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  2. LOCAL AUTHORITIES' CONFERENCE.

    The local authorities conference was continued on Saturday morning. The following office bearers were elected:—President, the Mayor of Brisbane ...

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  3. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Haldane), speaking at Oxford, said that few persons supposed that the United States would have remained under ...

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  4. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Viscount St. Aldwyn presided at a meeting of those Conservative peers who are opposed to the action of Lord Halsbury. The meeting decided not to attempt to ...

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  5. BRISBANE EXHIBITION.

    The wine awards in connection with the Brisbane show have been announced. In champion Australian wines, open to merchants and growers, any age, the ...

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  6. THE STEAMER SONNENBERG.

    The steamer So[?]enberg has reached Dakar, a town in French Senegal, Africa, the [?]ft, which broke in the Gulf of Guinea, having been repaired. ...

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  7. THE TURF.

    Wootton rode four winners, including three in succession, at the races yesterday. LONGREACH, August 5. ...

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  8. SPORTING TELEGRAMS

    The winter meeting of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club commenced yesterday. The weather was spring like in appearance. There was a very large attendance. ...

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  9. THE ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The Aurora, in which the expedition under Dr. Mawson, is to sail to the Antarctic regions, has left Cardiff. ...

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  10. THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

    It is expected that Mr. Robert Rollitt, who was appointed arbitrator to decide whether the work performed by the dockers was work for stevedores and ...

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  11. THE PENNY POSTAGE SYSTEM.

    The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Thomas Vezey Strong), in presenting an illumlnated address to Mr. Henniker Heaton at the Mansion House yesterday from ...

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  12. ATHLETICS.

    The Commercial Travellers' Association held its annual sports and social gathering on the Toowong sports ground an Saturday. ...

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  13. CRICKET.

    Mr. Lewes, in the "Field," is making an appeal for the £2000 required for the upkeep of the training ship Mercury this year so that Mr. C. B. Fry will be free ...

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  14. NAPTHA SPOUT ON FIRE.

    A naptha spout at Baku, on the Cuspian Sea, was set on fire. Five workmen perished. ...

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  15. THE SUGAR STRIKE.

    The New South Wales Storemen's Union has received an urgent request from the strike executive in Brisbane that an immediate conference of storemen's ...

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  16. THE MOROCCAN SITUATION.

    The rapprochement will establish m[?]ters of principle between the French Ambassador to Germany (M. Cambon) and the Germen Minister for Foreign, Affairs ...

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  17. FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA.

    The forest fire in San Bernardino, California, which ravaged a huge area of country and destroyed a number of mountain resorts, has now been controlled. Me[?] ...

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  18. FOOTBALL

    At the Exhibition Grounds on Saturday the return match was played under the Rugby Union rules between Queensland and New South Wales. The visitors won ...

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  19. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    The Democratic leaders announce that sufficient support is forthcoming to enable them to pass the Wool Bill over the Presidential veto, by recuring a two-thirds ...

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  20. AMERICAN TRUST.

    Mr. Charles Schwab, under examination by the commission appointed to inquire into the affairs of the United States Steel Trust, declared that the trust was his own ...

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  21. YACHTING.

    The King of Spain, who steered his yacht Hispania, won the cup for the fifteen metre race at Cowes. ...

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  22. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the final of the Northumberland lawn tennis championships Ritchie beat Dunlop 2—6, 6—3, 6—2, 6—4, and Doust and Dunlop defeated Ritchie and Prebble ...

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  23. MOUNT MORGAN.

    The following players have been chosen to represent Mount Morgan in the match against Rockhampton to be played here on Saturday next: ...

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  24. BILLIARDS.

    The billiard match between Reece and Lindrum was concluded last night. The final scores were—Reece, 8000; Lindrum, 4508. ...

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  25. THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Premier of Tasmania (Sir Elliott Lewis), who was a passenger on the s.s. Makura, referred to his "wireless" interview, a report of which has appeared in ...

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  26. ROCKHAMPTON BROTHERHOOD.

    Over eighty men gathered at the Theatre Royal yesterday afternoon for the Brotherhood meeting. Mr. A. W. Kirby occupied the chair and gave a short ...

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  27. AMUSEMENTS.

    Last night the excellent programme submitted by the Olmpia Picture Company drew a large and appreciative audience. The chief film was the vivid ...

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  28. ROSEHILL RACES.

    The Rosehill August meeting took place yesterday in fine weather. The Rosehill Handicap was won by Royal [?]ia[?]. Colma was second, and Flavigny third. Four ...

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  29. DISASTROUS FIRE IN HUNGARY.

    A fire broke out in the village of Runatopova and 110 houses were destroyed, leaving 300 people homeless. Much corn and a number of cattle were lost. ...

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  30. CHOLERA IN TURKEY.

    Since May 24[?] cases of cholera have been reported, of which 126 proved fatal. ...

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  31. MEN BURIED ALIVE.

    A telegram received from East Liverpool, in Ohio, United States, says that fifty men had been buried by the caving in of the plant of the Crucible Steel ...

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  32. CANADIAN BEEF IN SWITZERLAND.

    Two hundred carcases of Canadian [?]eef have been imported into Switzerland to compete with Australian beef. ...

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  33. QUEENSLAND TURF CLUB.

    The racing season in Brisbane opened on Saturday with the first day's racing of the Queensland Turf Club's winter meeting. There was a large attendance. So[?]ndid ...

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  34. THE TRAMWAY STRIKE IN CAIRO.

    The strike of 500 tramway employees at Cairo has ended and work has been resumed. ...

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  35. MEXICO.

    General Bernard Reyas will contest the position of President of Mexico. There is a prospect of another war. ...

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  36. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of General Sir Robert Cunliffe Low, keeper of the Crown jewels since 1909, at the age of seventythree years. ...

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  37. FLOODS IN NICARAGUA.

    The republic of Nicaragua, Central America, has been visited by heavy rains, causing the worst floods known for a generation. A gunboat was sunk. ...

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  38. SHIPPING NEWS.

    The steamers Arawatta and Peregrine arrived at Sea Hill last night. The s.s. Dolphin, with all the passengers, is expected to reach the wharf about seven ...

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  39. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    M. Vedrines, who was second in the race for £10,000 offered by the "Daily Mail" over a distance of 1O00 miles, is making a flight on a monoplane from Hendon ...

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  40. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TREATY.

    President Taft, speaking at a banquet at the White House in honour of Admiral Togo, invited Japan to join the AnzloAmerican arbitration movement. ...

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  41. THE SUGAR MILL COMPANY.

    A meeting of the directors of the Rockhampton Sugar Mill Company was held at the office of the Secretary (Mr. R. R. Dawbarn) on Saturday morning. There ...

    Article : 129 words
  42. LABOUR TROUBLES.

    The tipdray carters threaten to paralyse the building trade by going out on strike to-morrow unless the employers concedo increases to from 9s. to 10s. per day. In the ...

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  43. AN AMERICAN TRAMWAY STRIKE.

    At Des Moines, United States, 100 strikebreakers were injured in the riots arising from the tramway strike. The strikebreakers took refuge in a stationary ...

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  44. THE AUSTRALIAN CADETS.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts to-day inspected the Australian Cadets at the Crystal Palace. Major Buckley, military attache to the office of the Australian ...

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  45. THE FRENCH ESTIMATES.

    The French estimates for 1912 provide for an expenditure of £7,000,000 in excess of the estimates for 1911. ...

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  47. CANARIAN POLITICS.

    The French-Canadian Nationalists have commenced an active campaign against the navy policy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Prime Minister, to the exclusion of the ...

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