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  2. PICTURE SHOW PANIC

    'A' sensation occurred at the Theatre Royal last night during the progress of a picture show. A film caught fire shortly after the entertainment began, and as the ...

    Article : 296 words
  3. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    The Welsh colliery difficulty in South Wales has reached an acute stage, negotiations continued during the past week having failed to adjust the dispute. Yesterday ...

    Article : 154 words
  4. THE LABOR WORLD.

    'A few days ago Mr. John Barker, the authorised Labor candidate for the Jarrow Parliamentary division, retired from a contest, in which he stood a very good chance ...

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  5. MOTOR FATALITIES

    The motor race for the Vanderbilt Cup, over a 278-mile course, yesterday, was won by Mr. Harry Grant, with an Alco car. This race, which is an annual event, was ...

    Article : 154 words
  6. THE BOURKE TRAGEDY

    Boris Senkovitch, the young Russian arrested in Melbourne on a charge of having murdered Alexander Eismond at Bourke, reached Sydney yesterday morning. When ...

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  7. THE BALKAN CRISIS.

    The Athens correspondent of the "Times" reports extreme rigor which the Turks are exhibiting in the disarmament of insurgent bands in Macedonia, ...

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  8. A FIERCE BLOW.

    During Sunday afternoon exceptionally, heavy squalls swept over the Semaphore from the west and north-west, and the strong wind raised a high and angry sea. ...

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  9. BOMB OUTRAGE IN LOS ANGELES.

    A stocking dynamite outrage was perpetrated at midnight on Friday at the office of "Los Angeles Times," involving the sacrifice of many lives. ...

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  10. THE INDUSTRIAL POSITION.

    A trade unionist well acquainted with the inner workings of unionism has supplied the following article:— The result of the Trades and Labor ...

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  11. CARELESS DRIVING.

    Mr. Edward Rosenheimer, a wealthy manufacturer in New York, has been indicted by a grand jury on a charge of murder in the first degree for the killing of a ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. THE WONDERFUL WIRELESS.

    A Danish scientist, M. Houlson, is exhibiting at Copenhagen a remarkable invention by means of which lamps may be lit by wireless electricity, while in ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. COTTON MILLS.

    Notwithstanding Mr. Asquith's efforts to arrange a conference between the employers and operatives in the cotton trade, with a view to settling the dispute with ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. IMPURE LITERATURE.

    The London publishing firm of John Heywood &, Co., Ltd., has been fined £365 for selling objectionable books without imprints. Of these volumes 2,000 copies have ...

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  15. JOCKEY AND LEGISLATOR.

    The relative lucrativeness of the jockey's and the legislator's calling is shown by the value of the estates left by the late Mr. T. Loates, a one-time prominent horseman on ...

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  16. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    The "Law Journal" suggests that a simple solution of the payment of members problem arising out of the Osborne judgment farbidding trade unions to draw upon ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. THE BERLIN RIOTS.

    With regard to the maltreatment o[?] foreign journalists by the Berlin police during the riots a day or two ago, the president of the police force, while publicly ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. IRONFOUNDERS UNITE.

    A conference of unions, in connection with the metal-founding industries, representing 35,000 workers, have decided to amalgamate. ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. MODERN WARSHIPS.

    A seeond-dass cruiser just constructed for the British navy has achieved on her steam trials a speed of 26.84 knots. Excepting for torpedo destroyers this ...

    Article : 38 words
  20. A SUBMARINE'S EXPLOIT.

    A submarine torpedo boat belonging to the French fleet has completed a continuous voyage of 1,400 miles without a hitch. ...

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  21. THE BOY BILLIARDIST.

    George Gray, the Australian boy billiardist, who holds the world's record for the highest break (excluding the anchor stroke), which he made against Hughes in ...

    Article : 127 words
  22. COLLIERY DISASTER.

    A terrible colliery explosion is reported from Palen, in Mexico. One report states that 100 miners have been, killed, and a later report that 150 have been entombed. ...

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  23. THE LABOR PARTY.

    The action of the executive of the Labor Party in resolving to recommend the next conference, which meets at Leicester in February, to abolish the rule requiring Labor ...

    Article : 407 words
  24. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    Mr. Roosevelt, who a day or two ago defeated Mr. James Sherman, Vice-President of the United States, for the chairmanship of the New York Republican Convention, ...

    Article : 79 words
  25. FORGED NOTES.

    With regard to the alleged forgery and utterance of promissory notes by Captain Hugh Willyams and his wife at Truro, the latest development is the surrender of the ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. AVIATION.

    The list of recent aerial disasters is attaining formidable dimensions. A collision in mid-air is reported to have occurred at Milan between Captain Dickson ...

    Article : 77 words
  27. WOLVES IN NOVA SCOTIA

    Hordes of wolves in Nova Scotia are ravaging the sheepfolds, and many, farmers have suffered heavy losses. ...

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  28. SEDITION IN INDIA.

    At the trial before the Higher Court at Bombay of Venayak Danodar Savarkar, the Indian law student, for seditious practices, the evidence taken at the original trial ...

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  29. A QUARTER'S RETURNS.

    The revenue of the United Kingdom for the quarter ended yesterday amounted to £41,540,819, Customs yielding £8,290,000, Excise £12,071,000, and stamps £2,108,000. ...

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  30. STRANGE MURDER TRIAL.

    A strange murder trial has been brought to a close at Barrie, in Ontario. Mary Dolan and Thomas McNulty were charged with the murder of the former's ...

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  31. THE GALE AT GLENELG.

    The weather at Glenelg on Sunday was extremely boisterous, and a high sea was running in the afternoon, keeping the deck of the jetty awash at times. Some of the ...

    Article : 257 words
  32. IRISH WHISKY EXPORTS.

    An offidal return shows that the exports of Irish whisky between 1904 and 1908 averaged 8,000,000 gallons per annum, valued at over £2,000,000. Owing to the ...

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  33. A LONG RACE.

    An air race of a thousand miles, from Chicago to New York, has been planned. Ten competitors have entered. ...

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  34. NATAL DISASTER IN NEW-YORK.

    A terrible disaster occurred in North River, New York, last night. A tender, attached to the American battleship New Hampshire, capsized and 100 'bluejackets, ...

    Article : 74 words
  35. THE CAMORRA.

    The police in Cincinnati and Ohio are investigating the murder of an Italian, and are sanguine of being able to locate the American headquarters of the infamous ...

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  36. WHITEHAVEN DISASTER

    The work of recovering the bodies of the 133 miners who were entombed by the disastrous explosion in the Wellington Colliery at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, in ...

    Article : 53 words
  37. AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.

    Returns published by the Agent-General for New South Wales show that for the quarter ended yesterday 326 farm hands. 80 domestics, and 846 others were ...

    Article : 60 words
  38. IRRIGATION.

    Mr. H. McKenzie (Victorian Minister of Lands), who, with Mr. Elwood Mead (chairman of the Water Supply Commission), has been visiting p[?]ulous centres ...

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  39. AMERICA'S RESOURCES.

    The scheme for the conservation of America's natural resources, with which Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Gifford Pinchot (late head of the Federal Forestry ...

    Article : 77 words
  40. COLLISION IN THE PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.

    On Saturday afternoon a collision occurred on the Port Adelaide River between the Adelaide Steamtug Company's tug Euro, in command of Captain J. ...

    Article : 233 words
  41. A FLOATING ISLAND.

    A remarkable discovery, in the shape of a floating island, half a mile square, has been made off Cape Horn by the captain and crew of the barque Atlas, which has just ...

    Article : 159 words
  42. FISHING CUTTER WRECKED.

    Mr. R. Sims' fishing cutter Janet broke away from her moortings at Glenelg just before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening. She broke through the fence surrounding the ...

    Article : 107 words
  43. LAND VALUES TAXATION.

    As a result, it is understood, of the land values taxation clauses of last year's Budget Bill, Lord Manvers and the Countess of Carnarvon are disposing of their large ...

    Article : 44 words
  44. ACROSS ASIA.

    Baron Hirai, President of the Japanese Railway Board, is on a visit to Paris for the purpose of raising money for the construction of a railway from Mukden, the ...

    Article : 72 words
  45. A YACHT CAPSIZED.

    The wind piped lustily on Sunday and driving showers of rain from the northwest made things unpleasant both ashore and afloat. A little damage was done by ...

    Article : 265 words
  46. SINGULAR TRANSACTION

    As showing the moral depths to which under stress of poverty some of the aliens brought to American shores may sink, a New York paper publishes a statement to ...

    Article : 62 words
  47. GOLD IN A QUARRY.

    A discovery of gold has been made at Reef Hills, about four milias from Benalla. A contractor for the shire council brought several loads of stone from a quarry at the ...

    Article : 99 words
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