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  2. THE DYING STRIKE.

    That the situation in the south is desperate was evidenced by the tone of a largely-attended meeting of the South Bulli miners to-day, when it was decided that the district ...

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  3. VICTORIAN RAILWAY SMASH

    Driver Groon, one of the victims of the Beaufort railway smash, has furnished the railway authorities with a statement regarding the accident. He said: "I signed on to ...

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  4. SYDNEY'S TELEPHONES.

    The electrical engineer of the Postal Department in Sydney (Mr. Nelson) has furnished a report to the Postmaster-General dealing with an article published in the ...

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  5. EIGHT HOURS ACT.

    Sir William Bull, M.P., In a letter to the newspapers, says that the Eight Hours in Coal Mines Act has caused all-round disappointment. ...

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  6. DISASTER AT SEA.

    The Alaska-Pacific liner Kentucky sank off Cape Hatteras owing to the seams opening through the vessel straining during a storm. ...

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  7. LABOUR IN CONFERENCE.

    Five thousand delegates attended a conference of the Labour party at Newport, representing 1,481,368 members. The report of the executive committee ...

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  8. CONTROL OF TRUSTS.

    The Federal Incorporation Bill, proposed by President Taft, has been introduced into the House of Representatives. The bill enables corporations to secure a ...

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  9. CHARGE AGAINST LA MILO.

    La Milo, a music-hall performer, Ferdinand Eggena, her husband, and Percy Easton, a motor-car agent, were charged at Bow-street Police Court yesterday with ...

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  10. MOTOR CAR WRECKED.

    Beuter's Agency reports that, disregarding a warning that blasting operations were being carried out on a private road in phoenix, Arizona (U.S.A.), a motor ...

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  11. HOUSE OF LORDS' VETO.

    Mr. C. Roberts, M.P., a whip of the Labour party, in the course of an interview, stated that the party would assist the Government if it decided to abolish ...

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  12. ANXIOUS TO RESUME.

    A meeting of the Mt. Kembla miners was held this afternoon, when there was a large attendance. Mr. Poland presided. A resolution was carried inviting Mr. H. A. ...

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  13. IRISH MEMBERS.

    The Right Rev. E. T. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, has issued a Pastoral, in which he condemns the alliance of Irish Roman Catholic members of ...

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  14. BANK CASHIER MURDERED.

    M. Thain, cashier of the Lille branch of the Bank of France, called at a fashionable private house to receive 4000 francs (£160). He was robbed and murdered, and his body ...

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  15. SANDBAGGED AT DRUMMOYNE.

    Mr. Charles Gebrig, a wine merchant, living in Edwin-street, Drummoyne, was suddenly attacked just after midnight by three men as he was going through the front gate of his ...

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  16. A SPARTAN EMPEROR.

    The German Emperor sentenced the Crown Prince William to 48 hours' detention in the Palace at Munich for thoughtlessness in neglecting to notify the ...

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  17. LORD KITCHENER.

    The tactical scheme in connection with the Ross Camp commenced on Monday. The force, which numbered about 1000, were divided into two, rods and blues, under the ...

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  18. FRENCH FLOODS.

    The French Government will ask Parliament for a further £800,000 to relieve the sufferers. After falling 14ft the Scine is showing a ...

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  19. OLD CHINA DEALER.

    Arthur Thomas Ellis, a dealer in old china, has been committed for trial at the Bow-street Police Court on a charge of obtaining by false pretences £500 from the ...

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  20. CHARGE AGAINST A CHEMIST.

    Dr. Martin Ekenberg, a chemist, who was ordered to be extradited from England on a charge of sending bombs to Mr. John Hammar, director of the Swedish Export ...

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  21. A PREVENTION SCHEME.

    Among the suggested preventives of floods in Paris is the construction of an overflow canal from St. Maur across the Saint Denis Plain. ...

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  22. METHODS OF RIVALS.

    Replying to the toast of "The Colonies" at the dinner of the Birmingham Jewellers and Silversmiths' Association, Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South ...

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  23. BALLOT IN THE NORTH.

    The Board of Delegates who met to-day did not accept the compulsory wages board, but they decided to recommend the district to take a ballot on the question. They also ...

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  24. ROSTAND'S "CHANTECLER."

    Rostand's "Chantecler" was produced last night in Paris to a brilliant audience, the production including 150 marvellous costumes of cocks and hens, pheasants, ...

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  25. HARBOUR COLLISION.

    A collision, which fortunately was not attended with serious damage, occurred at about 6 o'clock last evening off Bradley's Head between the steamer. Manly, belonging to the ...

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  26. BANK TELLER SHOT.

    Mr. Ward, branch manager of the Bank of Australasia at Hamilton, and Mr. Jordan, teller at Hamilton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, were driving to Ohaupo this morning ...

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  27. THE BURWOOD EXCHANGE.

    Referring to a complaint received from Burwood in regard to the inefficiency of the telephone service there, the Deputy Postmaster-General, in a report to the Minister, admits ...

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  28. WARNING TO EMIGRANTS.

    Swedish newspapers, at the instance of the Government, have published a warning to immigrants issued by Count Morner, Swedish Consul in Sydney, against ...

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  29. PENALTY FOR BOYCOTTING.

    Two hundred and forty-one members of the Hatmakers' Union of Danbury, Connecticut, have been ordered to pay £38,000 for boycotting a firm which refused to deal ...

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  30. FINED FOR GROWING WHEAT.

    Two Tichbourne farmers were fined £2 and £3 respectively by the local land board for growing wheat on land on their special leases, which they were not permitted to cultivate ...

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  31. AGED COUPLE DIVORCED.

    Arial Van Gelder, market gardener (73), to-day obtained a divorce from his wife, who is 70 years of age, on the ground of desertion. The parties were married in 1864, ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, fearing the effects of the proposed maximum rates of the Port of London, has resolved to be represented by counsel at the ...

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  33. KING OF SWEDEN ILL.

    King Gustavus V. of Sweden suffered internal pains since Sunday. Appendicitis was diagnosed, and an immediate operation was made at midnight yesterday. The ...

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  34. TIMBER-WORKER SHOT.

    A shooting case has occurred at Brown's Hill, near Greenbushes. Hugh Blum was shot in the thigh by another timber worker named Angus Beggs, and is now under treatment in ...

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  35. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY.

    In commenting to-day upon the offer made by the Premier of Western Australia (Mr. Moore) to hand to the Commonwealth the revenues from una[?]lenated Crown lands 25 ...

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  36. MELEE NEAR RALEIGH.

    A melee is reported to have taken place three miles from Raleigh yesterday, in which a man named Bob Wilson was severely injured. It appears that Wilson and two other ...

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  37. THE SIMPLON TUNNEL.

    Italy and Switzerland are fortifying their respective entrances to the Simplon Tunnel. Mines are being laid inside the tunnel. ...

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  38. MISS VIOLET CHARLESWORTH.

    Miss Violet Charlesworth, who mysteriously disappeared after a motor-car accident in Wales at the commencement of last year, has been arrested, together with her ...

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  39. TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK.

    What appears to have been a deliberate attempt to wreck the Wanbra train was made yesterday afternoon. The fact that the act was not attended with disastrous results was ...

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  40. LAZY TELEGRAPH BOYS.

    Numerous complaints have been made regarding the laziness of telegraph messengers, particularly in Sydney. These have been brought under the notice of the ...

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  41. POPE AND EX-VICE-PRESIDENT.

    The Pope cancelled an arrangement to receive Mr. C. W. Fairbanks, ex-Vice-President of the United States, after his tour of the Orient, because he had ...

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  42. DOUBLE DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    A double drowning accident occurred on Monday. William and Donald Campbell Gibson, sons of Mr. Joseph H. Gibson, master painter, aged 11 and 10 respectively, were ...

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  43. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    Router's correspondent states that the cause of the failure to bring about a coalition Government for the union of South Africa is the fear by the Cape of the ...

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  44. TRAGIC DEATH.

    This morning about 7 o'clock, the wife of Mr. Charles Glendinning, Brook-street, cut her throat with a carving knife while temporarily insane. Death was instantaneous ...

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  45. ROUNDING UP NATIVES.

    An inquest was held at Lawler's on the body of a native woman named Annie. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met her death through a bullet wound ...

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  46. AEROPLANES TERRIFY ARABS.

    The appearance of some aeroplanes at Heliopolis, Egypt, terrified many Arabs. Ladies from harems, seated in a special grandstand, watched the spectacle from ...

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  47. MEREDITH'S UNFINISHED COMEDY.

    Mr. D. Frohman is producing the late Mr. Meredith's unfinished comedy "The Sentimentalists." ...

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  48. LIFE INSURANCE SCHEME.

    In his policy speech last night, the Prime Minister expressed the hope that the State Governments might join hands with the Commonwealth in any scheme of life insurance ...

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  49. THE SOUTHERN BOARD.

    The Southern Collieries Wages Board, consitting of Judge Edmund (chairman), Messrs. Firth and Robertson (owners' representatives), and Messrs. F. Dunleavy and J. T. ...

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  50. ABOLITION OF STATE GOVERNOR.

    The resolutions carried at the recent A.N.A. conference were to-day presented to the Premier and Treasurer by the board of directors of the association. One of the ...

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  51. JUMPED OFF THE ROCKS.

    A young man was observed to walk out on to the rocks at the Newcastle beach this afternoon. Pulling off his coat he jumped into the water, and sank out of sight, but two ...

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  52. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. Francis Quinlan, formerly a County Court Judge, of Victoria. Death was due to heart failure, and occurred at Clevedon, Somerset. ...

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  53. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

    The returns of trade of the United Kingdom prepared by the Board of Trade show that imports during January increased by £2,420,790, exports increased by ...

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  54. DREDGE FOUNDERS AT SEA.

    The master of the steamer Schlesion, which reached Fremantle on Monday, reported that on January 14, where the vessel was about six hours' steam from Capetown, the dredge Cerny, ...

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  55. KATOOMBA RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    It ts rumoured that the railway accident on Saturday night was the result of mischievous boys putting stones on the line. The matter is in the hands of the police, who are ...

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  56. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    Advices from Christchurch state that Arnst and Whelch have signed articles to row at Akaroa on April 2 for the championship of the world and £300 a side. ...

    Article : 34 words
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