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  2. WATTLE DAY. A MOST SUCCESSFUL INAUGURATION.

    When the members of the A.K.A. committee who had undertaken to pioneer the celebration of "Wattle Day" in Hobart heard the storm roar and saw the ...

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  3. QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY

    When Mr. Barnes (the State Treasurer) was in Melbourne recently, the Prime Minister (Hon. a. Fisher) expressed to him the opinion that it would make for ...

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  4. WEST MELBOURNE RAILWAY DISASTER.

    The inquiry was continued to-day into the railway disaster at West Melbourne last week. Counsel for Driver Campbell, of the ...

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  5. MOTORCYCLE DISASTER.

    In a motor-cycle race to-dny at Newark, in the State of New Jersey, Eddie Hasha's machine left the track, plunged over the railings, and dashing in ...

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  6. THE BALKANS. TURKS KILL BULGARIAN SOLDIERS

    Yesterday Turkish soldiers at the frontier post at Karnlespe attacked two corporals of the Enlgarian Army, and killed them. M. Saratoff, the Bulgarian ...

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  7. POLAR EXPLORATION. REPORTED DISCOVERY OF A NEW RACE OF PEOPLE.

    Professor Stefanson, of the American Museum of Natural History, hasreturned to Vancouver from the Arctic regions, and announces the discovery ...

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  8. TIDAL WAVE IN CHINA

    Letters received at Shanghai from Wenehow-Fu, the treaty-port in the Chinese province of Checkiang give harrowing details of floods which occurred ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    Senators Keating and Long were pussengers to Melbourne yesterday by the Loongana from Launceston. The Longford Municipal Council has ...

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  10. RESIGNATION OF SERVIAN CABINET.

    The Servian Cabinet has resigned. ...

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  11. CHINESE REPUBLIC.

    The six-power group of bankers at Feking are indignant at the report that a £10,000,000 loan is being raised in London for China, and is nearing ...

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  12. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.

    The Duke of Connaught, the Governor-General of Canada, and his party, have abandoned the plan of camping out on the prairies, which was part of ...

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  13. GERMANY AND BRAZIL.

    Advices received in Berlin from Rio de Janciro state that a German syndicate, headed by the Deutscher Bank, has contracted for the construction of ...

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  14. HEIR HARDIE IN CANADA.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, the Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil in the British House of Commons, addressed a meeting in Toronto last night, and, in the course ...

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  15. TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN SCOTT.

    Sir Clements Robert Markahm, the well-known traveller, read a paper at to-day's session of the British Association on "Antarctic Explorations." He ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. SPORTING CABLES. BOXING.

    At Aix-les-Bains to-day. Klauss, the American boxer, beat Morcan, the Frenchman. Klauss almost knocked his opponent, out in the second and ...

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  17. CHEAPER CABLES.

    Sir Henniker Heaton, in an interview yesterday, stated that deferred cable-grams were absurd, since the carrying capacity on the American cables was ...

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  18. BOXING IN AMERICA.

    Unexampled viciousness marked the Hogan-Frank Burns light in San Francisco yesterday. Thero were present 8,000 frenzied enthusiasts, and these ...

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  19. NAVAL DEFENCE. MORE DREADNOUGHTS FOR JAPAN.

    The Japanese Government has decided to further increase the navy, by building in local dockyards during the next six years, five super-Dreadnought ...

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  20. THE SHEARING INDUSTRY.

    Mr. Moseley, speaking on the second reading of the Industrial Arbitintion Bill in the Assembly to-day, said that pastoralists were continually having ...

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  21. SUMMARY OF PARLIAMENT.

    The Assembly resumed business last evening, with the further consideration of the Public Works schedule in respect to votes to municipalities for ...

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  22. HUON RAILWAY.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Huon Municipal Council, the Wardon (Mr. D. E. Ryan) referred to the abandonment of the Huon railway project by the ...

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  23. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S CALCULATIONS CHECKED.

    Captain Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the South Pale, gave a lecture yesterday in Christiania, before members of the Norwegian Geographical ...

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  24. MOTOR RECORD BROKEN.

    In motoring at Brooklands yesterday on a 30 horse-power Sunbeam machine, Resta beat the 50 miles record, the time being 32min. 16sec. ...

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  25. THE GENESIS OF THE MOVEMENT.

    The idea which came to fruition yesterday was put forward by Mr. T. C. Simpson, of the Hobart branch of the A.N.A., on whose motion it was resolved at the ...

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  26. SIR GEORGE REID. HIS VISIT TO CANADA.

    Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner of Australia, is now at Ottawa consulting Mr. G. E. Foster the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, ...

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  27. AMERICAN BEEF TRUST.

    Shortly after the Legislative Council met yesterday, Mr. McW[?]ac, seconded by Mr. McBride, moved that the House adjourn to discuss the American Beef Trust. ...

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  28. H.M.S. CHALLENGER.

    H.M.S. Challenger, which has a number of Australians on board, arrived at Plymouth to-day. ...

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  29. BRITISH CROPS.

    The agricultural editor of "The Times," in summarising the yield of British wheat at 80.15 per cent. of the standard, barley at 83.1, and oats ...

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  30. THE REFORMS IN THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Navy League has issued a manifesto warmly supporting the administrative reforms of the British Navy as contained in the memoranda issued by ...

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  31. DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    A drowning accident occurred at Strahan yesterday, E. c. Mason, aged about 30, a seaman on the str. Karori, was returning to that vessel at about ...

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  32. THE CANADIAN POLICY.

    The "Ottawa Free Press" announces to-day that there will be no decision given by the Canadian Government on the naval question until the Dominion ...

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  33. A PATRIOTIC SPEECH.

    Sir George Reid, speaking at a banquet given to the Prime Minister (Mr. Borden), and the members of his Cabinet last night, said that when London, ...

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  34. "THE TIMES."

    To-day "The Times" celebrated its forty thousandth issue by producing a remarkable 44-page supplement, dealing with the history of printing. ...

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  35. INCIDENTS IN THE STREETS.

    The ladies were early at work yesterday. The earliest purchaster was Mr. F. R. Seager, who at 6 a.b. sent for a bunch of wattle blossom from Miss ...

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  36. VICTORIAN PASSENGER VESSELS

    The Royal Commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the life-saving equipment of passenger ships plying in rivers, bays and landlocked ...

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  37. MR. SPEAKER WILLIS.

    Early this afternoon, before the Legislative Assembly met, the Speaker (Mr. Willis) made the following statement regarding teh exclusion of a section of ...

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  38. AVIATION. AVERAGE OF 105 MILES AN HOUR.

    Vedrines, the French aviator, in flying in the Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup races at Chicago to-day, averaged 105 miles an hour, easily beating the ...

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  39. BRITISH ARMY MANŒUVRES.

    The British Army manœuvres are now taking place in Norfolk, and 60,000 troops are engaged. Captain Longcroft, on a Government-built bi[?]lane, ...

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  40. THE KAISER.

    The Kaiser has returned from ins visit to Switzerland, and is now in Saxony witnessing manouvres in which 150,000 troops are taking part. The Kaiser is ...

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  41. DAMAGE TO STEAMER DEVON.

    At a meeting of the Marine Board to-day, Captain Forrester (shipping inspector) presented the report of the premilinary inquiry held by him into the ...

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  42. RECORD ALTITUDE REACHED.

    Whilst aeroplaning to-day, M. Garros, the Fench aviator, reached the record altitude of 16,400 feet (more than three miles). ...

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  43. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.

    A disastrous explosion occurred yesterday at a fireworks factory near Florence, and wrecked the building, and killed four people. ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLES. WOOL EXHIBITION AT BRADFORD.

    The, New South Wales Government has an excellent display of wool at the exhibition now being held at Bradford. ...

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  45. PROTECTION FROM AIRCRAFT.

    The British Admiralty is introducing armoured roofs at all Home ports to protect magazines and oil-fuel tanks against attacks from aircraft. ...

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  46. LIVELY COUNCIL MEETING.

    Proceeding, at a meeting of the Fiztroy Council last night were of an unusual character, and for about ten minutes a considerable amount of ill-feeling ...

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  47. FRANK WOOTTON FINED.

    Frank Wootton, the Australian jockey. was fined to-day for travelling on a motor-cycle through Epsom at the rate of 35 miles an hour, thereby ...

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  48. FIERCE FIGHTING IN MOROCCO

    The advices received in Paris yesterday from Casablanca, the Moroccan port on the Atlantic, that couriers had arrived there bringing news that ...

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  49. TWO MORE OFFICERS KILLED.

    While Lieutenants C. Bettington and E. Hotchkiss were, aeroplaning at Oxford to-day they ascended to a great height. Their oil supply exploded, and ...

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  50. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    Herbert Lesffe Griffiths, the central figure in the Strahan sensation last Sunday, is still in the Zeehan Hospital, Further developments are expected shortly. ...

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  51. MUNICIPAL STREET PATROL

    In a minute submitted to the City Council to-night, the Lord Mayor proposed that uniformed patrol m[?]be appointed, at an estimated annual cost of £2,000, to ...

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  52. BREADSTUFFS.

    Cargoes of wheat are neglected. A South Australian-Victorian shipment. ex steamer, December-January, has been sold at 39s. per qurater, and a ...

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  53. FORGING A CHEQUE.

    About a month ago a prepossessing young woman cashed, at a bank in the city, a cheque for £500, purporting to be drawn by a prominent business firm. ...

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  54. THE STAGE AND WATTLE DAY.

    The Tourist Bureau stall, at which Miss Maggie Moore and the members of her company presided, was a great source of attraction during the day. One ...

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  55. HOME RULE.

    Mr. P. Ryan, the President of the United States Irish League, has received a letter from Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Nationalists, in which ...

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  56. FROZEN MEAT.

    The importations of frozen meat from the Argentine to Great Britain during August comprised 160,500 carcases of mutton, 40,500 carcases of lamb. ...

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  57. DEMENTED TAILOR'S CRIME.

    In Berlin to-day a tailor named Gruhu suddenly became demented, and attempted to murder his wife and three daughters, all of whom he threw ...

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  58. STANLEY-BALFOUR RAILWAY

    Notification has been received from the tasmanian Railway and General Trust Ltd., London, appointing Mr. R. J. Bevill Sharpe, engineer and representative of ...

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  59. QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS

    The Queensland railway earnings for the month of August totalled £287,300, compared with £272,304 in the corresponding month of last year, showing an ...

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  60. EMU BAY RAILWAY.

    The receipts of the Emu Bay Railway Co. for the last month were £5,661, as compared with £5,219 for August, 1911, making the total receipts for the eight ...

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  61. ISLINGTON IN DARKNESS.

    Islington was plunged into darkness for several hours last night, owing to a slight accident at the electric power station. ...

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