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  2. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    Mr. William Randolph Hearst, millionaire newspaper proprietor, who is the Democratic candidate for the position of Governor of New York State for the ensuing ...

    Article : 266 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 659 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 21 words
  5. CONSUMPTION AND SCHOOL CHILDREN.

    In order to test the accuracy or otherwise of statements which have been made concerning the prevalence of consumption among school children, arrangements have ...

    Article : 82 words
  6. NEW AIRSHIP.

    M. Santos-Dumont, the famous airship constructor and navigator, has made a satisfactory trial in France of his new 50-h.p. aeroplane. The machine is a sort of ...

    Article : 146 words
  7. ANTI-GAMBLING BILL.

    The Legislative Assembly, which has been singularly quiet lately, settled down last night and to-day to a sitting, which was noted for violent recriminations and ...

    Article : 449 words
  8. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The President (Sir Richard Baker, S.A.) took the Chair at 10.30 a.m. Leather Exports. I The Minister for Defence (Mr. Playford, ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  9. RURAL INDUSTRIES.

    CHARLEVILLE, August l8.—Mr. J. Kennedy sold 21 remounts to-day to Indian shippers from Melbourne. These will be railed to the coast, and probably be ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. "Unfit for School."

    A deputation waited last month upon Mr. Birreli (President of the Board of Edueation) and urged that the new Education Bill should contain a clause requiring local ...

    Article : 574 words
  11. CHINESE PIRATES.

    The recent outrages by pirates on the Si-kiang have put shipmasters on their guard. On Wednesday Cap. R. D. Thomas, of the steamer Nanning, 560 tons, ...

    Article : 106 words
  12. DEMAND FOR LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

    SYDNEY, August 24.—The Intelligence Department, at the instigation of the Minister for Lands took steps to ascertain by means of a census return the extent of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. ADVANCES TO SETTLERS.

    WELLINGTON, August 24.—The annual report of the Advances to Settlers Office shows that the loans granted during the year aggregated £663,452. The net ...

    Article : 62 words
  14. CORNSACKS AND CARRIAGE OF WHEAT.

    Sir—I have read with interest the remarks of Mr. Tilbrook. Though that gentleman's scheme embraces much that is practicable and feasible, I think it will not ...

    Article : 494 words
  15. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of The Daily Mail says it is understood in the Transvaal that the Imperial Government has decided to forego the promised ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    Mr. F.R. Kendall, one of the general managers of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, has severed his official connection with the company and retired ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

    A meeting of the general committee of the Smith Australian Utility Poultry Club was held on Thursday evening, when Mr. A. Ferguson, B.Sc. presided over a good ...

    Article : 1,364 words
  18. A PUBLICAN'S MUSEUM.

    A peculiar licensing ease came before the S.M. to-day, when E. W. Aldridpe, licencee of the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, was charged with having allowed people to ...

    Article : 136 words
  19. NAVAL STRATEGY.

    The Daily Chronicle, in a leading article, deprecates the tendency in some circles in the Commonwealth to denounce as doctrinaire the motherland's principles of naval ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. GENERAL NOTES

    Rp. Capt. Crouch to-day received an order commanding him to appear in uniform before the Military Commandant at half-past 4 o'clock on Monday, at the Victoria ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. MINE VENTILATION.

    Dr. Summons, on behalf of Mr. Wilson and the trustees, recently made an examination of the Bendigo mines and enquired into the question of mine ventilation ...

    Article : 210 words
  22. EIGHT HOURS BILL.

    The Northumberland colliery owners have informed the Newcastle Miners' Association that it the Miners' Eight Hours Bill should be passed into law it will result in a ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. xCOMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of bar silver is 2/6½, an advance of l-16d. LONDON, August 24, 1.50 a.m. Breadstuff.-Less settled weather has ...

    Article : 370 words
  24. MELBOURNE POSTAL CONFERENCE.

    On Friday Messrs. A. Hiscock and H. A. Pilgrim (the South Australian delegates to the conference of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association) returned by the ...

    Article : 395 words
  25. A FATAL FALL.

    On a motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr. O'Neill asked the Attorney-General whether he had yet made enquiries into the ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. TRAMWAY DISPUTE.

    The President of the Tramway Employes' Union (Mr. Lawton) was subjected to a close examination by the Chairman of the Tramway Enquiry Board to-day relative to ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

    Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, F.R.S. B.S., F.R.C.S., President of the Pathological Section of the British Medical Association, in an address delivered at ...

    Article : 46 words
  28. PROM THE WORLD'S PRESS

    Switzerland is a country where extremes meet. Side by side with the widest democracy there survive vulgar folk beliefs of the middle ages. In the Lucerne Canton, ...

    Article : 607 words
  29. MELBOURNE AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

    The awards in the wine and spirits section of the Royal Agricultural Society's Show for this year were declared to-day. The general expert opinion is that the ...

    Article : 267 words
  30. ITALY AND AUSTRALIA.

    Referring to the cable message in reference to the Italian Immigration commission, the Premier (Mr. Moore) said to-day that Mr. Walter James (Agent-General) ...

    Article : 135 words
  31. ALMOST A WRECK.

    What a Sydney Man says of his sufferings from Disordered Liver, Heart, Kidneys, and Stomach. MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP MADE OF HIM ...

    Article : 397 words
  32. VICTORIA.

    John Barr, who was arrested on May 30 on a charge of burglary, but was afterwards discharged as there was no doubt that the case was one of mistaken identity, has ...

    Article : 78 words
  33. VAGRANCY LAWS.

    Cabinet has decided that the construction placed upon section 40 of the Police Offences Statute by the Full Court on Thursday in the appeal by the Crown against the ...

    Article : 97 words
  34. Advertising

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    Advertising : 312 words
  35. LATEST STOCK QUOTATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 words
  36. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    On Thursday night at Cottlesloe William John Sincock, aged 19 years, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pearifle. ...

    Article : 418 words
  37. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Speaker (Sir Frederick Holder, S.A.), took the Chair at 10.30 a.m. Military Inspector-General. Mr. Reid (N.S.W.) asked if the ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  38. NEW GAMBLING BILL.

    More difficulty than was expected is being experienced by Cabinet in arranging the final details of the Gambling Bill, and several points have geen postponed to a ...

    Article : 90 words
  39. DISPUTED LEASE.

    In the Full Court to-day a motion was made on behalf of George Biggins, of Broken Hill, to make absolute a rule nisi for prohibition to restrain Mr. Stevenson ...

    Article : 185 words
  40. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 words
  41. COMPULSORY VOTING.

    Cabinet has had before it a letter from the Christadelphians, asking that it the Government bring in a Bill to make voting at elections compulsory, provision should ...

    Article : 55 words
  42. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

    A shooting fatality occurred at Mitiamo this morning. Hie victim was Marcus Cook, a young man. He and his cousin were driving in a gig, with a loaded gun ...

    Article : 108 words
  43. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London or in Channel—Nixe, ship, from Sydney April 21: Sigurd, barque, from Port Wakefield April 21; Imperator Alexander II., ship, from Geelong Hay 12. ...

    Article : 80 words
  44. NEW SOUTH WALES

    The weather has been warm. A severe duststorm has passed south. The City Council has been informed by the Government that it cannot entertain ...

    Article : 115 words
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