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  2. THE FOOTMAN "PRINCE."

    Mabel Countess Russell, as she still prefers to be called--though legally she is now Mr. Brown--was unable, through severe illness, to appear at the preliminary trial ...

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  3. OUR INDUSTRIES.

    The foreign trade organ has been endeavoring to prove to its own satisfaction that reduced duties, instead of increasing importations, are a stimulus to local industry. ...

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  4. A-BRITISH COLUMBIA SCANDAL.

    Developments in the British Columbian land and railway scandal have brought about a political crisis. The Premier, Col. Prior, recently called upon Mr. N. C. ...

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  5. FIRE AT ETON COLLEGE.

    A disastrous fire, accompanied by many sensational incidents and two fatalities, occurred early on Monday morning at Eton College. The fire, which is attributed to a ...

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  6. IMPERIAL FISCAL POLICY.

    Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, in a letter addressed to the editor of the "British Australasian" newspaper on his Imperial preferential reciprocity ...

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  7. ELECTRIC TRACTION.

    A conference of the Hawthorn and Camberwell councils was held at the Hawthorn town hall last evening to discuss the advisability of extending the present horse ...

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  8. THE RAILWAYS.

    The new Chief Commissioner of Railways has lost no time in assuming control of the organisation which he is expected to place on a footing of businesslike management. ...

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  9. COMPLAINTS AT GEELONG.

    The train arrangements are upsetting the mail business of the local merchants, no train leaving here for Melbourne later than 12.40 p.m. The chamber of commerce ...

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  10. COUNTRY TRAIN SERVICE.

    The unpunctual arrival of trains has been very noticeable since the strike, and the rule now is for a train to put in an appearance at any time within an hour after the ...

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  11. AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW.

    Mr. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has addressed a letter to the London "Standard" in support of Mr. Chamberlain's preference trade proposals. ...

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  12. FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

    Further reports from Algeria with reference to the treacherous attack made by the brigandlike Moorish tribes of Figig upon M. Jennart, Governor of Algeria, when ...

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  13. DEPUTATION TO THE COMMISSIONERS.

    Mr. Tait met his first deputation yesterday. afternoon. Along with Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Hudson he received a number of residents of Maldon, introduced by Mr. ...

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  14. THE GERMAN NAVY.

    Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the Kaiser, and commander of the German Baltic fleet, who lately left Kiel with a very powerful squadron to visit Dutch, Belgian ...

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  15. APPLICATION TO RAILWAYS.

    The Chief Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Oliver, stated to-day that he has been watching the electrical working of railways closely for some time. Shortly after he ...

    Article : 277 words
  16. THE "RETURNED" ENGINEMEN.

    The sub-committee of the Cabinet, comprising Messrs. Bent, Sachse and Pitt, has had a number of sittings during the past fortnight, during which many charges ...

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  17. AN AMERICAN SUGGESTION.

    Commenting on Mr. Chamberlain's Imperial preferential trade schema, the New York "Evening Post" recommends the United States to arrange for reciprocity ...

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  18. INCREASE OF IMPORTATIONS IN THE BOOT TRADE.

    The first of the trades mentioned in the list given in "The Age" as adversely. affected by the increase of importations under .the lower Federal tariff was the ...

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  19. THE BARRED WINDOWS.

    The most melancholy feature of the Eton fire, the shocking fate of tho boy James Herne who was burned to death because his bedroom window was barred ...

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  20. A CHINESE REBELLION.

    Reports from Southern China state that the rebellion in the province of Yun-nan is still spreading. The country between the northern border of French Tonquin and ...

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  21. AMERICAN DISASTERS.

    American telegrams report that the State of Georgia has been visited by a furious tornado, which has wrought great destruction. At Gainsville, a cotton ...

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  22. LORD BRASSEY'S TRADE VIEWS

    Lord Brassey, formerly Governor of Victoria,in a newspaper interview on Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade policy, has expressed the opinion that it is useless to ...

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  23. SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.

    Sir,--In your very important article in "The Age" of this day re suburban train service, one is struck by the difference in the train service to the various suburbs. ...

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  24. HEKLA IN ERUPTION

    Mount Hekla, the celebrated Iceland volcano, is in active eruption, sulphurous flames and clouds of volcanic dust issuing from its crater. ...

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  25. NEW, ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Seddon, in an interview to-day, outlined the principal matters of policy which are likely to form the subject of legislation in the approaching session. There will be ...

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  26. WHITTLESEA ELECTRICITY PROPOSAL.

    It does not appear to be very plain exactly why the Minister of Railways obtained a report from Mr. Gillan, of the Public Works department, concerning the ...

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  27. THE MILDURA RAILWAY.

    The Government policy regarding the Mildura railway requires some explanation. The rails have been laid to Nowingie, a place previously unheard of situated 28 ...

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  28. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN.

    The Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony yesterday passed unanimously a resolution expressing its high appreciation of the results of the late visit to South Africa of ...

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  29. AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Much anxiety is being felt in Germany as to the fate of the German Antarctic exploring ship Gauss, which started last year about the same time as the Discovery, and ...

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  30. THE PENRIHYN QUARRY STRIKE

    The conference of English co-operative societies now in session at Doncaster, in Yorkshire, yesterday discussed the industrial position brought about at Bethesda, in ...

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  31. WHITTLESEA LINE.

    Sir,--I have read the different proposals to make this line pay, and I am convinced that the only way to make the Whittlesca line pay is to connect it to tho Collingwood ...

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  32. AN EAST AFRICAN RUSH.

    Telegrams from Mombasa, the port of British East Africa, report that a gold field has been discovered at Mwanza, in German East Africa. The yield is said to be 3 oz. ...

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  33. THE REVENUE.

    During the week ending Friday last the traffic receipts totalled £45,827, as against £48,3SS in the same week a year ago, or a falling off of £2561. The total receipts for ...

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  34. UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.

    The University Commission sat yesterday at the Law Courts. There were present Mr. T. Fink, M.L.A. (chairman); Mr. Boyd, M.L.A.; Mr. E. E. Smith, M.L.C., ...

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  35. THE GAUSS RETURNS.

    The anxiety concerning the fate of the Gauss has been set at rest by a cablegram from Durban announcing that the Gauss has passed the Natal port, returning from ...

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  36. AN ABANDONED LINE OF MANUFACTURE.

    The woollen industry is one that has been considerably affected by the reduced Federal tariff. On piece goods the reduction was from 30 to 15 per cent., and on blankets ...

    Article : 272 words
  37. "UNREDEEMED ITALY."

    The periodic agitation which breaks out at intervals in Italy for the acquisition from Austria of Trient and Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia--formerly Italian possessions ...

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  38. THE WILLIAAISTOWN BLOCK.

    According to Mr. Lochhead, the Chief Traffic Manager, the railway block at Williamstown is now almost at an end. Yesterday there were 207 trucks at work on the ...

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  39. FOOD TAXES AND CHARITY.

    The now German tariff law provides, as a solatium to the working classes for the increased duties on food imports, that after 1910 all surplus accruing from the higher ...

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  40. A STRIKE REMINISCENCE.

    At the meeting of the Flemington and Kensington council last evening, Cr. Granger presented a petition, signed by 50 ratepayers, asking for the use of the local town hall for Saturday evening ...

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  41. EIGHT HOURS IN MINES.

    An International Miners Congress, the delegates to which represent 1,250,000 miners, is now sitting at Brussels, under the presidency of Mr. Benjamin Pickerton, ...

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  42. UNEMPLOYED AND WEEDING CONTRACTS.

    Mr. Norman, Chief Engineer for Existing Lines, was interviewed yesterday by Mr. Fleming and another representative of the unemployed, who complained that the men ...

    Article : 309 words
  43. A VANISHED INDUSTRY.

    When the Federal tariff was first submited to Parliament, and the new duties became operative in October, 1901,there was at least a reasonable endeavor to carry out ...

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  44. THE TRAMWAY TRAFFIC.

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  45. THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE.

    The great strike of textile workers in the factories of Philadelphia, of whom over 100,000 threatened to "come out" on Monday to enforce their demand that the ...

    Article : 89 words
  46. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY.

    The comparison of imports in these trades under the Victorian and Federal tariffs respectively is as follows:— 1S99. ...

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  47. EXILED MACEDONIANS.

    Hilmi Pasha, the Sultan's special administrative representative in the Balkan provinces of Turkey, has sentenced without a trial 103 Macedonian and Bulgarian school ...

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  48. TWO SUDDEN DEATHS FROM HEART DISEASE

    An elderly man, named John Montgomery, a cab proprietor, residing at Young-street, Moonee Ponds, died at the Flemington racecourse yesterday in very sudden circumstances. For many ...

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  49. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The West Indies are suffering severely this season from drought. In Jamaica the sugar cane plantations have been so severely affected that the crop is 43 per cent. ...

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  50. THE LABOR CAMPAIGN.

    In response to a question, the mayor of Brighton (Cr. W. II. Allard) informed the council on Monday evening that he had been asked by the Trades Hall to let the town hall on Saturday night for a ...

    Article : 204 words
  51. CARTRIDGES AND CUSTOMS.

    The question whether cartridges are liable to customs duty because they contain shot, which is dutiable, was decided in the negative by the Full Court to-day. The court ...

    Article : 107 words
  52. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.--Buteshire, steamer, from Lyttelton, 16th April; Ionic, steamer, from Wellington, 16th April; Marere, steamer, from Wellington. 15th April; Loch Vennachar, ...

    Article : 47 words
  53. THE MORDIALLOC SERVICE.

    The time table on the Mordialloc line was the subject of a bitter complaint by Cr. Scudds at Monday's meeting of the Moorabbin council. The second morning ...

    Article : 257 words
  54. Advertising

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  55. Advertising

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