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  2. PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

    LONDON, January 14.--The funeral of Sir Frederick Darley took place on Saturday last, at Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. The interment was in the family vault, and Revs. Canon ...

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  3. THE COUNTRY.

    BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--A boy, aged 11 years, appeared before the Children's Court this morning on a charge of having placed a quantity, of explosive gelatine on the tramline in ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The conference of advertising officers representing the Federal and the State Governments to-day considered the question of united action and, the avoiding of ...

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  5. THE SOLIDARITY OF THE SOCIALISTS.

    "At their first conflict with a great national question, the Labor scheme of oracular utterance hopelessly breaks down. (Cheers.) There stands the oracle! (Cheers) Everyone can read the resolution which has been circulated. It was boasted of in our House before it was interpreted by member after member of the Labor Party. What do we hear ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. THE MEN'S CASE.

    NEWCASTLE,Wednesday.--The following are the chief features of the claims submitted to the Wages Board this morning by Mr. Charlton, M.L.A., on behalf of the Colliery Employees ...

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  7. IMPORTED COAL.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Another consignment of English coal arrived in Melbourne to-day by the steamer Devonshire from Newcastle on Tyne. Altogether the Devonshire has ...

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  8. ON THE MOVE.

    Gradually the number of laid-up vessels in the harbor is being, lessened. The steamers Moorabool and Barwon are to be recommissioned, and will be docked for cleaning and ...

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  9. NORTH COAST RAILWAY.

    WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--Good progress is being made to the first section of the North Coast Railway, The rails have been laid as far as Paterson. ...

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  10. THE LITHGOW TROUBLE.

    Edwin Truscott, general secretary of the Coal Miners Mutual Protective Association of the Western District, in the Industrial Court today, applied for leave to prosecute G. and C. ...

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  11. DORRIGO RAILWAY.

    COFF'S HARBOR JETTY, Wednesday.--Coff's Harbor Railway League last night held a meeting in the School of Arts to discuss the report from the committee of inquiry regarding the ...

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  12. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    Mrs. Eliza Allard (63), who resided with her daughter at Catherine-street, Leichhardt, died yesterday from the effects of lysol poisoning. Mrs. Allard became seriously ill on February 10 ...

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  13. DISCOVERED IN TIME.

    MOLONG, Wednesday.--Manton's Great western Bakery narrowly escaped destruction by fire. A domestic, who sleeps in an upstairs room, retired to bed, leaving a Small piece of candle ...

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  14. MAN'S. STRANGE DEATH.

    On Tuesday night George Oxley (54) was found dead at the entrance to a tent in which he lived at Croydon. The body was in a kneeling posture, and there was a cup in one hand ...

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  15. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    COOMA, Wednesday,--At the Quarter Sessions to-day (Judge Fitzhardinge presiding), Bertie Lette (17) was charged with forging and utter in a cheque for 35s. He Was sentenced to six ...

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  16. CLIFTON AND COLEDALE.

    The Southern Miners' Wages Board, of which Mr. Edmunds is chairman, sat at the Arbitration Rooms in Young-street yesterday morning,in order to investigate the causes of the ...

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  17. BOY'S BODY RECOVERED.

    The body of Henry Walter Rae (16), who was drowned owing to the capsize of a dingy ln which he was competing in the Balmain Dingy Club's races, off Kirribilli Point, on Saturday ...

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  18. BOY KILLED BY A TRAM.

    Eric Watt (9), who resided at Concord with his parents, was killed by a tram at the Mortlake terminus on Tuesday night. With some other boys he had been for a Swim, and while the cars ...

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  19. THE HORSE'S RETALIATION.

    MANILLA, Wednesday.--A young farmer, Harold Russell, was riding on the shaft of his wheat team, when he hit one of the shatters, which lashed, breaking both Russell's legs. ...

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  20. FOUND DROWNED.

    ST. MARYS, Wednesday.--Benjamin Cook, an old resident of St. Marys, who was missing from his home since yesterday afternoon, was found drowned in South Creek this afternoon. ...

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  21. THE RONALD-HARPER CASE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The bearing of the charges against an ex-postal employee, Patrick Hill, of having suborned witnesses in connection with the Ronald-Harper libel action, was ...

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  22. TASMANIA.

    In connection with the recent disaster to a troop train at Andover, the driver, Alexander, has been disrated for travelling his train at an excess speed in order to pick up time. ...

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  23. TURNSTILES AT WHARVES.

    Some time ago, considerable, attention was directed to a case in which Mr. Nugent Robertson, a well-known citizen of Sydney, sued the Balmain Ferry Company for assault and false ...

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  24. INJURED BY A WAGGON.

    HARGRAVES, Wednesday.--Whilst engaged driving a team loaded with wool, Jas. Boswell had the misfortune to become jammed between the waggon add a fence. Besides sustaining ...

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  25. CIRCULAR SAW ACCIDENT.

    WEE WAA, Wednesday.--Thomas Ryan, employed at Schwarer's sawmills, had four fingers of his left hand severed with a circular saw this morning. ...

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  26. THE GOVERNMENT ALERT.

    In regard to the difficulty at Lithgow the Premier stated yesterday, afternoon that when the announcement of the trouble appeared in the press on Monday instructions were sent ...

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  27. PRISONER SHOOTS HIMSELF.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday,--The Commissioner of Police has received a report from Constable Holland, of North Pine, stating, that Constable Ziebell, of Esk, passed through North Pine this ...

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  28. NEWCASTLE.

    The following vessels were cleared at the Newcastle Customs-house yesterday:--Cycle, str., for Port Pirie, via Sydney and Edithburgh, with 200 tons at coal and 500 tons bunkers ...

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  29. THE RESULT OF VIOLENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The police are investigating the death of a man named Thomas Shepherd (42). Shepherd called at the Metropolitan Mission House, Bourke-street, last night ...

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  30. MELBOURNE-SYDNEY MOTOR RECORD.

    Messrs. H. B. James and Syd. Day, the Melbourne motorists, driving a 25 h.p. Vinot car, fitted with Dunlop tyres, left the Melbourne G.P.O. at midnight on Tuesday on another attempt ...

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  31. THE RECENT FLOODS.

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  32. LITHGOW SHOW.

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  33. A COUNCIL'S PLIGHT.

    BATHURST, Wednesday.--At the meeting of Bathurst Municipal Council to-night letters were received from the Invincible Colliery Company, Cullen Bullen, with reference to its ...

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  34. KILLED ON HER BIRTHDAY.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The youngest daughter of A. W. Whittlesea met her death at Salisbury yesterday on the eighth anniversary of her birth. After coming front school she ...

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  35. N.S.W. PURE FOODS ACT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A deputation from the representatives of Felton, Grimwade, and Co., and Henry Berry and Co., complained to the Premier to-day that the Pure Foods Act ...

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  36. RELEASED UNDER LICENSE.

    Amended regulations under the Prisons Act are gazetted. They provide for an important extension of the license system. Following are the provisions ...

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  37. SMALL ARMS FACTORY.

    The Minister for Home Affairs intimated yesterday that the tender of the Fitzroy Dock had been accepted for the supply of a power generating plant for the Federal small arms ...

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  38. CHAMPION LADY SWIMMER.

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  39. LABOR.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Minister for Labor to-day received the determination of the Grocers' Board from tho chairman. The following are the rates fixed per week of 52 hours ...

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  40. VISIT OF THE JAPANESE TRAINING SQUADRON.

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  41. WORK PROGRESSING.

    LITHGOW, Wednesday.--Twenty drays and 60 men are engaged at the site of the small arms factory, excavating and preparing tor building. Immediately this is finished all hands will ...

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  42. STATE DEBTS.

    Senator Pulsford writes:-- The views expressed by Mr. Wade on the subject of State debts and the Commonwealth, are precisely those which State necessities ...

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  43. TAMWORTH SUBDIVISION.

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  44. LATE SPORTING.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Futurity candidate, Malt Mary, made quite an exhibition of the field of 11 Which opposed her to-day in the February Handicap at Moonee Valley. Carrying top weight (9st. 5lb.) she led ...

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  45. AN EMPIRE RIFLE CONTEST.

    The "Daily Mail" Empire Day rifle contest is expected to bring out a record number of competitors this year. In 1906 three clubs competed, and last year 764 clubs shot for the ...

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  46. QUEENSLAND RECORDS.

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  47. IN THE BALANCE.

    CLIFTON, Wednesday.--The position at south [?]ifton hangs in the balance. It is, however, [?] that the local trouble is about to be [?] Williamson and Phillips having ...

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  48. A MELBOURNE SCORCHER.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Melbourne experienced another scorcher to-day. At 9 o'clock the thermometer registered 85deg., and as the day advanced the north wind became like a ...

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  49. PENRHYN CASTLE INQUIRY.

    An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fire on the barque Penrhyn Castle will be opened on Tuesday next by Captain Hacking. Acting-Superintendent of the Navigation ...

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  50. HACKENSCHMIDT IN FORM.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday. -- The wrestling match between Hackenschmidt and Scott was a fiasco. The champion simply played with his opponent, and secured the first two ...

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  51. MELBOURNE STEAMSHIP CO.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The accounts of the Melbourne Steamship Company, Ltd., for the six months ended December 31, show nett profits of £7750. as against £7285 in the preceding ...

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  52. Advertising

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  53. Advertising

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  54. Advertising

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  55. TONGKAH TIN COMPANY.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--At Tongkah during the last fortnight No. 1 dredge worked 40 hours and obtained 9cwt. 2qr.; No. 2 dredge worked 160 hours and obtained 734 tons; No. 3 dredge ...

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  56. THE WHARF LABORERS.

    [?] the meeting of the Wharf Laborers Union [?] in the Trades-hall last night, Mr. W. M. [?] was appointed to represent the union in [?] of the application to be made by the ...

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  57. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Dep., Feb. 16: Neptune, str., for United Kingdom; Glenelg, str., for Melbourne. ...

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