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  2. TAXATION IN RUSSIA.

    The financial onus of the Far Eastern war is, according to reports received by Parisian papers, to be more forcibly borne home to the already discontented people of ...

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  3. ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

    The question of extending the travelling facilities within the suburban area has been occupying the attention of the State Government, and yesterday the Premier ...

    Article : 295 words
  4. DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.

    A man named Walter Nicholls committed suicide at an hotel at Cowra by shooting himself with a pea rifle. He had been engaged scrub cutting, and stopped at the ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. PORT ARTHUR SIEGE.

    The Japanese force under General Nogi which is besieging Port Arthur is receiving reinforcements at the rate of 1000 men a day; besides which many guns are being ...

    Article : 427 words
  6. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Mr. Matthew Glassford, a well-known produce merchant carrying on business in Flinders-street, who has just returned from a trip to England extending over about ...

    Article : 766 words
  7. CHECKS ON ADULTERATION.

    It should be apparent, even to the most superficial mind, that if the public is to be protected against adulteration frauds the penalties fixed by law against persons ...

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  8. THE GERMAN NAVY.

    The Emperor William yesterday performed the ceremony of launching at Kiel, on the Baltic, the new German war ship Deutschland. ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "New York Herald" makes some interesting revelations with respect to the negotiations for floating a Russian war loan of ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. RUSSIA AND INDIA.

    The Orenburg-Tashkend strategic military railway has been completed so far that construction trains can now pass along its entire length of 1163 miles. But, ...

    Article : 439 words
  11. THE WIFE MURDER IN SYDNEY

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of the young woman O'Hara, who was murdered by her husband, Oswald O'Hara, in Crown-street, Surrey Hills, early on Sunday ...

    Article : 218 words
  12. WHAT THE WAR IS COSTING.

    The opinion widely held in England that "the longest purse will win" in the struggle between the Russians and Japanese has not been appreciably modified by the later ...

    Article : 468 words
  13. KAISER AND PRESIDENT.

    Mr. Roosevelt, President of the United States, on Saturday performed the ceremony of unveiling at the War College, Washington, a statue of Frederick the ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. HUNGARIAN CRISIS.

    Further details of the remarkable outbreak of violence in the Hungarian Diet at Buda Pesth, where irate Oppositionists hurled books and ink bottles at the ...

    Article : 249 words
  15. A MISSIONARY'S MARRIAGE.

    A petition in divorce was heard, yesterday by the Chief Justice, brought by Zoe Claudia M'Vey Clee against her husband, Harry Clee, on the ground of desertion. ...

    Article : 439 words
  16. ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDERS.

    Lawrence Edward Raymond was tried at the Central Criminal Court to-day for attempting to murder his wife, Maud Raymond, by shooting at and wounding her ...

    Article : 433 words
  17. THE AMERICAN NAVY.

    Mr. Paul Morton, the new Secretary for the Navy in President Roosevelt's Cabinet, has announced the amount of the naval estimates he submits to Congress for the ...

    Article : 94 words
  18. AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

    A New York telegram reports that Mr. Whitelaw Reid, proprietor of the New York "Tribune," who was special ambassador to England for Queen Victoria's Jubilee ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. COMMENTS ON CABLE NEWS.

    Matters have developed a little further on the line of the Sha-ho, a considerable infantry affair having taken place. An artillery duel has been in progress, whether ...

    Article : 823 words
  20. MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

    Field-Marshal Oyama reports an infantry engagement on his left flank, near Liun-chan-tun. Japanese infantry, he states, encountered and scattered detachments of ...

    Article : 303 words
  21. THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

    Italy and Holland are now added to the countries which have officially notified their acceptance of the proposal of President Roosevelt, of the United States, for the ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. THE POSITION IN JAPAN.

    The overwhelming disaster which before the Russian arms the moment they attempted to stem the tide of defeat after Liao-yang, by adopting aggressive tactics, ...

    Article : 922 words
  23. GOLD IN RHODESIA.

    A new alluvial gold field, supposed to be of large area, has been discovered in the Victoria district of South-Eastern Rhodesia, about 200 miles east of Buluwayo, ...

    Article : 193 words
  24. DISCUSSED BY THE CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES.

    At the ordinary meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures last night the president (Mr. C. Atkins), in reporting the preferential trade meeting held at the Town Hall, ...

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  25. THE RAILWAYS.

    The Kerang train was nearly an hour late on arrival this evening, and the departure of the Melbourne train was consequently delayed. ...

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  26. RED CROSS ORGANISATION.

    Lord Knutsford, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1887-1892, has written a letter to the "Times" appealing to the British public for funds to extend and ...

    Article : 55 words
  27. A £6000 PRIZE.

    A writ which was issued yesterday indicates that there is a dispute as to the ownership of the proceeds of one of "Tattersall's" sweeps on the Melbourne Cup. ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. NORTH OF IRELAND DINNER.

    The annual reunion of North of Ireland men took place at Scott's Hotel last night, when about 60 members of the association and visitors assembled at dinner. The ...

    Article : 665 words
  29. DELAY IN TRAFFIC.

    Sir,--I engaged two trucks to load fat sheep at Mooroodue, and was informed by my agents they would have to be loaded in time for the train leaving there at 8 a.m. ...

    Article : 236 words
  30. LAND FOR RAILWAYS.

    Some time ago the Premier (Mr. Bent) gave an undertaking to amend the Railways Land Acquisition Act, with the view to the rectification of various anomalies ...

    Article : 428 words
  31. CHINESE FOR THE RAND.

    The chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines has stated, in connection with the operation of the Chinese indentured immigration law, that by the ...

    Article : 47 words
  32. "THE AGE" IN THE COUNTRY

    For the first time in the history of Kyabram "The Age", was delivered here to-day before noon. The papers came through by special train at 11.30 a.m., while the usual ...

    Article : 140 words
  33. THE HERERO REVOLT.

    General von Trotha, the German military commander in Damaraland, reports to Berlin that, on the body of an Herero chief killed in action, a letter has been found, ...

    Article : 75 words
  34. CONSULAR REPORT.

    The consul to-day received the following cablegram from Baron Komura, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:-- ...

    Article : 56 words
  35. LAND BOARD INQUIRY.

    A meeting of the land board was held to inquire into several cases of alleged dummyism with reference to the Blue Blocks .The board was composed of Messrs. ...

    Article : 283 words
  36. THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

    It is alleged that in the recent general elections for the Canadian Dominion Parliament. in which Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his party gained a sweeping Victory, ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. THE NEW WATER BILL.

    At the last meeting of the Rodney Trust the new Water Bill was severely criticised, and Mr. Kavanagh said that the Government did not want Rodney to pay merely ...

    Article : 353 words
  38. THE BALTIC FLEET.

    The special commissioners appointed by the president of the Board of Trade to investigate the Dogger Bank outrage have completed the first part of their inquiry ...

    Article : 311 words
  39. A BILLIARD MATCH.

    A billiard game of 7000 up between the Australian champion F. Weiss and w. Cook, an English professional, proved very one-sided. Weiss conceded his opponent ...

    Article : 37 words
  40. FEDERAL INCOMPETENCE.

    Sir,--Your timely leader to-day on the progress of German New Guinea and our utter neglect of our portion of it is another count in your bill of indictment of our ...

    Article : 258 words
  41. THE RAILWAY REVENUE.

    The revenue returns of the Railway department still continue satisfactory, and indications point to the probability of the present financial year closing with a balance ...

    Article : 137 words
  42. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Investigation into the damage resulting to the steamer Indralema from her collision with the Manchester Corporation in the Manchester Ship Canal, has shown ...

    Article : 129 words
  43. JAPANESE REFUGEES.

    While the German mail steamer, Grosser Kurfuerst, which arrived to-day, was at Bremen, two trains containing 707 Japanese refugees, sent by Russia from Siberia, ...

    Article : 38 words
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  45. JAPANESE OFFICIAL SCOUTS.

    Among the passengers on the Grosser Kurfuerst, from Colombo, were three Japanese naval officers, one of whom is proceeding to the South Sea Island in order to ...

    Article : 56 words
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  48. FARMING AND PASTORAL OUTLOOK.

    BALLAN.--In most instances where crops have been sown early they show little growth, many not exceeding a foot in height, and yet coming out into car. ...

    Article : 37 words
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