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  2. BRITISH POLITICS.

    A meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday and lasted for two and a half hours. Subsequently Lord Knollys (Private Secretary to the King) conferred ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  3. THE WELSH STRIKE.

    The strikers in the Rhondda Valley, in South Wales, yesterday persuaded the enginemen and stokers at the Britannic colliery to abandon their work. The ...

    Article : 338 words
  4. CHOLERA IN ITALY.

    Riots of a serious nature occurred yesterday at Ostuni, in the Apulia portion of Southern Italy, owing to the Mayor, acting upon hygienic grounds, in ...

    Article : 134 words
  5. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Senate met to-day. The Customs Act. The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) introduced a Bill to amend the Customs Act, ...

    Article : 820 words
  6. THE BULLFINCH BOOM.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,483 words
  7. LANDS ADMINISTRATION.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Scaddan, the Leader of the Opposition, moved— That the proposed Commission of Inquiry ...

    Article : 10,377 words
  8. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

    The most destructive fire known in Adelaide for years occurred an an nearly hour this morning, when the block known as Gender's Building, on the corner of ...

    Article : 470 words
  9. PERSIA.

    The Teheran correspondent of the "Times" states that the whole of the newspapers of the Persian capital are advocating closer relations with Turkey ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. BILLIARDS.

    G. Gray, who is conceding W. Cook 2,500 in 9,000, carried his unfinished break of 1,052 to 1,058, when he broke down, and subsequently made a break of ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. COUNT TOLSTOY.

    Count Tolstoy, who is lying in the stationmaster's room at Astapovo, is suffering from bronchitis, and he sometimes becomes unconscious and delirious. His ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. COST OF LIVING.

    Owing to exceedingly good corn crops and heavy receipts of cattle and hogs at the big stockyards, the prices of foodstuffs have declined throughout the ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. PANAMA CANAL.

    President Taft, who is on a visit to the Panama Canal, states that such rapid progress has been made with the works that the canal will probably be opened ...

    Article : 42 words
  14. THE LATE KING.

    The contributions to the Mansion House fund to provide a memorial to the late King in London include £5,000 from Sir Ernest Cassel, £1,000 from Lord ...

    Article : 43 words
  15. MEXICO AND AMERICA.

    The threatened raid by armed Mexicans upon Rock Springs, in Texas, to avenge the lynching of a Mexican, did not take place yesterday. The cowboys ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. A CHINESE EXPLOSION.

    A cartridge factory at Pao-ting-fu exploded to-day, with the result that 23 men were killed and 12 others were injured. ...

    Article : 31 words
  17. CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

    Australia's refusal to include Auckland as a port of call for the steamers in the Canadian-Australian mail service is regretted here, as Canada is anxious to ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    In the House of Representatives to-day the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Batchelor) moved the second reading of the Northern Territory Administration Bill. ...

    Article : 280 words
  19. AVIATION.

    One of nine balloons which left Essen yesterday is reported to be missing. It is feared that the missing balloon, which is manned by two military officers, has ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. AMERICA'S NAVY.

    The United States battleships Connecticul, Delaware, Michigan, and North Dakota, arrived at Torbay, in Devon, yesterday. ...

    Article : 25 words
  21. A CRUEL SERGEANT.

    At Glogan, in Prussian Silesia, yesterday Sergeant Livitzki was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for having committed 202 acts of cruelty against young ...

    Article : 35 words
  22. MISCELLANEOUS.

    An Imperial Education Conference will be held in London probably in April next. ...

    Article : 168 words
  23. OCEAN DISASTER.

    Eighty-three of the passengers and crew of the Alaskan coastal steamer Portland, wrecked on Katalla Island a few days ago, are storm-bound on the island. ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. MELBOURNE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES

    During the past week there has been discontent among the labourers and some of the other men employed at the big railway goods sheds at Spencer-street, There ...

    Article : 185 words
  25. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    Still another important Bill has been circulated, this being a measure to strengthen the Customs Act. Power is sought to prohibit by proclamation the ex ...

    Article : 462 words
  26. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 205 words
  27. KICKED BY A HORSE.

    John McCoy, aged 64 years, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse at Kojonup last Saturday. He for some time seemed little the worse, but as a precautionary measure ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. CANADIAN MAIL CONTRACT.

    The Federal Cabinet yesterday considered the proposed renewal of the Canadian mail contract with different ports of call. It now transpires that the route favoured by ...

    Article : 182 words
  29. COLOUR OF STEAMERS' FUNNELS.

    A superstitious conviction took possession of the Chinese crew of the tramp steamer Strathleven as to the reason why that vessel encountered more than the ...

    Article : 124 words
  30. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    The Minister for Public Works, in his annual statement, reports that the funds for public works purposes during the current year amount to £3,812,366, and the ...

    Article : 104 words
  31. STATE MEMBERS' SALARIES.

    The salaries received by members of the State Parliament were discussed at a social evening given by the citizens of Carlton to Mr. Solly, M.L.A. The ...

    Article : 181 words
  32. POKER MACHINES IN CLUBS.

    The High Court to-day refused an application for special leave to appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of Victoria confirming the conviction of William Dodd ...

    Article : 123 words
  33. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    Yesterday the general secretary of the A.N.A. sent the following wire of welcome to Captain Tickell, at Broome:—"Australian Natives' Association sends hearty greetings. ...

    Article : 167 words
  34. A LABOUR MINISTER.

    At a general meeting of the Broken Hill Amalgamated Miners' Association the following resolution was passed:—"That this meeting place on record its unspeakable ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. OLD-AGE AND INVALID PENSIONS.

    In his Budget speech the Treasurer (Mr. Fisher), when announcing that invalid pensions and pensions to women on attaining the age of 60 years (instead of 65 years ...

    Article : 216 words
  36. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor, attended by Capt. Selby-Smyth, A.D.C., left for Bunbury last night to open the annual show of the Wellington Agricultural Society. He will ...

    Article : 145 words
  37. A RACECOURSE COMPLAINT.

    Sir,—May I ask a little space in your paper to protest against the class of liquor dispensed to patrons of the leger reserves on local racecources, particularly so on our ...

    Article : 211 words
  38. THE LAW COURTS.

    Full Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice McMillan: 1. C. E. Sewell, the Sheriff of Western Australia, F. H. Dallison, and others, J. F. W. ...

    Article : 96 words
  39. Advertising

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    Advertising : 383 words
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