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  2. PRICES OF FODDER.

    To consider the extraordinary prices of fodder now ruling, and the general question of the prices of commodities, was the object of a public meeting ...

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  3. PROHIBITION.

    The prohibition movement in America continues to make progress. As a resuit of the recent poll eight more towns or villages in the State of [?]inois have ...

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  4. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

    It is officially announced that the South African Union troops have occupied Keetmanshoop, which is due cast from Luderitz Bay, in German ...

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  5. BATTLE OF ZILLEBEKE

    There is again a full in the news from both fronts. Sir John French's official report of the battle of Zellobeko shows that the British, after capturing Hill No. 60, lost heavily before they had made their possession secure. The Germans had fortified against attack from the west, south, or north, and the British would would to fortify the eastern, side. If Hill No. 60 attains any height it should prove a fine observation post in such flat country. On the Wostern ...

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  6. BARON DE REUTER'S SUICIDE

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of Baron Herbert de Reuter, of the Router's Telegram Co., who committed suicide on Sunday last by shooting ...

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  7. PEACE CONGRESS.

    As already notified the British delegates to the Women's Peace Congress are unable to reach the Hague, owing to the absence of steamers to convey ...

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  8. RAILWAY SEIZED.

    Yesterday the Union Forces seized the railway for some distance to the north of Keetmanshoop, and mounted troops occupied Bethany, to the ...

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  9. COLONEL MARITZ.

    Documents taken by the Union troops in German South-West Africa show that the stories of the arrest by the Germans of Colonel Maritz, the Boer rebel ...

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  10. TREASURY BILLS.

    Imperial Treasury Bills, at a fixed rate, and to the extent of £9,250,000, have been purchased for a week. ...

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  11. BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE WAR.

    In the House of Commons to-day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George), in reply to a question, said the Government did not believe the war ...

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  12. THE FRUIT TRADE.

    The hard sorts of apples forwarded by the P. and O. liner Medina curried well, but many of the softer sorts were over-ripe. For some of the West ...

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  13. AUSTRALIA.

    The Bill to Amend the War Precautions Act, which was rend a first time in the Senate to-day, provides for trial by court-martial, and punishment of ...

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  14. GREECE AND THE WAR

    M. Venizelos, the late Prime Minister of Greece, who resigned his office because a party in his country, led by the King, would not participate in the war ...

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  15. WAR IN THE AIR.

    Mr. Shepherd, an American correspondent who is with the British headquarters, relates that a German Tanbe machine flew over Ypres on Sunday, and ...

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  16. THE ALLIES' CAMPAIGNS

    Sir John French's official report on the progress of operations at the front published to-day runs as follows:— "The improvement in the weather has ...

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  17. PERSONAL.

    Dr. Long, Bishop, of Bathurst (N.S.W.), has joined the Bathurst Civilian Rifle Club. He participated in a shoot on the range on Saturday, and ...

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  18. DUM-DUM BULLETS

    It is officially reported that the Russians have discovered a secret order issued by the Austrian General Kustanck to the Przemysl garrison on ...

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  19. WAITING ON BULGARIA.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Athens states that the Greek Government has informed the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France and Russia) that ...

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  20. AUSTRALIANS INTERNED IN GERMANY.

    The Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) received a letter to-day from the High Commissioner's Office in London, stating that the Commonwealth ...

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  21. BULGARIAN RAIDERS.

    Another 200 Bulgarian raiders have made an inclusion into Servia, and the Government of the latter country has despatched troops against them. ...

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  22. PROSECUTING THE WAR

    Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, addressed a meeting at the Palace Theatre, Newcastle, last night, of about 5,000 munition workers, and met with an ...

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  23. FRENCH RAID.

    Yesterday four French aeroplanes successfully dropped bombs on the railway stations at Mullheim and Hubshem, near Freiberg, in Baden, and set ...

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  24. THE TURKISH WAR.

    Speaking in the House of Lords today, Lord Crewe stated that the Turkish forces engaged in the recent lighting at the head of the Persian Gulf had been ...

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  25. TASMANIA.

    It is notified by advertisement that all Frenchmen in Tasmania born in the year 1897 are required to report themselves to the Consulate at Hobart. ...

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  26. AMERICA'S NEUTRALITY.

    The President (Dr. Wilson) said today, in explaining the reasons for American neutrality, that the United States was not merely trying to keep ...

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  27. ZEPPELIN SIGHTED.

    The captain of an English trawler reports that he sighted a Zeppelin airship at daybreak yesterday off Flamborough Head, on the coast of ...

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  28. THE DARDANELLES.

    The British Admiralty states that as the Turks were making great efforts to secure the submarine E15, which, whilst reconnotring the mine fields, went ...

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  29. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    A big German fleet, according to advices received at Copenhagen, is now guarding the sea to the north-east of the Koppaar Stenarenne lighthouse, off ...

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  30. FIGHTING BECOMING LIVELIER.

    The Amsterdam "Telegrap" states that British warships have renewed their bombardment of the Germans at Middlekerke and Ostend, the Belgian coast ...

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  31. GIFTS FROM THE DOMINIONS

    The Premier has received from the Chief Secretary a copy of a communication from the Seceretary of State for the Colonies, giving details of the conditions ...

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  32. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION

    Mr. W. Jennings Bryan, the American Secretary of State, has asked RearAdmiral Peary, the distinguished Polar explorer, to explain a recent speech ...

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  33. THE DRESDEN.

    It has been elicited that, after escaping from the Falkland Islands battle, the German cruiser Dresden, which was subsequently sunk by the British, ...

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  34. FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    Excluding the cost of the acquisition of land, £640,878 has been spent in the Federal Capital territory at Canberra since the seat of Government ...

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  35. THE OFFICIAL REPORT.

    The communique issued yesterday stated:— Fifty incendiary shells have been dropped to-day on Rheims. ...

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  36. EIGHT HOURS' BAY.

    To-day was the anniversary of Eight Hours' Day, and the Union Secretaries' Association recoginsed the occasion by holding a social gathering at the ...

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  37. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS.

    Many trains full of German troops, reinforcements for the army in Belgium, have reached that country. ...

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  38. THE BOSPHORUS.

    The Salonika correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" states that the Russians have mined the entrance to the Bosphorus, and that two Turkish ...

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  39. ITALY AND THE WAR.

    Austrian and German steamers which have been taking refuge in Ancona, the Italian port on the Adriatic, have been ordered by their respective Governments ...

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  40. THE INDIAN FRONTIER.

    It is officially stated that 4,000 Mohmands (frontier tribesmen) attempted to raid the Khyber Pass, the great northern military road between the ...

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  41. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    The communique issued to-day is as follows:- The enemy, operating in the direction of Stryi, in Galicia (south-east ...

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  42. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    At the beginning of the month the Agent-General for Tasmania, (Sir John McCall) became president of an organisation to found the first convalescent ...

    Article : 174 words
  43. FOR VALOUR.

    Private Barber, of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for running ahead of a Grenadier company at the ...

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