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  2. SECOND EDITION

    A conference of sugar-growers was held at Townsville to-day to consider the practicability of carrying on with white labour, with a view of laying before the Federal ...

    Article : 907 words
  3. VICTORIA.

    Prior to the commencement of business at to-day's meeting of the University Council the chairman, Dr. M'Farland, announced that he had received the following letter from ...

    Article : 278 words
  4. SPECIAL CABLES.

    'A' survey party with an escort of 140 men were caught in a blizzard at Romba Pass, in Southern Thibet. They experienced an awful night. The guides lost ...

    Article : 77 words
  5. THE WAR.

    The besiegers of Port Arthur on the 16th Inst. captured the Russian trenches adjacent to Er-lung-shan, about five miles northeast of the harbour's entrance, also an ...

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  6. AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME.

    The Gamecock Fishing Fleet reached Hall on Sunday night from the Dogger Bank. It reports that it was shelled by the Baltic Fleet, and suffered serious loss. The trawier Crane was sunk, her captain and a sailor were killed, and nine of her crew were injured. The ...

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  7. RUSSIANS THREATEN THE OFFENSIVE.

    Tokio reports that on Saturday the Russians were concentrating against General Kuroki, and that a detachment of Russian cavalry had crossed the Tai-tze-ho east of ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. FISCAL ISSUE.

    Mr. H. H. Asquith, M.P., speaking at Inverness last night, said that the fiscal campaign was a mischievous crusade undertaken with the connivance of the ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR'S EXPLANATION.

    Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador at Washington, declares that Vice-Admiral Rozhdestvenski, commanding the Baltic Fleet, has been ordered to allow no vessel ...

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  10. PROPOSED JOINT UNIVERSITY BOARD.

    A proposal to establish a joint board of the various Universities of Australia, similar to that of Scotland, was brought before the University council to-day by Dr. Leeper. He ...

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  11. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The King met Queen Alexandra on Sunday evening at Charing Cross railway station on her return from Denmark. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman, ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF VICTORIA.

    The first meeting in connection with the annual conference of the Congregational Union of Victoria, which precedes that of the Congregational Union of Australasia, was hold ...

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  13. TRAWLERS AND THE DOGGERBANK.

    It is the custom of trawlers on the east coast of England to fish in huge fleets, and they come mainly from Hall. Grimsby, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and Ramsgate. The ground ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. SUBMARINES FOR RUSSIA.

    Two Russian submarines destined for Viadivostock have been shipped in sections from New york to Hamburg. A number of other submarines are building for Russia ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. BOULDER PERSEVERANCE COMMISSION.

    The Great Boulder Perseverance Commission resumed its sittings to-day, when further evidence was taken. Louis Callen, formerly accountant and ...

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  16. RELEASE OF THE ALLANTON.

    The Russian Admiralty Council at St. Petersburg has ordered the release of the British steamer Alla[?]on, which was seized on June 16 while on the voyage from ...

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  17. PROTESTANT ALLIANCE FRIENDLY SOCIETY.

    The trial of Edward Septimus Moulton, exsecretary of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, on three charges of larceny of the funds of the society, took place ...

    Article : 211 words
  18. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    What are the prospects of the Baltic Fleet changing the course of the campaign? The fleet has moved along the English coast with startling results, but the details of that ...

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  19. AUSTRALASIAN ROMAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

    The second Australasian Roman Catholic Congress was opened to-day at the Cathedral Hall, Brunswick-street. There was a representative gathering of prelates, clergy, and ...

    Article : 616 words
  20. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    A French firm bought the steamer Maori King, 3807 tons, formerly well known in the Australian trade, and her cargo. On arrival at Liverpool they removed her to ...

    Article : 245 words
  21. W. C. TEMPERANCE UNION.

    The seventeenth anniversary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was celebrated this evening by a public meeting in the Melbourne Town Hall. There was a ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. THE NEMESIS FUND.

    The committee dealing with the Nemesis Fund met to-day. It was reported that the fund at present amounted to £2997, and that between 1100 and 1200 subscription lists had ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. CONSOLS.

    Consols were quoted to-day at £88 6s 3d, a fall of 6s 3d since Thursday. (The fall in Consols is probably due to the fear of complications between Great Britain ...

    Article : 47 words
  24. TASMANIA.

    The police are prosecuting inquiries into the cause of the fire at the Tasmanian Soap and Candle Company's factory on Sunday night. There seems little doubt that it ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. ROUGH WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 words
  26. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 13-16d per oz, a fall of 1-16d since Friday. ...

    Article : 21 words
  27. QUEENSLAND.

    The reserved judgment of the Full Court in the appeal of the City Mutual Life Assurance Company against the judgment of the Chief Justice in an action brought by Mrs. ...

    Article : 74 words
  28. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Electric Construction Company has been fined £160 at the Wellington Magistrates' Court for carrying on business in New Zealand for eight months without a license. The ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. CASUALTIES.

    Shortly before 9 o'clock last evening Herbert McArthur, 21, a clerk, residing at Double Bay, was the victim of a tram accident in George-street, near Martin-place. With a ...

    Article : 89 words
  30. POLITICAL LABOUR LEAGUE.

    At the first meeting of the Political Labour League a heated discussion ensued, one member describing the proposal to form an independent Labour party as most disgraceful. The ...

    Article : 53 words
  31. INDIGNATION IN BRITAIN.

    The "Times," in speaking of the outrage to the trawlers, surmises that the Russians were the victims of a disgraceful panic owing to the spreading of Continental ...

    Article : 233 words
  32. FIRE AT ROTORUA.

    The Grand Hotel, Rotorua, one of the largest and best equipped hotels in the colony, was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire originated in a small recess under ...

    Article : 222 words
  33. MINING FATALITY.

    A deplorable accident occurred this evening whereby Horace Walpole was killed instantaneously. He was working with two mates at 240ft level at the British mine when ...

    Article : 270 words
  34. THE CHARTERS TOWERS FIRE.

    A telegram received to-day from Charters Towers states that the conditions are even more favourable to-day, and that every mine, except the Brilliant P.C., is either working ...

    Article : 266 words
  35. KING-STREET SHOOTING AFFRAY.

    The two principals in the sensational shooting case which took place in King-street on Sunday night are not likely to remain in the hospital very long as the result of their ...

    Article : 248 words
  36. ALLEGED TRESPASS ON A RACECOURSE.

    In the case Fairburn v. Stead, in which a bookmaker appealed against a conviction for trespass on the Canterbury Jockey Club's course, the Court of Appeal held by a majority ...

    Article : 120 words
  37. NAVAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTION.

    Admiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, interviewed on the action of the Russians, conjectured that the Russians were Hable to panic owing to their fearing torpedo ...

    Article : 227 words
  38. SAFE ROBBERY IN DARLINGHURST.

    Between closing time on Saturday night and the re-opening yesterday morning of the piano warehouse of Mr. James Gordon, at 379 Bourkestreet, Darlinghurst, burglars effected an ...

    Article : 87 words
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