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  2. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION.

    The Licensing Bill which the Premier introduced to-day in the House of Representatives provides for nine provincial districts. Committees are to be elected for ...

    Article : 292 words
  3. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The inaugural meeting of the third biannual Convention of the Library Association of Australasia was held "in the Elder Hall on, Tuesday evening, and took the ...

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  4. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council the Attorney-General obtained leave to introduce a Bill relating to the Public Service. Census Bill read a third time. Vermin Districts Bill considered in ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. THE TRAMWAY QUESTION.

    A deputation convened by Mr. Proud as President of the Public Tramways League waited upon the Mayor (Mr. A. W. Ware) in the City Council Chamber on Tuesday ...

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  6. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The admiralty have decided that Vice-Admiral Sir Compton Edward Domvile. K.C.B., Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves, shall succeed ...

    Article : 79 words
  7. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    "K. R. P."—Yes; Miss M. Hill. "Farina."—Yes when 13; no when 31. "H. Sheridan."—B would take first prize, and A and C play for second. ...

    Article : 295 words
  8. THE FRENCH NAVY.

    The French shipbuilding programme for 1001 provides for the construction of no fewer than 111 vessels, including 7 submarine boats. Altogether. 22 ...

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  9. NOTES IN THE COUNCIL.

    The President took the Chair at 2 o'clock. Sir Richard Baker entered the Chamber with the aid of a walking-stick, and with his left arm in a sling. Members ...

    Article : 434 words
  10. THE WRECK OF THE SUFFOLK.

    As the result of a Marine Board enquiry held at Cape Town into the loss of the steamer Suffolk at Klippen Point Port Elizabeth the captain's ...

    Article : 191 words
  11. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BUDGET SPEECH.

    The Treasurer delivered his Budget speech this evening. He said the population of the colony had increased during the financial year by 9,712, and for the ...

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  12. REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

    "Vanitas," by Vernen Lee; William Heincmann, London.—The lady who elects to call herself "Vernon Lee" tells us in a preface that the three tales in "Vanitas" ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  13. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE IN GLASGOW.

    The outbreak of what is now acknowledged on all hands to be bubonic plague in Glasgow has caused no little consternation in the commercial capital of Scotland, and ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  14. DROUGHT IN ASSAM.

    Telegrams from Calcutta state the unprecedented drought which has visited the province of Assam, in the extreme north-west of India, is ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. CONGRESS OF SCIENTISTS.

    The British Association is now holding its seventh annual Congress at Bradford. The ten sections into which the Association is divided were opened each by a ...

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  16. A MEDICAL DISCOVERY.

    Dr. Koch, the famous German specialist, reports that be has discovered an effective cure for malarial fever. ...

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  17. NOTES TN THE ASSEMBLY.

    Tramways and the proposed Convention gave enquires an opportunity of cross questioning Ministers, and preliminary business occupied half an hour. Mr. Wood. ...

    Article : 464 words
  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    F. C. V. Lane, the Now South "Wales swimmer, will return to Australia by the R.M.S. Ormuz. ...

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  19. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Breadstuffs.—The cargo of wheat by the ship Earl of Zetland, which left Melbourne on July 19, has been sold for 31/9 per quarter. ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London.—Triton, ship, from Melbourne July 13; Mermerus, ship, from Melbourne June 13. At Liverpool.—Regina, barque from Albany May 26. ...

    Article : 66 words
  21. WESTERN FRAUDS.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the report of the Select Committee on the Ice Company frauds was laid on the table. The Committee finds that extensive frauds were ...

    Article : 318 words
  22. SURVEYORS FOR NEW GUINEA.

    The Surveyor-General was recently requested by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Guinnes to select several surveyors for service in the island possession. All but one ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. CYCLING.

    The following entries have been received for the forthcoming Spring Race Meeting. Adelaide Oval, on October 20 and 27 (intercolonial entries not completed):— ...

    Article : 527 words
  24. TROUBLE WITH WHARF LABOURERS.

    The regulations which recently came into force between the Wharf Labourers' Union and the intercolonial Shipping Companies have given rise to considerable trouble. ...

    Article : 132 words
  25. PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND.

    Another case of plague, the second within a few days after a long interval, was reported to-day. The patient was John Daniels, aged sixty-five, who resided at ...

    Article : 53 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 237 words
  27. QUESTIONS IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    In the Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Denny asked the Premier whether, in view of the statement he made a considerable time ago, that in the event of the municipalities not ...

    Article : 537 words
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