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  2. THE TARIFF.

    The House of Representatives, after the disposal of formal business, this afternoon, resolved itself into Committee of Ways and Means to further consider the tariff schedule ...

    Article : 1,332 words
  3. COALMINERS' WAGES.

    Mr. James Curley, secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation was interviewed this afternoon regarding the rise in the price of coal, and the consequent advance of 4d ...

    Article : 282 words
  4. THE VICTORIAN BUDGET.

    The State budget speech was delivered in the Assembly to-day. The Premier (Mr. Bent) said the revenue for the year 1906-7 was £8,313,241, while the ...

    Article : 537 words
  5. ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION.

    Two very strong powers are sought by the Department of Trade and Customs in the new bill dealing with trusts and combines, introduced in the Senate to-day. This measure ...

    Article : 548 words
  6. NEW FIELD GUNS.

    After lying in the gunnery sheds for over two years, the 18-pounder quick-firer guns with which the Field Artillery of Australia is to be armed were fired for the first time ...

    Article : 943 words
  7. THE NEW PROTECTION.

    Referring to the latest proposal of Sir William Lyne, Treasurer of the Commonwealth, for ensuring that the workers benefit from the protection afforded to ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN.

    Reuter's correspondent at Berlin telegraphs:—"The 'Vossische Zeitung' learns that in the next session of the Reichstag a bill will be introduced ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. STRONG NAVY FOR AMERICA

    President Roosevelt, addressing 10,000 people at Saint Louis yesterday, after emphasising the enormous importance of improving facilities of transportation on the ...

    Article : 179 words
  10. BARQUE SILBERHORN OVERDUE.

    The four-masted barque Silberhorn, from Newcastle, N.S.W., July 12, for Iquique, Chili, is 60 days overdue. The Silberhorn is an iron four-masted ...

    Article : 66 words
  11. BELGRADE POLITICAL MURDERS.

    With one exception, the newspapers in Belgrade indignantly denounce the official murder of Novakovies, an editor, and a companion, who were confined in a prison ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. MINERS DESIRE A CONFERENCE.

    Some time ago the miners' federation forwarded a request to the Colliery Proprietors' Association, that a conference might be held between the representatives of the owners ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. THE WOOL SALES.

    There was a good sale at the wool auctions this afternoon, all descriptions being very firm. Oct. 3. ...

    Article : 57 words
  14. NEEDS OF OXFORD.

    Viscount Curzon, of Kedleston, Chancellor of Oxford University, has issued an appeal for the subscription of at lea[?] £250,000, to assist the needs of Oxford ...

    Article : 242 words
  15. RULERS AT PLAY.

    The lawn tennis match which was played the other day between the Right Rev. Dr. Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, and President Roosevelt was ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. THE IRON INDUSTRY.

    The Government has under consideration an important proposal for the utilisation of Victorian iron ore by the establishment of the iron and steel industry in Victoria. In ...

    Article : 434 words
  17. ADVANCE IN TOPMEN'S WAGES.

    The committee of management of the Colllery Employees' Federation met at the Trades Hall to-day, Mr. Peter Bowling presiding, It was decided that £50 be paid to ...

    Article : 203 words
  18. MR. KEIR HARDIE IN INDIA.

    Radical newspapers condema Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. (Socialist), for playing with fire in India, and ridicule a remark he made that "since self-government is good ...

    Article : 44 words
  19. RAILWAY OFFICIAL SHOT.

    A sensational shooting affair occurred at the cornor of Spencer-street and Collinsstreet early this evening. The victim was Samuel Jones, general superintendent of ...

    Article : 299 words
  20. GOLF.

    The first round of the Ladies' Championship of Australia was as most people anticipated, a correct forecast as to the result. The third round was played over the Royal ...

    Article : 638 words
  21. THE BALKAN STATES.

    Austria and Russia have instricted their diplomatic representatives at Belgrade, Sofia, and Athens that neither Servia, Bulgaria, nor Greece shall obtain territorial ...

    Article : 314 words
  22. ASIATICS DEFIANT.

    Asiatics in the Transvaal are defying the Act which provides that they must take out registration papers under pain of deportation. Only 200 out of 13,000 ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. THE HEBBURN DISPUTE.

    The dispute between the proprietors of the Hebburn colliery (A.A. Company) and the miners was discussed at the meeting of the committee of management of the federation. ...

    Article : 214 words
  24. THE POLITICAL SOCIALIST.

    Lord Balfour of Burleigh, as President of the British Constitutional Association, appeals to all political parties who wish to uphold individual liberty to join the ...

    Article : 45 words
  25. PENNY POSTAGE.

    The United States Government is negotiating with Great Britain for a reciprocal postal rate of one penny per ounce for letters. ...

    Article : 57 words
  26. BREACH OF THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT.

    John Ebsworth, a barrister, of Melbourne, was charged at the Strahan Police Court to-day with having, without being duly admitted as a practitioner of the Supreme Court of ...

    Article : 163 words
  27. ELECTRICITY IN COAL MINES.

    At a meeting of the committee of the Colliery Employees' Federation, held at the Traden Hall to-day, under the presidency of Mr. Peter Cowling, the Hebburn dispute ...

    Article : 173 words
  28. ENGLISH MAIL CONTRACT.

    Tenders for the new English mail contract closed to-day. In the absence of the Postmaster-General, who left for Sydney in the afternoon, they were opened by the Prime ...

    Article : 197 words
  29. "A JUSTIFIABLE INCREASE."

    There has been no feeling occasioned in Sydney manufacturing circles because of the proposal to advance the price of coal by is per ton on January 1. This is regarded as ...

    Article : 173 words
  30. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

    Mr. Lloyd George, M.P. for Carnarvon, President of the Board of Trade, in the course of an interview, said that the Government would at an early date deal ...

    Article : 62 words
  31. PROVOKING MUTINIES.

    Eighteen members of the fighting organisation of the Russian Social Democratic Labour party have been sentenced to four and seven years' penal servitude, ...

    Article : 64 words
  32. THE LATE BAKERS' STRIKE.

    Matters in connection with the bakery trade had almost resumed their usual aspect to-day. Eighteen employers intimated to the Operative Bakers' Society their willingness ...

    Article : 144 words
  33. REBUILDING MURWILLUMBAH.

    The report of the delegates sent to Sydney by the municipal council in connection with matters arising out of the late fire was read at the council meeting last night, and was ...

    Article : 396 words
  34. PAISLEY STRIKE.

    Owing to the attempts by the strikers at Clark's thread mills to intimidate the workers at J. and P. Coats' (Ltd.) mills at Ferguslie, Paisley, J. and P. Coats, ...

    Article : 59 words
  35. A WHALING EXPEDITION.

    A new expedition, the objects of which are the same as that which met with disaster when the schooner Cathrine was wrecked on Crozpt Islands, in December, 1906, sailed from ...

    Article : 125 words
  36. FORESTRY EXPERIMENT.

    The Government has purchased 30,000 acres of the Inverliver Estate, Argyllshire, with a view to attempting experimental timber growing. ...

    Article : 30 words
  37. HURRICANE AT TENTERFIELD.

    Yesterday's excessive heat cuiminated in a burricano at 7.15 p.m., which passed over the town from the west. It blew with great force for 10 minutes. ...

    Article : 160 words
  38. MR. JUDKINS RECOVERING.

    Mr. W. H. Judkins, after being nearly a month confined to his room, is now able to be out of bed an hour or two each day, His medical advisor is of opinion that after a ...

    Article : 59 words
  39. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    China, yielding to the protest of merchants, has abolished the Likin station at Kaisow. [Traders at Wa-chau, on the West River, ...

    Article : 204 words
  40. NAVAL EXPENDITURE REDUCED.

    Lieutenant C. Bellaire, M.P. (Liberal), addressing his constituents at King's Lynn, said that the naval estimates had been reduced by £8,500,000 in three ...

    Article : 101 words
  41. STRYCHNINE OR SALTS?

    After two adjournments, the inquest on the body of Henry Albert Tilling, a farmer, who died at his residence, near Wellington, on the 13th ult., was concluded on Wednesday. ...

    Article : 320 words
  42. NYNGAN ASSAULT CASE.

    At a mass meeting to-night, the Mayor presiding, resolutions were carried to approach the Executive to secure the reprieve of Roubon Ward, lying under sentence of death ...

    Article : 59 words
  43. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, several questions were put to Ministers on the subject of the tariff. Mr. WILLIS (N.S.W.) asked the Treasurer ...

    Article : 480 words
  44. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

    Thomas Smith was sentenced at the police court to a month's imprisonment for attempted suicide. He gashed his throat with a knife, and inflicted two wounds on his head ...

    Article : 50 words
  45. MADAME MELBA'S GIFT.

    "Well, I am sorry; It was a lovely watch, too." This was Madame Melba's remark to-day when she was shown the clipping from the "New York Sun" of July 2. The ...

    Article : 222 words
  46. VICTORIAN LABOUR MEMBER IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. Anstey, M.L.A., of Victoria, who has just returned from a visit to England, has been entertained by his supporters. In responding, says the Melbourne "Age," ...

    Article : 184 words
  47. THE CHESS CHAMPION.

    Dr. E. Lasker, the chess champion of the world, writing to a player in Wellington, says that either at the end of 1908 or in 1909 he intends making a tour through the chess ...

    Article : 65 words
  48. FRIENDLY RELATIONS.

    Viscount Katsura, formerly Premier of Japan, in the course of an interview, stated that the visit of Mr. W. H. Taft, United States Secretary ...

    Article : 84 words
  49. BUSH FIRES.

    A strong south-west gale, at times reaching hurricane force, has been experienced here during the greater part of the day. Bush fires, fanned by the high wind, are rapidly ...

    Article : 104 words
  50. TRUCK FAMINE AT PARKES.

    Great inconvenience has been experienced by local wheat and wool agents owing to the scarcity of trucks to get stuff away. One agent alone has been trying for a week to get ...

    Article : 75 words
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