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  2. FAMINE AND OUTRAGE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Famine threatens in the greater part of European Russia. From good to medium crops are reported only in Poland, the Ural provinces, the ...

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  3. ENGLAND'S NEW ALLY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--M. Deschanel. President of the Commission on Foreign and Colonial Affairs, has notified the French Premier (M. Rouvier) of the findings of the ...

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  4. BJOERKOE CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that the Kaiser's object in meeting the Czar in conference at Bjoerkoe, was to obtain his ...

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  5. A PLUG OF TOBACCO AND FIVE BOB A WEEK.

    A question placed by Mr. O'Sullivan on the business paper in the Legislative Assembly yesterday was put there with the most earnest desire to call attention to what might prove a ...

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  6. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The debate on Mr. Deakin's statement of policy was continued in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. REID said he would endeavor to separate ...

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  7. AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Australians started their return match against Surrey at the Kennington Oval to-day, in dull weather, and before a fair attendance. The wicket is in ...

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  8. THE CRICKETERS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--In the cricket match against Surrey, Armstrong, who had been playing cautiously, played a ball from Rushby, on to his wicket, when he had made nine. Hill ...

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  9. BOOKMAKERS AND RACING CLUBS.

    It was reported that at the conference oi representatives of the Rosehill, Canterbury Park, and Moorefield Clubs yesterday some concession would be made to the registered ...

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  10. THE EYESIGHT TEST.

    Objection has been taken by railway men to the alleged severity of the eyesight test, and a number of representations have been made to the Minister for Railways and to the ...

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  11. WARNING IN VAIN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Jews of Odessa recently warned their new Governor, the notorious Jew-baiter, General Count Ignatieff, that the police were organising a ...

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  12. KAISER'S ADVICE TO THE CZAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris "Temps" states that the Kaiser advised the Czar, at the Pjoerkoe conference, to continue the war ...

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  13. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

    It is a matter for regret that the weather should have played so conspicuous a pari in the recently-finished test match, but, ...

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  14. RAILWAY JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS.

    The arrangements in regard to the celebration of the jubilee of the railways in September are proceeding satisfactorily. The acting-president of the council of the Railway Institute ...

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  15. KAISER TO VISIT DENMARK.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Kaiser has intimated that ho wishes to visit the King of Denmark at an early date. ...

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  16. CONSTANTINOPLE OUTRAGE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Suspecting that he was implicated in the recent bomb outrage, the Sultan of Turkey (Abdul-Humid II.) has imprisoned his brother ...

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  17. WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

    PERTH, Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-night, the Premier, Mr. Daglish, announced that the present was the last time he would speak from the Treasury benches, as he ...

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  18. SERIOUS FIGHTING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Japanese captured the important town of Alexandrovsk, on the west coast of the island of Saghalien, Gulf of Tartary, upon the 25th inst. ...

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  19. LACK OF INTEREST IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

    The lack of municipal interest in the proposed Local Government Bill was strikingly shown last night. A conference of delegates from suburban municipalities had been summoned to ...

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  20. M. WITTE'S FAR EAST POLICY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--M. Witte, President of the Russian Council of Ministers, who is now on route to attend the peace conference in America, favors the abolition of the ...

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  21. CANADIAN POPULATION STATISTICS.

    Sir,--I read this morning as a footnote to my further remarks on the subject of Canadian and Australian population-growths, this sentence:--"Our financial editor has discovered the ...

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  22. "CREEP" AT BROKEN-HILL.

    BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--A "creep" occurred in the Central Mine this morning. It is about 10 feet, and from appearances seems to be of greater dimensions than any since that in ...

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  23. UNWILLING VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Three companies of the 1st Dorset Artillery Volunteers have refused to submit to a medical examination ordered by the Army Council ...

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  24. "THE TOY-YACHT."

    The steam yacht Victoria--that barnacle-strewn legacy of the Lyne Government--gained further fame in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when Mr. Daley asked the Premier half ...

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  25. GAS.

    In his address at the half-yearly meeting of the Australian Gaslight Company yesterday the chairman, Mr. G. J. Cohen, said the increase in the consumption of gas was not so great as that ...

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  26. OPERATION ON ROZHJESTVENSKI.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A successful operation has been performed on Admiral Rozhjestvenski, in Tokio, a piece of hone being removed from the wound in ...

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  27. THE AUSTRALIAN AVERAGES.

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  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The law Courts at San Francisco have given a tram conductor of Russian birth an estate worth £200,000, which he became entitled to through ...

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  29. HARASSING THE GOVERNMENT.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Irish party in the House of Commons continued obstructive tactics until 3 o'clock in the morning. There were nine divisions, in ...

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  30. DEADLOCK IN HUNGARY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Financial difficulties are impending in Hungary, owing to Baron Fejevary's conflict with the municipalities who refuse to hand over the taxes ever ...

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  31. HUNGRY TO SCHOOL.

    A further investigation by the Victorian Premier shows that the statement by Mr. Solly, M.L.A., in the Legislative Assembly, that there are children attending State schools, who ...

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  32. AGAINST MR. CHURCHILL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Winston Churchill's motion for leave to introduce a bill providing for quinquennial parliaments was ...

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  33. THE CENTURY LIST. FOR

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  34. POLICE SEIZE PIRATED MUSIC.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The police in London have seized 287,000 copies of pirated music. ...

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  35. SCOTTISH CHURCHES BILL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Scottish Churches Bill was last night read a third time in the House of Commons. ...

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  36. DYED MEAT IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Food Commission, in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), has instituted proceedings against the beef trust, for selling meat colored with poisonous dyes, ...

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  37. PERSONAL.

    Letters received by the last mail from Miss Rawson, dated June 22, give an encouraging account of Lady Rawson's health. From the time of leaving Port Said until the date of the ...

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  38. THE HIGH COURT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--In speaking in the Senate to-day oil the Government policy, Sir Josiah Symon referred to trouble that had arisen with the High Court when he was ...

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  39. RISK FROM FIRE.

    Mr. Oakes had a rather startling question on the business paper in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. He asked the Chief Secretary if he would obtain a report from the Superintendent ...

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  40. YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--An outbreak of yellow fever has occurred at New Orleans. Since the 13th instant there have been 154 cases and 34 deaths. ...

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  41. NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.--The New Zealand footballers defeated Canterbury by 21 points to three. The New Zealanders' play was somewhat ...

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  42. AMERICANS IN JAPAN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Mr. W. H. Taft, the United States Secretary for War, Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President of America, and party, were accorded an ...

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  43. HOMEBUSH STOCK SALES.

    The number of sheep and lambs offered at the Homebush fat stock sales yesterday numbered about 30,000, but, despite that fact, the demand throughout was very strong, with values ...

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  44. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed with costs the appeal case McMaster versus McPhillamy. The plaintiff, Oswald McMaster, grazier, of ...

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  45. THE POISONED BEER CASE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The tragic affair in Carlton South Gardens on May 5, when Richard Barry, a gardener, drank a bottle of beer presented by an unknown man, and almost ...

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  46. STATEMENT IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--With reference to the "creep" in the Central mine, Broken-hill, the general manager of the Sulphide Corporation, Mr. C. F. Courtney, states that the operations ...

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  47. TO-DAY.

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  48. GERMANS IN MOROCCO.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Sultan of Morocco has signed a contract giving a German firm the construction of a quay at Tangler. ...

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  49. THE LANDS INQUIRY.

    Further evidence of certain large fees paid to Mr. W. N. Willis by selectors anxious to obtain improvement leases, was given before the Lands Commission yesterday. The cases which ...

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  50. RIFLE SHOOTING IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Earl Roberts expresses disappointment at the email response to his appeal for funds to encourage rifle shooting, but adds that he does not intend to let the matter ...

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  51. POSITION AT BLOCK 10.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday Night.--The secretary of the Broken-hill Block 10 Company, Mr. John Brandon, has received the following telegram from the general manager: "I have visited the ...

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  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    The directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company have declared an interim dividend of 3d per share. ...

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    H.M.S. Prometheus left the harbor yesterday, bound for New Zealand. The Challenger is due here on Sunday from Auckland. A telegram from Hobart yesterday stated that the Austrian ...

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