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  2. WEST PERTH MYSTERY.

    What has become known as the West Perth mystery was solved to-day when the body of Ethel Harris, who had been missing since March 14 last, was ...

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  3. QUESTION OF A WILL.

    The High Court to-day delivered judgment in an appeal from the judgment of the Queensland Supreme Court, declaring the bequest of the residue under the will ...

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  4. THE DRIVERS STRIKE

    The drivers' executive met this morning, and decided to take nothing but the whole log Regarding the conference with ...

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  5. LOSS OF THE WARATAH.

    The Board of Trade inquiry was opened to-day into the loss of the Lund's Blue Anchor liner Waratah, about which nothing has been heard since she left ...

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  6. MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE.

    A legal battle has begun in connection with the estate of "Lucky" Baldwin. The estate is estiniated to be worth £2,000,000, and was accumulated by ...

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  7. SENSATION IN BERLIN.

    A great sensation has been caused in Berlin owing to the arrest of Count Giesbert Wolff-Metternich, aged 24 years, who is alleged to be associated ...

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  8. BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    In an address delivered last night at Retford, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, ridiculed the suggestion that the elections were inconclusive. Mr. ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    Lord Minto, who was recently suecieded by Lord Hardingo as Governor-General of India, has been created a Knight of the Garter (states a cable ...

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  10. CANADIAN TARIFF.

    The Western Canada farmers at Ottawa have adopted resolutions which are to be placed before the Government demanding free trade with the United ...

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  11. COMMONWEALTH BANK NOTES

    To-day £20,000 worth of Commonwealth bank notes were shipped from London, and £30,000 worth inore will be forwarded on the 30th inst. ...

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  12. FINANCIAL.

    Tlio Bank of England figures for December 15, with the previous week's totals given,in parentheses, are as fol low: ...

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  13. COLD STORAGE IN LONDON.

    The Central Market Committee of, the Corporation of the City of London has reported to the Court of Common, Council in favour of submitting plans ...

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  14. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.

    The South African cricketers commenced a match here to-day against fifteen representatives of the Hunter River district. As Sherwell was resting, Schwarz ...

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  15. COMPLEX ORES LIMITED.

    On the afternoon of Wednesday the first sod of the service channel tor the water-power scheme of the Complex Ores Company was turned on Ranna ...

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  16. GENERAL BOOTH.

    It is feared that General Booth will lose his sight entirely, hie is shortly to be operated upon for the removal of cataract on the left eye. During a ...

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  17. CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED.

    Charles Matheson, master of the tug Marcon Mayfield, who had been found by the Marine Court to have been drunk while in charge of the tug, ...

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  18. GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES.

    Owing to the increasing use of automatic lighters in France, which is due to the poor quality of the matches supplied to the public, the Government ...

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  19. POLITICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    For the third time this week the Assembly sat all night, and, after a short interval, continued the sitting today. The Parliamentary Election ...

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  20. MOUNT BALFOUR COPPER MINES.

    Dr. B. P. Ekberg, one of the directors and the engineer of the Mount Balfour Copper Mines Company, entertained Ministers and a number of ...

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  21. GERMAN BATTLESHIPS.

    The German battleships Schwaben and Elsass, of 11,643 and 12,997 tons respectively came into collision yesterday at Kiel during a fog. Two ...

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  22. THE DIVORCE COURT.

    Judgment was given to-day in the case of the intervention of the King's Proctor to prevent a decree nisi being made absolute in the proceedings ...

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  23. SHOOTING SENSATION.

    Henry Saunders, an elderly cripple, caused a sensation at the wharves this afternoon. For several years ho has lived alone on a small boat, and latterly ...

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  24. THE FIGHTING IN MEXICO.

    In the fighting at Guerrero botsveen Federal Government troops and the revolutionists, 300 soldiers, most of whom belonged to the ranks of the ...

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  25. THE FIGHTING IN PALESTINE.

    Turkish regular troops, had been distributed among the Bedouin tribes, for the purpose of disarming them. The Bedouins planned and carried out the ...

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  26. THE COAL VEND.

    The adjourned summons for further facetious m the case of the King v. Northern Colliery Proprietors, which has reference to the coal vend ...

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  27. MACQUARIE-STREET ROADWAY

    In the Legislative Council yesterday, the second reading of the Macquariestreet Continuation Bill was moved by the Chief Secretary, who said that it ...

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  28. PORT OF LONDON.

    The Port of London authority will, from January 1 nest, make a uniform charge of 15d. per net register ton of vessels. The rate will cover the use ...

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  29. HONDURAS.

    In October last General Valdures, the Commandant of Amapala, in Honduras, ordered the imprisonment of British and American subjects, and the confiscation ...

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  30. FEDERAL REFERENDUM.

    Sir Joseph Carruthers, in the Legislative Council to-day, said he regretted that the Government had not given the House the opportunity of considering ...

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  31. FIGHTING WORKHOUSE INMATES.

    Eighty-four arrests were made the other day of inmates of the Sutton workhouse in Surrey, who engaged in a free fight with the officials alter making a ...

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  32. INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

    In speaking at the Washington International Peace Conference yesterdny, Mr. Andrew Carnegie stated that 70,per cent, of the revenue of the United ...

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  33. COLLIERY ON FIRE.

    The Leyden Coal Company's mine, which is situated four miles from Denver, in the United States, is on fire, and ten men are entombed. The escape of ...

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  34. SHIPBUILDING TRADE.

    As a result of the ballot taken in connection with the agreement signed at Edinburgh between the representatives of the employers and the boilermakers in ...

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  35. TEMPERANCE AND GENERAL MUTUAL LIFE SOCIETY.

    The Temperance and General Mutual Life Society held its annual meeting and its bonus meeting to-day. Great progress was shown in every department. ...

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  36. STATE BANK ROBBED.

    A desperado named Ira Ward yesterday robbed the State Bank at Paradise, in the American State of Kansas, and secured £500. He took to flight and ...

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  37. FIGHT BETWEEN POLICE AND STRIKERS.

    The garment workers in Chicago are still on strike, and frequent acts of intimidation are committed by them upon the non-unionists. ...

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  38. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Germanston Municipal Council has desided to ask the police to put down the use of bad language at Linda. A meeting of the Queenstown branch ...

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  39. INTER-STATE CRICKET.

    The cricket match Victoria v. Queensland was [?]tarted to-day. The visitors won tos3, and elected to bat, making 262 in their first innings The highest ...

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  40. GENERAL CABLES.

    Bullion sliver is quoted to-day at 2s. 1[?]d. per oz. standard. COOKING COMPETITION. VANCOUVER, December 15. ...

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  41. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    An invention of Professor Jacovielo, of the Parma University in Italy, for an improved appliance, for the production of Hertzian waves is likely to ...

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  42. N,S.W. WHEAT CROP.

    The State Statisticun has compiled an estimate of the probable wheat crop of New South Wales. He gives the area to be harvested at 2,012,058 acres, and ...

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  43. CHINESE PIGTAIL.

    The members of the Chinese Asserebly have memorialised the Throne, requesting that all diplomatists, officers, students, soldiers, and sailois should remove their ...

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