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  2. LETTER TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,—In reply to Councillor Tuck [?] letter the momiers of the P.P. Board [?] Vasy crossing road I press [?] will have to repair is themselves. I have, as [?] Coucillo ...

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  3. WRECK OF THE CLYDE.

    The Toroa arrived at Melbourne on Thursday from Macquarie Island, whither she conveyed the remaining members of the Mawson expedition, coal, and stores. She had on ...

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  4. MINERS' FEDERATION OFFICERS.

    The ballot papers used in connection with the voting just completed by the Miners' Federation for the offices of president and general secretary for next year are being counted ...

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  5. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    It is stated that the doctors opposed to the National Insurance Act are raising half a million sterling to guarantee the profession against loss and to make the boycott ...

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  6. UNITED STATES TARIFF.

    President Taft has despatched to Congress a special message covering the report of the Tariff Board on Schedule K of the Payne Tariff Act. ...

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  7. THE CHINESE REVOLT.

    At the conference on Wednesday Wu Ting Fang emphasised the necessity for the establishment of a republic. The Manchus, he said, would be placed on an equality with ...

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  8. CIVIL SERVICE INTERESTS.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, replying to a memorial from 400 members of the House of Commons, has agreed to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the system ...

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  9. EXPENSE OF THE CRIMEAN WAR.

    It has been roughly estimated that the total sum expended by all the belligere is during the Orimean war cannot fall far short of 2,000,000,000 dollars—£400,000,000. If to ...

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  10. CONSULS URGE PEACE.

    The Consuls of six Powers presented identical unofficial Notes to Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Yi, urging that a speedy understanding should be arrived at. ...

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  11. AUSTRALIAN'S SUCCESS.

    Mr. J. W. Jones, of the Melbourne University, has been awarded the Beit Memorial Fellowship, valued at £250, for three years, for medical research in regard to ...

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  12. THE ABOR MURDERS.

    The headmen of certain Abor tribes state that the warriors of Rotung and Kebang, who disappeared on the advance of the punitive expedition, were responsible for the murder of ...

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  13. THE INCIDENT AT DELHI.

    The "Daily News" protests against the newspaper attacks on the Gaekwar of Baroda in connection with the homage incident at Delhi, and recalls that he has introduced ...

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  14. JAPANESE ATTITUDE.

    The newspapers assert that Japan favours the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in China. ...

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  15. BATHS' FOR NEWCASTLE.

    Mr. J. S. Mollison, assistant engineer in the local Government branch of Public Works Department, conducted the statutory inquiry this morning at the Council ...

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  16. MISSIONARIES AND BANDITS.

    A number of China inland missionaries from Hunyai have reached Hankow, and are being escorted by revolutionaries to Chunking. Their escort repulsed an attack ...

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  17. IRELAND AND ITS CUSTOMS DUTIES.

    Mr. A. M. Anderson, Solicitor-General for Scotland, in a speech in North Ayrshire, said that nobody had ever suggested that Ireland should be given control of the ...

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  18. A COURT "SCENE."

    A riotous scene took place in court during the investigation of recent dynamite outrages. The County Prosecutor, Mr. Baker, ...

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  19. LABOUR UNREST.

    Fifteen factories in Dundee have closed owing to a shortage of coal. It now transpires that hooligans were chiefly responsible for the recent disorder ...

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  20. LONDON, Thursday afternoon. THE GREKWAR OF BARODA.

    In connection with the divorce proceedings with which the Gaekwar of Baroda is implicated, the Divorce Court has decided that he is an independent prince and ...

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  21. MINERS' STRIKE THREATENED.

    The Miners' Conference, at which 700,000 men are represented, is discussing the minimum wage question. The deligates from South Wales, ...

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  22. THE CHANCELLOR'S ASSAILANT.

    McDougall, who was imprisoned for the recent assault upon Mr. Lloyd-George, has eaten nothing since his conviction, as a protest against the sentence of hard ...

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  23. RAINS IN ENGLAND.

    Continuous rains are falling throughout England. ...

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  24. CENTENARIAN ELEPHANT.

    "Cairle," aged 100, the best-known elephant in America, who has outlived most of her proprietors, died last month (says the New York correspondent of the "Daily ...

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  25. GLOUCESTER.

    For the last two weeks motor cars, coaches etc., have been reaping a prolific harvest, being crammed full of passengers making their way to the cities to spend their Christmas ...

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  26. ALLEGED BLACKMAIL.

    Cross examined in giving evidence against Page, Glendenning and Marshall on a charge of blackmailing, the Countess do Maninstated that Mr. O'Connor warned her that ...

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  27. EXAMINER OF PLAYS.

    Mr. G. A. Redford, Examiner of Plays since 1895, has resigned his position. ...

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  28. TROUBLE IN COTTON TRADE.

    The campaign in the Lancashire cotton area against non-unionists has culminated in a strike of weavers at one Accrington mill. ...

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  29. BRITAIN'S MARITIME STRIKE.

    Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, ex-member of the British House of Commons, and the present general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, was a passenger from ...

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  30. A MISCHIEVOUS SUFFRAGETTE.

    Emily Davidson, a suffragette, has been committed for trial on a charge of placing a lighted rag soaked in kerosene in a letter box. Accused was admitted to bail on ...

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  31. A STRIKE ENDED.

    The strike of dye-workers in the Vale of Leven has ended. ...

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  32. LARGE ESTATE.

    The estate of Capt. Wm. Warner, connected with the North Australian Pastoral Co. has been entered for probate. Net personalty £131,478. ...

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  33. MINERS' BALLOT.

    The Miners' Conference has resolved to hold a ballot on January 10, with regard to the minimum wage question and if a two-thirds majority is in favour of a strike, ...

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  34. PAPAL DECREES.

    The text of the Papal decree intimated by cable on 12th instant ordains that laymen summoning an ecclesiastical person in any layman's court without permission of the ...

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  35. PRICE OF SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted at 2/1 3-10 pec oz. standard. ...

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  36. MODERN BRIGANDAGE.

    To-day the word brigand is associated more with the melodramatic stage and the sensational novel than with real life, and the inhabitants of civilised lands are rather apt to ...

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  37. Family Notices

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  38. BY-ELECTION.

    The by-election for North Ayrshire, consequent on the appointment of Mr. Andrew M. Anderson, as Solicitor-General for Scotland, resulted:—Capt. D. F. Campbell ...

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  39. NATIVES ON OASIS.

    The "National Zeitung" states that the Italians executed 40 natives bearing arms on the oasis at Tripoli. ...

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  40. BERESFORD'S SPEECHES.

    Mr. Reginald McKenna, recently First Lord of the Admiralty in writing to his election agent, stated that nobody attaches any importance to the speeches of Lord Charles ...

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  41. FRENCH BANK ROBBERY.

    Four armed robbers after shooting a bank messenger at Montmartre, stole 20,000 france in coin and £100,000 in securities, and escaped in a motor car. The messenger is in ...

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  43. A ROYAL HUNT.

    King George in his first day's shoot at Nepaul killed three tigers and three rhinoceroses. ...

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  44. THE CRETAN DEPUTIES.

    One Cretan Deputy to the Greek Assembly surreptitiously reached Athens despite the precautions of the authorities ; but he was re-shipped to Crete. ...

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  45. HEAVY WEATHER IN PORTUGAL.

    Rainstorms and cyclones have occurred on the Tagus, and other rivers, flooding the lower parts of Lisbon, Oporto, and other cities. ...

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  46. CONTRABAND ARMS.

    The newspapers approve of the occupation of Solum and the French occupation of Belina for facilitating the repression of contraband arms. ...

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  47. A NEW GUN.

    The firm of Krupps is constructing a 15 inch gun, with a barrel 60 feet long, which is to fire a projective weighing 858lb. ...

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  48. MERITS OF COMPULSORY SERVICE.

    In his article "Conscription," in the new edition of the "Encyclopnedia Britannica," Colonel Maude, lecturer in military history at the Manchester University presents some ...

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  49. RAILWAY PROPOSAL.

    Before the Pubic Works Parliamentary Committee the scheme for railway contruction between Coonabarabran and Burren Junction was under consideration. ...

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  50. NO BACHELOR TAX.

    On November 21 it was announced that the Meklenburg Diet had imposed on bachelors, who were not liable to provide for relatives, taxes 25 per cent. above those ...

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  51. IMPERIAL UNITY.

    Lord Dudley, speaking at Worcester, stated that the greatest security in regard to imperial unity and colonial adhesion lay in continually sending the best boys, soundly ...

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  52. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

    Count Khuen-Hedervary President of the Ministry, in replying to an interpolation in the Chamber, said he trusted that the Triple Alliance would remain undisturbed ...

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  53. THE COST OF WAR.

    The "Army and Navy Gazette" calls attention very appropriately to this subject. The war of 1870-71 cost France 12 milliards of francs, while some French writers set down ...

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  54. RUSSIA'S ULTIMATUM.

    The Mejllss (National Assembly) has by 39 votes to 19; accepted the Government's proposal to appointed commission of five deputies with plenary powers to deal with ...

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  55. IMMIGRATION ARRANGEMENTS.

    Mr. J. Whitehead, officer-in-charge of the Victorian Government Labour bureau—who, with Miss Cuthbertson, Chief Inspector of the Victorian Factories Department, has ...

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  56. THE WRECKED DELHI

    All the specie has been landed from the wrecked steamer Delhi. ...

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  57. CASES OF BLACK AND WHITE.

    The Southern Rhodesia Council has resolved that trial by jury is not suited to cases in which Europeans and natives are mutually concerned in crimes of violence, ...

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  58. MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

    The Chamber of Deputies last night approved the Moroccan agreement by 393 votes to 36. ...

    Article : 21 words
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