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  2. TRANSVAAL POLITICS.

    Viscount Miner (High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony), replying at Johannesburg to deputations from the ...

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  3. LIBERAL GAIN AT STALYBRIDGE.

    The choice of a representative in the House of Commons for Stalybridge, a Parliamentary borough of Cheshire, with a population of 47,000, and 7,500 registered ...

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  4. LIBERAL UNIONIST SECESSIONS.

    Lord Belper (Henry Strutt, LL.M., P.C.), Chairman of Nottingham County Council; Sir Charles Seely, an ex-M.P. for Nottingham, and late High ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

    The astronomers at Lick Observatory, which is situated on a peak of Mount Hamilton, California, 4,200 ft. above sea level, have discovered, by means of the ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. "THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD."

    The Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (Secretary for the Colonies), in a letter to the Right Hon. Charles Booth, the well-known writer on social topics, says that he trusts the ...

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  7. ARBITRATION TREATIES.

    Members of the Washington Senate decline to ratify the proposed, international arbitration treaties in their present form. The objection is made mainly in order that ...

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  8. FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

    In honoru of the entente cordiale existing between France ahd England the Municipality of Paris has decided to rename the Pont des Invalides, one of the principal ...

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  9. TRANSVAAL BOERS.

    A Dutch paper issued in Pretoria recently stated that the Boer leaders had, after an exhaustive conference with Viscount Milner (British High Commissioner and ...

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  10. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    Under the Admiralty's scheme of reorganization for the navv, the bases of the East India Squadron will in future be Bombay, India, and Colombo. The seaport of ...

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  11. DEATH OF MADAME BELLE COLE.

    The death is announced of Madame Belle Cole, the famous contralto singer. She was born in Chautauqua, and visited Australia in 1894 and 1901. ...

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  12. CHINESE REVOLUTION.

    The Daily Chronicle announces that Sun Yat Sen, a young and ardent Chinese reformer is at present in London, where he is busily engaged in planning a revolution ...

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  13. THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

    President Roosevelt's Tariff Conference, which comprises leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives at Washington, has refused to assent to the holding ...

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  14. ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

    During 1904 95,724 aliens landed in Great Britain with a view to permanent residence, an increase of 13,124 on the figures of the previous year. The number who ...

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  15. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Five hundred convicts imprisoned at Bilbid, in the Philippines, have revolted. The soldiers in suppressing the disturbance killed 16 of them and wounded 40, six of ...

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  16. FOREIGN.

    The Berlin correspondent of The Morning Post has supplied particulars of an audacious war scare which was artificially created in Germany with the view of ...

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  17. TRANSVAAL GOLD.

    The output of gold from the Transvaal during the year 1904 is set down at 3,779,621 oz., valued at £16,000,000. ...

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  18. SOMALILAND.

    The Mullah has entered into a convention with Italy, and in return for that nation's protection has pledged himself to maintain peace both with Italy and Great ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. IRISH LAND LOAN.

    The loan of £6,000,000, for carrying out the provisions of the Itish Land Act of 1903, which provides for the purchase and resale of estates, has been covered twice ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. THE SUEZ CANAL.

    The Daily Mail states that the directors of the Suez Canal will in 1906 reduce by 5d. per ton the dues for skipping going through the waterway. ...

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  21. ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT.

    The Paris Temps, in a leading article dealing with the position of the conflicting nations as altered by the surrender of Port Arthur, says that if the war is further ...

    Article : 105 words
  22. MOROCCO.

    Advices from Tangier state that the Sultan of Morocco has sustained reverses in the neighbourhood of Ujda, a northern town near the Algerian frontier, which is ...

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  23. AN UNHEROIC ENOCH ARDEN.

    The incidents surrounding the recent death of a lady in Birmingham recall those of Tennyson's pathetic narrative, "Enoch Arden;" but in the present instance the ...

    Article : 178 words
  24. THE UNION BANK.

    The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum. It has also devoted £10,000 to the reduction of the amounts outstanding on ...

    Article : 58 words
  25. CORSICA.

    The historic house at Ajaccio, Corsica, where the great Napoleon was born in 1769, was broken into by burglars on Tuesday night. Many valuable relies, souvenirs, ...

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  26. A CONCERT PARTY.

    The eminent baritone Mr. Watkin Mills, who visited Australia last year, has engaged a number of leading artists for his forthcoming Australian tour. The concert party ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. MISSION IN TIBET.

    The British mission which is conducting exploratory operations in western Tibet has arrived at Simla, British India. As the result of considerable investigation, ...

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  28. THE AMEER'S SON.

    The Sirdar Inayat-Ulla, eldest son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, who went to India last month in order to join in the welcome accorded to the Viceroy (Viscount Curzon) ...

    Article : 102 words
  29. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN.

    The prospectus has been issued for a 4 per cent. Joan of £2,000,000 to the New South Wales Government. The minimum is fixed at £99 10/, and the loan will have ...

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  30. COLONIAL PRODUCTS EXHIBITION.

    The Colonial Products Exhibition has been opened in Liverpool, and is attracting the attention of commercial men. The display is a good one. New Zealand and ...

    Article : 62 words
  31. SCOTCH CHURCH CRISIS.

    The "Wee Free Kirkers" have seized without opposition the churches of Arisaig and Kincardine, hitherto occupied by the United Free Church. They also succeeded ...

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  32. STORMS AND BLIZZARDS.

    Violent storms, accompanied by intense cold, have swept across the northern hemisphere. The sea has destroyed a stone jetty at Zeebrugge, where extensive works are in ...

    Article : 183 words
  33. CANADA'S NAVY.

    Vice-Admiral Bosanquet, Commander-in-Chief of the North American Squadron, has declined to allow the cruiser Canada, which belongs to the Dominion, to join his ...

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  34. MINING SPECULATOR'S MARRIAGE.

    Frank Gardner, of the firm of Gardner and Serpollet, which is connected with a number of Western Australian mining ventures, is the defendant in a romantic ...

    Article : 107 words
  35. GENERAL.

    Mr. Howell Collins, a son of Capt. R. M. Collins, C.M.G., of the Commonwealth Defence Department, has passed his examination for admission into the Royal Military ...

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  36. STRIKE IN PRUSSIA.

    Seventy thousand colliers in the neighbourhood of Dortmund, a town 20 miles from Essen, in Prussia, have struck for shorter hours. The district is an ...

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  37. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London or in Channel—Tongariro, steamer, from Port Chalmers October 26; Largo Bay, barque, from Sydney August 13; Sommerfeld, steamer, from Sydney ...

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  38. BRITISH TRADE.

    The Board of Trade returns for December show that the total value of imports was £52,845,366, an increase of £525,748 on the corresponding month of 1903. The ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. SEARCH FOR TREASURE.

    A landslide which has occurred in Cocos Island, 480 miles nouth-west of Panama, has interfered with the operations of a British party of adventurers who went ...

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  40. FIRE ON THE BUTESHIRE.

    During the passage of the steamer Buteshire, from New York to Melbourne, a fire broke out in No. 3 hold, and the vessel put in at Capetown. After the ...

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  41. FRANCE.

    The French Government, in pursuance of its policy of naval extension, has ordered from firms at Fiume, a free seaport of Hungary, £400,000 worth of Whitehead ...

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  42. POPE PIUS X.

    The Pope on Wednesday received at the Vatican the Rev. Father John Feehan, of St. Paul's, Oatlands, Tasmania. In the conversation that ensued His Holiness ...

    Article : 131 words
  43. LONDON UNEMPLOYED.

    The central committee appointed to formulate proposals for the relief of the London unemployed has adopted a scheme of emigration as part of the permanent ...

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  44. THE UNITED STATES.

    The official report on the United States Mercantile Marine, which has been submitted to the House of Representatives in Washington, recommends that the nation ...

    Article : 235 words
  45. TIDAL WAVES IN ENGLAND.

    Rough weather has been experienced along the coasts of Great Britain, and enormous damage has been wrought in many places. ...

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  46. THE WELSH REVIVAL.

    For the first time for 18 years there were no cases to be tried at the Newport (Monmouthshire) Police Court on Monday mornin. The borough contains a population of ...

    Article : 76 words
  47. A RELIGIOUS FEUD.

    A fierce fight took place on Saturday between the Greek and Latin monks at the Grotto of the Nativity at Bethlehem, the site traditionally indicated as the birthplace ...

    Article : 63 words
  48. VENEZUELA.

    The Washington Government has dispatched an ultimatum to the Gorernment of Venezuela, demanding the fulfilment, before March 1, of that country's ...

    Article : 236 words
  49. OUR STATE RESOURCES.

    Under the auspices of the Empire League in London, Mr. H. Allerdal[?] (Agent-General) delivered the first of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures on ...

    Article : 78 words
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