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  2. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    A return was laid on the table of the House of Representatives last month, showing the number of persons refused admission to the Commonwealth under the terms ...

    Article : 263 words
  3. AMERICAN FLOODS.

    The latest intelligence with regard to the American floods is less reassuring. The Illinois Central railway embankment has been burst by a torrent 25 ft. deep and 100 ...

    Article : 120 words
  4. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the debate on Mr. Chaplin's amendment of the Budget, affirming that the remission of the corn tax was needless, and injuriously ...

    Article : 471 words
  5. TRAGIC COUP D'ETAT IN SERVIA.

    A startling report is current in Cologne and Pesth. The army in Servia have suddenly risen in revolt, and proclaimed Prince ...

    Article : 494 words
  6. SIDELIGHTS ON THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Federal Sugar Rebates Bill was proceeded with on its second reading 60 day, but it lid not go beyond an explanatory speechly the Treasurer. Sir George Turner ...

    Article : 816 words
  7. FEDERALISING STATE DEBTS.

    At their recent conference the State Premiers adopted a resolution affirming that the Commonwealth should take over the whole, or part, of the State public debts at ...

    Article : 570 words
  8. THE IRON INDUSTRY.

    The Commission on the Bonuses for Manufactures Bill sat again at Parliament House to-day. Mr. Kingston (Minister of Customs) presided. ...

    Article : 202 words
  9. BULGARIAN ARMY.

    Intelligence has been received that the Bulgarian Government have ordered the supply of 40,000 rifles, to be delivered November. ...

    Article : 24 words
  10. RUSSIA AND THE TIMES.

    Mr. Balfour replying in the House of Commons to-day to a question from Mr. R. B. Martin, Unionist member for Droitwich, stated that the Government are ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. CHINESE AFFAIRS.

    Although Prince Ching pretends to be too ill to see the other foreign Ministers at Pekin, it is stated that he? frequently receives M. Lessar, the Russian Ambassador, ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    The second report by the Board of Engineers appointed to investigate the proposal to construct a railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, was presented to the ...

    Article : 229 words
  13. THE HIGH COURT.

    At a meeting of the council of the Australasian National League, held on June 9, the following resolutions were carried unanimously:—"That this council is of ...

    Article : 327 words
  14. MOTOR FACTORY DESTROYED.

    The Daimler motor works at Cannstatt, Wurtemberg, were totally burned yesterday, and 60 new cars destroyed, including the Mercedes racer, which was entered for ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

    As General Novitiky, chief of the gendarmerie at Kieff (capital of South-West Russia), 12 per cent, of the population of which are Jews, was interrogating a ...

    Article : 53 words
  16. AUSTRALASIAN FREIGHTS

    At the instance of the Australasian Merchants' Association, a freight meeting of merchants and brokers connected with the Australian and Tasmanian trades will be ...

    Article : 40 words
  17. A JUVENILE MURDERER.

    Patrick Knowles, a matchseller, 10 years of age, who confessed recently to the brutal murder of a 15-months old baby, whom he buried in the sand at Stockton-on-Tees, ...

    Article : 86 words
  18. THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO.

    Latest advices with regard to the French attack on the Figuig Oasis of Morocco, state that the Figuigan chiefs have been allowed a day to make reparation for the past, ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The wife of Dr. Percy James Edmunds has obtained a divorce on the ground of her husband's desertion and adultery. The couple were married in Sydney in 1884. ...

    Article : 59 words
  20. THE EDUCATION ACT.

    Sir W. V. Harcourt, the ex-leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. John Clifford on the subject of ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. CUSTOMS PROSECUTIONS.

    Five charges preferred by the Customs authorities against Dalgety &. Co. were dealt with at the District Court to-day, with the following results:—For making a false ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. THE BEHRING SEA.

    An American syndicate has made an offer to Russia' to build a bridge 107 miles in length across the Behring Sea. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. CUSTOMS PROSECUTIONS.

    Mr. G. B. Edwards (South Sydney) is to move in the House of Representatives today, that a return be laid upon the table giving, in tabulated fonri, the ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. AN OPPOSITION MOVE.

    Mr. A. E. Hutton, Liberal member for the Morley division of Yorkshire, has, on behalf of the Opposition, given notice of the following motion:—"That this House ...

    Article : 149 words
  25. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Copper.—Copper on spot is quoted at £5[?] 10/, and at three months at £55 17/6 per ton. Wheat.—The American visible supply of ...

    Article : 84 words
  26. VENEZUELA.

    Latest advices from Venezuela state that Matos and other revolutionary leaders, after a voyage of four days in an open boat, have reached Curacao, an island in the ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. FEDERAL INSURANCE.

    Mr. Hume Cook (Bourke, Victoria) has given notice that on Friday, July 24, he will move in the House of Representatives— "That, in the opinion of this House. there ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. VICTORIAN ELECTORAL DIVISIONS.

    To-morrow will be published maps show ing the redistribution of 23 Victorian lederal electorates for the House of Representatives proposed by the Federal Electoral ...

    Article : 171 words
  29. THE AUBURN MURDERERS.

    The State Cabinet to-day dealt with two murder cases, and a case of wounding with intent to murder. It was decided in regard to Digby Grand and Henry Jones, who were ...

    Article : 119 words
  30. CLAIM TO A PEERAGE.

    The Court of Appeal has upset the Commission of Enquiry granted Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste Sackville-West, who claims to be the lawful son of Lord Sackville, of ...

    Article : 444 words
  31. THE COST OF JUSTICE.

    In his speech on the Judiciary Bill in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Mr. Deakin said:—The administration of justice in the States of the Commonwealth cost ...

    Article : 117 words
  32. THE BLAIRGOWRIE TRAGEDY.

    Furthir details of the murder of Mrs. Tuckentan, of Blairgowrie station, Barcaldine district, by her husband, show that there was only one person, George Bellamy, ...

    Article : 146 words
  33. ANTARCTIC RESEARCH.

    Sir Clements Markham, addressing the Geographical Society yesterday, justified the conduct of the society in regard to Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition against the ...

    Article : 111 words
  34. A GENERAL MASSACRE.

    The intelliprence of the assassination of the Servian Sovereigns is confirmed, and the names of other victims are now mentioned. ...

    Article : 272 words
  35. TOKENS OF CRISIS.

    Many Unionist newspapers in London and the provinces, in referring to the threatened breach in the Cabinet, consequent upon the preferential trade proposals of Mr. ...

    Article : 122 words
  36. NEW HEBRIDES NEGOTLATIONS.

    The Prime Minister (Sir E. Barton) received this week a lengthy memorandum from the Colonial Office, concerning the negotiations between the Foreign Office and ...

    Article : 359 words
  37. A SOUTH SEA TRAGEDY,

    News of another massacre at the Admiralty Islands was brought to Sydney to-day by the island steamer Moresby. There were five victims, one white man and four ...

    Article : 234 words
  38. THE FEDERAL CROWN SOLICITOR.

    Mr. Powers, Crown Solicitor to the Queensland State Government, will, at the next meeting of the Federal Executive, be appointed Federal Crown Solicitor, at a ...

    Article : 37 words
  39. A MISSING BARQUE.

    It is feared at Lloyd's that the barque Tropic, which left San Francisco for Melbourne on March 17, has'foundered. Reinsurances are being effected at £73 10/ per ...

    Article : 121 words
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  41. GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS CRITICISED.

    The council of the Employers' Federation of Victoria passed a resolution to-night to the effect that in the face of the depression existing throughout Australia it was ...

    Article : 166 words
  42. THE EFFECT IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Seddon, speaking regarding the preferential tariff proposals, said that he had received a number of cable messages from England, where there was some concern at ...

    Article : 236 words
  43. THE GOOD HOPE EXPLOSION.

    The boiler explosion which occurred on the first-class armored cruiser Good Hope on Tuesday was caused by the yielding of a bolt in the boiler tube, which allowed ...

    Article : 56 words
  44. THE PRICE OP SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 2/0 3-16 per oz. ...

    Article : 15 words
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