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  2. THE REFERENDA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,700 words
  3. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

    An enormous meeting was held in the Guildhall to-day to support President Taft's proposal for a British-American Arbitration Treaty. The Lord Mayor ...

    Article : 500 words
  4. SATURDAY'S BOAT RACE.

    Few sports can hope to displace rowing from its niche of popularity among the many pastimes which the Britisher holds dear. It is small wonder, when one realises ...

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  5. AMERICA AND CANADA.

    In the Dominion House of Commons yesterday, during a debate upon the Canadian-American tariff reciprocity agreement, Mr. Borden (leader of the ...

    Article : 321 words
  6. A PENSIONER'S DEATH.

    Strong comments were made by the Coroner yesterday during the inquiry into the death of the old-age pensioner, Robert Carr, who was found in a dying condition in the city ...

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  7. RURAL WORKERS' UNION.

    The annual conference of the Rural Workers' Union of Australia was held at the Trades Hall during the week. Delegates were present from several of the ...

    Article : 933 words
  8. THE CUSTODY OF CHILDREN.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland) stated that the police believed that the children of Mrs. McCann, whose case ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  9. MEXICAN INSURRECTION.

    The Mexican Peace Conference will be held at Elpaso, in Texas. The revolutionary movement is proceeding outside the armistice zone, and ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. SOCIAL NOTES.

    Last Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Atkins held the first of her dancing classes for children in the Council Chambers, Guildford. The first class for adults will be held in the ...

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  11. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    The Democrats have secured the right of precedence for the Farmers Free List Bill. It is believed that they will carry the measure through within the next ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. THE ELIPSE OF THE SUN.

    Wireless reports state that the observations of the eclipse of the sun at Tonga were partly successful. The weather was cloudy. ...

    Article : 221 words
  13. PERSIAN RAILWAY SCHEME.

    Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) has applied to Persia for an option to construct a railway from Khormusa Inlet (at the head of the ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. BRITISH POLITICS.

    An election to fill the parliamentary vacancy caused in Cheltenham through the unseating of Mr. R. Mathias (Liberal) took place yesterday, the polling ...

    Article : 217 words
  15. CARD-SHARPERS.

    A Russian, known as Count Ostrovosky, alias Count Crankoff, a noted cardsharper and international hotel thief, has been arrested on the Riviera. His ...

    Article : 125 words
  16. THE HARVESTER STRIKE.

    Since the beginning of the harvester strike £14,000 has been contributed towards the support of men out of work. The bulk of this money has come from the pockets of ...

    Article : 176 words
  17. CLAPHAM COMMON MURDERER.

    Stinie Morrison assaulted a warder while he was being conveyed by train from London to Dartmoor yesterday to serve a sentence of imprisonment for ...

    Article : 82 words
  18. THE MORMONS.

    Mr. W. T. Stead, in a letter to the "Times," strenuously protests in the name of religious liberty against the persecution of the Mormons in England. The ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. THE MOROCCAN REBELLION.

    Major Bremond's column entered Fez last Wednesday after gallantly fighting its way through the rebels. The French column despatched from Casablanca for ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. GERMANISING SAMOA.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Morning Post" states:—"The Pan-German newspapers are complaining that the Germanising of Samoa is too slow under ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Minister for Agriculture stated yesterday that he had made arrangements with the Sandown works for the freezing and packing of rabbits. This had been done, he ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. COLLISION AT SEA.

    The Greek steamer Elle collided with and sank the Danish steamer Alfa in the North Sea yesterday. Four persons went down with the Alfa. ...

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  23. A CANDID BANKRUPT.

    At the Wodonga Insolvency Court yesterday Alfred Geo. Mitchell, of Rutherglen, applied for a certificate of dispensation. In reply to a question he said:—"My reason ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE.

    The annual general meeting of the executive of the Y.A. League was held at the W.A.F.L. Rooms on Friday last, when Mr. J. J. Simons presided over a full attendance ...

    Article : 166 words
  25. THE ENGLISH TURF.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  26. VICTORIAN FINANCIAL RETURNS.

    The Victorian revenue for April was £654,341, or £176,619 less than was received for the corresponding period of last year. The falling off is due to the fact that no ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. THE HOBBLE SKIRT.

    The Lord Chamberlain has notified the leading dressmakers in London that the hobble skirt will not be allowed at Court functions. ...

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  28. THE DECLARATION OF LONDON.

    M. Hovgaard, a Danish officer who is Professor of Naval Architecture in the United States, in the course of a newspaper article, asserts that the Declaration ...

    Article : 111 words
  29. BILLIARDS.

    G. Gray, the Australian billiard player, has written to the "Sporting Life" repudiating former challenges purported to have been made on his behalf. He adds ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. THE CANTON RIOTS.

    The recent riots at Canton originated in the arrest of a supposed revolutionary. The disturbances resulted in 300 casualties. A steamer with 100 refugees (mostly ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The date for holding the wrestling and boxing competitions in connection with the Festival of Empire has been altered to July 5. ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. DETERMINED SUICIDE.

    An inquiry was held at Ballart yesterday into the cause of the death of a man whose body had been found the previous day in his bedroom at Cohen's Hotel, where ...

    Article : 261 words
  33. THE SMALL-POX OUTBREAK.

    The danger of further cases of small-pox occurring as the result of there having been so many contacts in connection with the case on the R.M.S. Mooltan is now ...

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  34. LOCAL OPTION POLL.

    Sir,—A protest must be made at the apparent lack of care (or worse) of the poll clerks at some of the polling booths yesterday in not landing to voters the voting ...

    Article : 295 words
  35. THE PARKERVILLE HOME.

    Sir,—May I be allowed again to plead the cause of the Waifs' Home, Parkerville, through your valuable paper, or the cause of the helpless and destitute little orphans ...

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  36. THE LAW COURTS.

    Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice McMillan: At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Rooth. ...

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  37. AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH.

    While an excursion train was travelling at a speed of 50 miles an hour around a sharp curve at Easton, in Pennsylvania, yesterday it left the rails and plunged ...

    Article : 59 words
  38. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the final of the Queen's Court Covered Courts Lawn Tennis Championship Singles Gobert beat Ritchie, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. The Doubles final was won by ...

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  39. FATAL EXPLOSION.

    It has been ascertained that there was only one victim of the explosion which occurred at the Wyee duplication works, near Morrisett, Newcastle district, on Friday. ...

    Article : 150 words
  40. FOOTBALL.

    The Association football season has closed with Manchester United (52 points) and Aston Ville (51 points) at the head of the League list. Bristol City and ...

    Article : 58 words
  41. POPULARISING THE CHURCH.

    In order to popularise the church the Rev. Henry Gainford, of the Rathdown-street Congregational Church, wishes to make billiards and gymnasia adjunets. He also ...

    Article : 78 words
  42. ALLEGED LIBEL.

    Mr. Justice a Beckett to-day dealt with a further interlocutory matter in the action in which Archbishop Clarke is suing John Norton for £5,000 damages for an alleged libel ...

    Article : 141 words
  43. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Minister for Agriculture yesterday laid the foundation-stone of the Kaupokonui cheese factory, Taranaki, which is the biggest cheese factory in the world. ...

    Article : 52 words
  44. QUEENSLAND.

    The Executive have commuted to penal servitude for life the sentence of death passed on John Farrington and Peter Tynan for the murder of William Tynan at ...

    Article : 34 words
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