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  2. THE JURY SYSTEM.

    An element of danger in the present jury system in New South Wales was brought under the notice of Judge Backhouse at the Sydney Court of Quarter Sessions ...

    Article : 526 words
  3. IMMIGRATION.

    The proposal of the Premier of New South Wales to increase the vote for immigration, and to give to the Salvation Army sole control in the matter of selection of suitable persons ...

    Article : 1,500 words
  4. A WIDE OXFORD-STREET.

    Oxford-street is 66ft wide; the Lord Mayor's scheme to increase it to 90ft or 100ft has been circulated amongst the aldermen. It will be discussed at a meeting of the general ...

    Article : 481 words
  5. THE LABOUR MINISTRY.

    In course of a speech at the opening of a pure food factory yesterday, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) said that not long ago the advent into power of the Labour ...

    Article : 860 words
  6. AUSTRALIAN STEEL. BONUS CONDITIONS.

    There is much uncertainty as to the precise conditions under which the Commonwealth Parliament has undertaken to pay a bonus on steel manufactured within the ...

    Article : 599 words
  7. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    An explosion occurred yesterday in the West Stanley Colliery, Durbam. One hundred and forty miners are entombed. A tongue of fiame destroyed the shafting, ...

    Article : 59 words
  8. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. OPENED BY THE KING.

    The King opened the fourth session of his second Parliament yesterday. The scene in the House of [?]ords presented a noble pageant. Queen Alexandra, who ...

    Article : 590 words
  9. THE KING'S HEALTH.

    The King, who was fatigued by the ceremony of opening Parliament yesterday, will go to Brighton on Friday to rid himself of traces of the cold from which ...

    Article : 38 words
  10. NAVAL EXPENDITURE.

    The "Times" writes that the presence of the King redeemed the opening of the session, which otherwise would have been tame, with one purple patch. ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. ARREST OF AN ANARCHIST.

    Seiliger, a Russian anarchist, was approached by police in his lodgiug in Ghent, but before he was arrested he shot and killed a commissioner of police and a ...

    Article : 43 words
  12. TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE.

    A National Conference on Tuberculosis was opened yesterday in the Caxton Hail. The conference deals largely with preventive measures against the disease. ...

    Article : 30 words
  13. THE MEXICAN CALAMITY.

    Later particulars regarding the fire which oeeurred in the Flores Theatre, Aeapulco. Mexico whereby 300 people were burnt to death, show that a gala ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. MONEY FOR HONE[?]MOON.

    Duncan M'lntyre Johnson, who was formerly employed by Younghusband, Row, and Co., of Melbourne, and who was arrested on the steamer Suevie on arrival at ...

    Article : 105 words
  15. PRICE OF HARVESTERS.

    The Royal Commission on stripper harvesters and drills met to-day at Parliament House. James Moore, of T. Robinson and Co. ...

    Article : 499 words
  16. NEW ZEALAND.

    Ten thousand gallons of crude petroleum were destroyed by fire at the Taranaki Petroleum Company's works, New Plymouth. ...

    Article : 26 words
  17. SUFFRAGISTS DISAPPOINTED.

    The noisy section of the woman suffrage movement is indignant that the Speech from the Throne contains no reterence to women's franchise. Three ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. MR. TUDOR CONSULTS SCIENTIST.

    Mr. Hoskins, of the Lithgow Iron Works, has written to the Minister for Customs, Mr. Tudor, informing him that he can only produce steel by using a certain proportion of imported ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. OUTRAGES IN BERLIN.

    A seamstress was stabbed and left in an unconseious state on a staircase in Ber[?] to-day. The assailant escaped. Two other women were wounded later ...

    Article : 42 words
  20. KANAKA DEPORTATION.

    Some interesting figures showing the cost of deporting kanakas from Queensland have been prepared for the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Mahon. These show that the ...

    Article : 183 words
  21. MARCH OF THE UNEMPLOYED.

    There were several processions of unemployed thiough London yesterday. One proecssion which walked through the West End included 30,000 unemployed ...

    Article : 36 words
  22. BRITISH OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    According to Mr. Timothy Davies, M.P. (Liberal), between 50,000 and 70,000 oldage pensioners in Ireland are not qualitied under the Act. ...

    Article : 116 words
  23. MR. C. H. HOSKINS EXPLAINS.

    To-day, regarding the steel bounty, Mr. C. H. Hoskins said there was a misunderstanding at the Customs as to the usual practice of steelmaking throughout the world. ln America ...

    Article : 170 words
  24. SEDITION IN INDIA.

    The police in Calcutta raided the houses of several influential natives, and documents were selzed. ...

    Article : 27 words
  25. FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS.

    The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Mahon, stated to-day that he had found that certificates for sick leave had been obtained for most paltry ailments. Also that candidates ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. THE PENGUIN DISASTER. NAUTICAL INQUIRY OPENED.

    The nautical inquirs into circumstances surrounding the wreek of the Union Company's steamer Penguin was formally opened to-day. The Marine Department submitted the ...

    Article : 125 words
  27. THE TALLOW SALES.

    At the sales of Australian nnd New Zealand tallow to-day, 477 casks were offered, and 288 were sold. Prices were:Mutton, fine 33s 6d, medium 31s 3d; beef, fine 32s 3d, medium 30s ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. THE ADDRESS IN REPLY.

    The Earl of Liverpool moved, and Lord Hemphill seconded, the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne. The Marquis of Lansdowne, in referring ...

    Article : 195 words
  29. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Referring to your leading article and the vicws expressed by Mr. Tndor. Sir W. J. Lyne, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Dugald Thomson in to-day's "Herald." Mr. Lockyer's letter ...

    Article : 533 words
  30. POLITICS IN TURKEY.

    The action of Kaimil Pasha, ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey, in altering his Cabinet was intended to prevent indiscipline in the army, which is permeated by a ...

    Article : 73 words
  31. STRENUOUS SWIMMERS.

    Last Tuesday, at the Municipal Baths, Outer Domain, in the presence of a large number of spectators, the Royal Life-saving Society held an examination for the "award of merit," ...

    Article : 421 words
  32. POSTAL COMMISSION.

    Before the Postal Commission to-day additional evidence was given by Mr. Charles A. Unbehaun, Electrical Engineer to tho department. The Wheatstone telegraph system was ...

    Article : 181 words
  33. SIGNALLING BY NIGHT.

    A proposal is now under the consideration of the Superintendent of Navigation for the installation of Morse signalling apparatus at the principal lighthouses along the coast of ...

    Article : 300 words
  34. SYDNEY'S SYMPATHY APPRECIATED.

    The Lord Mayor of Sydney yesterday received the following cablegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand:—"Kind message sympathy citizens Sydney, Penguin disaster, ...

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  35. TROUBLE AT NEWNES.

    A report from Newnes of the local miners' lodge meeting mentions two resolutions carried unanimously. One decides that after next Monday members of the union will eeaso ...

    Article : 114 words
  36. LONDON TERRITORIALS.

    Two thousand additional recruits have joined the London regiments of the Territorial Army. Lord Esher, chairman of the London County ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.

    The Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne was moved in the House of Commons by Mr. F.E.N. Rogers (Liberal), and was seconded by Mr. W. W. Benn ...

    Article : 398 words
  38. RAILWAY MISHAP.

    An accident occured last night at Albury railway station. The first express bearing the English mail, arrived a little late. As it was pulling out to make room for the second ...

    Article : 114 words
  39. THE SANTIAGO TRAGEDY.

    Herr Beckert, the Chancellor of the German Legation at Santiago, Chili, who was supposed to have been the victim of the outrage at the Legation, and who was ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. A DOUBLE FATALITY.

    A double drowning case occurred last night at 8 o'clock, when Mrs. George Harris and her brother-in-law. Mr. William Harris aged 19, were drowned while swimming in ...

    Article : 138 words
  41. STATE BUTTER FACTORY.

    The general feeling of dairy farmers in this in this district is antagonistic to the proposal of the Government to establish a State butter factory. The co-operative movement is very ...

    Article : 40 words
  42. INDIAN MILITARY MURDERS.

    Three thieves have been arrested in the Upper Miranzai, on the North-west frontier of india, and charged with the murder of Lieutenant Macaulay, the garrison ...

    Article : 56 words
  43. SOUTH GRETA DIFFICULTY.

    The position at the South Greta colliery is unaltered, and the pit continues idle except that the shiftmen are still at work. Messrs. Brennan and Lewis, district officers, ...

    Article : 136 words
  44. VICTORIAN PILOTS.

    Commenting to-day on the report of the Royal Commission regarding the allegation that certain Sydney pilots had accepted gratuities from certain shipmasters and ...

    Article : 92 words
  45. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—It in future decisions are permitted to be applied against the spirit of the Acts of Parliament, leaving out the injury to suffering labouring classes, no time should be lost ...

    Article : 242 words
  46. ITALIAN DISASTER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 words
  47. GORED BY A HEIFER.

    While engaged washing a show helfer yesterday a young man named Williams, in the employ of Mr. John Nelson, was rushed and gored in the chest, being hoisted in and out ...

    Article : 63 words
  48. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. NEW MORNING PAPER MOOTED.

    There is some talk of starting a new morning paper in Perth. It is understood that members of thr pastoralist fraternity consider that their interests would be better solved if ...

    Article : 63 words
  49. GOST OF PRINTING PAPER.

    Owing to the cost of printing paper many American newspapers are increasing the price of their issues. Fears of a paper famine, owing to the ...

    Article : 98 words
  50. FIRE IN PERTH HOTEL.

    Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the East Forth Hotel. Much damage was done, and the inmates, to the number of 14, had narrow escapes. Three women ...

    Article : 79 words
  51. LIFE DISQUALIFICATION.

    At a meeting of the committee of the Adelong Jockey Club, held yesterday, the rncehorse Phearless and owner (A. Hallahan) were disqualified for life for improper ...

    Article : 52 words
  52. COW CAPSIZES A BUGGY.

    Mr. Gallimore was driving on the Muswellbrook-road, when a cow ran into the buggy, capsizing the vehicle. The driver was thrown clear, and escaped with a severe shaking and ...

    Article : 42 words
  53. AGRICULTURAL RAILWAY OPENED.

    The new agricultural railway line from Na[?] rogine to Wickopin was opened yesterday. This is the first section of a line which, it is hoped, will eventually be extended to Kellerberrin ...

    Article : 69 words
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