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  2. FEDERAL CABINET.

    The Federal Cabinet has been reconstituted as follows:— The Hon. T. T. Ewing has been transferted from the Department of Home ...

    Article : 166 words
  3. THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

    Professor Frederick De Martens, the eminent Russian jurist, and member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration at The Hague, is now visiting ...

    Article : 71 words
  4. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

    A deputation, introduced by Mr. J. D. Campbell, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Railways (the Hon. D. F. Denham) yesterday for the purpose of asking that ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  5. THE JAMAICA DISASTER.

    Two further violent shocks of earthquake were experienced in Jamaica yestoday, and these have had the result of again demoralising the negro population. ...

    Article : 188 words
  6. THE CYCLONE AT COOKTOWN.

    Tom M'Lean, a packer, has had the misfortune to lose eleven of his horbes together with all his loading for the tin mines. The water was 3ft. above his ...

    Article : 897 words
  7. GOOMBUNGEE SHOW.

    The first show of the Goombungee Agricultural Society was held to-day under favourable conditions. The weather was fine, and there was an attendance of fully ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  8. NEW RUSSIAN DUMA.

    The primary elections for the new Russian Duma have begun among the workers in St. Petersburg. An enormous majority of the delegates so far elected belong to ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. KANAKA DEPORTATION.

    Yesterday afternoon the second batch of Kanakas engaged by the Fijian Government for plantation labour were shipped by the R.M.S. Miowera, of the ...

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  10. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

    Professor Sir William Crookes F.R.S., in the course of experiments in conjunetion with two professors of the Fribourg University, has discovered a procass for ...

    Article : 62 words
  11. MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.

    The Governments of France and Spain are now withdrawing the warships recently sent by them to Tangier, with the exception of one cruiser each. ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. ANGLO-AMERICAN INCIDENT.

    Referring to the Jamaica incident, the "New York Times" states:—"Sir J. A. Swettenham was intentionally offensive, yet it is a case for guffaws and ...

    Article : 404 words
  13. NORTHERN RELIEF FUNDS.

    The Mayor to-day wired, through the Bank of North Queensland, £50 voted by the council, to the Cooktown relief fund. A meeting of citizens has been ...

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  14. MESSAGE FROM THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

    The Attorney-General (the Hon. J. W. Blair), on receipt of a wire from the police magistrate at Cooktown, giving particulars of the cyclone, sent a message of ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The following scratchings are announced:— Challenge Stakes.—Morthalloc, Novellina, Change, Thalaba, and [?]amura[?]. ...

    Article : 591 words
  16. THE CHURCH IN FRANCE.

    The bill introduced by M. Briand, French Minister for Education and Public Worship, dealing with the situation that has arisen from the enforcement of the ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. RELIEF MEETING IN BRISBANE.

    A meeting of citizens convened by the Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman Crase), to take steps to assist the people of Cooktown in their distress, was held at the ...

    Article : 173 words
  18. A MISSING KETCH.

    The Portmaster (Contain J. Mackay) is endeavouring to charter a vessel at Cooktown to proceed to Pipen Island light in search of the Government ketch Pilot, ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. CAPE BEDFORD MISSION STATION.

    It, has been reported to the Government that the Cape Bedford Mission Station, carried on hy the Lutherans, suffered greatly in the recent cyclone in the ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. ALLEGED JURY TAMPERING.

    Judge Fitzhardinge, who sat as Royal Commissioner in connection with certain allegations made by the jury in the trial of Crick, Willis and Bath has completed ...

    Article : 324 words
  21. FAMINE IN CHINA.

    Eastern files received by the steamer Changsha state that the famine in Central China is very real, and extends over a great area. People are fleeing from ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

    The Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the City Temple, who recently caused a sensation by promulgating a new theology, and denying the doctrine of the Fall of Man, ...

    Article : 521 words
  23. LATE COMMERCIAL AND MINING.

    LONDON, January' 23.—At to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 1092 casks were offered, and 912 casks sold. Mutton tallow, fine, realised 38/3 per cwt.; ditto, medium, 35/; beef, ...

    Article : 135 words
  24. TOWNSVILLE NEWS.

    During 1906 forty-five applications for land were received at Townsville, and thirty-seven were accepted. Areas totalling 6403 acres were taken up as agricultural ...

    Article : 130 words
  25. SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP CLASSES.

    Sir,—Like Mr. Power I am astonished that in the correspondence on State school home lessons no one has taken the opportunity to denounce the iniquitous "special ...

    Article : 792 words
  26. SHERWOOD SHIRE COUNCIL.

    The monthly meeting of the Sherwood Shire Council was held last evening in the Shire Hall, Corinda. There were present: Councillors G. L. Ramsay (chairman), T. G. Dewar, Watts ...

    Article : 374 words
  27. West End School of Arts.

    The annual meeting of the West End School of Arts was held last night the Mayor (Alderman Burton), who is presi dent, occupying the chair. The annual ...

    Article : 395 words
  28. "Starlight" or "Moonlight."

    The question of the identity of the bushranger made famous in "Robbery Under Arms" as Captain Starlight seems difficult to set at rest, although the ...

    Article : 436 words
  29. COMMONWEALTH MATTERS.

    Consideration was given at a meeting of the Cabinet to-day to the appointment of a Commonwealth representative at the Navigation Conference to be ...

    Article : 225 words
  30. Immigration League of Queensland.

    The first general meeting of subscribers to the Immigration League of Queensland will be held in the league's offices, North Queensland Bank Chambers, Queen-street, ...

    Article : 63 words
  31. Toowong Town Council.

    Mr. R. J. Cottell, jun., notifies, in response to numerous inquiries, that he intends to seek re election as an alderman of the South Ward of the Toowong ...

    Article : 229 words
  32. VICTORIA.

    It is stated that if the question of the land tax can be overcome the fusion of the Ministerial and Mackinnon parties will be complete. ...

    Article : 118 words
  33. UNBLEACHED PANAMA HATS.

    21s. to 42s.; from Eequador, fitted with Mountcastle & Quaid's Patent Grease-proof attachment. In this climate it is absolutely throwing away money purchasing ...

    Article : 102 words
  34. TO MOTORISTS.

    The New London Motor Cap. Austin & Co., sale agents for the makers. "The Corner," Courier Building, Queen-street.* Shipping Badges, Buttons, and Braid ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. NEW ZEALAND.

    A diver named Harper, who was engaged in securing the treasure from the sunken steamer Elingamite, at the Three Kings Islands, expired yesterday, ...

    Article : 152 words
  36. Aberdeen Liner Salamis.

    Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, advise that the Aberdeen liner Salamis will leave Dilgety's wharf, Bulimba, on Saturday, at 4 p.m., for London, via ports. ...

    Article : 30 words
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