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  2. THE RECENT HURRICANE.

    A police telegram from Roebourne states that as the result of the recent hurricane at Balla Balla, Robert Thompson and Shi-Rata are missing. ...

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  3. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS. SIR JOSEPH WARD'S FAREWELL MESSAGE.

    In a farewell message to the people, Sir Joseph Ward says:—"The most disheartening experience of leadership is that while the classes of privilege and ...

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  4. THE SUFFRAGISTS. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.

    The Police Court proceedings in connection with the prosecution of Mr. and Mrs. Pethwick Lawrence, Mrs. Pankhurst. and Mrs. Tuke, the ...

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  5. DUEL IN A CHURCH.

    Following an old quarrel in which Mr. Snow, an ex-Mayor of Oakland, in California, fought an assailant named Goldman, the latter, on his release the ...

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  6. MAGAZINE PUZZLES.

    At the Old Bailey yesterday Bernard Espmasse, Edith May Ullman, and her husband, Samuel Ullman, were found guilty of conspiring to obtain money ...

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  7. LONDON UNIVERSITY.

    Following the announcement that an anonymous donor has given £100,000 for the purchase of a site near the British Museum for the headquarters ...

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  8. GREAT COAL STRIKE. PEOPLE DYING OF STARVATION

    A number of deaths from starvation have occurred in the Potteries districts of Staffordshire. The fund raised by the Mayor of ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor (Sir Harry Barros). who has made on excellent recovery from the operation which he underwent at St. Margaret's Hospital, ...

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  10. THE CONCILIATION BILL.

    The second reading of the Conciliation Bill under which it is proposed to extend the suffrage to about 1,300,000 women in the United Kingdom, ...

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  11. BILLIARDS.

    The billiard match (9,000 up, with bonzoline balls) between George Gray, the young Australian and H. W. Stevenson, the English champion, was ...

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  12. THE NEW MINISTRY.

    The new Cabinet is constituted as follows: — Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, Premier, Minister of Lands and Agriculture. ...

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  13. THE BILL REJECTED.

    The Conciliation Bill was rejected by 228 votes to 208 votes. Forty-one Nationalists opposed the second reading in order to save the Government ...

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  14. THE DESPATCH OF TROOPS.

    Five hundred men of the Shropshire Regiment and the Welsh Fusiliers have arrived at Brynn Kinallt and Chirk, in North Wales, where the strikers to-day ...

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  15. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    At a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of Australasia, which was held yesterday at the head office in Threadneedle-street, Lord George F. ...

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  16. MISSING' STEAMER KOOMBANA. STILL NO TIDINGS.

    There are still no tidings of the Adelaide Steamship Company's missing steamer Koombana, now over a week overdue from Roeburn to ...

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  17. LABOUR LEADERS' ADVICE.

    The Labour leaders have advised the strikers to refrain from disorder where men are resuming work, otherwise the sympathy of the public will be alienated ...

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  18. RELIEF FROM NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The New South Wales Government is distributing £500 worth of Australian produce among the families of strike victims. ...

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  19. EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE.

    A violent earthquake occurred yesterday in the French department of Correze, and caused a fissure five yards wide on the hillside overlooking the ...

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  20. RECIPROCITY.

    Delegates from the "West Indian Islands are now visiting Ottawa and conferring with the Canadian Government with a view to reciprocity on an ...

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  21. FEDERAL ELECTORATES.

    The Commission appointed in connection with the redistribution of the Federal electorates in Queensland has presented its report. ...

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  22. PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATED.

    Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, addressing Liberal members of the House of Commons representing mining constituencies, to-day emphasised the ...

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  23. AMERICAN COLLIERS.

    The coal miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois still threaten to strike unless their demand for an increase in wages is granted. The ...

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  24. UNION OF THE CHURCHES.

    In June, 1910, the Presbyterian General Assembly of Canada, by 184 votes to 73, approved of a basis of union with the Methodist and ...

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  25. PORT PHILLIP ENTRANCE.

    At a meeting of the Marine Board to-day the secretary brought under the notice of the board a telegram from Hobart which appeared in the "Argus" ...

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  26. BIRMINGHAM GAS SUPPLY.

    The gas supply of Birmingham is to be restricted to eight hours a day next week. ...

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  27. FEDERAL TRAWLER TO SEARCH.

    The Federal Government has decided to send the Commonwealth trawler Endeavour to search for the missing steamet Koombana. ...

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  28. GOLF.

    Yesterday, at Pinehurst, in North Carolina, Miss Van Ostrand defeated Miss orothy Campbell, the BritishCanadian golf champion, in the United ...

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  29. ALBERT-HALL DEMONSTRATION.

    Many women held a demonstration outside the House of Commons, and there was a great meeting in the Alpert-hall. Mr. and Mrs. Pethick ...

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  30. BILL PASSES THE LORDS.

    The Minimum Wage Bill, the committee stage of which had been postponed owing to the leaders of the miners objecting to the wording of an ...

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  31. WRECK OF THE OCEANA.

    Divers descended to-day to the wreck of the P. and, O. liner Oceana, which, at any early hour on the morning of the 16th inst. sunk off ...

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  32. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S OFFER.

    The Premier (Mr. Scadden) has received from the Federal Government an offer to bear part of the cost of searching for the steamer Koombana. ...

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  33. BRITISH COLUMBIA.

    The general election in British Columbia has resulted in the followers of Mr. Richard McBride, the Premier and Minister of Mines, being returned with ...

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  34. INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    Dr. Purdy, the Chief Health Officer, who has just returned from a visit to the Huon district, states that an outbreak of infantile paralysis has taken ...

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  35. QUACK DOCTOR PROSECUTED.

    Wm. Henry France was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with the murder of Elma Jane Stevenson, aged 23 years, at Swatchfield. ...

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  36. A LAND TRANSACTION.

    The High Court, consisting of the Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Griffith) and Justices Barton and Isaacs, gave judgment in a case to-day of considerable ...

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  37. THE PROSPECT OF THE BALLOT.

    The miners' leaders, who have returned to the colliery districts, are describing the Minimum Wages Bill as a victory for the men. The prospects ...

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  38. THE BULLARA'S REPORT.

    The steamer Bullara arrived from Broome at 4 o'clock this afternoon. She signalled the lighthouse that she had no news of the Koombana. ...

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  39. NORTH LONDON-MURDER.

    One hundred thousand people have signed a petition for the reprieve of Frederick Henry Seddon, the district superintendent of the London and ...

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  40. FEDERAL AFFAIRS. £1,000,000 LAND RESUMPTION.

    The Commonwealth Government is taking active steps to resume private land in the Federal capital area. It is expected that the total amount ...

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  41. BATON CHARGE BY THE POLICE.

    The presence of the military at Chirk, in North Wales, has exercised a sobering influence on the strikers at all the pits that are working. ...

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  42. PANAMA CANAL.

    The United States Agricultural Department has been anxious to throwopen the Panama Canal zone for farmers. There are vast agricultural ...

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  43. VICTORIAN STATE COAL MINE.

    The general manager of the State coal-mine said to-day that if the propjected strike took place on Thursday next the mine would probably be closed ...

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  44. FINANCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 words
  45. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY.

    Two track-laying machines, to be used in connection with the building of the transcontinental railway, have been ordered by the Federal ...

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  46. DICKENS CENTENARY.

    The fund which was opened for the granddaughters of Charles Dickens, the centenary of whose birth was celebrated in February last, has now ...

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  47. GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED.

    Last week a Greek at Vathy, the capital of the Turkish island of Samos, off the coast of Asia Minor, assassinated Kopassas Effendi, the Governor of ...

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  48. NAVAL DEFENCE. THE COMMAND OF THE PACIFIC.

    A Democratic Caucus of the United States House of Representatives has adhered to its decision not to increase the number of battleships during the ...

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  49. LOST IN THE BUSH.

    After being lost in the bush for six days, Frank Marshall, an old-age pensioner, was found at Johnsville to-day, and conveyed to the Bairnsdale ...

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  50. OPENING OF HOBART WIRELESS STATION.

    Mr. Balsillic, the Federal wireless expert, left to-day for Hobart to arrange for the opening of the wireless station there. ...

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  51. TOM MANN'S ARREST.

    Tom Mann, the Socialist agitator, who was arrested last weak in connection with a speech made by him at Salford, in which he associated himself ...

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  52. THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE.

    Mr. Benson, Director of Agriculture, visited Devonport to-day, and conferred with the produce merchants on the fixing of a grain standard. A ...

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  53. DISCOUNT.

    The market rate for short loans is 3? per cent., for bills at three months, 3 7-16 per cent. The rate in Paris is 3 per cent., and in Berlin 4? per ...

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  54. ORDERS FOR TORPEDO BOATS.

    The British Admiralty has placed orders for the construction of 16 torpedoboat dostroyers out of the 20 included in the naval programme of 1912-13. ...

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  55. GENERAL CABLES. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION DENIED.

    Messrs. Houlder Bros, contradict the statement made that they intend to amalgamate their shipping interests with those of Messrs. Furness, Withy ...

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  56. TRAMWAY BADGE QUESTION.

    Before the Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Griffith) and Justices Barton and Isaacs, in the High Court to-day, application was made on behalf of the ...

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  57. ACCIDENT ON SHIPBOARD.

    The Chief Justice and a special jury have been engaged for nearly a week hearing a claim by Robert Murphy, wharf labourer, for £1,000 against the ...

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  58. FRENCH APACHES. REPEATING RIFLES FOR POLICE.

    Owing to the number of desperate crimes perpetrated by French Apaches 1,800 additional police are being enrolled in Paris. These will be served ...

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  59. CONSOLS.

    Imperial consols, 2½ per cent., quoted at £78, a rise of 2s. 6d. since Friday last. ...

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  60. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    The Washington correspondent or "The Times" states that Mr. Roosevelt is exasperated by the number of State Conventions that are declaring ...

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  61. RUN OVER BY MOTOR CAR.

    A Chinese market gardener named Mantow was killed on Unley-road, near Adelaide, early this morning. Mantow was pushing a hand-cart ...

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  62. AUSTRALIAN STOCKS.

    Victorian, 4 per cent., £102; South Australian, 3 per cent., £80 10s. ...

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  63. FRANCO-JAPANESE BANK.

    A Franco-Japanese bank is to be founded in Tokio, with a view to encouraging the introduction of French capital. The Japanese bankers are ...

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  64. ATTEMPT TO STEAL ARMS.

    Three burglars were arrested in Paris yesterday whilst attempting to steal arms from a rifle club. The burglars included an Anarchist named ...

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  65. STRIKE IN MADRID.

    Four thousand railway employers in Madrid hare gone out on strike for an increase of 25 per cent, in their wages. ...

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