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  2. A FINE DISTINCTION.

    It is often almost, impossible for the lay mind to see the force of some of the line distinctions and word quibbles for which the average lawyer is distinguished. But during ...

    Article : 614 words
  3. FEDERATION.

    In the Legislative Council to-day the debate on the Federal resolutions was resumed. Mr. Alexander Brown moved a resolution providing that the federal Parliament should have ...

    Article : 169 words
  4. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council debate on Loan Bill continued; adjourned by Hon. A. W. Sandford until to-day. Chief Secretary moved that the Government should exercise their right of ...

    Article : 349 words
  5. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

    On Sunday it was announced that the International Conference to promote the non-increase of armaments would meet in St. Petersburg in February, and that only ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    The English Boards of Directors of Western Australian Mining Companies have represented to Mr. E. H. Wittenoom, the Agent- General of Western Australia, that it is ...

    Article : 134 words
  7. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    The probability that the enquiries by the Court of Cassation will lead to the release of Dreyfus and Picquart has aroused strong and conflicting emotions among Frenchman, and ...

    Article : 369 words
  8. EGYPT.

    The Khedive of Egypt having dismissed from office several Mohammedan" charity officials, who have British sympathies, Lord Cromer, Minister Plenipotentiary at Cairo ...

    Article : 50 words
  9. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    Major Esterhazy, who recently sailed from Rotterdam for the United States, has written to the Court of Cassation offering to visit Paris and tender evidence in the Dreyfus ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. SIAM.

    The King of Slain refuses to apologize to the French Government for the sacrilege committed by a body of native police and soldiers who pillaged a French Catholic ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. VICTORIA.

    A very important sale of station property has just been completed by the Union Mortgage and Agency Company, the well-known Moira Estate of the late Sir John O'Shanassy ...

    Article : 267 words
  12. THE KAISER'S VIEWS.

    The Emperor William, in conversation with the Vice-Presidents of the Reichstag on Saturday, said that it behaved Germany to be prepared against international troubles. He ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. NOTES IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    Mr. Jenkins, to Mr. Brooker and Mr. Roberts—The Engineer-in-Chief would report on the following day as to what could be down to give as many men as possible ...

    Article : 1,854 words
  14. BRITAIN'S DEFENCES.

    The British Government has purchased a piece of land adjoining the Forth Bridge in order to erect fortifications upon it for the protection of the Firth of Forth. ...

    Article : 37 words
  15. DEATH OF SIR W. JENNER

    The death is announced at the age of eighty-three of Sir William Jenner, Bart., Physician-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales. ...

    Article : 523 words
  16. COMPRESSED—AIR MOTORS.

    Mr. Joseph Leiter, the well-known Chicago millionaire, is engaged in forming a Company with a capital of £20,000,000 for the purpose of working what are known as ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. NICARAGUA CANAL.

    The American experts who have inspected the route for the Nicaragua Inter-Oceanic Canal estimate that £23,000,000 will be needed to complete the undertaking ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. NOTES IN THE COUNCIL.

    Mr. Ward notified that next day he would move that a message be forwarded to the House of Assembly, acquainting that House that in the opinion of the Council the Loan ...

    Article : 1,210 words
  19. ENGLAND'S TROUBLE WITH FRANCE.

    Sir Edmund J. Monson, the British Ambassador in France, is soaking to remove the vexation caused by the tone of his recent address before the British Chamber of ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. CHINA.

    A Chinese "literatus"—prominent member of the literary circles—has been sentenced to death for laving threatened the life of a Christian missionary at Kiangsi, an ...

    Article : 152 words
  21. REPRESSING ANARCHISM.

    The first effect of the International Congress for the Repression of Anarchism, now meeting at Rome, is to cause numbers of persons who profess Anarchist principles to migrate ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The appeal of the Taxation Commissioners against the decision of Judge Murray, as a Taxation Court of Review, that the Broken Hill Proprietary Company had no income ...

    Article : 354 words
  23. FRENCH STATESMEN INTERVIEWED.

    A number of leading French statesmen have expressed to Press interviewers their opinions concerning the dispute between England and France. ...

    Article : 108 words
  24. MADAGASCAR.

    Owing to the fear that the bubonic plague will spread in Madagascar, General Gallieni, the French Resident-General and Commander-in-Chief, has dismissed from their ...

    Article : 45 words
  25. IMPERIAL CABLES.

    Sir Sandford Fleming, the famous railway engineer of Canada, has urged the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, to support the proposal to lay a ...

    Article : 84 words
  26. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Miss Julia Franks, vocalist, of Melbourne, has won the Sainton Dolby Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. A trial of Haire's Aerator, for purifying ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. M. DE ROUGEMONT.

    M. Louis de Rougemont delivered a lecture last evening at Brighton, in which he detailed some of his alleged remarkable experiences in Australia. After the ...

    Article : 66 words
  28. GERMANY'S FOREIGN RELATIONS.

    Baron Bernhard von Billow, the German Foreign Secretary, during a speech in the Reichstag yesterday, said that Germany had not sought to exercise special influence in ...

    Article : 190 words
  29. THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 703 words
  30. THE WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 words
  31. EXECUTION OF A CHINAMAN.

    The Chinaman Wong Ming was executed at the Dubbo Gaol this morning. He was sentenced to death at the Dubbo Assize Court on October 6, for the murder of a ...

    Article : 481 words
  32. SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION.

    The Local Government Board, in its annual report, deplores the abolition of compulsory vaccination. The report sets out that one-third of the children in the British Isles ...

    Article : 60 words
  33. A CLAIM FOR LIFE ASSURANCE.

    The hearing of the action brought by Mrs. Beatrice McPherson against the Australian Mutual Provident Society to recover £500, which she claimed was due to her upon a ...

    Article : 121 words
  34. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London—Narrung, steamer, from Sydney October 9. DEPARTURES. For Sydney—Buccleuch, ship, from ...

    Article : 55 words
  35. QUEENSLAND.

    Three Government Exhibition Scholarships of the value of £100 for three years to any University of the British Empire have been secured by Hugh Morton. Maryborough ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    The coal lumpen' strike was in full swing to-day, and owing to the efforts of the Union pickets the coaling of the steamer Star of Victoria was suspended. The Seamen's ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. WHEAT YIELD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Government Statistician has issued an estimate of the wheat yield of the colony, which he puts much lower than privately framed compilations. The total area under ...

    Article : 197 words
  38. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION.

    In the Council to-day the question of precedency and the position of the President at public functions, which came up and was the subject of an address to the Governor three ...

    Article : 339 words
  39. THE INTESTATE MILLIONAIRE.

    Differences of opinion have arisen respecting the method of dealing with the estate of the late millionaire Tyson. It is generally accepted both by the firms of solicitors who ...

    Article : 516 words
  40. TASMANIA.

    The Minister of Lands intimated this morning to the local agent of the Great Western Railway that he might telegraph to the Directors stating that the Minister of Lands ...

    Article : 88 words
  41. NEW ZEALAND.

    Information has been received that Myers, the Wellington absconder, has been arrested at Monte Video. A detective will be sent to bring him back. ...

    Article : 54 words
  42. A CURIOUS CASE OF SUICIDE.

    Mr. G. O. Brandon, Secretary of the Public Library at Shepparton, committed suicide this evening by shooting himself through the mouth with, a revolver. He went ...

    Article : 122 words
  43. THE LATE MR. W. MULLER.

    Profound regret was felt here to-day when it became known that Mr. W. Muller had died at Kensington. The deceased for many years was landlord of the Commercial Hotel at ...

    Article : 54 words
  44. SYDNEY, Tuesday, Dec. 13.

    In the Council to-day the Customs Duties Bill, imposing duties on tea, dried fruits, &c, and maintaining the sugar duties, was read a second time and taken through Committee ...

    Article : 332 words
  45. Advertising

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