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  2. IRRIGATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Minister of Agriculture to-night launched in the Legislative Assembly his big irrigation scheme. He moved "That there be referred to the Parliamentary ...

    Article : 498 words
  3. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    A meeting of the Commonwealth Cabinet will be held to-morrow, at which Ministers will consider the proposals they will put forward to cope with the harvester trust ...

    Article : 608 words
  4. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS.

    Sir John Forrest, M.H.R. for the Swan Federal electorate, has made an interesting calculation in connection with the results of the Western Australian elections. In a ...

    Article : 353 words
  5. BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

    Mr. Atlee Hunt, secretary to the External Affairs Department, in his report on the result of his recent seven weeks' visit to British New Guinea, says that with time, ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  6. DEATH OF SIR BRYAN O'LOGHLEN.

    Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, a well known barrister, of Melbourne, who at one time was Premier of Victoria, died to-day. The deceased had been in failing health for some ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT.

    The President took the chair at 2.30 p.m. Home Rule for Ireland. Senator Dawson (Qld.) gave notice of a motion that the resolution in favor of Home ...

    Article : 3,050 words
  8. JUDGES' PENSIONS.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Waddell moved the second reading of the Judges' Pensions Abolition and Duties Bill. The object of the measure, he explained, ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government have purchased the Waitomo Caves, in the Waikato district. A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT. James Williams, a native of Mauritius, ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA.

    Another has been added to the already large list of railway fatalities which have happened in America this year. On Saturday a Californian mail train, ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. INTER-STATE WOOL SALES.

    The wool sales were continued to-day. The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company submitted 6,847 bales, embracing wools from New South Wales, ...

    Article : 133 words
  12. AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

    A. F. Duffey, the American runner, who recently visited Australia with A. Shrubb, the English champion, in an article in a New York magazine admits having ...

    Article : 64 words
  13. AUSTRALASIAN LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 words
  14. THE POPULATION QUESTION.

    Speaking at a meeting of shareholders of the Colonial Bank of Australasia to-day, Mr. Thomas Skene, M.H.R. (chairman of directors), said there was a danger that ...

    Article : 259 words
  15. METHODIST DISTRICT SYNODS.

    The thirty-third annual Synod of the Adelaid[?] south district was opened in the Pirie-street lecture-hall on Tuesday rooming. The chairman of the district (Rev. Thomas Piper) presided. There ...

    Article : 739 words
  16. A LOVE TRAGEDY.

    The death under romantic circumstances of a young German nobleman named Baron Holzhausen was reported yesterday. Infatuated with Mrs. Monckton, formerly ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. AUSTRALIANS IN AMERICA.

    The Sonoma brings a curious story regarding some citizens of Australia from the college town of Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco. It is as follows:— ...

    Article : 456 words
  18. THE MINISTER OF CUSTOMS

    Sir William Lyne has had many queer experiences during his long and strenuous political career, but he is inclined to think that a visit which he received during his ...

    Article : 245 words
  19. BACK FROM ZION CITY.

    Four adults and a family of young children, who went to America as Dowieites are returning by the Sonoma. They express disgust with Zio[?] City and its head, ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. THE COUNTRY.

    On Saturday last Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria, and Mr. Bertram Hawker arrived her from Port Pirie, en route for Messrs. Hawker Bros.' station, ...

    Article : 1,910 words
  21. VICTORIA.

    The body of Jean Sintic, one of the two French sailors who were drowned in the bay on the 19th inst., was washed ashore to-day near the spot where the ...

    Article : 267 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    The Parliamentary session closed this morning, after 78 sitting days. The elections will take place in the first week in December. The return of the Government ...

    Article : 103 words
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  24. THE QUEENSLAND DROUGHT.

    Mr. W. G. Stuart Russell, of Yelvertoft, in the far north-west of Queensland, writes to the Weather Bureau under date October 4 as follows:—"Words in common use fail ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION

    In the Full Court to-day Mr. N. K. Ewing, representing the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employes, made an unsuccessful effort to reverse the recent ...

    Article : 112 words
  26. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    A rat caught on the wharfs at Darling harbor on Monday has been found to be plague-stricken. As some months have elapsed since the previous plague rat was ...

    Article : 63 words
  27. "PARLIAMENTARY PICNICS."

    Sir—Will you kindly permit me to say a few words on behalf of the Tailem Bend Literary Society, which has lately been receiving more attention than the members ...

    Article : 197 words
  28. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The revenue for New South Wales for October shows a substantial increase of £127,987, of which £66,716 came from the railways. ...

    Article : 81 words
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  30. GALE IN HOBSON'S BAY.

    Exceptionally boisterous weather still prevails along the Victorian coast, and shipping is having a bad time. During last night there was a heavy gale, but the big ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society was opened on the new ground at Claremont to-day. A record number of entries was received, and there was ...

    Article : 47 words
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