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  2. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Council has not yet settled down to hard work, and the sitting on Wednesday lasted only an hour and twenty minutes. The Attorney-General introduced ...

    Article : 951 words
  3. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The Federal Cabinet will meet to-morrow to consider the appointment of a new Minister to fill the vacancy, created by the retirement of Mr. Kingston. The return of ...

    Article : 176 words
  4. THE LATE POPE.

    The Roman newspapers complain that Dr. Lapponi's process of embalming the late Pope's body was extremely unsatisfactory, and that decomposition ensued so rapidly ...

    Article : 189 words
  5. KING EDWARD.

    Leaving Belfast early yesterday morning, King Edward and Queen Alexander continued their voyage in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Landing at Bancran ...

    Article : 75 words
  6. POINTS FROM GENERAL HUTTON'S ANNUAL REPORT.

    The system of field training has already brought about valuable results. The defence of Fremantle (W.A.) should be undertaken, says the general. ...

    Article : 568 words
  7. TIE FISCAL QUESTION.

    A motion by Mr. Balfour for the suspension of the 12 o'clock rule was carried in the House, of Commons yesterday by a majority of 138. The Prime Minister stated that the ...

    Article : 379 words
  8. SIDELIGHTS ON THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    An attempt was made by Mr. Reid in the House of Representatives to-day to draw Sir Edmund Barton as to when the vacancy in the Ministry would be filled, but Sir ...

    Article : 797 words
  9. THE CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL.

    The Federal Attorney-General will tomorrow move the second reading of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. Some days will elapse between ...

    Article : 222 words
  10. LYNCHING ATROCITIES.

    Lynching outrages in the United States have become so common that (according to the Times' New York correspondent) the newspapers scarcely notice them, and only ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    Speaking on the Address in Reply in the Assembly, Mr. Harper said he had been asked by the leader of the Opposition to state that the party were united in ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. THE ENGLISH ELEVEN.

    Mr. F. W. J. Ford, in a letter to the London Times concerning Mr. A. C. MacLaren's refusal to accompany the Marylebone cricket team to Australia under the ...

    Article : 112 words
  13. CAPE COLONY.

    The Legislative Council in Cape Colony yesterday passed the Bill embodying the Bioemfontein Customs Convention, after the rejection by the casting- vote of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. FEDERAL PUBLIC WORKS.

    The Federal public works contemplated by Government during 1903-4 involve an expenditure of £422,183, of which, however, al least £81,000 is made up of revotes for ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. INFANTILE MORTALITY.

    At the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Swansea yesterday Dr. Griffiths, in his presidential address, referred to the alarming increase in the ...

    Article : 80 words
  16. A NEW SENATOR.

    At a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament to-day, Mr. H. J. Saunders was elected to fill the place in the Senate vacated by Mr. Ewing. There was no other ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. A DIRIGIBLE BALLOON.

    Captain Smallbone, who is the inventor of a steerable balloon, gave a successful demonstration of his ability to manœuvre the vessel in mid-air in the presence of his ...

    Article : 66 words
  18. THE MAIL CONTRACTS.

    The Federal Prime Minister laid before Parliament to-day, a copy of the dispatch which he sent on June 19 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in answer to the ...

    Article : 319 words
  19. SOMALILAND.

    Dispatches from General Manning have been received by the War Office, which confirm Colonel Cobbe's conclusion that Colonel Plunkett's disobedience in pushing on ...

    Article : 59 words
  20. THE BUDGET.

    Mr. Irvine (Premier and State Trea surer) is not surprised at the announcement by Sir George Turner that the States will receive less this year than the previous ...

    Article : 757 words
  21. BALKAN AFFAIRS.

    A sister of the late Queen Draga of Servia is engaged in a lecturing tour through Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, her object being to enlighten the public mind of ...

    Article : 185 words
  22. A COMMONER ILL.

    Sir J. Blundell Maple, Bart., who has represented the Dulwich division of Camberwell, in the Conservative interest in the House of Commons continuously since ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. MR. KING O'MALLEY IN COURT.

    Representative King O'Malley was at the South Melbourne Police Court to-day the defendant against a charge of having assaulted Charles Horton, of Bank-street, ...

    Article : 803 words
  24. THE SUGAR CONVENTION.

    In moving the second reading of the Sugar Convention Bill in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Gerald Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, said the ...

    Article : 73 words
  25. THE MARITIME DIFFICULTY.

    There is no fresh development in connection with the seamen's wages question. The Prime Minister, in the course of a long statement made to-night, with reference to ...

    Article : 304 words
  26. ANTARCTIC RELIEF PARTY

    The Admiralty authorities, who are supervising the arrangements for the relief of the Antarctic ship Discovery, have, according to the Morning Post, entrusted ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    In the Legislative Council to-day the Attorney-General moved the second reading of the Influx of Criminals Prevention Bill, designed to prevent hardened and desperate ...

    Article : 558 words
  28. A MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

    An extraordinary epidemic is raging in Cambridge, the nature of which is unknown to the doctors, but which strongly resembles smallpox. Hundreds of persons have ...

    Article : 85 words
  29. SMALLPOX IN TASMANIA.

    Three fresh cases of smallpox were reported to-day, the patients being two men named Brown and Bird, and a boy named Burton, residing outside the infected area. ...

    Article : 144 words
  30. ENGLAND AND CHINA.

    The Anglo-Chinese commercial treaty has been ratified in Pekin. ...

    Article : 15 words
  31. TORPEDO-BOAT MISSING.

    Torpedo boat No. 71 has been missing since Saturday, when she was last seen in the English Channel. ...

    Article : 27 words
  32. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 2/1 3-16 per oz. ...

    Article : 15 words
  33. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 words
  34. THE VESSEL SAFE.

    The missing torpedo is safe, and is now lying at Baglan, Glamorganshire. ...

    Article : 18 words
  35. TASMANIA.

    The report of the directors of the Perpetual Trustee Executive Agency Company shows a credit balance of £1,555. The directors propose to pay a dividend at the ...

    Article : 154 words
  36. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mrs. Williams, widow of Captain Williams, has given £7,000 to Missions to Seamen, for the erection of an institution for seamen at Wellington. ...

    Article : 97 words
  37. LONDON EDUCATION BILL.

    The London Education Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords yesterday by 69 votes to 26. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in ...

    Article : 75 words
  38. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Breadstuffs. — The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,220,000 quarters, as against 2,500,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the ...

    Article : 120 words
  39. Advertising

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  40. THE VICTORIA AT FREMANTLE.

    The mail steamer Victoria arrived at 8.2[?] this morning, and sailed for Adelaide at 4.40 p.m. Her only saloon passenger was Mr. G. Langley, for Sydney. There are 2[?] ...

    Article : 40 words
  41. THE FISHERIES SEIZURE

    Information has been received by Superintendent Driscoll that the Victorian fishing ketch Doris, owned by Mr. Jones, of Williamstown,which had been seized for ...

    Article : 109 words
  42. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 words
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