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  2. STUDENTS' SUMMER SCHOOLS.

    The quiet little village or Lawson, slumbering in the blue haze of bush-clad hills, has achieved a momentary popularity, which has startled the oldest residents, and has ...

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  3. ETHICS OF HOME RULE.

    Correspondence has passed between Sir Frederick Darley and Cardinal Moran in consequence of some statements made by the latter in a newspaper interview upon the ...

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  4. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT LEICHHARDT.

    A shocking domestic tragedy was enacted last night at 34 Allen-street, Leichhardt, where Margaret Noonan fired two revolver shots at her husband, Thomas Noonan, both ...

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  5. LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

    The Attorney-General referred yesterday to portions of the new Liquor Act which appear to have proved troublesome of interpretation to several licensed victuallers and ...

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  6. MARITIME UNREST.

    The decision of the Wharf Labourers' Union not to accept the proposals of the employers, and on the other hand, to seek to gain further concessions, is being acted upon by the ...

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  7. ORIENT ROYAL MAIL LINE.

    The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company has acquired, with four steamers (Orotava, Oruba, Oroya, and Ortona), the whole of the interest and goodwill of the Pacific ...

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  8. RUSSIAN JUSTICE.

    Corpses are scattered over the Kazan (Central Russia) railway. Three hundred were shot, as soldiers fired on anyone. Officers hastily arranged a court-martial, ...

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  9. GENERAL ELECTION.

    There is a prospect that the struggle in the general election, especially in the boroughs, will be the severest since 1885, after the suffrage was extended in the ...

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  10. ANOTHER GOVERNOR SHOT.

    A man fired three times at Major-General Sokolovsky, Governor of Ufa, and every shot, took effect, severely wounding him. The assailant has been arrested. ...

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  11. THE CAUCASUS ISOLATED.

    No news has reached St. Petersburg from the Caucasus for a fortnight. ...

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  12. IN MEMORY OF BLOODY SUNDAY.

    The Council of Workmen's Delegates at St. Petersburg has decreed a political strike for Monday and Tuesday, 22nd and 23rd instant, as a mark of national mourning ...

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  13. GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.

    Mr. Walter Long, addressing a Unionist meeting at Dublin, said that when he was appointed to the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland, he found that many papers were ...

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  14. ASSESSMENT OF FEES.

    Several applications under the new Licensing Act for assessment of license fees were dealt with at the Licensing Court to-day. In one case the fee was fixed at £35, in another ...

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  15. LOSSES IN MOSCOW.

    The hospitals in Moscow contain 2000 wounded. Many other wounded are in private institutions. Engineers state that the strike has ...

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  16. WARSAW STRIKE COLLAPSES.

    The strike of workmen in the factories of Warsaw has collapsed. ...

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  17. A WORKMEN'S CLUB.

    The woonona working Men's Club was closed by the police, under terms of the new Act, on New Year's morning. Subsequently a wire was received from the ...

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  18. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government again offers to guarantee the return of 1d per lb net on all apples shipped from New Zealand to London, the only condition being that the fruit must be ...

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  19. PRINCE HANGS A STATIONMASTER.

    Prince Orloff, commanding the forces operating against the Lithuanian Republic, proclaimed in the Baltic provinces of Russia, hanged a stationmaster for not ...

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  20. STRIKE AT ADELAIDE.

    A strike, which it is held will effect the whole of the merchants in the grain trade, broke out at Port Adelaide, but happily it was promptly nipped in the bud by those ...

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  21. COLLISION ON THE SOUTH COAST LINE.

    A collision occurred between two ballast trains on the Illawarra line at 3 o'clock this afternoon, at the Kembla Junction, where the main South Coast line junctions with the ...

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  22. REFORM IN IRELAND.

    Mr. Sydney Buxton, the Postmaster-General, addressing a meeting at Holloway, said he anticipated that the Government at an early date would have a tussle with the ...

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  23. NO GERMAN AGGRESSION

    Baron von Richthofen, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, in replying to a private inquiry, made a reassuring Statement as to the intentions of Germany at the ...

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  24. THE POTATO DISEASE.

    The potato disease has been checked in many districts by the spell of dry weather. ...

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  25. WESTPORT COAL.

    The Westport Coal Company's output last year totalled 500,231 tons, being 33,778 tons less than during 1904. ...

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  26. FREIGHTS TO SOUTH AFRICA.

    The conference on South African shipping freights found that rebates give a monopoly of the carrying trade between Great Britain and South Africa. Thus the ...

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  27. BEQUESTS TO CHURCHES.

    The late Mr. Donald Manson, of Manawatu, among 66 bequests, leaves £4500 to the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, some bequests to churches in Victoria, and ...

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  28. THE HOME RULE PLEDGE.

    The "Freeman's Journal" (Dublin) declares that there must be no whittling away of the Home Rule pledge, and says that Irish Nationalists support Sir Henry Camp. ...

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  29. ANONYMOUS DONATION.

    The Waiapu diocese has received from an anonymous donor £9000 in support of the clergymen in poor and scattered districts throughout the diocese. ...

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  30. EMPEROR CONCILIATORY.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Times" confirms the statement that the German Emperor is acting in a conciliatory manner towards France, and his attitude is ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    Payments for cream by butter factories in Southern Queensland during December amounted to £90,000, and during the same period £10,000 was paid for milk by cheese factories, ...

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  32. LORD HUGH CECIL.

    Lord Hugh Cecil, Freetrade Unionist, addressing the electors of Greenwich, said that Home Rule was a proposal most dangerous to the country's wellbeing, and ...

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  33. HOME FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

    The Lady Mayoress has received the following letter from a gentleman in the southwestern districts:—"Dear Madam,—As one of the sufferers from phthists in this State, will ...

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  34. A RIDICULOUS STATEMENT.

    Admiral Rozhdestvensky, in a letter to the "Novoe Vremya," of St. Petersburg, declares that the British fleet was concentrated at Wei-hai-wei on the eve of the ...

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  35. NO LIBERAL-IRISH COMPACT.

    Mr. Michael Davitt, who is stumping the country on behalf of Labour candidates, speaking at Birmingham, said: "There is no compact between Mr. J. Redmond and ...

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  36. A MISSING MAILMAN.

    The Postal Department has received a telegram from Cloncurry in regard to the missing mailman near Dalgonally. The police search was fruitless, the man's tracks having ...

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  37. OPPRESSIVE WEATHER.

    Although the maximum temperature recorded at the Observatory yesterday was only 85.8 the conditions were extremely oppressive, and a southerly change was anxiously awaited. ...

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  38. A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.

    At the City Summons Court to-day John Burnett, master of the steamer Hudson, was fined £5 and 45s costs on a charge of having on November 17 last unlawfully allowed Chan ...

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  39. ACTIVITY IN WOOLWICH ARSENAL.

    The "Daily Telegraph" reports that there are rejoicings in the Woolwich Arsenal over the orders placed by the Government for two million rounds of small arms ...

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  40. CITY OF LONDON SEAT.

    The Duke of Devonshire, the leader of the Unionist Freetraders, in a letter to Mr. Felix Schuster, who, with Sir West Ridgeway, is contesting the City of London seat ...

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  41. IMMIGRANTS FOR QUEENSLAND.

    The Chief Secretary has received information that the Ophir left London on December 29 with 51 immigrants for Queensland. ...

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  42. TORNADO IN GEORGIA.

    A disastrous tornado is reported to have occurred at Albany, Georgia. Besides damage to property, several people were killed and many were injured. ...

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  43. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

    The Summer School for Public school teachers opened at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Tuesday morning. The first day was devoted mostly to preparation. Nearly ...

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  44. COLLINGS V COLLINGS.

    The hearing of the judicial separation suit Collings v Collings was concluded to-day after a lengthened hearing. Mrs. Collings sought a judicial separation from her husband on the ...

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  45. AUSTRALIAN SMELTING CORPORATION.

    The Australian Smelting Corporation, which has been formed with a capital of £330,000, to acquire the property of the Smelting and Refining Company of ...

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  46. LONDON POOR FOR AMERICA.

    The Commissioner for Agriculture of the State of Virginia has made an offer to the Lord Mayor of London to settle 30,000 of the London poor on farms in Virginia. ...

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  47. THE TOBACCO COMMISSION.

    The Royal Commission on the tobacco monopoly took evidence to-day Mr. L. J. Jacobs, manager of the States Tobacco Company, submitted a calculation showing the ...

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  48. VICTORIA.

    Among the questions raised in the case of Armstrong v the Duke of Wellington Gold-mining Company, No Liability, which was the subject of a reserved judgment by the Chief ...

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  49. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5 13-16d per ounce standard, a fall of 3-16d since yesterday. ...

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  50. DROUGHT IN THE NORTH-WEST.

    A telegram from Winton states that over 1[?] inch of rain fell in the Winton district since the new year. It is estimated that 2 inches fell at places between Longreach, ...

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  51. DREDGE FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The New South Wales dredge Tethys has sailed for Sydney. [A description of this dredge was published yesterday.] ...

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  52. DRINKING AND DANCING.

    Another tragedy occurred last night. As in the previous case the parties are strangers to the district. It appears that a man named Fred. ...

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  53. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

    Mr. Augustine Birren, President of the Board of Education, speaking at North Bristol, said he proposes to allow definite religious instruction to be given to ...

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  54. BUSH FIRES.

    A bush fire commenced in Mr. Blatch's paddock yesterday about noon, burning a quantity of wheat. It then travelled cast, burning many acres of glass. Two local butchers lost ...

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  55. BEQUEST FOR GLASGOW CHARITIES

    The widow of John Elder, shipbuilder, has bequeathed £125,000 to charities and education in Glasgow. ...

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  56. HEAT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Intense heat has prevailed all over South Australia during the past few days especially throughout the interior. The readings in the shade at Adelaide during the past four days ...

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  57. ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

    President Roosevelt denies that he has expressed sympathy with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, or with any British party. ...

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  58. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    E. Durnan, of Canada, declines to go to Australia to row J. Stanbury for the championship of the world. E. Durnan, in his letter to Stanbury ...

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  59. VICTORIAN APPLES SUCCESSFUL.

    A communication has been received by the secretary of the Fruitgrowers' Central Association from the director of the Portland (U.S.A.) Exhibition, intimating that the ...

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  60. THE GERMAN ARMY.

    It is announced that Lieutenant-General von Moltke, Quartermaster-General, reluctantly accepted the position of chief of the General State of the German Army, in ...

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  61. HEAT IN THE COUNTRY.

    Though the shade temperature in Melbourne to-day was not more than 88.4deg at the Observatory, the day was very oppressive owing to atmospheric conditions. In the country, ...

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