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  2. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    Although we are within a week or so of the opening of Parliament, there does not appear to be any movement on the part of the Opposition. Occasionally a ...

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  3. ROMANIA AND GREECE.

    Last week Reuter's correspondent at Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, stated that a crowd of Greeks at Pir[?]us, the harbour of Athens, boarded ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. CANADIAN RAILWAYS,

    The majority of the members of the Board of Conciliation at Toronto has recommended an increase in wages of six per cent for the Canadian Pa[?]c ...

    Article : 101 words
  5. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    A proclamation was issued yesterday proroguing Parliament till July 12, on which date it will, as already announced in "The Mercury," meet for the despatch ...

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  6. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The political committee of the National Liberal Club has adopted a resolution which, while expressing complete confidence in the Government, and ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. TASMANIAN'S RETURN.

    Last evening a banquet was tendered to Mr. F. W. J. Moore, representative in London of Messrs. H. Jones and Co., of. Hobart, who is leaving on his ...

    Article : 281 words
  8. AVIATION.

    A wonderful flight was made yesterday by Count Zeppelin in his air-ship, the Zeppelin VII. A[?]companied by passengers, he flew from ...

    Article : 434 words
  9. LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.

    At the beginning of the month the Committee of Foreign Affairs of ths United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, in favour of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  10. DOCKERS' STRIKE.

    One thousand dockers at Avonmouth, in Gloucestershire, have strack work in sympathy with the men out at Newport. The war [?]housemen and ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. PERSONAL.

    The Orient Company's free passage to University students to Europe was granted yesterday by the Unnersity Council to Miss E. L. Law, B. A., of Launceston, ...

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  12. CANADIAN NAVY.

    The "Standard of Empire" states that the Canadian Naval Department is conferring with the British Admiralty regarding the plans for the ...

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  13. IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE

    The proprietors and editors of the newspapers of the United Kingdom have commissioned Mr. William Orpen, the well-known artist and member or ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION.

    The proposal made that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., of London, which already has 50 vessels, aggregating 212,000 tons, to purchase at par ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. THE LABOUR PROGRAMME.

    The Labour party sat for nearly 12 hours to-day discussing the Governor-General's speech. They met at 11 o'clock this morning, and it was just on 11 before ...

    Article : 498 words
  16. KING GEORGE.

    The members of the Australian rifle team, under Major J. J. Paine, who are now in England for the purpose of engaging in the Bisley competitions, went ...

    Article : 292 words
  17. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE IN LONDON.

    At yesterday's sitting of the World's Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, the Rev. H. E. Rooton staged that almost all the difficulties attending a ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. MARRIED IMMIGRANTS.

    Lord Crewe, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, states, in reply to a correspondent regarding the alleged difficulty encountered by married ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. TRADE MARKS AND PATENTS.

    It is understood that Canada declines to send representatives to the subsidiary Trade Marks and Patents Conference, the subject of which was discussed ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. FIGHTING IN THI[?]ET.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. E. S. Montagu, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India, in reply to Mr. J. D. Rees, the Liberal member ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. OBITUARY.

    It is not long since the death was recorded of Portland's oldest pioneer, in the person of the late Mr. T. Coffey, anw now the next in length of residence ...

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  22. THE LAKE COMO MYSTERY.

    It was recently ascertained that on the night of June 5—a few days before the body of Mrs. Charlton Porter, an American dramatic artiste, was found ...

    Article : 166 words
  23. ANARCHIST SOCIETY IN GERMANY.

    Yesterday a literary man named Erich Mueksam, a pianist named Schultze, together with a bookseller's traveller and a workman were indicted ...

    Article : 112 words
  24. GUN-RUNNING AND PEARLING

    Eealy in the month the Paris Tribunal of Commerce reserved judgment in a case wherein M. Tramier, a trader of Marseilles, sued Mrs. Clarke, an ...

    Article : 140 words
  25. JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

    J. J. Jeffries, who will meet J. Johnson on July 4 for the heavy-weight boxing championship of the world, has arrived at Ren[?] in the State of Nevada, ...

    Article : 73 words
  26. FRENCH SUBMARINE DISASTER

    The funeral of the officers and men of the French submarine Pluviose, which was sunk in the Straits of Dover after being struck by the Calais to Dover ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. EMIGRATION TO VICTORIA.

    Messrs. McKenzie and Elwood Mead, the Victorian emigration delegates, are at present in Rome, and have interviewed Signor Giolotti, the Premier, ...

    Article : 146 words
  28. WEST AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    Speaking at Carnarvon the Colonial Societary (Mr. Connell)) said, regarding the finances that the year, for the first time since 1901 would end with a ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. BOMB OUTRAGE IN GERMANY.

    A bomb was thrown yesterday at the Town-hall of Friedberg, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in Germany, and dastroyed the staircase of ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S NEW FLAG.

    Queen Alexandra's new flag was hoisted yesterday at Buckingham Palace for the first time. The flag is a combination of the British and ...

    Article : 44 words
  31. STEAMER WRECKED.

    A Spanish sailor was washed ashore yesterday at Land's End, off the S.W. coast of England. He was in an exhausted condition, but later recovered, and ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. MELBOURNE DOG SHOW.

    At Melbourne, at the Dog and Poultry Show yesterday, Mr. George Sanderson, of this city[?] won the first and special prizes in the Skye terrier dog ...

    Article : 69 words
  33. ELECTION EXPENSES IN AMERICA.

    The United States Senate has passed the bill agreed to by the House of Representatives requiring the publication of political campaign contributions, ...

    Article : 51 words
  34. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

    Yesterday the High Commissioner of Australia laid the corner-stone of the hospital erected at Leytonstone, in Essex, to the memory of the late Dr ...

    Article : 96 words
  35. AUSTRALIAN APPLES IN ENGLAND.

    The shipments of apples from the mainland States forwarded by the Gulf liner Carpentaria and the shipment by the White Star liner Runic have ...

    Article : 151 words
  36. THE IRISH PARTY.

    Yesterday the members of the Irish party in the House of Commons entertained at dinner Mr. W. Jennings Bryan, the member of the American ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. PROLIFIC PROMISES.

    A deputat[?], representing the Friendly Societies Association, to-day asked the Premier (Mr. Murray) that the Friendly Societies Act of 1907 should be put in ...

    Article : 174 words
  38. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the All-England Singles Tennis Championship matches yesterday Wilding and Doust were victorious in the third round, Wilding defeating Ritchie ...

    Article : 48 words
  39. EX-MINISTER'S COMMENTS.

    The comments made by Mr. Joseph Cook, ex-Minister for Defence, at a banquet last night, on the policy of the Federal Government were referred to by the ...

    Article : 75 words
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  41. SAVINGS BANKS IN AMERICA.

    The United States recently passed the Post Office Savings Banks Bill, but the measure was so amended in the direction of permitting the investment ...

    Article : 89 words
  42. GENERAL CABLES.

    At the auction sales of tallow to-day 1,734 casks were offered, and 873 casks were sold. Fine mutton realised 36s. 3d. per cwt., and medium 33s. 6d. Fine ...

    Article : 74 words
  43. DEFECTIVE VISION AMONG SAILORS.

    Mr. Sydney Buxton, the President of the British Board of Trade, has appointed a committee to inquire into the extent of colonr blindness and a ...

    Article : 61 words
  44. KING EDWARD.

    Three thousand Basutos have assembled at Maseru, the capital of the Midland district of Basutoland, in South Africa, and expressed condolence with ...

    Article : 51 words
  45. THE WARATAH SEARCH.

    Captain Hallelt, secretary of the second search committee, to-day said that in a letter seat by Lieuy. Seymour from Ker[?] Irland, dated April 7, he stated ...

    Article : 87 words
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