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  2. PROPOSED EXHIBITION.

    A public meeting, convened by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Hugh[?]s) was held at the Town Hall yesterday to consider the proposal for holding an international exhibition. The ...

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  3. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A settlement of the loss in regard to the fire at Harrold Colton and Company's premises was made to-day by Colonol Freeman on behalf of the insurance companies, and by ...

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  4. COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

    In the House of Lords to-day Lord Ampthill (Liberal Unionist) asked if the Colonial Conference would discuss the disabilities of British Indians, and their ...

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  5. WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION

    A great meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union was held yesterday in the Caxton Hall, Westminster. Among those present was a large contingent of ...

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  6. HOME RULE.

    The Earl of Denbigh raised a debate in the House of Lords last night on the subject of the government of Ireland and of the statements that a measure of Home ...

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  7. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    For some time past the postal authorities have been faced with an over-increasing difficulty in finding room in Sydney Post-office. Every inch of space has been utilised in the ...

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  8. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Amongst questions to be discussed at the conference of Deputy Postmasters-General, to be held in Melbourne shortly, will be that of uniform postage stamps. ...

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  9. DISABLED STEAMER COLAC.

    The disabled steamer Colac, of the Adelaide Steamship Company's fleet, entered the port at 4.30 p.m. to-day, in [?]ow of Messrs. Fenwick and Company's tugs Newburgh and ...

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  10. NEW ZEALAND.

    Dissatisfaction exists amongst butchers at the Islington and Belfast works, near Christ-church, concerning the extra work imposed, and which, they alle[?], is not proviced for in ...

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  11. LETTER SORTING ON STEAMERS.

    The Postal Department is now endeavouring to make arrangements for the English mail to be sorted on steamers between Fremantle and Adelaide, instead of on trains, in order to ...

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  12. TRANSVAAL DELEGATES.

    Sir Richard Solomon, a leader of the Nationalist party in the Transvaal, will accompany General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, to England. ...

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  13. "A LEGISLATIVE CONSPIRACY."

    The speech which Mr. Balfour made in replying to a deputation of Unionist delegates from Ireland on Tuesday was the subject of a question in the House of ...

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  14. THE THAW TRIAL.

    A dramatic development in the trial of Harry Thaw, charged at New York with the murder of Stanford White, occurred yesterday. Mr. Jerome, the District ...

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  15. THE RIVERINA IN HEAVY WEATHER.

    Heavy sons and a gale were encountered by the steamer Riverina after her departure from Sydney. The vessel shipped seas on Sunday and two ports were smashed and two ...

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  16. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY CONFERENCE.

    The Postmaster-General is arranging a conference upon the question of the adoption of wireless telegraphy. The parties most interested, namely, navy authorities, the ...

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  17. A FAMILY DROWNED.

    A carpenter named Sandilands and his wife and child were drowned in the Molyneux River at Balc[?]utha through being capsized from a buggy. ...

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  18. GOVERNMENT OF LONDON.

    After a discussion extending over six hours, the London County Council decided to have a special audit made, on a commercial basis, in order to discover the ...

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  19. FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS.

    Plans reached the Acting-Minister of the Customs Department to-day from Norway of a vessel upon the lines of which a vessel is to be built to explore Australian waters for ...

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  20. PENSIONS' SCHEME.

    Speaking at the meeting of the annual moveable committee of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows to-day, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Swinburne, said ...

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  21. THE SUEVIC DISASTER.

    Captain Jones, of the Suevic, reports that the tide flows freely through the forepeak and No. 1, 2, and 3 holds, but the stokehole and engine-room are dry. ...

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  22. HARVESTER EXCISE.

    It is provided in the Excise Tariff Act of 1000, which cameo into force on January 1, that duties on harvesters manufactured in Australia shall not be operative if firms engaged in ...

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  23. INEQUALITY OF RATES.

    In the House of Commons last night a motion by Mr. W. Crooks (Woolwich), that the inequality of rates in different portions of London required the yearly ...

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  24. SAN FRANCISCO CORRUPTION.

    Mr. G. W. Smalley, New York correspondent of the "Times," states that the members of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, in order to save ...

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  25. LOSS OF THE CENTENNIAL.

    In October last the steamer Centennial, 89 tons gross, left Launceston with a crow of 10 for Wellington, and was never afterwards heard of A Royal Commission was appointed ...

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  26. CASUALTIES.

    Gordon Wilson, 21, who arrived in Sydney from Emu Plains, in charge of a traction engine attached to some trucks laden with wool, sustained a fractured arm yesterday owing to ...

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  27. FIGHTING IN NIGERIA.

    Severe fighting is reported from Bor[?], Northern Nigeria, in operations against the Tibuks, a tribe of robbers. In the presence of Captain Booth ...

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  28. A SEAMAN'S DEATH.

    Mr. Meares, P.M., yesterday afternoon, held an inquiry relative to the death of Albert Johnson, a seaman, of the collier Sphene, which took place on the 18th instant, ...

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  29. COMMONWEALTH STATISTICS.

    The Federal Statistician, Mr. G. H. Knibbs, has issued an official bulletin of trade, shipping, and oversea migration for the month of January. The total value of imports and ...

    Article : 84 words
  30. GREAT POSTAL ROBBERY.

    A box of registered letters, valued at £80,000, was stolen while in transit b[?]tween New York and Paris. A man possessing £8000 has been arrested. He ...

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  31. THE JENA EXPLOSION.

    M. Bos, Reporter on the French Naval Estimates, blames the Ordnance Department for disregarding warnings, extending over five years, respecting the ...

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  32. A SEVERE SCALP WOUND.

    William Short, 51, a railway guard, residing in South-street, Kogarah, was treated at the Sydney Hospital last night for a severe scalp wound. He was in the brake van of a goods ...

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  33. AN OLD CLAIM.

    When federation was established, and money order business was taken over from the States large sums of floating capital were included in the assets transferred. Claims ...

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  34. THE WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales this afternoon there was a spirited sale for all descriptions, and prices were the highest of the present series. ...

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  35. MELBOURNE HEBREW CONGREGATION.

    A crisis was reached this week in the affairs of the Melbourne Hebrew congregation. It was the result of a motion carried at a special meeting of the members on December ...

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  36. LORD WILLIAM NEVILL.

    Lord William Nevill, a son of the Marquis of Abergavenny, has been committed for trial at the Westminster Police Court on a charge of exchanging, by a trick, a ...

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  37. WOMAN FALLS DOWN A WELL.

    Yesterday afternoon a boy named William Mills went to a well near the North Perth Hotel for the purpose of drawing water. As he was pulling the bucket to the surface an ...

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  38. THE FAR EAST.

    Eastern files by the steamer Tsinan, which arrived on Wednesday, contained the following information:—"A wave of mad speculation has seized Japan since the war, and ...

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  39. NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION.

    The schooner Duchess of Bedford, in which is the Anglo-American expedition to the polar regions, commanded by Captain Elnar Mikkelsen, is frozen up 200 ...

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  40. NEW CALEDONIA.

    Mr. W. Runciman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed Sir Howard Vincent in the House of Commons last night that France had received ...

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  41. TARIFF REPORTS.

    The Acting Ministor for Customs, Mr. Chapman, has asked the chairman of the Tariff Commission to send in the freetrade section's reports as early as possible. No statement, ...

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  42. SHOCKING FATALITY.

    Benjamin Rixon, teamster, engaged carting logs for the local timber yard, was conveying a log weighing 10 tons on the Howlong-road, when he noticed that a stick used ...

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  43. LIGHTHOUSE ASSISTANT MISSING.

    Two cutters have searched for William Hannah, assistant lighthouse keeper at Low Island lighthouse, but no trace was found. Superintendent Simpson noticed that Hannah's ...

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  44. BISLEY RIFLE TEAM.

    Colonel Templeton presided at a meeting of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Rifle Association of Australia to-day. The chairman stated that moneys collected ...

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  45. ATTEMPT ON A JOHANNESBURG BANK.

    Two men armed with revolvers attempted to hold up the Harrison-street branch of the National Bank of South Africa in Johannesburg. Officials in ...

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  46. RACING ACCIDENT.

    A serious accident occurred in the last event of the Maffra races to-day, When turning into the straight, Ulla, who was loading, stumbled and fell, and Madrid, running close ...

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  47. SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    Last year the local production and imports of sugar exceeded the consumption and export by about 40,000 tons and of those 40,000 tons no roasonable account can be given. An ...

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  48. THE ENTOMBED MINER.

    The Italian, Varischettl, who was entombed in the Westralia mine at Bonnie Vale by the inrush of water, is still alive. This afternoon the Minister for Mines, Mr. Gregory ...

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  49. CHINESE ON THE RAND.

    Mr. Smuts, Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal, is submitting to his Parliament for re-enactment the Asiatic Ordinance which Lord Elgin disallowed. ...

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  50. THE HEBBURN WHEELERS' STRIKE.

    In connection with the wheelers' strike at Hebburn on Tuesday the back money claimed by the strikers has been paid by the management. ...

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  51. LATE COUNT LAMSDORFF.

    It is stated that Count Lamsdorf, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia, who died at San Remo, succumbed to heart disease. ...

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  52. LATE SHIPPING.

    The Howard Smith Company's steamer Peregrine, from Queensland ports, arrived at Sydney at 2 o'clock this morning. ...

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  53. SUGAR PLANTATION LABOUR.

    Senator Givens, of Queensland, has received a message from the sub-collector of Customs at Cairns, saying that sugar growers report that 1000 extra men will be required about ...

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