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  2. THE NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS.

    A new era in Rugby football in the Southern Hemisphere was inaugurated at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday by a contest between Australia —as represented in the combined strength of New ...

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  3. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    In yesterday's "Gazette" several pages are taken up with a notification from the Postmaster-General advertising the mail contracts for New South Wales for one, two, or three years from January 1 next. ...

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  4. SPECIAL CABLES.

    King Edward has begun the curent Marien [?]d. He has suffered considerable annoyance on the promonade from the tactless curiosity of the crowds. The police with difficulty ...

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  5. THE REBELLION IN MACEDONIA.

    A squadron of the Russian Black Sea fleet has sailed for Turkish waters. ...

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  6. SECOND EDITION

    Earl Carrington, speaking at High Wycombe on Friday, said that Mr. Chamberlain's last wild miscalculation would probably share the fate of his other ...

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  7. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament was prorogued yesterday by Commission. The Speech from the throne, read by one of the Commissionors, trusted that the visits of his ...

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  8. JULY EXPENDITURE OF COMMONWEALTH.

    Commonwealth expenditure not connected with transfer departments was £30,221. This has been charged to the States on a population basis. The amount of the actual expenditure and that charged ...

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  9. MEMORIAL FROM BULGARIA.

    Bulgaria is presenting to the Powerpa memorial containing an enumeration of the misdeeds committed by Moslems on the Christians of the Turkish vilayets borderiug on ...

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  10. KING PETER OF SERVIA.

    It is reported at Vienna that King Peter of Servia threatens to abdicate. Our cablegrams reported on Wednesday last that from Belgrade, the capital of Servia, a report had ...

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  11. THE CANADIAN PREFERENCE.

    A Board of Trade return issued regarding the Canadian preferential tariff shows that whereas in the five years before 1897 British imports from Canada decreased by ...

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  12. VICTORIA.

    Musgrove's Comic Opera Company brought its season at the Princess Theatre to a close on Friday night, with the performance of "The Daughter of the Regiment." The opora was ...

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  13. THE MASSACRES.

    Turks and Macedonians mutually accuse each other of committing massacres of their opponents. The instances given include massacres of ...

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  14. COMMONWEALTH FLAG.

    In the "Gazette" issued yesterday a notification appears from the Secretary of State for the Colonies covering a warrant issued by the Lords' Commissioners of the Admiralty authorising the flag adopted ...

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  15. WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.

    The hurricane which swept over the West Indies last week did great damage at Martinique. The sugarcane, cocoa, and coffee crops on the island, with thousands of houses, ...

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  16. CUSTOMS NOTIFICATIONS.

    Sir George Turner, acting for the Minister for Trade and Customs, has issued a notification that saxia, which he is of opinion can be used as a substitute for sugar, is to be charged the same duty as is ...

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  17. THE CZAR.

    Renter's Agency reports that the Czar intends to go to Rome on a visit to King Victor Emmanuel III. at the end of October, and that he will pay afterwards an official ...

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  18. THE FAR EAST.

    Chinese troops have been defeated at Hwei-chau (Ewang-tung). Three thousand troops, which have been drilled by German officers, have arrived at ...

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  19. PARLIAMENTARY.

    Both Houses of Parliament will meet on Tuesday. In the Senate the first order of the day is the second reading of the Naval Agreement Bill. Then comes the consideration of the report of the Committee of ...

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  20. COLLISION IN THE CITY.

    A collision, which resulted in three persons being injured, occurred on Saturday in Elizabeth-street, between a tram car and a dray, loaded with timber. The dray, which was ...

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  21. COLLISION IN THE ELBE.

    A German vessel came into collision with a Norwegian vessel at the month of the Elbe yesterday. Both vessels foundered. Twenty-five lives were lost. ...

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  22. POWERS' DEMANDS.

    The Ambassadors at Constantinople have demanded of the Porte messures for the protection of consuls and foreign subjects in the Monestir district owing to the Moslem ...

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  23. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated in the House of Commons to-day trial the Legislative Council of the Transvaal is entitled to ...

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  24. JAPAN AND MANCHURIA.

    The "Dolly Mail" states that the Japanese Minister at St. Petersburg (Kurino ShinIchiro) has had an interview with the Czar with reference to the continued occupation of ...

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  25. AN HONONARY MINISTER.

    The latest rumour concerning the appointment of an honorary Minister is that Senator Playford will be offered the position of Minister without portfolio in the Semite should a vacancy occur there by Senator ...

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  26. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    It is reported that the International Congress on Wireless Telegraphy at Berlin has passed resolutions favouring the making of wireless telegraphy the business of the ...

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  27. REDUCTION IN CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES.

    It is considered that the Civil servants generally will readily submit to a percentage reduction from their salaries, in order to prevent their fellow officers from being dispensed ...

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  28. EFFECTS OF FEDERATION.

    In the course of the second reading debate in the Legislative Council on the Industrial Arbitration Act Amendment Bill it was asserted by one speaker that the Government had had a statement prepared ...

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  29. LOUD SALISBURY.

    The Rev. Lord Robert Ce[?] states that although his father, the Marquis of Salisbury, is gravely ill there is no immediate danger. Aug. 15. ...

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  30. AMMUNITION FOR MACEDONIA.

    The Customs officials at Belgrade, Servia, have confiscated a quantity of ammunition which was packed in cases and disguised by being labelled hardware and nails. ...

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  31. POLITICAL CRISIS IN NATAL.

    Sir J. L. Hulett, the leader of the Opposition in Natal, has declined the task entrusted him by the Governor of forming a new Administration. ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Alfred Gollan has been gazetted ViceConsul for Argentina at Melbourne. ...

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  33. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. H. D. Scorer, the secretury of the Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, Victoroa, who is returning from Western Australia, where he has been conducting meetings among ...

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  34. TURKISH VILLAGERS MASSACRED.

    Turkish adrices state that all the inhabitants except 20 of the Turkish village of Konali, near Monastir, have been massacred. Extrordinary reports have been received ...

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  35. LONDON MINING MARKET.

    On the Stock Exchange yesterday prices of Australian mining ventures were:—Associated Gold Mines, 37s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 30s; New Chillagoe, 4s 3d; Great Boulder Proprietary, 26s 6d; ...

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  36. THE LATE CARDINAL VAUGHAN.

    The value of the estate of the late Cardinal Vaughan has been sworn not to exceed £743. ...

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  37. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    The closing hours of the session in the House of Commons were marked by wrangles between members. The Opposition endeavoured to compel Mr. ...

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  38. UNVEILING A STATUE.

    Yesterday afternoon the statue erected to the memory of the late Hon. James Martin, M.L.C., at Gawler Towm, in which he established the wellknown ironfoundry and locomotive works, was ...

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  39. STATE POLITICS.

    At a function held in the Newtown Town Hall after the Premier had laid the foundation-stone of the new ball for the Loyal St. John's Lodge M.U. I.O.O.F., on Saturday afternoon, the toast of "The ...

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  40. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    At a meeiting of the Forth Hospital Board on Friday, a protest was received from the honorary medical staff against the appointment of the lady doctor, Miss Ambrose, from ...

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  41. RUSSIAN CONSUL'S MURDER.

    The gendarme Halim the murderer of M. Rostowsky, the Russian Consul at Monastir, has been sentenced to death and hanged, to gether with an accomplice who did not ...

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  42. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    At a meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council on Friday evening a letter was received from the Maffra Shire Council, urging that the Constitution be so amended as to admit of either Melbourne or ...

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  43. ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.

    The British-registered barque Samanco arrived from Mauritius late last night. As soon as pratique had been granted to-day the water police, who had been communicated ...

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  44. CONDEMNED BY MR. TOM MANN.

    Speaking on preferential trade at Wodonga on Saturday, Mr. Tom Mann said that Mr. Chamberlain was the driving force in the present Conservative Government, and his ...

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  45. TASMANIA.

    It is understood that the Ministry has completed a scheme for the reorganisation of the Civil Service for submission to Parliament. The proposals involve dispensing with a ...

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  46. DESTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE.

    A bridge on the Monastir railway line has been destroyed by dynamite. ...

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  47. THE GREEK PREMIER'S VIEWS.

    M. Ralli, the Premier of Greece, in receiving the foreign Ministers at Athens, spoke on the situation in Macedonia. De pointed to the necessity of giving Turkey a free hand, ...

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  48. NEW ZEALAND.

    The second reading of the State Fire Insurance Bill has been carried in the House by 33 votos to 9. Bad weather has prevailed in various parts ...

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  49. A MOUNTAINEERING ACCIDENT.

    The Hon. Gerald Fitzgerald, K.C., Land (Commissioner in Ireland, and two guides fell in descending Monte Rosa, in the Alps. At a height of 10,500ft Mr. Fitzgerald, who ...

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  50. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION.

    Sir David Evans, formerly Lord Mayor of London, who is a passenger by the Himalaya for Sydney, accompanied by his two sons and his daughter, when interviewed on board on Saturday, strongly ...

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  51. THE SITUATION DESPERATE.

    Reports from Vienna are to the effect that the situation in Macedonia is desperate. The Porte is incapable of restoring order. Strong bands of rebels are plundering villages ...

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  52. QUEENSLAND.

    Following up the warning issued in April last regarding the suppression of betting, the police on Saturday night raided several tobacconists' shops in the city. The organisation ...

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  53. THE LATE POPE.

    Telegrams from Rome allege that a sum of £280,000 was found in the rooms of the late Pope Leo XIII. It is also alleged that in one of the late Pope's rooms there was found ...

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  54. THE ARBITRATION BILL.

    In the course of an interview to-day the Premier (Mr. James) said that for some time past there had been clear evidence that the Federal Government intended to introduce at an early date a navigation ...

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  55. THE CYCLONE IN JAMAICA.

    Sixty persons perished in the recent cyclone in Jamaica. The damage done by the cyclone is estimated at £3,000,000. ...

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  56. THE SITUATION AT BROKEN HILL.

    The Broken Hill scientific rain-making committee has submitted a proposal to the council's water committee that the council should bear a proportionate share of the cost of ...

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  57. THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

    The "Daily Express" reports that C. B. Fry has declined the invitation of the Marylebone Cricket Club to form one of the English cricket team to tour Australia. ...

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  58. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    another fire has occurred in the Paris underground railway, but the flames were soon extinguished. Aug. 15. ...

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  59. BOXING.

    In a contest for the boxing championship of the world between J. Jeffries, the holder, and J. Corbett, at San Francisee, the former was successful in defending the title. ...

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