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  2. A MOTHER'S LOVE.

    GORMANSTON, Thursday Morning.-- Late last night an old lady resident in the Bairnsdale district came to Queenstown on the train from the mine. She said she was ...

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  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    The Premier informed Mr. Cusack yesterday, in reply to a question in the Legislative Assembly, that there was no proposal before the Government to cede further territory to the ...

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  4. BORDER RAILWAYS.

    In reply to members who sought information yesterday in the Legislative Assembly regarding the border railways agreement, Mr. M'Gowan pointed out that it would have to come ...

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  5. THE END OF THE STATE SESSION.

    The present State session is to end in November. In the Legislative Council last night Mr. Flowers, Vice-President of the Executive Council, moved that during, the remainder of the ...

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  6. PRINCE CHARMING IN FRANCE.

    In the current issue of the review "Je Sais Tout" M. Andre de Fouquieres contributes the account of an interview he had with the Prince of Wales at Danpierre on the occasion of a fete ...

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  7. "THE SPIRIT OF BUSINESS CAUTION."

    Lord Chelmsford asked a direct and outright question yesterday which caused some little confusion and a great deal of laughter; It was on a visit to the Portland Cement Company's ...

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  8. "A BEASTLY NUISANCE."

    An application was made to the City Council during the week for the use of the basement of the Town-hall for the purpose of a dog show. Mr. Layton, the Deputy-Town Clerk, forwarded ...

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  9. VOICE FROM THE DEEP.

    ZEEHAN, Thursday Morning.--Wm. Gorey, a young man entombed at the 1000ft. level, wrote two notes--one to his mother and the other to the men on the surface. These were pulled up ...

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  10. "WOULD BREAK ONE UP."

    Mr. John Archibald, a builder of 32 years' standing, giving evidence before the House Rents Commission yesterday, said:--"The way men worked now would break one up. They ...

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  11. THE LAST MESSAGE.

    GORMANSTON (TAS.), Thursday Morning.--A body of searchers at the 700ft. level found the following pathetic note in a notebook pinned to the timber: ...

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  12. BELLS AND BUSINESS.

    Recently the City Council received a complaint from some boarders at an hotel in the vicinity of the Town-hall to the effect that the chimes of the clock so got on their nerves that ...

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  13. THE SELF-CONFESSED HERO.

    "Parliamentary amenity has been ignored, traditional usage heartlessly outraged, and the Speaker, with his mouth closed and his hands tied, has had to stand alone confronting a hostile coterie."--Speaker Willis. SPEAKER WILLIS (in his Grand Defiance Act):"Have you got your pitch-fork, Jim? Now, you lions, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. RACING PERMITS.

    "Is it a fact," Mr. Perry asked the Chief Secretary in the Legislative Assembly, "that Mr. Joynton Smith has been granted permission to hold a race meeting at Victoria Park on ...

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  15. CHURCHES AND LABOR.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Principal W. F. Adeney. D.D. (chairman of the Congregational Union), in his address at the annual meeting of the union at Manchester, said that the ...

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  16. PRINTING HOUSE FIRE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Evening.--A fire broke out to-day in the five-floor building of Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., King's printers and Government booksellers, East Harding-street ...

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  17. GENERAL CABLES.

    PARIS, Tuesday Evening.--M. Le Preux, who had been for 30 years in the employ of the Suez Canal Company, and was arrested at Lille in March last on a charge of embezzling £80,000, ...

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  18. THE RESCUE WORK.

    GORMANSTON (Tas.), Thursday Morning.--Interviewed last evening, before departing from the mine for Queenstown, Mr. W. Jamieson, the chairman of directors, said:--"I am delighted ...

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  19. THE DEATH-ROLL.

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  20. INSPECTOR OF FORESTRY.

    No appointment has yet been made to the position of Inspector of Forestry, the Minister for Agriculture yesterday informed Mr. Fitzpatrick, who, in a question in the Legislative ...

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  21. TURNED TURTLE.

    BERNE, Tuesday Evening.--An aviator named Cobioni, accompanied by M. Bippert, a journalist, was alighting at Chaux-de-Fonds, when his machine turned a somersault. Both were killed. ...

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  22. "EGG DAY."

    A novel system of teaching lessons of charity and incidentally benefiting the Dubbo District. Hospital was instituted last year at the Dubbo district school. A certain day was designated ...

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  23. A NEAR THING.

    NEW YORK, Tuesday Evening.--The steamer San Francisco, loaded with a cargo of explosives, intended for the use of the American fleet, narrowly escaped colliding with the ...

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  24. BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS.

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  25. RUINED BY FRAUDS.

    BRUSSELS, Wednesday.--Herr Wilmart, manager of the Ghent-Terneuzen Railway Company, has disappeared after committing frauds amounting to nearly £2,500,000. ...

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  26. A DRY TONGUE AND A GREAT THIRST.

    Just to illustrate the necessity for learning things thoroughly, opening an ambulance station at Portland yesterday, Lord Chelmsford told a story of a man who didn't. It ...

    Article : 118 words
  27. WITH BOWED HEADS.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Legislative Council to-day, on the motion of Mr. Barlow, passed a resolution of sympathy with the relatives and friends of the men who lost their ...

    Article : 177 words
  28. ANGLO-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A [?] of Anglo-German friendship has been signed by 110 Socialist members of the Reichstag and 41 Labor members of the House of Commons. ...

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  29. NEARLY NO MEAT.

    Trouble with the casual slaughtermen engaged in killing sheep at Globe Island, occurred on Tuesday, when about 150 men declined to start work. The secretary of the local branch ...

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  30. THE MARTYR IN THE MINE.

    ZEEHAN, Thursday.--Tommy James, the young man who gave up his place on the cage last Saturday to a married man is now reported dead at the 850 feet level. ...

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  31. RIOTING MINERS.

    ELY (Nevada), Wednesday.--The Greek miners on strike here attacked the strike-breakers, threatening to kill them. One negro fled to his home, and defended ...

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  32. PAYMENTS TO MR. NIELSEN.

    Some interesting information regarding the moneys which Mr. Nielson has received from the State appeared in the printed replies to questions in the Legislative Assembly ...

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  33. OBITUARY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Evening.--The death is announced of Bishop Marsden, formerly of Bathurst, New South Wales. The late Bishop Marsden was the first native ...

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  34. PRICE OF TALLOW.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--At to-day's tallow sales 832 casks were offered and 486 sold. Prices remained unchanged, viz.:--Mutton, fine 40s 9d, medium 34s 6d; beef, fine 38s ...

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  35. CESAREWITCH STAKES.

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  36. THE COMPANY'S LOSSES.

    QUEENSTOWN (TAS.), Wednesday.--The Mt. Lyell Company's loss through the accident is £200,000, mainly owing to the stoppage of work for some weeks. ...

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  37. OFFICIAL REPORT.

    HOBART, Thursday Morning.--The Secretary for Mines (Mr. W. H. Wallace) has received the following official report from the Government Geologist:--"Utterly fagged. I beg to ...

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  38. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z,). Wednesday.--The parliamentary committee, to which was referred the petition from a private company seeking authority to construct a railway to Lake ...

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  39. THE MONTESSORI METHOD.

    When the Montessori educational method came under notice of Australian educationalists by means of magazine articles, Mr. Carmichael cabled for the translated works, and ...

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  40. CHARGE OF MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING.

    EAST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--Robert Edward Hipwell, a young man, was placed on trial at the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Fitzhardinge, on a charge of having on ...

    Article : 271 words
  41. NORTH COAST RAILWAY.

    GLOUCESTER, Wednesday.--Only about mile of ballasting has to be laid on the second section of the North Coast Railway, and this job will be completed this week. About a ...

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  42. BROKEN-HILL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--Only four Labor candidates have been nominated for seven vacant seats on the city council. The candidates are:--Messrs. T. G. Marks and T. H. ...

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  43. CHANCELLOR SHOUTED DOWN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, M.P. (Unionist), cross-examined Mr. Lloyd George, yesterday in the House on the land committee's secret inquiries. The Chancellor ...

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  44. TALISMAN MINE CLOSED.

    AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The Talisman mine has been closed down, owing to the stoppage of the Huntley coal supplies. The stocks on hand are only sufficient for pumping ...

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  45. GRAFTON'S EIGHT-HOUR DAY.

    GRAFTON, Wednesday.--Eight-hour Day passed off successfully. Visitors were present from Sydney (representing the Trades and Labor Council) Coachbuilders' Union, the ...

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  46. CHILDREN'S PLAYING GROUNDS.

    Mr. Carmichael is very sanguine of the good results that will accrue when the proposed playing-grounds in the public parks are in thorough going order. The first is now being ...

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  47. LATE SPORTING.

    GRAFTON, Wednesday.--The bowling green was opened for the first competition this afternoon, when three representative rinks of the Lismore Club competed against three Grafton rinks in competition for the loving ...

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  48. HOME RULE BILL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The House of Commons, in Committee, is considering the powers to be bestowed upon the Irish Parliament by the Home Rule Bill. ...

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  49. ENLARGING GLEN INNES HOSPITAL.

    GLEN INNES, Tuesday.--At the monthly meeting of the hospital committee to-day, a letter was road from the Chief Secretary, stating that instructions had been issued to prepare ...

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  50. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION. THIS DAY.

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  51. THE LAST OF SEVENTEEN.

    MOLONG, Wednesday.--The death is announced of Thomas Neville, aged 90. The deceased was a native of Kent, England, and had lived in this district for 61 years. He was the ...

    Article : 45 words
  52. Advertising

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