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  2. LENT.

    The season of Lent is one set apart by the two great Churches of England and Rome is a period of self-denial and abstinence in commemoration of the great 40 ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The Treasurer (Hon. A. H. Peake) and family, who, after seven years' residence, are removing from Mount Barker to ...

    Article : 974 words
  4. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

    With a view to punish the Hungarian coalition parties for their persistent obstinacy and disregard of Imperial orders, the Austro-Hungarian Government has ...

    Article : 88 words
  5. BRITISH NAVY.

    The British Admiralty is subjecting the various units of the navy to tests of efficiency. On Monday the naval authorities dispatched a surprise telegram to the ...

    Article : 66 words
  6. THE WEATHER.

    The weather office reported on Tuesday morning:—"Disagreeable and sultry conditions continued over the whole State yesterday, and, though during the night the ...

    Article : 211 words
  7. INDIAN ARMY.

    The Imperial Government has come to an important decision in regard to the question of Indian Army reform, which last year caused serious disputes between Lord ...

    Article : 239 words
  8. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    The report of the Old-Age Pensions Coimission was presented to the Government General to-day. It. recommends the establishment of a Federal system, and estimates ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  9. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

    In the House of Lords on Monday, Viscount Milner (late High Commissioner for South Africa) initiated a debate, which had not been concluded when the House ...

    Article : 437 words
  10. CHINESE RISING.

    Latest news from China is very disquieting, and evidently indicates a grave condition of affairs. An attack has been made upon mission stations at Nanchang, in the ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. R.M.S. OROYA.

    The homeward bound Orient-Royal Mail Company's s.s. Oroya, which left Largs Bay on February 1 for London, has gone aground in the Suez Canal. ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. CHILIAN SENSATION.

    A sensational tragedy has taken place in Brussels, in which all the parties concerned are Chilians. Carle Waddington, a youth of 16, the son of the Chilian Charge ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 words
  14. HEAVY RAIN AT BROKEN HILL.

    News was received in Adelaide by telegram from Broken Hill on Tuesday morning that rain had been falling heavily for the last two hours, and was still ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London or in Channel.—Rangatira, steamer, from Port Chalmers December 29 Flensburg, steamer, from Sydney December 7. ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. NATAL TROUBLES.

    The native chief Umskofeli, with 400 of his headsmen and 100 mounted followers, has arrived at Lieut.-Col. Mackenzie's camp for the purpose of paying the poll ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. FALL, AT COCKBURN.

    A heavy shower passed over the town this morning, registering 84 points. No. 1 railway dam is nearly full, and it is still running strong. No. 2 stock dam has ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. MOROCCO CONFERENCE.

    M. Revoil, who is the French delegation to the international conference on Morocco affairs, handed on Monday to Herr Radowitz, the German representative, a Note ...

    Article : 85 words
  19. BARRIER FIRES.

    The fire in the Proprietary Mine is causing much more trouble than was at first expected. On Monday night rain clouds hung low, and held the fumes close to the ...

    Article : 447 words
  20. EARLY SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The commissioners for the construction of the Adelaide to Gawler Town Railway advertise that diligent enquiry has failed to reveal the owners of certain lands required ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. BASUTO LOYALTY.

    Lord Selborne (High Commissioner for South Africa) is now paying a visit to Basutoland. At Maseru he was met by 20,000 mounted Basutos, who gave him an ...

    Article : 44 words
  22. THE NANCHANG MASSACRE.

    The facts as reported regarding the Nanchang massacre ore as follow:—A dispute relating to compensation, which occurred at that city between the Chinese officials ...

    Article : 410 words
  23. THE RUSSIAN DUMA.

    The Czar of Russia has issued a ukase ordering that the National Duma must open its sessions on May 10 (May 23 in English reckoning). Owing to the ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    The debate on Mr. H. W. Foster's amendment to the Address-in-reply to the King's Speech was continued in the House of Commons on Monday. Eventually the ...

    Article : 63 words
  25. ROMAN CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

    The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (Most Rev. Mgr. Francis Bourne) has just published his Lenten pastoral. Dealing with the subject of ...

    Article : 78 words
  26. CONGO FREE STATE.

    In replying to a request that, the United State should take steps to prevent further abuses in the Congo Free State the Secretary of State (Mr. E. Root) has ...

    Article : 78 words
  27. IRISH QUESTION AND UNEMPLOYED.

    Mr. James Bryce (Secretary for Ireland) said, in reply to a question from the Opposition, that the Government did not intend to transfer the control of the Royal ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. MARQUIS IN DURANCE.

    London newspapers have published a story alleging that the Marquis Townshend, who in 1905 married Miss Sutherst, the eldest daughter of Thomas Sutherst, a ...

    Article : 97 words
  29. PLAGUE AMONG RATS.

    In view of the reported occurrence of a somewhat alarming outbreak of plague among rats in one of the interstate vessels Dr. Morris (Chairman of the Board of ...

    Article : 119 words
  30. MILLIONAIRE MOTORIST.

    Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, has had a sensational experience in Italy. While he was enjoying a motor trip at Pisa, his car knocked down a ...

    Article : 122 words
  31. BILLS INTRODUCED.

    Sir C. E. Howard Vincent introduced a Bill to provide for marks on imported goods. Under the measure it is proposed to mark certain descriptions of imports ...

    Article : 83 words
  32. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

    An inquest has been held on the body of Sydney MacAlister Sharwood, the brother of Mrs. Stephen Fairbairn. The deceased died in a London boarding house, ...

    Article : 99 words
  33. ENGINEERS' CONFERENCE.

    The conference of the Australian Society of Engineers, which has been deliberating in Sydney since February 19, was closed to-night. A motion was carried ...

    Article : 203 words
  34. NATIONAL DEFENCE.

    Recently the council of the Victorian Rifle Association wrote, through Col. J. M. Templeton, to Lord Roberts, expressing the hope that his efforts in the direction of ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    On Monday the Chancellor of tho Exchequer (Mr. H. H. Asquith) answered a question in reference to the cost of an old-age pension scheme in the United ...

    Article : 74 words
  36. COTTON GROWING.

    M. Paul Cambon (French Ambassador in London) has opened negotiations with the British Government with the view of securing the emigration of Indian natives to ...

    Article : 78 words
  37. THE ANTI-FOREIGN MOVEMENT.

    Reuter's correspondent at Pekin says that the Chinese Foreign Office on Sunday decided to remonstrate with the United States Government because the latter had, ...

    Article : 108 words
  38. W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE.

    At Monday's convention of the Australian Women's Christian Temperance Union a memorial service was held in the Davey Street Congregational Church, at which ...

    Article : 191 words
  39. THE NAVY QUESTION.

    Sir F. W. Borden (Minister of Militia in the Canadian House of Commons), speaking at Ottawa on Monday, said that before Canada contributed to the British ...

    Article : 127 words
  40. TIDAL WAVE.

    The tidal wave which followed recent earthquake on the south coast of the Central American Republic of Colombia, caused an awful loss of life. It is ...

    Article : 42 words
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  42. CHURCH RIOTS.

    Gen. Recamier, who was among the prominent Parisians arrested for having obstructed the French Government officials who were endeavouring to take an ...

    Article : 75 words
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  44. CASE OF W. N. WILLIS.

    The High Court to-day granted leave to appeal from the recent judgment of the New South Wales Full Court in setting aside the decision of the Chief Judge in ...

    Article : 115 words
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  46. BREAKING INTO RAILWAY STATIONS.

    At the Criminal Court George Edward Mahony has been found guilty of having broken into the Nudgee Railway Station, and with having placed dynamite in a safe ...

    Article : 72 words
  47. LOST OFF A STEAMER.

    Mr. Charles H. Field, a passenger from London, has been lost off the Corinthic, between Hobart and Wellington. ...

    Article : 26 words
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