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  2. LIBERAL CAMPAIGN.

    Already the contest in the Castlereagh electorate for the next State election has commenced Mr. H. T. Blackett, the selected Liberal candidate, is at convenient periods ...

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  3. RIVER BANK EROSION.

    LISMORE, Tuesday.--The question of river bank erosion was discussed by the Gundurimba Shire Council yesterday. In a lengthy report Mr. J. B. Meldrum, shire ...

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  4. SUGAR-GROWING.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Tudor has issued a bulletin on his wages rates and regulations for the sugar industry. He points out, in reply to criticisms, that the rates are applicable ...

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  5. BRITAIN IN EGYPT.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--It is officially stated that there is not a vestige of truth in the reports from Rome concerning the transformation of Egypt into a kingdom, with a British ...

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  6. GENERAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--Several fishermen's boats foundered in a gale off the Butt of Lewis, the most northern point of the Outer Hebrides. Ten lives were lost. ...

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  7. MELBOURNE'S GAS BILL.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Gas Inquiry Board, whose report was late this afternoon laid before Parliament, states that it considers that the price of gas fixed by the Metropolitan ...

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  8. THE FAR NORTH.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Colonel Ryrie (N.S.W.) continued in the House of Representatives to-day the debate on the bill to authorise a survey of a railway extension from Pine ...

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  9. CHLOROFORMED THE WATCHMAN.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--Masked burglars last night gained an entry to the Hippodrome, and chloroformed the night watchman. The miscreants then exploded the safe, and ...

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  10. NATIONALISTS ARRESTED.

    CAIRO, Tuesday.--The Nationalist organ, "El Lewa," has been suppressed, and four natives have been arrested on a charge of issuing seditious posters. ...

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  11. FLOOD RAVAGES AT NORWICH.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--A number of unsafe buildings have been pulled down at Norwich and 100 have been condemned as unfit for human habitation. ...

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  12. TENDERS FOR BUILDINGS AT DARWIN.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Replying to Mr. Deakin, who asked if he had any progress report to furnish regarding the failure to secure tenders for a building at Darwin, Mr. Thomas, in ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. MACQUARIE.

    Macquarie is another electorate in the west in which an early selection took place. Mr. R. W. D. Weaver has been selected, and the organisation under his personal supervision is daily ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. FUTURE OF TIBET.

    LONDON Tuesday.--British officials at Darjeeling, near the Indo-Tibetan frontier, stopped a pseudo-Chinese mission. The members of the mission are believed to ...

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  15. BOXING IN AMERICA.

    VANCOUVER, Tuesday.--Joe Mandot gained the decision over Rivers at the end of a 20-round bout at Los Angeles. River weighed 9st. 7lb. and Mandot 9st. 5lb. Rivers made a ...

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  16. QUEENSLAND LABOR LEADER.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--At the weekly meeting of the Labor Party to-day, the reported resignation of Mr. Bowman, leader of the party, was referred to, but as the resignation was not ...

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  17. BRITAIN, CHINA, AND TIBET.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--Up to to-night the Foreign Office had not received any information regarding China's rejection of British demands on the subject of Tibet. ...

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  18. MELBOURNE ROYAL.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria was more fortunate in the weather conditions experienced at Flemington to-day than it was yesterday, for, although ...

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  19. "CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS."

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Before the Education Commission to-day. Sir Langdon Bonython, president of the School of Mines, gave evidence with regard to technical education. He said he ...

    Article : 370 words
  20. DEFICIENT PLACE PROBLEM.

    Of all matters that affect the relationship between management and men in the southern collieries, none is productive of so much bitterness and ill-feeling, or has been responsible ...

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  21. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    CAMP DOUGLAS (WISCONSIN), Tuesday.-- Four railway men have been killed through a passenger train plunging into the river Lemonweir, on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul ...

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  22. OVERBURDENED DEPARTMENT.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--The net profits of the Public Trust Office for the last financial year were £25,919, or more than double those of any previous year. The number of ...

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  23. BARRY ACCEPTS DURNAN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Ernest Barry has accepted Durnan's challenge for a race tor the world's championship. He is willing to allow the Canadian £100 for ...

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  24. GRENDA IN AMERICA.

    NEWARK (NEW JERSEY), Tuesday.--Frank Kramer won the one mile cycle championship of the world, defeating Alfred Grenda (Australia) and Perchicot (France) in the final ...

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  25. WEST AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--The Premier (Mr. Scaddan), who has repeatedly told Parliament and the public that he "is not worrying about the deficit," has now issued a Ministerial ...

    Article : 206 words
  26. "SO RIDICULOUS."

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The annual meeting of the Pastoralists' Union of Southern Riverina was held to-day. Mr. J. A. Campbell (president) occupied the chair, the attendance being a ...

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  27. TARIFF-REVISION WANTED.

    PARIS, Tuesday.--The food agitation which was the occasion of serious disturbances in many parts of France, last autumn, has been ...

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  28. HOME RULE.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--The Belfast Corporation, by 37 to 7, granted the use of the City-hall for September 27, for the signing of the covenant to resist Home Rule. ...

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  29. FRENCH TROOPS VICTORIOUS.

    PARIS, Tuesday.--Advices received here from Mazagan state that the French column under General Mangin, operating in Morocco, by their recent engagement with the Pretender. El Hiba. ...

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  30. THE GERMAN ARMS.

    BERLIN, Tuesday.--The German Emperor reviewed 60,000 troops on Sedan Day on the Tempelhof-feld, near Berlin. The spectacle was witnessed by several hundred thousand people. ...

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  31. "BEING SET ASIDE."

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Council of the People's Liberal Party of Victoria, consisting of 44 representatives of various parts of the State, to-night passed the following ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. HARD-HITTING ROOSEVELT.

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to the chairman of the committee investigating campaign contributions, declares that Senator Penrose's statement--that the ...

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  33. FIRE AT GRESFORD.

    WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Company's branch factory at East Gresford was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The premises ware insured ...

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  34. BUSINESS DISTRICT WIPED OUT.

    BUTTE (Montana), Monday Evening.--As the result of a disastrous fire, the business district of the city has been wiped out. Burning buildings collapsed and buried the ...

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  35. MADAME KIRKBY LUNN.

    To-morrow morning, at Nicholson's, the plans will be opened for the Kirkby Lunn concerts, which are to commence on Thursday week in the Town-hall, under the direction of J and ...

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  36. INTER-STATE DEBATES.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The inter-State debating contests opened at the Hardware Club to-night. New South Wales were represented by V. Preston-Stanley B. Walmsley and B. ...

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  37. NOT "DOPED."

    PERTH, Tuesday.--The stipendiary stewards of the W.A.T. Club have reported to the committee that after an exhaustive inquiry into the rumored doping of Maori Pad in the ...

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  38. SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.

    LONDON, Monday Evening.--Active discussions have ensued at the meetings of the members of the theatrical profession as to whether theatres should open on Sunday ...

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  39. FROM NORTH OR SOUTH?

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--In the Assembly to-day Mr. Smeaton asked the Premier, Mr. A. M. Peake, if the Government would take steps to support a protest made by Mr. Poynton in ...

    Article : 158 words
  40. THE KNIFE.

    Some excitement was created in Collins-street, Surry-hills, Sydney, yesterday morning, when screams were heard issuing from No. 39. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Clara Cavill, a widow, ...

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  41. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--In the Assembly today the Premier stated that the Government was considering the purchase of the Munyara Private Hospital, Bellar, for use as a ...

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  42. THE LAND ORDINANCE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The debate was resume to-night in the House of Representatives on Mr. Fuller's motion to disallow the Northern Territory land ordinance. ...

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  43. LITTLE GIRL'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

    Katie Hartigan (8), residing with her parents at 3 Denison-street, City, died yesterday morning, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children Camperdown. The cause of death is ...

    Article : 46 words
  44. NORTH SYDNEY WATER SUPPLY.

    The failure of the water supply at Crow's Nest, North Sydney, on the occasion of the big fire there last year, was regarded as such a serious matter that the Water and Sewerage Board decided to make provision for ...

    Article : 241 words
  45. GRADE-MARKING OF BUTTER.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The injunction of the High Court restraining the Minister for Customs from grading or grade-marking butter has been received. ...

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  46. JOY RIDES.

    Three horses and a sulky were taken from their owners yesterday for the purpose, no doubt, of joy rides. During the afternoon, Ernest Swadling of ...

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  47. A BIG CONTRACT.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--In the Cabinet to-day a contract was signed with the Australian Wood Pipe Company, of Sydney, for the supply to the State Government of wood pipes to the ...

    Article : 120 words
  48. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--The Assembly finally disposed of the Arbitration Bill after a new clause was added by the Attorney-General, to make it clear that, despite the recent judgment of ...

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  49. IS A FIREMAN A SEAMAN ?

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--When the steamer Hamitangi stranded recently on the Chatham Islands, the anchor watch was being kept by the fireman in accordance with the ...

    Article : 154 words
  50. MISSING CHILDREN.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The Commissioner of Police has received a report from Esk that a child, William Harris, is missing from the railway-construction camp, half a mile from ...

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  51. HOURS OF WORK.

    DARWIN, Tuesday.--Dr. Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory, when asked to-day to state his attitude on the matter of hours of work, said that ...

    Article : 285 words
  52. PTOMAINE POISONING.

    HOBART, Tuesday.--On Saturday last Mr. W. J. Campbell, secretary of the Hobart Gas Company, and his family, Shortly after partaking of some corned beef at tea-time, became ...

    Article : 64 words
  53. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  54. LATE SHIPPING.

    Perth, str., 1709 tons, Dawson, from Melbourne. Melbourne S.S. Co., agents. The steamer Tofua, from Samoa and Fiji, entered the Heads early this morning and anchored in Watson's Bay ...

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  55. NATURALISTS' SOCIETY.

    The first monthly meeting of the Naturalists' Society was held last night at the Royal Society's rooms. An interesting illustrated address on "The Mosses of the Sydney District" was delivered by Rev. W. W. Watts. Mr. ...

    Article : 41 words
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