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  2. THE TARIFF. EFFECT OF THE TARIFF ON FIJI

    Our Suva correspondent, writing on October 22, says:—"By the Birksgate, which arrived on the 19th October, we received copies of the federal tariff. The general opinion seems to be that ...

    Article : 471 words
  3. TAILORESSES' UNION.

    A meeting of members of the Tailoresses' Union was held last night in the Protestant Hall. There was a large attendance. Mr. Holland, president of the union, occupied the chair. ...

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  4. SECOND EDITION. THE BANK RATE.

    The Bank of England rate of discount has been raised from 3 per cent to 4 per cent. ...

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  5. VICTORIA. RETURN OF EXPORTS.

    During the month of October produce to the approximate value of £160,000 was exported from Victoria through the medium of the Government Cool Stores. Flinders-street. The exports in question ...

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  6. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    Replying to the attacks of Canon Gore on the concentration camps and his suggestion that they should be removed to more healthy sites near the sea coast, Canon Knox Little ...

    Article : 106 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE "HERALD'S" LONDON CORRESPONDENTS.

    M. Millerand, the French Minister for Commerce, has introduced in the Chamber of Deputies, a bill withdrawing the bounties upon sailing vessels in favour of steamers. ...

    Article : 66 words
  8. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    The Royal yacht Ophir, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York aboard, was signalled on Wednesday evening 60 miles off Scilly, off ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. NOTES IN THE STATE PARLIAMENT.

    The main contest over the Industrial Arbitration Bill in committee of the Legislative Council yesterday was in regard to the definition clause, which under the term "employer" proposed to include ...

    Article : 609 words
  10. COADJUTOR BISHOP OF SYDNEY.

    The Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of Sydney, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Omrah, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday. ...

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  11. THE MUSGROVE OPERA COMPANY.

    Mr. Harry Musgrove, who returned last night by the Mokoia from New Zealand with the members of the Musgrove Grand Opera Company, says that the success of the New Zealand tour exceeded all ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. R.M.S. OMRAH AT FREMANTLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 773 words
  13. THE LOAN.

    The French loan of £11,000,000 secured on the war indemnity payable to France by China will cover the cost of the French expedition to China and enable £3,000,000 ...

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  14. PROPOSED BOYCOTT OF BRITISH GOODS.

    The proposed boycott of British commerce on the Continent was a flasco. The dockers at Antwerp and Hamburg and the merchants of Holland refused to co-operate in the ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. ANOTHER STEEL TRUST.

    The " Cleveland Leader " states that the companies outside Mr. Morgana steel corporation are forming a trust with a capital of 2,000,000,000dol. (£400,000,000). ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS.

    A return prepared for showing the financial results of working narrow gauge railways in Victoria sets forth that the Wangaratta and Whitfield line, which was constructed at a cost of £47 432, and ...

    Article : 73 words
  17. ACCIDENT TO A SUBMARINE BOAT.

    The " Daily Express " reports that the French submarine torpedo boat, Triton, while testing a plunging apparatus at Cherbourg, sank rapidly and struck the bottom. The ...

    Article : 241 words
  18. QUEENSLAND.

    George Dobson, aged 3, residing at Petrioterrace, was playing with a lamp this morning, when his clothes ignited. The boy was removed to the hospital in a critical condition. The mother in ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. MR. GEORGE MUSGROVE.

    Mr. George Musgrove is a passenger by the M.M.S. Polynesien, which leaves Marseilles on December 1. ...

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  20. A NEW ZEALAND MILITARY PRISONER.

    Acceding to the petition ot Mr. E. G. Jellicoe, his Majesty the King has ordered the release on January 11 of Trooper Tasker, a New Zealander who was sentenced to three ...

    Article : 53 words
  21. ANTI-TARIFF DEMONSTRATION AT BALMAIN.

    At Tuesday night's meeting of the Balmain Council Alderman G. C. Murdoch, who contested the Balmain North seat at the last general election as the selected Liberal candidate, moved,—"That the use ...

    Article : 234 words
  22. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

    Mr. Arthur Richard Jelf, K.C., has succeeded Mr. Justice Day on the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. ...

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  23. TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES' DISPUTE.

    Touching upon the dispute between the Tramway Employees' Union and the Railway Commissioners, in regard to a working day of eight hours, at the Sydney Labour Council's weekly meeting held at the ...

    Article : 453 words
  24. TRANSVAAL OPERATIONS.

    Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. G. Fortescue encountered Miller's commando on October 27 north of Balmoral. A running fight ensued and lasted the whole day. Four ...

    Article : 55 words
  25. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    On Saturday his Excellency the Governor and Lady Tennyson and Lord Richard Nevill will leave for Melbourne Captain Fielden goes by express on Friday afternoon. The vice-regal party will be the ...

    Article : 198 words
  27. RUSSIA. EMBEZZLEMENT BY OFFICIALS.

    The chief accused at the trial held at Nijni Novgorod, Eastern Russia, of officials on a charge of embezzling £500,000, has been sentenced to 12 months ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. COMMANDO SUEPRISED BY COLONIALS.

    On October 25 Lieutenant-Colonel Byng, in command of the South African Light Horse, surprised Stanneberg's commando and captured 22 Boers, including Field-Cornets ...

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  29. THE TRUE BASIS OF TAXATION.

    Mr. Percy R. Meggy writes:—"While the people over the length and breadth of Australia are protesting against the unjust incidence of the proposed federal tariff, and many are regretting that they ever ...

    Article : 483 words
  30. CAVALRY REINFORCEMENTS.

    The Cavalry Brigade now at Aldershot proceeds to South Africa about the middle of November. ...

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  31. THE TROUBLE TN THE GLASSWORKERS' TRADE.

    Matters in connection with the dispute between the Glass Manufacturers' Association and the Glass Workers' Union remains in an unaltered position, and the general impression is that a strike will take place ...

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  32. A TERRIBLE FAMINE.

    A terrible famine prevails in the eastern provinces of Russia. ...

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  33. LOSS OF THE VILLE DE ROUEN.

    Regarding the sinking of the Ville de Rouen on the reef near Moore River the water police state that they do not anticipate the steamer Dunskey returning to Fremantle before to-morrow. ...

    Article : 477 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    An order in bankruptcy has been made for the compulsory winding up of the London and Globe Finance Corporation. The Smelting and Refining Company of ...

    Article : 65 words
  35. SENTENCES ON REBELS.

    Two rebels of the Vryburg district have been executed. Nineteen other rebels have been sentenced to heavy terms of imprisonment. ...

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  36. CRETE.

    The " Times " correspondent at Constantinople states that the Turkish Ambassador at St. Petersburg reports that the annexation of Crete by Greece is imminent and inevitable. ...

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  37. ENGLISH CRICKETERS AT FREMANTLE. INTERAVTEW WITH MR. MACLAREN.

    The English cricketers are on board the Omrah. Mr. Maclaren looks upon the team as a strong combination, and while he declined to deal with the playors individually he was willing to give ...

    Article : 359 words
  38. A TASMANIAN OFFICER.

    Captain F. B. Adams. of the Tasmanian 5th Contingent, has been invalided to England. ...

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  39. SYDNEY LABOUR COUNCIL.

    The weekly meeting of the Sydney Labour Council was held last night at the Trades Hall, the president (Mr. T. H. Thrower) occupying the chair. Mr. E. H. Hurley said that he desired to call the ...

    Article : 275 words
  40. THE ARIADNE CASE.

    The hearing of five charges against Mumford, Kerry, and Freke for causing the loss of the yacht Ariadne has began at Christchurch. The Crown prosecutor, in opening the case, said ...

    Article : 366 words
  41. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    The Premier, through the Lieutenant-Governor, has received the following cablegram from Capetown dated October 31:—" Dangerously ill: Potchefstroom, October 27, Third New South Wales ...

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  42. TASMANIA.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Cornwall Coal Company was held to-day. The question of opening a coal trade with Victoria was promised consideration by the board. ...

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  43. MILITARY BUTTONS.

    " Importer " writes:—"Some few months ago the buttons for the several local volunteer companies underwent a change in regulation. I immediately ordered some from freetrade ...

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  44. SIR REDVERS BULLER.

    Sir Redvers Buller has declined to receive a public testimonial. Subscriptions received for the testimonial fund will be handed to a military charity. ...

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  45. THE COLONIAL BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The annual meeting of the Colonial Bank of Australasia was held to-day. The chairman of directors (Sir Rupert Clarke, M.L.C.) presided. There was a good attendance of shareholders. ...

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  46. THE FEDERAL CITY.

    A combined meeting of the Institute of Architects and the Institution of Surveyors was held at 82 Pittstreet last night, when the adjourned discussion of papers on the design of the federal city read by Mr. ...

    Article : 246 words
  47. RETURNED EMPTY BISCUIT TINS.

    Sir,—Your remarks in to-day's paper with reference to the action of the Customs authorities in demanding duty on returned empty biscuit tins are not quite correct. ...

    Article : 199 words
  48. BRITISH GUIANA BOUNDARY.

    King Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy has at the request of Great Britain and Brazil agreed to arbitrate on the disputed boundary between British Guiana and Brazil. ...

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  49. THE BLIND WORKERS.

    A deputation of blind workers waited upon the Sydney Labour Council last night in reference to the disadvantages under which they were placed in their endeavours to gain a living. ...

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  50. A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

    When the four-masted barque Crocodile, from Liverpool, anchored below Garden Island yesterday, it was reported that she had met with exceptional weather. The account given on board was that ...

    Article : 268 words
  51. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  52. THE PLAGUE.

    Two deaths from plague have occurred at Liverpool. ...

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  53. THE CLERKEWELL TRAGEDY.

    Martial Faugeron, 23, a Frenchman, was to-day at London sentenced to death for the murder of Herman Francis Jung, a jeweller, by stabbing him in the neck with a knife at ...

    Article : 141 words
  54. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    The business paper drawn up for the conference to be held between the Federal Premier and the State Premiers, beginning to-morrow afternoon, was circulated to-day. The following are the subjects to ...

    Article : 189 words
  55. DUTY ON EMPTY RETURNS.

    Sir,—In your issue of this morning you publish a statement that your reporter had been informed at the Custom-house that no charge had been made on empty biscuit tins from New South Wales, and the ...

    Article : 496 words
  56. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HECTOR A. MACDONALD.

    The citizens' committee elected by public meeting a fortnight ago to arrange to fittingly welcome MajorGeneral Sir Hector Macdonald, C.B., on his arrival from New Zealand, has met twice at the Town Hall ...

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  57. ACTION BY SYDNEY LABOUR COUNCIL.

    The dispute existing between the members of the Glassworkers' Union and the employers in the trade was the subject for the debate at the weekly meeting of the Sydney Labour Council held last night at the ...

    Article : 264 words
  58. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 words
  59. ANARCHISTS' CELEBRATIONS.

    The " Carmagnole" was sung and danced in honour of Czolgosz, the assassin of President M'Kinley, at the anarchists' clubs in London. The police dispersed a noisy ...

    Article : 36 words
  60. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 words
  61. THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

    Mr. Johnson, Metallurgist to the Bank of England, has purchased the Western Australian gold specimens shown at the Glasgow Exhibition. He offers to spend £1800 in ...

    Article : 48 words
  62. CORPORATION OF ACCOUNTANTS.

    The opening lecture of the third session of the Corporation of Accountants of Australia was held last night in the corporation office, Equitable Building. Mr. W. Docker presided over a large ...

    Article : 93 words
  63. STATION REPORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 words
  64. LATE MINING.

    Our Launceston correspondent telegraphed last night that the Mount Bischoff Company's London cable gives the last sale of tin at £114 10s per ton Market dull. ...

    Article : 28 words
  65. Advertising

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  66. Advertising

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