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  2. CASUALTIES.

    KADINA, July 28.—At about 11 o'clock this morning a fatal accident occurred at the 304-fathom level in Taylor's shaft at the Wallaroo Mines. Four men MELBOURNE, July 28.—A peculiar accident happened near to Castlemaine last night to Norman Jeal, aged 21 years, resident at Bendigo. Jeal was a member of a ...

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  3. EMPIRE UNITY.

    The Council of the Royal Colonial Institute has unanimously decided to request the Prime Minister, prior to the Imperial Conference nest year, to receive a ...

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  4. A PUBLIC CENSOR.

    A deputation organized by the Social Reform Bureau waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) yesterday to protest against the importation of indecent or ...

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  5. DECLARATION OATH.

    In the House of Commons yesterday; in the debate on the King's Accession Declaration Bill, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) suggested that the new Declaration ...

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  6. LABOUR PROBLEMS.

    The strike of union dock hands, which began with the difficulty over the unloading of the Houlder-Shire vessel at Avonmouth, and assumed more serious ...

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  7. GERMANY.

    With a view of linking the trade interests with the colonial administration, Herr Lindequist (the German Secretary of State for the Colonies) has invited the ...

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  8. CHASING CRIPPEN.

    The Daily Express states, regarding the chase across the Atlantic for Crippen and his paramour, that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has by means of ...

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  9. THE LATE KING.

    The Parisians have done signal honour to the memory of the late King Edward by naming a new boulevard "Edouard Seven." It is intended also to erect in the ...

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  10. COLLIERS' WAGES BOARD.

    "I cannot understand any man of self-respect resigning after such a letter. It was a most injudicious letter, and charged Mr. Paterson with incompetence ...

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  11. FOSTER ERASER AND AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Foster Fraser has a letter in The Standard in reply to Mr. T. A. Coghkin's criticism of his book on Australia. Mr. Fraser maintains that owing to the ...

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  12. EMPIRE MIGRATION.

    The Morning Post, on the subject of the agenda for the next Imperial Conference, appeals for the giving of facilities to the Conference for the full discussion of the ...

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  13. TEACHERS INSPECTING DOCKYARDS.

    School teachers, to the number of 325, from various parts of the German Empire, are visiting Kiel, and have been shown over the dockyards. ...

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  14. GREAT STRIKE.

    A great strike has been declared among employes in the building trade at Chicago. It already affects 18,000 men directly, and 10,000 others indirectly. ...

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  15. COMMUNICATIONS BY WIRELESS.

    Wireless messages have been received from the Montrose in mid-ocean reporting that the instructions sent regarding Crippen and Le Neve were being duly ...

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  16. PORTUGAL.

    In pursuance of the policy of the Portuguese Government to completely reorganize the navy, the Oporto authorities have decided to spend £8,000,000 in the rebuilding ...

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  17. CANADA.

    Speaking at Hnmboldt, in Saskatchewan, the Prime Minister (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) delivered a fine patriotic speech, in the of which he appealed, he said, to the ...

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  18. A PARISIAN FINANCIER.

    M. Rochette, a Parisian financier, has been convicted of embezzlement and infringement of the company law, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ...

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  19. RAILWAY ENGINEERS' DEMAND.

    The engineers on the Grand Trunk Railway are requesting an increase in wages equivalent to what is paid to engineers on the Canadian Pacific line. The demand ...

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  20. FELL FROM FIRE BELL TOWER.

    HOBART, July 28.—A sensational death occurred at Ulverstone before daylight this morning. A well-known local builder, R. Roe, who had ...

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  21. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    In the match at Leyton Essex defeated Kent by 1801 runs. Playing for the former county, the Rev. F. H. Gillingham scored 145. Kent is now leading in the country ...

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  22. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    Following the practical repudiation by the Democratic Convention in Nebraska of Mr. William Jennings Bryan as leader of the Democrats, the Republican State ...

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  23. CONTINENTAL WARES.

    Continental houses, it is alleged, have been sending wares to Canada representing that they were wholly of British manufacture, with the object of obtaining the ...

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  24. WOMEN KILLED.

    A dreadful catastrophe has occurred at the Turkish seaport of Kavala, on the Gulf of Kavala, on the Egean Sea. When the ladies' baths were being ...

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  25. REGENCY BILL.

    The Hill appointing Queen Mary to art as Regent in the event of the death of His Majesty Kine George V. occurring before the Heir-Apparent (the Prince of Wales) ...

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  26. SENSATIONAL VEHICLE ACCIDENT.

    MELBOURNE, July 28.—A sensational vehicle accident happened last night at Woodman's Hill, between Bungaree and Ballarat. Four workmen— ...

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  27. TURKEY.

    The Turkish Government has decided to purchase two German cruisers, each of 12,000 tons, and to pay £500,000 for each vessel. ...

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  28. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    Mr. A. Bailey, in the course of an interview, says that, provided The Sydney Sun's guarantee £5,000 comes through the Australian Board of Control, a South ...

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  29. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The Times reports that the conference between representatives of the two Chambers on the Lords' veto question has met nine times during the present month. This ...

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  30. NEW YORK GOVERNORSHIP

    Mr. Warren G. Harding has been nominated by the regular Republican Party as a candidate for the Governorship of New York State, rendered vacant through the ...

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  31. LADY'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    A sensation has been caused by the news that the Hon. Margaret Phyllis Farington, a window, has died suddenly at Cowes, apparently from the effects of poisoning. It ...

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  32. PERSIA.

    Mustaffi £1 Mamlik has been chosen as Premier of Persia. Hs is a son of a former Grand Vizier, and spent several years in Europe. Hussein Kuli, the new Minister ...

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  33. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

    A dynamite explosion has occurred at National, on the Transcontinental Railway, Northern Quebec. Ten navvies were killed as a result. ...

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  34. NO GUARANTEE FROM BOARD OF CONTROL.

    Mr. Sinclair (Secretary of the Board of Control), who communicated, with the members, had received [?] replies to-night to enable him to say that the board ...

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  35. REPUBLICANS IN CONFERENCE.

    The Republican Convention now sitting in the State of Ohio has adopted a platform which, it is expected, will serve as a model for the whole of the other ...

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  36. CENTENARY OF PEACE.

    The Toronto correspondent of The Times telegraphs that His Majesty King George and the Presidents of France and the United States will be invited to the ...

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  37. KING'S CIVIL LIST.

    The King's Civil List Bill was last night reported from committee in the House of Commons without amendment. ...

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  38. INTER-IMPERIAL FOOTBALL.

    In the Rugby football contest between Cape Colony and the English visiting team the South. Africans won by 19 points to nil. ...

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  39. CUBA.

    It was reported yesterday that Gen. Minier was heading an insurrection at Caney, in Cuba, that he and his forces had retreated to the hills, and that ...

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  40. A SPLITTER'S FATE.

    MELBOURNE, July 28.—William Taylor was splitting palings at Toangi, 20 miles from Yea, yesterday, when a limb of a tree fell on him and terribly injured his skull. ...

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  41. BARONET'S DEATH.

    The death is announced of Sir Henry Doughty Tichborne, grandson of the seventh Baron Arundell of Wardour. Sir Henry was born at Fencote Hall 44 years ago. His ...

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  42. BISHOPRICS' BILL.

    A Bill to facilitate the creation of bishoprics and to amend the Bishops' Resignation Act, has been read a second time in the House of Lords. ...

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  43. TRINIDAD.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. Younger enquired regarding the desirableness of fortifying the Gulf of Paria, in the Caribbean Sea, Venezuela, in view of the ...

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  44. TRADES HALL DISCUSSION.

    The decision of Indge Heydon was the subject of much discussion at the Trades Hall. Newcastle, this afternoon. The officers of the Miner. Federation state that ...

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  45. A WOMAN DROWNED.

    MELBOURNE, July 28.—An unmarried woman named Annie Holmes, aged 41 rears, was found drowned in a lagoon at Moama to-day. ...

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  46. CENSUS BILL.

    The House of Commons has struck out of he Census Sill (Great Britain) the clause inserted by the House of Lords providing that at the taking of the census the people ...

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  47. BANK FAILURE.

    In connection with the failure of the Nieder Deutsche Bank at Dortmund, Westphalia, Prussia, a director has been arrested at the instance of the Public ...

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  48. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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  49. STEAMER BURNED.

    A report has been received that the Peruvian steamer Hullago has been burned at sea and three members of her crew drowned. The steamer was injured for ...

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  50. KICKED BY A HORSE.

    MELBOURNE, July 28.—The four-year-old son of H. Proctor, a farmer at Boort, was kicked on the head by a horse yesterday. He was taken to Dr. Webster, who ...

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  51. LIBERIA.

    Referring to the loan for £400,000 which is being raised in Europe for the negro Republic of Liberia under the egis of the United States Government, the Liberian ...

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  52. PENSIONS AND RATES.

    It is estimated that the cost through the removal of the poor law disqualification in respect to pensions rill be £750,000 for the last quarter ...

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  53. RICHMOND RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    The [?] into the causes of the Richmond railway disaster was began to-day by Mr. E. N. Moore, P.M., who was appointed by the Government is a board to make the ...

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  54. RUN DOWN BY A MOTOR CAR.

    PERTH, July 28.—Edward Snashall, a telephone line repairer, was run down by Mr. I. S. Manuel's motor car in the city last evening, and sustained a fractured ...

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  55. WAREHOUSE BURNED.

    A warehouse belonging to the Chamber of Commerce at Marseilles has been burned, and damage has been done to the of several millions of francs. ...

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  56. FIREMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    COCKBURN, July 28.—Patrick Eugene (Mead, fireman, employed by the South (Australian railways, fell dead on his engine in the Cockburn yard at 4.30 this ...

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  57. TEE BRITISH FLEET.

    His Majesty the King witnessed the maneuvres of the fleet in the English Channel yesterday. The vessels engaged in important tactical exercises. ...

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  58. CHOLERA.

    Cholera is getting a firmer hold in the city. There are now 110 cases isolated. Fifteen deaths have already occurred. ...

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  59. BANK NOTE FORGERY

    At the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Darting, in December, 1902, Philip Bernstein, Solomon Barmash, and William Baramash, who had pleaded guilty ...

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  60. POSTAL BUSINESS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 words
  61. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    It is announced that Sir George Sydenham Clarke, who was Governor of Victoria from 1901 to 1904, has become engaged to the widow of the late Capt. Reynolds, of ...

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  62. FEDERAL NOTE ISSUE

    Mr. Winchcombe (President of the Sydney Chamber of Commercial, at the annual meeting to-day, characterized the proposed Federal note issue as a dangerous ...

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  63. TRAVELLING ALOFT.

    Mr. Grahame-White, the leading British aviator, has publicly expressed a prophecy that in six months aeroplanes will be flying at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and that ...

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  64. SHUNTING ACCIDENT AT PETERSBURG.

    PETERSBURG, July 28.—A. J. Wright, a carriage examiner in the local railway yard, met with a serious accident this afternoon. An engine was shunting in ...

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  65. COPYRIGHT.

    The Copyright Acts Amendment Bill which is before the House of Commons has had a provision added to it in committee that copyright shall hold during the ...

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  66. AIRCUSHION ARMOUR.

    Mr. Rudyard Kipling suggests, with a view of reducing the dangers attendant on aviation, that airmen should be provided with aircushion armour, including helmets ...

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  67. CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION.

    Col. Akimoff, head of a St. Pertersburg department, and seven other officials have been arrested on charges of corruption. It is stated that £10,000,000 passed ...

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  68. BETTER THAN FIGHT FILMS.

    A scene in which Mr. Bayles and Mr. Prendergast (the Leader of the Labour Party), were the principals, occurred in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon. Mr. ...

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  69. CARTRIDGE EXPLODED.

    On Wednesday evening a youth named E. Chapman, Sixth street, Bowden, placed a sun cartridge on a wood block and struck it with an axe. The result was an ...

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  70. MEETING AN ORJENCTION.

    Clause 11 of the Australian Notes Bill provides that any bank shall pay up to £25 in Australian notes of any denomination when the payee so demands. It has ...

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  71. CORONER'S INQUEST.

    In the Legislative Assembly last night the Premier (Mr. Murray) said it was the duty of the Government to take such steps as would prevent the Coroner from holding ...

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  72. LEGS CRUSHED.

    NURIOOTPA, July 27.—Mr. Hempel, earner, of Greenock, was taking a load of wire from Kalimna to the Freeling Station yesterday, when he was jolted off the ...

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  73. WORRIED DRAFTSMAN.

    "I did it because I was worried," was the reply Charles Bernard Parry, an Englishman, made to Constable Gleeson yesterday afternoon at Miss O'Neil's private ...

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  74. COUNTERFEIT COINS.

    Arthur St. Joseph Ingham, who was arrested at Cockburn on a charge of having uttered counterfeit coins in Broken Hill last Saturday, was before the Police ...

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  75. COAL INDUSTRY.

    Passing reference to the coal strike and the cry to nationalize the mines was made by Mr. F. E. Winchombe, in his address at the annual meeting of the Sydney ...

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  76. VICTORIA.

    On and after Monday the price of bread will he increased, to 3f. per or 2lb. loaf cash and 3¼d. booked. Demetrius Morfesse, who killed his wife ...

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  77. CIRCULAR SAW ACCIDENT.

    PORT LINCOLN, July 27.—Norman Hamblin, an employe of Mr. C. F. Ridgway, was sawing wood with a circular saw yesterday, when a large piece of wood ...

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  78. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A cask of opium was picked up by a fishing party off Coogee this afternoon. The task contained about 20 gallons of the drug rained at over £1,000. ...

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  79. COPPER OUTPUT.

    The market for copper stock showers slight animation to-day. This was because the news gained currency that a combination to secure the reduction of the output ...

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  80. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED BRIBERY.

    A Chinese, named William Tue, a fruiterer, at Benalla, was committed for trial by the City Court Bench to-day on a charge of haing, on June 29 last, unlawfully ...

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  81. RINKING MISHAPS.

    PORT AUGUSTA, July 27.—At the skating rink on Monday Sister Nason, in charge of the local hospital, while skating fell and sustained a compound fracture of a ...

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  82. Advertising

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    Advertising : 329 words
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