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  2. THE PREMIER IN THE NORTH-WEST.

    The Premier, Sir John See, who visited this town to-day with a party of members of Parliament for the purpose of opening the agricultural show, was entertained by the show committee at the ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 9-16d per ounce standard, an advance of 3-16d since yesterday. ...

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  4. THE FISCAL ISSUE.

    In the course of his speech on the Budget to-day Mr. Reid made a significant statement on the fiscal issue. He said:—Some time ago I offered on behalf of the party I lead to have this matter settled once ...

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  5. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

    The British Association for the Advancement of Science opened its meetings yesterday. Sir Norman Lockyer, Director of the Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington, ...

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  6. THE BALKANS.

    The Macedonian Committee asserts that Turkey's policy of a general massacre of Christians renders it impossible for the rebels to refrain from retaliation. ...

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  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The "Times," in a leading article this morning, comments upon the significance of the defeat of Sir Edmund Barton's Government on the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. ...

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  8. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Senate had not been sitting many minutes to-day before the formal business was disposed of and the third reading of the Electoral Divisions Bill was moved. Senator Gould called for a division and ...

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  9. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    When our first edition went to press, the House was in committee, considering the Lithgow Municipal Loan validation Bill. An effort was made to talk the measure ...

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  10. CHRISTIAN POPULATION DISAPPEARS.

    The Christian population in the interior of Macedonia has entirely disappeared. The crops are diseased. ...

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  11. THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, has been elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for next year. ...

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  12. WAR MINISTER PROMOTES WAR.

    Reports from Vienna are to the effect that the Turkish War Minister, Riza Pasha, is actively promoting war with Bulgaria. The commander of the troops in the ...

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  13. THE EVACUATION OF MANCHURIA.

    Russia specified in her note to China, announcing her intention to evacuate Manchuria, that the Kirin centre province would be evacuuted four months after the evacuation of the ...

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  14. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    Mr. Reid began the serious business of to-day's sitting of the House of Representatives by a long speech on the Treasurer's budges speech, which was delivered on July 28. He referred in regretful terms ...

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  15. THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEETING.

    The meeting of the association in 1905 will be held in South Africa. The South African States will contribute £6000 towards the expenses of the meeting. ...

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  16. CONCENTRATION OF TURKISH TROOPS.

    The Sultan of Turkey has sent a Hamadieh cavalry regiment, which includes Kurds, to different districts ot the vilayet of Adrianople, where 70,000 Turkish troops are being ...

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  17. VICTORIA.

    As a member of the Criminological Society's deputation that waited on the Chief Secretary (Mr. Murray), on Monday, Mr. Hume Cook, M.P., remarked that the Trades Hall was ...

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  18. THE CASE OVERSTATED.

    The "Times," in referring to Sir Norman Lockyer's plea for increasing the facilities for post-graduate research, says that he has overstated an excellent case. No Government ...

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  19. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    The Republic of Colombia now asks 20,000 000dol. (£4,000,000) for the concession in relation to the construction of the Isthmus Canal, and 10,000,000dol (£2000) from the ...

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  20. ANOTHER VIEW.

    The "Standard" says that the proposal of Sir Norman Lockyer is claptrap. ...

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  21. THE LATEST SERVIAN PLOT.

    It is reported at Belgrade that King Peter had asked the Czar to modify his attitude towards the officers who were concerned in the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga, ...

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  22. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL.

    Copper on spot is quoted at 57[?] per ton, and at three months 57[?]. Soft foreign lead is quoted at l1[?] per ton. PEARLSHELL. ...

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  23. THE GROUNDING OF THE CLONCURRY.

    The charge of misconduct or alternatively of incompetency formulated against Captain W. R. Clack, of the steamer Cloncurry, was further investigated by the Court of Marine Inquiry ...

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  24. UNREST IN SYRIA.

    There are disquieting rumours in Syria that the Druses are arming, and a massacre in the Lebanon is feared. The Druses are a remarkable people, who ...

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  25. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. G. H. Reid made an important announcement in reference to preferential trade. He said that Mr. Chamberlain had made an honest ...

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  26. THE CONGO FREE STATE.

    The King of the Belgians objects to the Inquiry proposed by the Powers as to cruelty to natives being confined to the Congo Free State, and proposes that the international ...

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  27. CHARGE OF MURDER WITHDRAWN.

    The charge of murder preferred by the police against Henry Stevens, in connection with the death of Elizabeth Johnstone, at Ballarat, on August 31, has been withdrawn. The police are ...

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  28. THE BEYROUT MASSACRE.

    Berlin newspapers accuse President Roosevelt of a display of jingoism, for electioneering purposes, in insisting on the United States squadron (Brooklyn, San Francisco, and ...

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  29. PACIFIC CABLE FACILITIES.

    It has been arranged that telegraph offices in the Various States shall give the same facilities in regard to the duplication of cable messages as is done for the Eastern Extension Cable Company. Sir P.O. ...

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  30. THE MISSING HEIRS' HOAX.

    A dramatic scene occurred in the Southwark police court yesterday, when the sisters of Mr. J. Mackenzie Goodwin, of Queensland, who, with his brother, was decoyed into ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    The Tweed Heads railway is to be opened far traffic on Monday. Also, on the same day, a new section of the Kilkivan extension to Wondar will be opened. ...

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  32. THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.

    Sir Edmund Barton received a cable to-day from Mr. Chamberlain, intimating that special arrangements had been made for enabling colonial scholars to obtain degrees at the London University without ...

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  33. ACTION OF THE POWERS.

    The Consuls of the Europoan Powers have asked their Governments to send warships to B[?]out. Nazim Pasha, the Vail of Damascus, with ...

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  34. A BOER BIBLE.

    In connection with the appeal from Lord Roberts for the return of captured Boer Bibles, a Testament was received at the Chief Secretary's office this morning from Ipswich. ...

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  35. SIR M. M'EACHARN AND THE EMPLOYERS.

    The secretary of the Victorian Employers' Federation wrote to-day aa follows to Sir Malcolm M'Facharn:—"I am directed by my executive to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th ...

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  36. SUSPICIOUS CASE OF ILLNESS.

    A case of suspicious illness has been under observation by the health authorities for the past few days. The symptoms point to plague, but the bacteriological examinations are not ...

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  37. RUSSIA.

    Two of the men concerned in the recent riots at Rostov, Russia, have been sentenced to death, and other rioters to various terms of penal servitude. ...

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  38. MURDER OP AN ABORIGINAL.

    The Commissioner for Police has received a telegram stating that the aboriginals Davey and Fred have been committed for trial on a charge of murdering another aboriginal named Charlie at the Upper ...

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  39. THE BONUS COMMISSION.

    Further evidence was taken before the Bonus Commission to-day. Thomas Hale Woodroffe (Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Victorial Railways) said that in regard to the manufacture of locomotives it ...

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  40. TRADE UNIONS CONGRESS.

    The Trade Unions Congress, at its sittings at Leicester, yesterday, instructed its Parliamentary Committee to draft bills for securing trade-union funds against actions for damages. ...

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  41. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    Mr. Chamberlain, in replying to an Inverness correspondent who wrote to him, stated that he did not intend to propose the imposition or a tax on land values in ordor to provide ...

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  42. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A large deputation waited on the Commissioner of Public Works to-day to urge the construction of a harbour in thee south-east, naming Beachport as the best place. ...

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  43. DONCASTER SEPTEMBER MEETING.

    At the Doncaster September Meeting to-day the race for the principal event on the card resulted as under:- St. Leger Stakes of 23 sovs. each, for ...

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  44. THE TARIFF CAMPAIGN.

    Our London correspondent, writing on August 7, says:- "There are many ups and downs in the progress of the skirmishing on the tariffs ...

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  45. THE PLAGUE AT NIUCHWANG.

    Eighteen deaths from the plague occurred at Niuchwang, China, on Sunday. The town is not subject to any sanitary control, and in consequence the bodies of those ...

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  46. MR. REID AND THE FISCAL ISSUE.

    In view of Mr. Reid's siggetion in his speech on the budges that he would ask the Prime Minister to agree to the fiscal issue being submitted to a referendum, he was seen later on the subject. He ...

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  47. MURDER BY AN ABORIGINAL.

    The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Constable French, of Charlotte Waters, stating that he had recaptured the aboriginal, Frank, who recently murdered ...

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  48. THE ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday. Lambs and superior pieces realised 5 centimes under opening rates. Superior Monte Video merinos advanced 5 centimes. ...

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  49. A PROTECTIONIST MANIFESTO.

    The protechonist organisation has issued its "message" to the electors of the commonwealth. It uses the old arguments in asking the people to vote for "protection and wages," and to remember that the ...

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  50. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The loss of wages arising from the stoppage of work by those engaged in the tinplate manufacturing industry in South Wales amounted to £25,000. ...

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  51. THE IRON INDUSTRY.

    The following opinion by the Attorney-General has been furnished to Mr. Kingston, Chairman of the Bonus Commission:—"You ask for my opinion for information of the Bonus Commission as to the ...

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  52. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AT GEELONG.

    The Governor-General and Lady Tennyson paid a visit to-day to Geelong Agricultural Show, and were entertained at lunch on the show ground. Replying to the toast of his ...

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  53. NEW ZEALAND.

    The net cost of street widening operations, so far as the City of Wellington is concerned, amounts to £42,904. Claims amounting to £7980 are still unsettled. The rents received ...

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