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  2. THE NAVY REFORMS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Under the proposals formulated by Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, for the reform of the Royal Navy, the commandants of the ...

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  3. VENEZUELA AND THE POWERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Italian Government has informed the United States authorities at Washington that Italy will feel happy if President Roosevelt agrees to ...

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  4. DREADFUL BURNING FATALITY.

    BATHURST, Friday.--A terribly painful burning fatality occurred last night at a Christmas party for children at the residence of Mr. W. J. Clunies Ross, science master at the Technical ...

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  5. THE RIVERS COMMISSION.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Premier, in a letter to Sir Edmund Barton, strongly objects to the report of the Murray Waters Commission, and asks the Federal Government to see that the ...

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  6. SENSATIONAL AFFAIR AT WATSON'S BAY.

    A sensational affair occurred at Watson's Bay shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, two men named Harry Sherwood (26) and David Pert (26), belonging to the crew of the pilot steamer ...

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  7. BOXING DAY.

    Splendid weather prevailed throughout the State yesterday, and the most was made of the holiday. The races at Randwick were the chief attraction, and the usual picnic resorts were ...

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  8. HIBERNIAN SOCIETY'S SPORTS.

    The annual sports demonstration of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society took place at Botany yesterday, and several thousand persons spent a most enjoyable day in the cool ...

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  9. THE SOMALI TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--British reinforcements, numbering in all about 700 men, have arrived from Berbera at Obbia, in Italian territory, and will land on Saturday for the ...

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  10. MARINE EXCURSIONS.

    The reputation which residents of the city and country have gained for themselves as lovers of water excursions was fully sustained yesterday by the thousands who forsook the metropolis ...

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  11. CASTRO'S MODEST DEMANDS.

    LONDON, Friday.--It is officially announced at Caracas that Venezuela agrees to refer the existing disputes with Great Britain and Germany to the Hague ...

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  12. A TREACHEROUS ONSLAUGHT.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Mullah recently invited 50 chiefs of the Northern Midjertain tribe to attend a palaver, and, taking advantage of their helplessness, suddenly ...

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  13. THE ZOO.

    The Zoological Gardens were largely patronised yesterday. There was a large proportion of young people amongst the crowd which paraded the grounds in the afternoon. At 4 o'clock, the ...

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  14. GERMAN RESERVATIONS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The reservations made by Germany exclude from among the matters which it is proposed to submit to President Roosevelt's arbitration the claims of ...

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  15. VICTORIA.

    The promise of the meteorologists of fine weather for the holiday was fulfilled to the letter. The bright, clear, cloudless day, with a cool breeze, induced thousands of people to gather at ...

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  16. BONDI ATTRACTIONS.

    Thousands of people spent the day at Bondi yesterday. The aquarium attracted a large gathering. In the large hall dancing was indulged in to the strains of good music. A ...

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  17. RUSSIA IN ABYSSINIA.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Russian Government is sending a fresh mission to Abyssinia under M. Lishin, with a secretary and several officers. ...

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  18. A RECALCITRANT DUTCHMAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Dutch steamer Prinz Willem arrived at La Guayra on Tuesday, and, the captain, having refused to pay the port charges to the ...

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  19. THE COOGEE AQUARIUM.

    The trams to Coogee, as usual, emptied their loads of passengers on the popular beach. The aquarium was the chief centre of attraction, where dancing was one of the items of the ...

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  20. THE SAXON ROYAL SCANDAL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Archduke Joseph-Ferdinand has accepted his elder brother's renunciation of all rights to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany conditional upon the Archduke ...

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  21. PALACE THEATRE.

    The Palace Theatre was last evening packed with an enthusiastic audience on the reproduction of Alfred Cellier's fascinating comedy-opera, "Dorothy," which has enjoyed the approbation ...

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  22. FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Advices from Fez state that the Sultan's troops have victoriously entered the city of Teza, where the Pretender recently established his Court. ...

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  23. KILLED ON A RAILWAY LINE.

    To-day a man was found lying dead on the railway line between Traralgon and Morwell. A constable went to the spot, and found the dead body of a man named Isaac Simons, laborer, who ...

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  24. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S DISSENT.

    In view of the opposition shown by South Australia to certain features of the report of the commission, it will be interesting to give the full text of the dissent by Mr. Burchell, the South ...

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  25. NEW ZEALAND.

    The steamer Ovalau, which arrived at Auckland to-day from the Eastern Pacific, reports that the barquentine Fanny, which sailed from Papeete for Franco on December 2 with copra, put ...

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  26. BALKAN AFFAIRS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has been touring Eastern Europe for some little time past, has visited King Alexander and Queen Draga, of ...

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  27. BRITISH POLICY IN SIAM.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Singapore correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that the Sultan of Kelantan has signed a treaty with Slam which must have the effect of checking British ...

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  28. RELIEF TO DISTRESSED SETTLERS.

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  29. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Most favorable weather prevailed for Christmas Day in Adelaide. Mr. Jenkins received the season's greetings from the Premiers of New South Wales and New Zealand, and reciprocated ...

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  30. THE HUMBERT FRAUDS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mr. Romain d'Aurignac's reputed mistress, Madame Duleza, who was arrested at Buenos Ayres in connection with the Crawford-Humbert frauds, has been ...

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  31. A SUICIDE OF AN ENGINE-DRIVER.

    Frank Brame, an engine-driver employed on the English and Australian Co-operative Company's works, Port Adelaide, committed suicide this morning. As he did not appear at breakfast, ...

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  32. "THE THIRTY THIEVES" AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.

    There is not a great deal of merit either musically or as a comic scheme in "Mariana, or the Thirty Thieves," which Mr. George Musgrove's Comic Opera Company presented at the ...

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  33. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Upon receiving members of the College of Cardinals on Christmas Eve Pope Leo XIII took occasion to warmly eulogise the Christian democratic ...

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  34. SIR JOHN SEE'S VIEWS.

    On this subject it may be remembered that Sir John See states that he is surprised at the South Australian representative differing from the other members. There appears, he says, to have ...

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  35. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British-American millionaire, Mr. W. W. Astor, has given £50,000 to the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond-street, to build an Out-Patient's Department in ...

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  36. A FLOATING BODY.

    The body of a man whose name is at present unknown was found floating in the Torrens River, near Albert Bridge, this morning. Deceased was about 50 years of age, and in one of the pockets ...

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  37. MORE THREATENED TROUBLE.

    LONDON Thursday Afternoon.--The Central American Republic of Nicaragua is concentrating troops upon the Isthmus of Panama from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans. ...

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  38. DARING TRAMWAY ROBBERY.

    A daring tramway robbery, the second of its kind perpetrated in Adelaide, was committed by two young men on Christmas Eve. They stepped on to a Goodwood tramcar near ...

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  39. KILLED IN A BATH.

    LONDON, Friday.--Two men occupying separate cubicles in the Fulham Baths, on Christmas Day, accidentally touched the metal casing containing electric wires which were carried along ...

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  40. DROWNED AT BRONTE.

    Yesterday afternoon a man named William Fox (42), married, residing in Woolloomooloo was drowned in the surf while bathing at Bronte beach, at 4 o'clock. He visited the resort for ...

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  41. AMERICAN METHODISTS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The American Methodist Episcopal Church has practically Completed its £4,000,000 Twentieth Century thanks-offering. ...

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  42. SHIPPING DIFFICULTIES.

    The R.M.S. Orontes left the Somaphore anchorage for London on Christmas Day. On arriving from Melbourne at 10.30 a.m., she took in mails and stores and embarked passengers. Owing to ...

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  43. ILLNESS OF MR. JOHN DILLON, M.P.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. John Dillon, M.P., the prominent Irish Nationalist, who went with Mr. Michael Davitt upon a lecturing tour in the United States, and who was recently seriously ill at ...

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  44. CATTLE DISEASE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Friday.--The eminent German scientist, Professor Koch, has arranged to go, with two assistants, to South Africa, with a view to eradicating the cattle disease which is the scourge ...

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  45. DEATH OF LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE.

    LONDON, Friday.--A cable message from Aden reports that Lord Willoughby de Broke died during the passage of the Red Sea on Friday, the 19th inst., and was buried at sea. ...

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  46. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    A woman visitor to the races to-day gave birth to a child on the racecourse. She was taken to the casualty ward, and attended to. A cricket team, representing the Eastern ...

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  47. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

    LONDON, Friday.--Yerkes' telescope, in Wisconsin, U.S.A., has been totally destroyed by fire. ...

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  48. AT THE RACES.

    At the races, in lite last event of the day, the horses Lucky Dog and Clifton fell. The latter was being ridden by Bert Holmes, who, on being picked up, was found to be suffering from ...

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  49. FALL FROM A WINDOW.

    Alexander Paton (51), laborer, living at the Federal Coffee Palace, Castlereagh-sreet, fell from one of the windows, early this morning, to the pavement, a distance of about 40ft. He was ...

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  50. FIRE IN WATTLE-STREET.

    Yesterday afternoon, a fire broke out on the premises of the Union Bottle Company in Wattle-street, but the prompt arrival of the brigades prevented a serious spread. A wooden partition, ...

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