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  2. MEASURES FOR THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Deakin stated to-day that he was drafting a hill covering the Constitution Interstate Commission, to be created under clause 101 of the Commonwealth Act. Mr. Deskin in also busily engaged in ...

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  3. VICTORIA.

    Reference was made at the Cabinet meeting to-day to the report of Mr. Mathieson, the Railway Commissioner, on the erection of grain elevators in Victoria and the shipment of wheat in bulk from ...

    Article : 117 words
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  5. QUEENSLAND.

    Good rains have fallen almost throughout the South-East, mostly from thunderstorms. Warwick, Pittsworth, Miles, Joudowaie, Jimbour, Allora, Booval, Chinchilla, Clifton, Cressbrook, Dalby, and ...

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  6. MEETINGS.

    A meeting of the Early Closing and Shop Assistants' Association was held st the Queen's Hall last night. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. English, vicepresident. Mr. J. L. Manning, one of the joint hou. ...

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  7. NEWCASTLE.

    At a meeting of the Hunter River District Water Supply and Sewerage Board held to-day, the board engineer (Mr. J. B. Henson) submitted a report dealing with the condition of the water supply on ...

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  8. STATE LABOUR UNION.

    The State Labour Union held an executive meeting last night at the union rooms, 251 Sussex-street. A report was submitted by the deputation that waited upon the Minister for Works last Saturday to urge ...

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  9. MR. ALFRED DEAKIN.

    Mr. A. Deakin, the federal Attorney-General, "returned to Sydney by express train this afternoon. He hopes to be in Melbourne again by the 2lst instant. ...

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  10. FUNERAL OF MR. WHYTE.

    The remains of the late Mr. W. H. Whyte, of the Newcastle Customs, were inferred in the Roman Catholic section of the Necropolis at Sandgate this afternoon. A large assemblage of representative ...

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  11. EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT.

    News has been received at Longreach that a man has been found dead at the boundary fence between Towalls and Ambo. He apparently had gone looking for water, as the body was found about a ...

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  12. THE PREMIERSHIP.

    The question of appointing a successor to Sir George Turner as Premier of Victoria was not discusted at the Cabinet meeting to-day. It is understood that the subject will not be brought forward ...

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  13. ANNIVERSARY REGATTA COMMITTEE.

    A meeting of the Anniversary Regatta Committee was held at the Hotel Australia last night. Mr. Q. L. Deloitte presided, and there was a good attendance. The chairman announced that the ...

    Article : 265 words
  14. THE STATE PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament was further prorogued to-day to February 26. ...

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  15. THE CITY COURT.

    At the City Court yesterday Thomas Ward, 27, a coaltrimmer, and Albert Ironhood, 19, a cab driver, were committed to take their trial at the March sitting of the Newcastle Court of Quarter Sessions on a charge ...

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  16. UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD.

    The New Year Jubilee of the Universal Brotherhood was brought to a conclusion last evening in the rooms of Lodge Australia, No. 1 Jamieson-street, by a children's entertainment. The programme was ...

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  17. GOLD SHIPMENTS.

    Shipments of gold from Melbourne to-day by the Rome amounted to £305,000, of which £300,000 is for India. The bu[?]ter shipments by the Rome amount to 245 ...

    Article : 291 words
  18. ELECTORAL REVISION COURTS.

    Mr. James Mair, S.M., sat at a Court of Revision for the electorates of Paddington and Waverley at the courthouse, Point Piper-road, Paddington, yesterday. The list for Waverley was allowed as ...

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  19. SANDS' SYDNEY COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY.

    We have received from John Sands, of Georgestreet, a copy of the "Sydney, Suburban, and Country Commercial Directory for 1901." It contains sections dealing with people resident ...

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  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Judgment was given to-day in the cass of Jones versus Ware, the two parties being candidates in the last election for the Mayoralty of Adelaide. Mr. Gordon, S.M., declared the office of Mayor vacant on ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The steamer Aberdeen sailed to-day for London via Sydney. She shipped at this port the following cargo:—1053 bales of wool, 8 bales of sheepskins, 15,343 ingots of copper, 5581 carcases of mutton, 1480 ...

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  22. "IAN MACLAREN" ON STRAIGHTNESS.

    It seems a far cry from the fifteenth Psalm to a modern exchange, and the circumstances of the East long before Christ, and of the West in our day, are very different. Yet it is a suggestive fact ...

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  23. THE RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.

    In his speech at Preston on Monday night (the "Spectator" of December 1 says) Mr. Hanbury sited a grievance which he share's with most members of her Majesty's Government, and which, we ...

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  24. A DROWNING FATALITY.

    A young man, whose identity has not yet been established, was drowned this afternoon in a waterhole on the Wallsend Coal Company's estate, at Pitt Town, Wallsend. Deceased, it appears, was ...

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  25. DROUGHT ON THE EASTERN BORDER.

    Latest accounts of the Innamincka-Strazelecki route to Farma give a most deplorable record of the state of the country. A large camel caravan has lately been obliged to leave its load of wool at Innamincka, ...

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  26. CHURCH NEWS.

    The annual business meeting of the Surry Hills branch was held in St. David's schoolroom on Monday evening last. The president (Mrs. Ward) occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance ...

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  27. PHENOMENAL ISLANDS.

    Since its first discovery in 1889 Falcon Island, of the Tonga group, in the South Pacific, has played hide-and-seek from its mysterious bed beneath the waves. With tantalising regularity (says the Louden ...

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  28. WORKING WOMEN IN AUSTRIA.

    Vienna is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and strangers from all parts come to enjoy her pleasures. Yet (says a writer in London "Womanhood") what must be the feelings of those ...

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  29. UNITED STATES NAVY.

    The three battleships authorised by the Act of March, 1899, were never contracted for, owing to delays in procuring armour bids and in the completion of designs and controversy as to whether the ...

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  30. SHIPPING REPORTS.

    Custom-house.—Entered outwards: January 15, Alcestes, barque, for Kaipara; Burrumbeet, s., for Melbourne; R.M.S. Sierra, for San Francisco, via Auckland; Cornwall, s., for Wellington; Gulf of Marbaban, s., for ...

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  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    On Wednesday last the Executive Council considered the case of Peter Joyce, who was sentenced to death on the 14th ultimo for the murder of his wife. The Executive Council commuted the death ...

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  32. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The R.M.S. Mariposa arrived at San Francisco at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 12th instant. The mails which left Sydney per R.M.S. Miowers [?] December [?] arrived in London on January 12. ...

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  33. THE COLLIERY STRIKES.

    The Burwood Colliery, belonging to the Scottish Australian Mining Company, which was to have been reopened to-day, still remains closed down, owing to a fresh and unexpected dispute. The ...

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  34. THE UNION LINE.

    The Mararoa left Auckland for Sydney at 7 p.m. on Monday. The Talune arrived at Auckland from Sydney at 8 a.m. on Monday. ...

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  35. MOVEMENTS OF THE P. AND O. COMPANY'S FLEET.

    The China armed at Fremantle yesterday, and will be at Adelaide on the 19th, Melbourne 21st, and Sydney about the 24th. The Arcadia left Aden on the 14th instant, and will ...

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  36. THE DARIUS, FROM CALCUTTA.

    Messrs. Archibald Currie's steamer Darius yesterday arrived from Calcutta, and berthed at Parbury's Wharf. Captain W. Frith reports having left Calcutta on the 9th December, arrived at Singapore on the 17th December, left ...

    Article : 88 words
  37. TASMANIA.

    The Government has acceded to a request from the New Zealand Premier that Mr. Back, general manager of the Tasmanian railways, may be a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the ...

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  38. SAILING VESSELS DUE.

    Aladdin, ship (JTVG), from Java—71 days. Ariel, schooner, from Tacoma—59 days. Birtha, barque ([?]MRV), from Fredrikstad—92 days. Brilliant, ship (RBKC), from London—116 days. ...

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  39. R.M.S. CHINA AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. China, from London, arrived at 9 o'clock this morning. The following saloon passengers were on board:- For Fremantle: Sir Stanley and Lady Clark, Mr. ...

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  40. THE DEBACLE OF THE CASTELLANES.

    The Castellane troubles have been long expected here (writes the Paris correspondent of "M.A.P."), and nobody is surprised at the denou[?] that has come at last. It is a characteristic story of our times. ...

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  41. CHAPTERS.

    Caldera, ship, 1575 tons, Sydney to Genoa—shale. General Robertss four-masted barque, 1914 tons, Sydney to Rotterdam—shale. Regina Coch, ship (ex Sheila), 1146 tons, Sydney to ...

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  42. THE NAVIGATION ACT.

    In the summons division of the City Court to-day Peter Scott Newton, an inspector of shipping under the Navigation Act, proceeded against Peter Callen, owner of the steamer Gosford, John Henry Callen, ...

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  43. A MONSTER DESTROYER OF TORPEDO DESTROYERS.

    The Russians have evolved what may be regarded as a monster destroyer of destroyers. She is being built by Schichau at Elbing, and, unlike her prey, will have good sea-keeping qualities, besides guns and ...

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  44. HARBOUR REMOVALS.

    The steamer Parcora was to-day berthed at Eaton's wharf, Berry's Bay. The barque Serapis will to-day be taken alongside the Sunlight wharf, Balmain. ...

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  45. WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.

    The weekly meeting of the Hunter River District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the board's offices, Newcastle, to-day. The president (Mr. H. D. Walsh) occupied the chair, and Messrs. ...

    Article : 135 words
  46. THE TICK REGULATIONS IN QUEENSLAND.

    Applications have been received by the Government from several persons for the relaxation of the tick regulations, so as to permit stock north of the line, after being dipped in the presence and under the ...

    Article : 173 words
  47. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Stock passings: 6000 ewes, Tullawonta to Boona West, Condobolin, Dalgety and Co.; 9600 wethers, Corona (Q.) to Hay, Riley Brothers; 100 fat sheep, Dubbo to Bourke, Robinson; also truckings. ...

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  48. THE COAL EXPORT TRADE.

    The steamer Romulus arrived to-day from Melbourne to load a cargo of cool from the Pacific Cooperative Colliery for Mauritius. The barque Somons sailed to-day for Honolulu with 1550 tons of ...

    Article : 261 words
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