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  2. GALLERY NOTES.

    The Treaasurer found it no easy matter in the Legislative Assembly yesterday getting through his Appropriation Bill. First there was a motion by the Premier to ...

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  3. FEDERAL LAND TAX. "ABUSE OF FEDERAL POWERS."

    In the House of Representatives to-day, the Hon. A. Deakin, on rising to speak on the second reading of the Land Tax Bill, was greeted with loud Opposition ...

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  4. WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.

    The weakly meeting of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerago Board was held yesterday afternoon. There were present: Mr. E. J. T. ...

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    MR. H. M. HICKS, Who retires from Messrs. Perkins and Co., Ltd., after 18 years' successful management. [See Personal.] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    MR. RICHARD BRYANT. Champion Roma Bowling Club for the second time, he having won the honour last year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. MASKED BURGLARS.

    Two men, masked and armed, entered the Gardeners' Arms Hotel at Bentleigh early this morning by forcing a window. Mr. Mathews, the licensee, was awakened ...

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  8. PARLIAMENT, JURY BILL IN THE COUNCIL.

    In the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. THYNNE presented the report of a Select Committee appointed to consider the Macansh Estates Enabling Bill, which ...

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  9. AUSTRALIA'S TORPEDO DESTROYERS.

    It will be remembered that as a component part of the Federal Government's naval policy of having two torpedo destroyers constructed in England, another ...

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  10. "UNREASONABLE LABOUR CONDITIONS."

    Mr. Ritchie, president of the Pastoralists' Association of Victoria, stated at the annual meeting to day that new members, representing 270.000 sheep, had been ...

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  11. THE CANE HARVEST.

    The cane harvest in the Bundaberg district is making very favourable progress, and the estimates of the crop have, in nearly every instance, been largely, ...

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  12. CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

    A dead body, which has been identified as that of Lady Marjorie Gladys Stuart Erskine, daughter of the Earl of Buchan, has been discovered on the golf course at ...

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  13. CAMDEN-ROAD MURDER.

    Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel Clara Le Neve were brought up at the Bow-street Police Court to-day, Crippen being charged with the murder of his ...

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  14. A WESTRALIAN PIONEER.

    The Hon. G. Throssell died to-day, the result of injuries sustained in falling downstairs at his residence at Northam. He was a pioneer of the Northam district. ...

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  15. AMERICAN COTTON MARKET.

    August cotton touched 20 cents per lb. in the New York market yesterday, and closed at 19.80 cents. This is the highest price since the ...

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  16. KENSINGTON MURDER.

    The inquest concerning the death of the girl O'Brien will be opened at the City Coroner's Court to-morrow. The authorities are satisfied that they will be ...

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  17. CLAIM FOR £12,000.

    A. mercantile case in which the damages claimed are £12,000 was begun to-day. Henry Edwin M'Donald and' Jane Eliz. Miller seek to recover the ...

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  18. AMERICAN FOREST FIRES.

    The forest fires which have been raging for some time past in the States of Montana and Idaho are now being quenched by heavy rain. ...

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  19. EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

    A great Eucharistic Congress is to be opened at Montreal on September 11. The function will be of an imposing character, and among those ...

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  20. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    In the House of Representatives to-day. In replying to Mr. Groom, the Prime Minister said that when he stated that depots would be established in various ...

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  21. SENSATIONAL BOBBERY.

    A band of masked burglars entered the Chateau Rochecantin, near Angers (France), tore up a sheet and gagged and bound the Countess de Rochecantin[?] ...

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  22. SOUTH AFRICA.

    A powerful political organisation of natives has boen formed in South Africa, with 3000 branches. The organisation is holding meetings ...

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  23. CANADA'S IDEAL AIM.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Prime Minister, speaking in British Colum[?] bia, stated that Canadian trade was destined to cover the Pacific, as Great ...

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  24. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The Minister for External Affairs has received a letter from Sir Joseph Ward to the effect that the New Zealand Government viewed with much interest the ...

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  25. STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

    During the past 28 years the Standard Oil Co. has paid dividends aggregating 710,000,000 dollars on an originai capital of 100,000,000 dollars. As hundreds of ...

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  26. VICTORIAN IMMIGRATION.

    The Hon. H. Mackenzie and Dr. Elwood Mead, the Victorian immigration delegation, who have now completed their mission in the ...

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  27. SOUTHERN SPORTING.

    Homewards has been scratched for the Epsom Handicap and Metropolitan. The New Zealand horses Master Soult and Lady Lucy were absent from the ...

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  28. THE KAISER'S SPEECH.

    The Berlin Socialist journal, "Vorwerts," commenting upon the recent speech of the Emperor William at Koenigsberg, demands the summoning of the Reichstag, ...

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  29. AS AFFECTING QUEENSLAND.

    The Government is causing inquiry to be made of the effect of the clause which provides for lessees of Crown lands to pay the Federal Land Tax under certain ...

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  30. AVIATION.

    M. Brequet carried five passengers on his biplane at Lille, in France. This constitutes a world's record in the carrying of passengers by aeroplane. ...

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  31. Pooley Weighbridges.

    The statements recently made in the Federal House of Representatives to the effect that some makes of weighing machines imported into the Commonwealth ...

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  32. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

    Strong shocks of earthquake have been experienced in Southern Italy and Sicily, the places affected being Reggio di Calabria, Messina, Gerace, Milazza, and Monto ...

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  33. WHAT WILL THE TAX YIELD?

    There are no reliable statistics of the value of the lands held by private owners in the Commonwealth, and the proposed new land tax is, therefore, very much in ...

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  34. A Delayed Mail Boat.

    The Postmaster-General's Department advises under date August 29 that the following telegram has been received from the Postmaster, Thursday Island:—" The ...

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  35. Lecture to Sanitary Students.

    Dr. Eikington (Commissioner of Public Health) was to have delivered a lecture at the Technical College to-morrow evening to the sanitary science students, but ...

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