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  2. THE OLD AND THE NEW.

    Side view or H. M. S. Orion, the first battleship of the new super-Dreadnought type, which created a world-wide revolution in naval construction. All Dreadnoughts have become obsolete, for one Orion is worth two Dreadnoughts. The Orion curries ten 13 12 inch guns which are aide to lire, every two minutes, and tons of steel lyddite; and the force of the discharge can carry, the projectile 21 miles. From within view of Dover Harbor, England, she could wreck Calais, France, with a single ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    Yesterday's brief sitting of the Legislative Assembly was devoted almost entirely to questions addressed to the Acting-Premier on various aspects of the Industrial and financial ...

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  4. THE MODERN BATTLESHIP.

    The modern battleship, says ft writer in "Harmsworth's Popular Science," is not a thing of beauty or graudeur. Her lines are hard and harsh, her color drab and insignificant; even ...

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  5. THE NEW ROAD.

    Mr. John Sulman, president of the Town Planning Association, gave an instructive and entertaining lecture in the King's Hall, last evening on "Radial and Circumferential Roads," ...

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  6. RED CROSS WORK.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Lady Helen Munro Ferguson will be glad to receive subscriptions for the Australian branch of the Red Cross Society. Cheques, which should be crossed ...

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  7. RUGBY TEST.

    Australia's team to play Now Zealand In the last Rugby Union test match on Saturday, at the Sports Ground, was been selected. The team is the same as that which ...

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  8. NEWCASTLE HOLD UP.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At the Newcastle Police Court, before Mr. M'Kell, S.M., Robert Robinson (23), laborer, and James Angus Macgregor (27), plumber, were charged ...

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  9. NURSES AND THE WAR.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--No decision has been arrived at in regard to the taking of nurses to the front with the Australian force. Colonel Ryan, who will be the priincipal ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. THE ST. JOHN BRIGADE.

    The St. John Ambulance Brigade asks us to publish for general information particulars setting forth the divisions, their time and place of meeting, etc. Members holding association ...

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  11. AMBULANCE TRAINING.

    There was a large gathering at the Town Hall last night, in response to a request by Lady Gallon, for the purpose of taking steps to form ambulance classes for the northern ...

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  12. "THOUGHTLESS RUMORS."

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The absence of news regarding. the whereabouts of the flagship Australia has given rise here to a variety of rumors. ...

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  13. THE GERMAN MAIL.

    Confirmatory news was received yesterday by cable of the arrival of the N. D. L. Australian liner Roon at Java. The vessel, according to one message, put into [?], on the south ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. THE MOVEMENT ELSEWHERE.

    ALBURY, Wednesday.--Before proceeding with business at the meeting of the municipal council to-night, the Mayor, Aid. Waugh, said it was his intention to convene a public ...

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  15. THE EURIPIDES' IMMIGRANTS.

    Of the 963 passengers who are due at Sydney by the Aberdeen White Star liner Euripides on Saturday. 180 are booked through to Sydney, under the auspices of the New South Wales ...

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  16. GETTING DOWN TO THE PRACTICAL.

    There was a large meeting at the rooms of the Dixson Trust, George street, yesterday, for a like patriotic object Mrs. Dixson outlined the splendid work of the ambulance, and the ...

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  17. BACK TO 1885.

    MR. W. J. Trickett, M.L.C., who is the only survivor of the Dailey Ministry, which despatched the New South Wales contingent to the Soudan in 1885, called on the Lord Mayor ...

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  18. AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN.

    The Delfosse Badgery Aviation Co, has received a telegram from Mr. Fowler, forward manager for Mr. Delfosse Badgery, as under:-- "Goulburn, 9.30 a.m.--Delfosse arrived; ...

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  19. "A GREAT OPTIMISM."

    Let as pray, hope, and trust; and let us be prepared to-do, to give, and to suffer." These words, spoken by the Rev. Dr. Carruthers at the churches' united prayer meeting yesterday, ...

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  20. METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU.

    In response to the resolution adopted at the recent meeting of Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth, urging the establishment of a meteorological burean in ...

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  21. BOGUS £10 NOTE.

    "I promise to pay the bearer £10 when the sun goes down on the stage" was the inscription on a note which a young man asked a German to change at the Central Railway ...

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  22. THE AERTAL SCOUT.

    GOULBURN, Wednesday.--Mr. A. Delfosse Badgery, the Australian airman, unexpectedly arrived in his biplane from Sutton Forest about breakfast time this morning. He covered the ...

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  23. TIRED SCHOOL GIRLS.

    Parents often, blame the toucher for loading too much school work on to their girls, when, as a matter of fact, the studies are not too hard for the average girl of good health. It ...

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  24. Til K DISABLED STEAMER CAIRNHILL.

    The disabled steamer Cairnhil, which is being towed from the. Bismarck Archipelago to Sydney with a broken fail-shaft. started from Moreton Bay at 4.5 a.m. yesterday to cover ...

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  25. EASTERN STEAMERS

    Eastern shipping movements are uncertain awing to the war. The E. and A. Company's steamer St. Albans, which is on route from Sydney to manila, China, and Japan, remains ...

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  26. INCORRECT SIGNALS.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--To-day the steamers Katoomba and Morialta, after passing the examination, hoisted, through some mistake, incorrect signals, and shots were fired from ...

    Article : 59 words
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