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  2. PERSONAL.

    Several statements have been made as to the length o£ time the Governor-General will remain in Sydney on the occasion of his present visit. One authority gave it as 10 weeks, while ...

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  3. £1000 DAMAGES.

    A breach of promise case revealing strange behaviour on the part of a bridegroom was heard in the No. 1 Jury Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Owen and a jury of four. The young ...

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  4. THE PILBARRA SAFE.

    All anxiety for the safety of the disabled steamer Pilbarra was allayed last evening by the receipt of a cable from Noumea to the effect that, the vessel had been towed into Port Vila, ...

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  5. IMPERIAL PENNY POSTAGE.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Postmaster-General (Lord Stanley) has announced that the outward letter-rate to Australia will be one penny per half-ounce from April 1, ...

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  6. RUSSIA'S INTERNAL TROUBLES.

    LONDON, Monday.--A Jew yesterday throw it bomb into the police station at Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, with the result that six out of ten policemen who were in ...

    Article : 154 words
  7. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that tho payment of an indemnity has been the chief obstacle to ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. AN AFFRAY AT PORT ARTHUR.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Some of the Port Arthur defenders report that after the surrender a number of armed Russian soldiers had on affray with a party of ...

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  9. JAPANESE FINANCES.

    LONDON, Monday.--The fourth Japanese internal loan was opened in Tokio on Saturday. Members of the Imperial Household ...

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  10. THE COST TO AUSTRALIA.

    Some curiosity has been felt as to the extent to which the half-penny concession about to do made by the Federal Government on English letters posted in any part of the Commonwealth ...

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  11. THE MUKDEN VICTORY.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Mikado has arranged to review 100,000 troops in Tokio on April 3, in connection with a monster demonstration in honor of the victory achieved ...

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  12. BOMBS IN A BRICK GRAVE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Warsaw police discovered 80 bombs in a brick grave at Pavonski Cemetery. Russian revolutionary leaders, who have ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. IN MANCHURIA.

    LONDON, Monday.--Private reports received in St. Petersburg allege that General Linievitch is still retreating, and that his armies are suffering great privations. ...

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  14. BRITAIN AND AFGHANISTAN.

    LONDON, Monday.--Although well-disposed towards the British mission now at Kabul, the Ameer of Afghanistan desires to postpone important decisions, because he ...

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  15. THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Russian Council of Ministers has rejected a proposal which the President (Mr. Witte) made for the abolition of the Committee of Ministers. ...

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  16. RECURRENCE OF PLAGUE.

    NEWCASTLE, Monday.--An outbreak of bubonic plague has occurred here. Two cases from the heart of the city have been reported to the Mayor this afternoon. Naturally, there ...

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  17. FIRE IN A MELBOURNE WAREHOUSE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--A serious fire broke out in the heart of the city, at 187 Flinders-lane, about 5.30 p.m. to-day. Thousands of people were at the time streaming down ...

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  18. THE MOSCOW ZEMSTVO.

    LONDON, Monday.--The re-actionary party in St. Petersburg recently denounced the action of the Minister of the Interior (M. Bullguine) in refusing to see a ...

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  19. ATLANTIC LINERS IN COLLISION.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Allan liner, Parisian, carrying 1000 passengers, collided with the Hamburg-American steamer Albano, with 800 passengers, off Halifax, ...

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  20. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    In the case in which Ezra William Tangress claimed £5000 damages from the Fremantle Smelting Company for injuries received while in their employ, a verdict was returned for ...

    Article : 183 words
  21. IMPERIAL FISCAL ISSUE.

    LONDON, Monday.--Replying to Mr. T. Chamberlain's letter to the Greenwich Conservatives, Lord Salisbury has stated:-- "My late father favored retaliation, but ...

    Article : 169 words
  22. NORTH COAST TRADE.

    An important development in connection with the North Coast trade is the purchase of Mr. G. W. Nicoll's shipping business and plant by the North Coast S.N. Company, Limited. The ...

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  23. VICTORIAN FINANCES.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Referring to-day to the price Japan is having to pay for its new war loan, Mr. Bent said it was rather high. He supposed it was fair to assume that Victorian ...

    Article : 142 words
  24. THE PRINZ SIGISMUND AT BRISBANE.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--The North German Lloyd steamer Prinz Sigismund, Captain D. Lenz, from Yokohama, via German New Guinea, arrived at Pinkenba at 9 o'clock this morning. ...

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  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS. ASSOUAN DAM NOT TO BE RAISED.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The House of Lords, deciding on an appeal in favor of the retail tobacco dealers, held that Ogdens, Limited, were liable for the distribution of the promised LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The scheme of raising the Assouan dam, on the Nile, has been suspended, owing to a report by British professors of applied mathematics and mechanics ...

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  26. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--It is intended to resume the sittings of the Old Age Pensions Commission which previously held its meetings as a select committee of the House of ...

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  27. CLOUD-BURST AT CROOKWELL.

    CROOKWELL, Monday.--Considerable excitement was caused here this afternoon during a thunderstorm. The clouds appeared to strike the hills about a mile out of the town, and burst. ...

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  28. BILLIARDS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--F. Weiss, the Australian billiard champion, giving a handicap of 1000, beat Cook, the English professional, in a match of 7000 up, the final scores being Weiss ...

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  29. THE BALTIC FLEET.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Russian Admiralty professes ignorance as to the whereabouts of the Baltic fleet under Admiral Rozhjestvenski. ...

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  30. NEW PEARLING GROUND.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Monday.--A difficulty has arisen between divers and shellers in the matter of going to the Arooa Islands. Owners are only offering £20 per ton for shell. Divers ...

    Article : 199 words
  31. CLUB-SWINGING RECORD.

    LONDON, Monday.--Burrows, the club-swinger, has swung 2lb. clubs for 47 hours without a break. This constitutes a record. ...

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  32. THE MAILS.

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  33. MURRAY WATERS QUESTION.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--The Premier, Mr. Butler, to-day stated in regard to the Murray waters question that while the Government are determined to secure a settlement of the Murray ...

    Article : 136 words
  34. EASTERN AT THURSDAY ISLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  35. VICTORIA.

    The railway receipts for the week ended March 21 amounted to £72,234, a decrease of £6492. Nine of the 16 Indians who landed without ...

    Article : 69 words
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