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  2. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

    The reports of inspectors of schools on the compulsory clauses of the Education Act, which were made available yesterday, contain strong comments on the working of the Act, ...

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  3. LABOUR'S PROMISES.

    "Mr. Wade's attitude towards the financial proposals of the Commonwealth is Quite characteristic of him," said Mr. Hughes (Federal Attorney-General) yesterday, in reference ...

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  4. SIZE OF CORNSACKS.

    The Ministor for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day, replying to a deputation which waited upon him with reference to the size of cornsacks, stated that the Customs Act would be ...

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  5. "BUSH NURSING" MATINEE.

    The matinee at the Theatre Royal in aid of Lady Dudley's bush nursing scheme attracted a densely crowded audience yesterday. Indeed, the public interest in that charitzble ...

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  6. ENCOUNTER IN A TRAIN.

    An attempt was made to murder and rob Mile. Louisa Sugg in a train between Vincennes and Paris. A desperate struggle occurred, during ...

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  7. BLACK HAND SOCIETY.

    Members of the Black Hand Society waylaid and shot Mr. Piccolo, a merchant in Brooklyn (U.S.A.). While he was dying in the hospital the ...

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  8. THE DRIFT OF THE TRIESTE.

    The Austrian-Lloyd steamer Trieste, which arrived at Bombay about 10 days after her due date, reports that her propeller shaft snapped on June 16 when 400 ...

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  9. AERONAUTICS.

    Wind and rain practically prevented the competitions at the Wolverhampton Aviation Week. The weather improved on Saturday, but ...

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  10. OUTBREAK OF BERRI-BERRI.

    The cruiser Proserpine has arrived at Plymouth with the paymaster, two stokers, and a seaman in a critical condition, suffering from berri-berri, which was contracted ...

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  11. AVIATION AT RHEIMS.

    Rainy and windy weather prevailed at the aviation meeting at Rheims. M. Wachter had covered 60 miles, when the framework of his Antoinette aeroplane ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN CADETS.

    Australian cadets attended a miniature rifle competition at Petersham on Saturday. July 4. ...

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  13. INDEPENDENCE DAY.

    The national flag of the United States was displayed from many city and suburban flagpoles yesterday in honour of Independence Day. For very many who hail from the ...

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  14. ORANGE FREE STATE EDUCATION.

    In consequence of the decision of a meeting at Bloemfontein in April last for the establishment of schools on the system in force in the Transvaal, schools will ...

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  15. THE HON. MAURICE GIFFORD.

    The Hon. Maurice Raymond Gifford, C.M.G., while undergoing the rest cure at Hoddesdon, a village near Hereford, was discovered rushing through the garden in ...

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  16. ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Prince Henry of Prussia and Count Zeppelin have started for Spitzbergen to examine the possibilities of airships in Arctic exploration. ...

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  17. A DISABLED SHIP.

    The American ship W. F. Babcock, bound from Port Townsend, Puget Sound, to Capetown, put into Port Jackson yesterday in a disabled condition. The vessel, it transpired, had a ...

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  18. TREASURE TROVE IN PORTUGAL.

    The Lisbon correspondent of the "Daily News" telegraphs that workmen demolishing the castle of Aleazaba at Soveral, discovered two iron chests in the ...

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  19. THE GERMAN TRAGEDY.

    Frau Weber, who was charged with being an accessory to the murder of her former husband, Major Schoenbock, in January, 1908, has been pronounced totally ...

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  20. MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING.

    At the request of Lord Roberts the "Daily Mail" has organised an annual Imperial miniature rifle competition, to be shot on September 30, open to teams ...

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  21. NEW EXPORT REGULATIONS.

    To-day a deputation from the meat exporters waited on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to object to the new regulations under the Commerce Act affecting the export of meat. ...

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  22. SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR PARTY.

    General Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, and General Smuts, Minister for the Interior, have conferred with the Transvaal Labour party, and have ...

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  23. MR. J. PATTEN RETIRES.

    It is authoritatively stated that Mr. James Patten, the cotton and wheat speculator, has retired from business. Despite the recent losses, his fortune is between ...

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  24. STUD SHEEP.

    South Africa adds more to the list of stud sheep it has taken from Australia. At the annual sheep sales which opened yesterday, the grand champion at the show last week, ...

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  25. AUSTRALIAN BANKS.

    The "Financial Times." in discussing the criticism of some shareholders, that Australian banks ought to increase their dividends, says that the critics fail to ...

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  26. MURDER AND SUICIDE.

    A murder and suicide, the result of monetary losses, have occured at Hamburg. Herr Thalmessinger, a Berlin banker, ...

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  27. QUEENSLAND TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE.

    The Premier is very strongly of opinion that during the incoming session the State Parliament should pledge itself to a scheme for a transcontinental line. It is hoped the ...

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  28. SUGAR BOUNTY.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) to-day explained the intention of the Government with regard to the sugar excise and bounty. As the case stands, it is provided that excise ...

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  29. DECENTRALISATION.

    The Royal Commission on the decentralisation question has completed all preliminaries, and on Thursday the inquiry will be formally commenced at 10 a.m. in the rooms of the ...

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  30. THE DEATH OF WARDANI.

    Many students in the Government and private schools in Cairo are wearing black cravats, as mourning for Wardani, who was executed for the murder of Boutross ...

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  31. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    Technical education as applied to the manufacturers of the State formed the subject of a distinctly encouraging address which was delivered last evening at the Technical College ...

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  32. FEDERAL-STATE FINANCE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) to-day wired the State Premiers stating that the balances due to the States would be paid during this month. ...

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  33. MURDER OF LUNATICS.

    Thablus, an attendant at Sainte Elie Asylum, Paris, has been sentenced to seven years' solitary confinement on a charge of strangling three mad patients in his ...

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  34. VICTORIAN MAGISTRATES' DECISION.

    A number of carriers were proceeded against at the South Melbourne Court to-day for permitting their employees to deliver coal from a vessel lying alongside the South Wharf to ...

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  35. LINKING THE PACIFIC.

    The Minister for External Affairs "(Mr. Batchelor) stated to-day that the Commonwealth Government had agreed to the recommendations of the conference of ...

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  36. AN EARTH TREMOR.

    A slight earthqunke tremor was distinctly, felt here about 11.15 on Saturday night, accompanied by subterranean rumblings, which were plainly heard by the residents. ...

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  37. FIGHTING IN NICARAGUA.

    A telegram from Bluefields states that General Matumy has been executed for hetraying the cause of General Estrada, the revolutionary leader. ...

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  38. SHIP'S CROCKERY DISPLACED.

    The earthquake shock on Saturday night was felt right throughout the Macloay district, lt travelled from seawards inwards, cast to west and was most pronounced near the coast. For ...

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  39. ENDURANCE MANIA.

    One Stirton, at Wanganul, broke the world's record at endurance piano-playing. He completed 62½ hours, beating the rocord by a quarter of an hour. ...

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  40. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A. F. Wilding was fined 10s and costs, and will not be permitted to ride for a c[?] tain period for motor-cycling at Fulham without a license. ...

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  41. STRIKE OR OTHERWISE.

    The matter in dispute at the Denniston mine is the payment of 24s per man. The men claim that 10s per day should have been paid for certain work for 24 days, ...

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  42. BIBLICAL TERCENTENARY.

    The "Daily Telegraph" advocates a public celebration of the tercentenary of the publication of the authorised version of the Bible. ...

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  43. WAGES BOARD SYSTEM.

    "In dealing with industrial legislation," said the Prime Minister to-day, "our intention is not to do away with the power of the various Stales. No sensible Government would do ...

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  44. NEW ZEALAND COAL.

    A few years ago a dispute occurred at the Westport Coal Company's Denniston mines over certain increases of pay asked for by the Miners' Union. They are now idle. in ...

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  45. GERMAN STEEL PLATES.

    German makers have agreed to deliver steel plates to shipbuilders on the Clyde at 5s 6d per ton under the prices asked by makers in Scotland. ...

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  46. CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS.

    Canada has decided not to allow bo[?] nuses upon passages of immigrants paid wholly or in part by charitable organisations or by public money. ...

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  47. GOLD-MINER FINDS DIAMOND.

    The Minister for the Northern Territory has received a telegram from the Government Resident stating that one Fernic recently found in the alluvial on his claim at ...

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  48. SHORT OF COPPERS.

    The Federal Treasury has cabled to the British Mint authorities for 1,920,000 pennies and 900,000 half-pennies to replenish the supplies of copper coinage in Victoria and New South ...

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  49. INTERSTATE LACROSSE.

    The interstate lacrosse carnival was continued on the Adelaide Oval to-day in beautiful weather. Victoria met New South Wales, and by superior all-round play secured an easy ...

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  50. OBITUARY.

    The following deaths are announced:- Dr. Frederick James Furnival, M.A., founder and director of the Early English Text, Chaucer, Ballad, New Shakespeare, ...

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  51. MINE ON FIRE.

    An official report to the Minister for Mines from Collie states that the Proprietary mine is on fire in the old workings, but that the fire is well under control. ...

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  52. BEATEN TO DEATH.

    Villagers in Berezova, Kbarkoff (Russia), dragged two horse thieves from prison, and beat them to death. The villagers declared that the police ...

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  53. INSTRUCTION IN TEMPERANCE.

    A new curriculum for the State schools is in course of preparation. Dr. Elkington (Health Commissioner) has assisted the 'department by preparing the ...

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  54. SCHOONER AND STEAMER COLLIDE.

    The schooner Zingarra, while being towed out yesterday, became unmanageable, and collided with the steamer Rosedale, lying at the whirf, carrying away her bulwarks and ...

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  55. CHILD-BEATER DIES.

    Margaret Matilda Carton, who yesterday beat the little girl Alien Carton to death, and afterwards took poison and tried to strangle herself, died in the Williamstown Hospital ...

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  56. NEWPORT DOCKERS' DISPUTE.

    Houlder Bros.' steamer, which was the cause of the labour dispute at Newport, has sailed, and the police have been withdrawn. ...

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  57. VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT.

    A direct challenge to the Government may be made if the announcement in the Governor's Speech at the opening of the State Parliament on Wednesday concerning the Ministry's ...

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  58. NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS.

    Asher and Papakura, New Zealand representatives, led by the steamer Mahono to-night to take part. In the Northern Union match, England v Australasia. ...

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