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  2. FOURTH TEST MATCH.

    The rain last night and early this morning [?]oaked the Melbourne cricket ground again, and water was standing on the pitch prepared for the test ...

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  3. KING ISLAND DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. A. Hean) has received the following report from the Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. Benson): ...

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  4. THE PLAGUE.

    The plague in Manchuria is still raging with appalling virulence. The disease is in the pneumonic form, and 8,00O deaths have been added to the toll. ...

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  5. PERSONAL.

    Amongst those present at the meeting of the Peace Society last night was the Rev. Charles Strone, pastor of theo Australian Church in Melbourne, who ...

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  6. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Auston Chamberlain, the Unionist member for east Woreestershire, moved an amendment to the ...

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  7. SHOCKING LOVE TRAGEDY.

    A tragic result of unrequited love occurred at West Footscray this morning when Frank Polley, aged 25 years, after firing at a young woman named Violet ...

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  8. CANADA AND THE STATES

    Mr. Price Ellison, the Minister of Finance and Agriculture in the British Columbia Government, who asserted that the freetrade movement among the ...

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  9. SENSATION IN ENGLAND.

    At the Liverpool Assizes yesterday Sir William Grantham, a judge of the Kings Bench Division of the High Court of Justice caused a sensation by ...

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  10. QUEENSLAND FINANCES.

    A representative of the "Financial News" has interviewed Sir T. B. Robinson, the Agent-General for Queensland, for the [?]rpose of removing ...

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  11. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Commenting on Ministerial statements that it is unexpected that Germany in 191[?] will have 21 battleships of the Dreadnought type, the "Daily ...

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  12. ARCHBISHOP V. NEWSPAPER.

    The Full Court to-day heard an appeal from an order made by Mr. Justice Cussen in the action by Henry Lowther, Clarke, Anglican Archbishop of ...

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  13. ADRIFT ON AN ICEFLOE.

    It is feared that a tragic end has come to the fishing settlement, comprising 253 fishermen with their huts and horses, which was swept out to sea ...

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  14. THE CORONATION.

    Lord Beauchamp, the Lord steward of the Household, has arranged for the erection on the Horse Guards Parade of a stand to accommodate 2,000 ...

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  15. HOUNDSDITCH TRAGEDY.

    For several days past the police have detained in custody a man named John Selin, alias Rosen, who carried on the business of a hairdresser at ...

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  16. SCULLING.

    The arrangements which were made last month for a sculling match for the championship of England; between a new man named William Albany and ...

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  17. FLOODS IN VICTORIA.

    Reports received to-day by the railway authorities stated that the train which reached Mildura yesterday, after 15 hours delay at Birchip, had been ...

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  18. THREE DAYS CYCLONE.

    Advices have been received in Paris from the French Island of Reunion, in the Indian. Ocean, that a cyclone lasting three davs had caused great havoc ...

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  19. WILD MAN CAPTURED.

    The Northern Ontario police have captured a man who is violently insane. He was dressed in skins, and had been living in a cave. He subsisted by ...

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  20. THE MURDER OF BERON.

    The actor named Steiner Morrison, said to be an Australian, who was arrested recently in a Jewish restaurant close to Sidney-street. Whitechapel, and ...

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  21. NORTH SYDNEY VACANCY.

    The Speaker of the House of Representatives to-day announced that a writ for the election of a member to fill the vacancy in the House caused by the ...

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  22. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    It is probable that the question of payment to members of the Legislative Council will be discussed in the State Cabinet before long. It is fairly certain ...

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  23. GENERAL CABLES.

    The visible supply of American wheat east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 74,333,000 bushels. Tho cargoes of Australian wheat by ...

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  24. ELECTRIC GENERATOR IN INDIA.

    Under the anspices of the Tata Ironworks Co., a company with a capital of £1,133,220 was formed in August last to carry out water storage works at ...

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  25. POSTAL EMPLOYEES' GRIEVANCES.

    The council of the general division of the Post and Telegraph Association met last night, and discussed the reolutions passed by the postal employees in ...

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  26. CRIME IN RUSSIA.

    While the police were yesterday arresting suspected railway robbers at Chelm, in Russian Poland, the robbers shot and killed a policeman. They then ...

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  27. THE REFERENDUMS.

    Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brookes, members of the Victorian Liberal Organisation, addressed a well-attended meeting at Burnie to-night in opposition to the ...

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  28. MINERS' CARELESS ACT.

    Last week two miners at the Mount Pleasant Colliery, Southern district placed a one pound tin of powder on a skip, and forgetting all about it filled ...

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  29. EMIGRATION.

    An emigration agent has, advertised in the London papers for 30 masons, 100 carpenters, and 100 bricklayers to proceed to Australia. The men are ...

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  30. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.

    A locomotive exploded yesterday at Smithville, in the, State of Texas, and ten railway men were killed and eleven injured. Two other locomotives near ...

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  31. BILLIARDS.

    George Gray, the Australian billiardist, has been challenged by C. Harverson the English professional, to play a game of 16,000 up on level terms. The ...

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  32. COMMONWEALTH FINANCES.

    The Commonwealth Treasurer (Mr. Fisher) announced to-day that he had arranged with the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. McGowen) to l[?]d to that ...

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  33. NAVVIES' CAMP MURDER.

    The Coroner to-day concluded the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Ernest Lupton, who was killed at his camp, close to ...

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  34. JAPANESE IN AMERICA.

    A party of "night—riders" have driven out of the orchards at Delta, in Colorado, the Japanese engaged as helpers, and defied them on the pain of death ...

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  35. THE LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    At the labour Conference to-night Mr. Neilsen, Minister for Lands, was called to task for the contemplated sale of Crown lands at Maroubra, and a motion ...

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  36. SNOWSLIDE IN CANADA.

    A s[?]owslide occurred yesterday for a distance of 70ft. along tho track of the Canadian Pacific railway, near Calgary, in the province of Alberta. The traffic ...

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  37. WRONGLY CHARTERED ISLANDS.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) has received from the Admiralty a communicatin relating to a reported error in the shipping charts with regard to ...

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  38. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    The dry spell came to a conclusion to-day, when a cool, refreshing rain fell and removed the trying conditions. LAUNCESTON, February 9. ...

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  39. WIRELESS TELEGAPHY.

    The Government of the United States is planning an extension to the Pacific Coast of wireless telegraphy, which shall include tha Aleutian and the ...

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  40. FATAL SPEED TRIAL.

    During the carrying out off Shoeburyness yesterday of the speed trials of the New Zealand torpedo-boat destroyer Maori, which was travelling at the rate ...

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  41. CHARGE OF INFANTICIDE.

    A warrant has been issued, charging Catherine Agnes Clarke, of Gre Gre, a single woman, with the murder of a newly-born baby. The body of the child ...

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  42. REBELLION IN HAYTI.

    Six generals who took part in the rebellion in Havti were executed yesterday at Cape Haytien, 90 miles to the north of Port au Prince. These ...

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