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  2. A CHURCH PARLIAMENT.

    The taking of their seats by the delegates to the General Conference last night in the Pine-street Church was accomplished with cheerfulness and good humor. The ...

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  3. COMMONWEALTH AND STATES.

    The preliminaries of the Premiers' Conference, which is to meet in June 17, are being completed veiy slowly. There seem to be two movements amongst the ...

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  4. AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

    A Direct Primary Election Bill, a milder substitute for that proposed by Mr. Hughes, Governor of New York State, has been passed by the local Senate with the ...

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  5. THE LATE KING

    It transpires that the "society" to which Queen Alexandra recently alluded as having circulated a rumor that the late King's death was caused by a ...

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  6. EUROPEAN PEACE

    It is semi-officially announced in Berlin that the Kaiser, while in London lately attending King Edward's funeral, certafnly expressed to M. Pichon, the French Foreign ...

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  7. THE BRITISH CRISIS

    At a speech at Edinburgh yesterday, referring to the suggestion that the present season of mourning should be used to effect a reconciliation between British parties in ...

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  8. THE ANTARCTIC.

    Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., has completed the selection of his crew for the Terra Nova, in which he is about to proceed to the Antarctic. It comprises 60 men, ...

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  9. GERMAN DREADNOUGHT.

    The newly-completed German cruiser battleship Von der Tann, 18,700 tons, the first of the Invincible type, is driven by turbines, and at a trial trip yesterday at ...

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  10. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The fund collected to defray the expenses of Ernest Barry, who in August next will contest the sculling championship of the world against Richard Arnst, on the ...

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  11. ANARCHISM IN SPAIN.

    The director of the Spanish Anarchist journal, "Land and Liberty," published in Madrid, has been arrested for asserting that the Anarchists of Barcelona were ...

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  12. MR. ROOSEVELT.

    Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, and Lady Reid, will hold a reception at the Ritz Hotel on Monday next. May 30, to give prominent Australians in ...

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  13. CUSTOMS FRAUDS.

    At the trial in New York of Charles R. Heike, treasurer of the Sugar Refining Company, for conspiracy to defraud the Customs, Oliver Spitzer, ex-dock ...

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  14. HINDOO DEMONSTRATIONS.

    The Hindu demonstrations at Calcutta in honor of King Edward's memory, which had been proceeding since the day of the funeral, concluded yesterday with the ...

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  15. THE MONORAIL.

    A working model of the monorail, invented by Mr. Louis Brennan, C.B., the Australian engineer, has been installed at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London. ...

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  16. SUNDAY "SHOWS."

    As the result of a test ease concluded yesterday, it has been decided that the London County Council exceeded its powers in prohibiting cinematograph exhibitions ...

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  17. NEW COPYRIGHT LAW.

    Mr. W. Hall Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, and Lord Tennyson, on behalf of Australia, yesterday attended a Copyright Conference, at ...

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  18. AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.

    Interviewed yesterday regarding the statement of the "Daily Chronicle," that public opinion in Australia is alarmed at the indiscriminat, advertising by the Church ...

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  19. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    The latest betting, for the Derby Stakes is as follows:—Neil Gow, Greenback, and Tressady. ...

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  20. QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

    Her Majesty has sent a message, conveying her sincere thanks to the women of Fremantle, Western Australia, for their kind expressions of sympathy in her ...

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  21. AMERICA AND CASADA

    The Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate have approved of the treaty fixing the boundary between the State of Maine and the Canadian province ...

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  22. THE CORONATION OATH.

    The Dublin Corporation have recommended a modification of the oath to be used at King George's coronation, by which the description of the Roman Catholic ...

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  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Hayley Lever, the South Australian artist, has had his painting of the Cornish (Port of Saint Ives hung on the line at the International Art Exhibition in the ...

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  24. THE TARIFF QUESTION.

    Replying to President Taft's fresh invitation to reopen the negotiations for tariff reciprocity, the Canadian Government have asked for a postponement until September ...

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  25. CANADIAN LOYALTY.

    At a meeting in Toronto on Empire Day it was decided to form branches of the reserve army nurses throughout the principal centres of Canada. ...

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  26. MISS NORA DARGEL.

    Miss Nora Dargel, the Australian singer, has been engaged as principal soprano for the next winter opera season in Lyons, France. ...

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  27. THE RUSSIAN HARVEST.

    So heavy are the grain crops in the agricultural districts of the Caucasus and the Don territory of South-Eastern Russia, that it has been necessary to order 2,000 extra ...

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  28. REFORM OF THE LORDS.

    The "Liverpool Post" states that Lord Rosebery has decided to postpone till November 19 further action with regard to his resolutions now before the House of ...

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  29. CAMBERWELL MURDER.

    Thomas Jesshope, aged about 38 years, who on April 30 was condemned to death for the murder of Frederick Healey, the stage carpenter at the ...

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  30. A NEW AEROPLANE.

    A new aeroplane, the Grawert has been satisfactorily tested between military camps in Germany. Its distinctive feature is a device by which the machine can ...

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  31. SIR GEORGE REID'S SPEECH.

    Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, was interviewed yesterday with regard to Australian opinions on the speech he delivered early in April at a dinner ...

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  32. WOMEN ON JURIES.

    Mr. Cecil Maurice Chapman, who has been metropolitan police magistrate at Southwark for 21 years, and is a wellknown writer on daw subjects, in giving ...

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  33. AUSTRALIANS IN ROME.

    His Holiness the Pope, in granting an audience yesterday to Mr. Joseph Barrett, of Brisbane, and Mr. Bonaventura Duggan, of Kalgoorlie, expressed his ...

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  34. DISASTER AT MANILA.

    The floating dry dock, Admiral Dewey, which was sent from the United States some time ago for the use of the American warships in the Phillipines, and has ...

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  35. THE KING'S HORSES.

    It has been arranged that Earl Derby, who is a prominent owner in England, and who is a steward of the Jockey Club, shall run the racehorses bequeathed to King ...

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  36. FIRE ON A GERMAN LINER.

    A fire has occurred in the hold of the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, and hundreds of bales of cotton have been destroyed. ...

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  37. THE COMET AND THE SUN.

    News from Canterbury states that the people in the Amuri district noticed solar phenomena early last Saturday morning, consistent with the theory that the cause ...

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  38. EGYPTIAN SEDITION.

    Two youths were yesterday expelled from the Government schools at Cairo for their connection with a secret society, established with a view to obtaining a ...

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  39. ROYAL BIRTHDAYS.

    In honor of Queen Mary's birthday the British warships will fire salutes to-day, as they will on King George's birthday, June 3, but they will not be decorated, and no ...

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  40. GERMS AND BANK-NOTES

    The officials of the United States Treasury have installed machinery in the department for washing and ironing dollar notes which have been in circulation with ...

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  41. THE JAPANESE TARIFF.

    Mr. Wilcox, secretary of the China Association, in a letter to the "Times," which that journal in a leading article describes as "important and convincing," shows that ...

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  42. LOYALTY OF METHODISM

    In his inaugural address at the opening of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia, on Thursday evening, the retiring president (Rev. W. ...

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  43. MULAI HAFID'S CRUELTIES.

    Mulai Hafid, Sultan of Morocco, has informed the representatives of the Powers of his determination to abolish torture. His decision is attributed to the refusal ...

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  44. RIELE SHOOTING.

    The scores in the rifle competition among the schools of the Empire for the "Daily Mail'' Cup are still incomplete, but the "Daily Mail" believes that the winning ...

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  45. NICARAGUA.

    Reuter's correspondent in New York reports the receipt by the Washington authorities of advices to the effect that the American schooner Espurzo has been ...

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  46. CHINESE OUTRAGES.

    Large bands of anti-foreign natives in the Yi-Yang district of China have burnt hundreds of houses in the town and its vicinity. When the trouble became ...

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  47. Advertising

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  48. THE FRENCH CONGO.

    Further particulars have been received with regard to the fate of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, who, while on a hunting expedition, with which was combined a search ...

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  49. INSURGENTS DEFEATED.

    Adrices received through New York from Bluefields, the Nicaraguan seaport, state that the insurgents have been completely defeated at the Bluff, behind Bluefields, ...

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  50. THE APRIL RIOTS.

    Mr. R. Veryard, who is attached to the Chinese Inland Mission-station at Changsha, has supplied a vivid narrative of the narrow escape of the missionaries on April ...

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  51. MINING SHARES.

    The following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:— Broken Hill Proprietary, buyers 36/6 to 37/6. ...

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  52. SCOTTISH-AUSTRALIAN INVESTMENT COMPANY.

    The directors of the Scottish Australian Investment Company have declared a dividead for the half-year of 2½ per cent. ...

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