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  2. AUSTRALIAN BUILT WAR VESSEL.

    Amid tremendous enthusiasm, in which some 2,000 or 3,000 people participated, the Warrego, the third vessel of the Australian Navy, was launched ...

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  3. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    The committee stage of the Veto Bill was reached in the House of Commons last night. The House was crowded. Mr. W. Younger, the Liberal member ...

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  4. THE REFERENDUMS.

    Mr. Beeby (Minister of Education in the New South Wales Labour Ministry), addressing his constituents, denounced the referendum proposals as an attempt ...

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  5. ADMIRAL HENDERSON'S REPORT.

    The Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) received a deputation this afternoon from the National Defence League and the British Immigration League. ...

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  6. GREAT FLOOD AT CAIRNS.

    Heavy floods took place at Cairns yesterday. The streets were under water, and the esplanade was much damaged. In the Kanerungera district houses ...

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  7. SIR JOSEPH WARD IN CANADA.

    Sir Joseph Ward, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, who is on his way to the Coronation, arrived at Vancouver yesterday. In the course of an ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    At a meeting of the Victorian Executive Council yesterday an order was passed reappointing for four years the three present Railway Commissioners, ...

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  9. THE ROYAL FAMILY.

    The Corporation of Dublin, by 42 votes to 9, to-day rejected a motion for the presentation of an address to King George on the occasion of his visit to ...

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  10. CHAFFINCH CONSPIRACY CHARGE.

    The hearing of the charge of conspiracy against E. W. Bonwick, E. C. Dyason, and Harold Greenway, in connection with the Chaffinch mine, was ...

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  11. SHIPPING RATES.

    The Trans-Pacific lines have joined with the Trans-Pacific Tariff Bureau to agree to the restoration of the former rates on wheat and Hour from North ...

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  12. THE IMPLEMENT STRIKE.

    A ballot was taken at Gawler this morning as to whether the men on strike at the implement works should return to their work without insisting on not ...

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  13. COLLISION AT SEA.

    The prevalence of fog at the end of last week was responsible for several collisions. The Dutch steamer Prinz Frederik Hendrie struck the Norwegian ...

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  14. AMERICAN TRUSTS.

    A further stage has been reached in the suit of the United States Government to dissolve the American Sugar Refining Company, on the ground of an ...

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  15. THE LOST YONGALA.

    The Commissioner of Police received a telegram from Inspector Malone, of Townsville, confirming the reports of the discovery of further wreckage, in the ...

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  16. THE BURNIE BREAKWATER.

    At a meeting of the Marine Board of Burnie and Table Cape to-day, W. Reid Bell, hydraulic engineer to the Tasmanian Government, was appointed ...

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  17. ALASKAN COAL FIELDS.

    At the trial of the owners of the English group of coal mines, in connection with the alleged Alaskan coal lands frauds, the presiding judge has reserved ...

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  18. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION MISSING.

    Anxiety is felt here for the safety of the two chief members of the Stetansson-Anderson scientific expedition, which left New York for a three years' ...

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  19. THE QUEENSLAND BUSHRANGERS.

    At the Cloncurry Police Court yesterday, Reginald Coates and George Price appeared on a charge of robbery with violence and stealing. ...

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  20. IMMIGRATION OF NEGROES.

    A strong protest has been raised by the Opposition members of the Dominion Parliament against the immigration of negroes into the prairie ...

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  21. THE CORONATION.

    Newspapers state that King Edward's Horse—King's Overseas Dominions Regiment (formerly the King's Colonials)— will partly represent Australia and ...

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  22. THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL

    So Lord Dudley is to retire, after all. The statement has been made so often, and denied so often, that when Mr. Fisher's statement that Lord Denman ...

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  23. MEXICAN REBELLION.

    The Federal troops came into collision yesterday with a body of rebels, and in the fight 24 of the latter were killed. ...

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  24. VOLUNTARY SYSTEM OF DEFENCE.

    The Wiltshire Yeomanry, of which the new Governor of Victoria (Sir J. M. F. Fuller) is Major, last night gave a dinner in his honour, and in responding ...

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  25. SENSATIONAL MINE ROBBERY.

    A sensational robbery of slimes, valued at £100 occurred at the Menzies gold raine last night. When riding away with the slimes on ...

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  26. LEATHER TRADE.

    The official receiver in the insolvent estate of Bowron Bros., wholesale leather merchants, of Bermondsey, South London, has informed the ...

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  27. ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

    Marco Radio, who was serving a sentence of three months' imprisonment in the Bunbury Gaol, and had completed one week of the term, escaped on ...

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  28. RECIPROCITY.

    The programme of the Democratic Party in the United States has been changed in that it will pass the reciprocity agreement with Canada, revise ...

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  29. THE MURDER OF BERON.

    The Hon. R. B. Campbell Abinger, the counsel who defended Stinie Morrison, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Leon Beron, and whose ...

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  30. THE PLAGUE.

    Later news received from the Dutch East Indies, where 225 deaths were reported yesterday as having occurred from plague in Java, shows that in the ...

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  31. IRISH BLIGHT IN VICTORIA.

    The Irish blight continues to spread throughout the potato-growing districts of Victoria. At to-day's meeting of the State Executive Council the following ...

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  32. MEAT IMPORTATIONS.

    The meat importations into Great Britain from Argentina and Uruguay during the month of March comprised 330,250 sheep. 138,500 lambs, 170,000 ...

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  33. ANTI-CHINESE RIOTS.

    There is great excitement at Birkenhead, which lies opposite Liverpool, over statements of alleged assaults by Chinese on white women. The ...

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  34. THE CRISIS IN SPAIN.

    The political crisis which arose in Spain owing to the military being dissatisfied with the defence of the judges of Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish ...

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  35. THE CENSUS.

    The officials of the Statistician's Department were busy yesterday in connection with the census, preparing for the work of dealing with the papers ...

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  36. VICTORIAN RAILWAY UNION.

    The final figures relating to the vote taken by the amalgamated societies and the transportation association on the question of the advisability of the ...

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  37. GENERAL CABLES.

    The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 4,325,000 quarters, as against 4,110,000 quarters a week ago. The quantity ...

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  38. ARBITRATION.

    Cables received in Washington from Tokio state that Japan will expedite the proposed treaty for unlimited arbitration between Great Britain and ...

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  39. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA.

    The force of 2,000 Bashi-Bazouks, who were fighting their way through the Albanians to the relief of the Turkish garrison at Tushi, has reached the ...

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  40. VICTORIAN SAVINGS-BANK DEPOSITS.

    The savings bank deposits have increased at the rate of £1,500,000 a year. The last two months have been particularly brisk. ...

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  41. AUSTRALASIAN BAPTIST CONGRESS.

    The second Australasian Baptist Congress was continued to-day. The delegates met at a complimentary missionary breakfast at Sargeant's ...

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  42. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    During the month of March tie rainfall was 9.36in. on 16 wet days. ...

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  43. HIGH TIDES IN ENGLAND.

    Extraordinary high tides at Thorpness and Aldburgh, on the coast of Norfolk, have displaced about 1,000,000 tons of the beach. Afterwards the beach was ...

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  44. QUEENSLAND'S REVENUE.

    The revenue for March shows an incerase of £9,620. The revenue for the nine months increased by £336,622, and the expenditure by £106,680. The ...

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  45. IMMIGRATION.

    Figures supplied by the New South Wales Agent-General's office in London show that during the part quarter 2,100 assisted or nominated emigrants left ...

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  46. THE A.M.E.A.

    Mr. J. E. Ogden, organiser of the Amalgamated Mine Employees' Association, concluded his work here yesterday, and left this morning for Zeehan. The ...

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  47. THE HAREM SKIRT.

    A young woman paraded the streets to-night attired in the harem skirt, causing quite a commotion. At the post office an excited crowd made a ...

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