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  2. MAY DAY ON YARRA BANK.

    A crowd estimated at 20,000 persons assembled on the Yarra -bank, near the Queen's statue, yesterday afternoon in connection with the May day celebration. ...

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  3. TRAGEDY AT RICHMOND.

    A tragic event occurred at Richmond shortly after midnight on Saturday, when a young man named Arthur Hayes, 20 years of age, was knocked down by another ...

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  4. MAGAZINE EXPLOSION.

    A gunpowder magazine at the port of Canotn, in China, exploded, with disastrous effects. Twenty-one persons were killed and ...

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  5. BALLARAT MINING TROUBLE.

    In connection with the trouble existing with the Aline Owners' Association respecting the wages question as it concerns machine men, Sunday work and work in ...

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  6. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The official precis, containing the conclusion of the proceedings at the sitting of the Imperial Conference on Thursday, was not issued until Friday evening. ...

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  7. STRANDED AUSTRALIANS

    A start has been made to carry out the arrangement made by the Commonwealth Government to repatriate the Australians who were stranded in South Africa. ...

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  8. THE WOODEND MURDER.

    It has been ascertained by Detectives Murray and Jenkins that William Panton, who was murdered on 19th April last near Woodend, had a large swag when he ...

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  9. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT IN LONDON

    The first of the new season's Australian fruit, which came in the steamer Britannia, showed wide differences in condition and quality on its delivery at Covent ...

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  10. NEW SOUTH WALES STANDS ALOOF.

    The arrangements for the repatriation, at Federal, expense, of a little over 1000 Australians of reputable character who have been stranded in South Africa, are ...

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  11. RIOTS IN INDIA.

    Serious rioting has occurred among the natives at the town of Rawal Pindi, a military station in the Punjab, India. The mob burned several motor cars and ...

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  12. PERSIA.

    Reuter's correspondent at Paris slates that the German Minister at Teheran, the capital of Persia, has secured from the Shah a convention for the establishment of ...

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  13. ON FIRE FOR FIFTY HOURS.

    The fire on the German steamer Bielefeld, which is lying at the Brisbane wharf, burned strongly throughout Saturday, and this morning was still fierce. The fire ...

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  14. MR. BENT IN LONDON.

    Mr. Thomas Bent, the Premier of Victoria, has been closely inspecting the arrival, landing and distribution of produce. He has also been consulting bankers, ...

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  15. MEASLES AT MADRID.

    An epidemic of measles has broken out at Madrid. The children at the royal palace are among those who have been attacked. ...

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  16. BELGIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

    A new Ministry has been formed in Belgium, in succession to that of Comte de Smet de Naeyer, who resigned after a motion in favor of eight hours in mines had ...

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  17. AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

    The Canadian Government has submitted a proposal for a reciprocity treaty with Australia. Sir William Lyne, the Commonwealth ...

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  18. MINING DISPUTE SETTLED.

    A largely attended meeting of the Miners' Union was held at Coolgardie on Friday, and it was decided that a deputation should wait on Mr. Beard and Mr. Faull, ...

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  19. RECOVERY OF RANSOM.

    The British Government has applied to Turkey for the recovery of the sum of £13,500 paid for the ransom of the son of Mr. Robert Abbot, a British merchant at ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN ART.

    Mr. Bertram Mackennal, the well -known Australian sculptor, has had three sculptures accepted for the Royal. Academy exhibition. One of these, a marble group, ...

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  21. THE RAILWAYS.

    The police are investigating the circumstances in which a wire rope used at the Brunswick wood siding came to be placed! across the line between Hope and Victoria ...

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  22. TWO STRANGE DEATHS.

    The death in peculiar circumstances of a man named Jas. Thompson has been reported to the Coroner. Thompson, who was employed by Mr. Arthur Hopton. ...

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  23. BARQUE CROMPTON BEACHED.

    The Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria has received the following cablegram from the Institute of London Underwriters with reference to the baraue ...

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  24. REMOVAL OF ENGINE SHEDS.

    The department has decided that the engine sheds at Nathalia, near Echuca, and Briagolong, near Maffra, shall be removed to Dandenong and Mordialloc respectively. ...

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  25. JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

    The Governments of Russia and Japan, which have been negotiating for some time past in regard to commercial matters, have agreed upon the text of a treaty. ...

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  26. SUNKEN VESSEL STRUCK.

    The frequency of accidents at the Semaphore anchorage has become alarming. On Saturday the Anglo -Australian steamer Port Chalmers, which arrived from Hull ...

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  27. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  28. PREFERENTIAL RATES.

    The borough council has decided to widen the scope of its agitation against preferential railway rates by taking in the question of decentralisation. A petition is ...

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  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The balance sheet of the London Bank of Australia Limited, for the half year ended 31st December, 1906, shows a credit to profit and loss account of £99.659. It has been ...

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  30. COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    The coal lumpers' strike has entered upon its third week, and a settlement seems as far off as ever. The employers say that the strike has simply to go on until the ...

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  31. DEATH FROM VIOLENCE.

    Shortly after midnight on Saturday a young man named Foo found James Ken- worthy. aged about 60, lying in a channel in the Main -road, Ballarat East. He ...

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  32. LICENSING REFORM MOVEMENT.

    A meeting of the temperance committee of the Methodist Church was held on Friday afternoon, when resolutions were passed as follows:-- ...

    Article : 184 words
  33. " SHILLING A WEEK TELEPHONES."

    The Postmaster -General announces that before very long there will be a further revision of the minimum telephone annual charges made under the toll system. At ...

    Article : 237 words
  34. HEAVY FOG IN THE CITY.

    A fog of peculiar density descended upon the city on Saturday morning, and at about 8 o'clock was so thick and impenetrable to the gaze that traffic in the streets and ...

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  35. RACING IN ENGLAND.

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  36. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Mr. W. H. Judkins, with an amount of assurance that does him credit, stales that I am "an easy mark." He further states that "I did give full proof of my. ...

    Article : 264 words
  37. UPROAR AT CASTLEMAINE.

    The Traders' Association decided to close the stores at 9 o'clock on Saturday nights during the winter months, and the regulation came into force on Saturday. All but ...

    Article : 252 words
  38. ARREST FOR STONE THROWING.

    An immense crowd of people, apparently infuriated by the unbridled utterances of Fleming, who had attacked both the Bible and the constitution, followed the ...

    Article : 329 words
  39. LONDON WOOL SALES.

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  40. GENERAL POST OFFICE.

    The present is Mr. Mauger's last week of office aa Acting Postmaster -General, so that he will not be able personally to direct the execution of all the reforms at ...

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  41. BLACK BOY CHOKED.

    In the town of Derby last night; after a corroboree, a black boy, aged about eleven years, was choked, by two half civilised natives. The boy had recently come in ...

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  42. EXODUS OF FARMERS.

    Several farmers who have sold out here have taken up ground in New South Wales. DARLIMURLA, Sunday. ...

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  43. THE POST OFFICE.

    Sir,--One frequently reads of the extraordinary astuteness of the Post Office officials in deciphering some stupid hieroglyphics on an envelope, which might well be ...

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