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  2. GOVERNOR AND ADMIRAL

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In connection With the Kingston incident, Sir Edward Brey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) stated in a message to Washington ...

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  3. NITROGEN FROM THE AIR

    LONDON, Tuesday. Afternoon.--Sir William Crookes, the eminent chemist, and two professors at Fribourg University (Switzerland), have discovered a process of ...

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  4. THE CHURCH IN FRANCE

    LONDON, Wednesday.--M. Briand (Minister for Public Worship) is introducing a bill into the French Chamber of Deputies which will abrogate the existing necessity ...

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  5. IN CABINET.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Federal Government has at last filed the vacant portfolio of Minister for Defence, which had to be surrendered by Senator Playford when he was defeated ...

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  6. CITIZEN SOLDIERS.

    The flight of time has brought the military forces again within short date of the annual continuous training, and anxious inquiries are being made for the scheme of mobilisation. So ...

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  7. THE RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS.

    A few weeks before the end of the year the Premier intimated that he hoped by the first of January to be able to announce the appointment of a strong and capable board of commissioners ...

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  8. WHARF LABORERS.

    The negotiations which are in progress between the New South Wales Inter-State Steamship Owners Association and the Wharf Laborers' Union were continued yesterday, but ...

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  9. "FOR LONDON."

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The question of appointing delegates, to the Navigation Conference in London was considered by the Cabinet. Mr. Deakin explained afterwards that a ...

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  10. THE TRANSVAAL ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Sir Richard Solomon, who recently resigned his position as Attorney-General and Lieut-Governor of the Transvaal to contest a Pretoria seat in the ...

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  11. THE GAMBLING EVIL.

    "Horse racing in Sydney is in a worse state now than ever it has been before, and that means that the corruption with which it has been always more or less identified is reaching ...

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  12. VIGOROUS AMERICAN CRITICISM.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Commenting on the regrettable incident at Kingston, the New York "Times" states that the Governor (Sir J. A. Swettenham) was ...

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  13. POLITICS IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Primary Douma elections have begun in Russia. Among St. Petersburg workers an enormous majority of the elected delegates ...

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  14. THE STORY OF THE FALL.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Rev. R. J. Campbell, whose denial of the truth of the story of "the Fall" caused considerable sensation, declines to resign unless requested ...

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  15. THE TYRANNY OF LABOR.

    PERTH, Wednesday.--The "Daily News'" this evening says:--"There is serious talk of the formation of a new political party. A great many people who cannot agree With the general ...

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  16. A MUSIC-HALL STRIKE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Six of the minor music-halls in London under the one management have closed, the musicians and employees having struck owing to a ...

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  17. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.

    A paragraph in the New Zealand "Times," Wellington, on January 18, stated that Sir Joseph Ward had received a cable message from the Duke of Connaught declining an ...

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  18. RESTORATION OF CONFIDENCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Much indignation prevailed yesterday when it was pointed out that no British man-o-war had yet reached Jamaica. ...

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  19. ORDER IN MOROCCO.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--France and Spain are withdrawing their warships from Tangier, except a cruiser each. They announce that the Moroccan Government has decided ...

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  20. ADELAIDE CUSTOMS CASE.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The trial of Charles Tucker and Frederick William Forwood, on a charge of conspiracy, was continued before the Chief Justice and jury at the Criminal Court ...

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  21. THE COOKTOWN CYCLONE.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A meeting of citizens of Brisbane, convened by the Mayor, was held to-day, and a committee was formed to raise funds for the relief of the sufferers by the ...

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  22. COAL-MINING DISPUTES.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--As was agreed upon last week, a conference took place to-day between the committee of the Colliery Proprietors' Association and the executive officers of ...

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  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Two more of the West Ham Poor Law Guardians--making a total of 11 officials-- have been arrested on charges of fraud. A dividend of 40s per share has been ...

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  24. KINGSTON'S ALTERED HARBOR.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The alteration in the depths of water in Kingston Harbor which led to the stranding, recently, of the Hamburg-American liner Prinz Waldemar, ...

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  25. THE RELIEF FUND.

    The following donations towards the relief of the sufferers by the cyclone that visited Cooktown during Friday and Saturday last, have been despatched by Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., ...

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  26. A PROPOSED COALITION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Arrangements for bringing about a coalition between the Bent and Mackinnon parties are being steadily pushed forward, and should be completed next week. ...

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  27. "WHERE WHITE MEN TREAD."

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--Dr. Pomare, the Government Native Health Officer, says that within 30 years there will not be a full-blooded Maori born in New Zealand. ...

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  28. HELP FROM TOWNSVILLE.

    A telegram from Townsville states that the Mayor wired £50 to Cooktown this morning, the sum being voted by the City Council towards the relief of the sufferers. A meeting of citizens ...

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  29. EARTH SHOCKS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Two violent shocks of earthquake again demoralised the negro population of Kingston on Monday. Yesterday a slight shock was felt in ...

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  30. MEETING AT COOKTOWN.

    COOKTOWN, Wednesday.--At a public meeting to-night it was decided to ask the Premier to send a steamer to search for the missing boats. Mr. Hargreaves, M.L.A., is on board the ...

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  31. TEMPTING THE IMMIGRANT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--To-day the Minister for Lands, speaking of the scheme to set apart under the new Closer Settlement Act land for selection in England, said it would only be ...

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  32. THE ELINGAMITE TREASURE.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--A diver named Harper made three descents at the scene of the Elingamite wreck and salvaged £800 yesterday. Shortly after coming to the surface the third ...

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  33. WRECK OF THE EDENHOLME.

    LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--An inquiry was held to-day before Mr. E. L. Hall, P.M., and Captains Barwood and Chaplin, into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the barque ...

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  34. UNEMPLOYED IN THE WEST.

    PERTH, Wednesday.--Unemployed numbering 630 have been registered at the Labor Bureau, Perth. It is officially pointed out that January is always a busy month for the bureau, for many ...

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  35. THE STOLEN SOVEREIGNS.

    Between October 16 and November 2 a box containing 1000 sovereigns, the property of Messrs. Lever Brothers, of Sydney, was stolen from the stateroom of the Union Steamship ...

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  36. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The corn trade section of the Adelaide Cham ber of Commerce to-day fixed the standard weight of wheat at 62½lb. per bushel. Last year the standard weight was fixed at 63lb. ...

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  37. ENGLISH MAILS.

    English malls by the P. and O. R.M.S. Britannia, dated London, December 238, are due at Sydney on Tuesday next. The Britannia reached Fremantle at 9.50 a.m. yesterday. ...

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