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  2. THE LABOUR PLATFORM.

    The members of the State Labour party look forward with confidence to the result of the coming elections, and they declare that, just as Mr. Fisher has asserted his intention to ...

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  3. TONNAGE WANTED.

    If 20 big steamers, with insulated holds, arrived in Sydney to-day, they could each get a full cargo of frozen meat for the English market. There is no possibility of any such ...

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  4. OUR OVERSEA TRADE.

    The news reached Sydney yesterday from London that one of the biggest ship-building contracts entered into for some years past has just been let by the firm of Houlder ...

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  5. THE CITY LIGHTING.

    Five years ago the City Council launched forth into an extensive electric lighting scheme, which has since grown to such magnitude that over £500,000 is already invested, ...

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  6. KILLED BY FROSTS.

    Frost has killed half the cotton crop in Georgia (U.S.A.). As the cotton must be replanted, prices for seed have reached a record figure in ...

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  7. ALBANIAN REVOLT.

    The Albanian rebels are still active, although the Turkish troops routed a body of them at St. Imilia. The latest advices show that 3000 ...

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  8. TARIFF REFORM.

    Mr. Balfour leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons) presided at a luncheon given by tariff reformers to the working men about to visit Germany. ...

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  9. MR. ASQUITH'S CLOSE CALL.

    The smallness of the Government's majority in the House of Commons yesterday, when, by 204 votes to 182, it carried a motion to suspend the 11 o'clock rule in ...

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  10. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    Mr. Robert Borden, the Conservative member for Champlain and leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, in a speech delivered at Cotean ...

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  11. SENT TO SIBERIA.

    At a trial of revolutionaries at Moscow 10 were acquitted and 17 found guilty. Watson, a British youth, was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment. Yermakoff, ...

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  12. DEALS IN COTTON.

    The receivers in the estate of Messrs. Knight, Vancey, and Co., have obtained an injunction preventing the shipment of 4200 bales of cotton to Havre under bills of ...

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  13. HAL[?]EY'S COMET.

    Halley's comet was seen with the naked eye at Greenwich Observatory yesterday. ...

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  14. THE WARATAH.

    The steamer Wakefield, which was chartered to make a search for the missing Blue Anchor liner Waratah, reached Kerguelen Island on April 7. ...

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  15. AUSTRALIAN PREFERENCE.

    The High Commissioner for Australia (Sir George Reid) was a guest at the banquet of the London Chamber of Commerce. Referring to Australia's voluntary ...

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  16. ASHFORD SHOOTING CASE.

    The Circuit Court resumed this morning, when Thomas Donaldson was charged with the alleged murder of Edward Donaldson, his father, at Reedy Creek, near Ashford, on ...

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  17. THE VETO.

    The Government's Veto Bill will be called the Parliament Bill It is expected that the bill will be available to-morrow. ...

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  18. SCUFFLE IN COUNCIL.

    The discussion on the electric lighting scheme as proposed by the City Council was the overture to the infusion of more than the ordinary animation with which the Woollahra ...

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  19. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

    In regard to the polling for the French Parliamentary elections, which began on Saturday, the following is the state of parties so far announced: ...

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  20. AERONAUTICS.

    It is expected that M. Paulhan and Mr. G. White will both attempt to aeroplane between London and Manchester on Wednesday. ...

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  21. MESSAGE FROM NATAL.

    The Acting Premier (Mr. Graham) received to-day the following message from the Premier of Natal (Mr. Moor) respecting the search being made for the missing Waratah ...

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  22. GERMAN AND BRITISH AIRSHIPS DESTROYED.

    A gale has wrecked the new British army experimental airship at Aldershot, the gas envelope being ripped from end to end. ...

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  23. NEW JAPANESE TARIFF.

    Several questions were asked in the House of Commons to-day respecting the Japanese tariff which the Diet is considering, and which comes into operation in ...

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  24. COLONEL SWOPE'S DEATH.

    The trial is proceeding at Kansas (U.S.A.) of Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde, on a charge of murdering by means of strychnine capsules Colonel Thomas. Swope, a ...

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  25. THE MALEKULA CASTAWAYS.

    The officers of the Malekula arrived in Brisbane to-day by the steamer Cooma. Arrangements have been made to hold an inquiry into the wreck to-morrow. ...

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  26. GERMAN AERIAL LEAGUE.

    The membership of the Aerial Navy League of Germany is 12,000, an increase of 9000 since 1908. ...

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  27. M. DECATEROS'S FLIGHT DENIED.

    The story of M. Decateros's aerial flight reported in the Paris newspapers is now denied.) It was stated that M. Decateros had ...

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  28. PRINCE OF MONACO.

    The Prince of Monaco is the guest of King Victor Emmanuel. He is going to deliver a scientific lecture in Rome. The Vatican has accordingly notified the ...

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  29. BRITISH NAVAL MANOEUVRES.

    During the naval manoeuvres of the British fleet in the North Sea the "Blues," under Prince Louis, of Battenberg, vanquished the "Reds," under Admiral Sir ...

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  30. WATER FAMINE AT JUNEE.

    The water famine is most serious, and is daily becoming more so. Most of the private tanks are empty, and all are low, while there is no public supply fit for human consumption. ...

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  31. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

    Mr. Dingle, dental assistant, had a miraculous escape on Saturday, when, in company with Mr. Campbell, he was at Stoney Creek for the purpose of shooting opossums. He had ...

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  32. SIR GEORGE REID.

    Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, was a guest at the luncheon of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham to-day. In the course of an address Sir George ...

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  33. PENSIONS FOR GERMAN VETERANS

    The German Reichstag has agreed to a Bill granting pensions to all veterans who participated in campaigns in which the Empire or States took part prior to 1870. ...

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  34. STATE BURSARIES.

    In the course of an address yesterday Bishop Carroll said the pupils of Catholic schools were debarred from competing for State bursar[?]es in this State while allowed to complete ...

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  35. AMERICAN TRUSTS.

    Mr. Hughes (Governor of New York State) will succeed Mr. Justice Brewer in the Supreme Court after qualifying for the new position in the October term. ...

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  36. GENERAL CABLES.

    King Edward is due to arrive in London from Biarritz to-morrow. He looks younger and fresher as the result of his trip. The estate of the late Mr. Tom Browne, ...

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  37. SERIES OF COLLISIONS.

    A tram, a cab, and two Chinese carts were involved in collisions in Liverpool and Pitt streets yesterday morning, the result being the death of a horse, cuts, bruises, and loose teeth ...

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  38. VESSEL FOUNDERS.

    News was received in Adelaide this afternoon of the loss of a vessel off the West Coast or Yorke's Peninsula, 14 miles west of Point Turton. The superintendent of the ...

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  39. ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

    A crowded meeting was held in Bloen[?] fontein, Orange River Colony, at which it was resolved to start separate schools, in which the language question will be ...

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  40. PRICE OF MILK.

    A well-attended meeting of the local branch of the South Coast and West Camd[?]n Milk Suppliers' Association was held here on Saturday night. ...

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  41. LADY POORE PRAISES PRESS.

    Speaking yesterday at the Optimists' Club meeting, Lady Poore found time for a word of praise for the Australian press. She said that she had got ...

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  42. AMERICAN POLICE METHODS.

    The Senate Committee on the Judiciary at Washington has declared itself in favour of a thorough investigation of "The Third Degree" methods of extorting ...

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  43. CHAMPIONSHIP CRICKET.

    The Marylebone Cricket Club yesterday resolved to experiment with a new method of scoring in county championship matches. ...

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  44. WILLOUGHBY TRAGEDY.

    The City Coroner will commence an inquest to-day regarding the death of Florence May Phillips, the little girl whose body was dug up from the sand in the bush at Willoughby on ...

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  45. DACOITY IN INDIA.

    Five Bengali youths convicted of acts of political dacoity at Hal[?]dbari were sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Another was sentenced to seven years. ...

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  46. COLONEL KIRKPATRICK'S APPOINTMENT.

    Colonel Charles Fysch[?] Roberts, C.M.G., who is travelling to Sydney by the mail steamer, stated at Fremantle to-day that he considered the Commonwealth particularly ...

    Article : 46 words
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