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  2. THE COUNTRY.

    BULLI, Saturday.--The local coal and coke trade has been remarkably brisk this week. All the collieries have worked full time. The railway traffic was considerably increased. ...

    Article : 175 words
  3. HISTORY OF THE LABOR GOVERNMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Watson Government, which is expected to come to an end to-morrow will have reigned for three months and nineteen days. It was on April 21 that the ...

    Article : 1,730 words
  4. STATE ELECTIONS.

    The accompanying map, showing how parties voted in the city and suburbs at the election is another demonstration of the overwhelming strength of the reform vote throughout the country. The map we published on Friday indicated how the country electorates went, and in the populous districts the reform vote swamped all other parties. The diagram of the city constituencies shows much more emphatically in favor of reform, and when these two maps are studied it is at once evident that there is something seriously amiss with our electoral system, considering that such a tremendous preponderance of voters is represented in tho elected legislature by the small majority of two or three votes only. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 243 words
  5. SIR WILLIAM LYNE'S VIEWS.

    Sir William Lyne thought that in view of all the circumstances, the Governor-General should grant Mr. Watson a dissolution. Ono of these circumstances, in Sir William's opinion, was that ...

    Article : 215 words
  6. FARMING PROSPECTS.

    WINDSOR, Saturday.--Favorable weather conditions have greatly assisted local farmers in their operations. In the course of a week or ten days the land will be cropped with maize, ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. MR. COOK AND MR. HUGHES.

    Mr. Joseph Cook, M.H.R., said:--"The debate just concluded was a very angry one towards the close. All such crises pass through a personal phase. The great outstanding blot of the ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  8. A CHILD POISONED.

    GLOUCESTER, Saturday,--A child, three years old, daughter of Mr. John Gunn, saddler, Barrington, died last night after suffering for nearly a week from the effects of drinking the ...

    Article : 107 words
  9. MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.

    MUDGEE, Saturday.--Thomas Bayford, a miller, and the elder members of his family went to business this morning, leaving Mrs. Bayford and a child aged three at home. On returning ...

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  10. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    COROWA, Saturday.--The owners of Bull Plain Station, which adjoins Ringwood Station, are offering 19,000 acres for private sale, in areas ranging from 220 acres to 4000 acres. This ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. ROBBERY AT STANMORE.

    An extensive jewellery robbery was perpetrated at the residence of Mr. W. F. Hurley, M.L.A. at 36 Douglas-street, Stanmore, on Saturday. The inmates were away during the day, ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. CASUALTIES.

    Frank Devine (38); residing at 145 Campbell- street, Surry-hills, was attempting to jump on a Manly steamer which was leaving the wharf at Circular Quay yesterday, when he fell, ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The mail steamer Marmora arrived from London at 3.15 p.m. to-day. A special train with the eastern mails left at 6.35 to-night. The case of Laura Campbell, daughter of the ...

    Article : 69 words
  14. A WOMAN RUN OVER.

    Shortly after 1 o'clock on Saturday, a woman, whoso name is believed to be Mrs. O'Neil, was knocked down by a baker's cart while crossing George-street West, near Abercrombic-street. ...

    Article : 76 words
  15. A COUNTER-MOVE.

    Yesterday morning's Melbourne express brough over a car-load of Commonwealth members for the week end. Among them were, however, neither the Prime Minister nor the leader ...

    Article : 686 words
  16. CIRCULAR SAW FATALITY.

    While working at a saw bench at the Sydney Box Factory in Campbell-street, Glebe on Saturday, Claude Baker, 40, a boxmaker, met with an accident which resulted in almost ...

    Article : 73 words
  17. LUNATIC IN A CHURCH.

    At the German Church, Tanuada, to-day, while the lay reader was conducting the service, one of the congregation, named Frledrich Hermann Wiihelm, suddenly jumped from his seat, ran ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. LOCAL LABOR VIEWS.

    The rank and file of organised labor, as well as leaders of the Trades Union and political labor movement, were firm in the belief on Saturday that the Federal labor leader would be granted ...

    Article : 346 words
  19. THE FINGER PRINT SYSTEM.

    The finger print system of identifying criminals which has only recently been adopted by the police, has been instrumental in the arrest of a supposed New Zealand criminal at Yass. The ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. PEOPLE'S REFORM LEAGUE.

    A meeting of the members of the People's Reform League of New South Wales took place on Friday at the league offices, O'Cousell-street, city. The president, Mr. John St[?]on, ...

    Article : 570 words
  21. TERMS OF THE DEAKIN-REID COALITION.

    The following memorandum represents the understanding arrived at by Mr. Deakin and Mr. Reid with reference to questions of public policy when the Watson Ministry met the House ...

    Article : 366 words
  22. THE STATE OF THE BRICKMAKING TRADE.

    Sir.--In your issue of yesterday appeared an article referring to the brickmaking industry, and a slump in the trade. And owing to the extraordinary dullness there was a probability ...

    Article : 407 words
  23. NO ALTERNATIVE BUT DISSOLUTION.

    The president of the Political Labor League (Mr. E. Riley) refuses to see any solution of the crisis other than a dissolution. Mr. Riley has served several terms as president of the Sydney ...

    Article : 559 words
  24. A SENATOR'S VIEW.

    Senator Pulsford thinks the general political position in Australia is rapidly and substantially improving. The defeat of the Federal Government by the vote of Friday, following the ...

    Article : 662 words
  25. TAXING AMUSEMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Further information with regard to the Charities Bill shows that the proposed sources of revenue include, in addition to a tax on amusements, an impost of 3 per ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECT.

    Discussing the Federal situation, Mr. Holman, M.L.A., said: "The Governor-General cannot shut his eyes to the fact that Mr. Watson has a large majority in the Senate, nor to the fact that ...

    Article : 448 words
  27. NEW SOUTH WALES ALLIANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 words
  28. STATEMENT BY THE LEADERS.

    The following is the statement submitted by Mr. Reid and Mr. Deakin to their respective caucuses on May 18th last: That the existence of three parties in the ...

    Article : 505 words
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