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  2. A MUNICIPAL PROBLEM.

    Among the various supplies necessary to carry out municipal works tar is a line which year by year is growing in importance. Not only has the consumption ...

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  3. ANARCHY IN INDIA

    In consequence of the recent Bomb outrages in India and the discovery of wide spread plots to assassinate several of the chief British officials the Government of ...

    Article : 295 words
  4. KING IN RUSSIA.

    All the English and other reporters who are attending the meeting of His Majesty the King and the Czar of Russia at Reval, a Baltic Port of Russia have been ...

    Article : 164 words
  5. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Tinga was the scene of a disastrous fire on Monday afternoon. Tet Fong's arcade, comprising a number of shops, was totally, destroyed. The damage is estimated at ...

    Article : 199 words
  6. ALLANDALE MURDER. t

    The trial was begun to-day at the Central Criminal Court of Frederick Davies Green on a charge of the murder of Lily Bridge at Allandale, in the Maitland ...

    Article : 322 words
  7. MOTOR-RACING.

    In a match for £500 on the Brooklands actor track at Weybridge. on Monday afternoon M. Nazarro, driving a 90-horse power F.I.A.T. car, covered 26½ miles at ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    At the Oddfellows' Conference on Whit Monday opinion was strongly adverse to the provision in the Government's Old-age Pension Bill stipulating that the limit to which ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. WAGES IN THE IRON TRADE.

    In the Arbitration Court to-day Judge Heydon delivered judgment in the dispute between the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Iron Trade Employers' ...

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  10. LIKE THE NOISE OF A BOILER FACTORY.

    Amusing evidence was given in an action before Mr. Justice Parker last month for an injuction to restrain the Brooklands motor tract from being used for motor ...

    Article : 482 words
  11. THE LICENSING BILL.

    Many mass meetings have been arranged in England by Liberal organizations and temperance societies to pass resolutions in favour of Mr. Asquith's Licensing Bill. i ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. "TWO-UP" PLAYER SENT TO GAGE.

    Thomas walters alias Thomas Oliver, aged 36 years, was charged at the Police Court with having played "two-up" in Crystal street on Monday afternoon, and ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. AMERICAN FINANCE.

    A Wall Street journal estimates that the United States Treasury revenue for the year ending June 30 will show a decrease of £13,000,000 compared with last year, while ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. CADET ENCAMPMENT.

    The cadet encampment was begun this morning. About 400 boys, seniors and unions, went under canvas. The weather has been most unpropitious, but the lads ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. PIGEONS FOR WAR.

    The British Admiralty has decided that the use of ethergraphs renders unnecessary the employment in the navy of carrier pigeons, which are bred to make home ...

    Article : 142 words
  16. OVERPAID RECEIVERS.

    The Supreme Court at New York, which has had before it the question of the remuneration of receivers in the rehabilitation of the Knickerbocker Trust, in giving ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. POSTAL ESTIMATES.

    The work of reducing the Postal Estimates for next year, in view of the fact that the revenue is not likely to be large enough to pay for extensive new works is proceeding ...

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  18. SERVIA AND MONTENEGRO.

    Early this month a statement was published by a Bosnian journalist named Navic that the bombs seized in connection with the discovery of a plot for the destruction ...

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  19. QUEENSLAND.

    The body of Mr. Cottell, one of the two men who were drowned in the motor boat accident at Maroochy Heads on Sunday, has been found. It is expected that ...

    Article : 69 words
  20. A CONVICTION QUASHED.

    An appeal was made to the Supreme Court of the United States against the conviction of Dr. Walter Robarto Gillette, a consulting physician, who was formerly ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. PENNY POSTAGE.

    The business circles of Germany are much annoyed over the establishment of penny postage between Great Britain and the United States. The Berlin ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    At the Criminal Court James Reid was found not guilty of having caused grievous bodily harm to Charles Peterson,at Perth,on April 10. Reid swore that he struck ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. REACTIONARY PERSIA.

    The Shah of Persia has announced a number of notable persons to Baghshax, outside Teheran, the capital. At his instance the Police have arrested the well-known reform ...

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  24. AMERICAN FLEET

    The Federal Government proposed to issue to each officer and man of the visiting American Fleet a souvenir photographic album which will contain 150 pictures ...

    Article : 141 words
  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LOAN.

    The Western Australian Government is issuing a new loan of £1,000,000, to bear interest at the rate of 3½ per cent., with a minimum fixed at £97. Six months ...

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  26. AMERICA'S FOOD.

    The London Daily Mail announces that owing to a great shortage of beef in the United States 200,000 lb. of American beef which had been exported to England has ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. FRANCE- BRITISH EXHIBITION.

    Monday was a bank holiday, and the weather being fine and cool the turnstiles at the great Franco-British Exhibition registered 350,000 visitors. ...

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  28. FUMIGATION RESTRICTIONS.

    In response to the representation of the Interstate Steamship Owners' Federation in connection with the fumigation regulations at Fremantle the Government has ...

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  29. DUMA RESOLUTE.

    Notwithstanding the impassioned appeal by the Russian Premier, M. Stolypin, the Duma has confirmed its refusal to vote £1,100,000 for the construction of new ...

    Article : 63 words
  30. FIRST-AID CONFERENCE.

    Nine hundred delegates from different parts of the world are attending the International First-aid Conference at Frankfort. The New South Wales railway exhibits ...

    Article : 66 words
  31. SUCCESSFUL FLOTATION.

    The Colonial Treasurer has received a cable message from the Agent-General advising him that the new 3½ per cent, loan for [?]1,000,000 had been underwritten at ...

    Article : 210 words
  32. DIVORCE INCREASING.

    The number of divorce cases is a record one. Mr. Justice Simpson said to-day:—I have 55 undefended and 28 defended causes to try, and how I an to deal with all of ...

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  33. NEW ATLANTIC STEAMER.

    The new steamer Rotterdam, with a gross tonnage of 25,000, which was built fr the Holland-American line at Belfast, has made a satisfactory trial run to the Dutch port ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND.

    There was some excitement at Blackball when a bailiff sold goods seized under a distress warrant from the members of the Blackball Miners' Union, who refused to ...

    Article : 92 words
  35. THE BERLIN MURDERER.

    The murderer Heidert, who was convicted at Berlin of having killed a youth, whose dissected remains were found wrapped in an apron, has been sentenced to 10 ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    The French horse Signorinetta, owned by Chevalier E. Ginistrehi, which won the English Derby and the Oaks, has been ordered a rest from racing, and will not ...

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  37. PASSENGERS BY THE CHINA.

    The [?] arrived from England at 7 o' clock this morning. Passengers:— For Adelaide—Mesdames McBride and Giles, infant, and nurse, Miss Giles, Messrs. ...

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  38. GERMAN WORKMEN.

    The party of 120 Germen workman, who are the guests of the Travel Club connected with the Browning settlement, London, are spending a week in the ...

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  39. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    The Standard complains that owing to a serious shortage of men to bring the nucleus crews up to their full strength, the Admiralty authorities have decided that the ...

    Article : 78 words
  40. BREWER HEAVILY FINED.

    A brewer of Invercargill has been fined £40 for receiving an order for a keg of beer in a no-licence district. ...

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  41. SUNSHINE COLLISION

    The circumstances attending the railway disaster at the Sunshine Station on April 20 were further investigated to-day by the Coroner. William Adel, chief foreman in ...

    Article : 184 words
  42. PAYMENT FOR SUNDAY WORK.

    All instruction has been issued by the Federal Public Service Commissioner (Mr. McLachlan), ordering the payment of telegraphed operators throughout the ...

    Article : 66 words
  43. PROSPEROUS NEW ZEALAND.

    Speaking at Christchurch to-night Sir Joseph Ward, the Premier, said the Government had not suggested any increase in taxation and did not believe it was ...

    Article : 115 words
  44. GOVERNMENT WAGES.

    A deputation from the Trades Hall Council and the trader interested waited on the Premier to-day to complain about the rates of wages being paid in the Railway ...

    Article : 108 words
  45. A STARVING FAMILY.

    A father and two sons named Coulter were committed for trial at the Benalia Court to-day on a charge of having stolen our sheep, the skins of which were found ...

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  46. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    [?] [?] or in Channel.— Poet Jackson, barque, from Sydney March 1; Somerset, steamer, from Brisbane April 7 (Port Adelaide April 25): Empereur Menelik ...

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  47. WALLAROO MINES.

    B. Searle, Wallaroo Mines, South Australia, writes as follows:—"I can honestly say that i have derived great benent from Dr.Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and ...

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  48. A MINER KILLED.

    A ratal accident occurred at the Golden Pole Mine at Davyhurst this morning, when James Ryan, known as Mick Ryan, was killed as the result of a blasting accident ...

    Article : 56 words
  49. LABOUR CONFERENCE

    Strong efforts are being made by the members of the Federal Labour Party to secure an alteration in the date of the Labour Conference in Brisbane. This ...

    Article : 92 words
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