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  2. THE NAVIGATION COMMISSION.

    The Federal Navigation Commission took further evidence to-day. Mr. Charles McAllister (superintendent engineer to the North Coast and the ...

    Article : 217 words
  3. KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.

    The visit of the King and Queen of Portugal to England was abruptly ended by receipt of the news of the serious illness at her residence, Turin of the Queen's ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. THE COLONIES AND THE NAVY.

    On Saturday a deputation from the Imperial Federation League's Defence Committee waited upon the Premier and asked him that the next Colonial Conference ...

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  5. EARLY SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    There are over 100 men at the Echunga diggings, and many are making good wages. The average depth of the holes on the present workings is 30 ft with a sandstone ...

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    Among those who will have degrees conferred upon them by the Chancellor at the University Commemoration on Wednesday ladies figure prominently. The degrees of ...

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  7. THE WAR.

    Tokio despatches state that the Japanese are continuing the task of battering to a condition of uselessness Rear-Admiral Wiren's fleet of war vessels at Port Arthur. ...

    Article : 219 words
  8. TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.

    Russian correspondents at the front give appalling accounts of the hardships which the Muscovite soldiers have to endure. It is stated that large number of them are ...

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  9. LONDON UNEMPLOYED.

    King Edward has written to the Lord Mayor heartily commending to the wealthy and well to do people of London the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the ...

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  10. THE CZAR'S GRATITUDE FOR BRITISH HUMANITY.

    The Czar of Russia has presented a silver bowl and ladle to the wardroom officers of the second-class British cruiser Talbot as a mark of his appreciation of the ...

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  11. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

    Mr. William Redmond, M.P., one of the leader of the Irish National Party, who has been a member of the House of Commons for Country Clare since 1892. arrived ...

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  12. AUSTRALIA'S NEED.

    In the course of a speech before the St. Kilda branch of the Australian Women's National League to-night, Mr. Irvine, M.L.A. dealt with the need for combating ...

    Article : 423 words
  13. PROTESTS OF SHIPOWNERS.

    Speaking on board Messrs. Huddart, Parker, & Co.'s a new steamer Wimmera during a trial run this afternoon, Mr. W. T. Appleton, one of the directors, attacked ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. THE NOBEL PRIZES.

    The awards of the Nobel prizes for 1904 have been made. They are provided under the will of Dr. A. B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left money to ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. THE BALTIC FLEET.

    The Standard learns that 18 officers of the Black Sea Fleet have started for the first to join Admiral Rojestvensky's warships. ...

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  16. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE 203 METER HILL.

    The Japanese are confident that Gen. Nogi could, if he chose to sacrifice a few thousand more lives, capture Port Arthur, They are content, however, to wait for ...

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  17. RESTLESS RUSSIA.

    On Saturday 10,000 university students and working men held a public demonstration in St. Petersburg to protest against the continuation of the war in the Far ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. THE TARIFF COMMISSION.

    This morning the Prime Minister received a letter from Rp. Sir John Quick stating that he was prepared to act aa Chairman of the Tariff Commission, and that he ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. TELEGRAPHY.

    The English post office officials are testing an invention of Anton Pollak and Jozseif Virag, Hungarian electrician, who claim to be able to transmit telegrams at ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. OLD BONES.

    For many years there were to be seen on the southern side of St. Kilda Bluff three graves with large slabs above them. The constant encroachment of the sea on ...

    Article : 211 words
  21. THE SLATER AGENCY.

    The Crown Prosecutor has decided not to proceed with a retrial of the solicitor, Albert Osborne, who was tried in connection with the Pollard divorce conspiracy ...

    Article : 147 words
  22. A REVEREND BANKRUPT.

    The Rev. Father John Milne Curran, geologist, was before the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy to-day. He said the bankruptcy hud been immediately caused ...

    Article : 244 words
  23. HINTS FOR BUTTER SHIPPER.

    A circular has been issued by the Department of Agriculture on the subject of the net weights of butter shipped to London. It wants out that the greatest care ...

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  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The death is announced of Mr. James Cranston, an old Gloucestershire cricketer, who was born in 1859. ...

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  25. LUNATIC AT LARGE.

    Daniel Greed, well known in the Gordon district, suddenly went mad last week, and on Saturday he was going through the bush, about three miles north of Gordon. ...

    Article : 169 words
  26. KANAKAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

    Two Kanakas have been arrested in connection with the murder of the man named Parsons, who was found with his skull smashed in a tent. ...

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  27. JAPANESE CASUALTIES.

    A further list of 36 Japanese officers who were killed and 48 who were wounded in the last night at Port Arthur has been published. The death roll included the ...

    Article : 39 words
  28. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 3¾d. per oz.—a rise of 1-16d. ...

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  29. QUEENSLAND SUGAR PLANTATIONS.

    The Queensland Collector of Customs (Mr. Irving) recently visited the sugar plantations in southern Queensland, and indicated in his report that white labour was ...

    Article : 130 words
  30. IN A CLOCK TOWER.

    A peculiar accident happened to Alexander Beechey, caretaker of the Shepparton Poet Office clock, on Saturday night. At 6 o'clock he went into the tower. ...

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  31. SINKING OF THE SAIYEN.

    The Japanese cruiser Saiyen, which struck an explosive mine and foundered on November 30 outside of Port Arthur, was engaged at the time of the ...

    Article : 52 words
  32. A LONG CHASE.

    John Ellis alias McKendie, wanted in connection with Len Collinson's murder on February 26 last, was arrested on Saturday at Kereru, Hawke's Bay. He was taken ...

    Article : 55 words
  33. FIGHTS AT SHA-HO.

    Both Gen. Kouropatkin and the Marquis Oyama claim to have scored successes in various skirmishes between the rival armies in the Sha River district. ...

    Article : 205 words
  34. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    When the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon Mr. Kelly presented a petition from 1,100 unemployed, asking that work should be provided for them. The debate ...

    Article : 191 words
  35. INCOMING GERMAN MAIL.

    The German [?] steamer Gneiseran arrived from Bremen and ports this morning. Passengers:— For Melbourne.—Messrs. Walther and ...

    Article : 49 words
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