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  2. GRANT FOR TASMANIA.

    In influential deputation of representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Manufactures, Liberal League, Workers' Political League, ...

    Article : 2,908 words
  3. GERMAN ELECTIONS.

    The Pan-German and Conservative newspapers are conducting a violent electioneering crusade against Great Britain, alleging that she intended to ...

    Article : 156 words
  4. A FATAL FIRE.

    Early on Saturday morning a fire broke out in a Chinese cook shop in Dixon street, and the place was soon gutted. ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. LABOUR UNREST. TROUBLE IN BRITISH SHIPYARDS

    Objecting to the discharge note system, hundreds of workmen employed at the Tyneside shipyards have tendered notices to leave. The movement against ...

    Article : 101 words
  6. AGAINST HOME RULE. CAMPAIGN IN ULSTER.

    In November last a conference was held in Ulster, and attended by about 400 delegates representing the Ulster Unionist Council, the Grand Orange ...

    Article : 313 words
  7. NAVAL DEFENCE. THE CANADIAN PROPOSALS.

    The Borden Government has no intention of introducing the Navy Bill in the Canadian House of Commons until next session of Parliament. In the ...

    Article : 233 words
  8. CHINESE REVOLUTION. POSSIBLE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE.

    The Chinese Government is directing the elections to the National Convention in the Northern provinces and in Turkestan, Tibet and Mongolia, and the ...

    Article : 71 words
  9. PERSONAL.

    Archbishop Carr (states our Melbourne correspondent) heartily approves of the catholic Federation, requesting the co-operation of Protestants in the campaign ...

    Article : 1,597 words
  10. INTER-STATE CRICKET.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 441 words
  11. THE LEADERS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Nanking states that Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, the revolutionary leader, who offered the Presidency of the proposed Chinese ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN SOUTH WALES.

    The South Wales coal-owners have protested against the proposed ballot of the South Wales Miners' Federation respecting a general strike, and ...

    Article : 196 words
  13. VICEROY AND GENERAL EXECUTED.

    Consular advices received from Chungking state that the revolutionaries there have executed Chaoer-Feng, the Viceroy, and General Tien, the ...

    Article : 39 words
  14. NEW SUBMARINE.

    The British Admiralty has placed an order with a Greenock firm for the construction of a submarine of a new type. The submarine will have a double hull. ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    According to the responsible newspapers in America the Republican leaders are supporting a subterranean movement to supplant Mr. Tuft's ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. COLLISION IN PARIS.

    A workmen's train on the electric line collided to-day at the Gare d'Austerlitz, in Paris, with a stationary engine. Seven coaches of the train were ...

    Article : 59 words
  17. OCCUPYING THE RAILWAY.

    The Powers have occupied the railway from Peking to the sea. ...

    Article : 17 words
  18. MR. REDMOND TO THE DELEGATES.

    The president of the Hobart branch of the United Irish League (Mr. M. M. Ryan) has received a copy of the following letter from Mr. John Redmond, M.P., ...

    Article : 513 words
  19. POSITION OF THE MISSIONARIES.

    The following are extracts from a letter just received from China by Mr. John Macfarlane of Hobart, who recently visited that country:— ...

    Article : 319 words
  20. LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE.

    The conferences between Sir G. R. Asquith, the chairman of the Labour Council of the Board of Trade, and representatives of the employers and ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. CLERGYMAN'S CRIME.

    A great sensation has been caused in Boston owing to the Rev. C. Richeson confessing to poisoning his sweetheart, Avis Linnell. The girl believed that ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. THAMES IRONWORKS.

    At a meeting of workers employed by the Thames Ironworks. Shipbuilding, and Engineering Co. it was decided yesterday not to agrec to an extension ...

    Article : 66 words
  23. SCHOOL BUILDING COLLAPSES.

    Whilst the children were in attendance to-day at a school at Seville, in Spain, the building collapsed, and a number of lives were lost. ...

    Article : 68 words
  24. ABDUL HAMID.

    The Turkish Government has determined to publish the journals of Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan. Five hundred boxes of memoranda have been ...

    Article : 56 words
  25. INCREASE IN WAGES.

    The Northumberland Mineowners' Association has granted the colliers an increase of 1¼ per cent. in their wages. ...

    Article : 25 words
  26. ESPIONAGE.

    Owing to the escape from the fortress or Glatz, in Prussian Silesia, of Captain Lux, the French officer, who has reached Paris safely, Lieutenant ...

    Article : 93 words
  27. STEEL BOUNTIES.

    A deputation of manufacturers representing the iron and steel industry of Canada waited upon Ministers to-day, and demanded that the Government ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    Statements issued by the Commonwealth Treasurer (Hon. A. Fisher) on Saturday show that 10,129 invalid and 93,805 old age pensions have been ...

    Article : 114 words
  29. QUEEN OF SIAM'S JEWELS.

    In 1909 the Dowager Queen of Siam lost £9,000 worth of jewels, and in connection therewith a high Siamese Court official has been arrested in London. ...

    Article : 72 words
  30. ATTACK ON THE THRONE.

    Mr. Keir Kardic, the Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, has an article to-day in the "Welsh Coast Pioneer," which claims to be conducted in a ...

    Article : 218 words
  31. ARBITRATION.

    Many senators in the American Congress who were formerly opposed to the arbitration treaties in their present form, are now inclined to accept them ...

    Article : 54 words
  32. AVIATION.

    Doctor Paul Cans has made arrangements with the Washington authorities to provide American warships to acompany him on his proposed transatlantic ...

    Article : 37 words
  33. SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR PARTY.

    Delegates from the South African Labour Party have held a three days' conference at Bloemfontein, and recommended a white Labour policy and the ...

    Article : 93 words
  34. FIRE AND FROST. PHENOMENAL COLD IN AMERICA.

    The phenomenal spell of cold weather continues, and temperatures below zero are recorded throughout the Mississippi Valley. ...

    Article : 28 words
  35. MOUNT LYELL DISPUTE.

    A special meeting of the Lyell branch of the A.M.E.A. was held this afternoon to discuss the matter of the period of the agreement as to wages ...

    Article : 185 words
  36. FATAL ACCIDENT.

    A disastrous accident occurred to-day in Cincinatti, owing to a street car jumping over a bridge and falling a distance of 55ft. In its descent the car ...

    Article : 57 words
  37. "BATH TUB TAX."

    The bath-tub tax, which is A relic of the olden times, is about to be abolished in Montreal. The imposition was first made when baths were luxuries of ...

    Article : 45 words
  38. HOTEL ON FIRE.

    The Transit Hotel at Chicago was destroyed by fire last night. The guests escaped to the roof, but a number of the girl employees were trapped in ...

    Article : 58 words
  39. FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

    The Maghzen's troops at Sefru, a few miles to the south-east of Fez, had a sharp encounter yesterday with a number of tribesmen, who attacked the ...

    Article : 82 words
  40. SIR GEORGE REID.

    In the course of a speech delivered last night at a banquet given by the members of the Chamber of Commerce at Swansea Sir George Reid, the High ...

    Article : 138 words
  41. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    The Australasian team of Rugby footbullers met the Leeds team at Leeds to-day, and won by one goal two tries to two tries. About 2,000 people were ...

    Article : 96 words
  42. GENERAL CABLES. SUICIDE IN CAIRO.

    Mr. Theodore Rodocanachi, the head of the prominent English firm of Messrs. Rodocanachi and Reynold committed suicide in Cairo yesterday. ...

    Article : 30 words
  43. 50 BELOW ZERO.

    The thermometer in Winnipeg was 50deg. below zero to-day. The telegraph lines have been wrecked, and the western towns are cut off from ...

    Article : 39 words
  44. FOREST FIRES PREVENTION.

    The Forest Fire Prevention Organisation at Helena, in the State or Montana, is arranging to establish wireless telegraph stations throughout the State ...

    Article : 53 words
  45. BRITISH TRADE.

    The Board of Trade returns for December show that imports for the month, as compared with November, decreased to the amount of £4,107,447, ...

    Article : 42 words
  46. MANGLED BY THE TRAIN.

    A miner named Patrick Murray met his death in a fearful manner at Bundamba on Saturday night. He was a passenger by the train from Ispwich to ...

    Article : 93 words
  47. RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

    Following the execution in the public square of Tabriz of eight innocent people by the Russians, three other Persians have been sentenced to be ...

    Article : 63 words
  48. BILLIARDS. THE GRAY-STEVENSON MATCHES.

    The billiard mutch between George Gray and H. W. Stevenson was continued yesterday. Starting in a minority of 873 Gray played brilliantly in ...

    Article : 154 words
  49. DEATHS FROM COLD.

    In Chicago and New York eleven deaths have been caused by the intense cold. The recorded temperature is 8deg. below zero, and there is a furious ...

    Article : 35 words
  50. PEEL RIVER CO.

    The directors of the Peel River Co. have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. ...

    Article : 18 words
  51. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

    The advice of Mr. Johnson Forbes-Robertson, the English actor-manager, who is at present on a visit to San Francisco, was asked to-day by women ...

    Article : 81 words
  52. BEET SUGAR.

    The Anglo-Netherland Sugar Corporation, with a capital of £400,000, has been formed for the purpose tif cultivating sugar beet in Eastern England. ...

    Article : 27 words
  53. FIRE IN TORONTO.

    A fire last night destroyed a number of wholesale premises in the centre of the wholesale district of Toronto. The firemen prevented the destruction of ...

    Article : 43 words
  54. AXEMAN'S SHOCKING DEATH

    A young man named Dalcoombe, aged 27, was killed while felling a tree at Babinda yesterday. At dinner time, when the tree was ...

    Article : 106 words
  55. DEFERRED CABLE RATES.

    Since the amended list of countries to which reduced rates for deferred cables is to apply was issued, further alterations have been made. The list ...

    Article : 145 words
  56. SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

    The grave of Mr. John C. McDonal, who was formerly a member of the House of Commons, was opened yesterday at Sligo, and an urn with an oak ...

    Article : 79 words
  57. TRAIN ROBBERS IN AMERICA.

    Yesterday two unmasked men robbed the north-bound Oregon express, on the Southern Pacific Railway Company's line. The men forced an entrance near ...

    Article : 112 words
  58. CHICAGO TRAGEDY.

    Last month Mrs. Kauffman, the wife of a wealthy commission agent, was murdered in Chicago on returning from a theatre outing with her husband. ...

    Article : 78 words
  59. BOAT IN DIFFICULTIES.

    It has been reported to the police at Sandgate that an upturned boat was observed at dusk on Friday night with two men clinging to it about two miles ...

    Article : 63 words
  60. REECE-LINDRUM.

    Fred. Lindrum, the Victorian player, is easily maintaining his lead over T. Reece. At the close of play yesterday the scores were:—Lindrum. 13,630; ...

    Article : 70 words
  61. BOXING.

    "Ad" Wolgast, the American lightweight boxer, who has been ill for some time at Los Angeles, suffering from pneumonia, is rapidly recovering. It ...

    Article : 40 words
  62. RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

    John Bentley, aged 68, was run over and killed by a train at Geelong on Friday night. His body was horribly mutilated. Bentley trained "Paddy" ...

    Article : 44 words
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