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  2. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Russian War Office officials assert that there are now 311,000 Russian soldiers at the front in Manchuria. On the same authority it is alleged that ...

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  3. FALL OF THE DEAKIN GOVERNMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--After three days debate on the inclusion of the State servants in the Arbitration Bill, the Government was defeated to-night by nine votes. There were 29 ...

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  4. UNREST IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The victim of the explosion which occurred in the Hotel du Nord, on the Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, has not been identified. It has been ...

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  5. TROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--It was announced yesterday that a body of South African Constabulary recently chased and arrested seven members of a small band of mounted ...

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  6. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. A. Akers-Douglas (Home Secretary), following the recommendations of Royal Commission, introduced ...

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  7. GIRLS AND SEDITION.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The feeling of political unrest in Russia has spread to the girls in the higher schools of St. Petersburg. As a result, 300 of them have been excluded ...

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  8. THE DEBATE.

    The House of Representatives met at 2.30 p.m. Consideration was resumed in committee of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. In ...

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  9. GREAT FIRE AT TORONTO.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A destructive fire has occurred at Toronto. Canada, and devastated many acres of buildings in the wholesale part of the city. ...

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  10. PURCHASE OF DEPARTMENTAL SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The various Chambers of Commerce throughout, the Transvaal have excitedly protested against instructions which have been issued by the ...

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  11. SIR WILFRID LAWSON'S VIEW.

    LONDON, Thursday.--When the Licensing Bill was introduced in the Commons yesterday, the great temperance advocate, Sir Wilfrid Lawson (Liberal member for Camborne), ...

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  12. ON THE SEA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Vice-Admiral Skrydloff, who has been appointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Makaroff in command of the Russian naval forces in the Far East, has ...

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  13. SEIZURE OF BRITISH VESSELS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Great Britain his demanded heavy indemnity in connection with Nicaragua's seizure of six Cayman Islands schooners, which were engaged in ...

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  14. ANGLO-FRENCH CONVENTION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--M. Delcasse (French Minister for Foreign Affairs) and Sir Edmund Monson (British Ambassador in Paris) have signed an additional clause in the Anglo-French ...

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  15. THE LABOR LEADER'S COMMENTS.

    MELBOURNE. Thursday.--Mr. J. C. Watson's comments on the situation were as follow:-- "I have very little to say. I regret, however, that the Government should have made a vital ...

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  16. THE PETROPAVLOVSK DISASTER.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The "Grazhdinin" and the "Novoe Vremya," published at St. Petersburg, protest, against piecemeal communication in regard to the ...

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  17. BRITISH IN THIBET.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Younghusband-mission is still established at Gyang-tse, in Thibet. The soldiers escorting the mission have destroyed the towers above the principal gate of ...

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  18. RAILWAY STRIKE IN HUNGARY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The railways in Hungary are in a state of deadlock. The employees have struck work as their demands for increased pay were not acceded to. ...

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  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A verdict of accidental death has been returned by the coroner's jury as a result of the inquest upon the bodies of the crow of the submarine A One, which was ...

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  20. CHURCH DISCIPLINE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Michael HicksBeach, M.P. (formerly Chancellor of the Exchequers, has been appointed chairman of the Royal Commission to inquire into ...

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  21. SIR JOHN FORREST'S LAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--When Sir John Forrest replied to the toast of "The Parliaments of Australia," at the Chamber of Commerce banquet to-night he said he was responsible, on ...

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  22. VICEROY ALEXEIEFF'S POSITION.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Reuter's representative in the Far East states that Viceroy Alexeleff is now ignored by Hie Russian Imperial authorities, excepting ...

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  23. THE BELGIAN SCANDALS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A civil tribunal at Brussels has refused au application by the Princesses Louise and Stephanic to set aside their mother's will. ...

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  24. BANK RATE REDUCED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Bank of England published rate of discount, which was on September 8 raised from 3 to 4 per cent., was on April 14 lowered to 3½ per cent, and has now ...

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  25. ENGLISH SPORTING.

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  26. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has reserved judgment in the cases of Lukey versus the Sydney Harbor Trust, and the Citizens' Life Assurance versus ...

    Article : 374 words
  27. MR. DEAKIN'S VIEW.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday Midnight.--Immediately after the House rose Mr. Deakin made the following statement to the press:-- "The majority against the Government is ...

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  28. DERELICT CONTACT MINES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Japanese have destroyed three contact mines, which were adrift 40 miles off Shangtung Promontory. ...

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  29. FATE OF A CAPTAIN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--It now transpires that the captain of the Russian gunboat Maudjur--which is lying, dismantled by the Chinese, at Shanghai, and whose ...

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  30. THE NEW GOVERNMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--After the division there was still much speculation as to who should be sent for to form the new Government. The Opposition generally bulieved that the duty, ...

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  31. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The provisions of the Public Officers' Retirement Act, passed last session, will come into force on June 30. Every officers 70 years of ago, except the Commissioner of Audit, will ...

    Article : 169 words
  32. BURIED BY AN AVALANCHE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--It is reported from Italy that an avalanche, at Pragelate. Turin, buried huts containing 100 miners. ...

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  33. ETHERGRAMS IN WARFARE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Russian circular to the Powers on the use of ethergrams in warfare implies that, war correspondents aboard neutral steamers will be treated as ...

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  34. ACCIDENT AT EPSOM.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The racehorse St. Patrick's Day fell in the Great Metropolitan yesterday, bringing down Grey Tick, who broke his leg in the fall. The injured ...

    Article : 155 words
  35. NEW ZEALAND.

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  36. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Royal Mining Commission consists of Mr. A. Montgomery, State Mining Engineer, chairman; Dr. Jack, late of Queensland; Dr. V. Black, Mr. E. A. Mann, Government Analyst; Mr. J. ...

    Article : 121 words
  37. NEW JAPANESE SUBMARINES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Japanese are constructing four additional submarine boats ...

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  38. WAR NOTES.

    "All is quiet on the Potomac." This was storing news for the hard-pressed Yankees in the early stages of the American Civil War. The Russian in this conflict will be delighted ...

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  39. PRISONER PARDONED.

    The Chief Justice sat at the supreme court to-day to receive recognisances in respect to the release of a prisoner, Joseph James Carter, who on April 2, 1892, was convicted of the ...

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  40. AUSTRALIAN AT THURSDAY ISLAND.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Thursday.--The E. and A. Co.'s steamer Australian arrived to-day from Japan and Hongkong, via ports, after an uneventful voyage. The following is a list of ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. CHRISTCHURCH STOCK SALES.

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  42. MR. REID ON THE POSITION.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. Reid, after the division, said: "We have all a thoroughly good tooling for the Prime Minister and Sir George Turner. In mx experience of politics in ...

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  43. AN ALLEGED DIGAMIST'S TRAGIC END.

    A sensational tragedy occurred at the Guildford Police Court yesterday A woman named Mildred Gleeson was to appear on a charge of bigamy with T. Sayers. at Bellevue, on January ...

    Article : 91 words
  44. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
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