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  2. A MADMAN'S ACT.

    A cook who had boen rocontly discharged from the Dutch Navy yesterday enterod the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam, which contains a truly national ...

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  3. RAILWAY STRIKE IN PORTUGAL.

    The railway companies offer to the employees who are now on strike an increase of wages which amounts to £80,000 annually, a nino hours day, ...

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  4. PERSONAL.

    The Hon. Wm Moore, who is still very unwell, hopes to return home nert week. The New South Wales Cabinet has decided that the Premier (Mr. McGowen) ...

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  5. WRECK ON AUSTRALIAN COAST

    A shipping disaster which will probably result in the total loss of the wellknown Howard Smith Compony's steamer Time, 2,575 tons, but which, ...

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  6. BURSTING OF A RESERVOIR.

    A spring under the masonry of the water reservoir at Huclva, the Spanish pott tor the Rio Tinto copper mines, caused the masoury to loosen yesterday, ...

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  7. ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING

    What was evidently a dastardly attempt at train wrecking was discovered yesterday morning close to the city by the driver of the mail train from ...

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  8. CZAR AND KAISER.

    In referring to-day to the results of the meeting in November last of the Czar and Kaiser at Potsdam, the "Vossische Zoitung," ...

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  9. FROZEN MEAT.

    Messt s Weddel and Co., in their renow of the frozon meat trade, stated that there is an improved consumptive demand for all foodstuffs, mid the ...

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  10. RIOTS IN INDIA.

    In cennection with the Mohammedan riots winch occurred on Friday at Peshawur, owing to old-standing fends between, the Sunnis and Shiah sects, ...

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  11. THE CORONATION.

    The route of the King's procession on June 23 will include Piccadilly and on to Fleetrstroot and past the Mansionhouse. The procession will cross ...

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  12. FRANCE AND LIBERIA.

    The dispute botwoen France and Liberia as to the delimitation of the boundaries of tho two countries in Africa has been settled, and an ...

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  13. RECIPROCITY.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Prime Minister, in reply to a deputation of Canadian manufacturers, declared it to be his firm belief that the reciprocity ...

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  14. BOGUS ARISTOCRATS.

    The so-called Count and Countess of Deglatigny, whose real name is Daulby were tried yesterday in Paris for having old to Mrs. Paine, the widow of the ...

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  15. DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY

    A distressing drowning fatality occurred at Boat Harbour this morning. Two little girls, named Doris Hocking and Lucy Warren, daughters of ...

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  16. FERRY BOAT TRAGEDY.

    A shocking tragedy occurred yesterday on a ferryboat al San Francisco A man, who has not betta identified, entered the lavatory of the ferry boat ...

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  17. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The steamer Marie Rose, 3,023 tons, belonging to Messrs. Burdick and Cook, of London, has foundored off one of the Orkney Island, and twelve lives were ...

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  18. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    A virulent outbreak of bubonic plagne has occurred in various parts of Manchuria, and hundreds of people ore dying every day. ...

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  19. ARMED BURGLARS IN LONDON

    Last month Constable Hay tread, of the Metropolitan London police, had a dosperate hand-to-hand struggle in the Borough High-street, on the Surrey ...

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  20. BILLIARDS.

    The match (8,000 up) between George Gray aid E, Diggle was continued yesterday at Liverpool. Gray carried his score to 6,667, and was in play with a ...

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  21. THE ZEEHAN SMELTERS.

    Just as ho was leaving Launceston on Saturday tor Melbourne, Senator J. S. Clemons, chairman of the Hercules Company, received a, telegram from Mr. ...

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  22. LUNATIC'S FREAK.

    An extraordinary case has come under the notice of the medical authorities in Vienna. A lunatic swallowed 14 spoons, and the Rontgen rays having ...

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  23. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

    An agreement on the leading fishery questions involved has boen reached between the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland, following negotiations at ...

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  24. FINANCIAL.

    The issue by Messrs. Henry Bull and Co. of £90,000 cumulative preference shares carrying 5½ per cent, interest has been fully subscribed. ...

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  25. POVERTY IN ENGLAND.

    The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administration of the Poor Law in England and relief of distress due to unemployment has issued ...

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  26. MORAL AND SOCIAL REFORM

    A judicial inquiry into social vice in Winnipeg exonerates the police, and establishes the fact that the lack of supervision has caused a large increase ...

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  27. SUPPOSED MUTINY.

    The schooner Emma H. has arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the crew has reported that gales obliged the abandonment of the voyage to Victoria, ...

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  28. BELLEVUE COLLIERY DISASTER

    The inquiry hns concluded into the causo of the disaster which occurred last month, at the Bellevue Colliery, in the Crow's Nest Pass, when 25 miners lost ...

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  29. ALL BRITISH SHOPPING.

    An "All-British Shopping Week " is to be held in London for the display and sale of Empire goods, and has been fixed fer the last week in March. Sir ...

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  30. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S VISIT.

    The following are the arrangements made for the visit of the GovernorGeneral and Lady Dudley to Tasmania:- ...

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  31. BANK FAILURE IN CANADA.

    The Farmers Bank, with its head offices at Toronto, and 31 branches thronghout the provinces of Ontario, recently suspended payment, the ...

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  32. FIRE AT SWISS HOTEL.

    A fire broke out last night at the Grand Hotel Continental, at Montreaux, on the north shore of the Lake of Geneva, and spread with startling ...

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  33. NEW AUSTRALIAN TRADERS.

    The Anchises, which has been built to the order of Mcssra. Holt nnd Co. (Ocean Steamship Co.) for the Australian trade, was successfully launched at ...

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  34. A NAVAL LOAN.

    The Council of the London Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution to the effect that a naval loan is necessary in order that Great Britain may ...

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  35. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

    Dr. Foster Eddy, clanning as the adopted son of Mrs. Mary Baiter Eddy, has filed a bill of equity at Concord, m New Hampshire, claiming a share of ...

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  36. SUICIDES IN VIENNA.

    During the year 1910, 405 men and 162 women committed suicide in Vienna, and 499 men and 392 women attempted to take their lives. ...

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  37. RUSSIAN TERRORISTS.

    A gang of Russian terrorists yesterday murdered two railway officials at Warsaw, and robbed the passengers who were on the platform They also robbed ...

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  38. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr A. J. Balfour, the loader of the Opposition, has decided to institute a small committee to inquire into the organisation of the Conservative party ...

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  39. UNITED. STATES SENATE.

    The members of the United States Senate hare been considering a bill which aims at providing "for the election of Senators by a direct vote of the ...

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  40. AVIATION.

    Captain De Haitillon, who is attached to the staff of the British Army Balloon Works, at Farnborough, Kent, has carried passengors in steady flights of an ...

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  41. ALLEGED FORGERY.

    At the City Polico Court yesterday, Henry Holman was charged with having, on or about June 12 last, at Melbourne, forged a telegram containing ...

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  42. NOVEL LIBEL ACTION.

    Mr. Harold Belcher, a theatrical agent, has been awarded £200 damages against the proprietors of "Lloyd's Weekly News" for libel in using his ...

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  43. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

    Application has been lodged with the Industrial Registrar on behalf of the Hospital and Asylum Attendants' and Employees' Union for registration of ...

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  44. STORMS IN AMERICA.

    Terrific snowstorms have been raging in Canada and the north-wostein States of America, and trains on the lines have been snowed up for several days. The ...

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  45. DEFENCES OF DENMARK.

    The "Daily Express" states to-day that the decision of the Danish Government to neglect the land defences of the country, and to spend £2,000,006 ...

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  46. JURY OF WOMEN

    Six women jurors at Seattle, in the State of Washington, have heard a case in which a woman was accused of fraudulently tampering with a ...

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  47. A MISER'S MURDER.

    A miser named Frank Lobinski has been murdered at Wesley, in the province of Ontario Lohinaki's head had been beaten in with a hammer, and his ...

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  48. FALSE TRADE MARKS.

    Sir Edward Grey, the Beoretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has written a letter to the Associated Chambers of Commerce, in which he states that the ...

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  49. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A disastrous railway collision occurred yesterday on the New York Central Railway Line, the trains from Batavia and New York dashing into one ...

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  50. TURKESTAN EARTHQUAKE.

    Router's correspondent at St. Petershurg states that there have been renewed earthquake shocks in various parts of Turkestan. ...

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  51. EDINBURGH-GARDENS TRAGEDY

    The Coroner yesterday found Percy Edward Fynch, aged 21, guilty of the wilful murder ot Archibald Victor Steane, aged 20, in the ...

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  52. GREAT FIRE IN CANADA

    A great fire occurred last night at Winnipeg, and resulted in nine business houses being gutted. The loss is estimated at £60,000. Fortunately, no ...

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  53. MEXICAN REBELLION

    Efforts are being made in several Canadiain cities including Vancouver, to organise bodies of Canadians who served in the Beer war, and to despatch ...

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  54. CANADIAN GOLD RUSH.

    English and Canadian, capital is flowing into Canada to purchase claims on the new goldfield at Porcupine Lake, which borders on Hudson Bay. Many ...

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  55. SIX DAYS CYCLE RACE.

    "Jackie" Clarke aDd Ernest Pye, two Australians have won the six days' bycycle race at Buffalo (New York), covering 1,251 miles, which ia 30 miles over ...

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  56. MILITARY BANDSMEN

    The military anthorities have deci[?]ed that hand[?]n in addition to their duties as bandsmen, shall be trained as stretcher bearers. They will be allotted in ...

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  57. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.

    The Canadian Government has been notified officially that the Dake of Connaught will arrive in Canada in September next, as the new ...

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  58. VICTORIAN BUTTER EXPORTS

    Sine the beginning of July last the value of batter exported from Victoria exceeds a million and a half pounds [?] ling. ...

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  59. GENERAL CABLES.

    Bullion, silver is quoted to-day at 2s. 1d. pee oz. standard. ...

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