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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    Sir Arthur Lawley will leave Fremantle by the steamer Sophocles on August 14 to take up his gubernatorial duties in the Transvaal. ...

    Article : 1,294 words
  3. SHOT BY A BROTHER

    An extraordinary shooting affair happened at Mount Bute, near Snake Valley, Ballarat, on Sunday evening, when Alexander McCook. 30 years of age deliberately ...

    Article : 331 words
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    Two French scientists, doctors who work in the Paris hospitals, hare been working for some time at a new theory which they assert they have discovered—namely, that ...

    Article : 2,233 words
  5. THE KEMBLA DISASTER.

    Last night the total death roll at Mount Kembla was 84; to-day another victim was added to the list of those who perished as the result of the disaster. James Muir, ...

    Article : 2,121 words
  6. THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    The retirement of Mr. J. Gardiner from the position of secretary to the Commissioner of Public Works to enter the Commonwealth service as an inspector under ...

    Article : 626 words
  7. KING EDWARD.

    His Majesty has so much improved during the last few days that he is able now so lunch and dine with the Queen and the members of his family. ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. PEACE AND AFTER.

    Mr. A. D. W. Wolmarans, one of the Boer delegates, who went to Holland early in the war, met ex-President M. T. Steyn and Mrs. Stevn on their arrival at ...

    Article : 657 words
  9. THE GREAT POWERS.

    The Emperor William, accompanied by the Imperial German Chancellor, Count von Bulow, is expected today to journey to Reval, a fortified Russian seaport on ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. GERMANY AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

    Interest has been aroused by remarks made in a press interview by Rear-Admiral Henry C, Taylor, a prominent member of the General Board of Admiralty at ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. A FAULTY ROPE.

    A sensational accident occurred this morning at the Sutherland dock, Cockatoo Island, Parramatta. River, by which 11 men were badly injured and several others ...

    Article : 423 words
  12. CHINA.

    Kou-ci-tchun, the Governor-General of the Province of Szechuan, has requested that the British and French gunboats which are patrolling the upper reaches of the ...

    Article : 354 words
  13. MOUNT KEMBLA DISASTER

    "I have to report that the most terrible colliery explosion that has occurred in Australia took place at Mount Kembla last week. I notice that The Register has ...

    Article : 85 words
  14. VICTORIA.

    A return prepared by the Department of Agriculture shows that the approximate value of produce treated at the Government cool stores during July was £34,000. ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. FATHERLESS CHILDREN.

    As far as can be ascertained 105 children have been left fatherless, and many of these are very young. Mr. D. Ritchie, general secretary of the Illawarra Miners' ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  16. LABOUR ON THE GOLDFIELDS.

    Johannesburg advices state that several influential mining companies in the Rand district are attempting to prepare the way for the introduction of cheap Chinese ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A telegram from Goulburn states that instructions have been received from Sydney to exhume the body of William H. R. Ranken, who was recently found shot on ...

    Article : 172 words
  18. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  19. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    —The Senate's Requests in the Tariff.— Ministers met in Cabinet again to-day to finally determine what recommendations they should submit to the House of ...

    Article : 334 words
  20. PERSONAL NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

    Sir John Cockburn, as the representative of the Commonwealth of Australia, took a prominent part in the International Conference on Workmen's Assurance, held ...

    Article : 689 words
  21. NEW POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

    Reuter's agency states that a project is on foot at Johannesburg for the formation of a political association representative of all classes and interests in the Transvaal ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. ARMOUR, PLATES.

    Lieut. Clelland Davies, of the United States, claims to have discovered an electrical method of carbonizing armour plate to a degree of hardness that is in ...

    Article : 93 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A number of colonial troops are making tours in Scotland. Several members of the Australian coronation contingent were on Saturday entertained at Hopetoun House ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. QUEENSLAND.

    Grave fears are entertained for the safety of the labour schooner Sibyl, which left Townsville for Solomon Islands eight months ago, and has not since been heard of. The portmaster has requested Messrs. ...

    Article : 112 words
  25. OVERCROWDED TROOPSHIPS.

    Complaints are being made of overcrowding on the troopship Britannic. The men also say that they were ill-fed, and that the vessel's hospital was full of sick men. ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. DEFENCE OP COMMERCE.

    M. De Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance, recently proposed that a conference of the signatories to the Brussels Sugar Convention should be held to ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The board appointed to enquire into the charges against Mr. Hodgson, engineer of the Coolgardie water scheme, who was lately suspended, have arranged to sit ...

    Article : 105 words
  28. SHEARERS' WAGES.

    The conference between representatives of the Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales and delegates from the Australian Workers' Union, held to discuss the rates ...

    Article : 195 words
  29. INTERSTATE FOOTBALL.

    The following team have been chosen to represent Victoria in the interstate football match South Australia v. Victoria, to be played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

    Article : 78 words
  30. THE STEAMER QUIRAING.

    H.M.S. Sparrow will leave Wellington tomorrow on another cruise in search of the missing steamer Quiraing. The steamer Tulanekai has also been instructed to take ...

    Article : 44 words
  31. VICTORIAN PUBLIC SERVICE.

    A deputation representing the public service waited to-day on the Premier (Mr. Irvine), and placed before him the resolutions passed at a mass meeting of state ...

    Article : 239 words
  32. Advertising

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    Advertising : 183 words
  33. A MAIL TRAIN'S ESCAPES.

    The special express train which arrived to-day from Adelaide with English mails was twice saved from accident by the vigilance of the enginedriver. The first ...

    Article : 116 words
  34. FISHING WITHOUT A LICENCE.

    The Appeal Court to-day reversed the decision of a magistrate at Masterton, who fined a man for fishing without a licence in a stream running through private land. ...

    Article : 50 words
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