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  2. GREAT LIBERAL RALLY.

    The Theatre Royal was crowded to the doors last evening, at a Liberal meeting, which was addressed by the Hon. W Watt, the Victorian State Premier, and ...

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  3. GREAT GALE IN HOBART.

    A good deal of damage was done by the strong wind which blew all day yesterday, and increased to a gale last night. One of the large plateglass ...

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  4. SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM

    Opium merchants in Shanghai complain that £9,000,000 worth of the drug is stored there, and that they are unable to sell it in the interior, owing to ...

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  5. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the first reading of the bill providing for the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales was rend the first ...

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  6. THE TITANIC DISASTER. THE SENATE INQUIRY.

    The Kaiser has ordered a searching investigation into the extension of life-saving appliances on passenger ships, and the Government has sent a circular ...

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  7. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    It is announced in London that the British Admiralty proposes to establish a third battle squadron, and a fifth, or chief, nucleus crew squadron. The third ...

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  8. REFERENCE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

    In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Stanhope palled attention to the inquiry being conducted by the United States Sanate Committee into the loss ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    M. Laird Smith, M.H.R., has received a telegram from the Hon. C. E. Frazer, the Federal Postmaster-General, in which the latter states that he will leave ...

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  10. MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.

    The underwriters in London, who lost £800,000 owing to the wreck of the Titanic, have sent to Mr. Ismay a message of sympathy. ...

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  11. INQUIRY BY MELBOURNE MARINE BOARD.

    Discussion in reference to the wreck of the Titanic took place at a meeting of the Melbourne Marine Board to-day. It was resolved to hold an inquiry, to ...

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  12. SCRUBBY CREEK TRAGEDY.

    The inquest upon the body of Charles Priee, which was found at Scrubby Creek, [?]ar Omeo, on April 14, was concluded today. ...

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  13. SANITATION.

    With a view to concentrating public attention on sanitation, the borough of Marylebone, in London, and the friendly societies have inaugurated a "health ...

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  14. RECOVERING THE BODIES.

    The cable steamer Mackay Bennett has recovered 205 bodies from the scene of the wreck of the Titanic, and is conveying them to Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...

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  15. FIRE AT BARONIAL HALL.

    A destructive fire broke out last night at Clumber House, at Worksop, Nottinghamshire the country seat of the Duke of Newcastle. Clumber House ...

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  16. SENATOR SMITH.

    One newspaper in New York points out that the term of office of Senator Smithy, who is chairman of the Senate Committee inquiring in to the loss of ...

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  17. MINING.

    The Electro-Metallurgical Company of Nuremberg, in Germany, is willing to obtain direct supplies of wolfram, iridium, and osmiridium ores from ...

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  18. PERSIAN BRIGANDS.

    Lord Lamington, formerly Governor of Queensland, who left England at the instance of the Persia Committee to inquire into the situation arising from ...

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  19. BLACK OPAL.

    In October last Messrs. Fairfax and Roberts, of Sydney, New South Wales, entrusted a quantity of black opal to a London firm for sale, at the White ...

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  20. SERIOUS ALLEGATION.

    Several passengers and members of the crew of the steamer Mount Temple, 8,700 tons belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., which has arrived ...

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  21. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 words
  22. MEMORIAL SERVICES.

    A memorial service for Mr. W. T. Stead, the editor of the "Review of Reviews," who was lost in the Titanic, was held yesterday in Westminster ...

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  23. CRICKET.

    Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas, who captained the English cricket team in all the test matches played in Australia in the recent tour, was entertained at a ...

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  24. FLOOD DISASTER.

    A disastrous flood occurred to-day at Millville, in New York State, owing to the collapse of a dam, which, released the waters of a lake two miles long ...

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  25. ATTEMPTED MURDER.

    William Tebbitt, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday to 20 years penal servitude for feloniously discharging a loaded revolver at Mr. Leopold de ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC CREW.

    The difficulty in connection with the sending of a second boat for the use of the Australian Olympic crew at Stock[?]olm has been overcome. ...

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  27. SLAUGHTER IN SIBERIA.

    Last week serious fighting took place at Irkutsk, in Southern Siberia, between Russian soldiers and workers employed in the alluvial gold mining ...

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  28. RECIPROCITY.

    The Toronto correspondent of "The Times" states that Mr. G. E. Foster. the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, says that he hopes that the ...

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  29. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    At a farewell banouet given in Capetown last night to Field-Marshal Lord Methuen, formerly General Officer Commanding in Chief in South Africa. ...

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  30. THE DESERTIONS FROM THE OLYMPIC.

    The Olympic, which has been held-up at Southampton owing to the desertion of her firemen, is still unable to proceed on her voyage to New York. The ...

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  31. JUMPING RECORD.

    At the high jumping contest for ponies at the Casino show to-day, H. Walker's [?]ny Kuiti negotiated 6ft. 1in. Kuiti is only 13 hands (13.4in.) high, ...

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  32. TURCO-ITALIAN WAR. COLLAPSE OF ORIGINAL PLANS.

    "The Times" slates to-day that Italian action in the Ægean Sea, which has resulted in the attack on the approaches to the Dardanelles, is due to ...

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  33. THE RAILWAYS.

    The accounts of the Railway Department for the nine months ending on March 31 have now been completed, and show the profit on working to be ...

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  34. SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

    A report has been made to the police that a shocking outrage was committed last night upon an old woman named Wright in a cottage in Ellesmere-street. ...

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  35. REBELLION IN MOROCCO.

    Owing to the outbreak of the native soldiers in Fez, who vented their wrath on the Jews by throwing them from housetops, 7,000 Jews have taken ...

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  36. ST. MARK'S VENICE.

    The now campanile at St. Mark's, Venice, was inaugurated yesterday with much festivity. There was a procession of gondolas, the leading one being ...

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  37. SHELL EXPLOSION.

    A disastrous explosion occurred to-day at a magazine in Delhi. Whilst a party of native soldiers were examining the ammunition, one of the ...

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  38. THE CLOSING OF THE DARDANELLES.

    There is uneasiness in official circles in Constantinople owing to Russia's attitude in connection with the closing of the Dardanelles to shipoiug, owing to ...

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  39. CITY LANGSHAN & COUNTRY ROOSTER.

    The Minister of Home Affairs (Hon. King O'Malley), Messrs. J. E. Ogden and J. Belton addressed a large gathering at the Gafety Theatre to-night, and had a ...

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  40. PASSING THE TITANIC.

    The steamer Rannahannock, 3,884 tons. belonging to Messrs. Furness, Withy and Co., of Liverpool, has arrived in England from Halifax, Nova ...

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  41. FINANCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 words
  42. SEIZURE OF GERMAN BOMBS.

    Two cases of German-made bombs; intended for the use of aviators, and consigned to Italy, were seized to-day by the Austrian authorities at Innsbruck. ...

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  43. TORNADOES IN AMERICA.

    A tornado which prevailed to-day at Omaha, Nebraska, derailed a tram on the Union Pacific Co.'s line. Thirty passengers were injured, several of them ...

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  44. REVOLT IN AFGHANISTAN.

    Advices received in Calcutta from the Khost Valley, in tho east of Afghanistan, state that 3,000 tribesmen have captured and sacked the town of ...

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  45. TURKISH LOSSES.

    Three hundred Turks were killed and 315 wounded in the recent bombardment by the Italians of the approaches to the Dardanelles. ...

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  46. RELIEF FROM CANADA.

    The Canadian Government has voted £2,000 to the fund being raised for the relief of the sufferers by the loss of the Titanic. ...

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  47. CHINESE REPUBLIC.

    A loan contract was signed last month in Peking by Tang Shao-yi and an Anglo-Belgian syndicate, represented by the Banquo Sino-Belge and the ...

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  48. STRIKE OF JAPANESE SEAMEN

    The seamen employed by the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha and hte Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, the two most important steamship companies in ...

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  49. THE SENATE INQUIRY.

    It is rumoured that there are internal dissensions in the Senate Committee inquiring into the Titanic disaster owing to Senator Smith monopolising the ...

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  50. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    President Taft, in replying to-day to Mr. R[?]o[?]evelt, charged him with distorting facts concerning him. Mr. Taft said the ex-President refused to give ...

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  51. DISCOUNT.

    The market rate for short loans is 2? per cent., for bills at three months, 3 5-16 per cent. The rate in Paris is 2? per cent., and in Berlin 3? per cent. ...

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  52. COWARDLY ATTACK ON MR. TREN WITH.

    Messrs. W. Trenwith and Norman, O'Brien (Liberal organiser) addressed an open-air meeting from the balcony of the Carlton Club Hotel last night. ...

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  53. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    In a cablegram received to-day the Calfornia Rugby Football Union invites the New South Wales Union to and a team to San Francisco in ...

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  54. CONSOLS.

    Imperial consols. 2[?] per cent., quoted at £78 5s., a fall of 15s. since Friday last. ...

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  55. FRUIT TRADE.

    The Liverpool portion of the Tasmanian shipment of apples forwarded by the Telamon were sold yesterday, and realised from 6s. to 11s. 6d. per ...

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  56. AUSTRALASIAN STOCKS.

    The prices for all Australian and New Zealand Government stocks are unchanged. ...

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  57. MR. MARCONI EXAMINED.

    Mr. Marconi was sharply examined by the Committee concerning the wireless telegraph message to the operator of the Carpathia advising him to ...

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  58. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

    Last night, Mr. R. L. Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, speaking over a long-distance telephone from Hot Springs, Virginia, where he is now ...

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  59. P. AND O. STOCK.

    P. and O. stock, which has advanced rapidly of late, touched £380 yesterday for £100 stock. ...

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  60. THE DAVIS CUP.

    A meeting of the Australasian Lawn Tennis Association was held to-day, to consider where the challenge rounds in connection with the Davis Cup should ...

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  61. FRENCH APACHES.

    Three Anarchists and a woman, agents of the desperate gang of French Apaches led by Bonnet, the man who killed one pohce official yesterday and ...

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  62. GENERAL CABLES

    The Privy Council has reserved judgment in the case of Fairclough versus the Swan Brewery Co. of West Australia. In the case of Massey versus ...

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  63. W. AND A. McARTHUR.

    The statement of accounts of Messrs. W. and A. McArthur, Limited, Australian merchants, shows an increased profit of £3,772, and leaves £13,758 ...

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