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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Mail for the Eastern States.— The weekly mail for the Eastern States is notified to close at the G.P.O. to-morrow at 8.15 p.m. (late fee 9 p.m.), for ...

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  3. CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

    M. Paulhan and Mr. Graham White, the well-known aeronauts, are making preparations for a flight in their respective aeroplanes from London to ...

    Article : 72 words
  4. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The motion for the third reading of the Budget was carried in the House of Commons yesterday by 324 votes to 231. Subsequently the Budget was read a first ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. MOTHER'S SEARCH FOR HER CHILDREN.

    The unique and somewhat pathetic circumstances surrounding the journey of Mrs. B. M. Hawkes from her home in England to Western Australia in search of her two ...

    Article : 970 words
  6. STRANDING OF THE MALEKULA.

    The finding of the Marine Board in connection with the stranding of the schooner Malekula on Brampton reef in January last was announced this afternoon. ...

    Article : 187 words
  7. THE STEAMER CARPENTARIA.

    Advices from Capetown state that the steamer Carpentaria, bound from Durban to Capetown, is overdue. ...

    Article : 364 words
  8. THE NARRABRI TRAGEDY.

    A shocking story of continued brutality was told at the Armidale Circuit Court to day by Carolene Augusta Buckman, charged with the murder of her husband, James ...

    Article : 364 words
  9. LORD KITCHENER.

    Lord Kitchener arrived at Southampton this morning, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. In the course of an interview he ...

    Article : 337 words
  10. MURDER BY GERMS.

    Still further sensational evidence was given yesterday at the trial at Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., of Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde, who is charged with ...

    Article : 234 words
  11. WRECK OF THE SATARA.

    Judge Backhouse and Captains S. C. Spinks and W. Davidson sat in the Marine Court to-day to inquire into the wreck of the steamer Satara off Seal Rocks on April ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. START AND PROGRESS.

    Messrs. Paulhan and White made a start this afternoon. M. Paulhan ascended at 5.20 p.m. and entered London for Manchester ...

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  13. TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY.

    The Melbourne correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" has telegraphed to that journal a message from Mr. Andrew Fisher, the Leader of the ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. THE LATE MR. BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON.

    The Norwegian Storthing (Legislature) has decided to accord the remains of the late Mr. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, whose death was announced yesterday, a State ...

    Article : 91 words
  15. THE TANAMI FIELD.

    Mr. W. J. Nimmo, a miner, arrived from Tanami this morning, and volunteered the following information respecting the field, where he has been engaged prospecting for ...

    Article : 732 words
  16. THE ARMIDALE MURDER.

    At the Armidale Circuit Court to-day Henry Casey was charged with the murder of Johanna Kelly at Armidale on December 13, 1908. He was defended by Mr. Chubb, ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. TURKISH TROUBLES.

    The Albanians have twice repulsed the Turks in the Katchanik Pass. Great anxiety has been caused at Constantinople because of the Uskub ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. THRIFT AND CREDIT BANKS.

    The Thrift and Credit Banks Bill, which has been introduced in the House of Lords by the Earl of Shaftesbury, was yesterday read a second time and referred ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

    The "Times" correspondent in Paris estimates that at the recent parliamentary elections 4,000,000 electors voted for Radicals, 1,750,000 for Conservatives, ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. EGYPTIAN UNREST.

    A blue-book dealing with the Egyptian unrest in 1909 has just been published. It contains an important statement by Sir Eldon Gorst, the British Agent and ...

    Article : 192 words
  21. AUSTRIA'S DREADNOUGHTS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. R. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated, in reply to a question, that His Majesty's Government had no ...

    Article : 59 words
  22. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON.

    Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, declares that he will possibly take up his residence in Canada, in which case he will explore the far west and ...

    Article : 38 words
  23. TRADES' UNIONISTS TOUR.

    Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., will, it is announced, shortly lead a party of eight representative trades unionists on a tour through Germany. ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

    John Birmingham, aged about 12, a ward of the State, was brought to the Williamstown Hospital late last night. One leg had been severed and his skull was fractured. ...

    Article : 161 words
  25. THE KING.

    The King, who returned to London to-day from the Continent looking well, was welcomed at the Victoria railway station by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. ...

    Article : 63 words
  26. CANADIAN TRADE.

    The total trade of Canada for the fiscal year 1909-10 amounted to £123,400,000, an increase, compared with the figures of last year, of £23,400,000. ...

    Article : 30 words
  27. EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.

    Two thousand one hundred and sixty emigrants have sailed from the United Kingdom for Queensland during the past four months. Of these 60 per cent. have ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. THE AMERICAN STORM.

    The wholesale destruction by storm and frost of the crops in the cottongrowing States of America has tremendously enhanced the price of cotton ...

    Article : 61 words
  29. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Messrs. Burlison and Grylls, the famous glass painters, of London, have completed an east window for the St. David's Cathedral, Hobart. The work ...

    Article : 370 words
  30. THE "IMPERIAL PIONEERS."

    Referring to the "Imperial Pioneers," or colonial missionaries, of tariff reform, now campaigning in the United Kingdom, the "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 162 words
  32. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    Rumour is still very busy regarding the probable outcome of to-morrow's Labour caucus, but beyond the fact that the general feeling seems to prevail that most of the old ...

    Article : 401 words
  33. PERSONAL.

    A cable message received yesterday announces that His Holiness the Pope had received in audience Mr. John Meagher, of Sydney, New South Wales. ...

    Article : 602 words
  34. THE CHANG-SHA RIOTS.

    An official report states that the Chinese district of Chang-sha, the theatre of the recent anti-foreign riots, is now quiet. ...

    Article : 29 words
  35. "WESTERN MAIL."

    The current number of the "Western Mail," both as regards its illustrations and reading matter, is exceedingly attractive. The celebration of St. George's Day in ...

    Article : 370 words
  36. SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE.

    Mr. W. A. Deane, Minister for Defence in Natal, is advocating the adoption by the South African Union of compulsory military service. ...

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  37. VENEZUELA.

    General Gomez, who after the practical deposition of President Castro last year assumed the Presidency of Venezuela, has been duly elected to that office. ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. COLONEL KIRKPATRICK'S APPOINTMENT.

    The confirmation of Colonel Kirkpatrick's appointment as Inspector-General of the Commonwealth Military Forces is to be left over for the new Ministry. A statement to ...

    Article : 72 words
  39. THE BOER WAR.

    The Transvaal Parliament has allocated £121,000 for the benefit of those burghers who were disabled during the Boer war. ...

    Article : 30 words
  40. THE ENGLISH TURF.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 words
  41. THE COTTON TRADE.

    The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Association in Lancashire has resolved to secure a 5 per cent, reduction of wages. It is, therefore, willing to ...

    Article : 61 words
  42. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

    John Wrixon Black was charged to-day at the Water Police Court, before Mr. Love, D.S.M., on warrant, with having, on December 9, 1909, while a servant of S. Freedman ...

    Article : 324 words
  43. A YARRA COLLISION.

    The Court of Marine Inquiry gave its decision to-day in the matter of a charge preferred against Alexander Brand that while acting as the chief engineer of the ...

    Article : 92 words
  44. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    Those members of the Northern Union Rugby League who could not travel on the R.M.S. Osterley with the remainder of the team which is visiting Australia ...

    Article : 59 words
  45. THE JAPANESE TARIFF.

    The new Japanese tariff increases the duties on provisions consumed by foreign residents by 40 to 60 per cent. ...

    Article : 27 words
  46. AMERICAN RAILWAYS.

    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have increased the wages of their 50,000 employees by 6 per cent. ...

    Article : 29 words
  47. A SERIOUS EXPLOSION.

    A miner named William Eyles was shockingly injured by the explosion of a blast at the Stanford Colliery in the Newcastle district, to-day. He was engaged boring when ...

    Article : 94 words
  48. MELBOURNE TIMBER STRIKE.

    The timber stackers' strike terminated to-day. The men have been granted three representatives on the new Wages Board, and will return to work to-morrow. ...

    Article : 34 words
  49. AN UNUSUAL CHARGE.

    The case in which Samuel Cohen was charged with having refused to assist Plain-clothes-constable Hickling in the execution of his duty when called on in the name of ...

    Article : 66 words
  50. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    A comparative statement of the public revenue and expenditure for the past quarter shows that the receipts were £1,091,786, an increase of £125,849, and payments ...

    Article : 81 words
  51. THE LABOUR PARTY.

    At to-night's meeting of the Sydney Labour Council consideration was given to the question of establishing a political fighting fund in connection with the industrial ...

    Article : 133 words
  52. VICTORIAN LAND TAX BILL.

    A meeting of the Ministerial members of the State Parliament was held to-night. The Treasurer (Mr. Watt) said that the Government intended to reintroduce the Land Tax ...

    Article : 120 words
  53. TYPHOID IN MELBOURNE.

    Two fresh cases of typhoid fever were reported to-day. This brings the total number of cases in the city that have been traced to one milk supply up to 105. ...

    Article : 41 words
  54. INDECENT LITERATURE.

    Coburn, the manager of the New Zealand "Truth," who was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having published indecent literature, was released to-day on the ...

    Article : 84 words
  55. THE LAW COURTS.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 1 Court before Mr. Justice Rooth.—J. Pascoe and S. J. F. Moore (part heard). In Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...

    Article : 67 words
  56. THE FITZROY EXPLOSION.

    Charles Rylton Webb Shaw, 20 years of age, grocer, pleaded not guilty at the Fitzroy Court to-day to a charge of having set fire to a shop at 85 Brunswick-street, ...

    Article : 88 words
  57. THE COST OF LIVING.

    The Trades Hall Council to-night declined to forward a circular from the Commonwealth Statistician to unions asking that the workers should supply returns showing ...

    Article : 72 words
  58. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The outgoing R.M.S. Morea, which was to have left the Outer Harbour at 6 o'clock, was delayed by high seas and wind, and did not sail until a quarter-past 10 o'clock ...

    Article : 65 words
  59. NEW ZEALAND.

    The returns for the first quarter of this year show that exports were valued at £8,859,657 and imports at £3,911,797. The exports for the first quarter of last year ...

    Article : 40 words
  60. Advertising

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    Advertising : 384 words
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