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  2. GREAT COAL STRIKE. ANOTHER CONFERENCE.

    At the invitation of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, a significant conference of conlminers from all parts of the country has been held. ...

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  3. ARBITRATION.

    The opinion in Government circles in Washington in regard to the American Senate's action in emasculating the arbitration treaties inclines to the ...

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  4. NORTH LONDON POISON MYSTERY.

    The trial was continued to-day at the Old Bailey of Frederick Henry Seddon, formerly a district superintendent of the London and Manchester Assurance ...

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  5. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. TARIFF REFORMER RETURNED UNOPPOSED.

    Mr. J. S. Arkwright, the Unionist member for Hereford, who was returned at the general election in 1910 with a majority of 770 over his Liberal ...

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  6. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S GREAT TRIUMPH HOW HE REACHED THE POLE.

    The "Daily Chronicle" publishes today Captain Amundsen's story of his dash for the Pole. The explorer says that he and a ...

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  7. PERSONAL.

    The Director of Education (Mr. W. T. McCoy) returned to Hobart on Friday evening after a visit to the West Coast. The Director expressed himself as well ...

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  8. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S DOGS.

    In connection with a number of dogs which Captain Amundsen has on board the Fram, which are to be trausferred to Dr. Mawson's Antaictic expedition, ...

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  9. DENOMINATIONAL TEACHING.

    The House of Commons read the second time to-day a bill introduced by Sir G. C. Marks, the Liberal member for Launceston, empowering the ...

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  10. FIRST DAY OF THE DASH.

    The first day they climbed 2,000 feet, and camped the second day at an elevation of 4,500 feet. They descended the third day by the glacier dividing ...

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  11. THE CONQUEROR OF THE POLE.

    Captain Amundsen was again sought out yesterdny evening, when the cablegrams arrived from London giving the story of his successful dash for the ...

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  12. THE MINIMUM WAGE.

    The Monmouthshire Coal Owners' Association has reiterated that it cannot admit the principle of the minimum wage, but is willing to discuss the ...

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  13. GENERAL CABLES. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    The international Rugby football match between Ireland and Wales was played yesterday, and resulted in as victory for the Irish team by a goal, ...

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  14. RESULT OF THE CONFERENCES.

    There is an expectation among the delegates to last week's conferences of an early settlement of the strike. Five thousand railway clerks on ...

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  15. PREPARING FOR FINAL DASH.

    Here they were compelled to kill twenty-four of the dogs, retaiuing only eighteen for the further dash south. Bad weather delayed departure for ...

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  16. THE PARLIAMENT ACT.

    Sir hundred Liberals gave a luncheon to-day at Covent Garden to Mr. Asquith6 the Prime Minister, to celebrate the passing of the Parliament Act. ...

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  17. LOCKOUT IN GERMANY.

    A lockout has begun in Germany of 45,000 tailors employed in 158 towns, and including 4,000 workers in Berlin alone. ...

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  18. FATAL FIRE.

    A disastrous fire broke out last night in a lodging-house in Clark-street, Chicago, and resulted in the building being gutted and six men losing their ...

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  19. ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN NOT TO STRIKE.

    The Locomotive Engineers' and Firemen's executive have voted against the declaring of a sympathetic strike. ...

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  20. CYCLONE IN ADELAIDE.

    What the weather office described as a cyclonic swirl occurred in Adelaide and the country early on Saturday morning. In many instances the storm was of ...

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  21. THE DAVIS CUP.

    M. M. Decugis, Gobert, and Laurente are to represent France in the contest for the Davis Cup. ...

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  22. A MEANS 0F SETTLEMENT.

    Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, is considering proposals for settlement of the strike, and has invited both the representatives of the coal mine ...

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  23. THE BARCLAY EXPEDITION.

    Mr. R. H. McPhorson, second in command of the exploring expedition under Captain Barclay, which was sent to the, Northern Territory by the ...

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  24. THE DEVIL'S GLACIER.

    The Devil's Glacier was negotiated in three-days, quitting it on December 3. Onward the ice platean resembled a frozen sea, and the ice sounded hollow ...

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  25. ECONOMY IN THE FLEET.

    The commanders of the warships of the British Fleet have been ordered to economise the use of coal to the utmost. ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN BOYS' TOUR.

    The Australian Cadets, under Lieutenant Jeffreys, who are visiting England under the auspices of the Young Australian League of West Australia, ...

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  27. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY.

    Mr. R. McKenna, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, conferred with the railway managers to-day regarding the protection of the ...

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  28. DESCENDING FROM THE PLATEAU.

    From 88.25 degrees the plateau gradually sloped downward, and there were five days of easy travelling. ...

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  29. CANADA AND THE STATES.

    The reports, arising from United States sources, that Western Canada and the prairie provinces are particularly anxious to separate from the rest ...

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  30. PANAMA CANAL.

    The "Pall Mall Gazette," in an article published this evening, states that Denmark has granted a concession to a syndicate for developing at St. ...

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  31. FIXING THE DEPOTS.

    Between February 10 and April 11 Captain Amundsen established depots at the 80th, 81st, and 82nd degrees of latitude. The surface of the barrier ...

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  32. AT THE POLE.

    The goal was sighted on the afternoon of December 14. There was a beautiful light south-east breeze, and the temperature was minus 23 Celsius. ...

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  33. COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

    Seven men were killed yesterday in a fire-damp explosion at the Merritt mine, in British Columbia. At the Diamond Vale collieries eleven ...

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  34. BISHOP AND PRIESTS LIBELLED

    In December last Dr. Robert Browne, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne, and six of the prieste of his diocese, entered an action against the "Dundee ...

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  35. FRAM'S FURTHEST SOUTH.

    After fixing the depots, they returned to the base, and found that the From bad departed, after sailing furthest south, namely, to 78.41 degrees. ...

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  36. UNREQUITED LOVE.

    An extraordinary tragedy took place at a circus performance last night at Fiume, in Hungary. Two German performers, Josef ...

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  37. POLHEIM.

    They erected a little tent on the precise spot, and surmounted it with the Norwegian flag and the Fram's pennant, and named the place Polheim. ...

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  38. CONGRATULATIONS.

    Captain Amundsen said he had received large numbers of congratulatory telegrams. Amongst these were messages from King George of England, ...

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  39. THE RETURN.

    The distance from the Pole to the winter camp is 1,400 kilometres about 860 miles). The return was accomplished under favourable conditions, and ...

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  40. INTER-STATE CRICKET.

    Play was resumed on Saturday at Brisbane in the cricket match Queensland v. New South Wales. New South Wales concluded their first innings for 228, or ...

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  41. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    "The Times" announces to-day that the British Navy estimates for 19121913 will amount to £43,250,000, as compared with £44,882,047 for ...

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  42. THE WINTER MONTHS.

    They spent four months of the winter changing their outfit, which they had found too clumsy on the depot trip. ...

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  43. RAILWAY DISASTERS.

    Sixteen people were injured, two of them fatally, owing to a car being derailed yesterday on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Varney. The rail ...

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  44. AVALANCHE IN AMERICA.

    Yesterday a gang of men, who were clearing a snowslide on the tracks of the Rio Grande and Southern Railway at Denver, in Colorado, were ...

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  45. THE SECOND PARTY.

    The expedition into King Edward's Land confirmed, Captain Amundsen reports, the discoveries of Captain Scott's first expedition. ...

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  46. DRTVEN BACK.

    On September 8th the journey south was commenced, but they were forced to return, owing to the continuous fall of the temperature affecting the dogs, ...

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  47. CHINESE REPUBLIC.

    Owing to reassuring news received in Peking as to the restoration of order the immediate despatch of the southern Republican troops northward has ...

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  48. THE ENTERPRISE OF THE "DAILY CHRONICLE."

    The "Daily Chronicle" congratulates the Pacific Cable Board on its expeditious and excellent transmission of Captain Amundsen's cablegram, which ...

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  49. WOOL SALES.

    The Colonial Wool Merchants' Association has fixed the second series of the sales, which were postponed owing to the strike, for April 11. The limit ...

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  50. THE SECOND ATTEMPT.

    Spring came in earnest in the middle of October, and a party of five, with four sledges and 52 dogs, and four months' provisions, started south, and ...

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  51. FEDERAL AFFAIRS. RAILWAYS TO THE CAPITAL.

    According to a report issued by the, Department of Home Affairs on Saturday, the trial fiurvey for railways between the Federal capital site and the ...

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  52. BOXING. KANSAS CITY, March 9.

    Gaus McGovern of Boston, drew a ten-round fight yesterday with Willie Canole, the San Francisco featherweight. ...

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  53. THE "SYNDICALIST."

    Messrs. Guy Bowman and Benjamin Buch, the printers of the Socialist organ the "Syndicalist," have been charged with publishing treasonable ...

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  54. HONOUR TO THE EXPLORER.

    An official dinner in honour of Captain Amundsen is to be given this evening by the Consul for Norway (Mr. James Macfarlane). The Admiral, the ...

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  55. WENT LIKE A DANCE.

    They reached the 82nd degree on November 5, where the dogs got their last full meal. Here they rested three days. ...

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  56. KALGOORLIE-PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY.

    During the discussion in the Federal Parliament on the Kalgoorlie-Port Augusta Railway Bill a new route was suggested between Port Augusta and ...

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  57. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON'S VIEWS.

    Sir Ernest Shackleton, in an article, says that Captain Amundsen undoubtedly reached the geographical Pole with the aid of easy travelling in fine ...

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  58. FATAL FIGHT IN FRANCE.

    Overuden, an Englishman, knocked out Raphael Bolli, a Frenchman, in the twelfth round of a boxing match at Montmartre yesterday. Bolli ...

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  59. MEXICAN UNREST.

    Yesterday rebel soldieis, who were drunk, raided the vaults of the National Bank at Juarez, in Mexico They blow up the structure with dynamite, ...

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  60. CAPTAIN SCOTTS EXPEDITION.

    Mr. Kinsey, the Australian representative of Captain Scott's polar expedition, stated in a press interview that he believed that if Captain Amundsen ...

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  61. SHIP ABANDONED.

    The ship Illawarra. 1,972 tons, which was abandoned whilst on the voyage from Leith to Valparaiso, is reported to be still afloat. She was last seen ...

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  62. ATTELL DEFEATED.

    At San Francisco yesterday Tommy Murphy defeated Abe Attell, the world's featherweight champion. There was a big crowd of onlookers. The ...

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  63. THE NOTE ISSUE.

    It will be about three weeks before the new arrangements for the distribution of the Australian note currency are in full operation. A special furnace for the ...

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  64. LAST OF THE LAND.

    They arrived at the 85th degree on the 17th, having marched due South, and reached the place where the land and the ice barrier connected. ...

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  65. CHRISTIANIA BEFLAGGED.

    King Haakon of Norway, the Norwegian Government, and the Geographical Society have cabled congratulations to Captain Amundsen. ...

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  66. BOY SCOUTS.

    Lieutenant-General Sir R. S. Badenpowell, who is visiting America en route to New Zealand and Australia, addressed a Boy Scout gathering at ...

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  67. BOXING.

    On account of the threatening state of the weather last evening, the boxing contest between Sam Mcvea and Jim Barry was postponed till next Saturday ...

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  68. AN EMPIPE EXHIBITION.

    The State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) anaounces that the drafting of a scheme for the holding of an Empire Exhibition in one of the principal capitals has ...

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  69. THE HEAD DEPOT.

    A few big crevasses indicated the limits of the barrier. Here Captain Amundsen established the head depot, and, with sixty days' provisions, ...

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  70. HAYTIAN TYRANT.

    Advices received in New York from Hayti announce that General Coiceru, an ex-military tyrant of Hayti, has been sentenced to death, a jury in ...

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  71. THE SHIPPING DISPUTE.

    As the parties to the compulsory conference of the representatives of the steamship owners and waterside workers had not received replies to the ...

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  72. AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S OPINION.

    Professor Osborne, the head of the Museum of Natural History in NewYork, says he believes that Captain Amundsen would not make the claim ...

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  73. GERMAN COLLIERS.

    In connection with the threatened strike on the Ruhr coalfields, the German Government has conferred with the miners. It is understood that the ...

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  74. ON THE GLACIERS.

    They encountered a few steep glaciers, where the going was hard, and they were forced to make detours owing to big crevasses. ...

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  75. CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPEDITION.

    Sir Ernest Shackleton, who commantled the British Antarctic expedition in 1909, said at the Mansion House last night that it is very likely that ...

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