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  2. THE MAGAZINE EXPLOSION.

    A further discovery of a peculiar nature was made at the Owen Anchorage magazine reserve yesterday, when Constable Plummer on going to open the ...

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  3. THE NEW TOWN HALL.

    At last night's meeting of the City Council, the committee which had been appointed in connection with the proposed new Town Hall reported in the follow[?] ...

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  4. IRELAND.

    The King and Queen Alexandra, the Princess Victoria, and a large suite, will start for Ireland to-day. Four cruisers and four torpedo ...

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  5. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The Prime Minister has received from Mr. Chamberlain a dispatch announcing that a fund has been instituted for the investigation of various matters ...

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  6. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    Sir William Pollitt, one of the directors of the Great Central Railway Company. in England, passed through Fremantle yesterday, on his way home. ...

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  7. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Sir William Harcourt, one of the leading controversialists on the Freetrade side of the present fiscal campaign, has endeavoured to impale Mr. Chamberlain ...

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  8. THE POPE'S ILLNESS.

    The Pope passed a sleepless and restless night. He is much depressed, and at noon to-day was considered to be sinking. ...

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  9. INTER-STATE.

    The captain of the French barque Joliette, which arrived from New York yesterday, reported that when the barque was off Cape Borda his cook, a Frenchman ...

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  10. SUNDAY EVENING BULLETIN.

    The following bulletin was issued from the Vatican this evening concerning the Pope's condition:—"The Holy Father is continuously ...

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  11. VICTORIA.

    The Minister for Lands is desirous that the collection of rents should be transferred from his Departments to the Treasury, and the work undertaken by the ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

    The Select Committee of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal, on the new Diamond Law, has disagreed. A majority of the Committee ...

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  13. FISCAL REFORM AND EMIGRATION.

    Sir Westby Percival, formerly Agent-General for Tasmania in a letter to the "Times, " declares that any efforts that are made to bring about an increase of ...

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  14. A SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY.

    A collision, attended with serious results, took place between a horse and cab and a cable tram-car in William-street, Woolloomooloo, to-night. There were ...

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  15. THE POPE DYING.

    The extraordinary heat experienced in Rome on Saturday night greatly tried the Pope, whose weakness and nervous agitation was extreme. ...

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  16. THE FREE TRADE UNION.

    Over one hundred members of Parliament have joined the newly-formed Free Trade Union. ...

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  17. EDUCATION.

    The education committee of the London County Council has recommended the Government to allot a definite grant to the proposed technical school in ...

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  18. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    At Bisley yesterday, during the competition for the "Daily Telegraph" Cup, Mr. Ison a member of the Australian rifle team, tied with six others, who ...

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  19. CARDINAL RAMPOLLA.

    Surprise is expressed in Rome, and also in Paris, at a report to the effect that the Pope had delegated extensive spiritual powers to Cardinal Rampolla, ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Premier has been furnished by Mr. T. A. Coghlan with a report which accounts in a large measure for the discrepancy that exists between his ...

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  21. PERSONAL.

    The Minister for Lands will visit Waroona to-day, returning to Perth to-morrow evening. Commodore Kershoff, of the German ...

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  22. THE FAR EAST.

    A wireless telegraphic station has been established at Port Arthur for the purpose of communicating with Russian war. Ships in the Gulf of Pee-chi-li. ...

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  23. THE COLLIE-BOULDER LABOUR TROUBLE.

    The labour dispute in connection with the Collie-Boulder mine has been settled amicably. Mr. Walkeden has severed his connection with the Collie-Boulder ...

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  24. THE TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS.

    With the complicity of the master armourer of the arssenal at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria the emissaries of the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee ...

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  25. MONDAY MORNING'S BULLETIN.

    The following bulletin was issued from the Vatican at 9 o'clock this morning:—"The Holy Father had a brief rest during the night." ...

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  26. THE MOKAU ESTATE.

    Summonses were granted yesterday at the Guildhall, on behalf of Mr. Joshua Jones, against four solicitors, two stock brokers, and three others, for alleged ...

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  27. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

    A Reuter's message from New York, states with reference to the reported seizure of British islands off the coast of Borneo that some weeks ago an ...

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  28. A STUBBORN JURY.

    A woman, named Anna Sealey, came before Mr. Justice a'Beckett, in the Criminal Court, to-day, on a charge of having performed an illegal operation on ...

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  29. QUEENSLAND.

    Bishop Harmer, of South Australia, when interviewed yesterday on his arrival from Vancouver, said that there had been a great deal of exaggeration as to ...

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  30. JEW BAITING IN RUSSIA

    The Russian Police Commissaries have been ordered to expell all Jewish families taking refuge in the villages of the Kishnieff district, on the ground that they ...

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  31. COUNTRY.

    A petition, signed by about 700 resk dential leaseholders around Boulder, had been forwarded to the Minister for Lands. The petitioners ask that the ...

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  32. NEW ZEALAND.

    Kawau Island, near Auckland (formerly the residence of the late Sir Geo. Gray), has been sold for £9,500. It is understood that the buyer is Mr. ...

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  33. KILLED BY A KICK FROM A HORSE.

    Yesterday, Joseph Payne a very old resident of the district, was killed by a kick from a horse. The deceased originally came from Alexandra (V.) about ...

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  34. REMARKABLE SUICIDE.

    A strange case of suicide is reported from Bairnsdale. A boy named Gordon Leopold Scott, aged 13, whose father died recently, had been employed since ...

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  35. THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN CHINA.

    Among the passengers who landed from the s.s. Eastern last Saturday was Mr. C. F. Whitridge (Australian secretary to the Chinese Inland Mission), who ...

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  36. SPANISH POLITICS.

    Speaking yesterday at Madrid, Senor Silvela, the Spanish Premier, advocated a close union with France in connection with the Morocco question. ...

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  37. SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

    The final report of the Grand Jury, touching the charges of peonage alleged against certain planters at Montgomery in the State of Alabama, U.S.A., has ...

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  38. PERSONAL.

    The Right Rev. Dr. Moorhouse, who has resigned the See of Mancherster, has, it is announced, decided voluntarily to forego an allowance of £1,500, to which ...

    Article : 87 words
  39. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    The Governor's Speech will probably include Bills (1) to prevent the use of trading stamps or coupons. (2) to take a referendum on the question of religious ...

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  40. A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

    At a meeting of the Brisbane Board of Waterworks to-day, a stormy scene occurred. A letter was read from Dr. Kendall, bacteriological expert to the ...

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  41. A SHIPPING MISHAP.

    The s.s. Nirawu struck some rocks near the breakwater at Napier, when coming in last evening from Auckland. She is supposed to have touched a rock ...

    Article : 145 words
  42. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The "Daily Mail" is responsible for the statement that Mr. Marconi has invented an instrument for transmitting wireless messages over the surface of the sea, ...

    Article : 62 words
  43. NEW ZEALAND FIRES.

    The oldest business premises in Napier, and occupied by the Kaiapoi Woollen Co. and others were destroyed by fire last night. The insurances total over ...

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  44. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION.

    Mr. Aylesworth, a leading barrister of Toronto has been appointed to the vacancy on the Alaskan Boundary Commission, which was occasioned by the recent ...

    Article : 44 words
  45. ACCIDENT ON A RIVER STEAMER.

    A large river steamer, plying on the Volga, near Nijni Novgorod, a famous commercial city of Russia, has been destroyed by fire. Fifty out of two ...

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  46. THE CUNARD COMPANY.

    The shareholders of the Cunard Steam Shipping Company intend to ask at the forthcoming meeting of the Company, on the 29th inst., to have the Articles of ...

    Article : 49 words
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