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  2. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

    The annual municipal elections took place yesterday. In the suburban municipalities the small success of the labour candidates was the principal feature. At Collingwood ...

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  3. THE RISING IN TURKEY.

    A great mass meeting was held yesterday at Sofia. when important resolutions were carried in connection with the situation in Macedonia. ...

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  4. CONDUCT OF THE WAR.

    The letter from Mr. Chamberlain, referred to by the Elgin Commission on the Conduct of the War in its report just issued, was addressed to the Marquis of Lansdowne (then ...

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  5. IN THE FEDERAL GALLERIES.

    Although considerable delayed by head winds during its later stages, the passage of the Naval Agreement Bill was not nearly as perilous as many of its opponents ...

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  6. THE AMERICA CUP.

    The third race for the America Cup will take place at New York to-day. The weather forecast issued last night for Sandy Hook was "light to fresh north-easterly ...

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  7. MELBOURNE HOSPITAL ELECTION.

    The keenest interest was taken in the periodical election of medical officers by subscribers to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday, notwithstanding the fact that ...

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  8. EAST SYDNEY VACANCY.

    Nominations for the East Sydney Federal electorate brought about by the resignation of Mr. G. H. Reid closed to-day, and three candidates were nominated for the ...

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  9. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Sir Gordon Sprigg, the Premier of Cape Colony, has decided to retain officer for the present, in spite of the adverse vote on the resolution moved by Mr. Burton asking for ...

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  10. GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY,

    Lord Lamington, who was Governor of Queensland from 1895 to 1901, gas been appointed to succeed Lord Northcote (the Governor-General designate of Australia) ...

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  11. THE FAR EAST.

    The Russians have seized some Japanese vessels which were engaged buying fish off Kamschatka, on the ground that they were illegally trading. Twenty-eight officers have ...

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  12. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Replying to a correspondent Mr. Chamberlain has expressed himself as sanguine that when his policy, which has hitherto been only sketched out, is thoroughly ...

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  13. THE ANTARCTIC.

    The sealing ship Terra Nova, which has been chartered by the Admiralty to accompany the Morning with relief to the Discovery in the Antarctic, started from ...

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  14. SYDNEY BOXING FATALITY.

    The city coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) today resumed the inquest relative to the death of Charles Best, who died in the Sydney Hospital from injuries sustained in a ...

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  15. GERMAN MILITARISM.

    A German Imperial military court has quashed the sentence on the naval cadet Hussner, who was tried by court-martial in May last for having fatally stabbed a ...

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  16. THE NAVAL AGREEMENT.

    The "St. James's Gazette" describes the passing of the Naval Agreement Bill through both Houses of the Australian Parliament as "throughly gratifying." The ...

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  17. CONGO FREE STATE.

    Complaints have recently been made in the House of Commons and elsewhere on the treatment of natives by Belgians in the Congo Free State. The matter has been ...

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  18. BROKEN HILL WATER FAMINE.

    The taking of evidence by the Public Works committee on the Broken Hill water supply closed to-day. Mr. Harry Stockdale said he was the ...

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  19. AMERICAN UNIONS.

    Some sensational allegations of blackmail were made against labour leaders in New York by employers a few weeks ago, one New York builder declaring that he could ...

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  20. HIGH COURT.

    On Wednesday the state Premier (Mr. Irvine) received the following letter from Sir Edmund Barton, Prime Minister:— Melbourne, August 26. ...

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  21. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The recent hardening in the price of silver is due to Indian and Chinese demands. To-day's quotation shows a decline, being only 25 15-16d., a fall of ¼d. since ...

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  22. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS

    Wheat.—The American visible supply east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 21,252,000 bushels, against 21,259,000 bushels a week ago, and 31,558,000 bushels ...

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  23. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

    A congress of those in favour of the Zionist movement—the movement for reestablishing the Jews in Palestine—was opened yesterday at Basel, in Switzerland. ...

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  24. VAGARIES OF THE LAW.

    A striking illustration of the fact that the axiom "he who wins loses" is not so paradoxical as it appears, at any rate in legal matters, was afforded to-day by the ...

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  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Majesty King George of Greece has gone, to Marienbad, in Bohemia, where King Edward is at present staying. Mr. Elihu Roof, who is being succeeded ...

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  26. WEST AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly last night the Constitution Act Amendment Bill was further discussed in committee. The clause fixing the number of members of the ...

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  27. A CHINESE FIEND.

    At Carnarvon last night a Chinese named Ah Hook, alias Ah Shoe, shot one Chinaman, one Japaneseman, and one Japanese woman dead, dangerously wounded another ...

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  28. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In moving for an extra sitting day in the Legislative Assembly to-night, the Premier said this step was rendered necessary by a number of important measures that required ...

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  29. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    ARARAT, Thursday.—A public meeting, convened by the borough council, and presided over by Mayor Wild, was held last evening at the town-hall to afford the ...

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  30. MAIL STEAMERS.

    F. M. S. Ville de la Ciotat left Colombo for Australia on the 26th inst. P. and O. Co.'s R. M. S. China arrived at Colombo from Australia on the 26th inst. ...

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  32. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Assembly the Commissioner of Public Works moved the second reading of a bill for the construction of a railway from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo. He ...

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  33. TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Assembly, after a long discussion, the repeal of the personal exertion clause in the Income Tax Act was carried by 23 to 9. ...

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