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  2. THE COUNTRY.

    General dissatisfaction is expressed at the new time-table. When the railway was opened to Dungog it was anticipated the Sydney malls would reach here via Taree and Kempsey in ...

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  3. LAW.

    At a special sitting, of the Court his Honor gave his reserved decision regarding a difficulty which arose on Friday, during Mr. Wise's address in reply for the Crown, owing to Mr. ...

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  4. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS

    James Benjamin, a sailor on the Rio, which is lying at a Balmain wharf, was assisting to erect a derrick on Saturday when it collapsed and fell on him, fracturing his ribs and ...

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  5. THE EMPTY NORTH.

    Dr. Woolnough, a member of the Northern Territory Scientific Expedition, has sent to Professor David some interesting notes of the tour. "Port Darwin (officially Palmerston) was ...

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  6. SPORTING NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--In the English county championship cricket matches, Lancashire has beaten Kent by nine wickets. Middlesex is now lending for the champion ...

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  7. MR. WOOD AT MUDGEE.

    MUDGEE, Sunday.--Clever repartee characterised Mr. Wood's open-air meeting last night. "What about the Crown lands you did make available?" asked one of the small La ...

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  8. A FLAT DENIAL.

    A telegram has been received by the secretary of the Liberal and Reform Association, Mr. Archdale Parkhill. to the effect that a statement has been made by Mr. Webster, Labor ...

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  9. A FRACTURED LEG.

    Charles Sullivan (50), a wharf laborer, residing at Barcom-avenue, Darlinghurst, was loading machinery in the steamer Manapouri, lying at the A.U.S.N. wharf, on Saturday, when a ...

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  10. MAN'S ARM MANGLED.

    On Saturday afternoon Donald Campbell, a carpenter on the R.M.S. Mongolia, was offing a windlass which was working, when his left arm got caught in the winding gear, and was torn ...

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  11. MR. PERRY'S CAMPAIGN.

    COONABARABRAN, Saturday.--Last night the Mechanics' Institute was again crowded, when Mr. John Perry, the selected Liberal candidate, supported by Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., spoke. ...

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  12. FOOTBALLER'S JAW BROKEN.

    In a second-grade football match on the North Shore Oval on Saturday, Thomos Roleson collided with another player, and sustained a fracture of the jaw. The Civil Ambulance ...

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  13. ANKLE CRUSHED UNDER TRAM.

    Edward Gorman (23), a clerk who lives in Carrington-road, Randwick, was alighting from a tram on Saturday evening at the corner of Campbell and Pitt streets, when he fell. His ...

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  14. ASYLUM PATIENTS DEATH.

    Alice Elizabeth Sanders (65), a Single woman, died in the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane on Saturday. She had been an inmate since January 5, 1901, and on July 23 last she was in ...

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  15. SENATOR M'DOUGALL SAYS LABOR WILL WIN.

    Senator Allan M' Dougali returned to town on Saturday from a visit to the Mudgee electorate, and he left for Melbourne last evening to be present at the welcome to Mr. Fisher. ...

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  16. SWIMMING.

    STOCKHOLM, Friday Evening.--The 200 metres breast-stroke championship was decided to-day, and was won by Henning, of Stockholm, in 3min. 8 3-5sec. ...

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  17. SCHOOLMASTER'S SUICIDE.

    GUNDAGAI, Saturday.--Mr. W. S. Draflin, headmaster of the South Gundagai Public School, shot himself to-night. He was seen in town during the afternoon, and appeared in ...

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  18. R. HOLMAN EXPECTS TO WIN BOTH SEATS.

    On Saturday Mr. Nielsen, secretary of the labor Party, received a telegram from Mr. [?]ldman, in the course of which the Acting-premier said:--"Western end of Liverpool ...

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  19. BOXING.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Jack Johnson has been matched to fight Bombardier Wells at Earl's Court, London, on October 2. The arena holds 100,000 people. ...

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  20. LAW NOTICES.

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  21. BLAYNEY MISHAPS.

    BLAYNEY, Saturday.--A child named Manley, tour years of ago, had two fingers accidentally, cut off by an older brother, who was cutting wood with a tomahawk to-day. ...

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  22. MR. M'GOWEN'S BIRTHDAY.

    The Acting-Treasurer, Mr. Carmichael, remarked on Saturday that August 16 (on which day Mudgee and Liverpool Plains will pronounce as to whether Mr. M'Gowen's ...

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  23. LAWN TENNIS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Dunlop beat Clements yesterday for the Scottish lawn tennis championship--6-4, 6-4. ...

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  24. AN INJURED BACK.

    GULGONG, Saturday.--Mr. George Leroux, a workman employed at Hoskins's iron ore mines, Tallawang, was wheeling a harrow load of stuff across a narrow plank, when he ...

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  25. "HOT STUFF."

    GUNNEDAH, Saturday.--Mr. Webster, M.H.R., addressed a large meeting at the School of Arts last night and had a good hearing. Votes of thanks to the speaker and of confidence in the ...

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  26. FALL INTO THE RIVER.

    ULMARRA, Saturday.--A lad, Jack Beck, aged 10, fell into the river off the public wharf on Sunday last. Two men, John Penton and Langley Murray, dived in and rescued the ...

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  27. JOCKEY IN TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--After the Tower Plate was decided at the Leicester summer meeting to-day, the stewards suspended the crack American Jockey, Maher, for the ...

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  28. BEYOND HER STRENGTH.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Mrs. Nelson, who was so severely burned at Daylesford on Thursday by putting kerosene on her garments and Setting a light to them, with the object of ...

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  29. SETTLERS KNOW BETTER NOW.

    Mr. Wade, leader of the Opposition, arrived Sydney Saturday on a brief visit, and returned the firing line last evening. In the [?]rse of an interview he stated that the ...

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  30. RACING CASUALTIES.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The concluding day of the Q.T.C. winter, meeting was associated with a serious accident in the Pace Welter Handicap, in which 23 horses went to the post. ...

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  31. SUCCUMBED TO INJURIES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Edwin Chancellor, of Chancellor and Son, wholesale grocers, North Melbourne, died at his residence on Saturday night as the result of a collision with a motor ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    H.M.S. Crescent and H.M.S. Gibraltar have sailed for Colombo with relief crews for the warships Cambrian, Pyramus, Penguin, Psyche, and Pioneer, of the Australian station. ...

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  33. GRAND OPERA SEASON.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Madame Melba arrived in Melbourne to-day by the Adelaide express. As the express slowed down, the diva was discerned at an open window, waving her ...

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  34. MOVEMENTS OF THE EXPEDITION.

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A telegram was received at the Ministry for External Affairs today from the Northern Territory Administration at Port Darwin, stating that Professor ...

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  35. SUICIDE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Rachel Sharp (74), boarding with her son at 174 Drummond-street, North Carlton, went into his room during his absence on Saturday night, and cut her throat ...

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  36. CARDINAL MORAN AT CHATSWOOD.

    Cardinal Moran yesterday afternoon laid the foundution-stone of a new presbytery in connection with the newly-created parish at Chatswood. ...

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  37. MISSING FISHERMAN FOUND.

    FREMANTLE, Sunday.--On Saturday afternoon the body of Antony Garvin, an Austrian fisherman, who had been missing since July 3, was found on Fremantle beach. ...

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  38. MISHAPS IN AUSTRALIAN STEEPLECHASE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--When Grafnax fell in the Australian Steeplechase, F. Burn sustained a broken right ankle, a small piece of the bone being chipped off. ...

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  39. PERIL OF THE TORPEDO.

    A further important development in battleship armament was recently announced by cable as being under the consideration of the Admiralty. When the Dreadnought was ...

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  40. MR. BORWICK'S FAREWELL.

    The familiar Beethoven sonata in C sharp minor, which has been styled "The Moonlight" --it is supposed from a remark of Rellstab, the critic that the first movement suggested a boat ...

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  41. A FIREBALL'S FALL.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday a large fireball fell partly on the roof and partly on the upper wall of a refreshment shop kept by a Mr. Vivian, at St. Kilda, ...

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  42. YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--To-day the mall train from Adelaide disgorged upon, the wet platform at Spencer-street 40 sun-tanned youths in navy blue uniforms, faced with black braid, and ...

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  43. THE CANDID FRIEND.

    MULALLEY, Saturday .--Speaking to a large conference to-night, Mr. W. Webster, M.H.R., [?] himself in the position of the Government candid friend. ...

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  44. THE AMERICAN STEEL TRUST.

    The investigation of the United States Steel Corporations, has resulted in some interesting revelations. It has transpired for one thing that the absorption by the trust in 1907 of the ...

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  45. RURAL WORKERS' CLAIMS.

    A meeting of the newly-formed Fruitgrowing Employer's Defence Association was held at Parramatta on Saturday afternoon, with Mr. John Neil, president, in the chair. A code of rules, submitted by a special committee. ...

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  46. BRISBANE EXHIBITION.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The final for the national champion wood-chop of Queensland was decided at the Exhibition on Saturday, and resulted:--C. Miley 1, C. Weston 2. ...

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  47. [?] LATE SPORTING.

    CHARTERS TOWERS, Sunday.--In the final bouts in the North Queensland amateur championships on Saturday night, Barney Sanders, of the Brilliant Extended mine, fully extended the Rev. Sams, for the lightweight ...

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  48. WALKING CLUB.

    The annual dinner of the Warragamba Walking Club took place at the Trocadero Cafe on Thursday evening. Mr. W. Hamlet (president), Commander F. H. C. Brownlow, Mr. H. ...

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  49. OPIUM SEIZURES.

    Fourteen tins of opium were found in the possession of a Malay member of the crew of the steamer Aldenham at the Quay yesterday by Customs-officer Prendergast. The Malay, was ...

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  50. STEAMER TUNCURRY REFLOATED.

    Messrs. Allen Taylor and Co.'s steamer Tuncurry floated off the spit at Cape Hawke on Friday night. The steamer went aground on the South Spit while entering Cape Hawke on ...

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  51. RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION BOARD.

    A meeting of the Superannuation Board was held on Thursday last at the Chief Commissioners Office. Nine pensions were passed to retired officers over 60 years, and four ...

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  52. BOWLS.

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  53. THREE SHOTS IN HIS TEMPLE.

    "This young man," said Sergeant Drew, at the Water Court, on Saturday, pointing to Allred Joseph Wilson, who was charged with attempting to commit suicide by shooting at Rookwood on June 28, "was found in the ...

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  54. BARGES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT.

    The last of the steel hopper barges, built by Messrs. Poole and Steele, of Balmain, for the South Australian Government left the harbor yesterday for Adelaide, in tow of the Adelaide ...

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  55. THE LIBERAL CAMPAIGN.

    UNNEDAH, Saturday.--Two Liberal speak-[?] aware in the district on Saturday, Mr. Ferren on addressing a splendid meeting at Car[?] Whilst Mr. Grogan, of Yass, spoke at ...

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  56. WILLOUGHBY PROGRESS ASSOCIATION.

    A Progress Association to look after the welfare of the East Willoughby district has been formed. The following; vice-presidents, Messrs. R. Jones, A. Fraser, F. ...

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  57. Advertising

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