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  2. DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

    A young Servian, who was studying in Paris, met his fiancee in the street today, and, drawing a revolver, shot her dead. ...

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  3. COMMONWEALTH FINANCES.

    The Commonwealth Treasurer (Hon. A Fisher) will probably be able to announce in his budget speech v considerable surplus, but it will be entirely ...

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  4. HOME RULE. OPINIONS FROM VARIOUS QUARTERS.

    The views of the South African newspapers are conflicting on the Home Rule for Ireland Bill. The "Cape Argus" says the financial ...

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  5. EXTRAORDINARY SHIPPING DISASTER

    The Norwegian ship Songvaar, 2,008 tons, Captain Isaksen, which arrived at Port Victoria from Monte Video in ballast on March 8, sank in 27 feet of ...

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  6. SHIPPING DISASTER.

    The mammoth White Star liner Titanic, which left Southampton on Wednesday last on her first voyage across the Western Ocean, came into ...

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  7. LABOUR UNREST. THE ENDING OF THE GREAT COAL STRIKE.

    Last night the miners at Leigh, in Lancashire, entertained the soldiers sent there to maintain order, and to-day the soldiers marched to church, headed by ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    Our Sydney correspondent telegraphs that Sir Allen Taylor to-day announced that he intended to resign the positon of Lord Mayor of Sydney at the end of the ...

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  9. RUSSIA AND PERSIA ACTION BY SIR EDWARD GREY.

    On December 2 last Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wrote to Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador in St. ...

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  10. ADA WARD, EVANGELIST.

    Miss Ada Word made an interesting announcement in an address given by her to-night at Scot's Church, Jamiesonstreet. She stated that she intended to ...

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  11. PRETENDER'S MOVEMENTS.

    Salar-ed-Dowleh, the uncle of the Shah of Persia, who took a prominent part in trying to regain the throne for the ex-Shah, recently refused the ...

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  12. IRRESPONSIBLE STATEMENTS DENOUNCED.

    At a meeting held yesterday of the district committee of the Transport Workers Federation and the excutive members of the Dockers' Union, ...

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  13. CONGRATULATIONS FROM ABROAD.

    Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Nationalists, has received messages of congratulation from General Botha, the Prime Minister of South Africa, Sir ...

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  14. THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD.

    The dispute between the City Council, Sydney, and Sir Matthew Harris concorning the demolition of stables belonging to the latter at Ultime was ...

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  15. NATIONAL CONVENTION.

    Mr. John Dillon, the Nationalist member for East Mayo, stated,in London yesterday that the members' of the Nationalist party would go to the ...

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  16. DEMAND FOR MINIMUM WAGE.

    A demonstration of shop assistants, bannen, bakers, and waitresses was held in Trafalgar-square yesterday, and the gathering passed a resolution calling ...

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  17. WAGES OF TRAMWAY EMPLOYKEES.

    When the tramway companies case was, called on in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, the President (Mr. Justice Higgins) said that evidence had ...

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  18. DUNDEE JUTE WORKERS.

    The strike of the workers in the jute factories of Dundeo has ended, an advance of 2½ per cent in their wages having been conceded. ...

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  19. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Mr. Winston Churchill the First Lord of the Admiralty, is establishing eight training ships—two for cadets and the remainder for boys and stokers. ...

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  20. FRANCE AND SPAIN.

    In a statement made in December last in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Moroccan settlement with Germany, M. Do Selves, the then ...

    Article : 158 words
  21. CHAMBERS OF MANUFACTURES.

    The Council of the Chamber of Manufeatures waited, on the Premier (Mr. Peake) as a deputation to-day, and submitted the resolutions of local ...

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  22. BULGARIAN BANDITS.

    Yesterday a gang of Bulgarian bandits blew up by dynamite a blockhouse at Palanka in the Turkish province of Uskub, and four Turkish soldiers were ...

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  23. BIBLICAL DISCOVERY.

    The directors of the British Museum have published a Coptic version of the greater part of the Book of Deutere nomy, the whole of the Book of Jonah, ...

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  24. HOBARTS NEW WOOLLEN MILLS.

    In conection with the report in yesterdays "Mercury" concerning the new wollen mills which are to be erected on a site near the Cascades, it transpires ...

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  25. DISTRESSING DROWNING FATALITY.

    The river at Whitton's Flat, near Indooroopilly, was the scene of a most distressing drowning accident to-day. in which a mother and three children lost ...

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  26. TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.

    General Caneva, the commander of the Italian troops operating in Tripoli 'has telegraphed to his Govornment, stating that the occupation of Macabeez ...

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  27. NATIONAL DRINK BILL.

    Mr. George B. Wilson, the secretary of the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance, estimates the total expenditure of the United Kingdom on alcoholic ...

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  28. DUELLING IN GERMANY.

    The Kaiser issued an extraordinary prescript, yesterday, in which he decided that a certain medical man in the German Army, who refused, on religions ...

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  29. CHINESE REPUBLIC. MINISTERIAL APPOINMENTS.

    Choutzuchi, the Acting Finance Min ister in the Republican Government, and brother to the Chinese Consul in New Zealand has been appointed ...

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  30. IMPERIAL CABLES

    Mr. Charles Bright, the youngest son of the late Sir Charles Filston Bright, who laid the first Atlantic cable, and consulting engineer to the Australian ...

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  31. ENTENTE CORDIALE.

    After unveiling a statue erected at Nice to the memory of Queen Victoria, M. Poincare, the Premier of France, proceeded to Cannes, where he ...

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  32. MARTIAL LAW IN NANKING.

    Yuan-Shi-Kai. the President, has entrusted Huang-hi-sing with the restoration of order and the control of civil and military affairs. The President's ...

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  33. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

    The introduction of the bill to provide for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales has been delayed until the Nationalists return to the House of ...

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  34. SOCIALISTS AND THE ARMY.

    There is great anger amongst the local Socialists at the decision of Mr. Butler, S.M., in the case of Alfred Giles, who was fined £100, or, as an ...

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  35. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. REGISTRATION OF CADETS.

    The returns of the cadet registration for February show that the number of registrations of lads born in 1898 has been increased to 22,740. The Defence ...

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  36. CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP'S COMPLAINT.

    The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Kelly) expressed considerable concern on Sunday afternoon when speaking at the opening of a new ...

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  37. HOBART WIRELESS STATION.

    The missing transformers for the Hobart wireless station, thE non-arrival of which from Melbourne has caused delay in getting the station readY for active ...

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  38. AVIATION. ANOTHER AIRMAN KILLED.

    Whilst aeroplaning yesterday at Barle-duc. in the department of Menso, Lieutenant Boncour, of the French Army Aviation Corps, was killed. ...

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  39. WHEAT MARKET.

    There has been a sharp rise in the price of wheat in Chicago, in consequence of reports received that the crops in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and ...

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  40. ELECTRICITY.

    Professor Hannover, of the Copenhagen University, has invented an electrical accumulator, which it is claimed will-give five times the storage of the ...

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  41. THE ARMOURED CRUISER.

    The Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a return from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) showing that the hull, machinery, and ...

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  42. ACROSS THE STRAITS WITH A PASSENGER.

    M. Provost, the French aviator, accompanied by a passenger, crossed the Straits of Dover yesterday from Calais to Eastchurch, in Kent. M. Prevost ...

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  43. SENSATION IN COURT.

    A sensational scene occurred in a court of justice in Vienna on Suturday at the conclusion of a case in which a landowner named Labo won a case ...

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  44. FINANCIAL.

    The revenue returns of the South African Union show that the receipts for March increased the surplus to £746,000, which will be devoted to the ...

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  45. DESTROYERS' SHOOTING.

    The Minister of Defence has received a report from Vice-Admiral Sir George King-Hall, stating that the shooting pinctice on the destroyers Parramatta ...

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  46. RIVAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS.

    Mr. Justice Higgins, in Chambers to-day, in the Marconi Company's application far an order for the inspection of the Federal Government's wireless ...

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  47. IRRIGATION.

    Yesterday Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, opened the Upper Chenab Canal, which is a section of the great irrigation scheme in the Punjaub that is ...

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  48. STATE OIL MONOPOLY.

    "The German Government, having abandoned the project for a State oil monopoly, German oil dealers aro organising a Protection League for the ...

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  49. STATUTORY DRILL.

    The fact that several employers have complained that boys in offices and factories are being taken away on Saturday to fulfil the statutory drills as senior ...

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  50. CRICKET.

    Mr. Sydney H. Pardon, the editor of "Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack," writing in to-day's "Sunday Times," says the promoters of the triangular test ...

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  51. SAD TRAGEDY.

    A sad drowning tragedy occurred yesterday on Lake Constance, on the borders of Switzerland and Germany. A Swiss family was boating on the lake ...

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  52. FINGER PRINT EVIDENCE.

    The Full Court, by a majority, today decided that when the only evidence against un accused person depends upon the resemblance between ...

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  53. CHORUS GIRLS.

    The Amalgamated Musicians Union of Great Britain has sent a circular to the theatrical and music-hall managers, asking for chorus girls a minimum wage ...

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