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  2. CHEAPER HANDLING OF GRAIN.

    According to the declaration of the Minister of Agriculture at the recent grain conference, the merits of the bulk handling system are not disputed, but the ...

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  3. FEDERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

    The House of Representatives will meet at 2.30 p.m. to-day. The Federal Treasurer will move the second reading of the Supply Bill, and subsequently, if time permit, the ...

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  4. THE BOER WAR

    The wife of Commandant-General Botha, who has striven to the utmost of her power to induce her husband to abandon the war, has arrived in London. Mrs. Botha, it is ...

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  5. THE POWERS IN CHINA.

    Count von Waldersee, the German generalissimo of the allied troops in North China, who lately left Taku in the German war ship Hertha to return to Germany via ...

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  6. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    The Royal yacht Ophir, conveying the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, with H.M.S, June and St. George, arrived at 11.30 a.m. to-day and anchored near the ...

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  7. A "WHITE AUSTRALIA."

    At the Yarravillo Hall last night, Mr. S. Mauger, M.P. for the Melbourne Ports, addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents on The Kanaka Problem. Mr. G. ...

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  8. TREATMENT OF BOER WOMEN.

    A clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church holding a pastorate at Aberdeen, in the Graaf Reinet district, has written letters to the press describing the treatment of ...

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  9. FRENCH PRECAUTIONS

    Major-General Voyron, commanding the French troops remaining in garrison in Northern China, has issued a general order, designed to prevent, so far as French ...

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  10. CHINESE SUPERSTITION.

    An Imperial edict hits been issued from the present Chinese capital, Si-ngan-fu, in Shen-si, further postponing the promised early return of the Court to Pekin. The ...

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  11. ARRANGEMENTS IN ADELAIDE.

    Lord Richard Nevill, private secretary to the Governor, has arranged with the railway authorities and the Port corporation the route to be taken by the Royal party ...

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  12. BOERS IN BERMUDAS.

    It is officially announced by the War Office that the number of Boer prisoners of war sent to the Bermudas, in the British West ladies, is 900. ...

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  13. AMERICAN REMOUNTS.

    Though the purchase of horses from among remounts was stopped by the War Office some weeks ago, 1000 horses bought in the United States, and 800 in Canada, are now ...

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  14. GREECE AND CRETE.

    The Greek consul at Canea, the seat of Government in Crete, has, under instructions from his Government, returned to Prince George of Greece, High ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. LOCKING THE MURRAY.

    A groat deal of enthusiasm has been displayed in Echuca and other towns over a national project for locking the River Murray. The project is not a new one, of course; ...

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  16. RETURNING BUSHMEN.

    Capetown telegrams report that 400 Australian Imperial Bushmen, whose time of service has expired, will to-morrow (Monday) sail from Capetown in the steamer ...

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  17. THE CAPE CONSTITUTION.

    Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson, late Governor of Natal, has concluded his brief official tour in Cape Colony, of which he is now Governor. His Excellency visited six towns in the ...

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  18. MORE RETURNED TROOPS.

    The members of the various South African contingents who arrived in Melbourne on Sunday by the Aberdeen were entertained at lunch by the State of Victoria yesterday, ...

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  19. A BELFAST RIOT.

    The quietude which has for many months past prevailed in the North of Ireland was disturbed yesterday by a religious faction disturbance at Belfast. A Roman Catholic ...

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  20. A DYNAMITE TRAIN.

    A serious railway disaster occurred on Saturday in the State of New York. At Vestal, a town near, the city of New York, a freight train from Lackawanna ran ...

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  21. PROTECTION AND THE SUGAR TRADE.

    At to-day's meeting of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce, the proprietors of the local Solar Salt Works wrote, requesting the council of the chamber to obtain the ...

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  22. SUPPRESSION OF THE BOND.

    The Mafcking branch of the South Africa League (the loyal British association) has held a great meeting of members, at which resolutions were passed recommending the ...

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  23. A REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.

    A singular tragedy was perpetrated yesterday at Nancy, an important town in the east of France, on the Paris-Strasburg railway. The health authorities had grounds ...

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  24. MELBOURNE OFFICIAL CONFERENCE.

    Mr. W. H. Ryder, Under-secretary for the Home Department, is leaving for Melbourne on Thursday to attend the conference of State officers to deal with election matters ...

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  25. IRRIGATION ON THE GOULBURN.

    The project of carrying out what is known as the Eastern Goulburn Irrigation Scheme is again to be pressed on the attention of the Government. A meeting with this object was ...

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  26. THE NEW CAPE POLICY.

    Sir J. G. Sprigg, Premier of Cape Colony, with a view to breaking down existing racial animosities, is reported to be studying impartially, and irrespective of party ...

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  27. LATE RIFLE NEWS.

    ECHUCA.--Mr. G. H. James, one of the leading members of the Echuca Rifle Club, who has several times of late put up some splendid scores, on Saturday excelled himself. He fired seven shots ...

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  28. TOBACCO EXCISE REDUCTION.

    The reduction in the excise on tobacco to-day caused heavy clearances to be made through the customs, no less than £41,477 being paid. ...

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  29. LOSSES IN THE WAR.

    The War Office detailed statement of British casualties in the war in South Africa since the beginning of hostilities up to 30th April shows the total casualties to have been ...

    Article : 189 words
  30. THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    Sir,--The contention of the French organ of the New Hebrides Islands that the islands were annexed by the French in 1830 is absurd. At ...

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  31. THE ERMELO SURRENDERERS.

    Colonel Bullock, whose column recently occupied Ermelo, in the Eastern Transvaal, midway between Standerton and Belfast, just missing Botha, Steyn, Reitz and Smutz ...

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  32. THE AMERICA CUP.

    Mr. T. W. Lawson, owner of the yacht Independence, which he had specially built at Boston in connection with the coming America Cup race, and who himself ...

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  33. THEFT OF MILK.

    Three cans containing 340 quarts of milk were stolen from the Hawksburn railway station between 12 and 3 a.m. yesterday. The milk was consigned to Trigg Bros., of Toorak-road, and ...

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  34. THE SMALL-POX.

    The condition of the small-pox patient Constable Richard Hughes was much improved this morning. No other cases have been reported. ...

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  35. MORE VICTORIAN CASUALTIES.

    The Defence department has been apprised by the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria of the following casualties:-- 8th June, Trooper No. 269, Sergeant Powell, ...

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  36. A BOGUS WAR REPORT.

    An unofficial report was recently published in London stating that the troops of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, under Lieutenant-Colonel ...

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  37. FIERCE PARISIAN DUEL.

    A duel of an unusually determined character has been fought at Paris between M. Max Regis, a notorious auti-Semitic agitator, at one time mayor of Algiers, and ...

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  38. STREET NUISANCES AT ST. KILDA.

    The St. Kilda city council has taken a stand against the Board of Health in regard to the expressed desire of the latter that market gardeners' carts containing manure should be prohibited ...

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  39. GOLD JUBILEE EXHIBITION

    At a meeting of the exhibition committee this evening, Mr. S. H. M'Gowan presiding, it was decided to call for tenders for the erection of four more courts in ...

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  40. LAMENTABLE LANGUAGE.

    Our armies may have sworn terribly in the Transvaal; they had reason to; but it is doubtful if anything in their vocabulary equalled the choice expletives of Samuel Kraetzer, styling himself a ...

    Article : 318 words
  41. FACTORIES ACT.

    Sir,--In your issue of 4th inst, a report of the meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures is given, and Mr. Derham is reported to have said that the Factories Act is doing ...

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  42. STOCK CAPTURES BY AUSTRALIANS.

    Sergeant A. Coughian, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, writing from Roodepoort: Pass, near Middleburg, in the Eastern Transvaal, on 28th April, states that during the ...

    Article : 88 words
  43. AN ALBANIAN TROUBLE.

    Another internal trouble has occurred on the Balkan Peninsula, in consequence of the wild and turbulent Albanian tribes refusing to pay the taxes to the Turkish ...

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  44. COMMANDOS ATTACKING PATROLS.

    Private Mahoney, of the A. I. R., in writing of recent fighting neat Pearston, says that the enemy numbered 700, three commandos having joined forces. They were ...

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  45. FEDERAL AND LOUISA LAMONT RELIEF FUND.

    Mr. G. S. Walter, hon, secretary of the Port Melbourne fund, has received £4 10, proceeds of a biographic and vocal entertainment given by the Co-operative Coupon Company, in Port Melbourne ...

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  46. MRS. M'KINLEY'S AILMENT.

    American telegrams report that the malady from which Mrs. M'Kinley, wife of the President, is suffering, and which threatens to end her life, is blood poisoning, ...

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  47. BAD FROZEN RABBITS.

    Sir,--Some weeks ago there appeared in your columns a statement to the effect that a large portion of the rabbits shipped per steamer Damascus had arrived in bad ...

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  48. NEW SOUTH WALES LAND LAWS.

    The Land Appeal Court delivered an important judgment to-day. The case under review was the appeal of George D. Holmes against the decision of the Denillquin board ...

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  49. CAPTURE OF SNIPERS.

    A detachment of Cape Mounted Rifles, belonging to the column commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Scobell, of the Scots Greys, who lately captured Kruitzinger's langer at ...

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  50. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    BENALLA.--The half yearly balance sheet of the Swanpool Butter Making Company shows that the receipts for the six months totalled £5152, and that after expending £3063 in the purchase of milk. ...

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  51. A FRENCH COURTESY.

    A signal mark of courtesy and confidence, considering the Anglophobia which so largely prevails in France, has been accorded by the French Minister of Marine, M. ...

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  52. STEAMER VISION AGROUND.

    The steamer Vision, while attempting to cross the Camden Haven bar, inwards, on Sunday evening, ran ashore on tho rocks to the south of the bar, where the Amelia ...

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  54. CAPTURES OF BOERS.

    Commanders of columns in all parts of the Transvaal, Orange and Cape colonics report a series of captures and surrenders of Boers. Major-General Sir B. Blood, who is ...

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  55. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    BACCHUS MARSH.--A smoke night and concert was given on Friday night to Sergeant A. J. Tinker, who left here 15 months ago for South Africa with the Third Contingent, and returned ...

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  56. TALUNE POISONING CASE.

    Mrs. Jane Smith was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court to-day on the charge of having, on 19th February last, murdered Patrick Conway on board the steamer ...

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  57. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    An American syndicate has undertaken the work of converting the Metropolitan (London) and district underground railway lines from a steam to an electric motive ...

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