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  2. NAVIGATION LAWS.

    The interim report of the Commonwealth Royal Commission on Navigation and Shipping was made available yesterday. The commission consisted of Messrs. W. M. Hughes ...

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  3. MR. BENT AT BOMBALA.

    At 7 o'clock to-night Mr. Bent, Premier of Victoria, addressed a public meeting at the School of Arts. Owing to the shortness of notice, and owing to the fact that the banquet ...

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  4. MR. SEDDON VALIANT.

    Speaking at a political banquet, Mr. Seddon, the Premier, stated that the Government had entered into a contract tor the carriage of New Zealand products with what was ...

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  5. FUTURE OF MOROCCO.

    Herr von Radowitz, the representative of Germany at the International Conference at Algeciras, insists that the admission of the Franco-Spanish claim to police Casa ...

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  6. RIGHTS OF COLONIES. CASTIGATION BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

    Mr. Chamberlain, in a letter to the "Times" replying to the attacks of Mr. Winston Churchill, the Parliamentary Under-Sccretary for the Colonies, compares ...

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  7. ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA. PRIESTLY INFLUENCE.

    The election of delegates to the Primary Electoral Colleges for the election of the National Duma of Russia has begun. There are enormous abstentions on the part of the ...

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  8. THE COMMONWEALTH. VISITING JAPANESE WARSHIPS.

    In order to provide for the mails, the Japanese authorities at Tokio have given the Postal Department an itinerary of the Itsukushima, Matsushima, and Hashidate, warships, ...

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  9. SILVER.

    Har silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6d per ounce standard, a fall of l-16d since Saturday. ...

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  10. POSTAGE ON STEAMERS.

    Complaint has appeared in a newspaper in regard to posting letters aboard mail steamers, the receiver in one instance having had to pay a fine on a letter postod at Colombo on a ...

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  11. RIFLE CLUB MOVEMENT, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT FAILS. A REPLY TO SENATOR EWING.

    The statement made last week by Senator Ewing regarding the poor support accorded the rifle shooting movement in this State has been adversely criticised by leading rifle shots ...

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  12. REPRESSION OF THE LETTS.

    Lettish newspapers assert that during December, January, and February the military forces operating in the Baltic provinces hanged l8 people, shot 321, and in armed ...

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  13. COUNTRY TELEPHONES.

    A return has been prepared showing the progress of telephonic communication established in the Commonwealth outside the ordinary exchauge lines. Between July, 1904, and ...

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  14. AN ELEMENT OF INSTABILITY.

    Transvaal newspapers fiercely resent the speech of Mr. Churchill, threatening the use of the veto on Transvaal legislation, as being a gratuitous insult to every ...

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  15. THE SEBASTOPOL MUTINY.

    Lieutenant Schmidt, the leader of the last mutiny among the Black Sea fleet at Sebastopol, who was sentenced to be hanged, has had his sentence commuted, ...

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  16. QUEENSLAND. STEAMER YSABEL REFLOATED.

    The Deputy Postmaster-General has received a wire from the postmaster at Cairas to the effect that the steamer Ysabel floated off B reef on Saturday at 3 p.m., apparently ...

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  17. ATTACK ON WARSAW PRISON.

    An armed mob captured the prison at Warsaw. After killing one warder and mortally wounding two others the mob released the political prisoners. ...

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  18. GREAT STRIKE IN FRANCE.

    M. Clemenceau, the Minister for the Interior, has had a conference with the Labour Federation at Courrieres. He promised that he would respect the ...

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  19. OPERATIONS IN NIGERIA CANNIBALS PUNISHED.

    The tribe in Southern Nigeria which killed and ate Dr. Stewart near Old Calabar has been severely punished. Many of the tribesmen were killed by the ...

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  20. THE S.S. PRINZ SIGISMUND.

    The steamer Prinz Sigismund, bound from Sydney to German New Guinea and Japan, put into Pinkenba this afternoon owing to a slight defect in the refrigerating machinery. The ...

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  21. REDISTRIBUTION OF ELECTORATES.

    The Victorian returns are the only ones now being awaited to complete the redivision of the States, the Commissioner in Queensland having notified the Home Affairs Department ...

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  22. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION CASE.

    In the Supreme Court to-day the case of Standley v the Queensland Typographical Association and others was continued. Mr. Justice Real asked if there was any prospect ...

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  23. SCHOOL EXCURSIONS ON SUNDAYS.

    With respect to the discussion which has taken place regarding the proposal to run a railway excursion on a Sunday in connection with the State school at Charters Towers, the ...

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  24. LABOUR TOLERATED.

    Mr. J. Keir Hardie (Labour), speaking at Merthyr on Saturday night, said that up to the present Labour had been tolerated; but the moment it was known that the ...

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  25. HARBOUR COLLISION.

    Two occupants of a fishing boat narrowly escaped losing their lives in the harbour last evening, their boat being cut in two by the ferry steamer King Edward. The names ...

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  26. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Groom, Minister for Home Affairs, left Melbourne for Sydney yesterday on departmental business. At a meeting of justices of the peace, held ...

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  27. CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION REPRESENTATION.

    Mr. Scott, Commissioner of the Christchurch Exhibition, interviewed Mr. Kidston to-day on the question of the State being represented at the exhibition. The Premeir ...

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  28. DISPERSAL OF SOKOTO REBELS.

    The rebel natives defeated at Satiru, in the province of Sokoto, Northern[?]Nigeria, numbered 2000, and were entrenched. Captain Goodwyn, of the Royal Artillery, by ...

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  29. LAST ASYLUM THREATENED.

    Mr. L. W. Rothschild, M.P. (C.), speaking at Chesham on Saturday night, said there was irrefutable evidence that every refugee from Russia refused admission ...

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  30. A RIFLE CLUB CAPTAIN'S COMMENT.

    The captain of a metropolitan rifle club confessed that he had not been enlightened by Senator Ewing's remarks, as they contained nothing new. He had little faith in ...

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  31. TASMANIA. DROWNED IN THE ESK RIVER.

    The inquest on the body of Albert Edward Maun, a Melbourne resident, whose body was found in the Esk, resulted in an open verdic' of "found drowned." Evidence showed that ...

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  32. THE KING OF ROUMANIA.

    Extreme anxiety for the health of King Carol of Roumania is manifested, and is causing fears to be entertained as to political eventualities. ...

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  33. OBITUARY.

    The denth is announced of Johann Most, anarchist. ...

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  34. FIRE AT HOBART.

    An outbreak of fire in some stables at the rear of Liverpool-street on Saturday night spread to Reid and Stride's grecery, McVilly and Little's fancy store, and R. J. Owen's ...

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  35. WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

    The whole of the men affected by the recent notice resumed work at a reduced rate of wages this morning. The action of the drectors of the mines affected has given rise ...

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  36. NATIONALIST TRUCE.

    Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Nationalists, speaking at Manchester, said that Nationalists believed that the English masses desired to deal fairly with Ireland. ...

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  37. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    In the international football match played on Saturday England beat Scotland by three tries to one try. [New Zealand defeated Scotland 12 to 7, ...

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  38. A SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

    A terrible outrage was perpetrated on a homestead near Minmi crossing, five miles from Roma, yesterday evening. John Fisher, in company with James Quinlivan, were ...

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  39. BROKEN HILL MINE FIRES.

    Such excellent progress has been made with blocking off the affected area in the Proprietary mine that the management this afternoon was able to send 386 men underground ...

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  40. POPULATION OF GERMANY.

    The Compilation of the returns of the census taken throughout Germany on December 1, 1905, has been completed. It shows that the population of the German ...

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  41. FIRE AT TEMORA.

    A fire occurred on Saturday afternoon in a four-romed house belonging to Mr. Cutting. It was burnt to the ground. The inmates were absont at the time. The house was ...

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  42. A BREEZE IN COURT.

    During the hearing of a trade union [?] in the Supreme Court to-day, W. P. Colborne, secretary of the Queensland Typographical As[?]ation, was questioned by Mr. Justice ...

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  43. BRAVE RESCUE BY A FATHER.

    A brave rescue of his wife and children was made to-night at Port Melbourne Ly Hector Marshall, fruiterer. His promises caught fire, and Marshall finding that his wife ...

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  44. MELBOURNE WORKS LOAN.

    Tenders were opened by the Metropolitan Board of Works to-day for the unconvertel [?]ortion of "R" loan, amounting to £69,430, at a minimum of £102 10s, interest 4 per cent. ...

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  45. AMERICAN STEEL TRUST.

    The surplus of the United States Steel Trust on its operations for 1905 amounts to £8,500,000. March 19. ...

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  46. TYPHOID EPIDEMIC.

    Eleven fresh cases of typhold fever have occurred since Wednesday last, making the total for the week 22. There is hospital accommodation for 26 cases, but there are now 38 ...

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  47. DEATHS FROM THIRST.

    Early this month a party of aboriginals, seven gins and a pickaninny, left Oodnadatta, with the intention of making for Niddrie station, where a number of the tribe to which ...

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  48. ENGLISH MAILS.

    The malis for the eastern States by the R. M. S. Oruba, which arrived to-day, were despatched overland at 5.30 p.m., and the steamer continued her journey. ...

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  49. EARTH DISTURBANCES.

    An earthquake at Kagl, Formosa, has caused the deaths of hundreds of people. Extensive landslips and floods in the Rio de Janeiro province of Brazil have ...

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