CABLE BREVITIES.
The.-origin of the Sydney fire still re-, mains a mystery. British excise duties for the quarter just ended amounted to £8,810,000. The Tasmaniari revenue for the past nine months increased "by £ 19,000, and the Queensland'By £172,600- ; AFa result of the success of the Xiabour party in the Motherland a movement has been started "in Canada to organise a Labour party.: Abdul Eezakj the Kurdish chief, one of the two who admitted that they instigated "the murder of the Prefect /of Constantinople,'has been exiled. Speaking at Cbrowa, Sir W. Lyne predicted that: there would be "bloodshed" over the smaller. States' having equal representation "wife the large in the 3Jederal Senate.;(-- * • ■ ■ ; •3?ather has concluded a temperance crusade in Australia. He claims that over 61,000 have tikeit [tbjs pledge ( dpxiog tin mmjpigfa ;..■■■■ •■- •" - •■■ •' •■:■ ■~
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 3 April 1906, Page 5
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