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  2. PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS

    The members attending the PanAnglican Congress were entertained at a brilliant garden party yesterday at Windsor. ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The English mails, which left Tasmania on the 9th ult., per R.M.S. Manuka, arrived in London on the night of the 17th inst. CUSTOMS AND PORT COLLECTIONS. ...

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  4. THE SUNSHINE DISASTER.

    It is expected that the hearing of evidence at the inquest in connection with the Sunshine railway disaster will be concluded to-morrow. There are only ...

    Article : 276 words
  5. FEDERAL HIGH COURT.

    The High Court to-day delivered judgment in the appeal brought by Mary Bayne against Arthur P. Blake, William Riggall, and Arthur S. Baillieu ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. COMMONWEALTH OFFICE IN LONDON.

    The Prime Minister announced some days ago that the Government had been offered another site for the Commonwealth offices in London. The new ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. A COLLIERS DISASTER.

    A serious disaster occurred on Friday in a colliery at Pittsburg, in the United States, resulting in the loss of a number of lives. ...

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  8. FEMALE SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN.

    Seven processions, composed of persons interested in the granting of votes to women, entered Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon. ...

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  9. THE AGRICULTURAL BANK.

    A representative of "The Mercury" yesterday discussed with several leading bankers the matter of the interest charged by the State bank for loans ...

    Article : 444 words
  10. GERMAN MILITARY MANOEUVRES.

    For the first time in history German troops will shortly engage in manoeuvres in Alsaco and Lorraine. The Kaiser will personally direct the ...

    Article : 57 words
  11. AUSTRALIAN PREFERENCE.

    The Australian tenderers for. 1,000 miles of rabbit-proof wire netting have, the Premier states, now offered to take £1 per mile preference over the English ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. THE BLACKWOOD TRAGEDY.

    William Pincombe, the miner who shot Mr. Harold G. Robinson, the Anglican lay reader at Blackwood on Friday, and was afterwards wounded ...

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  13. FIRES IN BERLIN.

    During the past six months hundreds of mysterious cases of arson have occurred in Berlin, but the efforts of the police to capture the persons guilty of ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. THE GLADIATOR COLLISION.

    The court-martial that inquired into the circumstances of the collision between the second-class British cruiser Gladiator and the American liner St. ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. ZEEHAN SMELTING TROUBLE.

    The board of directors of the Hercules mine met to-day, but at the conclusion of the meeting the chairman (Senator Clemons) stated there was nothing to ...

    Article : 61 words
  16. A BOMB OUTRAGE.

    A bomb outrage was perpetrated on Saturday on a steamer on the Delaware River in the United States. It appears that a bomb was secreted ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. PNEUMONIA OUTBREAK AT ZEEHAN.

    Pneumonia is prevalent here, no fewer than five persons being seized by it to-day. ...

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  18. GENERAL RAINS.

    It is very pleasing to bo able to record the fact that the prolonged drought in the East Coast districts has at last broken up. We are informed that the rain, ...

    Article : 244 words
  19. CANADIAN WHEAT CROPS.

    It was estimated in April that the stock of wheat in the country elevators in the interior of Canada totalled 24 million bushels, against 19 millions at ...

    Article : 116 words
  20. LAUNCESTON TRAMWAYS.

    A meeting of the promoters of the local Tramway Company was held to-day. Good progress was made, the principal business being the ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. ALLEGED TOBACCO FRAUDS.

    The two commercial travellers, Arthur Henry Tiliinghest and William Archibald Robertson, were again before the Central Police Court to-day in ...

    Article : 118 words
  22. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE REVENUE

    The Federal Treasurer (Sir Wm. Lyne) states that the Customs and excise revenue for the third week of the current month was £10,000 more than ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. TRIANGULAR CRICKET MATCHES.

    The South African Cricket Association had not received by Saturday any definite invitation to visit Australia next season. ...

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  24. U.A.O.D.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Oak Zeehan Druids Lodge was held tonight, when the District President, Bro. D. Coombe, installed the following ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. ENGLISH RAILWAY COMPANIES.

    There is still an apparent disposition on the part of the English railway companies to come to some arrangement in regard to the adoption of a joint ...

    Article : 144 words
  26. THE MAGNET STRIKE.

    Mr. Ogden, M.H.A., returned from Magnet to-night. He states that everything is quiet at the mine. The strike is still in full swing, and the men are ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. CHARGES OF THEFT.

    Chas. Frederick Collins, Francis Saint Neal Paterson, Charles Frederick Clare, and Ernest Blackman, all packers in the employment of Hoffnung and ...

    Article : 88 words
  28. PERSONAL.

    Lord Chelmsford, Governor of Queensland, was, at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council yesterday, appointed an honorary colonel of the 9th Australian ...

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  29. THE WORLD'S PEACE.

    The meeting between King Edward and the Czar, which recently took place Royal, has caused certain anxiety among some of the continental nations, ...

    Article : 134 words
  30. STATE SAVINGS BANK.

    In the course of a conversation yesterday, the Premier stated that he had never asserted that the Government could borrow money in London at less ...

    Article : 316 words
  31. ULVERSTONE BRANCH BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

    A Branch Board meeting this afternoon decided to ask the Agricultural Council to held another series of classes at Ulverstone. ...

    Article : 119 words
  32. STRIKES AT COLLIERIES.

    A strike has taken place at the Balmain coal mine, Sydney harbour collieries, and about 100 employees ceased work this morning. The dispute has no ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. ARREST OF A THIEF.

    Constables on duty near the Waterloo tram terminus last night noticed two men at Sandhills, and their movements being suspicious, the officers ...

    Article : 136 words
  34. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    Mr. Oddy, the Conservative candidate who was elected member of the House of Commons on Friday for the Pudsey division of Yorkshire, which ...

    Article : 84 words
  35. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

    It was recently stated that the Democratic Convention to be held at Denver on July 7 was likely to nominate Mr. W. J. Bryan as the democratic ...

    Article : 165 words
  36. ATTEMPTED MURDER.

    A case of alleged attempted murder occurred at Edendale, Southland, to-day. A man named Stott, a half-caste Australian aboriginal, shot a girl named ...

    Article : 72 words
  37. THE SUGAR YIELD.

    It is estimated that 189,000 tons of sugar will, be manufactured in Queensland next season, an increase of nearly 4,000 tons over the total ...

    Article : 74 words
  38. SLY GROG SELLING.

    A sly grog seller at Invercargill was fined £50 to-day. The evidence showed that defendant had been warned, without the slightest effect. The police ...

    Article : 61 words
  39. LABOUR IN NEW GUINEA.

    The Bishop of New Guinea (Rt. Rev. M. Stone-Wigg), who is in London attending the Pan-Anglican Congress, has been interviewed relative to the ...

    Article : 115 words
  40. PHYSICAL CULTURE.

    The members of Miss M. B. Peterson's physical culture class gave their quarterly display at the Barracks Gymnasium yesterday pafternoon. In the absence of ...

    Article : 182 words
  41. PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION.

    The Public Works Commissioners (Messrs. Whitfeld, Collett, and Edwards), with Mr. Leatham, M.H.A., Mr. Crooke (Railway League), and Mr. ...

    Article : 124 words
  42. ACCIDENTS.

    Our Campbell Town correspondent writes:—"A painful accident has befallen the eldest child of Constable George Hildyard. The little girl, who ...

    Article : 130 words
  43. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS

    With regard to the cable that the South African Cricket Association had not received an invitation to Australia Mr. McE[?]hone, the hon. sec. of the ...

    Article : 94 words
  44. A MONSTER AIRSHIP.

    Count Zeppelin, who recently constructed an airship that he was able to manoeuvre with perfect ease in a series of trials over Lake Constance, between ...

    Article : 142 words
  45. GENERAL CABLES.

    The decision of the Canadian authorities to prevent the landing of British Indians has been relaxed, and an Order-in-Council has just been issued ...

    Article : 53 words
  46. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    The proposal of the Minister for Lands, that the Queenstown Council should find £100, to be expended on the £1 for £1 principle on the road between ...

    Article : 81 words
  47. A NEW COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.

    The creation of the position of Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs was approved at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day. The ...

    Article : 49 words
  48. THE ABILITY TAX.

    For the Lyell portion of the West Coast, which includes Queenstown, Gormanston, and Linda, there are about 1,150 persons who have failed to ...

    Article : 44 words
  49. THE POSTAL COMMISSION.

    At a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day, the members of the Postal Commission were appointed. The names have already been announced. ...

    Article : 41 words
  50. THE OLYMPIC TRACK.

    "The Times" states that the Australian athletes who intend to compete in the Olympic contests at Shepherd's Bush, which commence next month, ...

    Article : 36 words
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