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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Mail for South Africa.—A mail for South Africa will close to-day at 5.15 p.m. (late fee 6 p.m.) for despatch, via Albany, by the s.s. Essen. ...

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  3. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    In the Hotel Cecil yesterday the Navy League entertained at luncheon Captain Halsey and the officers of the battle-cruiser New Zealand, which recently returned to ...

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  4. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, On the defence vote. Mr. Manifold doubted whether the money voted for defence was properly spent. The ...

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  5. LONDON LAND.

    Mr. H. C. Mallaby-Deeley, Unionist M.P. for Harrow, and son of a wealthy Liverpool merchant, has purchased the Duke of Bedford's Covent Garden estate, which ...

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  6. BIG SYDNEY FIRE.

    A magnificently spectacular fire is raging (Midnight) in George-street West, near the railway station, where the extensive premises occupied by Messrs. Williams Bros' ...

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  7. BULK HANDLING OF WHEAT.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Bath) yesterday made available the report of the special committee named the Bulk Handling of Grain Advisory Board upon the ...

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  8. CHIEF JUSTICESHIP.

    Before the business of the Full Court was proceeded with yesterday the members of the Bar offered their congratulations to Mr. Justice Mc.Millan, whose appointment as ...

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  9. SYDNEY TRAGEDY.

    A man named Herbert Wilson was shot dead to-night on a vacant allotment off Robery-street, Ascot and another man, Henry Harold Armstrong, is now in custody ...

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  10. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.

    The debate on the motion for the second reading of the Public Works Committee Bill was resumed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday morning. ...

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  11. THE STOLEN PICTURE.

    Notebooks found in the rooms formerly occupied by Perugia, who has been arrested in Italy for having stolen from the Louvre the celebrated painting "Monna ...

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  12. BANK DEFRAUDED.

    In the Bow-street Police Court yesterday further evidence was taken in the case in which Walter Robson, who had for years been cashier in the London office of the ...

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  13. ANOTHER RECEPTION.

    A reception in honour of Captain Halsey and his officers was held yesterday afternoon in the Connaught Rooms. The guests included Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of ...

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  14. BOER NATIONALISM.

    Remarkable scenes were witnessed here on Monday in connection with the unveiling of the memorial erected in honour of the Boer women and children who died in the ...

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  15. AMERICAN FIRES.

    An apartment house in New York was destroyed by fire on Monday night. A woman and a fireman perished in the flames. At Cincinnati on Monday night a ...

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  16. CABDRIVER'S LUCK.

    The Appeal Court has upheld the will of the late Count Jules de Perrochel, who bequeathed £280,000 to two distant cousins, a cabdriver and a stableman. The other ...

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  17. LOCAL OPTION.

    A Bill, to continue until April, 1915, the Licensing Districts as constituted by the Licensing Act. 1911, and the Local Option resolution in force thereunder, was ...

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  18. A DISGUSTING SCENE.

    In the East End of Paris yesterday, in the presence of a large crowd of roughs two 19-year-old girls who were rivals for the affections of an apache stripped to the ...

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  19. THEFT OF JEWELS.

    A London lady, while staying in a hotel as Torquay yesterday discovered that she had been robbed of £2,500 worth of jewels. At the same time she found that her maid, ...

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  20. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    The strike of corporation employees at Leeds is collapsing. Hundreds of tramwaymen and all the gas workers have resumed work. ...

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  21. CYCLONE IN CEYLON.

    A cyclone swept over Ceylon yesterday and caused floods and railway washaways. Many small vessels have been wercked, and ships are unable to leave the harbours. Hundreds ...

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  22. PERSONAL.

    Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphs that Sir John Forrest left Melbourne yesterday for the West, where he expects to stay until the end of February. ...

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  23. THE NAVAL BOARD.

    In the Senate to-day, The Minister for Defence (Senator Millen), in reply to Senator De Largie (W.A.), said that there was no intention of abolishing ...

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  24. THE LIVERPOOL MURDER.

    Several youths in Liverpool have formed detective bands and are searching for George Summer who is alleged to have been concerned with Samuel Eltoft in the murder of ...

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  25. WRECK OF A BARQUE.

    The Norwegian barque Amazone, bound for Melbourne with a cargo of timber, was wrecked yesterday at Borkum, at the mouth of the Ems River. Nine men on board were ...

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  26. LYNCH LAW.

    At Shrevelest, in Louisiana, yesterday a mob lynched two negroes, named Ernest Williams and Frank Williams, who has confessed to the murder of a storekeeper named ...

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  27. MARINE MYSTERY.

    A steamer was yesterday found floating keel upwards at the mouth of the Ema River. The vessel is believed to be the German steamer Narvik (3,576 tons), which, with a ...

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  28. BILLIARDS.

    M. Isman, the holder of the Billiard Control Club's championship has accepted the club's arrangements for the championship. He complains that his efforts to safeguard ...

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  29. CHINA.

    It is semi-officially stated that Japan declines to agree to Russia's proposal for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the province of Chiohli, in China ...

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  30. PROTEST AGAINST EXECUTION.

    At Manchester this morning Ernest Kelly was hanged for having murdered an Oldham bookseller named Bardsley on July 26 last. Several hundreds of women and youths ...

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  31. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 words
  32. THE BALKANS.

    France and Russia have agreed to the terms of the British note concerning the delimitation of the southern frontier of Albania and the possession of the Aegean ...

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  33. THE DISTRESSED FARMERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 426 words
  34. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Sir Newton Moore (Agent-General for Western Australia) has secured from various shipping companies a promise of an early and important reduction in the rates ...

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  35. BOULDER ASSAULT SEQUEL.

    At the Boulder Police Court to-day Victor Joseph Boyle again came up on remand on the charge of having unlawfully killed Robert Love at Boulder on November 18. Love ...

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  36. LONDON'S LIGHTING.

    The scheme being promoted for the amalgamation of the 13 electric lighting companies in London proposes to replace the 13 existing power stations by several ...

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  37. MR. LEWIS WALLER SUED.

    As a result of the collision between a motor car drivern by Mr. Lewis Waller, the well-known actor, and a tramear near the intersection of Domain-road and St. ...

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  38. NEW ZEALAND STRIKE.

    An extension of the New Zealand strike to Melbourne has occurred. The steamer Dorset, of the Federal Shire line, which arrived from Dunedin yesterday morning, has ...

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  39. HOME RULE.

    The "Daily Chronicle" asserts that the Cabinet has decided to eliminate from the Home Rule Bill the provisions relating to the fransfer of the Post Office to the Irish ...

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  40. NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.

    The annual meeting of the National Mutual Life Association was held to-day. The chairman, Mr. Andrew Newell, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that new ...

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  41. AMERICAN EXPLOSION.

    An explosion occurred in the Vulcan mine near Newcastle, in Colorado, yesterday and entombed 40 men, of whom only two were rescued. The others perished. All the ...

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  42. Advertising

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  43. SCULLING.

    The "Sportsman" has received Paddon's deposit to bind a match with Barry for the world's championship. It is declared that Sydney advices conclusively establish the ...

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  44. PUBLIC SERVANTS' PENSIONS.

    At yesterday's sitting of the Conference of Public Service Associations of the Commonwealth, consideration was given to the matter of a superannuation scheme on a ...

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  45. FIRE ON A STEAMER.

    A fire broke out yesterday in the holds of the British-India Steam Navigation Company's s.s. Janus, lying at the wharf in Woolloomoloo Bay. The fire ...

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  46. THE LAW COURTS.

    Full Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Burnside and Mr. Justice Rooth: The Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd., defendant (appellant) and H. D. Campbell, ...

    Article : 42 words
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