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  2. UNIFICATION.

    This afternoon, before a meeting of the women's branch of the Australian National League, Mr. Cook, leader of the Federal Opposition, gave an important address. He ...

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  3. WIDENING OXFORD-STREET.

    The general purposes committee of the City Council, which met again yesterday, decided to drop the betterment principle, and, for the present at any rate, the Flinders-street ...

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  4. AUSTRALIA'S RICHNESS.

    The Royal Agricultural Society's autumu show was opened in the Exhibition Building and grounds to-day. There was a very large attendance. Those at the luncheon included ...

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  5. AID FOR UNEMPLOYED.

    In the debate on the unemployed in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) strongly objected to the contemptuous dismissal by Mr. John ...

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  6. CONTROL OF LABOUR.

    Last night the Sydney Labour Council took away from itself the extreme power which, by one vote, it gave itself some few weeks ago. Unions no longer remain in peril of ...

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  7. THE SERVIAN CRISIS. PRESSURE OF THE POWERS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Belgrade states that Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have supported Russia in urging Servia to abandon her claims to ...

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  8. AUSTEALIAN NAVY.

    The tenders for the construction of two torpedo boat destroyers for the Australian Government were received by Captain Coll[?]s, the representative of the Government, ...

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  9. TO FIGHT TARIFFS.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Bonar Law, formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Hoard of Trade, were among the guests at ...

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  10. A DESPERATE THIEF.

    A swell thief, calling himself Dr. Pullman, of Chicago, invited a jeweller to bring £2500 worth of goods to a suite of rooms at the Savoy Hotel. ...

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  11. WARNING FROM RUSSIA.

    The Russian Foreign Office has made an informal intimation to Servia to abstain from provocation, as it is resolved to refer her case to the arbitrament of the Powers. ...

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  12. SHOT THROUGH THE WINDOW.

    Information reached the police authorities at Brisbane to-day of sensational shooting which is alleged to have taken place at Forest Hill last evening. The story, so far as it has been ...

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  13. THE ALPINE AVALANCHE.

    The six officers and 25 men of the Austrian detachment, who were overwhelmed by an avalanche near the Brenner Pass, in the Alps, have been rescued. ...

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  14. BRITISH PATENT ACT.

    German manufacturers, especially chemists, are troubled over the rigorous enforcement of the British Patent Act. The newspapers urge the adoption of ...

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  15. FREE SPEECH IN TURKEY.

    A tumultuous debate took place in the Turkish Chamber of Deputies yesterday, over the issue of a decree by the Ministry necessitating Government permission ...

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  16. PORT OF LONDON.

    The Port of London Authority, which will have entire control of the shipping portion of the Thames, has been constituted. Sir Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, ...

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  17. CARPENTARIA DOWNS MURDER.

    The trial of Billy Wilson for the Carpentaria Downs murder was concluded to-day. When the Court resumed the jury announced that they found it impossible, in Billy Wilson's ...

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  18. IRISH EDITOR'S ARREST.

    Nationalists raised an obstructive debate in the House of Commons last night because the police arrested Mr. Murphy, an editor of Clonmel, Tipperary, so early as ...

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  19. CANADA'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

    Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, replying to Sir Gilbert Parker, in the House of Commons last night, said that Ganada had founded a Foreign Affairs Department, ...

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  20. WRECK OF THE LADY MILDRED.

    At the Court of Marine Inquiry to-day, the certificate of Captain Wills, master of the collier Lady Mildred, which was wrecked near Waterloo Point shortly after midnight on ...

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  21. IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

    The announcement that the Australian delegates to the Imperial Press Conference will visit Canada has been received with great satisfaction. It is proposed that they ...

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  22. WATER AND POISON FAILS.

    A young woman in the Chinese camp is said to have attempted to commit suicide last night by jumping into a lagoon near the camp. A Chinaman got her out. Shortly afterwards ...

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  23. A FATAL FIRE.

    A high tenement building in New York has been destroyed by fire, and ten of the occupants perished. ...

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  24. THE QUEEN'S HEALTH.

    The health of Queen Alexandra, who is suffering from a severe cold, has improved. ...

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  25. EARTHQUAKE IN PALESTINE.

    Advices from Smyrna state that an earthquake has destroyed Masran, near Jerusalem, burying 150 people. ...

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  26. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    A man named Arthur Swift was killed by lightning during the progress of a heavy thunderstorm at Somerville racecourse yesterday afternoon. Deceased with Charles ...

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  27. INDIAN SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION.

    The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, without calling upon counsel for the Government of India, refused Tilak Faranjpe, proprietor of the "Kal" ...

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  28. A WALL OF WATER.

    During the storm on Tuesday afternoon another washaway occurred on the railway line where the washaway took place about two weeks ago. A couple of the employees ...

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  29. WOMAN WITH BABY RUN DOWN.

    A sulky, containing a man and a woman, was being driven along Elizabeth-street, city, shortly before 10 o'clock last night, when it struck a woman, who was just stepping off ...

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  30. THE ABBE LOISY.

    The Roman Catholic world is perturbed over the French Government appointing the Abbe Loisy to the Chair of History of Religion in the College of France. ...

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  31. A CONSIGNMENT OF COPPER.

    The case in which Hirsch and Sohn are proceeding against the O.K. Copper Company in reference to a consignment of blister copper was continued to-day. The case for the ...

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  32. THE FATAL SAUSAGE.

    About noon to-day Mrs. Gilligan, in a very excited state, and almost out of breath from running, called at the Collingwood watchhouse and requested Sergeant Murphy to send ...

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  33. DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.

    This afternoon an impudent robbery took place at Messrs. W. L. Lamb and Co.'s store, Murtoa. Mr. F. Rissman was in charge, the other employees having gone to dinner, when ...

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  34. RETURN OF MR. DEAKIN.

    The ex-Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) returned to Melbourne by the steamer Oonah this afternoon from Tasmania. He appeared to be well satisfied with the results of his tour. He ...

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  35. SEVERE WEATHER IN EUROPE.

    There has been a heavy fall of snow in Great Britain and on the Continent. Fifty accidents occurred in the streets in Berlin, owing to the ice. ...

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  36. WAGES BOARDS AND UNIONISM.

    The Chemists' Assistants have been recommended a wages board. In the Industrial Court yesterday afternoon the nominations were considered. There was objection, ...

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  37. TELEGRAPHIC DELAYS.

    The frequent complaints which have been made of telegraphic interruptions between Melbourne and Sydney caused the Postmaster-General to ask the Chief Electrical Engineer ...

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  38. AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALLERS.

    England defeated the Australian Rugby League's team to-day by 4 goals 2 tries (14 points) to 2 goals 1 try (7 points). March 4. ...

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  39. DINIZULU'S TRIAL ENDS. GUILTY OF HARBOURING REBELS.

    After a trial at Graytown, lasting seventy days, before a Special Commission, Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, has been found guilty of sheltering ...

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  40. JAVA-SINGAPORE TRADE.

    After repeated representations the Government has decided to follow the example of the Eastern States and subsidise a service of steamers to Singapore, Java, and other ...

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  41. ATTACKED BY A BULL.

    Two boys, Robert and Albert Sipponen, aged 18 and 16 years, were the victims of the savage attacks by a bull. On Tuesday evening Albert entered the pen in which the ...

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  42. STRANGERS WITHIN OUR GATES.

    Speaking last night at the A.N.A. banquet at St. Peter's, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Batchelor) said that despite the progress mad[?] by Australia there was still much to do. ...

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  43. LEICHHARDT FATALITY.

    The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday upon the body of Mary Ann Taylor, who was drowned in a stormwater channel on February 27. A finding of accidental death was ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Congregation of Oxford University, by 136 votes to 108, defeated a proposal to abolish the present easy system of obtaining the degree of Master of Arts. ...

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  45. "A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE."

    The "Daily News" writes that the sentence passed on Dinizulu is vindictive and excessive. ...

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  46. THE HOTEL TRAGEDY.

    By order of the Curator of Intestate Estates a portion of the goods and chattels belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Wheeler, who shot himself at the Empire ...

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  47. THE AMATEUR STATUS.

    The decision of the Australasian Athletic Union that Mr. H. J. Miller, the secretary of the New South Wales Football League, has not lost his amateur status is still being ...

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  48. FRANCO-CANADIAN LINE.

    Owing to the Franco-Canadian Commercial Convention, Canada is increasing her subsidy to the direct line of steamships between Canada and France from £15,000 ...

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  49. OBSTRUCTING A TRAIN PIPE.

    In connection with the placing of an obstruction in a train pipe, a railway employee has now written a letter to the Commissioners stating that he placed the ...

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  50. A CONSIGNMENT OF SHEEP.

    At the Geraldton Criminal Sessions Patrick Stone, ex-M.L.A., was found not guilty on a charge of having made a false declaration in regard to a consignment of sheep by rall. ...

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  51. ATTACKED WITH AN AXE.

    A tragedy occurred at Boolare township, on the banks of Cockle Creck, about 10 miles from Newcastle, this evening. A report was received by the police that a man named ...

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  52. COAL-MINING AT JAMBEROO.

    Notices of applicat[?]ion for a further area of 2614 aerea for coal-mining leases at Jamberoo Mountain, parish of Wallaya, county of Camden, were exhibited at the local post-office as ...

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  53. STOREMAN'S SHOCKING INJURY.

    Shortly after half-past 10 yesterday morning J. Corbett, a storeman, living in Bathurst-street, city, while working on the Central Wharf, Miller's Point, was struck on the ...

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  54. PRESENTATION TO R. HARTIGAN.

    The members of the North Brisbane Cricket Club this evening presented Mr. Roger Hartigan with a pair of silver entree dishes and a silver kettle on the eve of his denarture for England. The chairman said they ...

    Article : 60 words
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