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  2. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

    The Minister of Railways has been very deeply and favorably impressed by the practical value of many of the suggestions for improvements in railway management made ...

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  3. STATE POLITICS.

    On the third reading of the Reform Bill, Labor members, in their own words, "entered their protest." Mr. Prendergast did it with particular vehemence, on the ...

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  4. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, who two days ago called in at Mombassa in the cruiser Good Hope en route for Durban, has left Mombassa with ...

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  5. A NIGHT'S LOSSES AT CARDS.

    A summons for a direction in an unusual case was before Mr. Justice Hodges in the Practice Court yesterday. Thos. Lester, of Barkly-street, St. Kilda, turf ...

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  6. INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION.

    The seventh annual meeting of the National Anti-Sweating League was held at the Temperance Hall last evening. The small hall was well filled. The chair was ...

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  7. THE DROUGHT BROKEN.

    "If this rain had only come in April last," said Mr. Baracchi yesterday, "it would have meant a saving to the State of hundreds of thousands of pounds." Even ...

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  8. VENEZUELA.

    Further information with respect to the seizure by the Germans of the Venezuelan gunboats states that the captain of the German gunboat Panther, when he seized ...

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  9. RUSSIA'S MANCHURIAN GRIP.

    The Russian Government, before nominally carrying out its promise to evacuate Manchuria, is pressing the imperial Chinese Government to the keeping of the ...

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  10. SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.

    A deputation from the shire council of Preston, introduced by Mr. Gair, M.L.A., asked the Minister of Railways yesterday for an improvement of the train service on ...

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  11. RESTOCKING THE TRANSVAAL.

    The process of restocking the devastated Boer farms in the Vryheid and Utrecht districts of the South-Eastern Transvaal is now reported complete. ...

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  12. BRITISH INTENTIONS.

    The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for Foreign Affaire, stated, in reply to a question in the House of Lords last night, that if the seizures already made by the German ...

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  13. A CHINESE STEAMSHIP SERVICE.

    Pekin telegrams report that a Chinese imperial edict has been issued which foreshadows the purchase by the Chinese Government of the China Merchants' Steam ...

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  14. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    The Governor-General and Lady Tennyson had an exceptionally warm welcome on arrival at Adelaide yesterday. Every section of the community was represented in ...

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  15. THE ITALIAN CLAIMS.

    President Castro has forwarded a reply to the claim sent in through the Italian Minister at Caracas for the payment of £12,000 compensation to Italian subjects ...

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  16. WAR MEDALS.

    Many of the Australians who served in South Africa in the Scottish Horse and other irregular corps have not yet received the medals and clasps to which they are entitled. A list of these men ...

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  17. RUSSIA'S INTERNAL TROUBLE.

    The internal troubles of Russia, the extension of revolutionary feeling, and the discontent which pervades the peasantry, the working classes and the university ...

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  18. A RUSSIAN SCAN. MAG.

    A sensation has been caused in St. Petersburg by the compulsory resignation of Privy Councillor Kovalevsky, Assistant Minister of Finance for Commerce and ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. THE INTERVIEWS WITH EMPLOYES.

    The majority of the suggestions put forward by railway employes in the course of interviews published in "The Age" are approved by Mr. Bent, who has himself, since ...

    Article : 517 words
  20. THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

    In the House of Commons last night, Lord Cranbourne, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, remarked, apropos of the Venezuelan trouble, that no country in the world ...

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  21. RAILWAY REVENUE.

    According to a detailed return presented to the Minister of Railways, the traffic receipts for November, 1902, declined by £22,807 as compared with the amount for ...

    Article : 249 words
  22. THE HARTOPP DIVORCE CASE.

    The Hartopp divorce case, which has been in process of hearing for the last three weeks, and has created a sensation in aristocratic circles, was concluded yesterday. ...

    Article : 144 words
  23. THE COAST BLOCKADE.

    Colonel John Hay, the American Secretary of State, has informed the German Government that the United States disapproves of the policy of the allies in ...

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  24. MARSEILLES STRIKE ENDED.

    Reuter's correspondent at Marseilles reports that the general strike originated by the shipping employes there is virtually ended. The end was brought about by the ...

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  25. PROHIBITED [?]IMMIGRANTS.

    The Prime Minister expects to receive an application to-day for the exemption from the operation of the Immigration Restriction Act of the six contract hatters who are ...

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  26. REVOLUTIONARIES AGAINST CASTRO.

    President Castro's attempt to utilise for the consolidation of his own power the crisis he has brought about in the foreign relations of Venezuela, by conciliating the ...

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  27. INTERVIEW WITH MR. BARACCHI.

    "When I speak of the break up of the drought," said Mr. Baracchi yesterday, "I am not speaking so much for Victoria, because after all it is only the far northern ...

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  28. FLINDERS-STREET COLLISION.

    The Railway Appeal Board Messrs. R. G. Kent (chairman), C. E. Norman, and Johnston (the latter representing the employes) sat yesterday to deal with the ...

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  29. DR. TEMPLE.

    The bulletin issued to-day by the medical advisers of Dr. Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, states that the Primate spent a restless night and that there is no ...

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  30. SALARIED STAFF ECONOMIES.

    In accordance with the scheme of reduced time as applied to the salaried staff, a number of clerks at the Spencer-street buildings have been deprived of half a day's ...

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  31. CORDITE FACTORY EXPLOSION.

    A terrible explosion occurred to-day, in the Government cordite ammunition factory at Waltham, in Essex. The disaster was caused by a small piece of grit getting ...

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  32. TURKEY AND MACEDONIA.

    The Turkish Government, in reply to the note of the powers insisting on the early and effective adoption of administrative reforms in Macedonia, has asked the powers ...

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  33. AMALGAMATION OF BRANCHES.

    Mr. Harold, Kent, the chief accountant, has reported to the Minister of Railways that he has completed the amalgamation of the staffs of the chief accountants' branch ...

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The severity of the winter in Europe is being felt most keenly in Austria, where terrible distress exists from lack of employment, combined with the extreme cold. ...

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  35. THE SOMALI CAMPAIGN.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, in reply to a question, said that the cost of the Somali campaign operations for the present ...

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  36. BALLARAT ASSIZES.

    At the assizes to-day, before Mr. Justice a'Beckett, a young man named Walter Legge was charged with stealing clothing and jewellery from Love's boarding house ...

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  37. ROCKEFELLER'S MUNIFICENCE.

    Mr. John D. Rockefeller, head of the Standard Oil Company, and reputed the richest millionaire in America, has given another 1,000,000 dol. (£200,000) for the ...

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  38. SIR JOHN SEE'S CABLEGRAMS TO ENGLAND.

    The Premier laid before the Assembly his brief correspondence with the Agent-General on the subject of the detained hatters. The Agent-General cabled on 11th ...

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  39. THE BALLARAT RESERVOIRS.

    A thunderstorm occurred here early on Wednesday morning, and six points of rain were reported at the observatory. At the reservoirs, however, the rainfall covered ...

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  40. SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS.

    The saw millers and firewood cutters of Violet Town, who interviewed the Minister of Railways a couple of weeks ago relative to the losses occasioned them owing ...

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  41. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.

    Yesterday, Elias Parry, purser of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company's Suevie, which left Sydney 22nd September, and lately arrived at Liverpool, was arrested on ...

    Article : 63 words
  42. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  43. THE CUSTOMS SEALS CASE.

    A cablegram has been received in Sydney to the effect that at a meeting of big shipping companies in London it was decided to fight the Federal Government conjointly ...

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  44. FOUNDERED IN DUBLIN BAY.

    A disastrous shipwreck took place yesterday in Dublin Bay. During a heavy gale the steamer Marlay, coal laden, filled suddenly and foundered. There were 14 ...

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  45. FALL AT BENDIGO.

    The downpour all to-day and yesterday is by far the heaviest that has occurred for a considerable time past. The day was hot and sultry, and towards evening a ...

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  46. SEA LAKE SUPPLIED FOR THE SUMMER.

    Since 5th inst. 178 points of rain have been registered at Sea Lake. The drought is considered to be broken. Most of the large dams are filled to overflowing, and ...

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  47. THE WATER FAMINE.

    The channels silted up by the recent dust storm have been cleared from Horsham to Warracknabeal, and in a few days a fresh supply of water may be expected to serve ...

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  48. A RESOURCEFUL GANGER.

    A resident of Harcourt who for a long time has been a ganger on the line between Castlemaine and Bendigo, having been reduced to work only five days per week, has ...

    Article : 109 words
  49. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    I.G.M.S. Prinz Regent L[?]itpold left Suez for Australia 15th. ...

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  53. "RECORD" FALL AT HAMILTON.

    A thunderstorm of tropical fury broke over the town at 7 o'clock this evening, and continued for an hour, during which rain fell in torrents, about an inch and a ...

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  55. WAGES OF SEAMEN.

    There is nothing fresh here concerning the seamen's trouble. The local officers are awaiting news from Melbourne as to the result of the recent negotiations. The ...

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  56. TRAIN DELAYS.

    The Melbourne tran due here at 4.20 p.m. did not arrive until 6.40. ECHUCA, Wednesday. The trains continue to arrive very late, ...

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