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  2. SECTARIANISM IN POLITICS.

    In the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr.GRIFFITH moved,—(1) That a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the truthfulness or otherwise of ...

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  3. TASMANIA.

    The charge of murder by an unlawful operation against Bingham Crowther, Patrick J. Godfrey, and Sarah Knight, resulted this morning in their committal by the police ...

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  4. SECOND EDITION

    Play in the return match between the Australians and Gloucestershire, at Cheltenham, was started at a quarter-past 1 o'clock. The sky is overcast, and the ...

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  5. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Question time in the House of Representatives to-day produced from the Prime Minister an alteration in one of his previous statements. He was asked whether he was ...

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  6. STRIFE IN RUSSIA.

    Professors of the University of Odessa are abstaining from their duties until the people are given all civil rights and the universities receive academic autonomy. ...

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  7. THE CHANNEL SQUADRON

    The Channel fleet under Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, has had a great reception at Swinemunde. Germans are genuinely interested in the British fleet, and are eager ...

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  8. SECRET COMMISSIONS BILL

    Mr.Isaacs, Attorney-General, received a deputation to-night in Parliament House from the Chamber of Commerce of Melbourne, which desired to bring under his notice a few ...

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  9. FRESH CONCESSIONS

    Mr. Sato, a member of the suite of Baron Komura, the Japanese plenipotentiary at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, announces that Japan has made fresh concessions in ...

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  10. GENEROUS GIFT TO Y.M.C.A.

    Mr Charles Davis, ironmonger, of this city, has presented to the young Men's Christian Association a valuable site in Murray-street for a new hall and £1000 in cash. ...

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  11. IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES.

    Landholders in the Baltic provinces of Russia are enrolling old German soldiers to defend their estates and country houses. Count Orlowski has engaged 75, ...

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  12. THE LAST WORD.

    M. Witte, the Russian plenipotentiary[?] told Mr. Takahira, the Junior Japanese plenipotentiary, when the latter asked for a postponement of the conference at ...

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  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    The motion to go int Committee of Supply to-day was intercepted by the Opposition moving an amendment in favour of the establishment of a Public Service Board for New ...

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  14. ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

    The Russian plenipotentiary who has been using Mr. G. W. Smalley, the New York correspondent of the "Times," as his mouthpiece, to his most recent statement ...

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  15. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4 ll-16d per ounce standard. ...

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  16. VICTORIA.

    A conference composed of representatives of the railway departments of the various States is at present sitting in Melbourne for the purpose of compiling a uniform book of ...

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  17. GLOUCESTERSHIRE MATCH.

    At Cheltenham it rained all day, and play in the match between the Australians and Gloucestershire was abandoned for the day. ...

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  18. FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA.

    Lieutenant Paasche, commanding a German force, surprised 1000 rebels it Kipo, German East Africa. In the conflict which followed the rebels left 73 dead ...

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  19. THE OPEN DOOR.

    A statement has been issued at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, obviously from a Russian source, that there has been some misunderstanding at Peterhof (the Czar's ...

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  20. DISSOLUTION OF UNION.

    Norway and Sweden have appointed Commissioners to negotiate for a dissolution of the union. The Commissioners will hold their first meeting on Thursday. ...

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  21. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Bell, Minister for Lands, speaking at Ta-abinga village, near Kingaroy, yesterday, said that in the past population preceded railways, but now the Government was trying to ...

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  22. THE ENGLISH WICKETKEEPER.

    A proposal is afoot to raise a testimonial to A. A. Lilley, the Warwickshire cricketer, who has kept wickets in 27 test matches. ...

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  23. NORFOLK ISLAND.

    The steamer Induna arrived this morning from the New Hebrides, and sails again at noon for Sydney. Her passengers from here are Rev.Nind, Messrs, Maroney, Simpson, ...

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  24. BOMB FACTORIES AT SMYRNA.

    The recent discoveries at Smyrna, Asia Minor, included 16 bomb factories. Many grenades and revolvers were also found. The Armenian Committee intended to set ...

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  25. KIERAN'S NEW RECORD.

    The 500 yards championship was swum at Leeds yesterday, and was won by B. B. Kieran, of New South Wales, in 6 min 7 sec, a new record. ...

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  26. A SOUTH SEA CRUISE.

    After a cruise extending over a period of nearly two months among the islands of the South Seas, the steamer Moresby, of the Island mail fleet of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and ...

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  27. MURRAY RIVER QUESTION.

    The Prem[?]s' Conference in Hobart asked the South Australian Government to provide further information in regard to the Murray River proposals that the States interested ...

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  28. JUGGLING WITH STATISTICS.

    Edwin Holmes, formerly Associate Statistician in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, has been indicted for defrauding the United States Government ...

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  29. THE CHANNEL SWIM.

    W. T. Burgess has made another attempt to swim the Channel, but, owing to a gale, was again compelled to give up, after being in the water for nine hours. ...

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  30. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY.

    In the Legislative Assembly to day after formal business had been disposed of, the Government Whip[?] Mr.Gordon, moved an adjournment to October 3, to enable Ministers ...

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  31. THE JAPANESE VIEW.

    The Ministers and elder statesmen of Japan sat the whole of Monday morning[?] at Tokio, and, under the presidency of the Emperor of Japan, they resumed their ...

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  32. THE STATE FINANCES.

    The Treasurer laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday the annual report of Mr. John Vernon, Auditor-General, relating to the public accounts for the year ...

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  33. CARRYING OUT PUBLIC WORKS.

    The Minister for Home Affairs has applied to the Treasurer for a grant of £5000 out of the advance vote in anticipation of the votes to enable him to carry ...

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  34. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the Full Court to-day judgment was given in the case of appeal by the "Daily News" against the verdict in connection with the action for libel, in which J.L.Nanson, M. L.A., ...

    Article : 192 words
  35. OPENING OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Tom Roberts' picture of the opening by the Duke of York of the first Commonwealth Parliament has been set up in the Queen's Hall, and has attracted great attention. It ...

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  36. THE ADJOURNMENT.

    Mr. Takahira, in the course of an interview, stated that the adjournment of the conference was due to a desire of the Japanese plenipotentiaries to be in full ...

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  37. ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    The whole of the electoral rolls of the Commonwealth have now been printed and copies forwarded to every electorate in all the districts. ...

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  38. SUICIDE OF A SUGAR SPECULATOR.

    M. Cronier, chairman of the Say Sugar Refinery Company, a speculating rival of M. Jaluzot, who failed four weeks ago in Paris, has committed suicide. M. ...

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  39. COPYRIGHT BILL.

    The statements by Mr. H. C. L. Anderson to Mr. Carruthers regarding the probable effect of the Copyright Bill were brought under the notice of the Prime Minister ...

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  40. AN ACTRESS'S DIVORCE SUIT.

    Gertrude Maesmore Morris, actress, to-day petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Maesmore Morris, accountant, now of Kimberley, South Africa, on the ground of ...

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  41. CAMPAIGN CONTINUING.

    The Czar on August 19 ordered a mobilisation of reinforcements for the Far East in the Governments of Riga, Windau, Vilna, Grodno, Livonia, Perin, Saratoff, ...

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  42. TRAGEDY AT TOOWOOMBA.

    A sensation was caused at Toowoomba today by the news that Ralph Stephens, aged 32, had been shot by his brother Herbert Stephens, on their farm at Middle Ridge, near ...

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  43. AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Higgins (Vic.) asked the Prime Minister if his attention had been called to the systematic attempts which were being made by ...

    Article : 163 words
  44. A MADAGASCAR MINEFIELD.

    There is much excitement on the Johannesburg Exchange over the discovery that the popular Le C[?]mte minefield at Madagascar has been largely salted. ...

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  45. NO SETTLEMENT INTENDED.

    The "Times" in a leading article asks, why does the Russian plenipotentiary make such disclosures as he has done to Mr. Smalley? The attitude of M. Witte ...

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  46. HARBOUR COLLISION.

    Early yesterday morning a collision, Which happily was not attended with serious damage, occurred off Dawes Point between the steamer Koree—one of the largest vessels of the fleet ...

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  47. A SCREW COMBINE.

    The "Standard" reports that a British and German combine has arranged to raise the price of screws 50 per cent., and to refrain from international competition. ...

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  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Moors at Cavija, near Tangier, Morocco, fired rifles at a Spanish ship, and wounded a sailor. Great damage has been done by floods ...

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  49. SHOOTING CASE AT PERTH.

    Late last night the Victoria Park police were informed that shooting was going on at a house about [?] mile west of the Ascot Hotel, on the old Gulldford-road Constable Watt ...

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  50. PELAW-MAIN COLLIERY.

    Mr. John Brown proprietor of the Pelaw[?]n Colliery, h[?] consented to allow the men is 9d per ton for blasting and filling top coal, but another hitch [?] occurred, ...

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  51. STEAMER PECONIC FOUNDERS.

    Advices from Jacksonville, Florida, state that the steamer Peconic, 1855 tons, foundered at sea in a storm. Twenty of those on board were drowned, and two were ...

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  52. WORLD'S BOXING CHAMPION.

    There is a probability of James J. Jeffries, of America, champion boxer of the world, coming to Australia and engaging in a match in Melbourne. When the American cyclist, ...

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  53. BISHOPRIC OF ADELAIDE.

    The Venerable Dr. A. B. O. Wilberforce, Archdeacon of Westminster and Chaplain of the House of Commons, has declined the offer of the vacant See of Adelaide, on ...

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  54. SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

    Mrs. Davoy, 28 years of age, wife of Mr. John Greig Davey, committed suicide at [?]o[?] Dam early yesterday morning. Whilst her husband was milking a cow Mrs. Davey ...

    Article : 103 words
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