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  2. HEAVY STEEL RAILS.

    A proposal that heavy steel rails shall be manufactured at Lithgow is now under consideration. If this decision is come to an immense step will have been taken in the ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. TELEPHONE RATES.

    The report of the accountants (Messrs. Holmes and Whitton) appointed to examine telephone accounts has been laid on the table of Parliament. It consists of replies to ...

    Article : 423 words
  4. ROCKCHOPPERS' TROUBLES.

    The adjournment of the Legislative Assembly was moved last evening by Mr. Carmichael with a view to reviewing the action of the Minister for Works in placing a ...

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  5. THE FIGHT PICTURES.

    Many mayors in America have forbidden the display of moving pictures of the prize fight between Johnson and Jeffries. Several newspapers in Capetown ...

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  6. PASSENGER RATE-CUTTING.

    The North German Lloyd Company announces that it will cease its working agreement with the Orient Steam Navigation Company and the Peninsula and ...

    Article : 342 words
  7. THE CIVIL LIST.

    The select committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the Civil List recommends a similar amount to that for the last reign, namely, £470,000, ...

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  8. BRITAIN'S BURDEN.

    In the debate on the Budget in the House of Commons yesterday complaint was made of the mounting expenditure. Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, replying to ...

    Article : 172 words
  9. IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION.

    A luncheon in connection with the Imperial Co-operation League was held yesterday. The Earl of Onslow presided. Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for ...

    Article : 288 words
  10. OPPOSITION IN SYDNEY.

    There is a determined, move on the part of the leaders of the churches in Sydney to prevent the pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries fight being shown in any part of Australia. ...

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  11. AUSTRALIAN NERVE.

    The "Westminster Gazette" says that the cricketing feats of P. R. le Couteur, of Oxford, formerly of Victoria, and D. C. Collins, of Cambridge, formerly of New ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. FIRST IN CRICKET AVERAGES.

    Le Couteur heads the Oxford bowling averages, taking 49 wickets at a cost of 14 runs apiece. He is second in the batting, his average being 31 for 15 innings. ...

    Article : 260 words
  13. FRIENDLY RELATIONS.

    The interchange of visits between various churches in Great Britain and Germany has resulted in the founding of a permanent organisation, by which the ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. TRIANGULAR CRICKET.

    Prominent cricketers in Johannesburg are hopeful that Mr. Abe Bailey will be able to surmount the deadlock in regard [?]o the triangular cricket contests arising out of ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. RABBIT FOOD.

    Mr. Holman's statement, published in the "Herald," that diseased rabbits are hawked about the streets of Sydney and sold for food was the subject of a great deal of comment ...

    Article : 459 words
  16. MR. HESKETH'S VIEWS.

    The Chief Electrical Engineer (Mr. John Hesketh) submitted a reply to the accountants' report. After commenting in detail upon the report he offered the following summary ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. ACTION IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. T. E. Taylor Intends to ask[?] Parliament to prohibit the exhibition of the pictures of the Reno fight. ...

    Article : 28 words
  18. A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VIEW.

    Mr. G. M. Evan, chairman of the Board of Control, made the following statement to-day:-"Everything in connection with the proposed tour progressed satisfactorily ...

    Article : 186 words
  19. VICTORIAN IMMIGRATION SCHEME

    The initial meeting of the Victorian Immigration delegates, Messrs. M'Kenzie and Mead, was held in the Victorian office at noon yesterday, and was attended by 50 ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. THE BRICK COMBINE.

    The advance of 4s per 1000 in the price of bricks was referred to in the Legislative Assembly a few days ago by Mr. Beeby, who mentioned that the increased cost of labour ...

    Article : 156 words
  21. FAMOUS TRAVELLER DEAD.

    The death is announced of Captain Kynard Hawdon, grandson of Mr. Joseph Hawdon, and the hero of the journey through Asia to Quetta in 1904. Captain ...

    Article : 420 words
  22. LEAD-GLAZING OF POTTERY.

    A committee appointed by the Home Office to investigate the effects on persons employed in the lead-glazing of pottery, besides recommending the ...

    Article : 60 words
  23. SPANISH RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

    Senor Canalejas, Premier of Spain, speaking in the Senate, said that religious orders complying with the law would be registered, but others would be punished. ...

    Article : 31 words
  24. SIR FREDERICK YOUNG.

    On behalf of the British Empire League the Duke of Devonshire has presented Sir Frederick Young, vice-president of the Royal Colonial Institute, with a silver cup, ...

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  25. MENTION IN PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Thomas) said that if a subscriber made two calls a day his telephone would cost him £4 10s a year in the ...

    Article : 153 words
  26. THE SCHROEDER SALE.

    The sale of the art collection of the late Sir J. H. W. Schroeder was continued at Christie's yesterday. The collection of snuffboxes realised £30,859, including ...

    Article : 40 words
  27. GUILLOTINE IN CHINA.

    China has imported the first guillotine, Henceforth executions will not be made in public, and the practice of torture will be abolished. ...

    Article : 32 words
  28. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Yesterday the committee which is selecting a site for Sydney's wireless telegraph station, visited Narrabeen, and inspected the locality. There are now altogether ten places ...

    Article : 187 words
  29. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.

    The Court has awarded the wife of Mr. Skailes, purser of the missing steamer Waratah, £300 compensation. [Under the Workmen's Compensation Act, ...

    Article : 54 words
  30. DE BEERS MONOPOLY.

    The Court of Appeal has confirmed the judgment of Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady in the trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, in which he ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. WOOD-BLOCKS CONTRACT.

    The Lord Mayor made the following rejoinder to Alderman Hughes's further criticism of the city wood-block tender reported in the "Herald":— ...

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  32. ALMOST A DISASTER.

    A terrible catastrophe was narrowly averted off Rockaway Beach, New York State, yesterday. The steamer Grand Republic caught fire amidships, and ...

    Article : 84 words
  33. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

    The Court of Appeal has decided that nervous shock, due to witnessing a fatal accident to a fellow-workman, has entitled a Pontefract collier to the benefits of the ...

    Article : 42 words
  34. SUPERHEATING STEAM.

    "Yes," said a leading officer in the Railway Department yesterday, "we are going to try the superheating of steam on our locomotives. In a day or two we will be ready to fit up one ...

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  35. THE CHARGES REVIEWED.

    Mr. Cook, member for Parramatta, criticising the figures this afternoon, said:—"I could not believe until the Postmaster-General had answered my question to-day that he was aware ...

    Article : 389 words
  36. MURDER IN A TRAIN.

    John Alexander Dickman, ex-colliery secretary, has been found guilty at Newcastle of murdering John Innes Nisbet, a colliery cashier, in a Newcastle train. ...

    Article : 289 words
  37. ALL-BRITISH AEROPLANE.

    Mr. Grahame While and other aviators will nominate a committee to utilise Lady Abdy's gift of £50,000 for the construction of an airship, or combined airship on the ...

    Article : 89 words
  38. DEFUNCT BANK'S NOTES.

    A fortnight ago the Inspector-General of Police said that the man who has been shopping with £5 notes issued by the defunct Provincial and Suburban Bank of Victoria had ...

    Article : 194 words
  39. SWEDENBORG CONGRESS.

    The International Swedenborg Congress was opened in London yesterday. The contributors of papers included Dr. M. A. Neuburger, of Vienna, and other ...

    Article : 448 words
  40. MUTINY VETERANS' MEETING.

    Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, Field-Marshal Sir George White, and 150 other veterans of the Indian Mutiny, including 80 officers, ...

    Article : 55 words
  41. TRIALS OF THE YARRA.

    The Australian torpedo boat destroyer Yarra has completed her 24 hours' continuous trial. She averaged 27 knots. ...

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  42. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A trawler foundered off the coast of Iceland, and 12 persons perished. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. Robert Charles Smith, a gentleman ...

    Article : 156 words
  43. A LOST BABY.

    A young lady resident of Woy Woy had a somewhat unique experience the other day. She was travelling to Sydney, and on arrival at Strathfield a woman, who it is thought ...

    Article : 96 words
  44. DOUBLE SUICIDE.

    A double tragedy occurred in the city at a late hour to-night in a Japanese laundry. A white woman named Annie Carroll, otherwise Mrs. Richardson, living with a Japanese at a ...

    Article : 126 words
  45. LORD HARDINGE.

    Sir Charles Hardinge, Governor-General designate of India, has been created a baron. ...

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  46. LABOUR MEMBER'S PROTEST.

    Speaking in the House of Representatives to-night. Mr. Webster (N.S.W.), a member of the Postal Commission, referred to the decision of the Postmaster-General to abolish the ...

    Article : 256 words
  47. SITUATION IN CRETE.

    Greece has enjoined the Cretans to obey the Protecting Powers—Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy. In spite of the admonitions of the ...

    Article : 42 words
  48. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 words
  49. DREADNOUGHT FOR BRAZIL.

    It is announced that Brazil has ordered a 32,000-ton battleship from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Ltd., Elswick. ...

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  50. A SERIOUS CHARGE.

    Sup-inspector Anderson and Constable Lennon to-day arrested by a warrant a miner named Arthur Henty Martin, charging him with maliciously causing to be taken by one ...

    Article : 141 words
  51. ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. There was a moderate attendance. Prices receded 3 per cent., or from 5 to [?] centimes, compared with the last series. ...

    Article : 60 words
  52. REPAIRING THE CABLE.

    The Pacific Cable Board's steamer Iris is proceeding to repair a break in the Eastern Extension cable between Wakapuaka and Sydney, about 230 miles from New Zealand. ...

    Article : 60 words
  53. SIR ELDON GORST.

    Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the House [?] Commons, said it was not intended to transfer Sir Eldon Gorst, British Agent ...

    Article : 44 words
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