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  2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

    Any scientific system of education must attempt to provide a sound foundation of general knowledge before it attempts to roar the towers and domes of specialties. Although ...

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  3. SUMMER SCHOOLS.

    The teachers at the Summer School have now quite settled down to work, and everything is going on without the slightest hitch. Last year a little too much was attempted by the ...

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  4. COLLIERY TROUBLES.

    The situation in regard to disputes between the miners and managements of a number of Newcastle collieries has reached a more hopeful phase. The brighter prospect has ...

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  5. VICTORIA.

    As the site of the Inebriate Retreat at Royal Park is regarded as unsuitable for such an institution, the Cabinet has decided to enter into negotiations with the Closer ...

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  6. HORRORS IN RUSSIA.

    Reuter's correspondent telegraphs that General von der Launits, Prefect of St. Petersburg, was assassinated yesterday morning. ...

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  7. CRISIS IN GERMANY.

    The manifesto issued by Prince Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor, in connection with the elections in Germany, has satisfied only the Centre (Clericals) and social ...

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  8. CHURCH IN FRANCE.

    A sensation has been caused in clerical circles in Paris by the publication by the "Matin" of a sermon delivered by Cardinal Ireland at Saint Paul (U.S.A.), in ...

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  9. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Prime Minister attended at his office to-day. He expects that all Ministers, with the exception of the Treasurer, will be present at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday ...

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  10. THE STATE CABINET.

    Mr. Mackey to-day resigned the portfolios of Minister for Labour and Chief Secretary, and Mr. Langdon was sworn in as his successor to both positions. ...

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  11. DESIGNS REGISTRATION.

    An office for the registration of designs has been established at the Rialto, Collins-street, Melbourne, as from January 1, the date upon which the Act came into ...

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  12. STRANDED AUSTRALIANS.

    Being "stranded" in South Africa without means to pay their passages to the Commonwealth, five Australians stowed away at Capetown on board the Aberdeen liner Salamis. ...

    Article : 60 words
  13. TENANCY OF BUILDINGS.

    Laymen, who are mostly Republicans, have made the annual declaration under the French Separation Law in most parishes, thereby placing ...

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  14. TOLL TELEPHONES.

    Next month will see the introduction of the toll telephone system in Australia. The Secretart of the Postal Department wishes subscribers under the present system to ...

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  15. A REVOLTING PROSECUTION.

    Nicholas Schmidt the owner of an art furniture factory at Moscow, is undergoing trial for alleged conspiracy against the Czar. ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. RAILWAY STRIKERS REINSTATED.

    The order was passed to-day at a meeting of the State Cabinet instructing the Railway Commissioners that the railway strikers, including the members of the executives of ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. ENGLISH MAIL CONTRACT.

    In the last annual report of the P. and O. Company the directors state that in view of the expiration of the contract with the Imperial Government for the carriage of ...

    Article : 208 words
  18. THE KANAKA.

    The decision of the electors of the Commonwealth to deport the Pacific Island labourers to their homes in the South Seas was arrived at without any regard for the feelings or ...

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  19. EARLY CLOSING EXEMPTIONS.

    Approval was given by the State Cabinet this afternoon to the proposition brought forward by Mr. Mackey that relief be given to small shopkeepers in cases of proved ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION.

    Mr. Gladstone, Home Secretary, has appointed Mr. Ernest Aves, M.A., Fellow of the Statistical Society, a commissioner to visit Australia and New Zealand and ...

    Article : 171 words
  21. ANARCHY IN POLAND.

    Terrorists at Lodz threaten to murder all who resume work. Owing to the refusal of the military authorities to detach soldiers to guard ...

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  22. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS AT GRANVILLE.

    There were two accidents near the Granville railway station yesterday evening. Fortunately no casualties resulted, the worst feature of the mishaps being the delay ...

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  23. MEETING OF MINERS' FEDERATION.

    The committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation, which met at the Trades Hall to-day, dealh with the wages disputes which have resulted in the ...

    Article : 431 words
  24. INTERSTATE YACHT RACES.

    The races for the La Carabine Cup will be sailed on the 12th, 14th, and 15th inst., starting from a line off St. Kilda. For the Sayonara Cup the start is from Point ...

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  25. STANDING OF THE SPEKE.

    The Board of Trade has returned the Certificate of Captain Tiston, master of the ship Speke, which the Court at Melbourne suspended for a year on the ground ...

    Article : 187 words
  26. FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

    The Agents-General have secured a large space for a combined Australian display at the Franco-British Exhibition to be held at Shepherd's Bush (London) ...

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  27. SALE OF MILITARY STORES.

    Chili has sold to a German frim 2000 Mannlicher rifles, cartridges, and mountain batteries, representing a value of £250,000. ...

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  28. PROPOSED CHANNEL TUNNEL.

    Messrs. Deschanel (of the French Senate), Downer, and Constant D'Estournelles (of the Chamber of Deputies), and Yves Guyot, advocate the construction of ...

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  29. BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS.

    The body of the late Baroness BurdettCoutts is lying in state at Stration-street, Piceadilly, the late residence of the deceased. ...

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  30. THE ABERMAIN DIFFICULTY.

    At a conference held about a fortnight ago between the executive officers of the Colliery Employees' Federation and the proprietors of the South Maitland collieries, a difference ...

    Article : 278 words
  31. A DEMENTED WOMAN.

    Early this morning a married woman named Dean, residing with her husband at Canley Vale, close to the station, attacked her three children with an axe, inflicting a number of ...

    Article : 284 words
  32. LOSSES AT CARD-PLAYING.

    Mr. Nicholas Szmere, a sportsman, lost £27,000 at card-playing in a club at BudaPesth during one sitting. ...

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  33. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    George Doherly, a bricklayer, residing in Pleasant-street, Erskineville, was knocked down by a tram in King-street, St. Poters, last night and severely injured. He was ...

    Article : 134 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    M. Paul Cambon, ambassador for Franco in London, has been appointed to a similar position at Berlin. MADAME MELBA. ...

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  35. THE SUNBEAM DINNER.

    The attendance at the annual Sunbeam Dinner, which was held at Limehouse, numbered 2500. Among those present were Mr. J. G. Jenkins (Agent-General ...

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  36. WALKED IN HIS SLEEP.

    At an early hour yesterday morning John Francis O'Dowd, 59, an inmate of the Rookwood Asylum, was conveyed by the Civil Ambulance to Prince ...

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  37. A SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

    On New Year's morning Horace Harvey, aged 26, who had been to a theatre with his mother on the previous evening, returned home at 1 o'clock very ill. He said he had ...

    Article : 161 words
  38. DISTURBANCE IN ARGENTINA.

    The police at Pergamine, Argentina, while dispersing a demonstration against the payment of municipal taxes, killed six persons and wounded 17 others. ...

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  39. ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

    Our Parramatta correspondant writes:—Yesterday afternoon, while Mrs. Dean was being brought from Liverpool to the Parramatta Hospital for Insane, she had to ...

    Article : 70 words
  40. STRUCK BY A FLAGSTAFF.

    George Thompson, 24, a blacksmith, living at Ryde, was walking near his residence on New Year's morning, when a flagstaff fell upon him, fracturing his skull. He was ...

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  41. THE MEAT TRADE.

    Some consternation was caused in Brisbane to-day by a statement that had been circulated to the effect that a strike in the meat trade in Brisbane is anticipated and that the ...

    Article : 418 words
  42. MARYLEBONE CRICKET TEAM.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 words
  43. BARQUENTINE WRECKED.

    The barquentine Liverland, bount from Newcastle to Auckland, has become a total wreck near the Three Kings. The vessel on Saturday last became becalmed ...

    Article : 320 words
  44. A BATHER'S DEATH.

    Alexander Thomas Field, a young man lately residing at Gerard-street, Alexandria, died yesterday at the Coast Hospital. On New Year's Day Field was bathing at Yarra ...

    Article : 69 words
  45. THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    The re-count for the Senate election is practically complete. In nearly every district there have been small alterations. To-night the returning officer for Hindmarsh division ...

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  46. ATTACKED BY WOLVES.

    Wolves on the Roumanian frontier devoured a clergyman and his servant while sleighing. Many other people have been attacked and injured. ...

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  47. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the City Police Court to-day the case against Barney Allen and James M'Guiness, who were charged with having kept a common gaming-house in St. George's-terrace, was ...

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  48. NARROW ESCAPE.

    A narrow escape from drowning occurred at South Murwillumbah yesterday. Two young women, domestic servants, went to bathe in the river, where the water was about ...

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  49. PERSIAN CONSTITUTION.

    The Representative Assembly at Teheran has accepted the revised Constitution. The following information was officially ...

    Article : 232 words
  50. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Honora Wright, wife of Jabez Wright, exMayor of the city, was to-day fined 20s, and 10s costs, or one month's Imprisonment, for assaulting her husband in the street by ...

    Article : 242 words
  51. THE VICTORIAN STRIKE.

    The secretary of the Builders' Employers' Vigilance Committee, Mr. Eldridge, states that to-day he received 20 applications for work up till noon. The contracts are better ...

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  52. DROWNING CASES.

    A verdict of accidental death was returned in the case of Alick Pengelley, who was drowned at Silverton on New Year's Day. At the inquest the conduct of the boy Harold ...

    Article : 65 words
  53. LATE MINING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 words
  54. MARINER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    The President of the Marine Board telegraphed from Cape Borda this morning that Mr. Barron, second officer of the steamer Governer Musgrave, had died suddenly on board ...

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  55. BARRIER.

    The declaration of the poll in connection with the Federal elections took place to-day. The figures were:—Thomas (S.), 5602; Marshall (A.S.), 1919; Informal, 300. Out of 25,284 ...

    Article : 37 words
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