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  2. PROHIBITION IN NEW ZEALAND

    At the weekly meeting of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society, held in the Temperance Hall last night, Mr. John Vale cave an account of the recent prohibition ...

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  3. ROYAL SCANDAL IN SAXONY.

    A great sensation has been caused throughout Europe by an extraordinary, royal scandal in Saxony. The Archduchess Louise of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand ...

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  4. NEW RAILWAY ENGINES.

    By obtaining 40 new locomotives the Railway department estimates that it will be enabled to double the loading of trains on many country lines, and increase travelling ...

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  5. DEATH OF DR. TEMPLE.

    The Most Rev. Dr. Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose medical attendants yesterday reported him to be sinking slowly but steadily, has experienced a slight rally. ...

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  6. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    The Minister of Customs, Mr. O. C. Kingston, has decided to take a few days holiday. He mentioned yesterday that he intended to pay a visit to Merino, in the ...

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  7. A DREADFUL TRAGEDY.

    Another awful tragedy has occurred at Ramsay's Bush, near Dobroyde, a little girl of ten years having been done to death in a most brutal manner. The child's name ...

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  8. THE GOOSE CLUB.

    The problem of "raising the wind"--to quote the classic phrase invented by the Restoration dramatist-- is one that most people on occasion find difficult of solution. ...

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  9. VENEZUELA.

    It has transpired that General Ferreras, the revolutionary commander who successfully held Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, against President Castro's forces, collected ...

    Article : 239 words
  10. THE LATE PRIMATE'S CAREER.

    Dr. Frederick Temple was born 30th November, 1821, in the Ionian Islands, where his father, Major Temple, subsequently Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone, was ...

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  11. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Ex-Commandant Baren Colliers, a Free State Boer surrenderer, has been brought to account, as provided for under the Verceniging surrender agreement, for the ...

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  12. THE ARBITRATION QUESTION.

    Mr. Smalley, the Washington correspondent of the "Times," states that a growing hesitation is perceptible in the United States Government with respect to ...

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  13. SIR JOHN FORREST AT PERTH.

    Sir John Forrest, in an interview on the Coolgardie water scheme, lids expressed the belief that it will open up a good deal of pastoral country. The land is good in ...

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  14. DENILIQUIN WAR MEMORIAL.

    This evening a lamp erected in memory of trooper Jas. Mason, one of the local volunteers, who was killed in the Ellinsburg engagement in South Africa last December ...

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  15. ENGLAND'S "OPEN DOOR."

    The remainder of the gang of counterfeiters, whose forgeries of Bank of England notes had been so successfully and extensively carried on, ...

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  16. THE GERMAN ATTITUDE.

    Count von Bulow, the German Chancellor, has stated to a press interviewer at Berlin the attitude of the German Government in the Venezuelan trouble. The ...

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  17. IRISH LAND QUESTION.

    The movement for the holding in Dublin of an Irish landlords and tenants' conference, to consider the land question, prior to the introduction of Mr. Wyndham's Irish ...

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  18. STATE OF WAR PROCLAIMED.

    The singular anomaly of a blockade without any declaration of war or state of war in the Venezuelan case has at length been rectified. At Port of Spain, the capital of ...

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  19. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

    The Essendon council on Monday agreed to join Flemington in protesting against the withdrawal of the 4.50 a.m. train from the city to Essendon. Cr. Showers said ...

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  20. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The Times to-day publishes a message from Sir R. Cartwright, Acting Premier of Canada, transmitted by wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic, congratulating England ...

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  21. FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.

    The "Novoe Vremya," a leading St. Petersburg journal, which has of late adopted a tone of open and active hostility to England, complains that France is not ...

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  22. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

    A cable message from London, published on Monday, showed that from the proceeds of the five test matches played between the Australian Eleven and England ...

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  23. A ROYAL REPLY TO CANADA.

    King Edward has replied to the wireless telegraphic message sent to him by the Earl of Minto, Governor-General of Canada, by the Marconi trans-Atlantic ...

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  24. CANTERBURY RAILWAY STATION.

    At the last meeting of the Boroondara shire council, Cr. M'Beath again brought under the notice of the council the fact that Canterbury railway station is still left with ...

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  25. A FATAL MAYORAL BANQUET.

    The very Rev. W. B. W. Stephens, Dean of Winchester, who attended the banquet given several days ago by the Mayor of Winchester, at which a number of the ...

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  26. MURRAY WATERS COMMISSION

    The State Cabinet has carefully considered the report of the Murray Waters Commission, and the Premier has forwarded communications on the subject to the ...

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  27. THE PENRHYN STRIKE.

    The Board of Trade has declined to accede to a request that it would apply the provisions of the Conciliation Act to the long standing dispute between Lord Penrhvn ...

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  28. ITALY'S FINANCES.

    The Italian Minister of Finance yesterday made his budget statement, showing a surplus for the financial year of 32,500,000 lire (£1.300.000). and an estimated surplus ...

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  29. AMERICA'S PHILIPPINE DUTIES

    The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill by which the duties on products from the Philippine Islands imported into America are fixed at one ...

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  30. LATE TRAINS.

    The Port Fairy express tram from Melbourne was again behind time in reaching Geelong this evening. It was hit minutes late, and a number of passengers who ...

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  31. MADAME MELBA AT BALLARAT.

    Madame Melba, under the management of Mr. Harry Musgrove, arrived in Ballarat by special train this afternoon, accompanied by her father (Mr. D. Mitchell), her sister ...

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  32. THE HUMBERT SWINDLERS.

    The Humbert family, arrested in Madrid last Saturday, where they had been in hiding for the past six months, profess innocence of the gigantic series of frauds ...

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  33. THE FRENCH VINTAGE.

    The statistics of the French vintage for the year now completed show as was expected, a considerable falling off in the wine production. The total quantity of wine ...

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  34. "RECOMMENDED TO MERCY."

    Petitions for the reprieve of Emma (or Kitty) Byron, the girl sentenced to death for fatally stabbing, in Lombard street, London, Arthur Reginald Baker, a Stock ...

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  35. ADULTERATED TEMPERANCE BEVERAGES.

    At last nights meeting of the Broadford Division Sons and Daughters of Temperance, reference, was made to the articles which recently appeared in "The Age," ...

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  36. LAND SETTLEMENT.

    Particulars in connection with some of the lands which the Minister of Lands has decided to throw open for selection will be announced in the "Government Gazette" ...

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  37. BELGIAN CONCESSION IN CHINA

    The London "Daily Telegraph" states that King Leopold of Belgium has received an autograph letter from the Chinese Emperor Kwang-su, in which a large ...

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  38. NEWS FROM THE ISLANDS.

    The steamer Titus, which has sailed for Sydney, has as a passenger Captain Rason, R.N., the British Resident Commissioner it the New Hebrides, who is proceeding ...

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  39. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    At the Windsor meeting on Saturday, the Clewes Handicap Steeplechase, of 135 sovs, three miles, was won by Perdicus, by Pontiac-- Hope IV. The New Zealand bred ...

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  41. EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA.

    The earthquakes recently reported in the district of Andigan, a town in Chinese Tartary, 80 miles south of Khohan, have been continued, with disastrously fatal results. ...

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  42. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  43. A TURTLE FOUND AT INVERLOCH.

    On the beautiful beach of Anderson's Inlet yesterday morning the unprecedented sight of a huge turtle, weighing 105 lb., and measuring 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. ...

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  45. SEAMEN'S WAGES.

    At a meeting of the executive committee of the Victorian Employers' Federation held yesterday reference was made to the fact that the threatened trouble in the ...

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  46. TRAIN JEWELLERY ROBBERY.

    The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, while travelling from London to Cannes, in the south of France, were robbed yesterday of gems to the value of [?]5000 ...

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  49. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.--Nineveh, steamer, from Melbourne 29th October; Hudson, bque., from Bunbury, 26th July; Gulf of Venice, steamer, from Melbourne, 7th October; ...

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  51. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    P. and O. S.N. Co.'s R.M.S. Rome left Colombo for Australia on the afternoon of the 22nd inst. ...

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