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  2. IN THE GALLERIES.

    Council.—Address-in-reply adopted. Chief Secretary announced Government policy. Hon. J. G. Bico secured adjournment of debate. At 3.18 p.m. Council adjourned until July 12 at ...

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  3. TORPEDOES AND AEROPLANES.

    Some remarkable results have been achieved by Mr. A. J. Roberts, the young Australian inventor, in the control and guidance of torpedoes and aeroplanes by ...

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  4. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The following are the total amounts stated by the candidates to have been spent in their respective candidatures for the represented of Victoria in the Senate:— ...

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  5. COMMAND OF THE SEA.

    Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, late of the United States Navy, has contributed a striking article to the columns of The Daily Mail on "Great Britain and the German Navy." ...

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  6. CONQUEST OE THE AIR.

    The aviation meeting at Rheims was continued yesterday. There was a great attendance of spectators. The weather was not so favourable an desired, as the day ...

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  7. SHOP ASSISTANTS' BILL.

    The Home Secretary (Mr. Winston Churchill) has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill to forbid shop assistants from working more than 60 hours, or after ...

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  8. IMMIGRANTS.

    In an article on Australian immigration, a writer in The Times to-day points out that there are large bodies of British boys, at present without that flexibility of ...

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  9. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    A terrible railway disaster has occurred at Dayton, Ohio, in the United States of America. A passenger train collided with a freight ...

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  10. TRAGIC OPOSSUM HUNT.

    At the Evandale Police Court to-day Thomas Adams was charged with having shot Williams Sells, aged 17, with intent. The evidence showed that Wells and three ...

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  11. COUNCIL.

    There was a good attendance, and the decks having been clewed of preliminary matters the Chief Secretary fired off the Government policy speech. ...

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  12. ASTRONOMER DEAD.

    The death has occurred of Dr. Schiaparelli, the famous Italian astronomer, of the Royal Observatory, Milan. Givovan Virginio Schiaparelli, F.R.S. ...

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  13. NEW ZEALAND POLICE STATISTICS.

    Criminal statistics in the annual report of the Police Department show an aggregate net increase of 420 convictions. Drunkenness increased by 314, burglary by ...

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  14. THE STATE BALANCES.

    The Premier dealt at some length to-day with the action of Mr. Fisher in withholding the States' money. Mr. Kidston said Mr. Fisher told members in the House on ...

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  15. SEEKING SETTLERS FOR VICTORIA.

    The Victorian Minister for Lands (Mr. Mackenzie), and Mr. Elwood Mead, who has accompanied him on a mission to England with a view to secure suitable ...

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  16. NEGROES LYNCHED.

    Two negroes, at Charlestown, Missouri, one of the Southern States of America, have been lynched because they murdered a white fanner. ...

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  17. FAMOUS PICTURES.

    Mr. Alexander Young's Barbizon and Dutch pictures have been sold at auction at Christie's. They realized altogether £153,892. Mrs. Young gave 4,600 guineas ...

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  18. IMPRISONED STRIKE LEADERS.

    The Newcastle Miners' Federation to-day considered the resolution passed by the Neath Mining Lodge urging that the miners should withdraw from the Northern ...

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  19. PLENTY OF AMMUNITION.

    Last week Mr. Arthur Chamberlain (brother of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain) expressed the opinion that there was not sufficient cordite in the ...

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  20. EMIGRATION QUESTION.

    The Under Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs (Col. Seely) made the statement in the House of Commons to-day that the Home Government was not prepared ...

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  21. THE ASSEMBLY.

    The first petition for the session was presented by Mr. McGillivray. It was from the Thebarton Corporation, and protested against the regulations under the Food and ...

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  22. FLYING AT MONTREAL.

    M. Lesseps, a Frenchman, has in his airship succeeded in circling the city of Montreal, Canada. His machine was kept at an average height of 2,000 ft., and he ...

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  23. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.

    Owing to the Australian Board of Control having refused to provide a guarantee the South African Cricket Association has decided not to sent a team to the ...

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  24. TRAIN MURDER.

    The adjourned trial is proceeding at Newcastle of John Alexander Dickman, a clerk and an ex-secretary of the Widdrington colliery, who is charged with the murder ...

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  25. "EGYPT FOR EGYPTIANS."

    Not only are the Cairo Government and private school students wearing mourning in memory of Wardini, the executed assassin of the late Egyptian Premier, but ...

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  26. VICTORIA.

    At a meeting of members of the Legislative Council to-day mr. Harwood was elected Chairman of Committees. The Closer Settlement Board decided to ...

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  27. DREADNOUGHTS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to Mr. J. B. Lonsdale, Unionist member for Mid-Armagh, the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. MeKenna) stated that the ...

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  28. MANCHURIA.

    The Journal des Debats, a leading Paris newspaper, states that an agreement has been signed between Russia and Japan which guarantees the status quo of ...

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  29. SYDNEY, July 5.

    With reference to the cablegram from the South African Cricket Association, Mr. G. Sinclair (Secretary of the Board of Control) said to-night that the board could not ...

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  30. QUEENSLAND.

    Figures were issued by the Government Statistician a few days ago showing the quantity of wool taken from sheep in Queensland. The value of the wool ...

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  31. BRITISH BUDGET.

    During a discursive debate on the Budget in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-Gorge) expressed the hope that in 1912, when ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. S. N. Ziman (the Now Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1908) has secured a first-class pass in his final crimination in mathematics, thus completing his course ...

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  33. NAVAL EXPERTS VISIT.

    Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, who will advise the Commonwealth Government in regard to naval questions, will sail from England on August 5. He will arrive in ...

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  34. "THE GLORIOUS FOURTH."

    The celebrations of American Independence Day (July 4) in London and many cities in the United States were limited to exhibitions of fireworks and the official ...

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  35. ALBURY MILITARY CAMP.

    A spot close to the Albury Racecourse has been chosen as the location of the camp school of instruction, which will be held for the training of 200 new non ...

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  36. CANADIAN SCANDALS.

    When the Canadian audit officers examined the affairs of the Government Printing Bureau at Ottawa and found that, frauds had been committed upon the ...

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  37. COPYRIGHT ACT.

    The first action of its kind under the Commonwealth Copyright Act was heard at the District Court to-day. The plaintiff in the case, Arthur Victor Gregory ...

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  38. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The population at the end of [?] was 282,856, an [?] of 1,164 for the month made up a [?] over departures and 383 [?] of ...

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  39. GAMBLING PALACES.

    An Anglo-Italian syndicate has been formed with the object of transforming the town of Brissago, on the north-west shores of Lake Maggiore. Switzerland, into ...

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  40. BOOT TRADE DISPUTE.

    The High Court to-day heard further argument in the boot trade dispute. Mr. Duffy said if it were found that there was jurisdiction because a ne quarrel had ...

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  41. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of standard silver to-day is 2/5/3, per oz.—an advance of ½d. since Saturday. Breadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat and ...

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  42. SYDNEY RAILWAY SYSTEM.

    The Legislative Assembly spent some time to-day discussing, on a motion for adjournment, the necessity for extending the railway system into and through the city ...

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  43. CHINESE DESERTION.

    The owners of the steel screw steamer Crown of Galicia appealed to the Magistrate at West Ham Court yesterday against the decision of the Board of Trade not to ...

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  44. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Dutch steamer arrived from Singapore to-day, and started on the return voyage after a brief stay. The steamer Taivuan arrived from ...

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  45. AN OCTOGENARIAN SWINDLER.

    Owing to disclosures made at the Vatican in Home, Dupray Delamaherie an octogenarian, is being prosecuted in Paris on a charge of having obtained large sums of ...

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  46. A MELBOURNE WAGES BOARD.

    Judge Heydon in the industrial Court to-day gave his reserved decision in regard to an appeal by the Chief Commissioner for Railways against two provisions in the ...

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  47. RELIGION IN SPAIN.

    A quiet and orderly anti-clerical demonstration has been held in Madrid, at which there were present probably. 70,000 people, chiefly Republicans and Socialists. ...

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  48. PORTUGUESE TARIFF.

    Portugal has decided to double hex customs and, shipping dues in 1911 against all countries which discriminate against her. ...

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  49. IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

    John Wrixon Black was before the Criminal Court to-day charged with the theft of £30 from his late employers, Freedman and Co., in December List. The Crown ...

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  51. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London or in Channel.—Solingen, steamer, from Melbourne April 6; Pestiawur, steamer from Sydney May 3, Adelaide May 14; Rongatira steamer from ...

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  54. PUBLIC SERVICE REFORMS.

    The report of the Commissioner appointed to make recommendation regarding the best means to reform the public service has been made available. The ...

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  55. WIRELESS.

    The anxiety which was left concerning the safety of the Austrian Lloyd's liner Trieste, which reached Bombay a few days ago, after having become disabled at sea ...

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  56. LOCAL OPTION AT BROKEN HILL.

    Temperance and liquor partita are working hard in connection with the forthcoming local option vote. The South Australian Minister of Education (Mr. ...

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  57. FOUR TO ONE.

    At the Redfern Police Court to-day James Miller and his sons Alfred and William Miller and Albert Bates were convicted of having assaulted Sydney ...

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  61. THE BARRIER.

    The Political Labour League has decided not to adopt a union recommendation for striking a levy of 1/ per unionist, to front a lighting fund for the State elections. ...

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