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  2. THE COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    The Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Miller), who has returned from a visit to West Australia and South Australia, said to-day that he ...

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  3. WIRE NETTING FOR FARMERS.

    Parliament last session determined to follow the Victorian practice of supplying wire netting to farmers at a comparatively cheap rate, to enable them to ...

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  4. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

    Sydney Government House having now been closed to them, the GovernorGeneral and Lady Denman said "Goodbye" to Sydney, and left for Melbourne ...

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  5. HOME RULE.

    Lord MacDonnell, who, as UnderSecretary for Ireland, was largely instrumental in passing Mr. Wyndham's Land Act, states that a private ...

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  6. SHIPPING DISASTERS. COLLISION WITH FLOATING DOCK

    To-day the steamer, Vandalia, 4,260 tons, belonging to the Hamburg-America Shipping Co., collided with a floating dock in the River Elbe and sank. ...

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  7. THE BALKANS CRISIS. THE SINEWS OF WAR.

    Talsat Bey and Djavid Bey, two former Ministers and prominent members of the Committee of Union and Progress, have been called to the colours ...

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  8. PERSONAL

    Mr. O. H. Root (Leven council clerk), who was attacked by illness at Hobart a fortnight age, was sufficiently recovered to resume duty at Ulverstone yesterday. ...

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  9. MACEDONIAN REFORMS.

    It is reported that the Turkish Government is applying the Macedonian reforms drawn up in 1880, after a collective note had been handed to the ...

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  10. THE LOSS OF SUBMARINE B2.

    Salvage operations are proceeding fo[?] the lifting of the British submarine B2, which was struck off South Foreland on Friday morning last by the ...

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  11. AUSTRIA'S ROLE AS POLICEMAN

    Austria has substituted the word "Macedonia" for "Christian population" in the note to Turkey, and prefers verbal representations to the Porte to a ...

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  12. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The Commonwealth wireless expert (Mr. Balsillie), referring to-day to the cable message to the effect that a French enginer had patented a system ...

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  13. OPENING OF SERVIAN PARLIAMENT

    King Peter of Servia, in opening the Skupst[?]hina (Parliament) yesterday, stated that the Christians in the Balkans were threatened with ...

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  14. ITALY'S ACTION.

    Italy will join with the other Great Powers in the note to Turkey, but will not take any active part until peace is concluded. ...

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  15. SALVATION ARMY.

    The members of the Salvation Army in India are raising £50,000 to establish an industrial institution, and settlement for criminals convicted in the ...

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  16. FINANCIAL CONDITION OF GREECE.

    The first submarine for the Greek navy arrived at Athens yesterday from Toulon, and was the occasion for an enthusiastic demonstration. ...

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  17. THE GRE[?]KS IN AUSTRALIA AND THE TROUBLE,

    Apparently up to the present the Greeks in Queensland desirous of helping their countrymen in the Balkans trouble have not received any instructions ...

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  18. A SUSPENDED CONSTABLE.

    The suspended constable, Leslie Hercules Asker, appeared at the Adelaide Police Court to-day to answer a charge of perjury, arising out of an alleged ...

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  19. ACCESS TO THE DERWENT.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Glenorchy Council, the question of access to the river along the foreshore of the municipality, which has often been ...

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  20. IMMIGRANTS' COMPLAINTS.

    At the resumption to-day of the inquiry into the complaints made by the immigrants on the Roscommon, Captain G. [?]ush said no complaint, verbal ...

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  21. CHINA'S FINANCES

    The Peking correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that a Franco-Belgian loan of £10,000,000 to China has been signed, and that the money will ...

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  22. SUSPENSION OF PAYMENT.

    Following the example of Grecce, a moratorium (suspension of payment) has been officially established in Montenegro. ...

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  23. 20 HOURS IN THE RIGGING.

    A barge sank yesterday, off Foulness Island, on the coast of Essex, and three members of the crew climbed into the rigging. The men were without ...

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  24. WAGES AND PRICES.

    Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the leader of the Labour party in the House of Commons, stated at Bradford yesterday that it was no solution of the Labour ...

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  25. TURKISH BARRACKS BURNT.

    The "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that Sandansky, the Bulgarian brigand, with 2,500 men, has occupied the passage at Kresna, over the River ...

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  26. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY

    At a meeting of farmers at Mackay, a resolution was carried, almost without a dissentient, in favour of the abolition of the sugar excise and ...

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  27. OBSTRUCTING A FUNERAL

    Charles William Alexander was proceeded against at the Northcote Police Court to-day on a charge of having wilfully obstructed the roadway. ...

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  28. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    A terrible accident occurred to-day in Philadelphia. Three motor-cars, travelling at a rapid rate over a bridge, came into collision, and seven people ...

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  29. 100 MONTENEGRINS KILLED.

    The "Nieue Freie Press" states that a body of Montenegrins crossed the frontier on Thursday, and entered Novibazar, and that the Turks opened ...

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  30. SPORTING CABLES.

    At New York last week Billy Papko, the American middleweight, alleging that there was an insufficient attendance at the National Sporting Club, ...

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  31. STATUTORY HALF HOLIDAY

    The Devonport Traders' Association met to-night, and decided to ask the municipal council to take another poll on the statutory half-holiday question, ...

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  32. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The Australian cricketers commenced their return match yesterday against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, and scored 101 in the first innings. King, ...

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  33. ARMY CREDITS.

    The Bulgarian Parliament, amid acclamation, passed extraordinary war credits yesterday, amounting to 72,000,000 francs. ...

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  34. A WILL CASE.

    In Chambers yesterday, before Mr. Justice Nicholls, the bearing was concluded of the case in which the trustees under the will of the late Wm. Gangell, ...

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  35. TURKEY'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

    M. Poincare, the French Prime Minister, and M. Sazanoff, the Russian Foreign Minister, who had a two hours' conference to-day, have accepted the ...

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  36. POLICE OFFICER'S SUICIDE

    Sergeant Edmund Forrest Mulcahy, officer in charge of the Geelong police, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself with a revolver. Sergeant ...

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  37. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

    The Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram), in an address yesterday afternoon at the Lyceum Theatre, Strand, referring to the White Slave Traffic Bill, which ...

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  38. THE SUFFRAGISTS.

    Miss Mary Gawthorpe, the militant suffragist, proposes a women's national hunger strike, commencing at midnight on December 25 next. She appeals ...

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  39. SAD BOATING FATALITY.

    Two women lost their lives in a boating fatality on the harbour at about half-past six this evening. They were members of a party including five ...

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  40. TREATY OF BERLIN.

    The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that, as a result of the efforts of the Ambassadors of the Triple Entente—Great Britain, ...

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  41. PROTECTION OF NATIVE GAME.

    At the meeting of the Richmond Municipal Council on Saturday, the question of protecting native game was discussed. ...

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  42. TRACK CUTTING.

    The Public Works Department continues to show commendable activity in track repairs and track construction on the West Coast, and Inspector Grubb ...

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  43. LABOUR UNREST.

    The Spanish Cortes were summoned for the 14th inst. to settle the general strike of railwaymen, but without the intervention of Parliament the trouble ...

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  44. BOY SCOUT VOLUNTEERS

    Three thousand Boy Scouts in Servia have tendered their services, and they have been accepted as messengers and Clerks in public, offices, the Scouts ...

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  45. ORE CARGO TAKES FIRE.

    While on a voyage from Newcastle to Brisbane, a fire was discovered in No 5 lower hold of the Norddeutcher-Lloyds steamer Griefswald. The hold ...

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  46. STIRRING UP REVOLT.

    Collisions between Turkish and Greek frontier guards took place yesterday at Metzosto. Bulgarian and Servian agitators are ...

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  47. AVIATION. TWO MEN KILLED IN GERMANY.

    A German aviator, named Alig, accompanied by a mechanic, went for a flight to-day at Johannisthal, and when at a height of 200 metres (656ft.) the ...

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  48. BASS ELECTORATE.

    A deputation from the Women's and Men's Launceston branches of the Liberal League has waited on Mr. T. J. Bakhap, M.H.A., with the request ...

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  49. THE CANADIAN CADETS.

    A deputation, comprising Messrs. P. O. Fysh, G. Cragg, L. S. Bruce, Capt. Lane, Lieut. Hunt, and sub-district naval officer White, together with Capt. ...

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  50. STATE OF SIEGE.

    The Bulgarian Parliament has assented to a state of siege, and a moratorium for three months, and the Minister of Finance has been authorised to ...

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  51. A RECORD.

    Yesterday, at Annapolis, in Maryland, an American record for an endurance flight on a hydroaeroplane was put up by Lieutenant John H. Towers, ...

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  52. BOXING.

    Jack Howard and Jack Lester, heavyweights, met at the Sports Ground today, before a fair attendance of spectators. Howard's failure to follow up his ...

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  53. THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.

    Financial authorities in London state that the Balkan States are looking to Paris to finance them. France issued several loans to them last year, ...

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  54. COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE SOCIETY.

    A requisition in favour of the proposed inquiry, signed by shareholders in the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, was presented to the ...

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  55. GENERAL CABLES. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.

    The dividend of the New Zealand Shipping Co. for the year is 16s. per share, and £21,555 is carried forward, and £30,000 placed to the reserve. The ...

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  56. EIGHT HOURS' DAY.

    Fine weather favoured the annual celebration to-day of Eight Hours' Day. The procession through the city was of an impressive character, and was ...

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  57. RUSSIAN DEMAND.

    Russia is threatening to demand from Turkey an indemnity for detaining Russian grain carried in Greek ships. ...

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  58. GOVERNMENT OR MUNICIPAL CONTROL.

    The Commissioner of Public Works (Mr. Butler) received a deputation today from residents of Glenelg, who opposed the electrification of their ...

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  59. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    There was a very large attendance at Colli[?]-street (Melbourne) Congregational Church to-day, when the conference began on the expected early ...

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  60. ART SALE.

    The "Morning Post" applauds the purchase by the Felton trustees of Harvard Thomas's "Thyrsis" for the Melbourne Art Gallery. ...

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  61. THE KOCHANA MASSACRE.

    A court-martial has been held on a number of Moslems concerned in the massacre of Bulgarians at Kochana last month. One of the prisoners was ...

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  62. A GENEROUS EMPLOYER.

    Herr Zeiss, the proprietor of the Schichau Shipbuilding Works, at Stettin, has endowed his Workmen's Benefit Institution with £150,000. ...

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  63. MYSTERIOUS FIRE.

    A mysterious fire broke out to-day on board the Japanese battleship Mikasa, 15,200 tons, which was lying at Tokio. The fire was located near the ...

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  64. GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE

    It is reported that Sir Edward Grey, the Britain Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, takes exception to the p[?]tras[?] in the note to Turkey that the ...

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  65. DISASTROUS CANE FIRE.

    A disastrous cane fire is reported from Alligator Creek, several farmers adjoining being burnt out. ...

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  66. RAILWAY DISASTER IN SPAIN.

    In the railway disaster which occurred yesterday at Alic[?]nt[?], in Spain, owing to the failure of the brakes of a train, nine people were killed and 1[?] ...

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