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  2. ENTOMBED IN A COLLIERY.

    The English newspapers publish further details concerning the awful disaster which occurred in the Maypole Colliery, at Abram, in Lancashire, on ...

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  3. THE CONTINENT CROSSED.

    We arrived at Port Darwin at half-past 5 this afternoon, after a good trip. The car is in splendid order, and no trouble was experienced. ...

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  4. PROSPEROUS SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    There never was a time when South Australia's dependence upon the land as her ultimate source of wealth, and her debt of gratitude to primary producers were in ...

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  5. HE SAID "GRAB!"

    Mr. Warren, the new member for Flinders, who has been regarded as a somewhat meek and mild legislator compared with Mr. Foster, whom he displaced, was ...

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  6. "ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF."

    The Admiral of the Fleet came ashore in the afternoon, and made a courtesy call at the Federal Government House. Admiral Sperry was subsequently interviewed. He ...

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  7. THE WOOL HARVEST.

    The is the time of the garnering of the clip. Away in the far north and the northeast shearing blades are whirring and big white fleeces are rolling away from the ...

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  8. T H E W H I T E ARMADA.

    The Great White Armada entered Sydney Harbour this morning amid a scene of splendour and enthusiasm unprecedented in the annals of the continent. The sight ...

    Article : 290 words
  9. BEAUTIFUL MANOEUVRING.

    At half-past ten Admiral Sperry's flagship, the Connecticut, swung suddenly to the right, and headed straight out to sea. The whole line advanced, and with the ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. POINTS ABOUT THE TRIP.

    Hurrah for the overland motorists! Port Darwin was reached on Thursday. Every true, sportsman will give them a cheer on the successful culmination of ...

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  11. BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATIONS.

    The great spectacle of to-day was the coming of the fleet. Then the city was practically deserted. To-night it was quite otherwise. The streets were ...

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  12. CROWDED STEAMERS.

    The scene in the vicinity of the Heads was a memorable one. Numerous steamers of varying size, all gay with bunting, most of them with a band on board, and all ...

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  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1858.

    Last session the Legislature memorialized the Government to put itself in communication with the Home Government on the subject of the extension of our territory to the westward and over a ...

    Article : 139 words
  14. ENTHUSIASTIC MULTITUDE.

    As soon as the Connecticut had passed through the Heads into the harbour cheer after cheer went up, bands played, and sirens shrieked. As the warships in single ...

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  15. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S DINNER.

    The Governor-General gave an official dinner to-night. Those present included the State Governor, the Admirals, and a number of officers of the American fleet, ...

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  16. SCENE FROM PORT DENISON.

    Ordinarily the foreshores east of Kirribilli are fringed by great ships lying at anchor. An hour before noon to-day not a hull was to be seen there, and on the ...

    Article : 286 words
  17. THE FIRST GLIMPSE.

    The thousand people that stood on Coogee cliffe beheld at 7 o'clock a blurr in the grey mist which joined without seam, sea, and sky. It was an agitated blurr, as ...

    Article : 427 words
  18. THIEVES IN A SKATING RINK.

    During the past few months a number of cases of housebreaking have engaged the attention of the police. The burglaries which have varied from pilfering by petty ...

    Article : 513 words
  19. ACCIDENTS ON TRAM ROUTES.

    There were accidents, of course; it would have been surprising if the day had passed off without mishap considering the enormous crowds and the fact that the trams ...

    Article : 261 words
  20. ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

    Fresh developments have taken place for the Transvaal in connection with the treatment of coloured aliens. Following, upon the meeting of 3,000 Asiatics in ...

    Article : 157 words
  21. FLEET AT ANCHOR.

    It was a couple of minutes past 12 o'clock when the watchers from Fort Denison saw Admiral Sperry's flagship slowly emerge from behind Bradley's Head. The ...

    Article : 327 words
  22. GREETINGS FROM QUEENSLAND.

    The following is a copy of a telegram forwarded this morning by the Mayor of Brisbane (Ald. Buchanan) to Admiral Sperry. United States ship Connecticut, ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. NATAL TAXATION.

    The Natal Government has introduced a new Taxation Bill. It imposes a graduated tax on incomes, the maximum being 1/ in pound on sums exceeding £1,000, and ...

    Article : 55 words
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  25. STATE MEMBERS INVITATIONS.

    Considerable difficulty is being experienced by the Federal fleet reception officers in discovering the addresses of members of Parliament from other States who ...

    Article : 121 words
  26. WRECKED BARQUE.

    The four-masted barque Palgrave, 3,187 tons, which sailed from Newcastle on June 4, became a total wreck at Lengua de Vaca (cow's tongue), a cape on the coast of ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. RUSH TO SOUTH HEAD.

    While the stars were yet in their places a few spectral figures stole through the gloom to the edge of the cliffs about South Head, and the dawn saw several hundred ...

    Article : 253 words
  28. "BREWSTER'S MILLIONS."

    According to the advertised promise of the "Brewester's Millions" Theatrical Company, a motor containing members of the company drew up at the Union Bank to ...

    Article : 148 words
  29. PUGNACIOUS SCHOOL BOYS.

    Schoolboys all the world over have been accustomed to take the pleasures of their interschool contests not sadly, as the French declare the English do, but by ...

    Article : 242 words
  30. "THE PROPER STANDARD."

    Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, who commanded the United States Fleet on its voyage from New York to San Francisco, and then retired from the navy, has been ...

    Article : 96 words
  31. ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER.

    Richard Coronish has been acquitted of manslaughter in connection with the death of his wife under unusual circumstances on May 1 at the Stirling Hotel, Balclutha, of ...

    Article : 40 words
  32. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    Thursday was the fifty-sixth anniversary of the birthday of His Excellency the Governor (Sir George Le Hunte). The ladies of Port Lincoln, to which place ...

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  33. A MEMORABLE SPECTACLES.

    A grand sight was presented as the great white ships lay stretched out in two lines along the northern and southern foreshores but a greater sight still was seen as the ...

    Article : 141 words
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  36. SAILING ALONG THE COAST.

    Then a glimpse was caught of a sleek, white hull, and a little blur of light stood against the grey far down the coast. A thousand glasses focussed upon it at once. ...

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