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  2. "BLACK WEDNESDAY"

    The announcement made yesterday that the post and telegraph offices throughout the State are, with a few exceptions, to close at 6 p.m., on and after Wednesday, March 1, created ...

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  3. THE FOURTH TEST.

    The pessimists were right—it did rain laat night. It kept on raining until all hope of commencing the fourth test according to schedule time vanished. At dawn the pitch ...

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  4. A SEA TRAGEDY.

    Reports of a terrible tragedy of the sea, resulting in the loss of the Russian barque Glenbauk and 23 of the crew, were received at Fremantle to-day from Roebourne. ...

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  5. THE TOLL OF THE AIR.

    Another aeroplane fatality has been reported. MM. Noel and Delatorre, in completing an hour's flight in a new military machine ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. A CURZON-STREET BLAZE.

    A passer-by, in the middle of the night, discovered a fire in Crewe House, Curzon-street W., the London residence of Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. DOMESTIC SERVICE.

    The recent deputation to the Minister for Education in respect of domestic servants had a more than ordinarily interesting objective, even for a deputation. It is one ...

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  8. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    Replying to a deputation from the Trade Union Congress, the Premier (Mr. Asquith) said be hoped to introduce a bill to provide for payment of members during the ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. RECIPROCITY.

    In the House of Commons last night the debate on the fiscal amendment to the Address in Reply, moved by Mr. Austen Chamberlain on behalf of the Opposition, ...

    Article : 352 words
  10. BILLIARDS.

    In the billiard match of 8000 up between Gray and Diggle, at Manchester, the scores now stand:—Gray, 4760; Diggle, 4336. ...

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  11. SIR CHARLES DILKE'S SEAT.

    The Labour party will not contest the election for Forest of Dean caused by the death of Sir Charles Dilke (Liberal). ...

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  12. ASSISTING IRELAND.

    Sir. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland) has announced his intention to introduce a bill to provide for the advance of another £1,000,000 for the Labourers (Ireland) Act ...

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  13. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Haldane (Secretary of State for War), said that General Sir Ian Hamilton's recently published ...

    Article : 328 words
  14. NEW ZEALAND MISSION.

    A meeting of Church Houses welcomed the members of the mission whidh recently visited New Zealand. The members of the mission detailed the ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. ALIEN IMMIGRATION.

    The Home Secretary, Mr. Winston Churchill, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government intended to introduce legislation in connection ...

    Article : 36 words
  16. AGRICULTURAL BANK SCHEME.

    Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, is considering an agricultural banking scheme, in which it is proposed to work through the larger joint ...

    Article : 66 words
  17. "THE GOVERNMENT STROKE."

    Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretry of State for War, in replying to a trades-union deputation, which urged that higher wages should be paid at the Royal ordnance factories at ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. VISIT TO BROKEN HILL.

    The Barrier Ranges Cricket Association last night agreed to a visit of the South African cricketers on March 11 and 13, on either a £150 cash guarantee or 60 per cent. of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

    The "Times" writes that the Unionist lenders in the House of Lords do not consider it desirable to introduce a bill embodying their proposals in regard to the ...

    Article : 43 words
  20. "OF GREAT MOMENT."

    Sir Joseph Ward, Premier of New Zealand, in a reply to a request from the "Daily Express" has sent the following cable:- "As a sister Dominion of Canada and ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. WEATHER PEOSPECTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 words
  22. UNIONIST ORGANISATION.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour has nominated Mr. A. Akers-Douglas, Mr. W. H. Long, Lord Selborne, and others, to inquire into the Unionist organisation. ...

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  23. AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    The flagship of the Australian squadron, H.M.S. Powerful, will return to Sydney from Hobart on Monday, and on Tuesday H.M.S. Challenger, manned almost exclusively by ...

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  24. MR. FISHER AND THE CAUCUS.

    Mr. W. A. Jose, Australian correspondent for the "Times," in reply to questions concerning his remaries on Mr. Fisher and the caucus, as referred to in a cable message a day or two ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. THE YEMEN REBELLION.

    A further force of 50,000 men has been ordered to Yemen. The Arabs are withdrawing their camels to inaccessible mountains, which threatens ...

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  26. RUSSIAN MURDER TRIAL.

    The trial was continued yesterday of Dr. Pantcheuko, Count de Lacy, and Madame Mouravieff, who are charged with having murdered Captain Buturlin, and with ...

    Article : 91 words
  27. "NOTHING NEW."

    In the Dominion House of Commons, in course of the debate on the reciprocity agreement between Canada and the United States, Mr. W. S. Fielding, Minister for ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. PERSONAL.

    Naval officers whose commission on the Australian station has expired ire leaving for London to-day by the R.M.S. Malwa. These include Captain F. G. C. Pasco, R.N., of H.M.S. ...

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  29. BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

    In the House of Commons last night, in reply to a question from Mr. W. P. Byles, (Radical), Mr. T. M'Kinnon Wood (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foreign ...

    Article : 179 words
  30. STEAMER EASTERN.

    The finding of the Marine Board in respect to the recent grounding of the steamer Eastern, has now reached the Treasurer. The report stated that the board found that ...

    Article : 355 words
  31. MOISTURE IN BUTTER.

    The Minister for Customs, Mr. Tudor, announced to-day that he had decided to agree to the suggestion made by gue of the butter factories in connection with the testing of ...

    Article : 199 words
  32. DECLARATION OF LONDON.

    Mr. Asquith, replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, said that the ratification of the Declaration of London was not a mutter for Parliament but for the ...

    Article : 84 words
  33. A QUEBEC VIEW.

    M. Bourassa, leader of the Quebec Nationalists, in course of an interview, declared that the Asquith Government had encouraged Sir Wilfrid Laurier to effect ...

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  34. THE HOUNDSDITCH MURDERS.

    The inquest respecting the Houndsditch shooting affray was concluded to-day. The jury returned a verdict that Sergeant Tucker, of the City Police Force, was ...

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  35. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

    Mr. Arndell, the Acting Deputy Postmaster-General, stated yesterday, in the course of an interview, that there would be only one or two exceptions to the order which had come from ...

    Article : 251 words
  36. AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

    The Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, has appointed two British naval officers to the position of commander of the naval college, and the naval training school, upon the ...

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  37. "NO ILL WIND."

    The stoppage of the importation of Indian labour has resulted in the doubling of the wages of kaffirs, and an increase of 50 per cent. in the pay of coolies employed on ...

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  38. GRAVE-YARD GHOULS.

    Ghouls looted the mausoleum of the Scott and Strong families, and it is believed that they are holding the body of Mrs. M'Cullom for ransom. ...

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  39. STORMS AT MILDURA.

    Reports have been received by the railway authorities stating that the train that reached Mildura yesterday, after 15 hours' delay at Birchip, had been blocked on the return ...

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  40. A TIN BOOM.

    Tin dealings on a huge scale have taken place on the London Stock Exchange, and great excitement has been occasioned. Rapid successive breaks have occurred, due ...

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  41. RAID IN GERMANY.

    A force of 60 detectives raided an anarchist haunt in the Scheunen quarter, and arrested a number of Russians and Austrians, believing them to be implicated in ...

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  42. MEXICAN REVOLT.

    The insurgents have retreated south of Juarez. General Blanco has refused to send reinforcements to General Oroz[?]o, who leads ...

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  43. THREE MEN DROWNED.

    Those drowned by the wreck of the Jessie Niccol on Macquarie Island the week before Christmas were Holmes, the captain; Paterson, the mate, and Mercer, the cook. The ...

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  44. FIRE LN LINER'S HOLD.

    The [?]ner Here, bouud from Dunkirk, arrived at Hull with a fire in her hold. When the outbreak had been extinguished the bodies of three stowaways, all ...

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  45. "REFORM BY REPRESSION."

    "On the face of it," said Mr. Joseph Cook, M.P., when asked his views on the matter, "it looks like another instalment of reform by repression. Still, I do not care to criticise ...

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  46. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

    Lord Charles Beresford, having reached the age limit, has retired from the navy. Lord Charles Beresford was born in 1846, and he entered the Britannia as cadet in ...

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  47. THE WARATAH INQUIRY.

    The decision in connection with the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the steamer Waratah has been postponed until the 22nd inst. ...

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  48. PAYMENT OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    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 that a majority of the ...

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  49. EMPIRE FESTIVAL.

    Representatives of various forms of athletics have urged Sir Joseph Ward to give a grant towards enabling New Zealand to be represented at the Festival of Empire ...

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  50. VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR.

    Sir J. M. Fleetwood Fuller, who has been appointed Governor of Victoria in succession to Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, will sail for Australia in the R.M.S. Orontes ...

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  51. CRUISE OF DESTROYERS.

    Before the destroyers Parramatta and Yarra are despatched to any other port they will cruise about in Port Phillip, in order that the new stokers may become acquainted with ...

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  52. LONDON'S TRAFFIC.

    A Board of Trade report on the traffic of London suggests that a hundred miles of new roads should be constructed. The "Daily Mail" estimates that the ...

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  53. TO-DAY.

    Criterion Theatre: "Tom Jones." 7.45. Her Majesty's Theatre: "The Whip," 7.45. Theatre Royal: "Our Miss Gibbs," 7.45. Palace Theatre: "Seven Days," 7.45. ...

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  54. A DARING THIEF.

    A lady, while looking in a shop window in Edinburgh, was assaulted and robbed of a pearl necklace worth £7000. The assailant escaped. ...

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  55. FINE OF £15.

    A. M. Ruthberg wan charged at the Ballarat Court to-day with lighting the hedge clippings at Mount Rowan on January 23, thereby endangering the properties of Donald Urquhart ...

    Article : 87 words
  56. OPIUM SMUGGLING.

    The first case in the State under the amendment of the Customs Act, substituting imprisonment for fines for opium smuggling, was dealt with at Thursday Island yesterday. A ...

    Article : 80 words
  57. SU[?]MARINES FOR AUSTRALIA.

    Australia has ordered two submarines from Messrs. Vickers, Son, and Maxim. ...

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  58. THE TERRITORIAL ARMY.

    At the end of January the Territorial Army was 1514 officers and 44,[?]06 men short of the establishment. ...

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  59. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

    The official reports show that during 1910 there were 216,091 cases of cholera in Russia, of which 101,002 proved fatal. ...

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  60. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    The German Emperor will be confined to his bed for the next f[?] days, as he is suffering from a cold. ...

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  61. FATAL BURNING.

    Mi[?] Franc[?] Dudl[?]y, daughter of the [?] Archde[?] Dudley, was fatally bur[?] in [?] fire in her house, Ra[?] Canterbury. ...

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