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  2. THE CITY COUNCIL.

    Of the multitudes of people who [?] by and in and out of the Town Hall in King William street street each day, how many give a thought to the fact that it is the nerve ...

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  3. ACROSS THE ALPS.

    M. Chavez, the Peruvian aviator, who, holds the world's altitude record of 8,790 ft., made another attempt to-day to win the £3,000 prize offered for an aeroplane ...

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  4. KEIR HAEDIE'S SPEECHES.

    The action of Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., against Mr. S. Cresswell, who, when a Unionist candidate for a Mid-Derbyshire by-election in July 1909, declared that Mr. ...

    Article : 69 words
  5. SPY SCARE.

    An engineer upon the German third-class cruiser Stettin (3,396 tons displacement) has been sentenced to two years penal servitude for offering to sell to a Russian ...

    Article : 540 words
  6. BOUND AND GAGGED.

    The police have been engaged today enquiring into a sensational incident reports to them by Alias Elsie Jones, aged 21 yours, who is employed at Messrs Creer's ...

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  7. INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS.

    Mr. W. E. Osborne, who recently obtained the famous judgment, establishing the illegality of the application of trades union funds to payment of members of ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. TAXING THE LAND.

    Mr. Walter Long (M.P. for the Strand), who has been a prominent member of past Unionist Ministries, has been compelled to take drastic action over the effect of the ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 618 words
  10. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Council of the Pageant of Empire Exhibition, which was postponed owing to the death of King Edward VIL and will be held in London next year, has decided ...

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  11. COUNTY CLARE.

    Sir Michael O'Logblen (fourth Baronet) of Drumconora, County Clare, has been appointed Lieutenant of the County, vice Capt. Hector S. Vandclour. Sir Michael ...

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  12. NEW AUSTRALIAN SERVICE.

    A correspondent of The Shipping gazette states that owing to the disagreement between the Deutsche Australische Company and the Swedish-South Africa line ...

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  13. HIGH COMMISSIONER.

    The Australian High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) will leave London to-night for Scotland. He is to be the guest of the King for the week-end at Balmoral Castle. ...

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  14. DEATH OF "LITTLE DORRIT."

    The death has occurred at Southsea of Mrs. Hayman, the original of Charles Diekens's "Little Dorrit," which first appeared in monthly numbers from 1855-7. The ...

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  15. INDIAN UNREST.

    The trial at Dacca of the large body of natives who are charged with conspiracy is being continued, and is constantly revealing new and significant facts. ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. WOOTOON'S RACE WITH MAHER.

    At the Newbury Meeting Frank Wootton, the Australian champion jockey, rode the winner of each of the first three races. He missed a place in the fourth and won the ...

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  17. SHIPPING LOCKOUT.

    The Shipping Employers' Federation has intimated that its proposal regarding the question of the employment guarantee is final, and that the onus for the ...

    Article : 112 words
  18. DAVIS CUP.

    The international lawn tennis committee has decided not to send out a team to Australia, to compete for the Davis Cup. SYDNEY, September 25. ...

    Article : 68 words
  19. UGANDA CATHEDRAL DEMOLISHED.

    The Uganda Cathedral in the Central African town of Mengo has been struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. ...

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  20. CADETS' ARMS.

    The War Office has issued a circular stating the conditions which enable cadet units to purchase arms. ...

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  21. EGYPTIAN NATIONALISTS.

    The Congress of Egyptian Nationalists which is being held at Brussels has welcomed Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., to its meetings. A letter was received from Mr. ...

    Article : 123 words
  22. ANTI-VIVISECTION.

    Petitions have been signed by 830,000 persons, including 1,395 doctors of medicine, for presentation to Parliament, praying for the exemption of dogs from the cruelties ...

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  23. LION AND THE MOUSE.

    Timely warning on the part of a French fisherman has saved the new Brazilian warship Sao Paulo from disaster. The huge vessel had just been completed ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. COTTON SPINNERS.

    The delegates of the Cardroom Amalgamation have agreed to arbitration, as suggested by the Cotton Spinners' Federation. They have stated certain conditions ...

    Article : 289 words
  25. MILITARY TOURNAMENT TOUR.

    The Army Council has denied the report that it has signified its approval of the proposed military tournament tour of the provinces and overseas dominions. ...

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  26. TRAIN ROBBER.

    The Canadian-Pacific Railway Company intends pushing a charge against a brakeman for having chloroformed a lady passenger in a sleeping car. It is hoped to ...

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  27. ALASKAN FRAUDS.

    The newly-discovered suspected land frauds in Alaska are of such a serious nature that, they may exceed in startling development even the recent sensational ...

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  28. HUDSON BAY COMPANY.

    Messrs. Thomas Skinner & Carbidge, of the English directors of the Hudson Bay Company, are paying a visit to Canada. They propose to inaugurate ...

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  29. MOTOR RIDDEN.

    The Queen has expressed her sympathy with a petition signed by 10,200 cottage women of Britain. It beseeches their relief from the bane ...

    Article : 121 words
  30. THE TURKISH LOAN.

    Sir Ernest Cassel. head of the British group of financiers who have arranged for, a loan to Turkey, has advised the Porte to accept France's conditions that the ...

    Article : 129 words
  31. CHINESE IN CANADA.

    Mr. J. M. Bowell, of Vancouver, son of the Hon. McKenzie Bowell, Controller of Chinese immigrants, has been suspended, following upon an investigation into the ...

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  32. TRAIN WRECK.

    There has been still another terrific train disaster upon America's railway systems. Twenty-one people have been killed and scores of others injured in the wrecking of ...

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  33. HORSEBREEDING.

    The Development Commissioners appointed under the Act of last year (which has for its object the promotion of the economic development of the United ...

    Article : 299 words
  34. CARNARVON BAY CASTAWAYS.

    As river steamer Oopah, from Burnie, drew up to the South Wharf in the river this afternoon the two boars' crews who left the sinking ship Canarvon Bay off King ...

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  35. CAPETOWN, September 23.

    S. J. Snooke and Gordon White decided yesterday not to accompany the team of South African cricketers to Australia. It has been definitely announced, however ...

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  36. GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

    Word was received by the police at Bourke that a body had been found floating in the Darting at the weir. It was that of a man about 30, in an advanced ...

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  37. BRUSSELS, September 23.

    The police of Brussels have issued an intimation forbidding marching in the streets in connection with the celebration of the eightieth anniversary of Belgian ...

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  38. WONDERFUL WIRELESS.

    Signor Gugielmo Marconi has been well named the "wireless wizard." The inventor has now succeeded in establishing a wonderful long-distance achievement. ...

    Article : 134 words
  39. BULLFIGHT SENSATIONS.

    The spectators at a Spanish bullfight to-day experienced an untoward sensation. During the progress of the encounter, which was held at Darajas, near to this city, one ...

    Article : 84 words
  40. THE "CROWNED CRIMINAL."

    The Socialist Congress at Magdebore has carried a motion favouring general, equal, and direct secret suffrages for members of both Beira above the age of 20. ...

    Article : 195 words
  41. NEW YORK, September 24.

    The Rev. Dr. Burton, of Boston, a Foreign Missions Commissioner, has reported that he bus received word of the outbreak of hostilities against prominent ...

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  42. CHURCH RAFFLES.

    The question of church raffles was discussed at the Anglican Synod, on a motion by the Rev. Mr. Moore that the following be a question on the returns to be ...

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  43. DEMOCRATS TO WIN.

    Representative Champ Clark, one of the most prominent figures in American politics, and leader of the Democrats in the Federal House of Representatives, has ...

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  44. BIRDLIKE TRILL.

    Dr. Hardy, of Ballaraz, has had brought under his notice a young girl possessed of a remarkable voice. He examined her larynx, and found it was different from ...

    Article : 104 words
  45. MOVEMENTS OF TWO RUSSIANS.

    From investigations made in Bourke and Sydney the authorities are satisfied the murdered man is a young Russian, who, with a companion, arrived in Sydney by ...

    Article : 341 words
  46. GUN EXPLODES.

    An astounding incident occurred to-day in the forts at Alexandria. While dismounting the metal from an old cannon there was an explosion which ...

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  47. MOUNT McKINTLEY.

    Professor Herschel Clifford Parker, Professor of Physics at the Columbia University and a member of the American Alpine and Arctic Clubs, who has explored many ...

    Article : 95 words
  48. OCEAN GIANTS.

    Several of the Atlantic Lucre have just concluded an exciting nee across the Atlantic. They started from New York Harbour ...

    Article : 125 words
  49. CAFE SIDELIGHTS.

    The fashionable Moana Cate received a bad advertisement during the hearing in the Police Court of a case in which a Greek cook named Nicholas Contsoukas was ...

    Article : 224 words
  50. KING ISLAND.

    King Island, which lies approximately 80 miles south-south-west of Port Phillip Heads, is the scene of a large number of wreeks, most of which occurred in earlier ...

    Article : 552 words
  51. EDUCATION AT BROKEN HILL.

    Mr. J. W. Turner (Superintendent of Technical Education), who has spent the past week in Broken Hill, said from what he had personally seen and from what he ...

    Article : 193 words
  52. CASUALTIES.

    At 11.20 on Saturday night an decline tramear, in chaw of Motorman Lane, was proceeding to Henley Beach. When it arrived at Parker street the motorman, it is ...

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  53. WELLINGTON PIT.

    Having been sealed for four months since the awful destruction of human life by the outbreak of fire in the Wellington Pit at Whitehaven, the mine has been ...

    Article : 58 words
  54. VICTORIA.

    The State Treasurer, in an address at Horsham, said he believed Victoria had a great future if she did not hang irresolutely in doubt. Its expectations could be ...

    Article : 136 words
  55. CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN.

    WALLAROO, September 23.—Yesterday afternoon a collision occurred on the road leading from Lydia terrace to the Wallaroo Jetty, between a cart driven by Mrs. ...

    Article : 70 words
  56. Advertising

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    Advertising : 569 words
  57. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The League of Boy Scouts had a despatch run yesterday from Sydney to Lithgow, a distance of 90 miles. A message was carried from the Lord Mayor to the Mayor of ...

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  58. ACCIDENT AT KILKENNY.

    On Sunday evening Steve Farr, of Queenstown, was brought to the Adelaide Hospital, suffering from a fractured skull sustained as the result of an accident at ...

    Article : 51 words
  59. "INDUSTRIAL TYRANNY."

    The Premier (Mr. Wade), referring to news received from Broken HiLl that no delegate would attend the eight hours demonstration in Sydney, said he was not ...

    Article : 67 words
  60. FOREIGN SHIPPING COMPETITION.

    A deputation from the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia and several members of Parliament waited upon Sir Joseph Ward [?] and [?] ...

    Article : 133 words
  61. WOOLSHED GUTTED.

    BROKEN HILL, September 25.—The Woolshed the Yalcowinna Station, about 25 miles from Broken Hill, was destroyed by fire on Sunday evening. The ...

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  62. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The South Swan Railway League, formed to induce the Government to construct a line the south side of the Swan River from Fremantle to Midland ...

    Article : 71 words
  63. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The E. & A. Company's new steamer St. Albans arrived late this afternoon from Hongkong, and will resume her voyage southward at daylight to-morrow. Capt. ...

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  64. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    BRISBANE, September 25.—This evening a motor car collided with a cyclist whose name ia believed to be D. Fischer. He sustained a fracture of the skull, and ...

    Article : 35 words
  65. SUPERPHOSPHATES IN THE WEST.

    At the opening of the new superphosphate works at Guildford the Premier (Mr. Wilson) mentioned that the State imported 10,000 tons of ...

    Article : 62 words
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