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  2. REVOLUTION.

    A revolution has broken out at Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Yesterday Lieutenant Rebello fatally shot with a revolver Dr. Bombardo, the ...

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  3. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

    The police announce that they have discovered a clue to the identification of the men who caused the recent disastrous dynamite explosion in the office of the ...

    Article : 123 words
  4. CHOLERA OUTBREAK.

    Twenty-seven fresh cases of cholera were reported in the Naples district yesterday, and of these nine proved fatal. ...

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  5. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    Several millowners in Laucashier have offered to employ Howe (the grinder whose insubordination at the Fern Mill was the original cause of the lockout in ...

    Article : 221 words
  6. BRITISH POLITICS.

    At the opening of the Conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain at Edinburgh yesterday. Mr. E. Edwards, M.P. (Labour), said that ...

    Article : 339 words
  7. DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.

    The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) has received a cable message from the British Admiralty regarding the construction of the first of the second-class cruisers for the ...

    Article : 834 words
  8. FEDERAL LAND TAX.

    The House of Representatives went into Committee to-day to consider further the Land Tax Assesment Bill. On clause 44, power to a acquire land by ...

    Article : 767 words
  9. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

    The report of the Postal Commission was made available to-day. The most important recommendation is that the administration of the Post and Telegraph Department ...

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  10. WRECK OF THE CHIRIQUI.

    All except one of the passengers and crew of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Chiriqui, which was wrecked in the Gulf of Panama a few ...

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  11. MEAT FAMINE.

    Veal is selling at 2s. and beef at from 9d. to 1s. 6d. per 1b. in Rome. A cold store has been erected at Genoa in order to deal with supplies of meat from ...

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  12. AVIATION.

    M. Tabuteu yesterday flew an aeroplane across the Pyrenees from San Sebastian (in Spain) to Biarritz (in France). ...

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  13. CANADIAN CHINESE.

    An official investigation into the laxness connected with the admission of Chinese to Canada through Vancouver shows that the Dominion has been ...

    Article : 42 words
  14. FIRE AT MONTE VIDEO.

    The new docks and Customs offices at Monte Video, the capital of Uruguay, South America, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The damage has been ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. LYNCH LAW.

    In Alabama yesterday a negro, suspected of having assaulted a white woman, was dragged from gaol by a mob and burned at the stake. ...

    Article : 35 words
  16. THE AMERICAN ARMY.

    At the Conference of the United States National Guards at St. Louis to-day a resolution was carried demanding that Congress should place the Guards on the ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. A BRILLIANT METEOR.

    A brilliant meteor 150 miles from the earth was sighted from Johannesburg last night. The illumination, which was equal to that of a naval searchlight, ...

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  18. SUICIDE.

    Daniel McMillan, a dynamitc expert employed in the North American asbestos mines at Caspar, in Wyoming, U.S.A., committed suicide in a shocking manner ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. LATER.

    Reuter's correspondent at Paris reports that a telegram received from a thoroughly reliable source at noon to-day confirms the announcement of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  20. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    The annual report of the Commissioners of Prisons insists upon the necessity for longer sentences for prisoners treated under the Borstal system. Twelve ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    Twenty-eight persons were killed and 21 others were injured in a collision between an excursion train and a local train on the traction system near Granite ...

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  22. TRAGEDY ON THE STAGE.

    At Cartagena (in the south-east of Spain) last night an actor, named Genzales, killed a theatre director, named Sorel, by cutting his throat with a razor ...

    Article : 80 words
  23. THE WOOLAMAI TRAGEDY.

    The coroner held an inquiry at Kerno to-day into the circumstances of the death of the three victims of the tragedy which occurred near Woolamai last Saturday. ...

    Article : 185 words
  24. COLONIAL BUTTER.

    The colonial butter competition at the English Dairy Show drew 41 entires. Awards were made as follow:— Salt butter: Ipswich, 1: South ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. FURTHER ACCOUNTS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Santander, in the north of Spain, reports that the German steamer Ilyria has received a wireless message from the Hamburg liner ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. A GIRL'S REVENGE.

    In one of the streets of Rome yesterday a girl dressed in boy's clothes shot Felice Nardiello dead and then fell on his body, where she lay sobbing until she ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. BILLIARDS.

    George Gray, the young Australian billiard player, conceding G. Nelson (champion of Yorkshire) 3,000 in 9,000, made a break of 879 off the red. He received ...

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  28. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Duke of Cannaught will leave England for Capetown on Tuesday next to open the first South African Union Parliament. ...

    Article : 67 words
  29. THE GREENOUGH SHOW.

    The thirty-seventh annual show of the Greenough Farmers' Club was held to-day in glorious weather. There was a record attendance. As was the case at Dongarra ...

    Article : 486 words
  30. CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION.

    Signor Luina, a Portuguese Republican leader who is on a visit to Paris, when interviewed to-day with regard to the cause of the upheaval at Lisbon, ...

    Article : 276 words
  31. CONSUMPTIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS.

    Guided by the advice of the medical experts recently appointed to report on the subject, the State Ministry has decided to make special provision for State school ...

    Article : 120 words
  32. FEDERAL NAVIGATION BILL.

    The "Shipping Gazette," commenting upon the Commonwealth Navigation Bill, remarks:—"The measure might properly be described as the Seamen's ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. WRECK OF THE CARNARVON BAY.

    Further evidence was taken to-day, before the Court of Marine Inquiry, in connection with the loss of the ship Carnarvon Bay. ...

    Article : 146 words
  34. THE NORTHERN TERITORY.

    In the House of Assembly to-day several speeches were made on Mr. Young's motion that the interests of South Australia were not sufficiently protected in the Northern ...

    Article : 292 words
  35. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.

    In the Boulevard des Italiens, at Paris, yesterday in broad daylight a bank collector was robbed of a satchel containing £2,280. Subsequently two Englishmen ...

    Article : 49 words
  36. RAILWAY ROBBERY.

    At Rosemont, in Illinois, yesterday the passengers of a Pullman car on a railway train bound to the West from Rock Island were robbed of 7,000 ...

    Article : 41 words
  37. A CHURCH INCIDENT.

    Owing to their bishop objecting to the reservation and adoration of the Sacrament the vicars of St. Batholonew's and the Church of the Annunciation, at ...

    Article : 61 words
  38. AN INDIAN OUTRAGE.

    A telegram from Dacca. in Bengal, states that yesterday 30 men (apparently Hindus), wearing false beards and armed with guns and bombs, sacked the ...

    Article : 53 words
  39. THE BOURKE MURDER.

    The inquest concerning the death of Alexander Eismond was resumed at Bourke to-day. The medical evidence was that there were ...

    Article : 115 words
  40. Family Notices

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  41. NATIONALISATION OF MONOPOLIES.

    The principal clause of the Bill to amend the Constitution to enable the Commonwealth to nationalise monopolies reads as follows:—"When each House of Parliament ...

    Article : 105 words
  42. BERLIN STRIKE RIOTS.

    A great public meeting held in Berlin last night under the auspices of the Democratic Union passed a resolution sympathising with the four English-speaking ...

    Article : 56 words
  43. H.M.S. NEPTUNE.

    H.M.S. Neptune's gun trials have proved completely successful. The vessel can fire ten 12-inch guns simultaneously on either side with full charges. ...

    Article : 31 words
  44. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) presided this morning at the final Cabinet meeting prios to his departure for South Africa, and subsequently was entertained at lunch by ...

    Article : 75 words
  45. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

    The "Shipping Gazette" states that an order for the construction of an Australian second-class cruiser has been placed with a shipbuilding firm at ...

    Article : 35 words
  46. CHURCH UNION.

    A report dealing with the union of churches, similar to that already presented to the General Conference of the Methodist Church and the Congregational Union, was ...

    Article : 103 words
  47. MISCELLANEOUS.

    At the Buenos Ayres Exhibition New Zealand flax has been awarded a grand diploma. ...

    Article : 54 words
  48. PERSONAL.

    The Mayor and Mayoress of Perth (Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Vincent) will give an evening reception at the Exhibition Skating Rink on Thursday, October 27. His ...

    Article : 397 words
  49. ADELAIDE INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

    One hundred men engaged on the Rundle-street paving contract. which is in the hands of the Neuchatel Asphalte Company, struck work this morning for an extra 1s. a day all ...

    Article : 343 words
  50. THE VATICAN ALARMED.

    The Vatican is anxious with regard to the effect the Portuguese revolution will produce in Spain. ...

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  51. A SAILOR'S QUARREL.

    A Russian scaman named Hugo Tremberg, employed on the steamer Anglo-Bolivan, was killed early this morning during what appears to be a drunken brawl. The ...

    Article : 134 words
  52. VICTORIA.

    A petition asking Parliament to grant full political rights to employees of the State is being circulated by the employees of the Railway Department. ...

    Article : 91 words
  53. YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

    In the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day a young labourer named James Philip Petrie pleaded not guilty to a charge of having assaulated a girl under 16 years of age, named ...

    Article : 229 words
  54. PAST AND PRESENT.

    Portugal, once a world power, does not now occupy a leading place in world politics, and notwithstanding her important possessions in Africa—important more ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  55. A MINER'S DISMISSAL.

    A case in which Francis Dunleavy, the president of the Southern Collieries Employees' Society, proceeded against the Metropolitan Coal Company for dismissal, ...

    Article : 127 words
  56. UNPROFITABLE PRISON INDUSTRY.

    The State authorities are considering the advisableness of abandoning the manufacture of wire netting at the Pentridge Goal. The industry has always been run at a loss to ...

    Article : 100 words
  57. SUICIDE OF AN IMPORTER.

    Hermann Carl Theodore Pannifex, a well-known importer and shipping and commission agent, committed suicide last night, in Market Buildings, William-street, by ...

    Article : 82 words
  58. TREATMENT OF ABORIGINES.

    A service of intereession was held in St. Andre's Cathedral to-day in connection with the General Synod Missionary Conference. ...

    Article : 79 words
  59. THE LAW COURTS.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before the Chief Justice: C. A. Bernales W. Gunter (part heard). Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...

    Article : 45 words
  60. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Liberal Union having become established, the Australasian National League has taken the necessary steps formally to dissolve its organisation. The League's ...

    Article : 96 words
  61. Advertising

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    Advertising : 424 words
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