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  2. RURAL INDUSTRIES.

    BOOLEROO CENTRE, December 14.—Saturday being too damp for reaping, the wheatbuyers were kept busy with a record delivery. The largest load comprised 81 ...

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  3. HOTEL TRAGEDY.

    Regarding the murder of Joanna Kelly in an hotel at Armidale on Sunday morning, it appears that deceased, in company with another girl employed at the same ...

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  4. UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN.

    Washington messages intimate that considerable progress has been made with the negotiation of Anglo-Amerinan treaties covering all questions outstanding between ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. BARRIER LABOUR QUESTION.

    The combined unions have now arranged to meet Air. Delprat (general manager of the Proprietary) in conference on the wages Question. The meeting will be held ...

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  6. A REFORMED "CROOK."

    A libel action, arising out of evidence given in the Auburn murder trial, in connection with which two men named Jones and Grand paid the death penalty, was ...

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  7. FIGHTING THE LORDS.

    Mr. J. Keir Hardie (Independent Labour M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil), in a speech at Barry on Saturday, said he feared the Asquith Government was about to ...

    Article : 226 words
  8. PANAMA CANAL.

    A terrible explosion has taken place near the small town of Basobispo, in Panama, in connection with the Panama Canal works now in progress. Through some ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. THE VICTORIAN-ELECTIONS.

    To-day fresh interest was added to the Stele elections by the initiation of a movement which aims at bringing together the sundered anti-Socialist forces. Yielding to ...

    Article : 240 words
  10. VISIT BY PRESIDENT-ELECT.

    Mr. W. H. Taft, the President-Elect of the United States, intends to pay a visit of inspection to the Panama Canal undertaking in January. He hopes to ...

    Article : 61 words
  11. LEGISLATORS AND ESPIONAGE.

    President Roosevelt caused a wave of indignation last week among United States Congressmen by suggesting that secret servicemen should be employed to watch ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. SHIPPING DISASTER.

    A maritime disaster, associated with great loss of life, has taken place in the Black Sea. A Turkish vessel bound from Constantinople to Sebastopol foundered during ...

    Article : 52 words
  13. GRADUATED INCOME TAX.

    The Solicitor-General of England (Sir W. S. Robson, K.C.), in a speech at Nantmel. Radnorshire, on Saturday, prophesied that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. NOBEL PRIZEWINNER.

    The Nobel prize for chemistry was recently awarded to Professor Ernest Rutherford, of the Manchester University, who is a native of New Zealand. On Saturday ...

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  15. PEAELING DISASTER.

    Nothing further beyond official telegrams confirmatory of the news telegraphed last night concerning the pearling fleet disaster on the north-west coast has ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. SAN FRANCISCO GRAFTERS.

    After many weeks' trial Abraham Ruef. solicitor, the "boss" of the municipal officials at San Francisco, who are accused of wholesale corrupt practices, has been ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. SHIPPING LAWS.

    Mr. Walter Runciman. President of the Board of Education, in an address before the Liverpool Shipbrokers' Benevolent Society on Saturday, said he hoped the ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. THE ROBB ESTAE.

    Mr. Justice Hodges to-day disposed of an application in a suit brought by Mrs. Margaret Muirhead, of Adelaide, relating to assets in the estate of John Robb ...

    Article : 321 words
  19. SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1858.

    The Money Order System.—A plan for transmitting sums of money through the post office to all the chief towns in the province—14 in number—has been perfected. ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

    The New York Times publishes the detailed figures of the election for the Presidency of the United States. The Republican candidate. Mr. William Howard Taft ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. DAMAGE TO TELEGRAPH STATION.

    A telegram was received by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Thomas) this afternoon from the Deputy Postmaster-General of Western Australia, telling of the damage ...

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  22. CONCESSION TO GERMANY.

    The Berlin correspondent of The Standard says that Great Britain has agreed to recognise the German loadline on ships as equally effective as the British loadline. ...

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  23. THE SPENCER'S GULF FERTILIZER COMPANY.

    A meeting of the Spencer's Gulf Fertilizer Company was held at the office of Mr. C. T. Bray, 12 Waymouth street, on December 11. The memorandum and articles of association were read ...

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  24. A WAR INCIDENT.

    The Russian Admiralty Appeal Court has confirmed the judgment of the Libau Prize Court, which justified Admiral Rojestvensky in the capture and destruction of the ...

    Article : 156 words
  25. AMERICAN TARIFF.

    Enquiries prosecuted by United States journalists among manufacturers relative to the reform of the tariff indicate that the makers of woollen clothing do not ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    James Smyllic was charged with having left his wife at Surry Hills, Sydney, without means of support. He consented to an order to pay 15/ a week towards her ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. A BANKRUPT'S LOSSES.

    William Scott Fell, of Scott Fell & Co., was further examined to-day, before the Register in Bankruptcy. Mr. E. W. Perkins (for the official assignee) questioned ...

    Article : 237 words
  28. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST POLICE.

    Superintendent Johnson (head of the police district) is conducting an enquiry into two charges of attempted blackmailing preferred against two constables, both of ...

    Article : 71 words
  29. VENEZUELA.

    The strained relations which for some time have existed between Venezuela and the Netherlands owing to President Castro's insulting and overbearing conduct, have ...

    Article : 105 words
  30. ROUGH WEATHER.

    The liner Ionic, belonging to Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company, limited, which left London on December 10. and the Orient Royal mail liner Oroya. which sailed ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Majesty the King, who lias been suffering from an influenza cold, is recovering. His ailment has almost disappeared, and he hones to attend an investiture ...

    Article : 161 words
  32. QUEENSLAND.

    A special application was made to the Chief Justice for bail to be granted Mrs. Fanny Wilson, who is under committal in connection with the Carpentaria Downs ...

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  33. COLLISION OF STEAMERS.

    Mr. Justice Street gave his reserved decision in the Vice-Admiralty Court to-day in the consolidated suits A.U.S.N. Company (owners of the steamer Suva) ...

    Article : 321 words
  34. LONG MOTOR RIDE.

    Lieut. Graetz, of the German Army, has arrived at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, after travelling in a motor car from Dares-Salaam, in German East Africa, a ...

    Article : 61 words
  35. ALLEGED BRIBERY.

    The hearing of the Warwick election petition has been continued. Frederick Henry Selke deposed he had obtained some postal votes, and had operated on a bank ...

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  36. RICH DIAMOND FIELDS.

    In the German Reichstag on Friday Herr Demburg, the Secretary for the Colonies, gave details of the discovery of a diamond field, near Luderitz Bay (Angra Pequena) ...

    Article : 57 words
  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    A tragedy occurred at Waitara this afternoon. Dr. Goode shot with a revolver a neighbour, Mrs. Klenner, who is now in the New Plymouth Hospital in a dangerous ...

    Article : 96 words
  38. SYDNEY FIRES.

    The factory of the Stanmore Fruit Preserving Company was completely gutted to-night. The premises were of two stories, and as the flames had obtained a good hold ...

    Article : 124 words
  39. THE NEW CORNSACK.

    It is becoming clear that the new standard cornsack does not fulfil the intention that it should hold 200 lb. of wheat. The actual weight is found to vary considerably ...

    Article : 271 words
  40. PROBABLY SUICIDE.

    The death of Albert Frederick Eastaway (customs agent) was enquired into by the Coroner to-day. Deceased was found dead on December 6 on a rocky ledge in ...

    Article : 86 words
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  42. A WOMAN'S APPEAL.

    The High Court gave judgement to-day in a case in which Daisy Gertrude Dearman (wife of Melbourne Nathan Dearman) appealed in person against a decision of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  43. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CRICKET.

    At a cricket match near Nelson, two of the players. Hall and Eban. collided. Hall was rendered insensible, and died a few hours later from concussion of the brain. ...

    Article : 39 words
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