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  2. GENERAL CABLES.

    The State department at Washington reported on March 25 that it was considered possible that the labours of the conference would terminate successfully in a few days. ...

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  3. EGYPT AND TURKEY.

    The Porte refuses to withdraw its troops from Tabah, the Egyptian town on the Sinai peninsula, which it seized from Egypt a few weeks ago. The Turks affirm that the ...

    Article : 271 words
  4. PROTECTING UNION FUNDS.

    Sir Lawson Walton, the Attorney-General, introduced on March 28 the Trades Disputes Bill, which he explained, embodied the principle of the act of ...

    Article : 539 words
  5. BALLOON ADVENTURE.

    Two German soldiers have had a narrow escape on a balloon journey. They started from Berlin, and when over the Baltic were caught in a snowstorm. The heavy height ...

    Article : 60 words
  6. PRINCE BULOW WILL RESIGN.

    The Vienna correspondent of "The Times" says that "serious politicians" in constant contact with Berlin declare that Prince Bulow will shortly hand his ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. A LUCKY GAMBLER.

    A Hungarian sportsman named Szemere, who in 1904 won in a night 1,000,000. florins at the Vienna. Jockey Club, has now won 600,000 florins from two young noblemen. ...

    Article : 32 words
  8. BAGGING IN THE ARMY.

    Four officers of the Scots Guards, stationed at Alderehot, have been arrested for brutally ragging a young officer, who was unable to live as expensively as they ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION.

    Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has since announced in the House that the Government had chosen a committee to inquire into South African ...

    Article : 321 words
  10. POLES IN PRUSSIA.

    With a view of stopping the sale of estates in East Prussia to Poles with an anti-German bias, the Kaiser has conferred peerages on a number of Wealthy merchants, ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. THE GERMAN NAVY.

    The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says that the turbine system has so impressed the naval authorities of Germany, that for the future all war-ships are to be fitted on this ...

    Article : 53 words
  12. GERMANY'S ISOLATION.

    Daring a debate in the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, the leader of the Socialist party, attributed the isolation of Germany to distrust of her naval policy. He said that ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. GENERAL STOESSEL CENSURED.

    A Russian commission of inquiry has for some months been investigating the circumstances of the surrender of Port Arthur. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  14. EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY.

    Mr. Herbert Gladstone, the Home Secretary, has introduced into the House of Commons a bill to embody the provisions and extend the principles of the Workmen's ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. HACKED TO DEATH.

    An extraordinary discovery has been made in a small hut in Minneapolis, the chief city of the state of Minnesota. The hut was occupied by Greek or Syrian ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. THE BOERS' CLAIM.

    Speaking at a meeting at Pretoria, Mr. Smuts said that only representation on a population basis would be satisfactory as far as Het Volk is concerned. ...

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  17. INSURANCE MANAGER ABBESTED.

    Prompt action has been taken to carry ont the decision of the Government of the state of New York to prosecute Mr. Geonge Walbridge Perkins in connection with the ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. MR. BALFOUR THREATENED.

    Mr. Balfour, the ex-Prime Minister, recently received a letter, in which an attempt was made to extort £5,000 by means of threats. ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. CRIMINAL APPEALS.

    Lord Loreburn (Sir Robert Reid), the Lord Chancellor, has introduced into the House of Lords a bill to allow an unrestricted right of appeal in all criminal cases ...

    Article : 166 words
  20. JAPAN'S NAVY.

    The 600 officers and seamen who have come from Japan to take back the battleships Kashima and Katori are visiting various objects of interest in London. ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The steamer Deufcschland, of the Hamburg-America line, while crossing the Atlantic, maintained wireless telegraphic communication with land for the whole of the ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. FANNING ISLAND.

    The reported sale or projected sale to a German syndicate of Fanning Island, one of the stations of the Pacific Cable, has considerably perturbed the members of the ...

    Article : 87 words
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  24. COAL STRIKE THREATENED

    The dispute between the United Mine Workers' Association of the United States and the owner of the bituminous coal mines has now reacted a critical stage. ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. TRADES UNION REVENGE.

    About a fortnight ago a foundry in New York, owned by Messrs. Ravitch Brothers, was partly destroyed by dynamite. Nonunionist workmen were employed by the ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. SESVIAN REGICIDES.

    Great Britain has reiterated her demand for the dismissal from office of 11 regicides who were concerned in the brutal murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga, in ...

    Article : 74 words
  27. MINER'S STRIKE.

    Following the example of the miners in the North of France, who after the mine disaster at Courrieres struck for higher wages, the miners at Mons, in Belgium, ...

    Article : 100 words
  28. NEW LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

    Sir Richard Solomon, Attorney-General of the Transvaal Colony since 1902, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor in succession to Sir Arthur Lawley, now Governor ...

    Article : 48 words
  29. THE HUNGRY IN ENGLAND.

    Replying, to a correspondent, Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman gave an explanation of the statement made by him when in opposition, that 12,000,000 persons in Great ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. PETITION TO THE KING.

    A petition to the King is being signed in the Transvaal, asking His Majesty to embody in the new constitution the principle "one vote one value." ...

    Article : 55 words
  31. RIOT IN ROUMANIA.

    Trouble arose in Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, over a performance at the national theatre. This was in French, and a band of ultra-patriotic students took ...

    Article : 92 words
  32. MISCELLANEOUS.

    In accordance with Che agreement arrived at last year, the Port Adelaide left Hull for Australia direct on January 12. The Port Victoria, of the same line loading cargo ...

    Article : 524 words
  33. TROUBLE IN ABYESINLA.

    The death of Sir Ras Makounen. the Governor-general of Harran and its dependencies, in Abyssinia, is causing great unrest among the turbulent tribes of ...

    Article : 58 words
  34. HONOURING LORD MILNER.

    At the Customs Conference in Natal a resolution has been carried expressing profound regret at the attitude largely taken up in England towards Lord Milner, in ...

    Article : 150 words
  35. JUDGE AND STEPDAUGEHTERS.

    Some months ago Mrs. Kenneth Grahame and Miss Winifred Thomson proceeded against their stepfather, Lord Justice Moulton, to recover a certein [?] ...

    Article : 77 words
  36. THE KAFFIR RISING.

    During the trial by court-martial of the indunas of the Umzinto chief Fynn. evidence was elicited, showing that only the magistrats's fact and presence of mind ...

    Article : 90 words
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