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  2. HIGHLAND GATHERING.

    The clans and the clouds were at unfortunate issue yesterday, and the Scottish New Year's festival of sports suffered some hurt in consequence. The Highland Society ...

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  3. THE SECOND TEST.

    Honours are temporarily with South Africa. The Springboks have so far scored well on the native heath of the kangaroo, in response to the first innings score of 348 set them. ...

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  4. OPERA IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. Beeccham, in the course of an interview, stated that he was profoundly dissatisfied with the third opera season in London. ...

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  5. NEW YEAR RECEPTIONS.

    President Fallieres held his New Year reception at the Elysee yesterday. All the ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary attended. ...

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  6. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) writes that the absence of new Peers from the New Year's [?]onours list is a surprise. Either the creation has been ...

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  7. NEW YEAR HONOURS.

    New Year honours were announced this morning. No new peers were created. The principal honours are as follows:- PRIVY COUNCILLORS (P.C.). ...

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  8. STATE CABLE.

    The concession granted to the Great Northern Cable Company for a cable from England to Norway having expired, the cable from Nowbiggin ...

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  9. MR. F. M BAILEY, C.M.G.

    Mr. Frederick Manson Bailey, F.L.S., has been Colonial Botanist for Queensland since 1881. He is a native of Hackney, near London, was born in 1827, and is the son of a botanist, ...

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  10. THE SPANISH CABINET.

    Router's correspondent in Madrid reports that having completed the first part of its programme the Spanish Cabinet has resigned in order to ascertain whether it ...

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  11. COMMONWEALTH'S PROSPECTS.

    The Sydney correspondent of the "Times," dwelling upon the attainment by the Commonwealth of the individuality of manhood, declares that the prospects of ...

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  12. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH.

    The Emperor Francis Joseph is suffering from a slight cold at Schoenbrun, and the New Year's reception was consequently postponed. ...

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  13. SIR JOHN HACKETT.

    Sir John Winthrop Hackett, LL.D., is one of the most noted men in the western State. He was offered a knighthood once before— In 1902—and refused it. He is part ...

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  14. MR. FISHER IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Capetown correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" describes as purely fanciful an Australian correspondent's complaints regarding the reception given to ...

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  15. AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

    Baron von Bienerth, the Austrian Premier, is forming a new Cabinet. The Cabinet resigned owing to the defection ot the Polish party, which withdrew its ...

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  16. POSTAL GRIEVANCES.

    It is anticipated by the officers in the clerical and professional divisions at the General Post Office, Melbourne, that their grievances in regard to the treatment of third and fourth ...

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  17. SIR THOMAS TAIT.

    Sir Thomas Tait is a native of Melbourne, in the Province of Quebec, Canada. He was born in 1864. and is a son of Sir Melbourne Tait, Chief Justice of the Superior Court, ...

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  18. FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

    Fourteen railway employees have been committed for trial for alleged offences in connection with the late strike on the French railways. ...

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  19. THE DRUCE CASE.

    The "Morning Post" announces the death in London of Mrs. Anna Maria Druce, the original claimant of the Portland pstates. ...

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  20. BOLTON DEATH ROLL.

    The fact that a few of the bodies recovered from the Pretoria pit, near Bolton, were in a better state of preservation than the others suggested the thought that some ...

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  21. NEW DEFENCE SCHEME.

    Sir John Forrest in a speech at Perth on Saturday night condemned the policy of the Labour Government and said that it was a mistake to pay for military and naval defence ...

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  22. CONSTABLE BOURKE.

    The bravery for which Constable Bourke has been honoured was displayed at Croydon, Sunday, July 11, 1909, on the occasion of the shooting affray in which Thomas Stack ...

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  23. HONOURS FOR AUSTRALASIANS.

    The Australian and New Zealand list is as follows:- K.C.M.G. To be Knight Commander of the Order ...

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  24. PRISONERS IN TURKEY.

    The Chamber of Deputies, by 96 votes to 73, lins rejected a demand for a Parliamentary inquiry into the imprisonment of Dr. Rizanour, a deputy, and the alleged ...

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  25. DEATH IN PUBLIC GARDENS.

    There was a sensational development tonight in the mystery surrounding the death of the young man Archibald Steane, a Government surveyor's assistant, who left a friend ...

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  26. OTHER LISTS.

    The Master of Elibank is the eldest son of the tenth Baron Elibank. He has sat in the House of Commons since 1900, and has held office since 1905. For some months he ...

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  27. THE OPIUM TRADE.

    A communique has been issued by the Government, stating that it will rigorously adhere to the agreement with China in respect to the annual reduction in opium ...

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  28. PAUPERISM IN ENQLAND.

    Dr. T. J. Macnamara, Secretary to the Admiralty, in addressing the congregation at Whitefields Tabernacle yesterday, said that, compared with 1909, there were, ...

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  29. SIR WILLIAM CULLEN

    Sir William Cullen, M.A., LL.D., was admitted to the Bar of the Stain in April, 1883, and in 1887 took his degree as Doctor of Laws. He was elected an ...

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  30. PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC.

    Latest advices from Lisbon state that all is quiet. Dr. B. Machado, Minister for Foreign Affairs, explains that the ausence of ...

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  31. NEW ZEALAND.

    John M'Auliffe and William Sucll, residents of Temuka, were thrown from a cart through a collision with a train, and both were killed. The bodies were frightfully mangled. ...

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  32. VIGILANT SENTINELS.

    Two sentries outside the Toulon Arsenal challenged two Russian sailors who were approaching from the battleship Slava. As the Russians did not retire, the ...

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  33. ALBURY FATALITY.

    A sad drowning fatality occurred to day At 9 o'clock this morning a party of three girls, Kate Berry, Emma Berry, and Lily Hanna, with a young man named Coughlan, ...

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  34. INDIAN ASPIRATIONS.

    A New Year's reception to Indians of all races and creeds was given yesterday at the residence of Bepin Chandra Pal in London. Sir Henry Cotton, formerly Chief ...

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  35. THE ROSYTH BASE.

    In addition to the original contract for a graving dock, a closed basin, an entrance lock which can be utilised as a graving dock at the Rosyth Naval base, ...

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  36. THE LUNCHEON.

    At the luncheon the chair was taken hy the president of the society (Colonel James Burns, M.L.C.). Others present included the Lord Mayor (Alderman Allon Taylor), Mr. J. ...

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  37. BELGIAN MINERS' STRIKE.

    Ten thousand coalminers have struck work at Liege, owing to the coal owners seeking to mitigate the effects of a shortening of the working day to 9½ hours. ...

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  38. AERONAUTICS.

    The Paris Municipality has voted £2000 for the encouragement of aviation. ...

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  39. AUSTRALIA'S ATTRACTIONS.

    In pointing out the attractions of Australia, and the advantages which it offers to industrious settlers from abroad, Captain Walter Jenks, R.N.R., commander of the R.M.S. ...

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  40. THE KING.

    The King and the Queen will come to Windsor from Sandringham at the end of the week until Parliament opens at the end of the month ...

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  41. SUEZ CANAL DUES.

    Many ships at Port Said and Suez waited until midnight on New Year's Eve to enter the Suez Canal, in order to benefit by the reduction in the canal dues. ...

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  42. NEWCASTLE FAVOURED.

    The importation of superphosphates for fertilising in this State promises to be a big factor in the advancement ot the port of Newcastle. The firm of Arthur H. Hasell, of Sydney, ...

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  43. MISER MURDERED.

    A foreign East End miser was found stabbed to death on Clapham Common yesterday. His face was battered, and could not be recognised. The crime, it is ...

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  44. LORD ISLINGTON.

    Lord Islington, Governor of New Zealand, the son of Rear-Admiral Dickson. C.B., was born in 1866. An Oxford man, he entered the Imperial Parliament in 1892. Ho served in ...

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  45. ACCIDENT TO QUEEN ELENA.

    Queen Elena, when visiting her children yesterday, fell down a staircase at the Palace. She strained one of her arms and wrist, but the injuries are not serious. ...

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  46. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Dr. Alister Mackay has submitted to the Royal Geographical Society plans to explore the coastline of Grahame'B Land to King Edward VII. Land, in ...

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  47. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    Patrick Edward Linegar, who lately resided at Hornsby, died at the Royal North Shore Hospital yesterday, as the result of injuries received through falling from a moving train ...

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  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The return of the Registrar-General for 1910 shows that the year was a record from a health point of view, the deathrate in London being 13 2-5 per 1000. ...

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  49. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS.

    The earnings of the South African railways for the seven months under the Union were £1,000,000 above their earnings for the same period in 1909. ...

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  50. COLLAPSED ON A RACECOURSE.

    Robert Cummins, 64, a man of independent moans, lately residing in Walker-street, North Sydney, collapsed in the Leger reserve at Randwick racecourse yesterday, and expired ...

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  51. MR. GEORGE H. KNIBBS, C.M.G.

    Mr. George Handley Kaibbs, F.R.A.S., F.S.S., is federated Australia's first Statist, having been appointed to that position in June, 1906, when the Department of Census and Statistics ...

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