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  2. COMMEMORATION DAY.

    The fifth-sixth annual Commemoration of the Sydney University was celebrated on Saturday at the Town Hall, in which about 6000 persons witnessed the ceremony of ...

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  3. TASMANIA.

    Messrs. A. E. Clarke and Co., of Melbourne, have made the required deposits of £1000 with the City Council, and it is understood they will at once commence operations to carry ...

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  4. VICTORIA.

    The youth, Kurt Schonbeet, who was arrested on Thursday in connection with the Woodend tragedy, and who subsequently made a confession, appeared in the City Court ...

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  5. SOUTH COAST MINES.

    Prospects for trade are very satisfactory, and there is likelihood of a continuation of these conditions. Mine managers and others are optimistic regarding the future, and if ...

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  6. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Since the prohibition of opium importation there has been in the Northern Territory a marked increase in the imports of spirits and rice. The Sub-collector of Customs at Port ...

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  7. RIOTS IN THE WEST INDIES.

    A strike of coal-heavers occurred at Port Castries (on the west coast of St. Lucia, one of the Windward Islands, in the West Indies), and a number of police ...

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  8. JUDICIAL APPEALS.

    The sittings of the Colonial Conference were resumed yesterday. A motion submitted by Mr. Deakin, "That it is desirable to establish an ...

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  9. IMPERIAL UNITY.

    Earl Carrington presided at a banquet given by the National Liberal Club in honour of the colonial Premiers. Mr. Deakin did not attend. There were ...

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  10. ECHUCA FEDERAL ELECTION.

    The recount of the votos at the Echuca election gave Mr. Kennedy 7602 votes, Mr. Palmer 7573. A number of votes were rejected by both sides, and 312 votes have been ...

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  11. ROBBERY OF DRAPERY.

    On Thursday night Mr. G. Healy's drapery shop at Hawthorn was entered by burglars, and drapery valued at £200 stolen. ...

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  12. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new club-house for the Commercial Travellers' Association was performed by Governor Bedford yesterday. ...

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  13. NORTHERN TERRITORY PRODUCTIONS.

    According to a return in the possession of the Customs Department, there has been a very satisfactory increase in the production of minerals in the Northern Territory—£11,256 ...

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  14. THE THEATRES.

    The Grand Opera Company yesterday produced "The Barber of Seville." Fraulein Stoeller was a great success in the soprano part, receiving tremendous applause for hers ...

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  15. BOUNTIES FOR FLOUR EXPORT.

    The committee of experts which has been considering the provisions of the Bounties Bill to be submitted to Parliament next session has sent in its report to the Government. ...

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  16. SYDNEY-MELBOURNE TELEPHONE LINE.

    This morning Mr. A. R. Colman, contractor for the Melbourne-Sydney trunk telephone line, arrived at Mittagong with a gang of 20 men, who are laying the line at the rate ...

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  17. BROKEN HILL CIRCUIT COURT.

    In the Circuit Court yesterday Joseph Ashwood, who has a record of 29 convictions, was sentenced for being found in a dwelling with intent to commit a folony to three years in ...

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  18. SILVER.

    The price of silver is 2s 61/8d per oz. ...

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  19. A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.

    The Department of External Affairs has received a request from Goliath Joseph, who was refused admission under the Immigration Restriction Act, that the provision requiring ...

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  20. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, states that during the year ended March 31, 3712 emigrants were sent to New Zealand under the ...

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  21. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    A telegram was yesterday received from Forster stating that the Government steam hopper dredge Tethys grounded on the crossing at Caps Hawke at 7 o'clock on Saturday ...

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  22. LIGHTHOUSES.

    There was a sum of money passed by Parliament last session for lighthouse survey. This vote will lapse. The States have been consulted, but the work has not advanced far ...

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  23. INVERAN REFLOATED.

    The steamer Inveran, which went aground in Wellington Harbour on Wednesday, was refloated this morning. The extent of the damage is being ascortained by a divor. ...

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  24. FISHERIES EXPLOITATION.

    The design of the vessel to be built by the Federal Government for fisheries exploitation is to be entrusted to Mr. A. Christie, a member of the Institute of Naval Architects, ...

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  25. WILLYAMA WRECK SOLD.

    The collier Willyama, as she lies stranded at Rhino Head with about 2000 tons of coal, was sold at auction to-day for £900. [The Willyama was valued at £24,000, and ...

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  26. DECIMAL COINAGE.

    Mr. Deakin and Sir Joseph Ward saw Mr. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a dozen Treasury experts, who said it was impossible to take action ...

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  27. A WARSHIP DAMAGED.

    The small French gunboat Zole[?], which paid a visit to Sydney a few years ago, arrived here in a damaged condition on Saturday afternoon in tow of the French cruiser ...

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  28. NORMA AND JESSIE DARLING.

    The diver to-day inspected the sunken vessels at the Somaphore anchorage, and found that the steamer Jessie Darling was not completely across the Norma. It was ...

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  29. CAMP SCHOOL.

    The boys at the flying camps at Foxground, Wattamolla, Kangaroo River, put in good work. All the boys are bright, happy, and in good health. In crossing the mountains ...

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  30. CONFERENCE DELEGATES.

    Mr. Deakin and Sir William Lyne will return to Australia by the steamer Orontes, which is due at Adelaide on June 24. ...

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  31. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Customs officers at various ports of the Commonwealth are sometimes faced with peculiar problems. The South Australian officials had one last week in an importation ...

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  32. THE EASBY INQUIRY.

    At a meeting of the Marine Board to-day reports were received with regard to the preliminary inquiry ordered by the board into the disaster to the steamer Easby at Gabo ...

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  33. TIMBER TRADE DISPUTE.

    Negotiations for the settlement of the timber industry trouble were advanced another stage yesterday, when a conference of representatives of both parties was held in the ...

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  34. WAREATEA REFLOATED.

    The steamer Wareatea was floated at high water this morning, and has been since towed up to the wharf. The steamer is quite uninjured, except in the forepart, where the ...

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  35. THE VICTORIAN PREMIER.

    Mr. Bent found the voyage to London trying, but he is already better, and has commenced attending to business. Mr. Bent is investigating the ...

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  36. MAIL CONTRACT.

    Messrs. Clarke, Esplen, and J. W. Potter, representing the English mail syndicate, had a brief interview with Mr. Deakin and Sir William Lyne, and intimated that ...

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  37. GLENLEE DAMAGED.

    On Saturday afternoon the steamer Glenlee 4140 tons, commanded by Captain J. T. Norrie, returned to Fremantle for repairs. She left for Kurrachi with a cargo of timber a week ...

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  38. TROUBLE IN BENGAL.

    According to the "Indian Daily News" the Hindus and Mohammedans in Dacca, Narainganj, and Maimansingh, in Bengal, where there is bitter resentment against ...

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  39. SEA-CARRIAGE OF GOODS.

    Sir John Glover (Chairman of Lloyd's Registry and of the Mercantile Shipping Company), Mr. E. Pembroke (chairman of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, ...

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  40. KANAKA DEPORTATION.

    According to a return furnished to the Department of External Affairs the bulk of kanakas have now been deported. It was estimated that all together there were about ...

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  41. ARDENCRAIG-NORMA COLLISION.

    On Saturday an inquest was commenced by the City Coroner on the body of Ferdinand Thompson, carpenter of the sunken barque Norma. As the Shipping Master is also to ...

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  42. SCHOOL CADETS.

    Colonel Paul to-day conducted the first half-yearly inspection of the cad[?]ts drawn from the schools between Bathurst and Orange. Those present, with the officers, were; ...

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  43. FEDERAL FINANCES.

    The Federal Treasurer has issued a financial statement covering nine months of the financial year ended March 31. The consolidated revenue for the period shows an ...

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  44. BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.

    Considering that British Columbia's Immigration Bill is chiefly intended to exclude Hindoos and Japanese, and that it violates the Anglo-Japanese treaty, to which ...

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  45. A GOVERNOR REPRIMANDED.

    The German Imperial Disciplinary Court has reprimanded Herr Puttkemer, Governor of the Cameroons, for interfering with the course of justice, participating ...

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  46. MILITARY.

    The following notices is connection with the New South Wales branch of the defence forces are gazetted:- Appointments.—Sixth Australian L.H. ...

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  47. LOCAL OPTION.

    In the House of Commons Mr. R. Balfour's bill providing for local option for Scotland has been read the second time by 251 votes to 95, and has been referred to ...

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  48. RECENT EARTHQUAKES.

    "Earthquakes are becoming very common nowadays," remarked Mr. Baracch[?], Government Astronomer, yesterday, "almost too common to take any notice of." He had ...

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  49. COASTAL DEFENCE.

    The Admiralty regards submarines as a weapon of extraordinary effectiveness in the defence of ports, and is disposed to allocate a proportion of the colonial naval ...

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  50. BUTTER BILL.

    Deputations representing the Irish Butter Trade Association and the Grocers' Federation of England have interviewed Sir Edward Strachey (representative of the ...

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  51. JAPANESE SQUADRON.

    The Japanese squadron arrived to-day. Admiral Tomika landed, and was received by a guard of honour from the loca garrison. He called upon the Government Resident, and ...

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  52. NORTHERN TERRITORY TOURS.

    The Governor-General will visit public institutions and hold a levee here on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. A ball wall be held in the evening. It has been arranged that Lord ...

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  53. INTERSTATE CREWS.

    The New South Wales crew on Saturday had a good row for a little over a mile at top speed. This morning they went for two miles at a steady bat, and returned at the same ...

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  54. LATE MR. VICKERY'S ESTATE.

    The estate of the late Hon. Ebenezer Vickery, who died at Leeds on August 20, was valued at £50[?] Deceased left £11,000 to charities and Methodist ...

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  55. COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

    In the financial statement of the Federal Treasurer in an amount of £520 for the Colonial Conference, and £2000 for the Navigation Conference. ...

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