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  2. THE COMET.

    The officials of the observatory at Cambridge report that the comet was observed on Sunday night. Its tail was 4 deg. long, and the second tail inclined to the first at ...

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  3. MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

    A deputation, representing the Meat Exporters' Association, waited on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day in regard to the report on the meat export trade ...

    Article : 640 words
  4. THE COTTON KING.

    In consequence of the increased price in cotton, caused by the destruction of the crops, Mr. J. A. Patten, the cotton king, has made another rich haul. On an order ...

    Article : 285 words
  5. ON THE CONTINENT.

    The winter, with all its hardships and pleasures, is almost over. In the city numerous tennis courts are covered with water and as soon as a cold spell ...

    Article : 1,139 words
  6. THE PEREGRINE CASE.

    The hearing of the case in which Peter Fedorovitch Varawa, a Russian subject, is claiming £20,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment at Sydney, in January, 1905 ...

    Article : 371 words
  7. LONDON GOSSIP.

    It will seem an astonishing thing to a great many people when it is said that no Londoner or visitor to London of the present generation has ever been able to get ...

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  8. THE LATE CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE.

    A visit to Glasgow and to the relatives of my sister-in-law opened out a different vista to me. This was a great manufacturing and commercial city, which had far outgrown ...

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  9. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    An interesting discovery has been made at Mullaley, in the Gunnedah district, in the shape of the fo[?]lized remains of an extinct quadruped. The collected remains ...

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  10. REMARKS BY GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER.

    "Parents of young children," says the Government Astronomer (Mr. G. F. Dodwell), "might well allow them to see Halley's comet now that it is visible in the ...

    Article : 419 words
  11. FROM THE WORLD'S' PRESS.

    Signor Glulio Gatti-Casazza and Madame Frances Alda, one of the sopranos of the Metropolitan Opera Company, whose general manager the bridegroom is, were ...

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  12. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.

    Mr. Isaac Wyman, a wealthy American landowner, who died recently, has bequeathed £2,000,000 to the Princeton University. ...

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  13. OTWAY OUTBREAK.

    The case in which L. H. Bowkett, formerly medical officer on the mail steamer Otway, is charged with having wilfully made a false statement regarding the ...

    Article : 277 words
  14. CHILIAN RAILWAYS.

    Griffith & Co., Limited, of London Wall, contractors, have secured the contract for £4,500,000 for the construction of the mountainous section of the new Chilian railway ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. "HIM TOO MUCHEE JUMP."

    The somewhat sudden change in the position and the time of appearance of the comet has caused Chinese residents of Shepparton to be considerably perturbed. ...

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  16. CHANNEL FLIGHT.

    Count Paul de Lessep, who flew across from Calais to Dover in a monoplane in 30 minutes, intended to return across the English Channel, but the wind was against ...

    Article : 246 words
  17. EMPIRE DAY.

    The Times' special edition for Empire Day will include articles from writers in the Dominions on the progress of Imperial preference, emigration from the ...

    Article : 46 words
  18. ALLEGED CRIMINAL OPERATION.

    Elizabeh Downey, aged 60 years; Minnie Yee Lee (or Long), 3d; Clara Pennington, 16; and Harry Pennington, 47, appeared before the City Court to-day charged with ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. OUR DESTROYERS.

    The question of sending an officer to land to bring but the two Australian destroyers Parramatta and Yarra, under their own steam is engaging the attention of the ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. GREAT CLOUDBURST.

    An early summer cloudburst has deluged an area in the mountainous regions of Styriu—a duchy in the heart of Austria, situated among the eastern Alps. ...

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  21. STRIKING MINERS.

    Lord MacDonnell, the umpire in connection with the Durham Conciliation Bowl, has awarded the striking miners of the district an advance of wages amounting to ...

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  22. FIFTY MILES WITH PASSENGER.

    Mr. Maurice Farman has achieved another success with his aeroplane. Taking a passenger with, him, he travelled from Versailles, to Etamps, a distance of 50 miles. ...

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  23. BOY'S BEHAVIOUR.

    The driver of the noon train from Rendigo to Melbourne to-day complained of having run over a small sapling on the line on the Bendigo side of the Bier Hill Tunnel ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. BORING FOR WATER

    The State Engineer for Apiculture (Mr. Kenyon) has reported that the survey party engaged in testing mallee country lying just east of the South Australian border, has ...

    Article : 221 words
  25. WELLINGTON PIT DISASTER.

    The fund which was immediately opened {or the relief of the families of the doomed miners at the Wellington pit, in Whitehaven, has been raided to £12,500. The ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. NEW MAIL CONTRACT.

    The general manager in Australasia of the Messageries Maritimes Company received advices to-day that the French Government had decided to call for tenders ...

    Article : 113 words
  27. VICTORIAN POLITICS.

    Nominations for the 17 seats in the Legislative Council, rendered vacant by retirement or the expiration of their six years of service of the sitting members ...

    Article : 101 words
  28. ALLEGED EMBEZZLER.

    The hearing of the charge against John Wrixon Black, accountant, of having embezzled £1,054, the property of his employers, Freedman & Co., drapers, was ...

    Article : 129 words
  29. THE BARRIER.

    For having fraudulently misappropriated £6 4/, the properly of the Proprietary Company, Henry Wallin, a middle-aged man, was to-day fined £5 and costs, or ...

    Article : 209 words
  30. PURE FOODS ACT.

    The Interstate Food Conference, which has for its object the harmonizing of negotiations in the different States under the Pure Foods Acts, was opened to-day. With ...

    Article : 96 words
  31. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The steamer Eastern arrived from southern ports yesterday morning, and resumed her voyage to Hongkong this morning. Twenty European passengers arrived ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. EXPLOSION UNDER AN HOTEL.

    An explosion recently took place in a shop under the Rutland Hotel, Wanganui, the result being that the hotel caught fire, and a serious blaze was narrowly averted. ...

    Article : 73 words
  33. BOWLING'S SENTENCE.

    The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) is noted for his efforts to keep himself before the public. Hardly a day passes without his name figuring in the ...

    Article : 160 words
  34. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The final figures of the election in the Central Province of the Legislative Council, conducted on the preferential system, are:—W. Patrick (retiring member), 576: Drew. ...

    Article : 131 words
  35. FEDERAL CABINET.

    Another brief meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day. All the Ministers were present except the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), who was in Sydney. The ...

    Article : 124 words
  36. SEYDLITZ AT FREMANTLE.

    The G..M.S. Seydlitz arrived this morning with the following passengers:— For Adelaide—Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg and Mr. Kass. ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. SILVER COINAGE.

    By the R.M.S. Osterley yesterday the last consignment of special Australian silver coinage reached Melbourne. The shipment consisted of 2,000,000 threepenny bits ...

    Article : 121 words
  38. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    Firing in The Daily Mail Empire contest Karori made 771 and Christchurch 696. ...

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  39. BOXING.

    The boxing season at the Stadium closed to-night with a contest between Mike Williams, heavyweight champion of South Africa, and Ranji Burns, of New South Wales. ...

    Article : 47 words
  40. Advertising

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  41. HOTEL LICENCES REDUCED.

    During the last three years the Licensing Reduction Board has closed 320 hotels. Compensation amounted to £150,000. Not one penny of the compensation or the ...

    Article : 50 words
  42. HOCKEY.

    A hockey match between team of the Sydney and Melbourne Universities was played on the University Oval to-day. The local players won by 5 goals to 3. ...

    Article : 34 words
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