the provinces ...

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  12. FINANCIAL CLAIMS COURT.

    An international court is about to be established, for the settlement of financial claims between Great Britain; Canada and the United States pursuant to the treaty ...

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  13. A POLICE RAID.

    The police raided an alleged gambling den in Campball-street last night, and arrested seven Chinese who were found on the premises. ...

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  14. FOUND IN THE RIVER.

    The body of a man named Sydney Perkins, lately, employed at Gladesville Asylum, was found floating in the Parramatta River to-day. He disappeared on ...

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  15. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Lord James of Hereford. (Hon. Henry James, K.G., Baron Hereford, was born on October 30, 1828, and ...

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  16. NEW LEASE, OF LIFE.

    The belief has gained ground in political circles that the strategy of the Government in prevailing upon Mr. Willis to accept the Speakership has given them ...

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  17. EASY TO DISCUSS.

    The amalgamated railwaymen have auth-. orised the issue of strike pay amounting to 10s weekly. The executive state that 220,000 men have struck and predict that ...

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  18. PARLIAMENT TO SIT.

    Paliament remains sitting during the industrial cirsis. The Home Secretary (Mr. Winston Churchill) has foreshadowed larger ...

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  19. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OPENING.

    The Federal Cabinet is busy making arrangement for the opening of the Federal Tarliament on the 5th September. An effort is to be made to conclude the ...

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  20. ROYAL ASSENT TO VETO BILL.

    The news that the Parliament Bill had received the Royal assent was received in the House of Lords amid subdued cheers. ...

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  21. DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK.

    A sudden outbreak of diphtheria occasioned much uneasiness among the residents of the suburb of Killara towards the end of last week, and as case after case was ...

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  22. TRAFFIC STOPPED.

    The West of Englaind in isolated from the Midlands and the services from Swansea and many industrial centres in the North of England have stopped. There is a ...

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  23. WEATHER FORECAST.

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  24. THE POPE CONVALESCENT.

    After his recent severe illness it is announced that the Pope is now convalescent. ...

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  25. FATAL FALL DOWNSTAIRS.

    A blind man named Patrick O'Connor, aged 55 years, fell downstairs at his residence in Gooten Lane, and broke his neck. ...

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  26. WOOTTONS FOUR WINNERS.

    F. Wootton, the well-known Australian jockey, rode four winners at the Windsor meeting yesterday. ...

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  27. STRIKE SETTLED.

    At half-past eleven oclock last night the Board of Trade issued a statement as follows:— "On Governments representation the ...

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  28. NOT PETER THE PAINTER.

    It is understood that the idea that Maren is "Peter the Painter" has been exploded, but the authorities still decline to state whether or not they connect him ...

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  29. AVIATION. A FINE FLIGHT.

    The 500 miles outward journey in the flight from St. Louis to Boston has been accomplished by Mr. Atwood, who beat the express trains In speed several times. ...

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  30. DISSOLUTION WANTED.

    The Minister for Works, Mr,. A. Qriflith, stated yesterday, the Government would ask for an immediate dissolution if the rolls were in order. ...

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  31. FOUND DEAD.

    The body of a middle-aged man was found near the old showground this.morning with the throat out, and a razor held in the right-hand. ...

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  32. BRITISH OFFICER KILLED.

    Lieutenant Ridge of the London balloon corps, lost control of his biplane at Farnborough. He fell fifty feet and was killed. ...

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  33. "I CAN USE IT."

    An unknown man visited a gunsmiths shop in Melborne to-day and asked to be shown a revolver. An attndant, at his request, loaded it, ...

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  34. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    While a number of young men at Woy Woy were out hunting wallabies, Norman Roberts, aged 14, got separated from his companions. ...

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  35. AN ALTITUDE RECORD

    Oscar Brindley, an aviator, has created a worlds record for altitude, reaching a height of 11,726 feet. ...

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  36. FOUND DROWNED.

    At the inguest concerning the death of Lilly Elizabeth Lambert, who was found drowned in the Yarra on August 11th. the girl's mother said she last saw her ...

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  37. TROUBLED INDIA.

    Gloomy drought reports are to hand. It Is stated that Delhi is becoming the centre of a huge cropless, and waterless area. A serious outbreak of cholera has ...

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  38. A BISHOP MISSING.

    Some anxiety is being felt through the non-appearance of Bishop White of Carpentaria, at the Mitchell River Mission, whenco the cutter arrived from here on ...

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  39. A SWAGMAN'S DEATH.

    At the inquest at Melborne on the body of the swagman Phillip Connolly, who placed his head under the wheels of a locomotive, as reported in previous ...

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  40. NATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The State Cabinet last night decided to put forward a proposal for the holding of a National Exhibition at one of the capital cities of the Commonwealth towards ...

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  41. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

    A total of 17,669 farms are reported to be affected with foot and mouth cisease. It is feared that this, in combination with the shortage of fodder, will result in ...

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  42. CANADIAN SHIPPING AFFECTED.

    Shipping is seriously affected in consequence of the railway strike in Great Britain and numbers of shipowners are refusing to accept cargoes of a perishable ...

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  43. ABORIGINAL'S DEATH.

    The trial of mounted constable Muegge and Taylor and Glinch two scrub cutters, charged with the murder of an aborginal near Fawler Bay, concluded at Adelaide ...

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  44. ANOTHER STRIKE OVER.

    The miners of Frank, in the province of Albera, are neturning to work without a formal settlement of the strike which followed the mens demands for higher wages. ...

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  45. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    Mr. R. L. Borden, Leader of the Conservative party spoke at a great antireciprocity demonstration here. He stated that Canada had not forgotten British ...

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  46. AMERICAN TARIFF. THE PRESIDENTS VETO.

    Applause from the Republican party greeted the announcement that President Taft had vetoed the Wool Tariff Bill when it was read in the Ilouse of ...

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  47. WATER FAMINE

    No useful rain has fallen on the catchrment area serving the Parkes reservoir since January, 1010. In different parts of the State rain is now wanted very badly. ...

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  48. DROWNED IN A WELL.

    On a search being made for a man named Thomas Cavlert, aged 31, who was missing at Kiora, his hat was found floating in the water in an uncovered under ...

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  49. CALLING IT OFF.

    The Railwaymens Unions at midnight telegraphed to their branches throughout the country as follows "Joint committee settled strike victory for trade unionism. ...

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  50. DIFFICULTY OVERCOME.

    The hitch in the transport workers has been settled and an agreement signed confirming Sir A. Rollets award. The suburban railway service to London ...

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  51. TRANSPORT AGREEMENT.

    Members of the House, of Commons, are attending the conference of the shipowners and National Transport Workers with the Board of Trade, and Mr. John Burns, ...

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  52. PRESIDENT REFUSES VETO.

    President Taft declined to veto Mr. Farmers Free List Bill. ...

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  53. EXTENSIVE BUSH FIRES.

    A message from Winton yesterday stated that a bush fire resulting from a camp fire igniting the grass on the Lerida run, burnt 33 miles of country on Saturday. ...

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  54. LABOUR SHORTAGE.

    At the Labour Shortage Commission to-day several female witnesses came forward and gave a denial to the statement of a previous witness that there was no ...

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  55. MOROCCAN SITUATION.

    The Berlin correspondent, of the "Times" states that there has been some renewal of uneasiness concerning the conversations between the Governments of France and ...

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  56. ORGANISED CRIMINALS.

    The police have arrested David Korshack, who is believed to be the leader of a gang of criminals operating throughout the United Ftates with headquarters at ...

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  57. HOSPITAL PATIENT'S DEATH.

    John Williamson, a patient at the Prince Alfred Hospital, was killed at that insitution to-day by falling forty feet on to some stone steps. ...

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  59. A PLEA FOR EUGENICS.

    Sir James Barr, ex-president of the Lancashire and Cheshire branch of the British Medical Association, speaking at the Health Congress in Dublin, advocated the ...

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  60. NEGOTIATIONS ADJOURNED.

    The Moroccan conversations have been adjouned for a fortnight. Tlerr von Kiderlin Wacchter is visiting Marienhad, and M. Cambon Paris. ...

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