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  2. THE ELECTIONS.

    It is not likely that further alterations of the number of members of the South Australian Parliament or the boundaries of the districts will be made for many years ...

    Article : 1,543 words
  3. VICTORIA.

    Letters of administration in the estate of Mr. Phillip Leslie Russell, late of Carngham, Ballarat, have been granted to his two brothers. The deceased, while serving ...

    Article : 778 words
  4. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A deputation suggested to the Minister for Public Instruction to-day that a school of arts should be formed in connection with the National Art Gallery. The ...

    Article : 601 words
  5. REFORM IN VICTORIA.

    The movement in favor of State Parliamentary reform witnessed an important development to-day, when the whole of the Ministers, with the exception of Mr. ...

    Article : 571 words
  6. MR. POYNTON NAMED.

    Sir Josiah Symon had a large audience of members and of the general public to hear him reply to Mr. O'Connor on the Customs Tariff Bill. He spoke for nearly three ...

    Article : 914 words
  7. THE GERMAN ARMY.

    The Berlin Court of Appeal has reheard the Gumbinnen murder case, tried by court martial in August last, when a sergeant named Marten (who had been ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The Minister of Customs to-day received a deputation, consisting of Senator Sir J. H. Symon, Senator Charleston, and Senator McGregor, with Sir Langdon Bonython and ...

    Article : 205 words
  9. PEACE PROSPECTS.

    The prospects of peace are now considered favorable, but the question of the amnesty to Cape rebels which the Boers are demanding, and the granting of which was ...

    Article : 260 words
  10. LONDON WATER SUPPLY.

    The Joint Committee, composed of both Houses of Parliament, to which the Government Bill for the acquisition by a London Water Board of the undertakings ...

    Article : 237 words
  11. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The revenue for April was £342,718, as compared with £253,652 for the same month last year. The total for the ten months of the financial year is £3,000,535. ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. AUSTRALIA AND BRITISH TRADE.

    The Federal Government has decided to adopt a most cautious attitude towards any proposals which may be made at the London Colonial Conference in the direction of ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. PENNY POSTAGE.

    Mr. Drake received to-day the following cable from the secretary to the British Post-Office, with reference to the Federal Government's recent decision as to an ...

    Article : 104 words
  14. REPRESENTATIVE HIGGINS AND THE WAR.

    On January 14 Representative Higgins, in the coarse of the debate in the House of Representatives upon Mr. Barton's motion supporting the British Government in ...

    Article : 489 words
  15. THE RIVERS COMMISSION.

    Sir Wm. Lyne expressed the view to-day that the enquiry by the Royal Commission on the rivers conservation should be confined exclusively to the conservation of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. INTER-STATE ROWING.

    The members of the New South Wale[?] eight-o[?]r crew, who will take part in the inter-State championship race, to be rowed on the Port River on May 10, arrived in ...

    Article : 720 words
  17. THE SHIPPING COMBINE.

    The Pierpont Morgan Shipping Combine has been provisionally designated "The Navigation Syndicate." The directors of the White Star Company admit that they ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. ALIEN IMMIGRATION TO WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At a caucus meeting of West Australian members, held to-day, to discuss the growing immigration of Italian contract labor into their State, it was announced that the ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. BONUSES TO MANUFACTURES.

    The main clause of the Bonus to Manufactures Bill was distributed late to-night. It reads—"Where the rate of bonus [?] fixed on the value of goods, such value shall be ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. THE BISLEY TEAM.

    Major-General Hutton, as president of the Commonwealth Council of Rifle Associations, telegraphed to Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Dean on Thursday afternoon ...

    Article : 589 words
  21. RECIDIVISTES IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS.

    The Rome journal "Caffaro" reports that the Italian Government intend to acquire an island in Australian waters to be used as a penitentiary colony for the reception of ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. THE ORUBA AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. Oruba arrived from London at 4.30 a.m. to-day with the following passengers in the first saloon:— For Melbourne—Mr. and Mrs. Laurie and ...

    Article : 770 words
  23. FUMIGATING THE MAILS.

    The Postmaster-General received on Tuesday, through his Victorian deputy, a report from the acting superintendent of the mails branch and the controller of ...

    Article : 291 words
  24. TASMANIA.

    The revenue returns for April (including £22,772 returned by the Commonwealth) total £65,549. LAUNCESTON, May 1. ...

    Article : 194 words
  25. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 1/11 7-16 per oz. ...

    Article : 17 words
  26. TORRES STRAITS PILOTS.

    Addressing 3,000 business men at the simultaneous mission meeting in the Town Hall this afternoon, Mr. Geil, the well-known American evangelist, broke off from ...

    Article : 357 words
  27. RETRENCHMENT IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Civil Service retrenchment scheme [?] expected to effect a saving of £30,000 per annum. The Works Department will be retrenched to the extent of £3,000. ...

    Article : 240 words
  28. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. T. W. Couna[?], Under Secretary of the Treasury, will leave in a few days for Sydney and Melbourne, with the object of making enquiries in connection with the ...

    Article : 237 words
  29. NEW ZEALAND.

    The profits of the Public Trust Office for the year exceed £10,000. The Ministry has decided to make further reductions in fees for administration. The railway revenue ...

    Article : 115 words
  30. PNEUMONIA.

    This is one of the most dangerous, and often fatal, diseases. It always results from a cold or an attack of influenza. ...

    Article : 83 words
  31. BROKEN HILL.

    A public meeting, held last night, appointed a committee to arrange for a tangible expression of the esteem in which Captain Warren, the retiring manager' of ...

    Article : 112 words
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