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  2. LABOUR DISPUTES.

    The strike of the Newcastle curters has been settled. The men to receive one shilling a week advance in their wages. ...

    Article : 103 words
  3. IRISH HOME RULE.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Opposition, delivered a speech at a gathering of the Nonconformist Unionist Association, in which, he denounced the ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  4. THE WORKING MAN.

    Whilst in London I have had many inquiries from working men as to the possibilities of their obtaining employment in Australia. I would not like to advise ...

    Article : 1,529 words
  5. CHRISTMAS DAY.

    Christmas Day is one of the quietest days of the year, not even excepting Sundays. Friends and relatives forgather, and usually they pass the day quietly, ...

    Article : 466 words
  6. SITUATION IN CHINA.

    Reuter's correspondent at Pekin states that the Chinese Government fears that the Peace Conference now being held in Shanghai will fail to ...

    Article : 141 words
  7. ITALY AND TURKEY.

    The Italians have captured a Turkish vessel, the Kaiserich, which professed to be hospital ship. Such vessels are immune from ...

    Article : 98 words
  8. RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION.

    An extremely interesting paper was read (says the London correspondent of the "Mining Standard") at the Manchester Institution Engineers on November 10th ...

    Article : 1,414 words
  9. EDUCATION IN GERMANY.

    In the course of his report on continuation schools, Mr. P. Board, the State Director of Education, makes the following interesting reference to German ...

    Article : 1,371 words
  10. SEVERE ENGAGEMENTS.

    Three thousand five hundred Turks and Arabs attacked Colonel Fara's force at Virtobras, near Aizizra. Colonel Fara formed a square, and ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. THE COTTON LOCK-OUT.

    Owing to the decision of the masters in the Lancashire cotton trade to lockout their employees, a subcommittee of the General Federation of Trade ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. FIGHTING IN PERSIA.

    Notwithstanding the announcement that the Persian Government had conceded the terms insisted upon by Russia in her ultimatum, and had ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    Messrs. Bardmore and Company, of Dalmuir, Clydebank, and Vickers, Sons, and Maxim of Barrow, have each contracted for the construction of a ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. MINING DISASTER.

    Owing to a waterburst in the pit shaft of one of the Wigan collieries, 87 miners were cut off. Twenty of the unfortunate men clung ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. STERN RUSSIAN MEASURES.

    After Ministerial consultation the Viceroy of the Caucasus has been ordered to send the largest possible reinforcements to Tabriz. ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. ORGAN RECITAL.

    At the carol service in Newcastle Cathedral last night, an organ and sacred music recital was given. There was a very large attendance of the public. Mr. Edward King ...

    Article : 236 words
  17. MR. CHURCHILL'S VIEWS.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, said that the navy was strong, both actually and relatively, and he paid a high tribute to Lord Fisher, to ...

    Article : 445 words
  18. CANADIAN ENTERPRISE.

    Mr. Donald Mann, the head of the Canadian Northern Railway Company, announces that it is anticipating the establishment of Australian and Oriental ...

    Article : 113 words
  19. PERSIA SUBMITS.

    At the instance of the Cabinet the Regent has dissolved the Mejliss. The Cabinet has unconditionally yielded to the Russian ultimatum. ...

    Article : 39 words
  20. FRENCH STEAMER SUBSIDIES.

    The French Governments brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies a proposal to grant a subsidy of £20,000,000, spread over 25 years, to ...

    Article : 90 words
  21. THE HOLIDAY IN SYDNEY.

    Quenching a thirst—be it permanent of temporary—and satisfying hunger are among the chief pleasures of the masses, Assuming stocks of both fluid and solids ...

    Article : 407 words
  22. ELECTRICIAN'S DEATH.

    An electrician named Whitaker has been electrocuted on the stage of a theatre in a girl's school in Rochester. He was superintending the ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. BRITISH SHIP BUILDING.

    Two hundred and ninety vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of 1,054,019 tons, were launched on the north-east coast of Britain during 1911. ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    An express train became derailed at Chiasso, in Switzerland. Four of the passengers were killed, and fifteen injured, several of them ...

    Article : 33 words
  25. PTOMAINE POISONING.

    Seventy cases of what is suspected to be ptomaine poisoning have occurred at Cardiff after a public dinner, at which the victims ate pork. ...

    Article : 43 words
  26. EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.

    The condition of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria is improving. His majesty is evincing a thorough knowledge of events in Tripoli. ...

    Article : 58 words
  27. FRANCE AND SPAIN.

    The Paris Newspaper "Le Temps" says that the counter-proposal made by Spain for the settlement of the Moroccan difficulty is impracticable. ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. VICTORIA.

    The weather to-day was warm, but pleasant. Christmas day was observed with the usual quietude. An engineer named William Myles, 45 ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. FEVER-STRICKEN BARQUE.

    The passage of the Norwegian four-masted barquentine Oberon, from Huanchese (Peru) to Newcastle, was marred by a severe outbreak of malaria and two ...

    Article : 274 words
  30. SYDNEY HARBOUR SENSATION.

    A collision occurred early this evening in Sydney Cove between the lorry steamers Koree and Kirribillli, both belonging to the Sydney Ferries, Limited. ...

    Article : 249 words
  31. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    A shocking tragedy occurred in the quiet suburb of East Brisbane shortly after nine o'clock to-night, when a man name Cooper, a wharf labourer, shot his ...

    Article : 131 words
  32. THE FRENCH GALES.

    Great loss of the was occasioned by the gales on the French coast. Fifty-four fishermen were drowned, leaving 2 women of 75 children ...

    Article : 32 words
  33. ALLEGED SERIOUS ASSAULT.

    Ethel, Quinn, a young woman, living in Lower Campbell-street, Surry Hills, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital to-night suffering from a fractured skull. It ...

    Article : 143 words
  34. LONDON'S NEW PLAY.

    M. Reinhard's play "The Miracle" has been produced at the Olympia, which has been transformed into a Gothic cathedral. ...

    Article : 41 words
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