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  2. DISPARAGING THE BRITISH NAVY.

    A comparison made of the American fleet to the disparagement of the British Navy caused a spontaneous outburst of patriotic feeling at the Masonic Hall, Wagga, on Wednesday night. The ...

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  4. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    On Sunday the morning service at St Andrew's Cathedral was of a semi-official nature, and was largely attended. Parade services were also held by other denominations. ...

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  5. MURDER BY JAPANESE.

    The Pinjarrah (W.A.) police report that on Sunday evening a Japanese, Oki Wachi, shot dead a fanner, James Shaw, residing at West Murray, Oki shot Shaw in the neck, firing is the presence ...

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  6. TRAMSHEDS ROBBED.

    The watchman of the Unley tram sheds, near Adelaide, Edward Dickson, reported the police that as he was cleaning one of the cars it about 2.30 o'clock on Monday morning he was held up ...

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  7. MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF 'A WOMAN.

    Mrs. Luard, wife of Major-General Charles Edward Luard, of lgbtham Kroll, Sevenuaks, Kent, was murdered on Monday. Mrs. Luard and her husband were about to ...

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  8. GERMAN AND BRITISH FISHERMEN.

    The Grimsby trawler Taurus has been fined £15 at Flensburg, and her trawl and catch confiscated, for. it is alleged, fishing within three miles of German territory. The skipper of the Taurus ...

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  9. SELF-SUPPORTING EMPIRE

    The Tariff Commission on July 21 issued an important report on Colonial Preference and Imperial Reciprocity. Dealing with the capacity for producing ...

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  10. FEDERAL TRAWLER LAUNCHED.

    The Eudcavor is built of steel to the 1OO attened "Endeavor" by the wife of Senator Keating (Minister for Home Affairs) on Thursday morning , at the Government Dockyard, Cockatoo ...

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  11. THREATENED TROUBLE IN COTTON TRADE.

    The outlook in the British cotton spinning trade consequent upon the determination of the master spinners to reduce wages by 5 per cent, is serious. ...

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  12. ELDER MACKIE SENTENCED.

    William Mackie, elder of the Latter-Day Saints' Church, was found guilty on Tuesday of having deserted his wife. Mr. Justice a'Beckett sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment with ...

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  13. BRITISH NAVAL SUPREMACY.

    The "Observer" advocates the building of thirty improved Dreadnoughts 05 Indomitables, costing nearly £2,000,000 apiece, on the basis of the Government's programme of two keels to ...

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  14. FLOODS IN GEORGIA.

    The canal at Augusta (Grorgia, U.S.A.). burst its banks, and the water flooded the city to a depth of from 6ft to 12ft. The torrent carried away bridges and flooded ...

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  15. DISASTROUS FLOODS.

    Disastrous floods have occurred in North and South Carolina, where whole districts have been inundared. Operations at the cotton mills have been ...

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  16. GREAT FIRE IT STAMBOUL.

    A fire broke out in the Stambond quarter of Constantinople on Sunday, and as night was still burning. Fifteen hundred shops and houses have been ...

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  17. £25,000 FOR A PORTRAIT.

    It is understood that the trustees of the Na-tional Gallery have purchased for £23,000 a. portrait group atributed to Franz Hals, a Dutch painter (1580-1666). ...

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  18. FINANCIER LEAVES TWELVE MILLIONS.

    It has been ascertained the fortune of the late Sir. Russell Sage, financier, of New York, who died in July, 1906, amounted to £12,800,000. Mr.' Russell left his fortune to his widow, to ...

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  19. MONEY-LENDING IN PUBLIC SERVICE.

    The Public Service has investigated the money-lending cases in Melbourne Post-office which came to light on account of proceedings in the Law Court. It has been found that Louis ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. BODY FOUND AFTER SIX WEEKS.

    The mystery surrounding the disappearance from Kurri Kurri of W. Lewis six weeks ago was solved on Wednesday, by the gruesome discovery of the body of the missing man in the bush, ...

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  21. DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT YOUNG.

    A shocking double occurred at young Miss. Drummond, niece of Dr. Abbott, of Young, accompanied by Miss Moon, a young lady on a visit, went to the residence of Mrs. Lillis, of ...

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  22. INEFFECTIVE INDIAN BOYCOTT.

    Despite the Swadeshi movement in favor of boycotting foreign, especially English, goods, the imports into British India for the past year were 20 per cent. above those of the previous year. ...

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  23. DEATHS EXCEED BIRTHS IN FRANCE.

    Reuter's correspondent states that latest statistics show the deaths in France during 1907 numbered 704,000, and the births 774,000. This is the first instance of the number of ...

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  24. STERN JUSTICE.

    A court-martial at Nikolaievsk, Easterm Siberia, sentenced to death by strangulation eight Japanese' who wounded soldiers conveying them to prison for seal peaching. The sentence has now ...

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  25. LORD MILNER'S ADMINISTRATION CRITICISED.

    General Both, Premier of the Transvaal, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, said that Lord Miner's administration had been the most unfortunate thing that had over happened the ...

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  26. DEATH OF MR. W. P. CRICK.

    Mr. W.P. Crick was taken suddenly ill at his residence, Randwick, on Saturday night and died the next afternoon from hemorrhage of the stomach. He was born near Kapunda (S.A.). in ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. PRUSSIAN ROYALTIES POISONED

    Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (second cousin of the German Emperor), his wife, and their daughter were poisoned by eating contaminated meat in Berlin. ...

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  28. ARGENTINE SPENDS £11,000,000 ON DEFENCE.

    The Argentine Chamber of Deputies has authorised the Government to spend £11,000,000 on the increase of the fleet and renewal of .field artillery. ...

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  29. CABLE COMPANY FINED HEAVILY.

    The Civil Court at Caracas has mulcted the French Cable Company in £1,000,000 damages, beside a further amount to be assessed hereafter for complicity in the revolt headed by General ...

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  30. UNEMPLOYED IN GLASGOW.

    The Lord Provost of Glasgow states that the number of unemployed in the city is beyond all previous experience. ...

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  31. ENGLISH SMALL HOLDINGS.

    Under the Small Holdings Act there were 19,000 applicants during the first half of the current year, involving an area of 300.000 acres. Out of seventeen schemes submitted by county ...

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  32. WORLD'S BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The contest for the Heavy-weight Boxing Championship of the World and a purse of £3000, between "Tommy" Burns and "Bill" Squires, took place at the Stadium Rushcurters Bay, on ...

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  33. THE NEW TURKEY.

    Dr. A. Vainbery, Professor of Oriental Languages, Buda-Pesth University, a famed traveller in the East, considers that the destruction of German influence in Turkey is complete, and that ...

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  34. MOROCCO HAS ANOTHER SULTAN.

    At the commencement of the battle near Marakesh ending in the decisive defeat of Abdel Axiz Sultan of Morocco, many of his soldiery joined the mehallas (regiments) of Mulai Hand. ...

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  35. A MILLION FOR SPORT TRACK.

    Mr. John Gated, a Washington millionaire, is constructing a golf course, with racecourse, and concrete automobile track, to cost over £1,000,000. ...

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  36. THE CARDINAL AND ENGLAND.

    Speaking at the Roman Catholic banquet to Catholic members of the U.S. fleet at the Town Hall on Sunday, Cardinal Moran, in the course of a lengthy address. said, as reported in the ...

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  37. THE BRAYBROOK DISASTER.

    The trial of Leonard Milburn, Gilbert Dolman, and Frederick George Kendall, on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the Brayerook railway disaster, will commence on September ...

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  38. SHIPPING DISASTER

    Advices have been received from Bergen, Norway, that the Norwegian steamer Folgefonden 210 tons, stranded at Skaancvik, and Eauk in three minutes. Of S3 passengers aboard it is ...

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  39. LADY LEGAL MANAGER ACQUITTED.

    Miss Frances Newport, formerly legal manager of the Marvel Loch Gold-mining Company, was, at the Melbourne Criminal Court, acquitted of a charge of embezzing £1702 10s belonging to ...

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  40. REMARKABLE LOSS OF MEMORY.

    Lieutenant Eric II. Craves, one of the heroes of the savinG of the crew of submarine A9 on july 14, has not yet recovered his memory. The recollection of incidents of his youth is ...

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  41. THE LAPSED MAIL CONTRACT.

    The proceeding for the recovery of the bond for the forfeited Laing mail contract are proceeding slowly in England. It is probable that a commission may be appointed to take ...

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  42. ACETIC ACID FOR VINEGAR.

    At the Glebe Police Court, on Tuesday. before Mr. Barnett, S.M., Donald M'Parlane, of Leichhardt, pleaded guilty to having, by his agent, Mrs. M'Farlane, sold "vinegar" which was not ...

    Article : 180 words
  43. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

    While the governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange was inquiring into enormous bogus sales on Saturday. A. O. Brow and Co. announced their suspension. ...

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  44. CHILD POISONED BY NICOTINE.'

    A peculiar poisoning case occurred at West Tamworth. On Monday the 6 years old son of Mrs. Hy. Whitten picked up an old pipe, which he placed in his mouth and sucked. Subsequently ...

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  45. "WHOLESALE" HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

    A highwayman, armed with a rifle, held up 11 coaches loaded with tourists, at Yellowstone, National Park (U.S.A:), and secured £2OOO, as well as many watches and jewels, after which ...

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  46. PASSENGER BOAT AND TUG IN COLLISION.

    The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Suva and Messrs. J. Fenwick and Co.'s tug Hero collided off Caps Three Points early on Friday morning. The Suva was bound for Newcastle, and the ...

    Article : 95 words
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  48. CHILIAN TRAINING SHIP COMING.

    The Chilian naval training ship General Baquedano will visit Sydney at the oud of next month. She has about 7O cadets on board. ...

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  49. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    Arrangements are being made for the assumption of administration by the Governor-General designate. H.M.S, Powerful will leave Melbourne just ...

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  50. BALLARAT CADETS MARCH TO MELBOURNE.

    Having persistently asked to be conveyed by rail to Melbourne to take part in the American leet festivities, and having been until almost the last, moment met by a refusal, the ballarat ...

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  51. BIG COMMISSION FOR AUSTRALIAN ARTIST.

    Mr. John Longstaff has been commissioned to paint portraits of the Prince and princess of Wales for the imperial Colonial Club. ...

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  55. MILITIA TO ENFORCE SUNDAY

    Shopkeepers of Atlantic City, a favorite sea-side resort in New Jersey, having defied the Sunday closing law, Governor Fort threatens to send the militia toenforce the provisions of the law. ...

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  56. COUNT TOLSTOI ILL.

    Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russsical Social reformer, is seriously ill. ...

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  57. DISCOVERY OF FROZEN SAILORS.

    Excavations which were being made at Port Hancock. New Jersey, revealed a vault. in which were the bodies of H' British naval officers' and men, who were frozen to death in 1783, after ...

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  58. IRELAND'S LOSS OF EMIGRATION.

    The population of Ireland in 1007 decreased by 14,074 owing to emigrants more than balancing the excess of births over deaths. ...

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  59. DREADNOUGHTS FOR RUSSIA.

    Russia has accepted German designs for four largo Dreadnoughts, which will be built at St. Petersburg. British Fleet of Battleships for ...

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