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  2. THE POST OFFICE

    Owing to neglect to keep proper accounts in the Postal Department, both under the old State regime and up till last year under the Federal administration also, ...

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  3. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    There were few questions in the House of Assembly on Thursday and but for the long statement made by the Attorney-General (Mr. Mitchell) in ...

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  4. BRITISH RULE IN INDIA.

    The Master of Elibank (Under-Secretary for India) informed Mr. W. J. Thorne [?]n the House of Commons yesterday that at the instance of the Government of India ...

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  5. TRAVELLING IN THE AIR.

    At the Rheims aviation, meeting yesterday M. Paulhan created a world's record by remaining in the air 2 hours 43 min. 28 sec, in which time be covered 81 25 miles. ...

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  6. ACTIONS FOR DAMAGES.

    In the County Court to-day Mrs. Rae Nosovoosky, of Pelham-street. Carlton, was awarded £217 damages against Verton Lyndon Duckett, of Armadale-road, ...

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  7. SPAIN'S LITTLE WAR

    General Marina, the Spanish Military, Governor of Melilla, has begun his advance against the Riff tribes, who precipitated the trouble in Morocco by their hostility ...

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  8. UTILISATION OF BROWN COAL.

    Evidence gradually accumulates to support the contention of the directors of the Noarlunga Coal-mining Company that, with a subsidy from the Government, the ...

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  9. SHIPPING DISASTERS

    The French ship Gael, 2,000 tons, bound from London to Hobart, with a cargo of cement, sprang a leak and foundered 200 miles from land on Sunday. The crew, ...

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  10. THE CONFIDENCE TRICK

    George Thompson, the American who obtained £100 by means of the conndence trick, played upon William Strong, described as an Australian merchant, was ...

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  11. MAMMOTH DREADNOUGHT.

    The Dreadnought to be commenced at Portsmouth after the Neptune, now under construct on, is launched will exceed the latter vessel in length. The Neptune, which ...

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  12. MONTE VIDEO COLLISION.

    Latest intelligence from Buenos [?]ires regarding the collision between the excursion steamer Colombia and the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Schlesien yesterday, ...

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  13. THE WARATAH.

    The Lund liner Commonwealth, from Adelaide August 5, which arrived at Durban yesterday, reported having seen no trace of the Waratah. The new ...

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  14. PREHISTORIC MAN.

    Professor Edgar L. Hewitt director of the American Archaeological Institute, has discovered in the north-east of the Ariz[?] territory, which borders on Mexico, ...

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  15. BRITISH POLITICS.

    A further batch of clauses of the Irish Land Bill, which embodies the principle of compulsory purchase, was carried in the House of Commons yesterday in accordance ...

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  16. INTERNATIONAL RUGBY.

    The South African Rugby Board has declined invitations for tours of New Zealand and New South Wales in 1910. It has been resolved to ask the British Rugby ...

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  17. MELBOURNE TRAMWAY COMPANY.

    The Melbourne Tramway Company has issued a further notification to its employes, warning them not to join a trade union. The notification, which has been posted in ...

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  18. CHEAPSIDE ROBBERY.

    The jewellery stolen from Messrs. Mappin and Webb's Cheapside establishment on Sunday by five men who escaped and live who were arrested has all been recovered. ...

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  19. VICTORIAN FLOODS.

    All the railway-lines with the exception of Rupanyup to Marnoo, Warracknabeal to Hopetoun, and Ultima to Chillengellah have been pat into running order again, ...

    Article : 317 words
  20. MONOPOLIES.

    In the House of Representatives to-day the debat on the proposal to confer upon the Federal Parliament power to own and control monopolies was resumed by Mr. ...

    Article : 673 words
  21. NEGROES LYNCHED.

    Troops are hurrying to Monroe, in the American state of Louisiana, where serious racial troubles have broken out. The whites yesterday lynched two negroes, ...

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  22. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

    There was an enormous attendance at the opening of the British Association meeting at Winnipeg yesterday. The inaugural address was delivered by Professor Sir Joseph ...

    Article : 163 words
  23. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    A shocking fatality occurred on the Abrttoirs-road this afternoon, when Daniel Brady, 65 years of age, fell off a cart the wheel of which passed over his head, ...

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  24. TOLSTOI'S WORKS.

    M. Goosef, secretary to the Russian liberationist. Count Leo Tolstoi, has been banished for distributirg his master's books, on the ground that they are revolutionary. ...

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  25. A SYDNEY FIRE.

    A fife broke out at the pawnshop of Mr. Max Solomon, in Oxford-street, shortly before, midnight. A servant made four successive trips to the bedroom where four ...

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  26. EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

    An earthquake occurred yesterday in the Siena district of Italy. A few persons were killed and many were injured. Many houses at Buoncenventi, 15 miles south-east ...

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  27. HASTY MARRIAGES.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day a Bill to amend the Marriage Acts was received from the Legislative Council. The Premier (Mr. Murray), who moved the second ...

    Article : 198 words
  28. SUICIDE OF A LORD.

    Lord Eliot (Edward Henry John Cornwallis Eliot), eldest son and heir of the fifth Earl of St. Germans, shot himself with a gun yesterday while suffering from ...

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  29. THE ORIENT.

    Prince Ito. Resident-General of Korea, in a speech at Fakushima yesterday, doubted whether China could successfully adopt a Constitution, while her failure in that ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. ASIATIC CHOLERA.

    Five deaths from Asiatic cholera have occurred at Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Twenty-eight persons are isolated and under observation. ...

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  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Two police constables had a desperate struggle in capturing Patrick Murphy and Thomas Weeks on a charge of assaulting a police constable, from whom the men ...

    Article : 188 words
  32. TO-DAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

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  33. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Kaiapoi Woollen Company has declared a dividend of 7 per cent. on ordinary and 6½ per cent. on preference shares. In Rugby football to-day Marlborough ...

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  34. PERSIAN BRIGANDAGE.

    Persian advices state that a band of 800 robbers are attacking the tower of a village near Kerman (the largest city in Southeastern Persia), in which the inhabitants ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Premier told the Legislative Assembly to-night, in reply to a question, that inclusive of printing the cost to the State of the reduction of members' ...

    Article : 152 words
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  38. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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  42. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

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  43. BROKEN HILL.

    At a meeting of the Water League last night the secretary's action in sending every member of both Houses of Parliament a copy of the "Barrier Miner" ...

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  45. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    A return was laid on the table of the House of Representatives to-day, showing that during the financial year ended June 30 last £3,648 had been paid under ...

    Article : 79 words
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