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  2. FOOTBALL PREMIERS

    The Newcastle United team, which won the English Cup at the great football final in London, were given an ovating by 150,00 fellow-townsmen on their ...

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  3. POISON BY POST.

    The trial has been proceeding for seme time in Vienna of Lient, Hofrichter, of the Austrian Army, who was arrested on suspicion of having composed the death by ...

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  4. THE KING OF PEACE.

    The Royal Academy banquet was held on Saturday evening, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales presided over a distinguished gathering of artistic and literary ...

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  5. A PUGILIST'S DEATH.

    In a pugilist it match at Sin Francisco on Friday Owen Moran knocked out Tommy McCarthy in the sixteenth round. McCarthy was carried out of the ring in ...

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  6. NEW ZEALAND'S GOVERNOR.

    Lord Islington (Sir John Poynder Dickron-Poynder), the new Governor of New Zealand, has appointed Mr. Robertson Kerr Clark as his Private Secretary, and Capt. ...

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  7. MENDING THE LORDS.

    The Parliament Bill has been circulated among members of the House of Commons. It proposes to enact the resolutions which have already been passed by the Commons. ...

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  8. IMMIGRANTS WITH CHILDREN.

    The mail steamer China brought to hand on Saturday The London Timed of March 23, which contained the letter from its Australian correspondent in Sydney headed ...

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  9. CASUALTIES.

    Early on Sunday morning a fire broke out in Mr. A. Hoffmann's hair dressing establishment, situated a little north of the Payneham ...

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  10. THE JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

    The Observer (a London Sunday paper) fays that in consequence of McCarthy's death, an effort is being made in America to secure a declaration that the forth coming fight ...

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  11. LONG-DISTANCE PLIGHTS.

    The Daily Mail presented its prize of £10,000 in gold to M. Paulhan, the successful competitor in the aerial route flight from London to Manchester, at a luncheon ...

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  12. TENNIS CHAMPIONS.

    In the covered courts tennis doubles championship matches S. D. Duust (N.S.W.) and L. O. S. Poidevin (N.N.W.) and the English holders, A. W. Gore and H. Roper Barrett, three sets out of five—6—3, 4—6,7—s, 1—6, 8—6. ...

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  13. THE BRITISH BUDGET.

    The Finance Bill, which covers the British Budget, and was passed by both Houses of Parliament this week, received the royal assent on Friday. ...

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  14. CONQUERING THE AIR.

    Houdini made a record flight in his aeroplane at the Hose Will Racecourse yesterday. A crowd of several hundred people gathered, and shortly after half-past 12 he ...

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  15. UNITED SOUTH AFRICA.

    Viscount Gladstone and Lady Gladstone have left England for South Africa, where the former will take up his duties in connection with the Governor-Generalship of United South Africa. ...

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  16. FROZEN BUTTER.

    The butler trade in England welcomes the recommendation of the Commonwealth Customs Department that the limit of [?] permissible in Australian butter should be raised to 14 per cent ...

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  17. A COUNCIL OF EMPIRE.

    Viscount Miner, in an address before the Compatriots' Club, said that if the present loose association of self-governing oversea States grew in course of time into ...

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  18. MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME.

    The confession has created a profound sensation in Vienna, where the accused and his victims were well known in society. Hofrichter added to his confession a ...

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  19. AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS.

    The following Australian artists are represented at the Old Salon, Paris:—Miss Harriet Halhed, Mr. Roetland, Mr. Wheelwright. Mr. Arthur Streeton, Mr. Hayley ...

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  20. STRUCK BY A TRAIN.

    Some excitement was caused in St. Vincet street, Port Adelaide, on Sunday afternoon by a collision between a pony and sulky and the train. The sulky was being ...

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  21. A PLEA FOR NATIONAL IDEALS.

    In performing the opening ceremony of the Belfast to Tydenburg Railway, in the Transvaal Colony, which has been built entirely by white labour, the Premier ...

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  22. LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

    The Hon. John McCall (Agent-General for Tasmania), at the banquet of the Ironmongers' Company on Thursday, referred to the new Ministry of the ...

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  23. DEATHS AT A FIRE.

    Nine people have perished in a large fine at the Canadian town of Cornwall, Ootario. The damage to property is eatismated at £30,000. ...

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  24. MELBOURNE GALLERY.

    The Trustees of the Felton Bequest have purchased for the Melbourne Public Art Gallery a painting by Mr. William Hunt entitled "Industrious Pupils.'' The price paid was 40 guineas. ...

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  25. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    The balance sheet of W. A McArthur, Limited, Australian warehousemen, shows a profit of £5,450, out of which a cividend of 5½ per cent, is recommended. There will be ...

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  26. ALBANIAN RISING.

    The 24 hours' respite that was granted in connection with the insurrection in Albania has expired, and the position is more serious than ever. Six thousand Albanians are occupying ...

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  27. NAVAL TRAINING.

    The draft of Commonwealth naval men which have arrived in England for training and to take the destroyers to Australia, has proceeded to Portsmouth, and will ...

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  28. MR. ROOSEVELT'S TOUR.

    The United States ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt have arrived at the Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands. At every Nation on the way from Paris the visitors ...

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  29. IDEALS OF LIFE.

    The Governor (Lord Chelmsford), in his address at the university commemoration yesterday afternoon, referring to benefactors of the University, said:—'There are ...

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  30. SUICIDE AT NORTH KENSINGTON.

    At 9,55 a.m. on Sunday, Louisa Scott, aged 49 years, wife of William Seett, blacksmith, of Gurr's road, North Kensington, was found by her son Archie Scott, aged 15 ...

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  31. NEW ORIENT LINER.

    The Orient Royal Mail Company has ordered another mail steamer similar to the Orvieto (12,125 tons). The vessel is to be built by John Brown & Co., limited, Clydebank. ...

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  32. ART UNION PRIZES.

    In his Presidential address a the annual meeting of the Art Union of London, the Earl of Plymouth complained that the legislation of New Zealand made it illegal to receive ...

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  33. ENGLISH RACING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 words
  34. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.

    The police received a telegram on Sunday, stating that John Ward, who was sent up by the Labour Bureau to work at Waikerie, was accidentally drowned, at 7,30 p.m. on Saturday. The body was recovered ...

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  35. THE CARPENTARIA.

    The British India steamer Carpentaria, 5,776 tons, which, left Port Adelaide on March 30, and was reported overdue between Durban and Capetown, arrived safely at Durban ...

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  36. CANADIAN NAVY.

    The Canadian Sente has passed the Naval Bill without amendment. The measure, which previously passed the Ottawa House of Commons by a vote of 111 to 70, provides for the building of a Canadian Navy. ...

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  37. COTTON MARKET.

    It was recently reported that the receivers of the form of Knight, Yancey, and Co., Alabama cotton brokers, who filed their petition in insolvency, with £600,000 ...

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  38. MINE SUPERINTENDENT'S LUCKY ESCAPE.

    BROKEN HILL, May l.—Mr. Thomas Owen, of Sydney, mill superintendent at the Junction North Mine, was nearly killed to-day in Argent street, He was thrown from his ...

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  39. DIED IN POPE'S ARMS

    The Very Rev. Moasignor Pifferi, who has been sacristan at the Vatican for half a century, has died in the arms of Pope ...

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  40. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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  41. A RUSSIAN MURDER.

    A policeman on night, duty at Narvagate, St. Petersburg, was on Saturday evening shot dead with a revolver by a gang of several men, who have not been identified. ...

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  42. A DEATH SENTENCE.

    Thomas William Jesshope (32) has been sentenced to death for the murder of Frederick Healey (43), a stage carpenter, at a London music hall, on Easter Monday. ...

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  43. MINE WORKER'S DEATH.

    BROKEN HILL, May 1.—Mr. Thomas G. Roberts, who was found injured under day unction North are cracker on Thursday, died in the hospital on Saturday night. The deceased was 55 years of age ...

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  44. CANADA AND CABLES.

    Sir Joseph Ward (Premier of New Zealands) and the Commercial Cable Company have appealed to the Canadian Senate to reject the Cable Companies Bill, which provides that ...

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  45. STREET BURLESQUES.

    The university commemoration wan bold yesterday in the town hall. The students formed the usual procession from the university to the hull, and produced many ...

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  46. AN AMERICAN STRIKE.

    A strike of 40,000 miners in the soft coal pits if Pennsyvania has come in an end. The miners have pone back to work on consideration of having up received an advance in wages and other coneessions. ...

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  47. BOY'S LEG BROKEN.

    BROKEN HILL, May l.-Roy Turner, aged 11 years, was playing on the top of the Silverton Tramway Company's water tanks at Railwaytown this afternoon, when he fell a distance of about ...

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  48. DEATH FROM THIRST.

    PERTH, May l.—The body or Donald Innes, who had apparently died from thirst, has been found 31 miles south of Gascoyne River, in the Murchison District, by Mr. W. ...

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  49. RACE HATRED.

    Selma Kurz, a Viennese singer, has been refused admission to St. Petersburg, where she had been engaged to fulfil the role of a. prima donna at the Imperial Opera House, owing to the fact, that she is of Jewish origin. ...

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  50. DIVORCE IN ENGLAND.

    The Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury has passed a resolution in fayour of the repeal of the Divorce Act of 1857. The committee which investigated ...

    Article : 358 words
  51. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    In the New South Wales appeal rase. Hordern v. Hordern, the Privy Counent has reserved judgment without having ceiled upon counsel for respondent to ...

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  52. HOW LABOUR WON.

    Cardinal Moran presented tho prizes won at the St. Patrick's Day Sports yesterday. He made brief reference to the recent Federal elections. "When John Redmond ...

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  53. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

    MELBOURNE, May l,—D. Sullivan, a miner employed at the New Adelaide Mine, Daylesford, had a remarkable escape from death yesterday. As the cage aseended, his head was caught between it and the ...

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  54. COSTLY STRIKE.

    The eight-hours trouble in connection with the Northumberland mines has cost the Miners' Association to date £80,000 in strike pay. ...

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  55. BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT.

    MELBOURNE, May l.—Martin McPherson, 44 years of age, a farmer, who resided it Kialla, committed suicide early this morning by shooting himself. On one ...

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  56. OUTSPOKEN LABOURITES.

    A meeting of what is known as the Old Darling Harbour branch of Political Laboar League was held on Friday night. It received a letter from the General ...

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  57. FALL FROM A BALCONY.

    IPSWICH (Q.). May l.—A fatal accident occurred at the North Star Hotel early on Saturday morning. The victim was Mr. John Joseph Callaghan, assistant registrar of births ...

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  58. CHILD AND A SNAKE.

    MELBOURNE, May l.—On Wednesday afternoon, the four-year-old son of Mr. M. A. Kileen, of Numurkah, who had been playing in the yard. returned to the house ...

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  59. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The part quarter's imports from Great Britain vcr? valued at £215.684; those from British possessions £190,258, and from foreign countries A 17,155. The ...

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  60. RAILROAD FREIGHTS.

    Many of the railway companies in the United States hare issued notices that freights on numerous commodities will shortly be raised from 10 to 20 per cent, above the present rates. ...

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  61. SMALLPOX AT BRISBANE.

    Mr. E. Pike (chiel engineer of the steamer Nevarra. which recently arrived at Bunbury), was found to be suffering from to modified by previous vaccination. ...

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  62. ALLEGED MILITARY MUTINY.

    Sensational statements were made in a local evening paper on Saturday to the effect that artillerymen had mutinied against an order to turn out and from a ...

    Article : 107 words
  63. Advertising

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  64. AUSTRALIAN MINING SHARES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 words
  65. A BY-ELECTION.

    In the by-election for South Edinburgh, caused by the promotion of Mr. Arthur Dcwar (liberal), to the Justiciary, Mr. Lyell, the Liberal candidate, secured a majority of 2,327 ...

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