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  2. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    The South African Union Bill was before the House of Commons yesterday in the committe stage. Mr. Balfour 'supported the resistance ...

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  3. FLOODS IN VICTORIA

    The effects of the great rainfall have been in many ways disastrous. It is nearly forty years since. Victoria, has suffered a like visitation. Most of the inland waterways ...

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  4. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    The last plenary meeting or the Imperial Defence Conference was held yesterday at the Foreign Office, when Mr. Asquith and the other Cabinet Ministers ...

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  5. AUSTRALIAN FROZEN MEAT.

    Early in June last the principal underwriters who insure Australian produce requested Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, to make ...

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  6. MISSING WARATAH.

    Although the missing Blue Anchor liner Waratah is twenty days overdue at Capetown, the reinsurance rate is now slightly ensier, and yesterday business was done at ...

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  7. LAANECOORIE WEIR COLLAPSES

    After the deluge of rain the Loddon River last night rose very rapidly, and within five hours had a long way passed all previous high water marks. It even ...

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  8. A PLUCKY POST MISTRESS.

    The biggest flood ever experienced at Newstead occurred yesterday. The Loddon River rose 2 feet in one hour at midday on Thursday, cutting off the west part ...

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  9. AMERICA AND CHINA.

    The United Slates Government is elated at the success achieved by Mr. H. P. Fletcher, the United States Charge d'Affaires at Pekin, in securing the participation of ...

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  10. EIGHT HOURS IN MINES.

    An interesting judgment was given yesterday by a stipendiary magistrate at Kbondda, in South Wales, in a lest ease arising under the Coal Miners Fight Hours ...

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  11. BRIDGEWATER FLOODED.

    This afternoon news reached here that the Lanecoorie Weir, about 16 miles up the river, had broken away. The flood water is several feet deep in all the hotels ...

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  12. STEAMERS BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The following steamers referred to in the foregoing cable message, are on their way to Australian' ports:-- Paparoa left the Cape on 2nd August for ...

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  13. ARCHBISHOP ELECT OF SYDNEY

    Archdeacon Wright of Manchester, the Archbishop-eleet of Sydney, will be consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday next by the Archbishop of Canterbury ...

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  14. OFFICIAL INFORMATION.

    The State Rivers and Water Supply Commission yesterday received the following telegram from the officer in charge of the Laanecoorie weir:-- ...

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  15. THE POWERS AND CRETE.

    Although the removal of the Greek flag from be fortress at Canea, the capital of Crete, by a force of marines and bluejackets from the British and foreign war ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. POPE'S EPISCOPAL JUBILEE.

    The "Daily Chronicle stales that a movement has been started to present a colossal organ to St. Peter's, Rome, on the occasion of the episcopal jubilee of the ...

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  17. RECORD FLOOD MARK.

    A terrific storm burst over the town last night. The channels overflowed, and all watercourses and creeks were quickly made rushing torrents. Extensive damage ...

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  18. MONGOLIA'S CAPTAIN SANGUINE.

    Captain Preston, of R.M.S. Mongolia, which left the outer harbor early to-day, is firmly convinced that the Waratah is still afloat. He thinks some serious accident ...

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  19. THE LAANECOORIE WEIR.

    The total cost of the Laanecoorie Weir was £133,876, but of this amount the enormous proportion of £48,308 went in the purchase of land, leaving £85,568 as the cost. of the actual construction of the weir. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. WORK AND WAGES.

    Whilst the financial agreement was being prepared for distribution the secret caucus of the Premiers' Conference Had an informal discussion on the proposed transfor ...

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  21. PESTERING MR. ASQUITH.

    The well-known "suffragette" leaders Mrs. Despard and Mrs. Cobdon Sanderson, together with four other members of the Women's Freedom League, were arrested ...

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  22. ALONG THE LODDON VALLEY

    The largest flood on record passed down! the Loddon River and the Bulabul Crock to-day. Following the heavy rain of yesterday morning, 163 points fell between ...

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  23. CAPE COASTAL LIGHTING.

    The Government, of Cape Colony has appointed a commission, which includes Commander C. S. Wills (navigating); H.M.S. cruiser Hermes the flagship on the Cape ...

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  24. EX-DICTATOR CASTRO.

    Since April last, when Cipriano Castro, the deposed President of Veneznela, found himself unable to return to the republic or to remain in the French island of ...

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  25. THE ANTARCTIC.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Asquith announced his intention to recommend that Parliament should make a grant of £20,000 towards the cost of Lieutenant ...

    Article : 56 words
  26. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Sir Matthew Nathan, the Governor of Natal, who has just been appointed Secretary' of the British Post Office, and Mr. F. R. Moor, the Natal Premier, are ...

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  27. BURSTING OF THE EMBANKMENT.

    Much concern for the safety of the residents along the Loddon weir was evinced in the city to-day on the receipt of news that the Laanecoorie Weir had burst. The ...

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  28. ON THE RAILWAYS.

    Not since the floods of 1870 has the Railway department felt So much anxiety and difficulty in carrying on traffic with many lines submerged as was experienced ...

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  29. RESERVOIR BURSTS.

    The Simmons Reef Reservoir embankment burst his afternoon after a tremendous thunder storm and very heavy rain all the morning. The bywash could not take ...

    Article : 333 words
  30. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  31. NAVAL ACCIDENTS.

    A boiler explosion occurred yesterday on board the British torpedo boat destroyer Otter, stationed at Wei-hai-wei, in China, and two men were killed, while two others ...

    Article : 135 words
  32. MR. CARNEGIE AND PEACE

    In a pamphlet published by the Peace Society, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who has for many years advocated international arbitration, suggests that the eight, chief ...

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  33. TASMANIA WILL APPOINT WAGES BOARDS.

    In the course of an interview last evening the Premier of Tasmania, Sir Elliott Lewis, said:--The question of wages boards has not 'yet been finally settled. I ...

    Article : 88 words
  34. A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.

    A sensational railway accident, consequent on the storm, occurred last night on the Maryborough line, in the vicinity of M'Callum's crossing, a deep gorge about ...

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  35. THE WARANGA CHANNEL.

    The chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission yesterday received a telegram from Tandara on behalf of the residents, asking him to come ...

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  36. THE CHAMPION BOXER.

    The match recently arranged between Jack Johnson, the holder of the world's heavy weight boxing championship, and Al. Kaufman, the American pugilist, which ...

    Article : 55 words
  37. LABOR FARM AT WERRIBEE.

    Negotiations are now concluded, subject to the approval of the Cabinet, between the acting Minister for Public Works and the Closer Settlement Board for the ...

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  38. ALLEGED CONFIDENCE TRICK.

    At the Marylchone police Court to-day an American named George Thompson, was charged with having stolen the sum of' £100 from William Strong, an Australian ...

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  39. LITTLE MURRAY OVERFLOWS.

    There was a heavy thunder storm herd last night. Flood waters are rising, and a large area is covered between Swan Hill and Lake Boga, the country being ...

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  40. SCHOONER CAPSIZES.

    A serious marine disaster has occurred off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia. The American schooner Orinoco capsized during a sudden squall when 20 miles from ...

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  41. THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

    As was anticipated by the Victorian Minister of Agriculture, Western Australia has issued a prohibition 'order against Victorian potatoes. Yesterday Mr. Duffus ...

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  42. THE LODDON FLOODED.

    A disastrous and ruinous flood, which surpassed the one of 1870, occurred in the Loddon to-day, the river having attained a height of 40 feet. The levees of the ...

    Article : 392 words
  43. SPANISH MILITARY AIRSHIP

    The Spanish Government has placed an Older in France for a dirigible balloon, which is to be used in connection with the operations against the Riff tribesmen in ...

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  44. ELECTRIC LIGHT DISASTER.

    A sensational and tragic occurrence took Place last night at the Italian town of Alginate, near Lake Como. Owing to a short circuit of the electric ...

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  45. ANXIETY AT WARRACKNABEAL

    Great anxiety prevails here in regard to the Hood waters from Lake Lonsdale, which are expected to reach Warraeknabcal about Sunday. The Yarriambiac Creek is ...

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  46. DAMAGE TO LINES.

    The official particulate furnished by the Railway department show that extensive damage has been caused on most of the lines in the Western, North-Western ...

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  47. THE ASSASSIN DHINGRA

    A number of seditious placards, which refer to the execution of the Indian student Dhingra for the murder of Sir William Wyllie at the Imperial Institute on ...

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  48. QUEENSLAND IMPORTS.

    A consignment of 6000 bags of potatoes arrived in Brisbane from the south this morning. The Department of Agriculture took steps to see that no diseased potatoes ...

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  49. HEW AUSTRALIAN STEAMER.

    The steamer Mataran, which has been build to the order of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., of Sydney, has been launched on the Clyde. ...

    Article : 143 words
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  51. IRISH BLIGHT IN TASMANIA.

    Mr. Kirk, the New Zealand potato expert, wont to Kingston to-day, and found Irish blight in the potatoes in that district. ...

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  52. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived:--Galchas, from Melbourne 23rd June; Rippingham Gradge, from Melbourne 24th May; Ottensen, from Sydney 22nd June; clan Grant, from Bluff 29th ...

    Article : 62 words
  53. INQUIRIES IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Inquiries made by the Minister for Agriculture in connection with the outbreak of disease amongst Tasmanian potatoes show that there have been no importations of ...

    Article : 64 words
  54. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The New Zealond Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., local agents for the New Zealand Shipping Co., are in receipt of cable advice that the R.M.S. Thurakina, from Wellington, arrived Monte ...

    Article : 39 words
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    The Farm illustrations of "The Leader" this week comprise pictures of the Irish blight in potatoes, a plan of shelter hurdles tor ewes and lambs, a home made implement for grading roads ...

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