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  2. THE DAVIS CUP.

    The annual international lawn tennis competition for the Davis Cup was resumed on the Wibledon court on Tuesday, when the Australasian representatives ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. EXPLOSION ON THE GEORGIA.

    Details have been received of the awful explosion which occurred on Monday on the United States battleship Georgia (14,948 tons, 48 guns, 19.2 knots), while ...

    Article : 226 words
  4. BOUNTIES BILL.

    The Bounties Bill, the first reading of which was agreed to by the House of Representatives last night provides for the payment in bounties of £530,000 during the ...

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  5. DEFUNCT SOAP TRUST.

    Mr. W. H. lever, Liberal M.P. for the Warral division of Cheshire and head of the soap manufacturing business of Lever Brothers. Limited began legal proceedings ...

    Article : 407 words
  6. THE FRANCHISE BILL.

    Important developments took place on Thursday in connection with the much debated Franchise Bill. There was a conference between the Opposition in the ...

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  7. DOUBLE INCOME TAX.

    During the debate in committee of the House of Commons on the Finance Bill, Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson (Conservative, Cambridge University) moved to add a ...

    Article : 283 words
  8. ESSENCE OE PARLIAMENT.

    In Legislative Council Address-in-reply amended and agreed to Hon. B. A. Mofilden obtained leave to introduce Bill dealing with habitual criminals. Hon. J.J. Duncan moved for select ...

    Article : 112 words
  9. THE SENATE VACANCY.

    The Federal Government is puzzled to know its exact position regarding the legal proceedings against the return of the Hon. J. V. O'Loghlin as a Senator for South ...

    Article : 319 words
  10. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The City Coroner, in returning a verdict in the case in which a woman was suffocated while in a drunken stupor, paid that during the last 12 months 600 deaths had ...

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  11. IN THE COUNCIL.

    Two notices of motion of a question prefaced the resumed debate on the Address-in-reply in the Legislative Council on Wednesday. The Hon. J. J. Duncan gave ...

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  12. MAILCOACH BURNT.

    The Wilcannia mailcoach, which left Bourke on Tuesday night, was with the mails destroyed by fire at Yanda. Station, about 25 miles ...

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  13. THE BISLEY CONTESTS.

    Further brilliant successes have been achieved at Bisley this week by Australian riflemen. In the shoot-off for The Daily Telegraph Prize +he Queensland ...

    Article : 263 words
  14. CZAR AND PEOPLE.

    A dreadful outrage is reported from Alexadrpol a fortified town in Transcaucasia. Gen. Alikhanoff, a former Governor of Tiffis, was driving in the streets with his ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. COLLIERY WHEELERS FINED.

    The wheelers at the Hebburn pit, who were taught a sharp lesson the other day by the miners offering to take up wheeling, were again reminded that they cannot set ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. "ALL RED ROUTED."

    The recent Imperial Conference after a long debate, in which Sir Joseph Ward and Sir Wilfrid Laurier took a prominent part, adopted the following resolution:—"That in ...

    Article : 244 words
  17. SERIOUS BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    Several children were injured in a buggy accident at Capertree, in the Lithgow district. They were, returning from attending the funeral of a child who had been ...

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  18. COOL STORAGE.

    The Postmaster-General is anxious that some arrangement should be made by the States in regard to cool storage space in the mail steamers under the new contract ...

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  19. VENEZUELA.

    The President of Venezuela (Gen. Ciprino Castro) and his Government have refused to obey an award of the International Arbitration Tribunal at the Hague ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. TRADE PREFERENCES.

    In the House of Commons' division on Mr. A. Lyttelton's motion censuring the Government for declining the Colonial Premiers' invitation to favourable consider the ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.

    The house of Mr. Thomas Bland, a miner at Wolgate, in the Lithgow district, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, and a boy, nearly four years old, was ...

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  22. A COMIC OPERA NAPOLEON.

    An untamable firebrand, President Castro ia a strange combination of a comic opera ruler and a genuine Napoleon. Born the son of a farmer, and now of middle ...

    Article : 326 words
  23. COUNTY CRICKET.

    F. A. Tarrant, the ex-Melbourne player, has shown remarkable form during the present cricket season in England. Playing for Middlesex, he has already scored 1,000 ...

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  24. PREMIER'S MANIFESTO.

    In view of the approaching general elections the Premier has issued a manifesto to the electors of New South Wales. He asks that opponents of the Liberal Party should ...

    Article : 77 words
  25. WOOLWICH ARSENAL.

    The Parliamentary Committee, which enquired into the among the working classes at Woolwich owing to the extensive curtailment of work in the arsenal ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. A WANDERING TIGER.

    The tiger scare in the Wellington district continues. A few days ago Mr. Andrew Zell came to close quarters with an animal which was standing at the entrance to a ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. LAND OWNING IN FIJI.

    In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Earl of Elgin (Secretary for the Colonies), at the request of Lord Stanmore, consented to lay on the table the official ...

    Article : 166 words
  28. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 words
  29. BROKEN HILL, July 17.

    The Education Department has promised that a permanent truancy officer shall arrive at Broken Hill in about a fortnight. The City Council on Tuesday night ...

    Article : 239 words
  30. OUIDA DYING.

    Mdlle, Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), the well-known novelist, lies dying ina milkman's squalid house at Massarosa. She ...

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  31. NORTHERN TERRITORY MINES.

    Sr. Story stated to-day that there are rich tinfields at the West Arm, Northern Territory. In one of the claims he packed up lumps almost of pure tin as large as ...

    Article : 222 words
  32. MILITARY AIRSHIPS.

    The French military airship La. Patrie, which has made many successful flights across Paris at a speed of 18 miles an hour against the wind, has been stationed at ...

    Article : 166 words
  33. BRITISH NAVY.

    King Edward has arranged to hold a grand review of the Home Fleet in the Solent on August 3. The assembled war vessels will ...

    Article : 120 words
  34. SIR. R. TALBOT.

    The Governor of Victoria (Sir Reginald Talbot), who is on a visit to Great Britain, has arranged to sail for Melbourne by the Moldavia. He will embark at ...

    Article : 40 words
  35. BANK SHARES, &c.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 words
  36. REPATRIATED KANAKAS.

    Copt Swensson, who has had important interests in the Solomons for 17 years, and was in Malaita only a few weeks ago, said the stories which had been published would ...

    Article : 122 words
  37. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF.

    The Government announced to-day alterations it intended. to propose in the tariff. Boiled Sugars and confectionery are raised from 2d.to 3d. Dried fruits and ...

    Article : 207 words
  38. BRITISH CRUISERS.

    The British Admiralty has decided to station three cruisers for permanent duty in the West Indies. This arrangement is due to the vexation that was caused at the ...

    Article : 98 words
  39. COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    The Steam Collier Owners and Coal Stevedores' Association, while declining another conference with the coal lumpers, acceded to the wish of the unionist ...

    Article : 155 words
  40. HAGUE CONFERENCE.

    The Third Commission at the International Peace Conference has approved of the proposal that the articles of the Geneva Convention shall be adapted to ...

    Article : 44 words
  41. COLLEGE OF COOKERY.

    It is proposed to establish an Australasian College of Cookery, with headquarters in Melbourne, for the purpose of furnishing competent male cooks for hotels ...

    Article : 38 words
  42. PAWNBROKERS' LOANS.

    A case of interest to pawnbrokers and their clients was decided by the Chief Justice to-day. William Vanderspan had pledged with a pawnbrokers for £11 a ...

    Article : 171 words
  43. POISONED COCOA INCIDENT.

    At the Sale Criminal Sessions to-day William Davies was charged with having administered poison at Yahoo Creek with intent to kill Arthur Le Breton Mount. He ...

    Article : 91 words
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