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  2. SECOND EDITION A SOLID START. £30,000 GUARANTEED.

    At a private dinner given to his Excellency Sir Harry Rawson at the Union Club last night offers, it is understood, were made by three well-known Sydney gentlemen to ...

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  3. MR. DEAKIN'S TRAVELS.

    Mr. Deakin, accompanied by Sir Thos. Ewing and Mr. Groom, Ms.P., arrived at Lismore today. Mr. Deakin's indisposition was of a temporary nature, and a few hours' rost amid ...

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  4. THE DREADNOUGHTS. GIFT FEOM AUSTRALIA.

    All the newspapers are giving prominence to the suggestion of Australia presenting a Dreadnought to the British Navy, and expressing pleasure at the ...

    Article : 42 words
  5. PARIS POSTAL STRIKE. COLLAPSE IMMINENT.

    A deputation representing the strikers waited upon M. Clemenceau, the French Premier yesterday, and demanded the dismissal of the deputy, M. Simyan, from the ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. NAVAL WARFARE.

    Two bluebooks on the International Naval Conference have been Issued. The bluebooks include a declaration consisting of a codification of the laws of naval war, ...

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  7. THE NAVAL CRISIS. LIMITING ARMAMENTS.

    Several members of the House of Commons on both sides of the Chamber are pressing Mr.H.H.Asquith, Prime Minister, regarding the fruitless overtures made ...

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  8. MR. KIDSTON'S OPINION.

    "Has the proposal for Australia to present the Empire with a Dreadnought come before you officially?" Mr. Kidston was asked today. ...

    Article : 218 words
  9. COLD WATER FROM MR. MURRAY.

    In respending to the toast of "The Parliaments and the State Ministry" at a social gathering at Geelong this evening, the Premier (Mr. Murray) said that concerning ...

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  10. PLUCKY NEW ZEALAND.

    Regarding New Zealand's offer of a battleship to England, the Prime Minister, in an interview, stated that the unanimity of both sides which the recent debate in the British House ...

    Article : 503 words
  11. MR. FISHER'S SCHEME.

    The Prime Minister to-day, in connection with the proposal that Australia should give a Dreadnought to the British Government, said: ...

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  12. MR. ASQUITH'S EMBARRASSMENT.

    The "Times," in disenssing the difficulties of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, writes:—"He need not fear the attitude of some of his colleagues, who have too much ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

    The French Chamber of Deputies supports the Government in the measures taken for suppressing the strike of post office employees in Paris. ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. THE LION AND HIS WHELPS.

    The Melbourne City Council made a special adjournment at its meeting this afternoon to receive a representative and enthusiastic deputation of citizens, who came to ask that the ...

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  15. TO ASSURE SUPREMACY.

    The "Standnrd" writes that the movement under the auspices of the Navy League and the Imperial Maritime League, which are arranging for the holding of a ...

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  16. EASTER GREETINGS.

    At the meeting of the board of directors of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on friday last the board was faced with the problem of how to meet the urgent demands for bed ...

    Article : 387 words
  17. FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Sir John Forrest, seen to-day in regard ta the proposed Dreadnought, said:—"As is well known, I have always been willing that Australia should assist the mother ...

    Article : 373 words
  18. AN EXCUSE FOR GERMANY.

    The "Manchester Guardian" states' that Germany has pushed on her naval programme purely to help the unemployed. ...

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  19. MR. KEIR HARDIE'S ATTITUDE.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., speaking at Sheffield, said it was their duty not to support the Government until convinced there was reason, but to stretch their hands ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. THE SERVIAN DISPUTE. A SOLUTION EXPECTED.

    Reater's correspondents at Belgrade and Vienna in their messages show that as the result of the Powers concerting,a projected arrangement, Baron von Aehrenthal, ...

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  21. SIR HARRY RAWSON'S VIEW

    In course of a speech at the citizens' farewell reception at the Town Hall yesterday, Sir Harry Rawson Bald:—"I saw in today's papers that there was a feeling rising ...

    Article : 202 words
  22. WARSHIPS LAUNCHED. CRUISER AND DESTROYER.

    The third-class cruiser Bellonn, 3300 tons, and the torpedo boat destroyer Crusader, 990 tons, both of the British navy, were launched on Saturday. ...

    Article : 157 words
  23. WAR AVOIDABLE.

    An intimation that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary considers war avoidable has created a favourable impression in Belgrade. ...

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  24. COMMERCIAL VIEWS.

    At a meeting of the executive of the Victorian Employers' Federation, the following resolution Was unanimously carried,—"That the Federal Government be urged to give ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. "TIRED OF LIFE."

    Traffic-constable M'Bride found a young woman, named Sarah Ross, a resident of Alblon-street, Surry Hills, lying near the corner of Goulburn and Wemyss streets, Surry ...

    Article : 126 words
  26. INDIA'S FINANCES.

    The accounts of India show that the surplus for 1908 amounted to£300,000. A revised estimate for the current year is that the accounts will show a deficit of ...

    Article : 56 words
  27. THE PREMIER'S VIEW.

    Mr. Wade, the Premier, made a statement yesterday afternoon on the subject of the presentation by Australia to the Imperial Government of a Dreadnought. ...

    Article : 601 words
  28. A GERMAN CRUISER.

    Von der Tann, known as cruiser F., has been launched at Hamburg, amid great secrecy. The cruiser has a displacement of 19,000 ...

    Article : 152 words
  29. THE AMATEUR STATUS.

    "That the principle laid down by this federation in the case of Northwood, the swimmer, be affirmed, viz., that the professional in one branch of sport is a professional in every ...

    Article : 552 words
  30. MR. DEAEIN'S OPINION.

    Speaking with respect to the Dreadnought proposal to-night, Mr.Deakin said there was nothing in it antagonistic to all the argument we had always sustained in that regard. On ...

    Article : 156 words
  31. COLLAPSE OF A GANGWAY.

    A number of workmen employed by Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim at Barrow were passing along a gangway from the battleship Vanguard, to a wharf on a ...

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  32. MR. LEE'S WANDERINGS.

    The Minister for Works, accompanied by Messrs. Donaldson and Gordon M'Laurlu, arrived here to-day. They were accorded a public welcome by the Mayor, ...

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  33. INDIVIDUAL OPINIONS.

    Mr. Fairbairn,,M.P., a member of the antisocialist party in the Opposition corner, said that he was heartily in agreement with the proposal. The vast majority of members, ...

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  34. A QUEER CONTEST.

    Rabbit-trapping here has assumed considerable proportions. Two local freezing works pay out large sums weekly. An expert trapper, Edwards, issued a challenge through the ...

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  35. MUNICIPAL FISH.

    Mr.'J. N. Breden, an officer from the Sydney City Council, arrived by the steamer Brundah this morning to arrange with the local fishermen for supplies of fish to the municipal ...

    Article : 97 words
  36. SHORT SHRIFT FOR TRAITORS.

    It is reported at Peshawar that of several hundreds of men arrested at Jellalabad, Afghanistan, for plotting- against the life of the Ameer batches are blown from ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. LORD MAYOR'S WORK.

    Alderman Allen Taylor, Lord Mayor of Sydney, was in telephonic communication yesterday and last night with the Lord Mayor of Melbourne on-the subject of united action ...

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  38. "A SUDDEN IMPULSE."

    Blanche Sorrenson, a married woman, residing at Gerogery, was charged to-day, at the Police Court, with attempting suicide on March 16 by swallowing.a solution of match-heads. ...

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  39. AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

    At a meeting of the Sydney Stock Exchange to wish bon voyage to Mr. E. L. Davis, who for the past two years has occupied the position of chairman of the Stock Exchange, ...

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  40. A FASTIDIOUS TAPIR,

    Mr. L. Le Souef left by the Kyarra on Saturday with a number of animals for the eastern States' Zoological Gardens. He will bring back exchanges from Melbourne and Sydney. ...

    Article : 92 words
  41. BACK TO THE STAGE,

    Miss Ada Ward, tho actress evangellst, who has returned to Australia to fulfil a nine months' engagement with the Salvation Army, stated in an interview to-day that at the end ...

    Article : 53 words
  42. DEATH OF MISS VIOLA CLARKE.

    Miss Viola Clarke, daughter of Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay, has sneeumbed to an attack of meningitis at Bombay. ...

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  43. POLLUTED ICE CREAM.

    In the Perth Police Court On Tuesday last, before Mr. A. S. Rowe, P.M., J. Mattuzzi and Rhoda Dod were charged, at the instance of the local Board of Health, with having had ...

    Article : 110 words
  44. BRITISH EMPIRE LEAGUE.

    Canon Boyce states that the arrangements for Thursday night's meeting have been left in the hands of.the British Empire League, and a special meeting of that body will be held in ...

    Article : 44 words
  45. BLAZE AT BEECROFT.

    Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in Ravenhurst College, Beecroft, occupied by Mrs. Dow. It was confined to one of the bedrooms, the contents ...

    Article : 81 words
  46. AERO EXHIBITION.

    A great aero exhibition has been opened at Olympia, many aeroplanes and dirigible balloons being ou view. ...

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  47. A MUNIFICENT SUBSCRIPTION.

    Mr. Hugh Dlxson, a member of the British Empire League, has generously pre[?]ised£6000 towards the purchase of a Dreadnight. ...

    Article : 24 words
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