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  2. TEST MATCH.

    The first thing that the most part of Sydney did when it opened its sleepy eyes yesterday morning was to turn them on the bright square of the bedroom window pane. Had ...

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  3. THE "CHAPMAN" SACK.

    In connection with the controversy which is raging over the new wheat sack, which the Federal Government has decided shall be the size to be imported after May 15, ...

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  4. THE POWERHOUSE.

    There is clear proof, in the activity now being exhibited at the electric power-house under the control of the City Council, that the strictures recorded by Mr. G. A. Julius, ...

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  5. MURDEROUS ASSAULTS.

    A sensational shooting affray occurred at 10.30 this morning, when a man unknown is supposed to have run amok. He attacked a married woman boarding in the same house, ...

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  6. PORT ARTHUR SURRENDER

    The Court Martial at St. Petersburg on Generals Stoessel, Fock, Rolss, and Smirnoff, on charges connected with the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese, ...

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  7. REBUILDING HER NAVY.

    The Russian Government has submitted to the Duma alternative naval estimates. The first set of Estimates proposes an expenditure of £40,000,000 in ...

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  8. A. M. P. SOCIETY'S APPEAL.

    The New South Wales appeal, Campbell versus the Australian Mutual Provident Society, in which the plaintiff, appellant, seeks to prevent the society extending its ...

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  9. NO WAR WITH JAPAN.

    The Pilgrims entertained Mr. Whitciaw Reid, Ambassador from the United States to Great Britain, at New York, on the eve of his return to London. ...

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  10. A STOLEN STRAD.

    The Stradivarius violin, which belongs to Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian virtuoso, and which cost £2400, was stolen in St. Petersburg, and sold in a Moravian town for 35s. ...

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  11. JAPANESE IN CANADA.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, has ordered the release of two Japanese who were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment under the Act of ...

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  12. AMERICAN BATTLE FLEET.

    The United States battle fleet, now on its way to the Pacific coast of the United States, yesterday anchored in the port of Calloa, Peru. ...

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  13. VIOLENCE IN SPAIN.

    Masked men entered the hall while the town council meeting was in progress at Daimiel, Spain, and shot the Mayor dead. The assassins escaped. ...

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  14. JAPANESE EXODUS FROM AMERICA.

    The people of California are puzzled at in extraordinary exodus homewards by able-bodied Japanese that has set in. Prominent Japanese in the country ...

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  15. BLACK OPAL FIELD.

    Mining advices from the Lightning Ridge black opal fields state that finds of excellent stone continue to be made. The number of miners is dally increasing. Coaches now run ...

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  16. ISLAND NEWS.

    A representative of an influential Continental firm with branches in Australia, who some time ago proceeded to the islands of the Paumoto group for the purpose of ...

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  17. THE TARIFE.

    The Senate to-day carried requests for several remissions of duties. Too tired, perhaps, to talk after the long sitting of Thursday, a division was taken ...

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  18. AFTER MANY DAYS.

    Seven years ago Mr. Charles Sorenson lost a gold watch in Mrs. Davey's paddock at Alectown. Diligent search for the missing timepiece proved unsuccessful. The ...

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  19. WHOLESALE BIGAMY.

    The New York police declare that the man Hyne, who was recently sentenced to seven years' impilsonment for defrauding a woman of £2000 at Bristol, is ...

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  20. THE MANCHURIAN OPEN DOOR.

    The United States newspapers are urgently discussing the question of maintaining the open door in Manchuria. For many months past complaints have been ...

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  21. SALE OF TAHITI DENIED.

    Mr. Spire, an officer of the French navy recently attached to the cruiser Catinat, who is returning home with a detachment of 15 men on sick leave, arrived nt Sydney last ...

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  22. TASMANIAN ROWING CRISIS.

    A dispute in rowing circles is creating much interest. The Tasmanian Rowing Association, of Launceston, is seeking to retain control of rowing throughout the State, though a ...

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  23. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

    The body of Mary M'Lean, widow, 89 years of ago, was discovered to-day lying at her residence at Malvern under extraordinary circumstances. She had been bedridden for the ...

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  24. PRICE OF MILK.

    The state of the milk trade was the allabsorbing topic amongst the dairy farmers this morning at Unanderra, both at the railway station and at the butter factory. Never ...

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  25. ENGINEERING STRIKE.

    The engineers on the north-east coast have struck, and a complete stoppage of work is threatened, rendering 83,000 men idle. ...

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  26. WESTERN MANCHURIAN RAILWAY.

    The "Daily Chronicle" states that Japan, relying on a secret treaty concluded with China in 1906, vetoes China building a railway from Hsin-min-ting, the terminus of ...

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  27. CHARGES AGAINST THE CANNING PARTY.

    The report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into certain charges against the Canning expedition of 1906 was considered by the Cabinet. The Commissioners held that ...

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  28. MOTOR RECORDS.

    A Napier car has established new records on the Brooklands motor track, in Surrey, over 50, 100, and 150 miles. The car averaged 85 miles per hour during its ...

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  29. SUNDERLANDS IDLE THOUSANDS.

    At the request of the Sunderland Municipality, where the firm of Sir James Laing and Son stopped payment, and which is concerned in the strike of engineers, 300 ...

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  30. SOUTH AFRICAN GARRISON.

    It is stated that Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, is reducing the garrison in South Africa from 16,353 to 12,000 men. ...

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  31. LABOUR IN COAL MINES.

    The bill providing that eight hours shall form a legal day's work in coal mines was read tlie first time in the House of Commons last night. ...

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  32. RECLAIMING WASTE COUNTRY.

    Being greatly impressed by the success of the scientific methods of agriculture employed by the Government at the Experimental Farm of 20 acres, near Cobden, in the ...

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  33. THE PLAY.

    A. O. Jones won the toss, and sent the Australians in. There was a strong breeze blowing from the south when Noble, accompanied by Macartney, opened ...

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  34. HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a question in the House of Commons last night, said that the Government would ...

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  35. LABOUR FOR THE RAND.

    The Transvaal, Mr. Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons, has asked Great Britain to ascertain whether France will sanction the recruiting of ...

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  36. ALLOWING SHEEP TO STARVE.

    At the Horsham Police Court to-day, Samuel May was charged with having, on February 14, been in possession of 2150 sheep, which he neglected to provide with sufficient food. ...

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  37. UNION OF THE CHURCHES.

    A meeting of the joint committee representing the Prebbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches in Victoria on the question of deneminational union was held to-day. ...

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  38. IMMIGRANTS NOT WANTED.

    The Otago Trades Council passed a resolution protesting against any scheme of immigration by the Government, on the ground that many men and women in factories were ...

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  39. HELENSBURGH WHEELERS.

    The general secretary, Mr. T. R. Morgan, obtained this evening the wheelers' signatures to a document expressing regret for their precipitate action in laying the Metropolitan ...

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  40. NOTHING IN IT.

    The Premier, Mr. Bent, to-day made the following comments on Mr. M'Grath's speech at Ballarat:—"He's gone in a bit for effect, but there's nothing in what he said." ...

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  41. ESPIONAGE.

    A number of documents relating to the charges of selling naval and military secrets to the Germans preferred against Lieut Ullmo, of the French torpedo-boat ...

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  42. THE MILDURA WRECK.

    Although no news has been made public officially of result of efforts to relloat the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Mildura, rumours have been current in Fremantle during the ...

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  43. SEARCH FOR CASTAWAYS.

    Arrangements were yesterday made by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, at the instance of the Department of Navigation, for a complete search to bei made for ...

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  44. THE QUEEN'S MINIATURES.

    The two men who stole the Queen's miniatures from the studio of Mr. Carl Hentschel, at West Norwood, were to-day sentenced to 12 and 23 months' ...

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  45. FIRE AT GOULBURN.

    A [?]e was discoveren at about 2.30 this morning by Constable Edwards in Auburn-street, in premises occupied by Mr. F. Wedd, fronmonger. The brigade soon subdued the ...

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  46. DEFENCE PREPARATIONS.

    The Minister for Defence is making steady progress with the craft of a bill to cover the new defence scheme. It is understood that he has completed arrangements for the ...

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  47. THE WIDOW UPHELD.

    The High Court to-day delivered its reserved judgment in Cairns v the Tasmania Gold Mining Campany. The Court held that there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury upon, ...

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  48. SYMPATHY FOR PORTUGAL.

    The Consul for Portugal in Melbourne, Mr. W. L. Jack, has received the following cable message from the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Lisbon:—"The Royal family are ...

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  49. PUNITIVE EXPEDITION.

    In the course of the operations on the Indian frontier, against the Zakka Khels, three British, have been killed and 13 wounded. The loss of the Zakka Khels ...

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  50. VACCINATION DECLINED.

    Dr. William Orr Gray, of Murrumbeena, was to-day fined 40s, with 5s costs, for having failed to have his child vaccinated. Dr. Gray did not appear, but addressed a letter to the ...

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  51. HEDDON GRETA FATALITY.

    The Inquiry into the Heddon Greta fatality, whereby Thomas Stark and George Cree lost their lives, was resumed this morning. Percy Creo, son of George Cree, stated that his ...

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  52. STATE GOVERNORS.

    A request for the abolition of the present method of appointment of State Governors was made to-day to the State Premier by deputation from the Australian Natives' ...

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  53. TRADES UNION BANK.

    The Trades Hall Council to-night appointed a committee to consider the advisability of forming a trades union co-operative credit bank. ...

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  54. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    [?]n explosion took place in the Glebe colliery, at the village of Washington, near Sunderland, Durham, this morning. Out of 15 men in the pit 14 were killed. ...

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  55. ARBITRATION.

    The United States Senate has ratified the arbitration treaty with France. ...

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  56. WESTERN MINERS RESTLESS.

    At a recent meeting of delegatea of the Western Miners' Association, it was resolved that the various pits be sent an intimation that, unless proper returns of skips were ...

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  57. MOUNTAIN COAL SEAM STRUCK.

    After a week's diamond drill-boring, a 4½ft seam of good coal has been struck in the Waratah, otherwise Sphinx, Gully, a mile west from the railway station, and half a mile from ...

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  58. FAREWELL TO MADAME MELBA.

    Madame Melba left Melbourne yesterday for Adelaide, en route to Europe. The station was crowded, and the Women's Exhibition choir assembled on the platform to sing a ...

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