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  2. EXPLOSION NEAR FREMANTLE.

    Shortly after 7 o'clock last night one of the powder magazines at Owen Anchorage was blown up under circumstances which at present are shrouded in ...

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  3. THE FAR EAST.

    The conference of Russian officials, at Port Arthur has ended. The opinion prevails at Tien Tsin that the conference will result in Russia ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Mr. Chamberlain has been informed that the tariff preference which enabled a Glasgow firm to secure the contract for the supply of twenty locomotives for the ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

    Mr. Louis Botha, the ex-Commandant-General of the Boer army, complains that the English criticisms of his recent speeches addressed to the Dutch ...

    Article : 541 words
  6. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The President announced the receipt of a message from the House of Representatives, dissenting from the amendment agreed to by the Senate to the Sugar ...

    Article : 852 words
  7. THE POPE'S ILLNESS.

    The following bulletin respecting the Pope's condition was issued this morning from the Vatican:— "There is no change in the Holy ...

    Article : 41 words
  8. INTER-STATE.

    The suspect who was arrested in connection with the murder of William Ford, near Dandenong, was found wearing boots that had been taken from ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At an inquiry that was held to-day concerning the death of A. McLachlan, who was shot himself yesterday at the residence of his sister-in-law at Paddington, ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. MOTOR REGULATIONS BILL.

    The Bill for the licensing and regulation of motor cars, and for regulating their speed has passed the second reading stage in the House of Lords. ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. A FAIRLY QUIET DAY.

    Yesterday afternoon the Pope sat in an armchair and conversed with visitors quite lucidly. In the evening the following bulletin ...

    Article : 65 words
  12. TASMANIA.

    Heavy rains of the last few days caused the low-lying parts of the town to become flooded. Another case of small-pox has been ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. IRELAND.

    The King and Queen Alexandra will arrive in Dublin on the 21st inst. A bank holiday for the Country and City of Dublin has been proclaimed for the ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. FAST RAILWAY TRAVELLING.

    The Great Western Railway Company carried the Prince and Princess of Wales, who are proceeding to Truro, in Cornwall, from Paddington to Playmouth, a ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    The last session of the present Parliament will be opened this afternoon. The proceedings will commence at 3 p.m., at which hour His Excellency the Governor, ...

    Article : 672 words
  16. THE OPENING OF THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Prince and Princess of Wales have given Mr. Tom Roberts, the Australian artist, who is painting a picture of the opening of the Federal ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. THE PORT FAIRY EARTHQUAKE.

    Further particulars concerning the earthquake shock that was felt at Port Fairy yesterday have come to hand. At Russels's Creek, a mile distant from the ...

    Article : 285 words
  18. ENTERTAINMENTS.

    The excruciatingly funny situations which follow one another in such quick succession in "Facing the Music," as played by Mr. Frank Thornton and his ...

    Article : 846 words
  19. CRICKET.

    The task of selecting the team which the Marylebone Cricket Club is sending to Australia at the end of the year has been commenced. Mr. A. C. MacLaren, ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. THE KISHNIEFF HORRORS.

    It is stated in connection with the petition to the Czar, signed by the American Jews, praying for the better protection of their co-religionists at ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. FINANCIAL.

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  22. SOMALILAND.

    Owing to the prevalence of sickness among the British troops, further military operations in Somaliland are not likely to be prosecuted until October. ...

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  23. THE SCOTS GREYS MEMORIAL.

    Of the £3,000 raised for the purpose of execting a memorial in Edinburgh to the Scots Greys who fell in South Africa, the Czar of Russia, the honourary colonel of ...

    Article : 46 words
  24. THE FIRE ON THE KARAMEA.

    The fire which occurred on the New Zealand steamer Karamea, while lying at the Albert Docks, London, destroyed nearly one thousand tons of coal. ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. ARMY REGULATIONS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, replying to a question, said he was aware of two instances of officers ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    Recently Mr. Deakin, in referring to a petition from a number of kanakas in Queensland, protesting against their deportation, dealt stringently with the ...

    Article : 263 words
  27. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    While President Loubet was reviewing the French troops at Longchamps yesterday, M. Santos-Dumont, the inventor of the Santos-Dumont air ship, fired a ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. THE AMERICAN PROVISION TRADE.

    The American export of packed provisions has declined in value to the extent of £5,000,000. This falling off is largely attributed to ...

    Article : 58 words
  29. AN ENGINEERING PROJECT.

    M. de Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance, has accepted the principle of construction for a bridge to span the Straits of Yenikale which connects the ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. RUSSIA.

    The Russian army manoeuvres at Warsaw have been abandoned. This is supposed to presage an experimental mobilisation of Russian troops over the ...

    Article : 43 words
  31. THE PILBARRA RAILWAY QUESTION.

    Mr. A. E. Morgans, Mr. Frechville; and Mr. Weir arrived here yesterday. In view of the fact that the Premier had given a public contradiction to the ...

    Article : 276 words
  32. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The plague epidemic at Port Said is increasing in virulence. ...

    Article : 19 words
  33. COLLAPSE OF A TENT.

    At Denver, in the State of Colorado, U.S.A., yesterday a tent in which a Good Endeavour demonstration was being has collapsed, in consequence of its ...

    Article : 71 words
  34. THE MOAT FARM TRAGEDY.

    The man Dougal, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Miss Camille Holland at the Moat House Farm, near Clavering, in Essex, ...

    Article : 63 words
  35. COMMERCIAL.

    At to-day's colonial wool sales prices were firm, and competition was stronger. London, July 15. At yesterday's colonial wool sales the ...

    Article : 161 words
  36. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    The Prime Minister informed Mr. Edwards (N.S.W.) that a proposal would be made to the House with reference to the Queen Victoria memorial. ...

    Article : 668 words
  37. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    At the quarterly meeting of the Fremantle District Traders' Association on Tuesday evening, reference was made to the subject of the Trans-Australian ...

    Article : 237 words
  38. ALIEN IMMIGRATION AT MANILA.

    The American Collector of Customs at Manila excluded, under the contract clause of the immigration restriction law, a British clerk who had arrived ...

    Article : 77 words
  39. PERSONAL.

    The Friends of Mr. Frank Condit, late of the firm of Condit and Launder, will hear with regret of his death, which occurred at a private hospital yesterday ...

    Article : 229 words
  40. CUSTOMS PROSECUTIONS.

    In the Water Police Court to-day the Customs Department proceeded against several persons for breaches of the Customs Act. Fines varying from £5 to ...

    Article : 150 words
  41. THE NEW CANADIAN RAILWAY PROJECT.

    Mr. A. G. Blair, the Canadian Minister of Railways has resigned, owing to a difference with his colleagues respecting the projected new railway. ...

    Article : 78 words
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