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  2. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT BILL.

    On the Senate meeting this afternoon. Senator SMITH (W.A.) moved, by leave.— That a copy of the report by Sir John Forrest on Lyndhurst as the Federal capital site ...

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  3. PERSONAL.

    Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Northcote entertained the following at dinner last night:—The Bishop of Newcastle, Sir Julian and Lady Salomons, Sir ...

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  4. SECOND EDITION

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 1½d per ounce standard, an advance of 1-16d since yesterday. ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Although at the Beer Congress at Pretoria a general desire was expressed to co-operate with the Government, and accomplished facts were tacitly accepted, the ...

    Article : 127 words
  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    At the dinner of the Canadian Society in London last night Sir Horace Tozer, the Agent-General for Queensland, was among the guests. ...

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  7. THE WAR.

    The correspondent of the "Times" with the Japanese army at Feng-huan-cheng, writing on the 13th instant, stated, "The army remains here for 20 days pending ...

    Article : 119 words
  8. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    The report that the Russian Black Sea Fleet, or portion of it, is preparing for service revives one of the early sensations of the War. When the Japanese did great ...

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  9. A CHARGE OF MURDER.

    William M'Lellan, a rabbit-trapper, residing at Kerrisdale, in the Yea district, reported to the police, on the 17th instant, that, on returning home ...

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  10. FEDERAL: POLITICAL SITUATION.

    The main interest in the Federal political situation centred to-day in the adjourned caucus of the Deakin party, which lasted upwards of two hours, and separated without ...

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  11. FUNERAL OF ALDERMAN NOLAN.

    The remains lot the late Alderman P. Nolan were interred in the Roman Catholic portion of the Waverley Cemetery yesterday. The coffin had ...

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  12. MANY RESOLUTIONS CARRIED.

    A long string of resolutions was carried at the Boer Congress at Pretoria. Inter alia these resolutions demanded the recognition of the debts of the late Republics, ...

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  13. A NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATOR.

    Mr. W. Hall-Jones (New Zealand Minister for Works), was the recipient of an address at a dinner at Folkestone yesterday. The Mayor (Councillor G. Peden) ...

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  14. SKIRMISH WITH COSSACKS.

    General Kuroki reports that a section of the infantry encountered 200 Cossacks eight miles north-east of Kwan-tien, a town 50 miles north-east of ...

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  15. RUSSIANS AT LIAO-YANG.

    The Russians have collected 100 locomotives and 800 railway cars at Liao-yang in readiness to remove the stores to Harbin, about 340 miles to the north of Mukden, if ...

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  16. EMPIRE DAY.

    The Earl of Meath states that all parts of the Dominion of Canada and 22 other colonies and dependencies, including five out of six self-governing colonies, ...

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  17. THE EXISTENCE OF GRIEVANCES.

    Several newspapers admit the justice of certain grievances brought forward at the Boer Congress, especially the delay in the payment of compensation for war ...

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  18. JAPANESE ADVANCE RETARDED.

    Rains and the melting of the snows have suspended the Japanese advance, thus enabling the Russians to strengthen their positions at Liao-yang and Mukden. ...

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  19. RUSSIAN RAIDERS IN NORTHERN KOREA.

    The Japanese have sent a force from Gen-san (Won-san), on the east coast of Korea, to suppress Russian raiders in the northern part of the country. ...

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  20. BOYCOTTING STATE SCHOOLS.

    General Louis Botha, who presided at the Boer Congress held at Pretoria, advocated the boycotting of the State schools and the sending of children to the Boer schools ...

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  21. PRAISE FOR AUSTRALIAN HORSES.

    A telegram from Liao-yang states that no exertion seems to tire the Australian horses used by the Japanese cavalry. ...

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  22. BRITISH ORGANISATION IMPERATIVE.

    The "Times," in writing of the results of the Boer Congress, and especially of the resolve to make the organisation permanent, states that Britons in the ...

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  23. CONVICTS BECOME RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.

    Admiral Alexeleff, the Russian Viceroy, is enrolling many Saghalien convicts who have volunteered for the war, the Czar promising to remit one year's imprisonment ...

    Article : 47 words
  24. THE POPE AND DUELLING.

    Reuter's correspondent reports that a sensation has been caused at Innsbruck, Tyrol, by the action of the Pope in decorating two members of the Roman Catholic ...

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  25. FORMATION OF AN IMPERIAL UNION.

    A South African Imperial Union has been formed, with Dr. Jameson, Premier of Cape Colony, as President, for the purpose of amalgamating all the Cape Progressives. ...

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  26. THE BAIKAL ICE.

    It is reported that the ice of Lake Baikal, over which a railway was laid by the Russians at the beginning of the war, is breaking. ...

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  27. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Government will not yet give any information regarding the report of the board of inquiry appointed to inquire into the working of the Roseworthy Agricultural College. ...

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  28. THE BLACK SEA FLEET.

    Fourteen vessels of the Black Sea fleet are mobilising in readiness for service. Several battleships are included among those mobilising. ...

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  29. COLOMBIA'S RESENTMENT.

    Colombia, still resenting the action of the United States in supporting the Panama revolutionaries in the establishing of a new Republic, has declined to receive ...

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  30. SHOOTING AFFRAY AMONGST AFGHANS.

    At Hergott Springs on Tuesday night, Mooshah Balooch, an Afghan, was fired at and struck four times with revolver bullets. The affray took place at the rear of the railway ...

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  31. MINING THE HIGH SEAS.

    Leading newspapers of Great Britain and America are emphatic in denouncing the reckless sowing of the ocean with floating mines as a savage disregard of neutral ...

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  32. THE MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

    It is reported that with a view of protesting and calling the attention of the Powers to the Anglo-French agreement as far as it relates to Morocco the Kabyles in ...

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  33. A PRISONER'S CONFESSION.

    The Chief Secretary states that in reference to the confession of Wilson, one of the men convicted of the robbery of boots from the Enterprise Boot Factory, that he alone was ...

    Article : 184 words
  34. THE POSTAL FRICTION.

    Exception was taken in the House of Representatives yesterday to the fact that the Postmaster-General, Mr. Manon, in his published statement of the correspondence ...

    Article : 398 words
  35. SWISS ITALIAN TREATY.

    Negotiations for a treaty of commerce between Switzerland and Italy have been suspended. ...

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  36. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    In the House of Representatives this afternoon, the Minister for Home Affairs, in reply to Sir John Forrest, said he hoped to receive the final report from Mr. Scrivener, ...

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  37. BRITISH FISCAL POLICY.

    President Loubet, speaking at Arras, Department of Pas-de-Calais, yesterday, said that the old quarrels between protectionists and freetraders were no longer ...

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  38. QUEENSLAND.

    The Government has received a letter from the Agent-General on the question of Queensland being represented at the forthcoming Imperial Exhibition. It is said that, in view ...

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  39. THE BACILLUS OF DYSENTERY.

    Dr. Castellini, at Colombo, announces that he has discovered the bacillus of dysentery. Dr. Castellini in 1902 discovered the bacillus ...

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  40. THE EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER.

    The interstate passenger and cargo steamer Coolgardie, of the fleet of Messrs. M'IIwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. Proprietary, Limited, which returned to port on Tuesday ...

    Article : 273 words
  41. AMERICAN JURIST'S VIEWS.

    Professor Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Professor of International Law at Yale, a leading authority, declares that mines anchored or scattered beyond the ...

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  42. CONFERENCE AT GUNDAGAI.

    A conference of newspaper proprietors and editors was held at Gundagai to-day to discuss Federal capital developments. Mr. Donaldson, M.L.A., presided. Testimony was given ...

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  43. INFANTICIDE.

    The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court commenced to-day before Chief Justice Cooper. Gertrude Lynch was charged with the wilful murder of her child on February ...

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  44. VICTORIA.

    In acknowledging the good wishes expressed at the public meeting held in Scots Church in celebration of his 80th birthday, Rev. Dr. Paton, the veteran New Hebrides missionary, ...

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  45. THE MISHAP TO THE OREL.

    The accident to the Russian battleship Orel at Kronstadt, where she was stranded, is attributed to malefactors. ...

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  46. CABLE TO THE CONSUL

    Mr. K. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan in Australia, received the following cable yesterday morning from Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:— ...

    Article : 69 words
  47. A COTTON CONGRESS.

    Fifty delegates from cotton-using countries are attending a congress at Zurich, Switzerland, which has been convened to devise measures to counteract gambling in ...

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