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  2. VERY LATEST CABLES.

    King George has given an [?] to Sir [?] Solomon, Agent-General for the Transvaal, Lord Stratchona, High Commissioner for Canada, and Mr. W. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for ...

    Article : 78 words
  3. RUSSIAN CUSTOMS OFFICER.

    The Bribery Investigation Commission had discovered that many Customs officials at Sebastopol and other Black Sea ports are receiving regular salaries and commission ...

    Article : 63 words
  4. RUSSIAN ROBBERS.

    A darling robbery is reported from Russian Poland. The robbers lay in wait in the village of Lelice, in the Plock district, and made an attack on a post-van escorted by five ...

    Article : 58 words
  5. KURRI KURRI PROGRESS ASSOCIATION

    The ordinary meeting of the Kurri Progress Association was held at the Masonic Hall last evening. Present—Messrs. Spinks, [?] (in the chair), Hunter, Gillon, ...

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  6. PAY AT THE PITS.

    The intervention of the holiday makes 10 days full time for the fortnightly pay to be drawn next Friday by the miners. Not really pits got in the full ten days; nevertheless the fortnight ...

    Article : 155 words
  7. LATEST SPORTING NEWS

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  8. DIMINISHED WATER POWER.

    There has been a fall in the River Merrimack, which supplies water-power to the cotton mills of Massachusetts, U.S.A. As the result of the diminished power seven cotton mills have ...

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  9. AUSTRALIANS IN THE NAVY.

    [?] authorities have arranged for the Australasian draft to serve aboard destroyers during the July manocuvres, in which 45 battleship and 25 armoured ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. BRITISH DESTROYERS.

    The Admiralty has distributed orders for fourteen destroyers of the Acorn class, and for six others, respecting which the contractors are to be allowed larger latitude in the designs of ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. LITERARY RESEARCH WORK IN AFRICA.

    Cambridge University has awarded Captain [?]arde, of Victoria, a certificate carrying the B.A. degree, for research work in the origin of the language and the folk lore of the ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. SOCIETY BETROTHAL.

    The engagement is announced of Mr. Herbert Asquith, second son of the Prime Minister, to the eldest daughter of Lord Elcho. ...

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  13. KURRI KURRI POLICE COURT.

    At the Kurri Police Court on Thursday, the bench was occupied by Mr. E. Cutcliffe, J. P. George Blake Bowden was charged that ...

    Article : 307 words
  14. YUCATAN REBELLION.

    Speaking of the massacre of police and Government officials by the Indian Insurgent s in Yucatan, Central America, the secretary of the Aborigines Protection ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. STRIKE CERTAIN.

    The employers of the Yorkshire woollen trade, unlike the workers, have refused to met Mr. Asquith and the Board of Trade at Huddersfield. A strike is now certain. ...

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  16. TRAIN ROBBERY IN NEW MEXICO.

    A single bandit held up a train at Robsart, Mexico. Thrusting his pistol point into a company of half-dressed, terror-stricken passenger, he secured several thousand dollars, and ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. NEW YORK ELECTIONS BILL.

    Governor Hughes, of New York, has voted the Primary Elections Bill in the hope of securing a better measure. ...

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  18. THE LATE KING.

    A message from King George, in reply to the address of condolence on the death of the late King, was read in the House of Commons. ...

    Article : 31 words
  19. PAPAL ENCLYCLICAL.

    It was announced in the Reichstag by Dr. [?]Bethmann-Hollwed (Imperial German Chancellor), that the German Minister to the Vatican had been instructed to protest against the issue ...

    Article : 186 words
  20. MISS THAW'S DOWRY.

    The Earl of Yarmouth, whose marriage with Miss Alice Cornelia Thaw was dissolved in 1908, sought to retain half a million dollars, consisting of a realty portion of Miss Thaw's dowry. ...

    Article : 67 words
  21. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Sir George Reid (High Commissioner of Australia) was received in audience by the King on Friday. The High Commissioner, on behalf of the people of the Commonwealth, expressed the ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. "TRUTH ABOUT THE NAVY.'

    The question of the pamphlet, "The Truth about the Navy," said to have been written by Lord Fisher (ex-First Sea Lord), and to be circulating in warship libraries, were again referred ...

    Article : 62 words
  23. SOUTH 'AFRICAN UNION.

    Surprise is expressed at General Botha, Premier of the South African Union, contesting East Pretoria against Sir J. C. Fitzpatrick, when he might be returned ...

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  24. TURKISH EDITOR MURDERED.

    Ahmid Samin Bey, editor of a Constantinople newspaper, has been assassinated at Stamboul. The murderer escaped. ...

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  25. UNPOPULARITY OF BIG HOUSES.

    That Bishop Stretch was right last week in saying "the day if big houses is gone" everyone will agree (writes "Christina" in the "Australasian.") It had been proposed in synod that ...

    Article : 570 words
  26. ROOSEVELTS RETURNING HOME.

    Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. Kesmit Roosevelt have embarked from Southampton in the Kaiserin August Victoria, and immense preparations are being made for their ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. GENERAL ITEMS.

    It is reported that the Jews are being expelled from Smolensk (Middle Russia) wholesale. The increase in the German Emperor's ...

    Article : 89 words
  28. DECLINE OF THRIFT.

    A letter was read from Lord Rosebery at the [?] of the Savings Bank at Edinburgh. Lord Rosebery wrote: "The outlook for thrift [?] never less promising than at the present ...

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  29. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

    Cholera is spreading in South Russia, and the supply of Russian doctors is insufficient, but the municipal councils of Ekaterinoslow refuse to permit Jewish doctors to practise. Kieff and ...

    Article : 44 words
  30. HOW THE DOG LOST THE SCENT.

    Police dogs are useless in tracking the aristocracy of the French criminal community, as was shown in a recent case in Paris. A series of during burglaries had been ...

    Article : 357 words
  31. RAILWAY ROBBERIES.

    The police have at last succeeded in putting an end, for a time at any rate, to the extensive deprecations from railway goods trucks. The Burwood police staff, under sub-Inspector ...

    Article : 689 words
  32. RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

    The Duma has passed the Finnish Act by 164 to 23. ...

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  33. ELDERLY WIDOW'S DEATH.

    The New York police are investigating the [?] death from convulsions of a millionaire's [?]genarian widow—Mrs. Stelle. Mrs. Stelle had a seizure when she heard that ...

    Article : 99 words
  34. JEWELLERY ROBBERIES.

    Several jewellery robberies have taken place in West End shops which have been looted to the extent of £50,000. An English lady in a Parisboarding house had been robbed of jewellery worth £3000. ...

    Article : 36 words
  35. THE "CLARION" AND ITS READERS.

    Mr. Robert Blatchford, editor of the Socialist organ "Clarion" threatens to discontinue the publication of the "Clarion" because its readers object to his advocacy of a strong Army and ...

    Article : 45 words
  36. WHITEHAVEN DISASTER.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, replying to the stric[?] of Mr. Winston Churchill, adhered to its previous statement that in all probability, when it was decided to wall up the ...

    Article : 139 words
  37. EAST PRETORIA ELECTION.

    The contest between General Botha and Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick for the East Pretoria seat in the Union Parliament is causing great controversy. Mr. J.X. Merriman, of Cape Colony, ...

    Article : 44 words
  38. CRYSTAL PALACE WORKERS.

    Plymouth is entertaining the workers at the Crystal Palace pageant. It is hoped that the Festival pageant will form past of next year's Coronation festivities. ...

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  39. INDIA'S NEW VICEROY.

    It is officially announced that Sir Charles Hardinge will succeed Lord Minto as Viceroy of India. (Sir Charles Hardinage, who is 58 years of age, and is Permanent Under-Secretary of State for ...

    Article : 74 words
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  41. THE LORDS' VETO.

    The suggestion for a conference on the question of the veto of the House of Lords between the Government party and the Opposition in the House of Commons had led ...

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  42. THE WEATHER.

    The weather report received at the West Maitland Telegraph Office at 9 a.m. to-day reports fine weather at all stations. ...

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  43. THE JEWELLERY CONSPIRACY CASE.

    Mrs. Eggena (La Milo) is suing Mr. Wood, jeweller, of London, for damages for malicious prosecution in the conspiracy case in which her husband was convicted. ...

    Article : 33 words
  44. FOOTBALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 words
  45. THE FORECAST.

    New South Wales:—Unsettled with more rain over the western slopes, more especially along the western slopes south of the Macquaire River; fine in the north-case and ...

    Article : 265 words
  46. THE KING'S FIRST COURT.

    King George held his first court at St. James Palace. His Majesty, replying to an address presented by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London, said that he hoped to continue the ...

    Article : 73 words
  47. SYDNEY SHARE MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 words
  48. Advertising

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