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  2. GREATER HOBART ELECTION.

    The poll for the election of two aldermen to represent Queenborough oil the Hobart City Council was probably the most remarkable in the history of the ...

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  3. THE SUFFERAGISTS.

    In response to the Women's Social and Political Union alleging forcible feeding tortures in Holloway Gaol, Dr. Winnington-Ingram, the Bishop of ...

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  4. CANTEEN CONTRACTS

    At the Bow-street police court to-day the further hearing took place of the charge against six quarter-masters, two sergeant-majors, and eight civilians, of ...

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  5. COLLISION IN SYDNEY HARBOUR.

    Darling Harbour was at noon at Saturday the scene of a sensational smash. The coasting steamer Mokau came into collision with the Balmain Co.'s ferry ...

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  6. COLLIERY DISASTER.

    An explosion of firedamp took place yesterday at the Schenbach Colliery, in Westphalia, and resulted in over 80 miners being entombed. ...

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  7. COLLISION AT SEL

    Forty-nine lives were lost last night, as the result of a collision between the steamers Monree and Nantucket. According to wireless despatches ...

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  8. SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

    Before the strike leaders who have been deported from South Africa sailed from Durban in the steamer Umgeni lawyer, provided by the Union ...

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  9. BILLIARDS.

    The scores at the close of last night's play in the billiard match (18,000 up for £100 a side) between George Gray and Tom Newman, were as follow:— ...

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  10. THE MONEY MARKET.

    The activity in the money market continues, owing to the reduction of the Bank of England rate to 3 per cent. For the New Zealand loan of £4,500,000 ...

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  11. THE ZABERN INCIDENT.

    A workman named Kochler, who lives at Zabern, in Losver Alsace, where officers of the German Army committed outrages upon inoffensive inhabitants, ...

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  12. MURDERED AUSTRALIAN.

    The mystery surrounding the death of Thomas Reeks, the young Australian engineer, whose body was found in a pit near Wolverhampton, is still ...

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  13. LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    At to-day's proceedings of the Labour Conference at Glasgow, a motion that the Labour party in the House of Commons should vote against the Plural ...

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  14. PORT OF HOBART

    As already announced in "The Mercury," the Union Company intend placing the cargo steamer Koonya in the direct trade between Hobart and ...

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  15. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

    It is officially stated in London to-day that, circumstances permitting, the King and Queen Mary will visit M. Raymond Poincare, the President of the ...

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  16. AMERICAN LABOUR LEADER.

    Scenes of disorder marked the opening session of the Minesvorkors' Convention of America, which met yesterday in Indianapolis. ...

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  17. LONDON BUILDING TRADE.

    Building operations in London are practically at a standstill. This has been brought about owing to the men refusing to undertake to work peacefully ...

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  18. ASIATIC EXCLUSION.

    'A lively discussion arose in the United States House of Representatives yesterday on the question of the omission of the Asiatic exclusion clause from the ...

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  19. MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

    The police in Mexico City have arrested the heads of General Felix Diaz's political organisation, charging them with plotting against General Huerta, ...

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  20. TEACHERS" STRIKE.

    Eighty elementary schools in Herefordshire are being closed on Monday, as eight hundred teachers have resigned owing to the educational authorities ...

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  21. BOOKS BANNED.

    "Our Eternity," the latest work by Maurice' Maeterlinek, the celebrated Bolgian philosopher, and all his other books and essays, have been placed on ...

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  22. IRRITANT IN SALT.

    Chevalier Passalacque, a director of the Hamburg-Amerika Shipping line, and five other passangers were poisoned yesterday by an irritant in the salt on ...

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  23. GERMAN STEEL WORKS.

    The great German engineering firm Mannessman Bros. will shortly cre large steel works at Newport, Mon mouthshire. The works, which will cost ...

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  24. MAIL ROBBERY.

    During the transference of the mails to-day from the railway station to the post office at Rostoff-on-Don, tho Russian seaport in the Don Cossacks, a bag ...

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  25. AMERICAN MONOPOLIES.

    Senator Burleson has submitted a recommendation to the United States Senate favouring the-Government ownership of telephones, telegraphs, and wireless ...

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  26. SEPOY MURDERER.

    Advices received in Delhi from Jana in Waziristan, on the north-west fron tier of India, state that a Sepoy shot dead at a dance Captain H. Butler, ...

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  27. CHINESE BANDITS.

    The Chinese bandits who sacked and burned the town of Launchow, in the province of Nganhivei, are colled the "white wolves." They murdered Father ...

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  28. SHIPPING RATES WAR.

    The reduction of 4dol. (16s.) per ton in the rates for east bound freight in the Atlantic service, and 2[?]dol. in the case of west bound freight, recently ...

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  29. NON-STAMPING OF RECEIPTS.

    The Excise authorities at Coulommiers, in the French department of Seine-et-Marne, have caused consternation among 450 shopkeepers by ...

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  30. INDIANS, IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    It is stated that the Natal Indian Congress, now meeting at Durban, decided, by 69 votes to 48, against Indians giving evidence (before the Commission ...

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  31. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The by-election for North-West Durham which was necessitated by the elevation of Mr. L. Atherley-Jones, K.C., to the Bench, took place yesterday ...

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  32. AVIATION.

    The first of the British Admiralty's three airships of the Forlanini type, is being built at Milan, in Italy, and if it proves satisfactory Messrs. Armstrong, ...

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  33. PANAMA CANAL.

    Mr. W. H. Taft, the late President of the United States, delivered an address last night at the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Club on the Panama ...

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  34. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

    In regard to the sensation which has been created in France owing to a report being received that the great German firm of Krupps was negotiating ...

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  35. GENERAL CABLES.

    The French Government will ask the Chamber of Deputies for £80,000 for French participation in the San Francisco Exhibition. ...

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  36. REVENUE RETURNS.

    The Treasury returns for January show that the revenue amounted to £382,586, and the expenditure to £478,848, the deficit for the month being £96,262, raising ...

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  37. COCKBURN SOUND NAVAL BASE.

    Sir M Fitzmaurice's report on the proposed naval bases states that before making a complete report as to the works required at Cockburn Sound to ...

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  38. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

    Foot and mouth disease has broken out at Nass, in County Kildare. Already 15 cattle have lind to bo destroyed. ...

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