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  2. A RAILWAY JUBILEE.

    South Australia possesses the distinction of having within its territory the first State-owned line of railway constructed under the British flag. It is the line ...

    Article : 3,254 words
  3. SERVIAN POLITICS.

    The Servian Ministry, which was formed as recently at the 14th ult., with General Gruitch as Prime Minister and Minister of War, has resigned in consequence of the ...

    Article : 170 words
  4. YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE THREATENED.

    A young woman of prepossessing appearance attended at the Carlton Court to-day and applied for a warrant for the arrest of Romeo Truda, an Italian musician, for ...

    Article : 222 words
  5. SYDNEY JEWEL ROBBERY.

    At the Water Police Court to-day John Wilson, alias "Darkie," was charged with having broken and entered the warehouse of L. I. Flegeltaub, 96, King-street, ...

    Article : 337 words
  6. THE NATAL REVOLT.

    The latest intelligence from Natal states that Bambaata, the rebel chief of the Umvoti district, is still in hiding in the forest of Nkandhla. ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    Important developments in connection with the Northern Territory are now in progress, and it is expected with some confidence that they will end in the early ...

    Article : 478 words
  8. ROMANCE OF MANUFACTURE.

    It is many a long day since the Goths, who were Freetraders ia wheat, used to feed themselves at the expense of the Gauls, who were, so far as was possible ...

    Article : 2,227 words
  9. EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

    The Rev. John Clifford, D.D., the Well-known minister of the Westbourne Park Baptist Church, and leader of the Nonconformist agitation against the present ...

    Article : 219 words
  10. VESUVIUS ERUPTION.

    The cessation of the flow of lava from Vesuvius is attributed by the people of Torre Annunziata, 12 miles south-east of Naples, to the intercession of the Madonna. ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. GERMANY AND ITALY.

    The Berlin "Post," commenting on what it describes as Italy's "weathercock policy" at the Algeciras Conference on Moroccan affairs, when Germany failed to receive ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. THE BARRIER FIRES.

    Good progress is being made with the flooding of the Junction, Junction North, and North mines, which was begun yesterday evening. A 1-in. pipe from the Water ...

    Article : 358 words
  13. AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

    Italy's failure to support Germany at the Algeciras Conference is the subject of comment in the German press. The Berlin "Tageblatt" states that "Italy had better ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. THE CHINESE MASSACRE.

    The Dowager-Empres of China has dismissed the Governor of the province of Kiang-si for issuing false reports as to the Nan-chang-fy massacre. ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. LABOR CONFERENCE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The annual Trades and Labor Conference to-day reaffirmed the principle, of land nationalisation, and urged the Government to nationalise the mineral wealth of the ...

    Article : 66 words
  16. BRITISH POLITICS.

    By a large majority the Independent Labor Party at its conference at Stockton-on-Tees yesterday added women's suffrage to its programme. It was also decided by ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. THE RIVAL CABLES.

    The Pacific Cable Board is preparing for vigorous competition with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in New South Wales. The board will, with the ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. DIVORCE IN AMERICA.

    By a bare majority the Supreme Court in the United States has decided that it is unconstitutional for any state to grant a divorce when only one of the parties ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. FORMOSA EARTHQUAKE.

    The effects of the recent earthquake in the Japanese island of Formosa were chiefly confined to the hills districts, in which most of the buildings were destroyed in March. ...

    Article : 54 words
  20. RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

    It transpires that the female spy, Zanaida Smoljaninoff, who was recently sentenced to imprisonment for espionage at Leipzig, in Germany, was in the employ ...

    Article : 47 words
  21. THE TIN INDUSTRY.

    The Dutch colonial press is urging the Netherlands Government to facilitate the transport of tin, and in other ways foster the exploitation of the tin deposits in the ...

    Article : 161 words
  22. VICTORIA

    Leslie Clarence Lester, aged 3 years, residing with his parents at Port Melbourne, was run over by a jinker loaded with telegraph poles this afternoon and killed ...

    Article : 334 words
  23. PARIS POSTAL STRIKE.

    The strike of postmen in Paris has fizzled out. The letter-carriers struck for an increase of wages and for the recognition by the Government of the union of postal ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. BRITISH NAVAL MISHAP.

    A serious accident occurred yesterday aboard the battleship Prince of Wales, 15,000 tons, belonging to the Mediterranean squadron. During speed trials off Malta ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. ZION CITY.

    Mr. Alexander Dowie, who recently relinquished the overseership of Zion City, has accepted a low rate of interest for his investments in that corporation. Overseer ...

    Article : 146 words
  26. EASTER CAMPS,

    Details were received at the Commonwealth, military headquarters to-day of the number of troops which turned out in each State for the Easter manœuvres. The ...

    Article : 319 words
  27. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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  28. SIR GEORGE O'BRIEN.

    The death is announced of Sir George O'Brien, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 1897 to 1902. Deceased, who was in his ...

    Article : 52 words
  29. THE INSURANCE SCANDALS.

    In a message to the United States Congress President Roosevelt strongly recommends the enectment of uniform legislation to prevent the repetition of last year's ...

    Article : 95 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    King Alfonso of Spain is visiting his fiancee, Princess Ena, at her home in the Isle of Wight. ...

    Article : 28 words
  31. THE EAST INDIES.

    It is stated in Singapore that a German firm has acquired a commercial coaling-station on Pulo Lant Island, off the south-east coast of Dutch Borneo. The news is ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. THE MAJOR HAWKER ENQUIRY.

    Senator Styles to-day handed to the Acting-Secretary of Defence his minority report on the charges made against Major Hawker, and investigated by Colonel ...

    Article : 248 words
  33. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 words
  34. UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE.

    At the conference of the Postal Union the representatives of New Zealand and Egypt will respectively propose and second a resulution in favor of universal penny ...

    Article : 71 words
  35. THE TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff Commission sat again to-day. Mr. John M. Scott, glass-blower, made a statement on behalf of the Amalgamated Glass Workers' Union of Australia. He ...

    Article : 278 words
  36. GAMBLING IN NEW YORK.

    Some of the leading churches in New York are threatening to prosecute the Jockey Club in that city, which they hold responsible for the local epidemic of ...

    Article : 86 words
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  38. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In consequence of the unseating of Mr. J. J. Holmes for East Fremantle, Mr. W. T. Eddy, member for Coolgardie, against whom a petition has also been ...

    Article : 238 words
  39. HEAVY FLOODS IN TASMANIA

    The general manager of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company reports by telegram that heavy floods have occurred at Queenstown and on the Mount Lyell ...

    Article : 130 words
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  41. AMERICA AND CHINA.

    The construction of the trans-Pacific cable connecting San Francisco with Shanghai, is now complete, and President Roosevelt yesterday exchanged congratulations ...

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  43. BROKEN HILL HOSPITAL.

    An acrimonious discussion occurred at last night's meeting of the hospital committee relative to the letting of a contract for the erection of an operating theatre. ...

    Article : 120 words
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  46. TASMANIA.

    At the literary competitions to-night Miss Violet Clark, of South Australia, was awarded first for ladies' recitation, Miss Kitty Teague (Victoria) first for ...

    Article : 52 words
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