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  2. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    Although-the High Court Bill is to be the first measure to be introduced when the House of Representatives settles down to business next week, the Government ...

    Article : 183 words
  3. VICTORIAN COAL TROUBLE

    The action in which John Martell is claiming £1,000 damages from the Victorian Coal Miners' Association, and from its officers individually, for maliciously, ...

    Article : 196 words
  4. SMALLPOX JE MELBOURNE.

    The unpleasant announcement has been made that a case of smallpox was discovered at North Melbourne to-day. The patient is W. Walker, 35 years of age, an Indian ...

    Article : 437 words
  5. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

    In consequence of the recent atrocities at Kishineff the Czar has dismissed the Governor of the province, despite the efforts of the Grand Dukes, and of ...

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  6. THE RECENT RAILWAY TROUBLE.

    The second reading of the Strike Suppression Bill was carried by 68 votes to l8, and the House went into committee on the measure. ...

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  7. PREFERENTIAL TRADE

    Many Unionist members of the House of Commons hope the new fiscal policy enunciated by Mr. Chamberlain will be maintained and placed in the front of the ...

    Article : 391 words
  8. TREASURE ISLAND.

    The American schooner Herman, a smart little fore and aft vessel with a history, left Sydney to-day bound, according to her outward entry at the Customs, for San ...

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  9. THE FAR EAST.

    'The Chinese Government has informed the American and Japanese Governments that owing to the opposition of Russia it is impossible to open up foreign trade with ...

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  10. IRISH AFFAIRS.

    A violent scene was enacted at a meeting held in the Rotunda, Dublin, in aid of the Nationalist Parliamentary Party's funds. A band of members of the Gaelic League ...

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  11. SOMALILAND.

    Severe fighting has occurred between the Abyssinians and the Mullah's forces Somaliland. Eleven hundred dervishes fiercely attacked the Abyssinians at ...

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  12. WAS IT A BREACH OF ETTQUETTE[?]

    Sir Richard Baker, as President of the Senate, has written a letter to the individual members of the Legislative Council of Victoria, to the effect that at the ...

    Article : 222 words
  13. BISLEY RIFLE TEAM.

    The Australian team of rifle shots selected to defend the Kolapore Cup at Bisley took their departure by the P. & 0. R.M.S. Oriental to-day. A large number of ...

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  14. THE BALKAN CRISIS.

    The formation of a Stambuloffist Cabinet, under General Petroff, who, in addition to the Premiership, takes the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs, is considered ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. MR. HANBURY'S SUCCESSOR.

    Lord Onslow, Under Secretary,for the Colonies, has been appointed President of the Board of Agriculture, in succession to the late Mr. S. W. Hanbury. ...

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  16. ANGLO-BELGIAN DISPUTE.

    King Leopold of Belgium, who is titular sovereign of the Congo Free State, is claiming the greater part of the district of Wadelai, in the Eastern Soudan, as compensation ...

    Article : 73 words
  17. ARTIFICIAL RAIN.

    The experiments made by Dr. McCarthy, of Exhibition-street, in certain droughtstricken districts of Victoria, with an invention by means of which it is claimed that ...

    Article : 426 words
  18. THE MELBOURNE EXPRESS.

    The first through passenger tram from Melbourne reached Serviceton at 12.30 to-day, being just an hour and a half late. Its engine will take the Adelaide express ...

    Article : 71 words
  19. FINANCIAL NEWS.

    The following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:- Mount Lyell, £3 5/. Mount Lyell North, £1 8/3. ...

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  20. VICTORIA.

    A young man named Makepeace, aged about 28 years, was to-day admitted to the Melbourne Hospital, Buffering from fracture of the base of the skull caused by ...

    Article : 800 words
  21. CALAMITOUS BULL-FIGHT.

    During a bull-fight at Algeciros, a town in Spain five miles west of Gibraltar, the amphitheatre collapsed A terrible panic followed, during which the bulls gored the ...

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  22. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY[?]

    At a meeting of the Perth Chamber [?] Commerce a discussion took place regarding the railway to South Australia. Mr. F. Wilson thought the matter of the ...

    Article : 244 words
  23. ALLEGED LIBEL.

    'A' case arising out of a report by a firm of mercantile agents as to the character and standing of the proprietress and the manager of one of the city tea rooms was ...

    Article : 466 words
  24. BRITISH CONSOLS.

    British Consols are quoted at £91 15/. ...

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  25. OPINION IN GERMANY.

    The German newspapers, now that the full text of Mr. Chamberlain's speech is available, are particularly impressed with the stress the Colonial Secretary laid on ...

    Article : 333 words
  26. ATTACKED BY A SWORDFISH.

    Recently the barque Zelateur, flying the Norwegian flag, got ashore while trading amongst the Coral Islands of the Pacific. She was successfully floated, however, and ...

    Article : 203 words
  27. A SAILORS' PALACE.

    The Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday opened the Sailors'. Palace, at Limehouse, London. The institution will be the headquarters of the British and Foreign ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. STOCKS AND SHARES.

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  29. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The wool market was quieter to-day. Faulty merinos sold in favor of buyers. Prices for fine merinos were firmly maintained, and crossbrede were occasionally ...

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  30. CHILDREN ON THE STAGE.

    The theatrical profession is strongly agitating against the clause in the Employment of Children Bill, which prohibits the appearance before the footlights of children ...

    Article : 44 words
  31. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Breadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,175,000 quarters, as against 2,090,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the ...

    Article : 105 words
  32. THE METAL MARKET.

    Copper.—Copper is quoted at £63 on spot, and £62 10/ at three months. Tin.—Tin is quoted at £133 15/ on spot, and £133 5/ at three months. ...

    Article : 45 words
  33. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT.

    Mr. C. R. Valentine was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday to four months' imprisonment for an offence against the Bankruptcy Act. ...

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  35. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The representatives of the Fitzroy Football Club, Victoria, arrived to day. Mrs. Margaret Flood, wife of the licensee of the Lady of the Lake Hotel, Bay-street, ...

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  36. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Guildford Hospital has been placed in quarantine owing to a case of scarlet fever having occurred in the institution. At the Criminal Court to-day Thomas ...

    Article : 79 words
  37. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    Sir Malcolm McEacharn (retiring president of the Chamber of Commerce), in his address before that body yesterday, referred to the subject of the Pacific cable. Sir ...

    Article : 141 words
  38. THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT CASE.

    Further evidence was taken to-day in the action in which John Edward Ross, laborer, sought to recover from Annie Huckell and H..J. Johnstone (trustees) and Florence J. ...

    Article : 400 words
  39. A CRICKETER'S SUICIDE.

    A sensation has been caused in cricketing circles by the suicide of Arthur Shrewsbury, the well-known batsman. His mind was unhinged through physical agony, resulting ...

    Article : 431 words
  40. SAD BURNING FATALITY.

    The two-year-old son of Major Hobbs was to-day burnt to death at Cottesloe. While playing near a bonfire his clothes became ignited. ...

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  41. THE VALUE PAYABLE PARCELS POST.

    The Secretary to the Postal Department[?] who has recently returned from a visit to Queensland, brings glowing accounts of the ' working of the value payable post system in ...

    Article : 120 words
  42. GORED BY A DEER.

    Henry Leslie Ralph, keeper at the Perth Zoo, was attacked by a deer to-day, and gored in the stomach. He was removed to the hospital, but his injuries are not serious. ...

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  43. OPINION OF SIR EDMUND BARTON.

    The great speech of Mr. Chamberlain upon Imperial trade has caused much discussion in Federal circles. Yesterday, at the request of Reuter's agency, the Prime ...

    Article : 536 words
  44. THE GOLD YIELD.

    The Mines Department gold statistics for April were as follows:—Alluvial, 867 oz.; dollied and specimens, 1,006 oz.; crushed, 201,884 oz.; total, 203,758 oz. This is a ...

    Article : 51 words
  45. A COOL THIEF.

    The daring tactics pursued by a smart thief at the South Melbourne market this morning have left John Mullins, a fruitgrower, of Tallyho, lamenting the loss of a ...

    Article : 257 words
  46. HEWING RATE FOR COAL.

    At a conference of employers and representatives of the coalminers at Collie it was decided to fix the hewing rate at 4/ per ton, a reduction of sixpence. The miners ...

    Article : 65 words
  47. MILITARY UNIFORMS.

    A general order has been issued by the Federal Commandant with reference to the introduction of the new Commonwealth military uniform. In this General Hutton ...

    Article : 158 words
  48. THE LEONARA SUICIDE.

    At the inquest held to-day on the body of Hugh McKittrick, licensee of the Grand Hotel, Leonora, who was found dead on May 13, the evidence showed that the ...

    Article : 71 words
  49. TASMANIA.

    The Governor to-day, under adverse climatic conditions, presented the medals gained by members of the first and second regiments of the Tasmanian Imperial ...

    Article : 71 words
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  51. THE SAVINGS BANKS.

    Some of the States Savings Bank authorities do not take kindly to the proposal made by the Federal Treasurer and the Postmaster-General, that the Federal ...

    Article : 95 words
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  53. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament will meet to-morrow. The business will be of a formal character. The late Speaker and Chairman of Committees in the Assembly will probably be ...

    Article : 43 words
  54. THE PLAGUE.

    William Bryant died at Bundaberg today of plague. He was taken ill on Sunday. Dr. May made a post mortem examination, and discovered tht death was due ...

    Article : 50 words
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  56. PUBLIC WORKS.

    There will be no proposals in the next Federal Budget for the erection of large and expensive buildings, or the execution of public works of any magnitude in ...

    Article : 39 words
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  58. QUEENSLAND.

    John Laws, whose wife is ill in the hospital, committed suicide at Cooktown this morning by cutting his throat with a razor. ...

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