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  2. THE TRAMWAY CASE.

    The President of the Federal Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Higgins) said to-day in the tramway case:—"I am inclined to make some difference ...

    Article : 271 words
  3. AMERICAIN SHIPPING.

    Mr. R. Schwerin, representing the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., told the Senate Committee on inter-ocean canals yesterday that the Federal Government ...

    Article : 133 words
  4. THE GENERAL ELECTION. WILMOT AND BASS RETURNS.

    An elector whose patience is being somewhat tried by the delay in ascertaining the final rosults entailed by the preportional system of representation at ...

    Article : 938 words
  5. THE TITANIC DISASTER. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY.

    Lord Mersey, better known as Mr. Justice Bighorn, who has been appointed by the British Government to inquire into the wreck of the Titanic, ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOME RULE DEBATE.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, formerly leader of the Opposition, resumed the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the motion for the second reading of the ...

    Article : 524 words
  7. LABOUR UNREST. COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION.

    "ThE Times" states to-day that the Government has appointed a Cabinet committee to investigate the present industrial unrest. ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    The condition of Mr. W. E. Batchelor, Master Warden of the Launceston Marine Board, who was taken ill on Sunday last, is still critical. ...

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  9. AMERICAN COLLIERS IDLE.

    The tentative agreement providing a basis of settlement in the Anthracite coal dispute in America has been rejected, the mine workers refusing to ...

    Article : 90 words
  10. MR. ISMAY.

    Mr: J. B. Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Co., is ill, suffering from nervous strain. ...

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  11. AVIATION.

    Whilst aeroplaning to-day at Johannesthal, an airman named Hoesli met with an accident owing to his machine collapsing and falling 100ft. He ...

    Article : 37 words
  12. SAMOA.

    At the beginning of February last Dr. Solf, the German Minister of the Colonies, issued and order forbidding marriages between Germans and natives ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. RECOVERING THE BODIES.

    Among the bodies recovered of the victims in the disaster to the Titanic, which have been brought to Halifax by the cable steamer Bennett Mackay, ...

    Article : 51 words
  14. AEROPLANES FOR BRITISH ARMY.

    The Imperial Government has already ordered 20 aeroplanes for army purposes, and has authorised the purchase of an additional 40. ...

    Article : 28 words
  15. FIGURES FOR LAST ELECTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  16. FRENCH APACHES.

    A man and woman named Reinert were arrested to-day at Nanoy, to the south of Metz, and charged with sheltering members of the band of anaches ...

    Article : 54 words
  17. BOMB DROPPING BY THE ITALIANS.

    Two Italian steerable balloons made a reconnaissance yesterday over the Turkish camps in Tripoli, and dropped 30 bombs at Azizia and a dozen at ...

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  18. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY

    Senator Ready called on the Minister of Home Affairs (Hon. King O'Malley) to-day, and asked that the whole contract for the supply of 2,500,000 ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. THE SINKING OF THE TEXAS.

    Another version has been placed on the disaster to the steamer Texas, which was first stated to have struck a mine in the Gulf of Smyrna, and been blown ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. CHINESE REPUBLIC. ENDEAVOUR TO ESTABLISH A DICTATORSHIP.

    Reuter's correspondent at Peking states that there is growing indignation owing to Tang-Shao-Yi, the Prime Minister of China, endeavouring to assume ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. CANVEY ISLAND SCHEME.

    The Select Committee of the House of Lords, which has been considering the private bill which had for its object the building of a deep-water wharf at ...

    Article : 59 words
  22. DARWIN.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 700 words
  23. TASMANIAN DIVORCE CASE.

    In the Divorce Court to-day, Ernest George Higgs, grocer's assistant, of Burnic, Tasmania, petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Elizabeth Nash ...

    Article : 154 words
  24. SYDNEY BURGLARY BOOM. MORE ATTACKS ON SAFES.

    Further additions were posted to-day to the extraordinarily long list of burglaries and robberies committed in Sydney and suburbs during the past couple ...

    Article : 226 words
  25. FATHER BEHEADS HIS SON.

    A fanatical leader named Shenyan, who is the leader of the bellicose native press, is declared to have beheaded his son for professing republicanism. ...

    Article : 31 words
  26. SLAUGHTER IN SIBERIA.

    The attention of the Russian Duma was called to-day to the serious fighting which took place last week at Irkutsk, in Southern Siberia, between Russian ...

    Article : 91 words
  27. NAVAL GUNNERY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 583 words
  28. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    There was a good sale to-day at the London Wobl Exchange when the second series were continued. The attendance was excellent, and' prices were fully ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government would introduce before Whitsuntide a bill ...

    Article : 89 words
  30. GENERAL CABLES BOXING.

    "Billy" Papke, formerly middleweight champion boxer, knocked out ex-policemam Leitch in the second round of a ten-round bout yesterday ...

    Article : 39 words
  31. WHARF LABOURERS' AGREEMENT.

    A mass meeting of wharf labourers has been called for noon to-morrow to consider the agreement recentlly drawn up with the shipping companies. ...

    Article : 78 words
  32. THE ALLEGED TREASONABLE SPEECHES.

    Following the correspondence which has taken place between Sir Edward Carson, one of the Unionist members for Dublin University, and Mr. Will ...

    Article : 100 words
  33. CANADA AND THE STATES.

    In the House of Commons to-Day notices of questions were given to ask the Government whether Mr. James Bryce, the British Ambassador to the ...

    Article : 197 words
  34. ARCTIC EXPLORER'S UNTIMELY END.

    George Borrup, who accompanied Peary in his North Pole expedition, was drowned yesterday in Long Island Sound, owing to a boat in which he was ...

    Article : 40 words
  35. A BURGLAR DISTURBED.

    A burglar visited the residence of Mr. Walter Wilkinson at Kensington at about 4 o'clock this morning, but did not succeed in gaining an entry. ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. METHODIST CHURCH NEW NORFOLK.

    A well-attended welcome social to the Rev. Leslie S. Macdougall was held on Thursday evening at New Norfolk, and the senior circuit steward presided. ...

    Article : 474 words
  37. MAY DAY.

    During a May Day meeting in Unionsquare, New York, yesterday, the Socialists tore down the American flag and hoisted a red flag. Instead of ...

    Article : 62 words
  38. DUELLING IN GERMANY.

    A duel with pistols was fought yesterday at Rastatt, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, between Lisutenant Sprenger, of the German Army and Dr. Bruening, ...

    Article : 45 words
  39. RAMINEA'S FINE RECORD.

    The manner in which the electors whose polling-place is Raminea exercised their privilege on Tuesday is worthy of record. Out of 156 persons whose ...

    Article : 69 words
  40. WILMOT RESULTS COMPLETE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 613 words
  41. QUEENSLAND ELECTION.

    The absent votes, which have been Counted for Brisbane, gave Mr. Kirwan, Labour candidate, a majority of 35. Mr. Kirwan polled 2,277 votes, and ...

    Article : 96 words
  42. FINANCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  43. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    The Republicans of Massachusetts have selected President Taft as the candidate at the next election on a State preferential ballot, but at the ...

    Article : 82 words
  44. LOSS OF THE OCEANA.

    The directors of the, P. and O. Co. are suing for damages the owners of tho German four-masted barque Pisagua, which collided with the liner ...

    Article : 89 words
  45. CORONERS INQUEST.

    A coronial inquiry was held, to-day by Mr. E. V. Goldsmid into the cause of the death of Ellen Kemp, single, aged 21, the daughter of Alfred Kemp, ...

    Article : 73 words
  46. EXPLOSION ON OIL BARGE.

    A disastrous explosion occurred to-day on an oil barge moored on the Cuyahoga River, at the mouth of which the city of Cleveland stands. A huge ...

    Article : 83 words
  47. DISCOUNT.

    The market rate for short loans is 2? per cent., for bills at three months, 3 per cent. The rate in Paris is 3 per cent., and in Berlin 3¾ per cent. ...

    Article : 32 words
  48. BASS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 634 words
  49. IRELAND AND THE EMPIRE.

    Speakers at a Sinn Fein ("Ourselves") meeting, which was held in Dublin yesterday, referred to what they termed "the extraordinary and unnecessary ...

    Article : 91 words
  50. GENERAL TELEGRAMS

    A public meeting is to be called shortly for the purpose of arousing a more lively interest in the technical school, which is now in course of crection. ...

    Article : 219 words
  51. CONSOLS.

    Imperial consols, 2½ per cent., quoted at £78 5s. ...

    Article : 10 words
  52. N.S.W. MINISTRY.

    Although the Caucus ballot results are not yet all in, it is certain that Mr. J. H. Cann will be the new member of the State Ministry in succession ...

    Article : 125 words
  53. AUSTRALASIAN STOCKS.

    Victorian, 3 per cent., £84 10s.; New Zealand, 3½ per cent., £97. ...

    Article : 15 words
  54. P. AND O. STOCK.

    P. and O. defercd stock, which on Wednesday touched £405, declined to £355 yesterday. Later. ...

    Article : 66 words
  55. PRICE OF COAL

    The Mining Association has decided that, in view of the paying of increased rates to colliers under the Minimum Wage Act, tha price of coal will be ...

    Article : 81 words
  56. CRIMINAL BANKRUPTCY.

    George Zervudachi, formerly a wellKnown financier in Alexandria, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Cairo yesterday for criminal ...

    Article : 45 words
  57. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO.

    The directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. are issuing £960,000 worth of ordinary stock, chiefly in view of developments in connection with the ...

    Article : 42 words
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