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  2. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. J. Keir Hurdle (leader of the Labor Party) resumed the debate on the following resolution, which had ...

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  3. PERSONAL.

    The State Premier and party left Lismore yesterday morning on [?] return to Sydney, via Casino. E Mr. Deakin will visit Sydney next week as a ...

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  4. THE MINING DISASTER.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--By the use of a respiratory appliance sent from the Westphalian collieries at the instance of the Kaiser, a hundred bodies have been ...

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  5. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

    In the Arbitration Court yesterday, the President (Judge Heydon) delivered the reserved judgment of the Court upon questions raised in connection with the Coal-lumpers' award as to ...

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  6. THE ISLAND STORM.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--Although the accounts cabled from San Francisco of the damage to the Society and Paumotu Groups by the hurricane and tidal wave were greatly ...

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  7. DEATH Of MR. GEORGE COPPIN.

    As actor, manager, politician, Mr. George. Seeth Coppin was a striking figure, in Victorian history. Theatrically. Few men did More for the true advancement of the drama in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. NEW HEBRIDES CONVENTION.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. Winston Churchill, Under Secretary for the Colonies, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, said that, the Anglo-French ...

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  9. REVIVAL OF FRANKING.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The Prime Minister (Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman) has declined to appoint a committee to consider the revival of franking letters for ...

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  10. ACCIDENT TO MR. ASQUITH.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was slightly injured yesterday by the upsetting of his cab, with the result that he was ...

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  11. BRITISH RELIEF FUND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. J. Hardie (Labor leader in the House of Commons) has initiated a fund for the relief of sufferers through the terrible disaster in the ...

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  12. MOROCCO CRISIS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The final instructions issued by the retiring French Premier (M. Rouvier) to M. Revoil (French representative at the Algeciras conference) were to ...

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  13. A MASONIC TRIBUTE.

    At the quarterly communication or the Masonic Grand Lodge last night, the Grand Master (M.W. Bro. J. C. Remington) made sympathetic reference to the death of Mr. Coppin. The ...

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  14. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In reply to a question In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Elgin (Secretary of State for the Colonies) said that shares in the Transvaal gold mines ...

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  15. TOLL TELEPHONES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The irritation ever the proposed toll telephone rates is to some extent subsiding here. In has been stated from the very first, and has been repeated half a ...

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  16. CUSTOMS CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The South African Customs Conference sitting in Natal is expected to agree to a moderately increased protective tariff, giving each colony ...

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  17. RAVAGES OF FAMINE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Famine reduced the population of Sanaa (Yemen) from 70,000 to 20,000 during the recent siege. All the cats and dogs in the town ...

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  18. AUSTRALIA'S PROGRESS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. J. Temperley, of J. Temperley and Company, steamship owners, and brokers interested in West Australian properties, yesterday entertained Sir ...

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  19. FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--General Wood, the Commander-General in the Philippines, has assured Mr. W. H. Taft, the United States Secretary for State, that there ...

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  20. LONDON-COLONIAL WOOL SALES.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The second series of London-colonial wool sales for the current year opened to-day. There was animated competition, and an advance ...

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  21. "LOOPING THE LOOP."

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice yesterday, a jury awarded a girl who had been injured while "looping the loop," at ...

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  22. TRADES DISPUTES BILL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Home Secretary (Mr. H. Gladstone) yesterday informed a deputation of employers that the parliamentary committee forthcoming on the ...

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  23. MAJOR HAWKER INQUIRY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Further evidence was taken by the inquiry Board to-day on the charge that Major Hawker took coal specially intended for the men in barracks ...

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  24. STATEMENT BY MR. HESKETH.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Replying to a deputation at Bundaberg, from the Chamber of Commerce and Mercantile Association, which asked for direct telephonic communication ...

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  25. THE FEDERAL CAMPAIGN.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Reference has been made before to the fact that while Mr. Deakin is working under a policy arrangement with the Labor Party, and during last session was ...

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  26. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Four of the crew of the battle-ship Duncan have been drowned through the capsizing of a bout in Bantry Bay (Ireland). The Russian authorities are preventing all ...

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  27. CANADA AND PREFERENCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, the opposition leaders criticised the speech which the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Sydney A. ...

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  28. MANUFACTURERS' PROTEST.

    At the monthly meeting of the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures, an animated discussion on the toll telephone system took place. Several members considered the change ...

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  29. THE GOVERNMENT DESIRE.

    The Acting-Postmaster-General, who is now in Sydney, explains that his statement that existing telephone subscribers will not be affected by the introduction of ...

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  30. JAPANESE FAMINE FUND.

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  31. BASINGSTOKE BY-ELECTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  32. PROTECTIONISTS PREPARING.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Following is a copy of the letter addressed by Mr. Charles Atkins, president of the Chamber of Manufactures, to the secretary of the Political Labor Council, ...

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  33. NEW ZEALAND.

    The annual elections of the licensing committees throughout the country resulted in the return of a great many temperance nominees. The Wellington and Christchurch committees ...

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  34. TASMANIA.

    At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Bank to-day a dividend was declared at the rata of 12 per cent. ...

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  35. Advertising

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