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  2. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor, Sir Harry Barron, will preside at the meeting of the Y.W.C.A., to be held in the Townhall this evening. To-morrow afternoon ...

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  3. THE LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    At the Labour conference last night, Mr. Holman (State Attorney-General) asked for the suspension of the standing orders. This was agreed to. Mr. ...

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  4. CANADA AND THE STATES

    The Democrats in the American Congress will support the tariff agreement recently concluded between Canada and the United States, and thus enable the ...

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  5. BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.

    The proceedings of the Labour Conference at Leicester concluded yesterday. Prior to the adjournment resolutions were passed instructing the ...

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  6. LABOUR DISPUTES.

    The conference of the master printers and the representatives of the men demanding a 48 hours' week in London has been fruitless, despite the efforts ...

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  7. THE BOER WAR.

    The case has concluded in which a man named Edmondson, who was formetly a sergeant-major in the Middlesex Yeomanry, sued Mr. Leopold Charles ...

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  8. A MINING SENSATION,

    A great sensation in mining circles has been caused by warrants having been issued for Edward C. Dyason, mining investor, who has been arrested, ...

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  9. SENSATIONAL POISONING CASE.

    The trial was continued to-day in St. Petersburg of Dr. Patchenko, Count Lyassy, and Madame Mouravieff, who are charged with murdering Count ...

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  10. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The inquiry has concluded at Capetown into the cause of the disaster to the Shaw Savill and Albion liner Aotea, which is now ashore at Mouille Point, ...

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  11. BOXING.

    "Tommy" Burns, the ex-champion pugilist of the world, has declined to fight Langford in Australia. Burns will not return to the prize ring, as the ...

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  12. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

    The International Arbitration League has issued a manifesto which is signed by 1,000 leaders of the working classes, including 42 Labour members of the House ...

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  13. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Privy Council has dismissed with costs the case of Brown versus Brown. In the case of the National Phonograph Company versus Menck the ...

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  14. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Whilst carrying out her steam trials yesterday at L'Orient, the seaport in the French department of Morbihan, the annoured, cruiser Waldeck ...

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  15. FOOTBALL.

    The football match under Rugby Union rules between teams representing Wales and Scotland was played yesterday, and resulted in a victory for the ...

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  16. WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales to-day there was another large attendance of buyers. There was good competition from Home, American, and Continental buyers, and ...

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  17. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

    A terrible explosion, resulting in the deaths of the Hon. G. B. Edwards, Federal member for North Sydney, and Ja[?]s Graham, a resident of New Town, ...

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  18. THE SEDITION TRIAL.

    In connection with the statement made that Krishnarvarma, the Indian barrister who was struck off the rolls by the English Law Society, had been ...

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  19. MAULED BY A LION.

    The correspondent of the "African World" at Nairobi, British East Africa, recently stated that a brother of Sir Edward Gray, the Secretary of State ...

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  20. MEXICAN REBELLION.

    The rebellion in Mexico is spreading rapidly, and the revolutionary forces are gaining recruits every day. The rebels are better led than the Federal ...

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  21. CRIME IN GREAT BRITAIN.

    Mr. Harry B. Simpson, the principal clerk in the Home Office, in writing an introduction to a Blue Book issued yesterday on the increase of crime in Great ...

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  22. RUSH FOR THE TRAIN.

    Whilst a crowd of people were rushing yesterday to enter a train at New York a girl 15 years old was knocked down and trampled to death. ...

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  23. N.S.W. POSTAL EMPLOYEES.

    A mass meeting of employees of the Postmaster-General's Department in New South Wales, held in the Protestant[?]hall last night, disclaimed any intention of ...

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  24. SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.

    There have been five cases of nat[?] criminally assaulting or attempting to indecently assault white women on the Witwatersrand goldfield alone during ...

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  25. LABOUR ASPIRATIONS.

    The Prime 'Minister (Mr. Fisher) was asked on Saturday to express nn opinion upon a motion submitted to the Labour Conference by Mr. Holman for the ...

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  26. BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

    As the outcome of the non-renewal of the commercial treaty between Bulgaria and Turkey a tariff war was threatened, but the two countries have now agreed ...

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  27. PERSIAN AFFAIRS.

    Yesterday two Armenians shot at Sainod-Dowleh, the Persian Minister of Finance, and seriously wounded him. The Minister was shot in the street ...

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  28. CRUELTIES IN THE CONGO.

    In March, 1909, a tribunal at Mobeka, in the Congo, sentenced Major Arnold, a Belgian officer, to twelve years' penal servitude in connection with murders, ...

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  29. THE CORONATION.

    King George has approved of a contingent of 500 men, including servants, representing every unit of the Indian Native Army, attending the Coronation ...

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  30. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the course of his speech delivered yesterday to his constituents at Bristol, Mr. Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secrefor Ireland, stated that the finances of ...

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  31. PLAGUE IN CHINA.

    No further cases of plague have occurred in the Harbin zone, though half the Russian medical staff are stricken down with the disease. The arrival of ...

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  32. PENNY POSTAGE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) stated on Saturday morning that the negotiations with the Imperial postal authorities on the subject of penny postage ...

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  33. DEFENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

    In referring to-day to the work recently issued on "Compulsory Service" by Lieut General Sir Ian Hamilton, and to which Admiral of the Fleet Sir ...

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  34. CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY.

    Lord Hardinge, the Governor-General of India, has formally welcomed the Crown Prince of Germany to Calcutta, who is shortly returning home owing to ...

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  35. FINANCIAL.

    The statement of accounts submitted yesterday at a meeting of shareholders in Lloyd's Bank Limited shows a record profit for the year of over £ ...

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  36. HEAVY RAIN IN MELBOURNE.

    Melbourne was visited by a heavy downpour of rain this afternoon, and for a little over half an hour much excitement prevailed in the low-lying ...

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  37. BUSH FIRES AT DUNDAS.

    Light showers fell here to-day, but fierce bush fires are burning in the North Dundas district. Several huts have been burnt, and other damage is ...

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  38. THE STANDARD BAG.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) has caused a proclamation to be issued prohibiting the exportation of wheat or other grain, ores, sugar, or other bagged ...

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  39. BILLIARDS.

    The match (8,000 up) between George Grey, the Australian boy billiardist, and E. Diggle, the English professional, was concluded at Birmingham yesterday. ...

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  40. JAPANESE ANARCHISTS.

    In the British Columbian Parliament yesterday the Socialist members endeavoured to pass a resolution protesting against the recent executions of ...

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  41. WHOLESALE BIGAMIST IN POLAND.

    A man named David Kochmel is being tried at Cracow, in Austrian Poland, for polygamy. He established schools to train beggars, and found women the ...

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  42. CONVICTIONS QUASHED.

    Seven miners in Westphalia who were sentenced, in 1895 to terms of imprisonment ranging from six months to three years for perjury on the testimony ...

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  43. NEW ZEALAND SHEARING DISPUTE.

    The Otago Trades and Labour Conncil is incensed at the action of the Arbitration Court over the shearing dispute. The shed hands have written ...

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  44. MEXICAN SMUGGLERS.

    The bodies of three Chinese, victims of a murderous band of Mexican smugglers, have been found in a deep canyon at Nogales, in the State of Arizona. ...

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  45. NEW ZEALAND'S REVENUE

    Addressing a meeting yesterday, the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) said that the revenue of the past twelve months exceeded that of the previous year by ...

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  46. WYNYARD POST OFFICE.

    The Postmaster-General, who arrived at Burnie on Friday night, visited Wynyard yesterday morning, and was waited on by a large deputation regarding ...

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  47. MARRIAGE LICENSES.

    Dr. Thomas H. Tristram, the Chancellor of the Di[?]ese of Landon, who has had a controversy with Dr. Winnington Ingram, the Bishop of London, on the ...

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  48. MADMAN'S ACT.

    The man Sigrist, the Dutch naval cook who entered the Rijks Museum at Amsterdam. which contains a truly national collection of paintings, and ...

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  49. EMIGRATION FRAUDS.

    Yesterday a mob of victimised persons looted what is alleged to have been a bogus emigration agency at Bristol. This agency had issued glowing reports ...

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  50. QUEENSTOWN HOSPITAL GRANT.

    Intimation that the Government has decided to make a grant of £200 to the Queenstown Hospital, as requested some time back, was received here with the ...

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  51. BLUEJACKETS' TOBACCO.

    The British Admiralty has given instructions that the price of leaf tobacco as supplied to the men of the Fleet shall be increased from 1s. to 2s. 8d. per ...

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  52. MASONIC.

    This afternoon, at the Masonic-hall, the St. Andrew's Lodge held a Lodge of Sorrows in respect to the memory of the late Bro. Frederick Stewart, who ...

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