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  2. YASS-CANBERRA. MR. SCRIVENER'S ADVERSE REPORT.

    The report on Yass-Canberra as the site for the Federal capital, presented to the Minister for Home Affairs by Mr. Scrivener, is condemned by the Premier as based upon ...

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  3. SHOOTING AFFRAY.

    A shooting affray took place just before o'clock yesterday, in Argent-chambers Hunter-street as the result of which Mr. Ernest Barter, aged 33, of the firm of E. S. ...

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  4. FEDERAL SITUATION. QUESTION OF DISSOLUTION.

    Mr. Fisher has not yet tendered his resignation as Prime Minister of Australia. Whether the same will be said to-morrow must depend on what view the Governor-General takes of ...

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  5. THIRD EDITION. THE CRICKETERS.

    The Australian cricketers commenced a match to-day at Leicester against Leicestershire. The weather was unsettled, but the wicket was good. There was a large ...

    Article : 272 words
  6. REVIVAL IN TRADE. SHIPBUILDING INCREASING.

    The output of the Clyde shipyards in May was 40,580 tons, being 28,492 tons above the output of May, 1908. New orders represen[?] [?]000 to[?]s. ...

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  7. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    Count Zeppelin, with two engineers and a crew of seven, steered the Zeppelin airship No. 2 from Friedriehshafen to Bitterfeld, a distance of 300 miles, in 22 ...

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  8. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. VETERAN AFRIKANDER LEADER.

    Mr. Jan Hofmeyr, formerly leader of the Afrikander Bond, has been invited to join the deputation conveying the draft Constitution of the Union of South Africa to ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. THE FISHER GOVERNMENT COMPLIMENTED.

    An appreciative letter has been received from Archdeacon Tucker, of Ballarat, by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Josiah Thomas). "Before you leave office," writes the Archdeacon, ...

    Article : 154 words
  10. STOCK EXCHANGE SIGNS.

    The "Bankers' Magazine" states that 387 representative Stock Exchange securities, valued at £3,730,559,000, have appreciated £136,000,000 in two months. ...

    Article : 28 words
  11. REACTIONARIES DEFEATED.

    General Botha, Premier of the Trans[?]aal, and Mr. Smuts, Colonial Secretary, secured from Hetvolk Congress the refection of the demands of reactionaries on ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. RURAL PROBLEMS.

    Mr. Roosevelt in a letter to Mr. James [?]yce, British Ambassador, on the eve of vacating the office of President, paid a generous tribute to Sir Horace Plunkett's ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. SIR WILLIAM LYNE'S SEAT.

    The Gundagai Labour League, which has initiated a conference to be held at Wagga on Saturday next to decide with respect to a Labour candidate for the Hume seat, held a ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. THE WHEAT GAMBLE.

    The position of Mr. Patten, the Chicago speculator, who has cornered the American wheat market, is so strong that he could have demanded five dollars a bushel. He ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. MURDER AND SUICIDE.

    Charles Ebberhardt, supposed to be a sailor, aged about 30 years, shot dead Lily Jewett, 21, shattering her head, in a house in Mary-street, Brisbane, to-night, and then committed ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. STATE REVENUES. THE RETURNS FOR MAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 515 words
  17. MAN'S SUDDEN MADNESS.

    Mr. David Henderson, a well-known wealthy resident of New York, who was suffering from neurasthenia, suddenly went mad in an hotel in Paris in the ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. RIOT IN LIMA.

    'A' mob, headed by a politician named Pieroala, attacked the Government offices of Lima, Peru, and conveyed President Leguia to the public square, where they ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. TRAIN WRECKERS.

    A deliberate attempt was made on Saturday night to wreck the Brisbane mail train to Sydney. Two sleepers were placed across the line about four miles north of Guyra in a ...

    Article : 404 words
  20. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

    For some time past the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has had under consideration the establishment of an Asutralian military academy. The Minister has had before him ...

    Article : 139 words
  21. OFFERS OF £30,000.

    The announcement that the Prime Minister and two of his colleagues would speak on the political situation drew over 6000 people to the Exhibition Building this evening. The ...

    Article : 697 words
  22. EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

    The Board of Education of Great Britain has arranged with the French and Prussian Ministries of Education for an exchange of assistant secondary school ...

    Article : 34 words
  23. BANDITS IN AMERICA.

    Three of the Omaha train robbers have been captured on the information of three schoolboys and a teacher, who will thereby divide a reward of 20,000 dollars (£4000) ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The amateur golf championship was won by Mr. Robert Maxwell, who beat Captain Hutchinson at the last hole. ...

    Article : 28 words
  25. COBAR MINING AGREEMENT.

    A very large meeting of the A.M.A. members was held last night to receive the report of the delegates to the conference with the Mineowners' Association. The scale of wages ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. TENNIS.

    In tennis Stone beat Wilson, 6-3, 6-3, 6-0. ...

    Article : 13 words
  27. LOST OVERBOARD.

    Captain Boyer, of the Messageries Maritimes steamer Dumbea, from Sydney April 19 to Marseilles, after his vessel had come into collision with another steamer at ...

    Article : 178 words
  28. BALANCE OF POWER.

    Russian newspapers quote extracts from the Empire Day supplement of the "Times." The "Slovo" expresses profound ...

    Article : 48 words
  29. MORRISSEY'S DEFEAT.

    "It is the first time in all my experience," remarked "Professor" Murrissey yesterday, as he carelessly held in each hand a sugarbag containing snakes, "that I have seen what ...

    Article : 658 words
  30. MINERAIS IN ANTARCTICA.

    Germans are making inquiry into the commercial value of minerals discovered in the south of Victoria Land, Antarctica. A firm of Hamburg offers to subscribe ...

    Article : 186 words
  31. FOREST CONSERVATION IN NEW ENGLAND.

    On Saturday afternoon last a public meeting, convened by the president of the Guyra Shire and president of the Guyra Progress Association, was held to protest against the ...

    Article : 162 words
  32. NEGLECTED NEWCASTLE.

    As pointed out yesterday there is great dissatisfaction in the city at the inconvenient train service with the metropolis. The matter was referred to at the city ...

    Article : 251 words
  33. MUTUAL REGRETS.

    It is announced in Berlin that Germany and France have expressed mutual regrets for the incident at Casablanca, Morocco, so far as their respective officials were blamed ...

    Article : 43 words
  34. SCOTCH COALMINERS.

    The Scotch coalmasters decline to cancel their demand for a reduction of 6d per day in wages, though the National Federation of Great Britain is backing up the ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. HARBOUR NAVIGATION.

    In the course of a letter recently addressed to us Mr. Petford Allen stated that, for want of sufficient depth of water in the vicinity of the Sow and Pigs reef, large vessels are often ...

    Article : 449 words
  36. VICTORIA.

    Though the revenue from purely State sources was highly satisfactory for May, there was a heavy fall in the amount of money returned to Victoria, as its share of the balance of the ...

    Article : 188 words
  37. REVELLERS ROBBED.

    Four men with revolvers entered a Seventh Avenue restaurant, close to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Now York, early yesterday morning, and held up a score of ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. OBJECTS OF VACCINATION.

    The State Treasurer (Mr. Wa[?]) was proceeded against at the Essendon Court to-day on a charge of having neglected to have his daughter, Eleanor Helene, vaccinated within ...

    Article : 85 words
  39. OIL MAGNATE'S FORTUNE.

    The late Mr. Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, bequeathed to his wife £26,000 annually, to his brother's family an income of £80,000, and the ...

    Article : 63 words
  40. FEELING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Dealing with the Federal political situation, the "Western Austrailan" to-day says: "In delaying their resignation after an adverse vote of Parliament had been carried by a large ...

    Article : 349 words
  41. BANK MANAGER CONVICTED.

    Philippe Roy, formerly Speaker of the Quebee Legislative Assembly, and manager of the defunct Banque de St. Joan, at Qnebee, has been sentenced to five ...

    Article : 49 words
  42. ANOTHER FOG.

    For the third morning in succession a dense fog enveloped the harbour yesterday and for a couple of hours considerably hampered the movements of ferry steamers and shipping ...

    Article : 218 words
  43. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Treasury returns for May show that the expenditure exceeded the income by £49,786, and there was a decrease of revenue of £20,000 as compared with May, 1908. This decrease ...

    Article : 88 words
  44. AFTER MANY YEARS.

    Mr. Dale, an English naturalist, reports that the cruiser Condor, of the British navy, missing since 1901, has been found submerged two miles off the coast of ...

    Article : 126 words
  45. COUNCIL CLERK IN TROUBLE.

    At the Police Court to-day, Thomas Wales, late council clerk to the Municipality of Narrabri West, was presented, on remand, on charges of embezzling sums of £2 and £3. ...

    Article : 85 words
  46. TORNADOES IN AMERICA.

    Terrific winds have swept through the [?]onthern States of the United States. Torn[?]does in Oklahoma State killed 22 people. A cyclone at Zephyr, Texas, killed 30 ...

    Article : 38 words
  47. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The second deposit of £100 each was paid to-day in the Webb-Arnst race. Both men are in excellent form, and actively training. ...

    Article : 29 words
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