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  2. CHINESE SEAMEN.

    Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, General Secretary of the National Seamen's Union, addressing a meeting of seamen at Popular yesterday said they must tell the ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. AERIAL EVENTS.

    While M. Mallon was aeroplaning at Havre, at the mouth of the Seine, yesterday his motor ceased work when he was at a height of 975ft. The aeronaut ...

    Article : 221 words
  4. JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL RELATIONS.

    Japan has denounced the German-Japanese treaty of commerce and navigation and also the Consular treaty of 18[?][?] as well as the convention with the tariff ...

    Article : 154 words
  5. TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER.

    In the grey obscurity of a thick fog which overhung Melbourne this morning a dreadful disaster took place at the Richmond railway station. A train from Brighton, ...

    Article : 817 words
  6. COMMAND OF THE SEAS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 902 words
  7. MOROCCO.

    When M. Weisgenber, correspondent of the Paris "Temps," was leaving Fez a few days ago the Sultan of Morocco offered him as a parting gift a horse with ...

    Article : 428 words
  8. CONFLAGRATIONS.

    At New York yesterday the Metropolitan Steamship pier, six floats and several barges were destroyed by fire. The damage caused has been estimated at ...

    Article : 73 words
  9. THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the German Social Democratic Party is uncontrollably excited because in the Baden Landtag 20 ...

    Article : 104 words
  10. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The South African Union Government has decided to devote £500,000 to establishing a teaching university at De Groote Schuur, near Capetown. Mr. Louis ...

    Article : 180 words
  11. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    Dr. Monk, who had for some time been leader of the Quebec Conservatives in the Canadian House of Commons, has quitted the Conservative Party to join a ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. AN ENGLISH TRAGEDY.

    An extraordinary tragedy has been reported from Cromer, a watering-place 23 miles from Norwich. The dead bodies of a London contractor named Albert ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. MARQUIS DUQUESNE.

    Dieppe, a French seaport on the English Channel, is crowded with persons taking part in the celebration of the tercentary of the birth of Marquis ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. THE RELIEF OF THE INJURED.

    In the words of Dr. Charles Ryan, the chief railway medical officer, the celerity with which doctors, nurses, ambulance men, and emergency accessories were on the scene ...

    Article : 504 words
  15. THE LONDON MYSTERY.

    So far the detectives have not been able to find the dentist, Crippen, whose wife's mangled remains were recently discovered under the stone floor of a ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. OUTSIDE THE STATION.

    Outside the Richmond railway station this morning cabs and motor-cars and bicycles collected, while hushed crowds gathered in the streets. Mounted policemen were ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. GERMAN LABOUR CONDITIONS.

    The report of the Labour Party and Trades Unionist Commission which recently visited Germany to investigate the condition of the workers there ...

    Article : 103 words
  18. PRIVATE INCOMES.

    Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has denied a report, circulated by his political opponents, that he had vowed he would, if he remained in ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. THE TRAMWAY AWARD.

    The tramway men are awaiting with more than passing interest the reply of the London Board of the Perth Tramways, Ltd., to the proposition submitted by the ...

    Article : 316 words
  20. AMERICAN CLOUD-BURST.

    A cloud-burst in Kentucky yesterday damaged the tobacco, corn, and wheat crops as well as the live-stock in three counties to the extent of £400,000. ...

    Article : 36 words
  21. RUSSO-BRITISH INCIDENT.

    Much indignation has been expressed in shipping circles over the action of a Russian gunboat in seizing the Hull trawler Onward Ho in lat. 68.38 N. and ...

    Article : 73 words
  22. A PARIS MYSTERY.

    The police are digging in and around a mansion at Le Vesinet, in Paris, in the belief that a Belgian, named Vermecau, has been murdered there by two Belgians ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The management of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium at Davos Platz, in Switzerland, has received an anonymous gift of £25,000. ...

    Article : 269 words
  24. BRIGHTON ENGINE-MEN'S STATEMENT.

    The driver of the first train (Peter Allen) said:—"I cannot say anything about the accident itself. We were just standing here at the platform. We had just run in and ...

    Article : 162 words
  25. DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    The capsizing of a boat in the rapids on the Mekong River, below Luang-Prabang, in French Indo-China, a few days ago resulted in the drowning of ...

    Article : 57 words
  26. THE KING'S ACCESSION.

    The Marquis of Northampton at the head of a special mission, which includes Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, has arrived at Paris to announce the Accession of ...

    Article : 36 words
  27. THE FAR EAST.

    The "North German Gazette" regards the Russo-Japanese agreement as a surety for the maintenance of peace in the Far East, and remarks: "The idea that it is ...

    Article : 58 words
  28. PORTUGAL AND CHINA.

    The Chinese pirates on Coloane Island (in the Portuguese province of Macao, at the mouth of the Canton River) are dodging from cave to cave in the hope of ...

    Article : 63 words
  29. ELSTERNWICK TRAIN OFFICIALS.

    The engine of the second, Elsternwick, train was driven by John Melville. When seen a few minutes after the accident he was bleeding freely from a cut in the ...

    Article : 351 words
  30. THE PERICLES WRECK.

    The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society has presented Captain Simpson, master of the ill-fated steamer Pericles, with a self-recording aneroid in recognition of the ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. PERSONAL.

    Her Majesty the Queen has, states a cable message from London, become an honorary member of the Royal British and Colonial Society of Artists. ...

    Article : 242 words
  32. THE KILLED AND INJURED.

    The following is the list of those killed or injured in the collision:— ...

    Article : 1,169 words
  33. NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION.

    Mr. P. C. Knox, American Secretary of State, contemplates intervening in the Nicaraguan revolution with a view of ending the reign of anarchy and ...

    Article : 33 words
  34. ALGERIAN BRIGANDS.

    In response to the offer of a reward Chibani, who belongs to a band of brigands that had for some time been terrorising the Oran district, in Algeria, ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. A CHARGE OF MURDER.

    Mary Victoria Williams, a middle-aged woman, was placed on trial in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of murder. The charge arose out of the death of ...

    Article : 126 words
  36. CYCLING.

    A twenty-four hours cycling race held at the London Stadium was won by J. H. Bishop, who covered 501 miles 860 yards in the time mentioned. ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. FIERCE STORM IN SYDNEY.

    A great storm of wind and rain raged in Sydney and suburbs to-day. The wind attained a velocity in the afternoon of from 40 to 60 miles an hour, and the rain was ...

    Article : 133 words
  38. THE WRECKED TRAINS.

    The wrecked trains occupied the whole length of the Brighton platform at the Richmond station. The Brighton engine was driven several feet beyond the city end of ...

    Article : 436 words
  39. INSIDE THE STATION.

    The fog began to lift almost immediately after the accident. People in the streets of Richmond heard a crash and rushed to the station. A train on the Caulfield line ...

    Article : 1,011 words
  40. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

    Enthusiastic appreciation was manifested by a great gathering in the Town Hall to-night, on the occasion of the annual distribution of awards made by the Royal ...

    Article : 175 words
  41. THE LAW COURTS.

    Full Court.—At half-past 10 a.m., before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice McMillan.—1. In the matter of John Patrick Dwyer, application for ...

    Article : 197 words
  42. A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH.

    The cryptogram which was found written on a piece of paper in the purse of the young woman, Florence Jelbart, who died suddenly at the residence of Yee Lee, ...

    Article : 109 words
  43. THE GRANT FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 words
  44. THE RICHMOND SIGNALMEN.

    Two signalmen were on duty at Richmond when the disaster occurred. They were W. Bull and J. Mullens. Both men assert unhesitatingly that the "distant" and ...

    Article : 320 words
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