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  2. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The House of Representatives is on Tuesday to continue with the Judiciary Bill in committee. The Government are anxious to hurry the Bill through, but so little ...

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  3. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    So much has been said concerning Imperial defence that one feels tolerably certain your readers are getting yveary of the subjet. At the same time reference must Be ...

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  4. VICTORIA.

    Yesterday afternoon the body of Henry Ceiling, aged 75, employed as a baker at Footscray, was found in the Saltwater River. The deceased, who had been ...

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  5. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Mr. Chauneey Depew, the well-known American publicist, interviewed by a representative of the St. James' Gazette with regard to Mr. Chamberlain's ...

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  6. THE WOOLWICH DISASTER

    After further investigation with regard to the shells missing after the recent bursting of a similar missile at a lyddite factory at Woolwich, the officials declare that ...

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  7. SOMALILAND.

    It is officially announced that up to the 11th inst. 36 of Brigadier-General Manning's officers and 937 men had reached Bohotle. The members of the Boer ...

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  8. DEATH OF CARDINAL VAUGHAN.

    The death, after an illness of several days, is announced of his Eminence Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, and head of the Roman Catholic Church in ...

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  9. THE SERVIAN CRISIS.

    The Czar has issued orders that the Russian Court is to go into mourning for 24 days in connection with the ossassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. ...

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  10. MR. REID AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

    The Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne Age telegraphed on Thursday to that paper:—The latest step in connection with State Parliamentary reform is a ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF AN INFANT.

    The body of a six-weeks-old child was found floating in a box on the Merri Creek, near Northcote, to-day. The dead infant was fully clothed, and appeared to have ...

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  12. A RAILWAY FIREMAN INJURED.

    A fireman, Alfred Tait, employed on the railways, was treated at the Melbourne Hospital to-night for a wound on the eye, said by him to have been caused by a coal ...

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  13. EARTHQUAKES IN BRITAIN.

    Two earthquake shocks were experienced at Carnarvon, Bangor, and Anglesey yesterday. They extended as far as the Isle of Man. So severe were the shocks at Bangors ...

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  14. A SPLENDID NUGGET.

    A party of miners at Tarnagulla have unearthed a nugget of gold weighing 118 oz. There has been a revival of interest in the rush at Waanyarra, and some ...

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  15. FEDEBAL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.

    A nice question of Government morality, writes the Melbourne Age, is raised by the discovery that when all the expenses of the recent Federal Public Service examinations ...

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  16. A STATE SCHOOL BURNT.

    Wednesday night the Porcupine State school, near Maldon, No. 1,676, was totally destroyed by fire. The teacher left the school at 25 minutes to 4 o'clock, leaving ...

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  17. MILITAEY OFFICEES AS FOREIGN CONSULS.

    Some comment has been caused by the fact that Sir M. McEacharn, who has a commission in the Scottish Regiment, has recently accepted the position of Consul for ...

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  18. THE IRISH LAND BILL.

    The Daily Mail states that owing to the obstruction of the Nationalists the Government threaten to withdraw the Irish Land Bill. It is believed that Mr. Redmond ...

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  19. SIR F. SARGOOD'S ESTATE,.

    Probate duty amounting to £19,510 was yesterday paid under the will of Sir Frederick Sargood. The estate was valued at £195,106. ...

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  20. ABDUL HAMID.

    Rumors are current in Belgrade and Vienna that a rising has occurred among the Albanian inhabitants of Constantinople, as the result of which the Sultan has ...

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  21. RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

    General Bobrikoff, Governor—General of Finland, who was recently appointed absolute dictator of the Grand Duchy for a period of three years, asserts, in ...

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  22. A FORGETFUL CONSTABLE.

    As showing the perfunctory way in which i he Federal electoral rolls have been complied, a Victorian policeman on Wednesday informed the Home Department that he had ...

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  23. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At the Criminal Court on Saturday James Wheelan and Joseph McMahon were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment for stealing a watch and chain from William ...

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  24. POWERFUL BATTERIES.

    Vickers, Maxim, & Co. have built two batteries of field guns which are said to be the most powerful in the world. The yveapons will fire 18-lb. shells at the rate of ...

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  25. THE FEDERAL BUDGET.

    Sir George Turner is busily engaged in preparing his Budget. He estimates that he will be able to fulfil his promise to deliver it towards the end of next ...

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  26. DOCTORS AT VARIANCE.

    At the Criminal Court, Patrick Griffin was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for shooting James Fawkner, at Cannington, on April 2, the jury finding that ...

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  27. A BONUS FOR COFFEE.

    Queensland coffee-growers think that they are as much entitled to receive bonuses for coffee grown within the Commonwealth, as those who produce sugar with white labor. ...

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  28. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A laundryrnan, employed on the steamer Delhi, and known as Banu, was found dead in his bunk on Saturday. The door of his apartment was securely, fastened, and ...

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  29. THE ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    The Home Secretary has received a telegram, stating that the West Australian electoral rolls, about which some complaints were made in the House of Representatives ...

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  30. DIAMONDS IN THE TRANS VAAL.

    The Attorney-General for the Transvaal, speaking on the second reading of the Precious Stones Ordinance, stated that the diamond mines discovered in the Transvaal ...

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  31. THE LATE MR. T. S. HALL.

    The remains of Mr. Thomas Skarratt Hall, one of the discoverers of the Mount Morgan go[?] mine, Queensland, were interred in the Marylebone Cemetery ...

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  32. SEIZED BY A SHARK.

    A fatal boating accident happened at George's River yesterday. A party of five young men hired a boat, at Sans Souci for the purpose of fishing, but they had not ...

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  33. TARCOOLA TELEGRAPH-LINE.

    In the House of Representatives to-morrow Mr. Hugh Mahon (Coolgardie) will ask the Treasurer (Sir George Turner):—1. Referring to the second paragraph, of his ...

    Article : 206 words
  34. PUBLIC SERVICE VACANCIES.

    Among the Federal Service vacancies gazetted this week are Sub-Collector of Customs, Newcastle, £600 a year; Sub-Collector of Customs, Adelaide, £400; and ...

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  35. ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.

    Rep[?]ng in the House of Lords yesterday to a question by Baron Newton, Lord Lansdowne, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, expressed the "undimnished abhorrence" of ...

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  36. FRENCH FINANCE.

    The income tax proposed by M. Rouviers, the Minister of Finance in the French Government, amounts to 1½ per cent., and is intended to replace some of the existing ...

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  37. QUEENSLAND.

    The Aorangi, which arrived last night, brought particulars of the wreck of the Norwegian barque Lotos on Solo Reef, Kadaru. The vessel struck the reef shortly ...

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  38. THE DUTY ON MARGARINE.

    A Customs notification has been issued that margarine is to pay the same duty as butter. ...

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  39. THE CABLE DIFFICULTY.

    The Times correspondent at Ottawa slates that Sir Sandford Fleming, commenting on the correspondence of Sir Horace Tozer and others in the Times, attributes ...

    Article : 119 words
  40. FATAL RIDING ACCIDENT.

    Frederick Seecombe, a resident of Wooll[?]ngbar, was killed on Friday night. He left home on horseback for the purpose of attending a surprise party a few miles ...

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  41. THE JUDICIARY BILL.

    "What is the position in regard to the Judiciary Bill?" asked a reporter of The Advertiser of Sir Langdon Bonython on Saturday morning. "It will not," he ...

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  42. HUNGARIAN AFFAIRS.

    Herr Tisza, the leader of the Opposition in the Hungarian Chamber, who was called upon to form a Ministry in the place of that of Herr Coloman von Szell, who resigned ...

    Article : 63 words
  43. TICKETS NOT TRANSFERABLE.

    In the summons division of the Sydney Water Police Court, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Douglas L. Dowdell, of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, ...

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  44. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

    Representative William Knox, who on his last trip abroad had an interview with President Roosevelt at the While House, returned from England by the R.M.S. ...

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  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    It is reported that Mr. Spreckles will ask the Government for an increased subsidy for the fortnightly San Francisco mail service with new eight-thousand ton ...

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  46. BENEDICTINE MONKS.

    Thirty Benedictine monks and 65 students of the order under their control, who were expelled, from the Roman Catholic College at Douai, a fortified town of the first-class ...

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  47. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Edmund E. Jeffery, 30 years of age, a bookkeeper at Wantanbadgery station, Wagga, was conveyed to the St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday, suffering from a ...

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  48. THE FEDERAL ROLLS.

    Four million five hundred thousand distinct documents—maps, lists, rolls, &c.— will, according to advices received by the Minister for Home Affairs, have to be ...

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  49. RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

    Diplomatists at Berlin state that General Kuropatkin, the Russian Minister for War, who has been visiting the Mikado, is offering Japan material advantages in the East ...

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  50. A CRICKETER WOUNDED.

    Mr. William Hoyvell, the well-known cricketer, was the victim of a gun accident at Penrith a couple of days ago. He was out shooting quail, accompanied by his ...

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  51. BORDER CUSTOMS-HOUSES.

    The Barrier Miner states that official information has been received by Mr. E. T. Hall (Acting Sub-Collector of Customs at Broken Hill) that after this week the ...

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  52. HEAVY SENTENCES.

    Thomas Ramsay and John Cairns were each sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment for assaulting a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Sargood & Son, and robbing him ...

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  53. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 2/0? per oz. ...

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  54. THE KING'S DICISION.

    King Peter's private secretary states that his Majesty has resolved not to punish the assassins, since they were exonerated by the Skuptshina's vote of thanks. ...

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  56. NATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY.

    The directors of the National Mortgage Company of New Zealand have declared an interim dividend of 7½ per cent. ...

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  57. IMPROVED LIGHTHOUSES.

    The Minister of Marine, in reply to a deputation, stated that he hoped, in the course of another twelve months, to greatly improve the lights on the coast of New ...

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  58. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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  59. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Percy Grainger's farewell pianoforte recital, given in St. James' Hall last night, was a great success, and the newspapers publish highly eulogistic notices. Mr. ...

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  60. THE POPE AND THE PRIME MINISTER.

    The following is the text of the petition presented by Mr. Wilks (N.S.W.) to the House of Representatives protesting against the recent visit of Sir Edmund Barton to ...

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  61. WEST AUSTRALIAN CYCLING.

    O. S. Prowse won the 25-mile cycling road championship of the State on Saturday in 1 hour 12 minutes. ...

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  63. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Frozen Meat.—At the frozen meat sales the following prices were realised:—New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, Canterbury light, 3?d,; ...

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  65. BROKEN HILL.

    The polling for the King ward vacancy in the municipal council on Saturday resulted thus:—Retallick, 250; Hopkins, 122; informal, 4. Majority for Retallick, 128. ...

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  66. ARTIFICIAL RAIN-MAKING.

    Preparations are proceeding here for carrying out a rain-making experiment on Monday. Mr. Whitehead (engineer of water supply), admitted to the press that ...

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  67. PICTORIAL POSTCARDS.

    At present people may only write on one side of postcards. The British Postal Department has seen the error of its ways in this respect, and pictorial cards are being ...

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  68. THE VANCOUVER MAIL AT BRISBANE.

    The mail steamer Aorangi, from Vancouver, arrived last night. Her passengers are:—For Sydney—Mesdames Williamson, Prytez, Gane, Smith, Tasker, and Wisby, ...

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