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  2. STATE ELECTIONS

    The ranks of Oppositionists were in no wa[?] perturbed yesterday because of the throse o[?] pain in which the Ministry finds itself. Th[?] dominant note was amusement; so far as th[?] ...

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  3. FEDERAL POLITICAL SITUATION.

    From what can be gathered it appears that there has been a recrudescence of the political antagonism to Mr. Reid, which was so much in evidence a month ago. Some ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Merchants in the various States have complained from time to time of the difficulties experienced in connection with interstate certificates for goods consigned by the parcels ...

    Article : 154 words
  5. THE STATE PREMIER.

    Notwithstanding the fact that Sir John See at 6 p.m. on Thursday evening voluntarily handed to the members of the press his farewell address to the electors of Grafton, and ...

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  6. THE BRITISH IN THIBET.

    Further particulars have been published of the attack by Thibetans on Tuesday on the British post at Khang-ma, south of Gyangtse. ...

    Article : 161 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The House of Commons last night debated the Congo affairs when considering in committee of supply the vote for the Foreign Office. ...

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  8. THE WAR.

    There are now 1000 refugees from Port Arthur at Chifu. Various reports state that lighting is proceeding within 8 miles of the fortress. ...

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  9. RECONNAISSANCE OF TORPEDO BOATS.

    Admiral Togo reports that eight Japanese torpedo boats entered the harbour of Port Arthur on Tuesday night, and encountered a heavy fire from the Russians. ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. MAILS TO CAIRNS.

    The Postmaster-General to-day received a deputation of Queensland members in relation to the question affecting the carriage of mails to Cairns. It was explained that the ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. COLONEL YOUNGHUSBAND'S LETTER.

    Mr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for India, announced in the House of Commons last night that the Thibetan general at Gyangtse had undertaken to ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. CLEARING TA-LIEN-WAN BAY.

    Rear-Admiral Kataoka, commander of the Japanese torpedo boat flotilla, reports that he has discovered and exploded in Ta-lien-wan Bay 21 additional mines. ...

    Article : 64 words
  13. POSTAGE ON "HANSARD."

    A number of Queensland members to-day asked the Postmaster-General it copies of the State "Hansard" could not be allowed free through the post; or, falling that, if the ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. NATIVE DISAFFECTION.

    Many mercenaries have deserted the jong (fort) at Gyangtse, and their places have been taken by 500 professional Lhassa beggars ...

    Article : 59 words
  15. DISAFFECTION IN RUSSIA.

    The authorities being fearful of socialist outbreaks the mobilisation of troops in the centre and south of Russia does not apply to manufacturing districts. ...

    Article : 101 words
  16. CHINESE ARTISANS.

    Skilled Chinese are retained in the machine shops by the Russians at Port Arthur. Many of the artisans, however, escape. ...

    Article : 31 words
  17. THE COLOUR LINE.

    A request was made to the Postmaster-General to-day, which shows how strong is the feeling against coloured persons in some of the northern Queensland towns. Mr. Mahon ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. THE PORT ARTHUR SQUADRON.

    Rear-Admiral Wirenius has informed a representative of the Paris "Matin" that the latest despatch from Port Arthur shows that the battleships Retvisan and ...

    Article : 48 words
  19. TWO-YEAR-OLD RACING IN ENGLAND.

    The Jockey Club, by 22 votes to 7, ha adopted half-mile races for two-year-olds. Section I. of Rule 46 provided there should be no race of less distance than five furlongs; ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE.

    The Minister for Home Affairs remarked to-day that the House of Representatives would lose no time in pushing ahead with the Seat of Government Bill. Mr. Batchelor, who ...

    Article : 67 words
  21. WRECK OF A RUSSIAN DESTROYER.

    Admiral Alexeieff admits that on the night of May 29 a torpedo boat destroyer from Port Arthur, while operating in the bay of Kin-chun, on the western coast of ...

    Article : 50 words
  22. EXPLOSION ON A RUSSIAN CRUISER.

    French papers publish a telegram from St. Petersburg to the effect that a serious explosion has taken place in the Baltic on the Russian auxiliary cruiser ...

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  23. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    Ministers are not dismayed at the failure last night to advance the Transaustralian Survey Bill through the formal stages. Mr. Batchelor announced to-day that the question ...

    Article : 45 words
  24. QUEENSLAND.

    At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures last night a letter from the Iron Trade Employers' Association or New South Wales was read, urging the ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. TURKEY.

    M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the course of a speech in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, warned the Sublime Porte not to believe ...

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  26. IN NORTHERN LIAO-TUNG.

    The Tientsin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that there are 10,000 Russians entrenched 12 miles south of Kaichan (Kai-ping), in the north of the ...

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  27. FEDERAL QUARANTINE.

    It has been decided that the conference of interstate medical officers, to consider the question of Federal quarantine, will meet in Melbourne on the 22nd instant. ...

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  28. BRITISH MINISTRY OF COMMERCE.

    The "Daily Telegraph" reports that a departmental committee recommends that the Board of Trade should be transformed into a Ministry of Commerce and Industry. ...

    Article : 178 words
  29. TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Assembly to-day the Constitution Act Amendment Bill, providing for a double dissolution, was passed, and the estimates considered in Committee of Supply. ...

    Article : 42 words
  30. COLONEL PRICE.

    Colonel Thomson, P.M.O. of the Queensland forces, has advised the Minister for Defence that Colonel Price is medically unfit to resume his duties as State Commandant. ...

    Article : 29 words
  31. GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At the meeting of the municipal council last night, the approaching visit of Sir George Le Hunte, Governor of South Australia, came on for consideration. The Acting-Mayor ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. THE CAMPAIGN IN MANCHURIA.

    General Kuropatkin reports that the Russian detachment holding Sa-ma-chi, 60 miles north-north-east of Feng-huan-cheng, has been driven to the Fin-chu-ling ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. MASTER BUILDERS' CONVENTION.

    The delegates to the Master Builders' Convention were entertained at a trip down the river in the steamer Lucinda to-day. Leading gentlemen in political, commercial, and ...

    Article : 129 words
  34. PROTECTION IN WALES.

    Mr. Edward Pryce-Jones, M.P. (Conservative), entertained Mr. Joseph Chamberlain at dinner in the House of Commons yesterday. There were 60 guests present, ...

    Article : 144 words
  35. PERSONAL.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Watson, left Melbourne for Sydney, by the express to-night. ...

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  36. CASUALTIES.

    Robert Sloan, living in King-street, Pyrmont, whilst engaged in painting an electric light standard at the corner of Pitt and Hay streets yesterday afternoon, was knocked off ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. THE VICTORIAN REFERENDUM.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 words
  38. THE JAPANESE FLEET.

    A Japanese cruiser, four torpedo boat destroyers, two gunboats, and five torpedo boats, which were damaged during recent [?]ghting at Port Arthur, have been repaired ...

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  39. A PIT ACCIDENT.

    Thomas Thompson, living at Thornleigh, received severe injuries yesterday afternoon, necessitating his removal to the Royal North Sydney Hospital. He was working in a pit ...

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  40. VICTORIAN BUTTER TRADE.

    The Royal Commission which is inquiring into the conditions under which rebates are granted to agents and others in the butter trade resumed its sittings to-day. ...

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  41. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The following members of the Railway Commission left for Brisbane by the Melbourne express this afternoon:—Messrs. J. O. Bice, M.L.C., Coombe and Paech, Ms.L.A., and ...

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  42. THE WAIWERA MURDER.

    At the Thames Police Court yesterday John Sullivan, aged 40 years, a seaman of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Waiwera, appeared on remand on ...

    Article : 108 words
  43. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    The cables relating to the advance of the Japanese along the Kwan-tung towards Fort Arthur are corroborative, but otherwise give no enlightenment. That some refugees ...

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  44. STOCK AND STATION AGENT'S DEATH.

    An inquest touching the death of Mr. Thos. Heath, of the firm of Messrs. Heath and Irvine, stock and station agents, who was found dead in his office yesterday morning, was ...

    Article : 100 words
  45. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Speaking yesterday, the Minister for Lands mentioned a rumour that a big firm of mining managers intended paying the workmen of Kalgoorlie four miles from the mines ...

    Article : 126 words
  46. A CAPETOWN SENSATION.

    A sensation has been created at Capetown by the arrest of a number of police constables, who are charged with blackmailing in connection with the shielding ...

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  47. THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

    The sessions of the first general conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia were continued to-day, the Rev. Dr. Fitchett presiding. It was moved by the Rev. T. Adamson (Victoria), seconded by ...

    Article : 578 words
  48. SUDDEN DEATH.

    Mr. James Blair, proprietor of a baking business at Newtown, dropped dead in his bakehouse to-day. Death was attributable to heart disease. The deceased was about 45 ...

    Article : 53 words
  49. AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

    German electrical engineering firms are tendering for the construction of a railway from Berlin to Hamburg, 177 miles, guaranteeing a speed of 125 miles per ...

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  50. ST. LOUIS EXHIBITION.

    The St. Louis International Exhibition is a frost. The United States Government threatens to appoint a receiver, and advises that the promoters should resort to ...

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  51. ALLEGED FATAL FIGHT.

    Luke Richard Tierney, horse trainer, aged about 26, has died in the Inverell Hospital from injuries alleged to have been received during a fight with another man at Graman on ...

    Article : 79 words
  52. TASMANIA.

    At a meeting representing public bodies to-day, re a deep-water port in the Tamar, Kelso Bay was decided on as the best place, and a committee was appointed to collect ...

    Article : 58 words
  53. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT EXHIBITS.

    Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania have fruit exhibits at the Botanic Society's horticultural exhibition. ...

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  54. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Sir William Henderson, merchant and shipowner, aged 78 years. ...

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  55. FATAL ACCIDENT.

    As two young men were racing in a paddock at Mr. Robert Easton's, at Belbourie, last Wednesday evening, the horse of one of them, John Frederick Young, swerved and ...

    Article : 240 words
  56. DRINK AND CRIME.

    At the Quarter Sessions to-day there were no cases for trial, and the deputy sheriff presented his Honor Judge Murray with a pair of white gloves. ...

    Article : 264 words
  57. TEE SINKING OF A TUG.

    The sinking of the naval tug Thistle off Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, was due to the men crowding to the starboard side, causing her to heel over, thus ...

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  58. MR. L. Z. LEITER.

    The death is announced of Mr. Levi Zeigler Leiter, of Chicago, aged 68 years. [Mr. Levi Zeigler Leiter is perhaps best known in England as the father of Lady ...

    Article : 125 words
  59. THE WARRIGAL'S CARGO.

    Writing to the consignees of produce by the Lund liner Warrigal, which arrived from Sydney on May 8, Lund's regret that special instructions given to the chief ...

    Article : 80 words
  60. SILVER.

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

    Article : 21 words
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