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  2. A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION.

    A terrific explosion occurred yesterday at a roburite factory at Witten, a town of Westphalia, in Prussia. Upwards of fifty persons were killed, ...

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  3. SCENE IN PORTUGUESE PARLIAMENT.

    A violent scene was witnessed yesterday in the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies. During a discussion on King Carlos's ...

    Article : 132 words
  4. COMMONWEALTH LEGISLATION.

    At a meeting held yesterday of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, several speakers denounced the Australian Industries Preservation Act as ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. PARLIAMENTARY BY ELECTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 words
  6. FEES TO FACILITATE DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS.

    The commission case Soppett v. Wilkinson was continued in the Supreme Court to-day before the Chief Justice. Mr. Windeyer (for Wilkinson) wished ...

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  7. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    Before the business of the day was proceeded with in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, The Premier said:—In view of the ...

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  8. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    General Picquart, the French Minister of War, has adopted for use in the army the balloon Patrie, the recent experiments with which proved a ...

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  9. MR. JOHN BURNS.

    Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, conversing with Herr Beumer, a German National Liberal and member of the Reichstag, ...

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  10. DISSOLVING THE MARRIAGE TIE.

    The matrimonial troubles of John Hodgkiss Askil, miner, were recounted in the Divorce Court to-day. Askil asked for the nullity of his marriage ...

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  11. FIRE INSURANCE BUSINESS.

    Throughout yesterday the desire of the majority of the fire insurance companies to write business at phenomenally low rates was continued with the ...

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  12. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.

    In the House of Lords yesterday, the Merchant Shipping Bill was read a second time. When the Bill is passed Lord Elgin, ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. CHINESE ON THE RAND.

    According to the "Daily Mail" Letters Patent have been issued directing the cancellation of the Transvaal Labour Importation Ordinance, with ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. THE CONGO FREE STATE.

    In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies yesterday the Premier, M. de Smet de Nayer, adumbrated the annexation by Belgium of the Congo Free State. ...

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  15. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Mr. Vlademir Poulsen, a Dane, lecturing last night in Queen's Hall, London, gave a demonstration of his system for the promotion of a ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. PERSONAL.

    In the Legislative Council yesterday a fortnight's leave of absence was granted to Mr. C. E. Dempster, on account of ill-health. ...

    Article : 290 words
  17. SPAIN.

    The Spanish Government has resigned owing to differences among the Liberal Party regarding the Religious Associations Bill. ...

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  18. IRELAND.

    The Bill introduced by Mr. W. J. Duffy, Nationalist member for North Galway, for the expropriation of the Clanricard Estates in Ireland, was ...

    Article : 41 words
  19. TRADES DISPUTES BILL.

    The Parliamenary Council of the Employers' Federation are urging the House of Lords to amend the Trades Disputes Bill so as to limit the number ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. CLOSER SETTLEMENT IN VICTORIA.

    In moving the second reading of the Closer Settlement Act Amendment Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Lands stated that ...

    Article : 159 words
  21. GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

    Prince von Buelow, the German Chancellor, speaking yesterday in the Reichstag during a debate on German South West Africa, announced that further ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. POOR-LAW SCANDALS.

    One of the two ex-members of the West Ham Board of Guardians, who were recently arrested on a charge of conspiring to defraud the West Ham ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. CLOSING THE PRESENT SESSION.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bath) said before the Orders of the Day were proceeded with he ...

    Article : 604 words
  24. PLURAL VOTING BILL.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Robert Cecil, Conservative member for East Marylebone, moved an amendment to the Plural Voting ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

    The Rev. J. Guiness Rogers, the wellknown Congregational minister, urges the Government to make the Education Bill not an ideal Bill for ...

    Article : 187 words
  26. RUSSIA IN TURKESTAN.

    It is officially announced in St. Petersburg that a civil administration is about to replace the present military administration in Russian Turkestan. ...

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  27. CLAREMONT ELECTRIC LIGHT SCHEME.

    The Claremont Municipal Council recently decided to float a loan of £4,000 at 4½ per cent., for the purpose of extending the electric lighting scheme. ...

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  28. REFERENCES AT VICTORIA PARK.

    At the ceremony in connection with the switching on of the electric light at Victoria Park last night reference was made to the action of the ...

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  29. PROPOSED UNION OF THE CHURCHES.

    The conference of representatives of the Church of England and the Pressbyterian Church to discuss the question of a closer union between the two ...

    Article : 275 words
  30. NATAL.

    A new Government has been constituted in Natal as follows:—Mr. F. R. Moor, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs. ...

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  31. "WESTERN MAIL."

    Notwithstanding the interest centred in the Christmas number of the "Western Mail," the attractiveness of this week's issue of the paper will be ...

    Article : 339 words
  32. THE PORTSMOUTH MUTINY.

    Two stokers who were concerned in the recent mutiny at the Portsmouth Naval Barracks have been sentenced, one to 18 months and the other to six ...

    Article : 40 words
  33. AMERICA AND JAPAN.

    The State of California continues obdurate in regard to the exclusion of Japanese children from the San Francisco white schools. ...

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  34. DISTRESSED FOREIGNERS.

    One hundred and twenty-five German gipsies have sailed from Hull for Hamburg. The Society for the Aid of Distressed ...

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  35. CONGO.

    The Belgians, according to a report received from Khartoum, have placed twelve heavy Krupp guns in forts along the Lado enclave, over which Britain ...

    Article : 51 words
  36. A PERCULIAR FATALITY.

    A man named Taylor, employed on the Hobart tramline, was killed in remarkable circumstances to-day. He was levering a rail off the line, when a ...

    Article : 59 words
  37. THE TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION.

    The Executive Council of the Nationalist Party at Pretoria protests against alleged provisions in the Transvaal Constitution for vesting the control ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. BALKAN ATROCITIES.

    A Bulgarian band sacked and burned two villages in the Vilayet of Uskub, in Macedonia, killing 14 persons, chiefly women and children. ...

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  39. THE LATE MR. A. J. OGILVIE.

    Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. Andrew Jameson Ogilvie, farmer and grazier, of Murchison House Station, Victoria district. ...

    Article : 238 words
  40. MINING.

    Following are the latest quotations for the undermentioned colonial mining shares:—Broken Hill Proprietary (New South Wales), b £5 15s., ...

    Article : 123 words
  41. AN EX-TOWN CLERK IN TROUBLE

    In the Criminal Court to-day William Spencer Mattinson, late Town Clerk of Norseman, was charged with having stolen a share certificate, ...

    Article : 128 words
  42. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr. James Alexander Roberts, Mr. Joseph George Palmer, Mr. George Dunet, and Mr. Harold Beauchamp have been gazetted Chilian Consuls for ...

    Article : 81 words
  43. THE CONGO ATROCITIES.

    Meetings have been held at Manchester, Sunderland, Jarrow, and other English boroughs, protesting against the Congo atrocities. ...

    Article : 31 words
  44. COMMERCIAL.

    Wheat.—The visible supply of wheat in America east of the Rockies is 75,919,000 bushels. London, November 29. ...

    Article : 118 words
  45. FINANCIAL.

    Bar silver is quoted at 2s. 8 1-8d. an ounce. ...

    Article : 18 words
  46. IN THE LOBBIES.

    The rejection by the Legislative Council of the Land Tax Assessment Bill was not only the chief theme of conversation in political circles ...

    Article : 872 words
  47. ILLICIT GOLD-DEALING.

    In the Nannine Police Court to-day Samuel Goldman, a jeweller, was fined £75 (in default, three months' imprisonment) for having bought gold ...

    Article : 55 words
  48. THE LAW COURTS.

    Full Court.—In No. 1 Court, at 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice McMillan and Mr. Justice Burnside: P. D. Kavanagh (complainant), appeallant ...

    Article : 90 words
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