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  2. EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

    The Imperial Education Conference was opened in London yesterday. Mr. Peter Board, M.A., Secretary for Public Instruction, represented New South Wales, and ...

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  3. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    News was received from Oakbank on Wednesday that Mr. G. Cosgrove, one of the jockeys who were injured on Easter Monday, was daily showing great ...

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  4. THE REFERENDA.

    On Wednesday Commonwealth, electors in all the States were called upon to decide the most vital issue that had been placed before them since they had been asked to ...

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  5. PARLIAMENT BILL.

    Further progress was made with the Parliament Bill in the House of Commons yesterday. The application of the "kangaroo closure" accelerated the discussion, ...

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  6. THE RIVER STRIKE.

    On Wednesday morning Mr. J. Dale, secretary of the U.L.U., stated that a communication had been received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, in regard to ...

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  7. POLAR EXPLORATION.

    Dr. Nansen, the widely-known Arctic explorer, has written to the "Times" concerning the general criticism of Captain Amundsen's conduct in secretly sailing for ...

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  8. MOROCCO.

    The latest report which has reached Tangier concerning the position in the beleaguered city of Fez states that on Easter Monday the Uledjumma tribe, a ...

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  9. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Bill introduced by the Minister for the Interior (Mr. J. C. Smuts) into the South African Parliament to deal with the subject of miners' phthisis has been passed ...

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  10. KING'S ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

    The steamer Comrie Castle is conveying to London 231 birds and reptiles for the King's collection. The consignment is described as the finest ever shipped from ...

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  11. OBITUARY.

    The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Charles Wertheimer, the famous art collector and dealer, whose collection in 1907 was estimated to be worth £75,000. In ...

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  12. PORTRAITS BY TITIAN.

    A Bond-street firm of art dealers have purchased at Munich from the widow of Herr Franz von Lenbach, the noted German painter, two Titian portraits which ...

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  13. SHIPPING MISHAPS.

    The Eastern and Australian Company's steamer Empire, which left Kobe on April 21 for Australia, and struck on a sandbank at Noji, has been refloated. The ...

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  14. BAPTIST DELEGATES.

    The Australasian delegates to the Baptist Union Assembly received an ovation on entering the assembly room yesterday. In responding, Mr. Gray remarked that. ...

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  15. NAVAL ENSIGNS.

    Speaking at a banquet in this city yesterday, Admiral Kingsmill alluded to the arrangement recently made between the Admiralty and the Australian Government ...

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  16. TENNIS.

    The Lawn Tennis Association have invited representatives of America and South Africa to contest the pieliminary [?]ound for the Davis Cup (now held by ...

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  17. COPYRIGHT LAW.

    Mr. John Murray, head of the wellknown London publishing firm, writing apropos of the passage of the Canadian Copyright Bill, says that the clause in the ...

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  18. FINANCIAL NEWS.

    Quotations (middle prices) for Australasian bank shares and stocks compare with those for a week ago as follows:— Bank Shares. ...

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  19. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE

    The proposal of the Acting Treasurer that the Government should insure their own buildings against fire, instead of paying insurance companies about £7.000 a ...

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  20. FERRY BOAT CAPSIZES.

    A ferry, boat was capsized, yesterday while conveying a party of 15 workmen across the River Elbe, near Koniggratz in Bohemia. Nine of the occupants were ...

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  21. GERMAN SUBMARINES.

    The Admiralty are building submarines which are to be fitted with quick-firing guns capable of throwing a 19-lb. shell. These will enable the vessels, when not ...

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  22. McNAMARA CASE.

    Warrants have been issued and may be used for the arrest of Inspector Burns on a charge of kidnapping J. McNamara. secretary of the International Bridge and ...

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  23. MINISTERIAL AIRMAN.

    The distinction of being the first British Minister to make an airship flight has been gained by Colonel Seely, Parliamentary Under Secretary for War who yesterday ...

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  24. INCREASING TRADE.

    Messrs. Burns, Philp, & Co. in the year ended March 31 made a gross profit of £257,328, and a net profit of £78,005. The balance brought forward was £8,187, and ...

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  25. ARBITRATION IN THE WEST.

    The National Clothing Manufacturing Company recently applied to the Full Court for a writ of pro[?]bition against the enforcement of the award [?] the Arbitration ...

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  26. NEW SWIMMING RECORD.

    Hardwick, the New South Wales swimmer, has arrived in England, and is practising at the Bath Club. Yesterday he established a new record by swimming 73½ ...

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  27. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

    The "Morning Post" (Unionist), in referring to the proposal of President Taft for a comprehensive arbitration treaty between the United States and Great ...

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  28. VICEROY OF IRELAND.

    The Committee of Privileges of the House of commons have concluded their investigation of the charge of breach of privilege made against the Earl of ...

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  29. AMERICAN TARIFF.

    In the House of Representatives yesterday the Democrats introduced the Farmers' Free List Bill, which proposes to admit to the United States free of duty a ...

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  31. MEXICAN REVOLT.

    An official announcement of the cessation of hostilities between the Government troops, and the "insurrectos" was made yesterday by President Diaz, in a message ...

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  32. ALBANIAN REVOLT.

    The Albanian forces operating to the eastward of Tuzi drew several Turkish detachments into an ambush yesterday. During the fighting 12 Turks were killed ...

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  33. NEGROES AND WHITES.

    A number of negroes, whom a land company sought to bar from obtaining holdings in a fashionable residential section of Seattle, brought the matter before the law ...

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  34. FEDERAL LAND TAX.

    The special case, Osborne versus The Commonwealth, to test the constitutionality of the Federal Land Tax Act, has been advanced a stage. In order to save ...

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  35. THE BULLFINCH FIELD.

    The excitement with regard to the Greenfinch Company's recently-purchased Bodallin lease still continues and to-day has seen heavy buying in Greenfinch shares. ...

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  36. COMMERCIAL NEWS,

    Wheat.—The cargo of the barque Dovenby (29,777 bags South Australian has been sold at 34/3, and of the Herzogin Ce[?]lie at 34/1½. ...

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  37. CHARING CROSS BANK.

    Carpenter, the managing director of the Charing Cross Bank, London, which failed in October last owing, it was said, to the rash speculations of the manager, was ...

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  38. NEW HEBRIDES WOMEN.

    Mr. L. Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies), replying in the House of Commons yesterday to Major William Anstruther-Gray (Unionist member for St. ...

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  39. BROKEN HILL.

    Mr. T. H Palmer, general manager of the Junction North mine, was proceeded against in the Police Court to-day for an alleged offence against the Mines ...

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  40. THE KING AND QUEEN.

    It is understood that the steamer Medina will convey the King and Queen to India in December next for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi. ...

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  41. HOMES FOR WORKERS.

    Applications to the Labor Department for workers' homes under the Act passed last session have been so numerous that Mr. Millar, the Minister of Labor, says the ...

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  42. ALLEGED ORPHANAGE SCANDAL.

    The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Connolly) has deputed the Under-Secretary (Mr. F. D. North) to investigate a series of charges made against the administration ...

    Article : 78 words
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