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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    English Mails.—The mails which left Sydney for England per s.s. Marama via Vancouver on June 7, arrived in London on the afternoon of July 11. ...

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  3. A CANADIAN BLAZE.

    A fire practically destroyed the whole of Campbellton, in New Brunswick, Canada, last night, only two houses having been left standing in the town when ...

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  4. AERIAL FLIGHTS.

    An aviation tournament was opened at Bournemouth to-day, when 15 British and five foreign aeronauts competed for prizes valued at £8,500. The stands ...

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  5. THE DECLINING BIRTHRATE.

    Fr. Bernard Vaughan, S.J., preaching at Hythe (in Kent) yesterday, said the decline in the birthrate among the wealthy was appalling. Their cradles ...

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  6. EUROPEAN FLOODS.

    Reports of serious floods have been received from various parts of Europe. The public gardens at Chalons (to the east of Paris) are submerged, and the ...

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  7. BRITISH NAVY.

    Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener yesterday embarked on H.M. armoured cruiser Drake (Rear-Admiral E. T. Hamilton's flagship) to watch the forthcoming naval ...

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  8. SHOCKING LIFT ACCIDENT.

    The numerous friends of Mr. John Hearn, of Woodphenatty Station, Arrino, on the Midland Railway, were painfully shocked yesterday when they heard that Mr. Hearn ...

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  9. A MISSION FROM ENGLAND.

    Journeying castward by the R.M.S. Otranto, which reached Fremantle yesterday morning from London, via ports, is Mr. C. H. Williamson, an English civil ...

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  10. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    At a meeting yesterday of the teams that took part in the recent Empire Match at the National Rifle Association's tournament at Bisley Major Paine (New ...

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  11. AMERICAN LYNCHING CASE.

    On Friday last 10 detectives in the employment of the Anti-Saloon League at Newark in Ohio carried out a raid on an alleged illicit saloon. A disturbance ...

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  12. AMERICAN HEAT WAVE.

    The heat-wave in America has become more intense and deaths in consequence have been reported as follows:—10 in New York, 10 in Philadelphia, 2 in ...

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  13. JOHNSON-JEFFRIES PICTURES.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Home Office, said he had no power to prohibit ...

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  14. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AT SEA.

    At the time when all good people had resigned their cares to the keeping of Morpheus on Sunday night last, the Marconi operator on the Orient liner Otranto was ...

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  15. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

    The debate on Mr. Shackleton's Women's Suffrage Bill was continued in the House of Commons yesterday, and was of a non-party character. ...

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  16. EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER.

    A boiler burst on the Russian passenger steamer Lowky in the Black Sea yesterday after the Lowky collided with another steamer. Seventeen persons on ...

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  17. CANADIAN LABOUR TROUBLE.

    While 500 strike-breakers were effecting evictions from houses belonging to the Cumberland Railway and Coal Co. near Spring Hill, in Nova Scotia, several ...

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  18. THE PISA TOWER.

    A Royal Commission appointed by the Italian Government reports that "the Leaning Tower of Pisa," in the north of Italy, is increasing its deviation from ...

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  19. THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Sir John Forrest (W.A.) asked the Prime Minister—(1) Whether statements made by Mr. Pearce, now the Minister for Defence ...

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  20. THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL.

    The "Vossiche Zeitung" states that his Holiness the Pope, in reply to a protest from the King of Saxony, declared he had no wish to affront the German ...

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  21. SPAIN.

    Reuter's correspondent at Madrid states that the Vatican has entered a fresh severe protest against the Bill prohibiting the establishment of new ...

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  22. FRENCH STATE EMPLOYEES.

    The Bill introduced in the French Chamber of Deputies by the Premier (M. Briand) to authorise the formation of labour unions among State employees is ...

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  23. THE COURT.

    Their Majesties the King and Queen have gone to Aldershot for a week. The King will witness the training of the troops, but there will be no ceremonial ...

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  24. CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, speaking yesterday at Fort William, in Ontario, said there would be no general election in Great Britain during ...

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  25. EMIGRATION AND LABOUR.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, informed Mr. Harry Lawson (Unionist) that the Emigrants' ...

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  26. THE ALPINE DISASTER.

    The avalanche which resulted in the death of seven persons at Schiedegg, in Switzerland, was due to hut-keepers, many feet above, shovelling snow away ...

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  27. PERSONAL.

    Mr. L. O. Lukin has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Mr. S. Thomson, ex-Mayor of East ...

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  28. UNBEATABLE BRITAIN.

    Speaking at a civic luncheon at Bradford to-day Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, in referring to trade said that the more other ...

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  29. A SCHOONER ASHORE.

    The American wooden schooner Annie E. Smale (746 tons), which left Newcastle (N.S.W.) for San Francisco on March 31 last, went ashore yesterday at ...

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  30. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Yesterday 300 armed Kashkai tribesmen occupied Ispahan, a Persian city 226 miles south of Teheran. The invaders met with no opposition. ...

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  31. VICTORIAN POLITICS.

    When the Legislative Assembly met to-day the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Prendergast) resumed the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's Speech. He made ...

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  32. A LONG RIDE.

    According to German newspapers Herr Brueggemann and Herr Feetag have begun a ride from Damaraland (a German territory in South-West Africa) to ...

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    The committee of the Home of the Good Shepherd ball are desirous of effecting an early settlement and a meeting has been arranged for to-morrow evening in the Town ...

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  34. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    The Home Office has directed that persons serving terms of imprisonment without hard labour may wear their own clothes and have their own food, books, ...

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  36. THE LAW COURTS.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before the Chief Justice :—(1) The Crown and the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation. Ltd. (2) In Divorce: William ...

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    South African Soldiers' Association.—The second of a series of winter socials organised by the committee of the South African Soldiers' Association was held ...

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  38. RUSSIAN RAILWAY SMASH.

    A railway train fell over an embankment at Kizilarvat, on the Caspian Sea, yesterday, with the result that 19 persons were killed and 31 others injured. ...

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  39. STATE POLITICS.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Executive Council a proclamation was signed summoning Parliament together on Thursday, July 28. Members will be required to assemble ...

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  40. CANADIAN GOLD FIND.

    The Ottawa correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Professor Brock, Director of Geological Surveys, has received from a highly authentic ...

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