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  2. HOW MONEY MAY BE SAVED.

    In my second sketch I dealt with the Board of Inspectors. Now let us pass on to the others. The South Australian Government has in all its various branches ...

    Article : 1,327 words
  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The Countess of Hopetoun, with her son, Hon. Charles Melbourne Hope, and Mjr. Willoughby, will leave for England by the R.M.S. China on June 3. ...

    Article : 875 words
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    An egg of the great auk brought £252 at Stevens's auction rooms, London, on April 17. The purchaser desired that his name should not be published. A stuffed ...

    Article : 655 words
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    Those who are not billionaires, not even modest millionaires, may derive some consolation in poverty from the reflections of a French writer, M. De Norvins, who has ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  6. GERMANY.

    With the object of giving his subjects ia Alsace-Lorraine special proof of his good-will the Kaiser recently intimated that he intended to curtail the dictatorial powers ...

    Article : 185 words
  7. THE BOER WAR.

    The correspondent of The Morning Post at Pretoria reports that there are a number of irreconcilables among the Boers. These are chiefly Free Staters. ...

    Article : 191 words
  8. THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

    A cinder cloud has swept with terrible velocity over Fort do France, dropping stones the size of hazel nuts. Many of the inhabitants sought refuge on the ships in ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. FLOOD AND FIRE AT LE CARBET.

    The town of Le Carbet, which formed a suburb on the western ride of St. Pierre, has been partially destroyed. The tidal wave occasioned by the eruption on ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. GERMAN SETTLERS IN POLAND.

    The Prussian Diet is considering a Bill to provide an additional 150,000,000 marks for the purpose of settling the German peasantry in the Polish provinces, in the ...

    Article : 50 words
  11. PEACE DELEGATES AT PRETORIA.

    Reuter's agent at Pretoria telegraphed on Wednesday that, in accordance with an arrangement made during the course of the negotiations which took place in April, six ...

    Article : 416 words
  12. RUSSIA AND FRANCE.

    M. Loubet, President of the French Republic, was yesterday present at a state banquet given by the Czar in his honour at Trarskoye Solo. There were 180 guests ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. AN APPALLING SPECTACLE.

    Later telegrams from the West Indies indicate that the eruption which occurred at Mount Polee at the beginning of this week was of an exceptionally violent character. ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. A SPECULATOR'S AMOURS.

    In the Divorce Court this afternoon, before Mr. Justice Williams, Maude Millicent Inez Williams, of Fitzroy, aged 33, asked for a dissolution of her marriage with ...

    Article : 931 words
  15. AUSTRIA.

    A serious case of espionage has been discovered by the Austrian military authorities. It is stated that Zalesk, a locksmith, and Schaver, a mason, two ex-soldiers ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. FURTHER TROUBLE AT ST. VINCENT.

    It is estimated that the damage occasioned to property, growing crops, and live stock sn the Island of St. Vincent by the recent eruptions represents a loss to the settlers of ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 words
  18. ITALY.

    Following the robbery from King Humbert's chateau at Vivesaux, from which some valuable paintings were stolen, burglars have also entered His late Majesty's ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. UNEMPLOYED IN MELBOURNE.

    A conference of delegates from the various municipalities in and around Melbourne convened by the Premier was held to-day for the purpose of considering the question ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. CENTRAL SUDAN.

    M. Beaulieu has strongly protested against the French Government's proposal to withdraw the Republican garrison from the Lake Tchad, in Central Sudan. He ...

    Article : 38 words
  21. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Capt. F. Rowell, of the South Australian Mounted Rifles, and Lieut. G. Lyons, of the New South Wales Army Service Corps, have left Capetown for England. ...

    Article : 31 words
  22. ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

    A daring robbery was committed shortly after 9 o'clock to-night at the jewellery establishment of Mr. Alfred Kiss, an Bourke street, near Russell street. Mr. Kiss, with ...

    Article : 290 words
  23. VICTORIA.

    The steamer Fortunatus, which left here on Wednesday for Durban, put into Portland to-day for the purpose of landing 12 stowaways whose presence on board was ...

    Article : 253 words
  24. ENTERPRISING TRADERS.

    Hundreds of tons of goods are being stored in Hamburg and New York ready for shipment to South Africa as soon as peace is proclaimed. ...

    Article : 30 words
  25. A.I.M.E. CONGRESS.

    The third sitting of the Australian. Institute of Mining Engineers was held last evening at the Technical College. Capt. Warren presided. There was again a good ...

    Article : 208 words
  26. ARMY REFORM.

    The Right Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas, M.P., Chairman of the committee appointed by the Imperial Government to enquire into the working of the British military ...

    Article : 267 words
  27. SOLDIERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    On Thursday morning the men of the 8th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse hud their lost mounted parade, when Lieut.-Col. Le Mesurier took them to ...

    Article : 373 words
  28. NAVAL DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.

    Sir Harry Rawson, the new Governor of New South Wales, interviewed at Auckland to-day, said the feeling in England is that Ministers of the colonies must as ...

    Article : 125 words
  29. A TECHNICAL POINT.

    The argument was continued to-day before Mr. Justice Hodges on an appeal by Alfred Abrahams against his conviction on a charge of having presented a false ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. A DERELICT SCHOONER.

    Capt. Paulson, of the Danish barque Ebba, which arrived at Fremantle from New York yesterday, reports that on February 9, in latitude 36.15 N., and ...

    Article : 110 words
  31. RABBITS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A meeting was held last night to consider the rabbit invasion. A resolution was passed urging upon the Government the necessity for the immediate erection of a fence ...

    Article : 117 words
  32. DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND.

    The drought is created a position unprecedented. In the cage of the Railway Department the greatest difficulty is being experienced in providing for traffic owing ...

    Article : 87 words
  33. NEW ZEALAND'S FINANCES.

    The public accounts show that the ordinary revenue for the financial year has increased by £220,949, as compared with the previous year. There was a large increase ...

    Article : 50 words
  34. THE RATING OF SYDNEY.

    The general purposes committee of the City Council, at a meeting to-night, agreed to recommend that the general assessment for next year be 1/10 in the pound, a ...

    Article : 44 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 396 words
  36. TASMANIAN CORONATION ADDRESS.

    As Parliament is not sitting the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the House of Assembly have forwarded a circular to members enclosing ...

    Article : 56 words
  37. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    An additional case of plague was reported to-day. The patient is Louisa Larsson, a girl residing in the Windmill street house in which a woman on the occasion of the ...

    Article : 46 words
  38. To the Editor.

    Sir—In an article published in The Register attention is called to the Education Department as one where money can be saved. We are told that education costs ...

    Article : 534 words
  39. WHOLESALE DIVORCE.

    Ten undefended divorce cases were listed before Mr. Justice Williams to-day. Two of them were put off till Monday, and in the other cases the usual decree was ...

    Article : 45 words
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