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  2. CURRENT TOPICS

    Legal.—The Chief Justice (Sir John Dodds) arrived from Hobart by the express yesterday, and will be engaged in Chambers to-day. ...

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  3. RUSSIA.

    According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of "The Times," the Government is incapable of enforcing even a semblance of authority, in view of ...

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  4. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Owing to the disturbed condition of the internal affairs, Russia has found it necessary to postpone the issue of the new loan. ...

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  5. OUR FEDERAL LETTER

    Mr. Deakin says that he hopes to get the session to an end in a few weeks, but that he is not sanguine. The fact that he is not sanguine ensures that the ...

    Article : 223 words
  6. SYMPATHY OF THE FINNS.

    The Finns are developing a sudden sympathy with the Russians. There are only 4000 troops in Finland, since 6000 who were recently sent ...

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  7. PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

    All but the last of the estimates are through. The defence occupied several days. The House is singularly full of military experts. A man who has been ...

    Article : 266 words
  8. PRESS FREEDOM.

    It is asserted that Count Witte's suggested freedom of the press merely permits tie temporary discussion of the National Duma election. ...

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  9. ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

    The "Bloemfontein Post" announces the establishment, immediately of representative government in the Orange River Colony. ...

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  10. MINISTERS DIVIDED.

    Ministers at Peterhof are divided, and the court is almost in revolt. A majority of Ministers and General Trepoff advise the immediate granting of ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. AMUSEMENTS.

    As a laugh-producer "The J.P.," presented last night for the first time in Launceston by the Strand Theatre Comedy Company, including Mr. J. J. ...

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  12. SUEZ CANAL.

    Great energy has been displayed in the work of repairing the Suez Canal, and the progress has been so substantial that night traffic through the ...

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  13. INCREASE OF HOOLIGANISM.

    The day passed quietly at St. Petersburg. Crowds paraded the streets, but the troops stopped all efforts to hold ...

    Article : 49 words
  14. THE TARIFF ISSUE.

    If the Government, however, carries the tariff issue to the country, it will inevitably be a three-cornered fight. Mr. Reid it beginning to see that it will be ...

    Article : 270 words
  15. SPANISH CRUISER SUNK

    One of the Spanish warships has met with a disaster. During the prevalence of a fog the cruiser Cardenal Cisneras struck a rock ...

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  16. INTENTIONS OF THE CZAR.

    It is reported by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the "London Daily Telegraph" that at midnight, after many hour's conference with Count Witte, the ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. THE LICENSED CABMEN.

    A deputation from the licensed cabmen waited upon the Attorney-General yesterday to urge upon the Government the necessity of appointing an ...

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  18. A NORTHERN RESIDENCE.

    The paragraph in the Hobart letter in yesterday's "Examiner," suggesting the advisableness of steps being taken to secure the presence of the State ...

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  19. PROPOSED NAVAL BASE.

    The Natal Agent-General is urging the Imperial Government to convert Durban into a naval base for the Cape station. ...

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  20. PROPOSED MOWING DOWN.

    Leaders of the reactionaries are doing their utmost to incite the Czar to direct General Trepoff to use his 100,000 soldiers, with 20 machine guns. ...

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  21. JAPANESE HEROES.

    A Grand Shinto service was held at Adyama Cemetery in honour of those killed in the naval battles. Princes and admirals, with 1000 ...

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  22. FISCAL REFORM.

    The difficulty with the Government is to determine whether the tariff shall be raised next session or whether it shall be made the basis of an appeal to the ...

    Article : 304 words
  23. SITUATION IN MOSCOW.

    An extraordinary appeal has been made by the "Moscow Gazette." It asks all true Russians to assemble at the churches, where they will be ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. JAPANESE PRISONERS.

    While the Russian lists only revealed 976 Japanese prisoners, it now transpires that there are 1978. Much indignation is felt in Japan in ...

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  25. GERMAN TAXATION.

    The fresh demands of the German Navy League and the heavy cost of the African rising are expected to necessitate new taxation to the extent of ...

    Article : 39 words
  26. JAPAN'S NEW SHIPS.

    Japanese naval experts have decided that future battleships shall have displacement of 22,000 tons, with a speed of 20 knots, and carry 14 12in. guns. ...

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  27. INDIVIDUAL MINISTERS.

    Ministers themselves are in a politically muddled state as to what they should do. They don't want to do anything now. And whatever may be said about this ...

    Article : 324 words
  28. IN THE PROVINCES.

    In the provinces the situation is even worse than in the capital. Mock republics have been proclaimed in several cities, and the local authorities in ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. HEAVY RAINFALL

    The weather conditions during the past week have been of a decidedly varied character, and instead of being in the middle of spring it would appear as ...

    Article : 351 words
  30. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

    Advices from Loanda declare that the natives who lay in ambush fired on the Portuguese. The latter thereupon took the kraal ...

    Article : 69 words
  31. PLUNDER AND INCENDIARISM.

    At Revel the rifle shops and fectories have been plundered, and the crowds, armed with rifles and revolvers, prevented the brigade extinguishing an ...

    Article : 33 words
  32. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    Circular Head Steam Company.—The Circular Head people seem in earnest about establishing a new Steam Navigation Company, to run a steamer between ...

    Article : 154 words
  33. FIGHTING AT ODESSA.

    Street fighting commenced in Odessa on Sunday afternoon. It appears that huge crowds compelled the closing of the shops and ...

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  34. TWO WINNERS.

    The Hook Two-year-old Plate, of 180 sovs., five furlongs, was won by Mr. R. H. Henning's ch c El Re, by The Rush or Velasquez—Blavatsky; and the ...

    Article : 61 words
  35. SOCIALISTS ARRESTED.

    The Cossacks arrested 120 socialists who were holding a meeting in the forest at Pabiancie. Comrades of the prisoners tried to ...

    Article : 35 words
  36. BILLIARDS.

    Aiken, receiving 500, beat Weiss by 9000 to 6450. ...

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  37. PARTY FEELING LESS BITTER.

    Party feeling is growing less bitter as the end of the session approaches. Mr. Reid, who is so long absent from the House that he gets out of touch with ...

    Article : 206 words
  38. PANIC AT LODZ.

    A famine threatens Lodz, where the inhabitants are afraid to leave their homes. The manufacturers have already left the town. ...

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  40. TEACHING BLIND FISH TO SEE.

    In the hope of teaching blind fish to see, some interesting experiments are being carried out at the New York Aquarium. A large consignment of blind fish ...

    Article : 87 words
  41. THE STRIKE.

    Fully. 1,500,000 workmen have struck and the whole industrial system has been paralysed. Oct. 30. ...

    Article : 59 words
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