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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Mail for United Kingdom.—The ordinary weekly mail for the United Kingdom and the Continent will close to-day at 11.30 a.m. (late fee 12.30 ...

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  3. GOLDFIELDS INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.

    The settlement of the firewood cutters' strike is as far off as ever. Yesterday morning both sides were hopeful of coming to terms but as the day wore ...

    Article : 403 words
  4. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    The Democratic Convention to select the party candidate to contest the Presidential election against Mr. W. H. Taft, the Republican nominee, ...

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  5. COMMONWEALTH NAVAL SCHEME.

    Replying to Mr. William Redmond (Nationalist) in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Reginald McKenna (First Lord of the Admiralty) said the ...

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  6. SENSATIONAL MINING FATALITY.

    A sensational fatal accident occurred on Thursday night in the Victoria Quartz mine, Bendigo, the deepest mine in Australia. ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. TASMANIAN POLITICS.

    The Premier (Captain Evans) unfolded the policy of the Government at Port Cygnet on Thursday night. He strongly refuted the charges of insincerity of ...

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  8. THE "ALL RED" MAIL SCHEME.

    In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday the debate was continued on the resolution submitted by the Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, declaring ...

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  9. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    During a recent meeting of the South African Customs Union Convention at Capetown, Mr. J. X. Merirman (Premier of Cape Colony) and Mr. A. ...

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  10. MR. ROOSEVELT'S AFRICAN TRIP.

    President Roosevelt, who intends to hunt big game in Africa after the close of his term of office at the White House, has been offered by several ...

    Article : 79 words
  11. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    It is announced in the "Gazette" that the proclamation of December, 1906, prohibiting the importation of saccharin in packets of not less than ...

    Article : 324 words
  12. TRIANGULAR CRICKET PROPOSAL.

    Mr. G. L. Jessop, the well-known cricketer, writing to the Press in a private capacity, heartily supports Mr. F. S. Jackson's views regarding the action ...

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  13. BRIDGE ACCIDENT AT COLOGNE.

    Owing to a fracture a girder supporting some scaffolding on a new bridge being constructed over the Rhine, at Cologne, collapsed yesterday, with the ...

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  14. THE SUNSHINE DISASTER.

    After deliberating since half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning, the Coroner's jury of nine at 25 minutes to 5 o'clock this afternoon gave its verdict ...

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  15. THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

    The Victorian Commissioners at the Franco-British Exhibition entertained their English friends at a banquet in the Trocadero Restaurant yesterday in ...

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  16. THE FUNCTIONS OF WAGES BOARDS.

    Sir Hartley Williams, formerly a Judge of the Victorian Supreme Court, in a letter to the "Daily News," dissents from Mr. Ernest Aves's assertion that ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, announced that the House would adjournon the first of next month and ...

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  18. DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH A BURGLAR.

    Major Cookson, of the 1st Sussex Regiment, while staying at the Belmont Hotel, New York, recently, overcame an armed burglar in this bedroom ...

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  19. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Royal Welsh Male Choir of 20 colliers will leave for Australia by the s.s. Pericles. ...

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  20. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor and Lady Bedford, accompanied by Captain Stone, private secretary, attended the Ladies' Rainbow Choir concert at the ...

    Article : 213 words
  21. AERIAL PASSENGER SERVICE.

    Count Zeppelin, who recently made several successful flights with his airship at Lake Constance, has been appointed directing engineer of an airship ...

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  22. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE

    For three weeks past they relatives and friends of Elder William Mackie have sought in vain for tidings of his whereabouts. On June 18 Mr. Mackie, ...

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  23. SATURDAY'S NEGOTIATIONS.

    Several conferences were held yesterday to try to settle the dispute. The first, arranged for 10 o'clock in the morning, but at the time mentioned ...

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  24. COMPANIES' PROPOSAL REJECTED.

    When the workers' delegates returned to the companies' representatives on Saturday night the directors explained that free water would be an equivalent ...

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  25. AN ABANDONED INFANT.

    William and Florence Chenery were charged in the City Court to-day with having abandoned an infant at the Hippodrome. ...

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  26. COMMERCIAL.

    Metals.—Latest quotations are as follow:—Copper, spot, £57 7s. 6d. to £57 12s. 6d.; do., forward, £58 2s. 6d. to £58 7s. 6d.; electrolytic copper, £58 ...

    Article : 276 words
  27. FINANCIAL.

    Bar silver is quoted at 2s. 0 9-16d. per ounce. ...

    Article : 97 words
  28. UNITED STATES' FLEET.

    The executive officials of the Young Australia League Tours' Committee have been actively engaged during the past week in arranging details for the ...

    Article : 392 words
  29. OVERSEA WOOL FREIGHTS.

    For some time past there has been a tendency for wool freights to harden, but the ruling prices from Melbourne to London, viz., 9-16d. per lb. for ...

    Article : 155 words
  30. ENGLISH EDUCATION QUESTION.

    At the sitting of the Congregational Congress at Edinburgh yesterday the Rev. Mr. Binns (of Sydney) described the New South Wales method of ...

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  31. MILLERS IN CONFERENCE.

    The first conference of inter-State Flour Mill Owners' Associations concluded its sittings to-day. It was decided to recommend that to ...

    Article : 234 words
  32. THE CUTTERS' WORKING CONDITIONS.

    There was a large crowd of people in Boulder all day Saturday, and the various versions of the dispute which are in existence would be amusing if the ...

    Article : 537 words
  33. MEETING OF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    The Kalgoorlie Municipal Council met on Saturday night, when there was also a good attendance of business men to consider matters in connection with ...

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  34. WEATHER IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Four feet of snow covered the Otago Central railway for six miles, and the train was snowed in. The floods in the South Island are ...

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  35. MINING.

    The following are the latest quotations for Australasian mining stocks:—Associated (W.A.), 21s. 3d. b, 22s. 6d. s; British Broken Hill. 15s. 6d. b. 16s. ...

    Article : 117 words
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