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  2. AT THE POLLS. VOTING TO-DAY.

    Yesterday the last speeches were made in the Mudgee and Liverpool Plains electorates, and to-day the hoarse-voiced politicians are forsaking the field—flocking into the city, 60 ...

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  3. THE MELBA SINGERS.

    Madame Melba has perhaps no more enthusiastic admirer than Madame Cisneros, who, with the other members of the Melba Grand Opera Company, is a passenger for ...

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  4. STRIKE SETTLEMENT.

    The following is a copy of the agreement for the settlement of the dispute in the Queensland sugar industry, as arrived at between Mr. W. H. Barnes, State Treasurer ...

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  5. CITY ALDERMEN DISCUSS MUSIC.

    A discussion took place in the City Council last evening upon the comparative virtues of the various bands of Sydney, and the best way of dividing the council's patronage. ...

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  6. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    Mr. R. Lemieux Canadian Minister for Marine, met Mr. Bourassa, leader of the French-Canadian Nationalists, at St. Hyacinthe, at the first big gathering of the ...

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  7. FIFESHIRE WRECK. TOTAL LOSS.

    The steamer Fifeshire, which ran ashore 20 miles south of Cape Guardaful at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, while on the voyage from Sydney to London, has been ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. FIGHT IN THE DARK. LIVERPOOL RIOTS.

    There were several skirmishes between the rioters and the police yesterday, but the military quelled the disorders. The mob barricaded Christian-street, ...

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  9. MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE.

    Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced to-day in the House of Commons that Mr. Asquith, the Premier, and Mr. Sidney Buxton, President of ...

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  10. THE RAILWAY TROUBLE.

    The situation in connection with the railway carmen is critical. The goods drivers and porters at Paddington are idle. ...

    Article : 292 words
  11. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    In the House of Commons to-night the Opposition moved to reduce the amount provided in the payment of members resolution, firstly by a lump sum, and secondly ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. THE MISSING BOATS.

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  13. INSUBORDINATE CADET.

    The first New South Wales cadet to be punished under the civil law for misconduct is Cadet Claude E. Solomon, who appeared before Mr. Barnett, S.M., at the Glebe Police ...

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  14. THE PASSENGERS.

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  15. EMPIRE DEFENCE.

    Viscount Haldane, Secretary of State for War, has received an anonymous offer of £10,000 from "An Englishman Beyond the Seas" for the establishment of a rifle ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. CEASE WORK AT MIDNIGHT.

    The strike committee has issued a manifesto to 100,000 workers calling a general strike. The manifesto points ont that, as the ...

    Article : 74 words
  17. SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY.

    A judgment of great importance to shipowners and travellers by sea was delivered this week by the New Zealand Court of Appeal. The facts of the case are very simple. ...

    Article : 616 words
  18. POLITICAL TRADE-UNION. BARRIER P.L.L. MOVES.

    The Barrier District P.L.L on Monday night, following a discussion of the political situation, instructed the secretary to communicate with the secretary of the New South Wales ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. THE CREW.

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  20. MILITARY ON THE SCENE.

    Five thousand infantry and cavalry are in readiness to proceed to Liverpool. A hundred Scots Greys and two detachments of Hussars have already been ...

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  21. THE HEAT WAVE.

    The temperature has exceeded 80 degs. in the shade in London for eight consecutive days. A heath fire, 5 miles long, swept the ...

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  22. POSITION IN LONDON.

    There has been no general resumption of work in London owing to the Port of London Authority dismissing 400 permanent men for striking. ...

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  23. MINERS WITHDRAW FROM P.L.L.

    The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation has carried a motion received from the Stanford Merthyr Lodge, to the effect that the time has arrived for the ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. "IF NECESSARY."

    Speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Mr. Winston Churchill, said that if necessary all the forces at the disposal ...

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  25. CHARGE OF POISONING.

    Further evidence has been taken at an adjourned inquest regarding the death of Annie Thornton, at Cathcart. Sergeant Stutchbury deposed that on the ...

    Article : 355 words
  26. LYNCH LAW.

    A serious racial war is feared at Durant, Oklahoma, owing to the burning of a negro who had assaulted a white woman. ...

    Article : 67 words
  27. HISTORIC BATTLEGROUND.

    The fight for Mudgee to-morrow will add another interesting page to the history of the district. It has figured prominently before in political circles. On more than one ...

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  28. FIGHTING IN PERSIA.

    The ex-Shah has arrived within 80 miles of Teheran. A fight took place 70 miles distant, which resulted in the defeat of the ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. UNION LEADER'S OPTIMISM.

    Mr. Gosling, general secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation, states that the men are gradually resuming, and the dockwork will be normal in the course of ...

    Article : 35 words
  30. INDEX. NEWS.

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  31. MR. FISHER'S OPINIONS.

    The "Pall Mall Gazette" states that Mr. Fisher's remarks in Melbourne on his arrival there as cabled are as sound as anyone need desire, and that his defence ...

    Article : 45 words
  32. RESTLESS WOMEN WORKERS.

    Many women engaged at tea-packing have struck work in London. The factory women in Bermondsey have held meetings, and demand ...

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  33. A DANGEROUS LOCALITY.

    Discussing the grounding of the Fifeshire, a well-known mariner who is familiar with the locality of the disaster says that the necessity for a light on Cape Guardaful has ...

    Article : 332 words
  34. "THE COUNCIL'S ROTTEN."

    Some wild accusations were hurled about the precincts of the Town Hall last night and some very violent language was indulged in, just because a point of order was upheld, and ...

    Article : 241 words
  35. REVOLUTION IN ECUADOR.

    Revolutionaries have deposed the President, General Eloy Alfaro, w[?] has taken refuge in the Chilian legation. Under the Constitution of Ecuador the ...

    Article : 69 words
  36. STRIKE AT GRIMSBY.

    The coal lightermen at Grimsby have struck work. They demand 2d an hour increase. All the trawlers are idle. ...

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  37. POLICE AND PICTURE SHOWS.

    In the Legislative Council to-day, the Commissioner of Police was examined in regard to the Police Offences Bill. In reply to a question, the Commissioner said ...

    Article : 186 words
  38. POISON ON THE RAILWAYS.

    Lack of precautions in the use of poison by the Railway Department has resulted in the death of a swagman. Two men travelling along the line one mile and a half south of ...

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  39. GLASGOW TRAMWAY STOPPAGE.

    The tramway service in Glasgow has been partially resumed. Aug. 15. There are signs that the Glasgow ...

    Article : 76 words
  40. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  41. CAMBRIAN COAL STRIKE.

    The Cambrian Combine miners, after a strike which has lasted 10 months, have decided to resume work. ...

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  42. ENGLISH CRICKET. TARRANT'S FINE SCORE.

    Playing for Middlesex against Yorkshire, at Bradford, F. A. Tarrant, the ex-Victorian, scored 207 not out. Tarrant's all-round form this season has ...

    Article : 104 words
  43. BULLDOG ATTACKS HORSE.

    A bulldog held up the traffic of Swanston-street for about 10 minutes to-day. The dog flew at a horse attached to a lorry, and fastened to its neck, dragging it down upon its ...

    Article : 123 words
  44. NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.

    The "Pall Mall Gazette" says:—"The workers generally have interpreted the denduciations by Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the governing ...

    Article : 114 words
  45. WONDERFUL BOLT.

    A horse owned by dairymen was responsible for a remarkable performance yesterday. Bolting from Chilwell with the wheel of the milk cart locked, it travelled through the ...

    Article : 88 words
  46. TO-DAY.

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  47. CABLE TO THE AGENTS.

    A cable received yesterday by Birt and Co., Ltd., agents at Sydney for the Federal Houlder Shire line of steamers, to which the Fifeshire belonged, stated that the steamer had been ...

    Article : 65 words
  48. HONOURS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, was invited yesterday to make a statement upon the subject of Imperial honours for Australians, and to say whether it was correct, as ...

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  49. F. E. WOOLLEY ACCEPTS.

    Mr. F. E. Woolley (Kent) has accepted the invitation of the M.C.C. to join the team to tour Australia in the autumn. Money advanced upon all securities. N.S.W. ...

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  50. A TOTAL WRECK.

    The Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association yesterday received a cable stating that the Fifeshire was a total wreck. ...

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  51. UNION COMPANY'S OFFICE.

    Important changes are being made in the management of the Union Steamship Company in the eastern States, which involve the promotion of Mr. David Mills, of Melbourne, ...

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  52. STEALING VIOLETS.

    At the police court this afternoon, Ambrose Ingle, sanitary inspector of the Bourke Municipality, was fined sixpence for stealing violets, the property of Walter Pountney. ...

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  53. SYDNEY INSURANCES.

    Insurances effected in Sydney on the cargo shipped here are, roughly, estimated at between £20,000 and £30,000 in lines of from £2000 to £5000 each. ...

    Article : 29 words
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