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  2. THE COAL STRIKE.

    In a lull in the industrial storm 1909 passed away, and yesterday saw the new year commenced with the coal strike entering upon its ninth week. There was practically no change ...

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  3. COLLISION WITH A WHARF.

    A scene of wild excitement was witnessed early yesterday afternoon at the picnic jetties at Point Macquarie, and numbers of men, women, and children who had been occupying ...

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  4. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    During a dense fog in St. George's Channel yesterday, the Ellerman steamer Arcadian, bound from London for Glasgow and Basra, came into collision off ...

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  5. TRAGEDY AT TAMWORTH.

    A terrible tragedy occurred this afternoon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Goodworth, Murray-street, on the outskirts of the town. A woman named Annie Power, ...

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  6. LABOUR'S DISCONTENT.

    The eight hours' system in Northumberland collieries has evolved some dissatisfaction in regard to the shift system. Ten thousand miners are idle in ...

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  7. ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

    Mr. Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, in the course of a letter, writes that the lesson both from Germany and America is that tariffs; however high, are ...

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  8. THE £100 FINES.

    The fines of £100 impose, by Judge Heydon last week on the 13 members of the delegate board are still one of the principal topics of discussion amongst the miners. Beyond their ...

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  9. FIGHTING THE STEEL TRUST.

    The American Federation of Labour appeals to 1,500,000 members to subscribe to a fund to fight the Steel Trust. The federation stigmatises the Trust as a ...

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  10. THE MINERS' MINES.

    With regard to the coal taken by the Government from the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend collieries, it has been stated that the Government made no payment. The ...

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  11. THE EVASION OF THE LORDS.

    Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressed 6000 people at Reading on Saturday night. He said that colonials were watching the Budget with great ...

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  12. GIGANTIC TRUSTS.

    The New York correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that advices have been received from Valparaiso showing that Mr. Pierpont Morgan is associated with a ...

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  13. WRECK ON AMERICAN COAST.

    The British steamer Johanna was lost at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The mate and 11 seamen were drowned. The remainder were rescued. ...

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  14. MR. BOWLING GOES SOUTH AGAIN.

    Mr. Peter Bowling arrived in Sydney from Newcastle yesterday, with his right hand man, Mr. T. Biggars, and goes south this morning to Mount Kembla, where, he ...

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  15. REFORM OF THE LORDS.

    Several Ministers in their speeches have hinted at a preference for reform of the House of Lords from within. Meanwhile they will concentrate their attacks on the ...

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  16. LUDWIG MOND'S BEQUESTS.

    The late Dr. Ludwig Mond, the eminent chemist, of the firm of Brunner, Mond, and Co., bequeathed, subject to the life interest of his wife, £50,000 to the Royal Society ...

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  17. INFLUX INTO CANADA.

    The immigrants to Canada from the United States last year numbered 90,148, and from Europe 95,522. United States investments in Canada ...

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  18. A CHANGED ASPECT.

    In contrast to the opening day of the match, it was decidedly warm when the interstate cricket match was resumed at the Sydney Cricket Ground at noon yesterday. The game ...

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  19. THE CONSERVATIVE POLICY.

    Mr. A. Lyttelton (Conservative), in the course of an address to his constituents of St. George's, Hanover-square, says that the policy of the Government is to entomb the ...

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  20. GOVERNMENT COAL.

    The Acting Premier, Mr. Lee, stated yesterday that, so far as could be ascertained, the first shipment of the 60,000 tons of coal ordered by the Government would be here ...

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  21. TRAIN WRECKERS AT ALBURY.

    At Wodonga on New Year's Eve a train from New South Wales arrived at 2 a.m. with Beveral trucks of sheep. When the sheep had been untrucked the train was sent back ...

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  22. THE CONSPIRACY CHARGES.

    The Acting-Attorney-General, Mr. Garland, has not yet finally determined where the trial of Bowling, Burns, Brennan, Lewis, and Gray shall take place, but, in all probability, it ...

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  23. BOWLING V. HUGHES.

    Though a note of confidence in the new congress was the outcome of Mr. Bowling's recent meeting, it is generally felt that a ballot would result in a majority for the old congress. In ...

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  24. PARRAMATTA DISTRICT.

    At the Parramatta Police Court. Arthur Owen, a tall, powerful man, was charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and also with assaulting Senior-constable Robertson ...

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  25. MR. JOHN BURNS'S CANDIDATURE.

    Mr. John Burns, president of the Local Government Board, is making an unprecedentedly strenuous fight. He declares that he intends to visit every house in the ...

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  26. THE NAVAL OUTLOOK.

    The International Arbitration League in a letter describes Mr. Blatchford, the writer of the articles on "Britain's Unpreparedness," as "a scaremonger, and a mere ...

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  27. NEWCASTLE DISTRICT APATHETIC.

    The apathy of the whole district in regard to the strike is, if possible, more pronounced since the holidays than it has ever been, and to all outward appearances a settlement is ...

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  28. ASSAULT ON SUFFRAGISTS.

    Two women suffragists were being dragged from underneath the platform at Mr. Lloyd-George's meeting at Reading on Saturday, when a man in the front row ...

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  29. RAILWAY SOCIETY'S SECRETARY.

    Mr. Richard Bell, M.P. (Labour) for Derby, has resigned general secretaryship of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. ...

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  30. MR. BOWLING'S MEETINGS.

    Mr. Andrew Gray, secretary of the Coal and Shale Workers' Association, was in Wollongong this morning, arranging meetings in various centres for Mr. Peter Bowling and party. ...

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  31. ASSAULTED HIS SON.

    William Simpson, sen., a resident of Holmville, was sentenced to one month's hard labour without the option for assaulting his son, whom he hit on the head with a fender, ...

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  32. MR. HUGHES TO VISIT THE SOUTH.

    It has been arranged for Mr. W. M. Hughes to visit the South Coast district on Thursday, and address meetings it various centres, commencing at Figtree at 11.30, for Mount ...

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  33. TRADE-UNION LEGISLATION.

    Trade union and labour organisations in a circular urge that all candidates should be asked whether they will support an amendment of the Trade Union Acts, to ...

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  34. GAMBLING AT MONTE CARLO.

    Mr. Creuzier, a French-Canadian at Monte Carlo, who early last week won £23,200 at the roulette table, and nearly lost the whole amount next day; but ...

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  35. STORM CAUSES FIRES.

    During the recent electrical disturbance several fires occurred in the Beverley district, but beaters from town and a downpour of rain prevented extensive damage. ...

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  36. BUSH FIRES IN TASMANIA.

    Flerce bush fires are raging throughout the Lottah district. The battery and out-buildings at the Australia mine were totally destroyed. Many settlers' homes were ...

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  37. THE SUFFRAGIST NUISANCE.

    A suffragist by throwing some acid damaged a number of canvassing cards in Mr. John Burns's committee room. The acid also injured a clerk on a hand and ...

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  38. SOCIALISTS IN FRANCE.

    M. Clemenceau, formerly Prime Minister of France, who resigned membership of the Radical-Socialist party owing to the executive only supporting purely socialist ...

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  39. CASUALTIES.

    Neil Peterson, 50, a wharflabourer, living in Allan-street, Pyrmont, was working on Dalgety's wharf last night, when a bag of wheat fell on to him, injuring his back and chest. ...

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  40. AFGHAN GUN-RUNNING.

    The cruiser Perseus, of the East Indies squadron, landed a force at Pishkah, Baluchistan. The force marched inland, and drove off Afghans guarding 850 rifles and ...

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  41. CANALS ON MARS.

    Professor Percival Lowell declares that two canals, new to us, and new to Mars, have been discovered by observations of the Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, at the ...

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  42. FELL SIXTY FEET.

    When coming to the surface of the Cumberland mine in a skip a miner named Harry Hood fell 60ft to the bottom level, sustaining severe injuries. ...

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  43. TEAM CYCLE RACING.

    Ruatt, of Germany, and Clark, of Australia, won a six days' team cycle race at Berlin, covering 2327 miles. They divided £250. ...

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  44. NEWCASTLE CRANE EMPLOYEES.

    The members of the Newcastle Crane Employees' Union called a neeting yesterday morning in order that their delegate should have au opportunity of giving a report on the ...

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  45. AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET.

    Owing to the growing interests of the United States in the Orient the Pacific fleet has been subdivided into two portions—the Asiatic and Pacific fleets ...

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  46. KNOCKED DOWN BY AN ENGINE.

    John Patrick Lloyd, a tapper in the railway, was engaged examining the first division of the up express yesterday morning, when he was knocked down by an engine, receiving severe ...

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  47. FURTHER ATTACK ON MR. BOWLING.

    The secretary of the Trolley and Draymen, Mr. M. J. Conington, returned yesterday in the attack on Mr. Bowling, as a result of the latter's reply to his first. ...

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  48. PORT ARTHUR.

    Reuter's correspondent at Tokio announces that at an early date Port Arthur will be opened as a free commercial port of entry. ...

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  49. CUT THROAT WITH KEROSENE TIN.

    While undergoing a sentence in Busselton Gaol for being an idle and disorderly person, a young man named Wm. Reed cut his throat with a sharp edgo of a kerosene tin. It is ...

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  50. TYPHOID AT MONTREAL.

    A typhoid epidemic is raging at Montreal. Two thousand cases have been recorded, and the hospitals are overcrowded. ...

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  51. MINISTERIAL MOTOR CAR.

    At the police court to-day several persons charged with driving motor cars and motor vehicles at an excessive pace at St. Marys were dealt with. The inspector of ...

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  52. DRIVING ACCIDENT.

    Whilst a drover named Tonks was driving a horse and dray laden with poles for building purposes down the steep approach on the eastern side of the Billabong Bridge the ...

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  53. THE COTTON MARKET.

    Cotton for Liverpool, January and February delivery; is quoted 8.29d. ...

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  54. BURWOOD EXTENDED MINE.

    The proprietors of the Burwood Extended mine stated last week that they intended to start work at the colliery to-day. It was not believed here, however, that their ...

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  55. TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISION.

    Mr. Spencer Trask, a New York banker, was killed in a railway collision at Croton, near New York. Mr. Trask was sleeping in his privare ...

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  56. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The first test match between England (M.C.C.) and South Africa was started at Johannesburg on Saturday. South Africa scored 208 in the first ...

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  57. WHEAT SHIPMENTS.

    The barquentine Nebo will to-morrow complete loading the first shipment of this season's wheat for the United Kingdom, which will consist of 2000 tons, grown in the ...

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  58. DROWNED IN A WATERHOLE.

    The dead body of a young man, since identified as Thomas Hamilton, of Delungra, 25, was discovered this morning in a waterhole near a tracker's hut adjacent to the police station. ...

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