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  2. STATE BUDGET.

    The debate on the Budget Speech delivered by the Premier and Treasurer was resumed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The House went into committee ...

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  3. THE FEDERAL SITUATION

    The Labour parly held a caucus this morning. Among other things, it took into consideration the question whether it should support Mr. Isaacs in his projected attack upon ...

    Article : 476 words
  4. RELIGION IN POLITICS.

    Mr. CROUCH (Vic), in the House of Representatives to-day, asked the Minister for Defence what his intentions were in regard to the corsecration of colours recently presented by ...

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  5. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Sir Edward Grey, M.P. (Liberal), speaking at Selby, Yorkshire, last night, said that if the motherland consented to tax food she would expect the colonies to ...

    Article : 381 words
  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    Viscount Curzon of Kedleston will return to India at the end of November and resume thE Vice-Royalty. The Ameer of Afghanistan, Habib Ulla[?], proposes to ...

    Article : 348 words
  7. THE WAR.

    The fighting of the last twelve days has resulted in an advance of the Japanese line 15 miles northward. Operations are now ...

    Article : 93 words
  8. THE BALTIC FLEET.

    The Baltic Fleet has passed through the Kattegat, and is now in the North Sea. ...

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  9. CABLES TO THE CONSUL.

    The following cablegrams have been received by Mr. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan in Sydney, from Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:— ...

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  10. THE JAPANESE GAIN.

    The [?]ull in the fighting on the Sha-ho, 12 miles south of Mukden, is due to the physical exhaustion of both armies, and to their awaiting the coming up of supplies of ...

    Article : 521 words
  11. FOR THE SUFFERERS.

    Mr. P. Adams writes:—"The object of thE Carnival and Chinese Village, to be held at (he Royal Agricultural Grounds, Sydney, is to raise a fund for the benefit of the sufferers ...

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  12. VICTORIA.

    A suit in which a widow sought, on behalf of her six children, to recover £2000 from the employers of her late husband, came before Judge Chomley in the County Court ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    The condition of the electoral rolls in several States was referred to in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. MCDONALD (Q.) asked whether Mr. ...

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  14. MOVEMENTS OF THE RUSSIANS.

    "Marshal Oyama further reports on Tuesday as follows:— "In the direction of our right army the enemy seem to be gradually decreasing in ...

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  15. THE THIBETAN TREATY.

    The India Office denies the allegation given publicity to by Reuter's Agency that there is an intention to occupy the Chumbi Valley, Southern Thibet, for 75 years. ...

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  16. APPEAL BY MR. W. H. IRVINE.

    Mr. W. H. Irvine, M.L.A., speaking at the Municipal Association dinner last night, referred to the position taken up in Australia on preferential trade. He must confess that, ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. BILL TO ENFRANCHISE WOMEN.

    A bill to extend the franchise to women in State [?]olitics has been circulated in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Lawson and Mr. M'Gregor. It provides that, notwithstanding ...

    Article : 80 words
  18. THE WOOL SALES.

    The Melbourne wool sales were continued to-day, when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their opening sale of the season in the presence of a very ...

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  19. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    The rival armies are preparing for another battle south of Mukden, but new dispositions are being made that will throw the conflict further westward than at Yen-tai and ...

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  20. THE NEMESIS SUBSCRIPTION.

    The Acting Lord Mayor, as hon. treasurer of the Nemesis Relief Fund, acknowledges the receipt of subscriptions totalling £2879. ...

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  21. TASMANIA.

    On the afternoon of the second day of the South Tasmania show, the Acting-Governor presented ex-Superintendent Ruddoch and ex[?] Sub-inspector Dewall, formerly of the ...

    Article : 64 words
  22. MR. REID AND MR. DEAKIN.

    Mr. Reid, on being spoken to on the proposal of Sir Frederick Pollock for the formation of an Imperial committee of the Privy Council, by including certain Ministers of the ...

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  23. DESTROYERS IN COLLISION.

    The British torpedo boat destroyers Boxer (29.1 knots) and Ardent (27.8 knots) came into collision off the Moroccan coast on Tuesday. Both were damaged. They ...

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  24. THE MINING DISASTER AT CHARTERS TOWERS.

    As the fumes were working their way into the mines east of the chief Brilliant mines the men were brought to the surface. The mines which were shut down yesterday were ...

    Article : 147 words
  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Speaking at the Royal Show luncheon the Premier, Mr. Daglish, said the present Govornment was very anxious to assist in any form of immigration that would serve the ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner of police, in his annual report, shows a considerable diminution of crime during the year. The offences committed numbered 6456, a falling off of 197, as ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. WEALTHY LABOUR LEADER.

    Mr. Weinseimer, the successor to the late Sam Parkes as the labour leader at New York, has been arrested on a charge of ordering that strikes should take place in ...

    Article : 226 words
  28. ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAYS.

    Mr. F. E. Blackford, who was commissioned by the Government to report on converting the suburban railway lines to electric traction, has finished his labour. His report ...

    Article : 119 words
  29. GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OF ECONOMY.

    The Minister for Works, Mr. Johnson, speaking at an election meeting at East Perth, said that because the Daglish Government had stated that they intended to be careful in ...

    Article : 218 words
  30. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SYMPATHY.

    The following telegrams have passed between the Governor-General and the Mayor of Charters Towers iin reference to the disaster there:— ...

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  31. CHURCH WRECKED BY A STORM.

    During Tuesday's storm, which was experienced in all parts of the State, the Methodist Church at Stirling North, near Port Augusta, which was lately re-erected, was blown down, ...

    Article : 69 words
  32. MURDEROUS MACHINE GUNS.

    The "Standard's" correspondent with General Kuroki's army reports that a Russian battalion was almost annihilated when returning across the Tai-tze by a pontoon ...

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  33. BODY FOUND AT PORT HACKING.

    The body of a man, which was noticed in the water off Cronulla on Sunday morning, was found on the beach at Port Hacking late yesterday afternoon by Senior-constable ...

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  34. FIRE ON THE DORSET.

    The fire on the steamer Dorset has been completely extinguished, and the cargo was removed from the hold yesterday, when it was found that the greater part of it had been ...

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  35. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Shops and Offices Bill has passed its final stages in the Legislative Council. During the debate several country members urged that no more labour legislation was wanted, ...

    Article : 206 words
  36. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 13-16d per oz standard, a fall of l-16d since Tuesday. ...

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  37. CAUSE OF THE RUSSIAN CHECK.

    The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Temps" (Paris) considers that the general check sustained by General Kuropatkin's offensive movement was due to a badly ...

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  38. TALLOW SALES.

    At the sales of Australasian tallow to-day 1561 casks were offered and 76 casks were sold. Prices were 6d lower than late rates, viz.:— Mutton, fine 28s 9d, medium 26s 6d; beef, fine ...

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  39. GERMAN NEW GUINEA.

    Passengers by the steamer Prinz Sigismund state that there had not been any further trouble with the natives of German New Guinea. Five or six of the murderers, or ...

    Article : 152 words
  40. SUPPPOSED SUICIDE.

    A sad case of apparent suicide occurred at Woolloomooloo yesterday. A man named John Frederick Freeman was discovered on the stop of a house in which he had been staying with a ...

    Article : 229 words
  41. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    By a fire which occurred at a tenement at King's Cross, London, last night six persons were suffocated and three others were injured. ...

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  42. THE UMBERUMBERKA WEIR.

    The Mayor yesterday wired to the Minister of Public Works the protest of Monday night's public meeting against the proposal to sell the material now lying at Umberumberka ...

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  43. TRICKERY IN WAR.

    The Japanese Government, through Mr. John Hay, the United States Secretary of State, is protesting against the Russians attempting surprises disguised in Chinese ...

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  44. THE LA BELLA FLOATED.

    The barquentine La B[?], bound from Port Chalmers to New Plymouth with a cargo of produce, which went ashore near Island Bay, Wellington, during the recent gales, has ...

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  45. EATING FOR STRENGTH

    is the proper way to [?]at for you, as well as your children. Give them ARNOTT'S MILK ARROWROOTS, nourishing and oasily digested. —Advt. ...

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  46. CHILDREN KNOW[?]

    what they like, and are never afraid to say so. ARNOTT'S MILK ARROWROOTS have always been distinctly "the CHILDREN'S BISCUITS." —Advt. ...

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