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  2. OUR NEW RAILWAY MANAGER.

    Curiously enough the circumstances attending the arrival in Melbourne of Mr. John Tait the new Chief Commissioner of Railways constitute an exemplification of ...

    Article : 703 words
  3. FLOOD AND FIRE.

    American telegrams report a sensational combination of flood and fire disaster in the mid-western States. Rains of unprecedented heaviness and violence fell in the Indian ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. THE EMPIRE'S FISCAL POLICY.

    A semi-official, statement issued at Berlin shows that the German Government has been most effectively impressed by the announcement of Mr. Balfour that he and ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.

    An examination of the new suburban time table, which came into operation yesterday, appears to show a determination on the part of the old management of the ...

    Article : 1,562 words
  6. ANTI-SWEATING LEAGUE.

    A meeting of the council of tho Anti-Sweating League was held at 66 Bourke-street yesterday afternoon. The Rev. G. H. Cole presided. ...

    Article : 680 words
  7. THE FEDERAL REVENUE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 474 words
  8. THE NEW TIME TABLE IN OPERATION.

    The introduction of the new time table yesterday seemed to completely disorganise the suburban traffic. Passengers on nearly, every suburban, line were loudly ...

    Article : 390 words
  9. A FLOODED TOWN FIRED.

    At Topeka, an important city in the State of Kansas, on the Kansas River, an extraordinary catastrophe was involved by the flood. That part of the town which is on ...

    Article : 311 words
  10. HOW AMERICA STANDS.

    Mr. Smalley, the New York correspondent, of "The Times," commenting on the hostility shown by leading American meat and corn dealers and some public men to ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. THE OPPOSITION LEADER.

    Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition, has withdrawn the motion of which lie gave notice last week, that the House decline to proceed with the second ...

    Article : 59 words
  12. THE UNIONIST PARTY.

    Rumors are being circulated in the London press that though Mr. Chamberlain and the Prime Minister are avowedly in accord with respect to the preferential ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. ELECTRIC TRACTION.

    The Minister of Railways has obtained from Mr. J. D. Gillan, electric inspector of the Public Works department, a report dealing with the question of installing ...

    Article : 670 words
  14. THE BALKANS.

    The "Daily News" to-day, publishes an extraordinary telegram from its Sofia correspondent concerning the situation in the Balkans, with the proviso that it does not ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. REVENUE RETURNS.

    The returns prepared by the officials of the Victorian Treasury department yesterday show that the total revenue for May was £434,073, which, compared with the ...

    Article : 198 words
  16. BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

    The Federal Government is feeling its way towards important departures in the industrial development of British Guinea. The Constitution Bill, which will ...

    Article : 458 words
  17. THE DISSOLUTION DATE.

    Prominent Unionists affirm that at the earliest. Parliament will not be dissolved before the autumn of 1904 or 1995. ...

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  18. APPRENTICESHIP QUESTION.

    At the meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures last night, Mr. F. Scarlett, the president, presiding, further consideration was given to the apprenticeship question. ...

    Article : 541 words
  19. THE NEW COMMISSIONER.

    Mr. Tait may congratulate himself upon having made an entirely favorable first impression. The railway officers who have [?] him have already formed a high ...

    Article : 195 words
  20. THE FREE-TRADE PRESS.

    The London "Economist" condemns Mr. Chamberlain's scheme, on the ground that it will either be found impossible to carry it out, or it will be mischievous in effect if ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. THE SALONIKA PRISONERS.

    During the recent revolutionary disturbances in Salonika, where Bulgarian and Macedonian conspirators blew up the Ottoman Bank and tried to dynamite all the ...

    Article : 125 words
  22. QUEENSLAND INCOME TAX.

    The income tax collections to Saturday last amounted to £122,009. The amount still to be collected is under £6000. ...

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  23. FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

    Another serious brigandage episode has occurred on the Mcorish frontier of geria. M. Jennart, the new Governor of Algeria, has been making a tour through ...

    Article : 305 words
  24. AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 words
  25. RUSSIA'S PRESS CENSORSHIP.

    Sir Charles Scott, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, has requested M. Plehve, the Russian Minister for the Interior, to explain why he recently directed that the St. ...

    Article : 150 words
  26. MR. TAIT INTERVIEWED.

    During yesterday afternoon Mr. Tait accorded an interview to a representative of "The Age." Ton have seen only a narrow strip of ...

    Article : 1,288 words
  27. ECONOMIES AT THE SUPREME COURT.

    Sir,-- Little can he said of the man who stabs another in the dark, and in like manner little can be said of such "pin-pricking" correspondents as "Lex." As in ...

    Article : 153 words
  28. LASCAR SEAMEN.

    Mr. A. W. Bibby, chairman of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which unites with the Orient S.N. Co. in maintaining the Orient line, speaking at Liverpool on ...

    Article : 136 words
  29. RAILWAY EMPLOYES.

    Mr. Bent says he is anxious that the employes earning less than £125 per annum should get their increments as soon as possible. Some delay has been caused, he ...

    Article : 148 words
  30. THE SENATE AND MONEY BILLS

    When, during the tariff debate in the Federal Parliament last year there was a danger of a deadlock between the House of Representatives and the Senate, ...

    Article : 336 words
  31. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,-- I think the inquiry that is being asked for into the management of the officers of the Supreme Court, and other offices connected with it, should be ...

    Article : 345 words
  32. ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

    It is announced that their Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra will pay their postponed visit to Ireland next month. They will stay six days in Ireland ...

    Article : 57 words
  33. REMARKABLE SUICIDES.

    The body discovered at the base of the cliffs at South Head has been identified as that of Mrs. Cotterell, widow of the late town clerk of Goulburn, who died three ...

    Article : 124 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Majesty, King Edward has decided that the Distinguished Service Order, a purely military order of merit, shall take rank immediately after the Royal Victorian ...

    Article : 125 words
  35. KILLED BIL A FALLING TREE.

    Hector Castle, 20 years of age, son of Mr. Geo. Castle, of Pomborneit, was killed by a falling tree at Stonyford to-day. He was cutting the tree down, and when it was ...

    Article : 91 words
  36. THE MARS "SIGNAL".

    The eminent astronomer, Professor Lowell, attributes the extraordinary, projection noticed on Mars by the Harvard Observatory, Arizona, and suggested to be ...

    Article : 50 words
  37. A GHASTLY SPECTACLE.

    Joseph Pender, aged 29, unmarried, a native of Victoria, attempted suicide at Boulder to-day. He wrapped a looking glass and a razor in a towel and walked from his ...

    Article : 98 words
  38. INFECTED ARGENTINE SHEEP.

    Following upon the arrival at Capetown of a whole shipload of infected stock from Argentina, a steamer from Buenos. Ayres has landed at Deplford some diseased ...

    Article : 45 words
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