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  2. VICTORIA. SUPREME COURT JUDGSHIP.

    Developments to-day made it practica[?] certain that Mr. Davies, the Attorney-General, will decline the Judgeship offered him. An Executive Council meeting was held ...

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  3. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THE ALLEGED PLAGUE ON THE NERA. '

    Information has been received at Fremantle through unofficial sources that the Messageries Maritimes Company intends to take vigorous action concerning the conduct of the local ...

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  4. BROKEN HILL FIRES. THE PROPRIETARY OUTBREAK.

    Latest news with regard to the fire in the Proprietary mine is good. The general manager, Mr. Delprat, late this aftornoon said the are had been thoroughly blocked in, and, ...

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  5. AMONG THE SHARKS.

    We slipped down the Shoalhaven from Nowra early on Sunday morning. Our stem launch was full-freighted. Twenty enthusiasts exchanged fish stories as they sliced ...

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  6. POPE'S ENCYCLICAL. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

    The Pope has addressed an encyclical to the clergy and people of France, expressing great grief and anxiety at the inauguration of the law separating Church and ...

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  7. FUTURE OF MOROCCO. FRANCE'S LAST WORD.

    At the International Congress on Moroccan affairs at Algeciras Germany proposed that the Sultan should choose foreign officers to control the native police, or, as an ...

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  8. THE COMMONWEALTH. SECRET COMMISSIONS.

    "Doos tho Federal Secret Commissions Act apply to all the States in the Commonwealth?" is a question that has been asked more than once in some quarters. Sir William ...

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  9. ANARCHY IN RUSSIA. REVOLUTIONARY ROBBERS. BANKS AND TREASURIES PILLAGED.

    Owing to the reluctance of wealthy Liberals to continue to contribute to the funds of the revolutionaries after the failure of the uprising in Moscow, revolutionaries ...

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  10. THE PLAGUE AT FREMANTLE.

    Peter Johnson, who was stationed as a special constabl[?] on duty in Packenhamstreet, Fremantle, where the Fiorio family contracted plague, is now suffering from ...

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  11. ADULTERATING LEATHER.

    The Government Analyst states, as the resuit of the analysis of 75 samples of leather that the practice of weighting leather wi[?] barium compounds has practically ceased i[?] ...

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  12. THE POSTAL CONGRESS.

    Sir Joseph Ward, Postmaster-General of New Zealand, had an interview with the Prime Minister this afternoon, when matters in regard to the forthcoming Postal Conference ...

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  13. TASMANIA.

    The State election campaign started tonight, when Mr. D. Freeman, the new Ministerial candidate for North Hobart, addrossed electors. This seat was formerly ...

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  14. THE RESOURCES OF THE STATE.

    The Rev. W. C..Wallace, M.A., formerly Presbyterian minister at Branxholme, who leaves for London on March 2 by the steame[?] Medic, has been a[?]credited by the Premier of ...

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  15. UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE.

    Earl Roberts, in a letter to the newspapers, explains the objects and policy of the National Service League. It proposes that all men of sound physique shall be ...

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  16. PROGRESSIVE LAND TAX.

    Mr. Watson, M.P., made a further statement yesterday in respect to the criticism passed upon him by Mr. J. Cook, M.P. "Mr. Cook states that the single-taxers ...

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  17. TRIAL OF LIEUTENANT SCHMIDT.

    Lieutenant Schmidt, the leader of the mutiny of the Black Sea fleet at Sebastopol, at the end of November, has refused to take food during the past six days, ...

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  18. CASUALTIES. DEATH AT NORTH SYDNEY.

    The dead body of Sarah Jane Rafter, 65 years of age, lately residing at 120 Blue's Point-road. North Sydney, was found yesterday morning lying at the foot of a ladder at her residence. ...

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  19. JUNCTION MINE OUTBREAK.

    There is but little fresh to report in connection with the Junction fire. The Browne shaft was unsealed this afternoon, and when the air current got to work gas only, and no ...

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  20. THE WEATHER UNSETTLED CONDITIONS..

    Drizzling rain continued to fall in the city and suburbs yesterday. The total quantity recorded by the gauge at the Observatory up to 9 o'clock last night was but 10 points. At ...

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  21. FOUND STABBED.

    A fruiterer named William Francis, residing at King-street, Newtown, was conveyed yesterday by the Newtown police to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital suffering from a severe ...

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  22. TOLL TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

    Arrangements are practically complete in regard to the installation of the toll system of telephoning. There will be nothing compulsory as regards present telephone ...

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  23. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.

    The City Coroner held an inquiry yesterday morning into the circumstances of the death of Matthew Pemberton, 37 years of age, a wharf labourer, who succumbed to ...

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  24. QUEENSLAND. PROTECTION OP INFANT LIFE.

    A deputation representing the medical profession waited on the Home Secretary this morning, and urged the great need for placing the administration of infant life protection ...

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  25. SATURDAY'S STORM.

    The storm which burst with cyclonic fury over the western end of Burwood and over the greater part of Strathfield on Saturday did a good deal of damage during the few ...

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  26. PHOSPHORUS POISONING.

    Dr. O'Reilly admitted S[?]rah Acton, aged 16 years, to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon for treatment for phosphorus poisoning. The girl, it is alleged, drank a solution of ...

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  27. GENERAL LINEVITCH RESIGNS.

    General Linevitch, owing to his failure to quell the disturbances in his district, has resigned the command of the Russian troops in Manchuria and Eastern Siberia, ...

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  28. MURDER OF A HINDOO.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, a Hindoo, Wallum Nabby, was charged with the wilful murder of Johnnie Do, at Nanango, on November 8 last. ...

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  29. SENSATIONAL INCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP.

    A remarkable accident occurred on board the barquentine River Hunter yesterday morning, while the vessel was leaving the harbour to (proceed to Newcastle, and resulted ...

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  30. MILITARY MOTOR BICYCLES.

    Mr. R. B. Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, as the result of experiments and the manoeuvres of 1905, has ordered a number of low-built military ...

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  31. KUROPATKIN RECALLED.

    General Kuropatkin, commanding the 1st Army Corps in Manchuria, and General Batinanoff, commanding the 3rd Army Corps, have been recalled. ...

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  32. MR. CARRUTHERS AT COOMA.

    Mr. Carruthers (Premier), accompanied by Mr. Dannevig and Mr. Henry Dawson, of the Fisheries Department, reached Cooma this afternoon after spending a few days quiet ...

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  33. EXPLOSION AT A RAILWAY STATION.

    While a truck from Viadivostock was being unloaded at a St. Petersburg railway station a case exploded and killed four men. ...

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  34. THE NATAL RISING.

    The Natal Government has ordered troops to sweep the country south of Unkomanzl, in order to clear it of natives, owing to reports of chiefs combining ...

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  35. PTOMAINE POISONING.

    Five members of a family named M'Intyre were conveyed to the Sydney Hospital early last evening, suffering from the effects of ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating pickled ...

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  36. APPEALS BEFORE THE FULL COURT.

    Before the Full Court to-day argument in the case raised for the determination of the suit Heness versus Bell was concluded. The question the Court was asked to decide was ...

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  37. THE BAERAMI COUNTRY.

    Baerami and the vicinity experienced an extraordinary electric storm about 7 o'clock last night. Vivid lightning and tropical rains were in evidence for two hours. The hill ...

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  38. FUNERAL OF KING CHRISTIAN.

    The funeral of King Christian IX. of Denmark was conducted at Roskilde Cathedral yesterday in the presence of his three daughters, Queen Alexendra, the ...

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  39. DISCOVERY OF BOMBS.

    Six bombs and a quantity of arms have been discovered in the vicinity of the Putiloff Works, St. Petersburg. Many arrests have been made. ...

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  40. MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY TELEPHONES.

    As stated some time ago, common battery switchboards are to be established in the telephone exchange of Melbourne and Sydney. They dispense with the necessity of ...

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  41. A SAD STORY.

    This afternoon the coroner commenced an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a young woman known as Emily Gray, who was drowned in Wollondilly River ...

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  42. SEIZURE OF OPIUM.

    A Chinese machinist, belonging to the Australian, was arrested by the Customs authorities yesterday on the jetty, and on being searched 11 tins of opium were found ...

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  43. EXPULSION OF UNDESIRABLES.

    Owing to all the prisons of the capital being full the Russian Government is compelling employers to dismiss undesirable persons, who are then expelled from St. ...

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  44. TOBACCO MONOPOLY.

    The Tobacco Monopoly Commission met today to consider the draft report drawn up by the chairman. Senator Pearce. There were present in addition to the chairman Senators ...

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  45. CRISIS IN HUNGARY. WRECKING THE CONSTITUTION.

    M. Kossuth, the leader of the Independence party in Hungary, has informed his followers that General Nyiri, the Commissary of the Emperor Francis Joseph, ...

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  46. PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT.

    Prince Arthur of Connaught, who will invest the Emperor of Japan will the Order of the Garter, and Admiral Togo and Field-Marshal Oyama with the Order ...

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  47. SEND-OFF TO MR. W. SCOTT FELL.

    A large and representative gathering of merchants met at the Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon to wish "bon voyage" to Mr. W. Scott Fell who purposes leaving ...

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  48. NEW GUINEA OFFICIAL DISPUTE.

    Some considerable time ago a dispute between Captain Barton. Administrator, and Mr. Richmond, Chief Government Surveyor, of New Guinea, which led to the suspension of ...

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  49. STORMS AT ARMIDALE.

    One of the heaviest thunderstorms, or rather succession of storms, ever witnessed at Ar[?]idale occurred last night, being accompanied by vivid lightning. There was a deluge of ...

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  50. FRANCO-RUSSIAN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.

    The French Senate has adopted the Franco-Russian commercial convention. ...

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  51. DETERMINED CASE OF SUICIDE.

    While on duty at 11.30 last night Constable Furlong noticed a light in a shed in the rear of premises occupied by an old-age pensioner named G. J. R. Keeffe. On investigation the ...

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  52. GAMBLING A CRIME.

    The New York State Assembly has passed a bill which makes gambling on racecourses a felony. The bill will be sent to the State Senate ...

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  53. EMIGRATION FROM QUEENSLAND.

    Twenty-three persons are passengers by the steamer Wollowra from Townsville for Brisbane. They are leaving Charters Towers for Vancouver. One man said the exodus was due ...

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  54. RAILWAY FATALITY.

    Mr. William Bampton, a resident of Bathurst, and middle-aged, came to Lithgow by mail train on Saturday night. Just before 4 a.m. on Sunday he was found by a constable ...

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  55. WHITE LABOUR IN RAND MINES.

    The Commissioner of Mines on the Rand states that after a fair trial unskilled white labour in the mines has been found to be a failure. Many white labourers accept ...

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  56. FLOODS IN WESTERN QUEENSLAND.

    The highest flood ever known has occcured at Windorah. Further west, on the Diamanitna, 23 inches of rain fell. At Palparara the flood waters are ...

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  57. STEAMERS FOR JAPAN.

    The Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Ma[?]l S.S. Company) hsa offered to purchase four steamers of the Pacific Mail Company. ...

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  58. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. THE OUTER HARBOUR DISPUTE.

    The acting Treasurer stated to-day that no further action had been taken in regard to the Outer Harbour, but that a Cabinet meeting would be held on Tuesday at which the ...

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  59. BUSH FIRES.

    Shortly before noon on Saturday a large bush fire started on Hebden Brothers' property, in the vicinity of the place where the disastrous conflagration began last year. The fire ...

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  60. HEAT APOPLEXY.

    The death of a little girl, 3 years old, daughter of Mr. Sedgwick Gorton, occurred here on Saturday through heat apoplexy. ...

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  61. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6, 9-16d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d since Saturday. ...

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  62. THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY.

    President Loubet retired from the Elysee yesterday after installing M. Fallieres as President of France in his place. ...

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  63. A GIRL BURNED.

    A serious burning accident occurred at the Cross Roads Hotel yesterday afternoon, the victim being Lizzie Quinnell. The girl ran from the kitchen with her clothes in flames, and ...

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  64. GIFT TO THE ART GALLERY.

    An interesting gift has been made to the Adelaide Art Gallery by Mrs. Edwards, widow of the late well-known artist, Mr. Edwin Edwards. The gift is a series of Mr. Edwards's ...

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  65. FATAL FIRE AT DALBY.

    Mr. W. J. Webb's hotel, near the railway station at Dalby, was burned to the ground this afternoon. Little or nothing was saved, and the lessee, John Rynn, perished in the ...

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  66. STABBING HIS MOTHER.

    Arthur Cyril Dunderdale was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with the murder of his mother at South Yarra on December 14. The evidence for the Crown was the deceased ...

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  67. TRAM LEAVES THE RAILS.

    A tram consisting of two cars, proceeding from Circular Quay to Bondi Junction, met with an accident last evening when outside Centennial Park, between Queen-street and ...

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  68. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. John A. M'Call, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, aged 56 years. Mr. John A. M'Call had been president of ...

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  69. WRECK OF LA BELLA.

    To-day at the Court of General Sessions, before Judge Choml[?]y, George Nylius, master of the vessel La Bella, wrecked at War[?]ambool on November 10 last, was placed ...

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  70. LOCAL OPTION POLL.

    Scrutinies in local option polls were finished to-day and resulted in a substantial win for the temperance party in every district except that of Adelaide. In the city itself no ...

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  71. KILLED BY A FALL OF EARTH.

    A fall of earth took place in the stope at the 700ft level of the South Kalgoorlie mine on Saturday night, almost burying John Cox, a native of Ireland. When he was rescued ...

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  72. SHIPMENT OF GOLD..

    There was shipped for London this evening specie amounting to £75,000, consigned to the Right Hon. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, London. ...

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