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  2. SECOND EDITION

    Owing to the rain the wicket at Uttoxeter is in a sodden condition, and there will, be no play before lunch in the match between the Australian cricketers and Mr. ...

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  3. PEARY'S TRIUMPH.

    Commander Robert E. Peary telegraphs from Labrador that he has reached the North Pole. Reuter's correspondent has received a telegram from Commander Peary, dated from Indian Harbour, Labrador, stating that he had nailed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 359 words
  4. MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION.

    Besides Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett, who commanded the expedition, the members were:—Professor David B. MacMillan, a graduate of Bowdoin College, in Maine, who ...

    Article : 62 words
  5. BOWLING AVERAGES.

    Bowling averages in the Middlesex match, abandoned a fortnight ago on account of rain, with the county's total at 30[?] for five wickets, were:—Hopkins, three for ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. SHORT OF FUNDS.

    Commander Peary started on this expedition nearly £1000 short of the needed funds. He wanted £10,000, but only a little over £9000 was subscribed. The latter amount was ...

    Article : 349 words
  7. THE RETURN.

    That Peary ever returned at all is a marvel, for his escapes on the southern journey, the almost impossible hardships he and his men endured, make the trouble of the expedition ...

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  8. DEVELOPING RESOURCES.

    In the House of Commons last night Lord Robert Cecil moved the rejection of the Development, Road, and Improvement Funds Bill, which covers the whole field of ...

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  9. "WE THOUGHT HE WOULD."

    Professor David said last night that he was heartily glad to hear of Commander Peary's success. "We thought he would reach it all along," ...

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  10. COMMANDER PEARY'S PREDICTION.

    The "Times" recalls that Commander Peary stated before he left:— "If I reach the Pole in the coming winter my friends will hear of my triumph between August 15 and September 15." ...

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  11. TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

    The Trade Union Congress opened at Ipswich. There were present 495 delegates, representing 1,701,000 trade unionists. Mr. Shackleton, M.P., who presided, said ...

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  12. DR. COOK'S COMMENT.

    When Dr. Cook was informed of the success of Commander Peary, he said:— "Commander Peary must have reached the Pole by quite another route than mine. There is enough honour fox ...

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  13. A RACE FOR PRIORITY.

    Vice-Admiral Sir George Nares, an Arctic explorer, suggests that, in view of the coincidence of the simultaneous discovery of the Pole, it is possible that Dr. Cook, having learned of the success of Commander Peary, was making an effort to reach civilisation first, with ...

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  14. COWARDLY WOMEN.

    A party of womanhood suffragists accosted Mr. H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, outside of Lympne Church, Kent, yesterday. The Prime Minister's hat was ...

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  15. DR. COOK'S DOCUMENTS.

    Dr. Cook is strongly criticised for sending his diary to America from Etah, presumably by a vessel starting before the departure of the steamer Hans Egede, the ...

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  16. UNRESERVED ACCEPTANCE.

    Newspapers of Europe and America unreservedly accept the cables from Commander Peary announcing his discovery. ...

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  17. PEARY'S CAREER.

    Robert Edwin Peary was born at Cresson, in Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856. He is descended from a family of Maine lumbermen. His father dying in 1858, he lived with his ...

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  18. CZARINA IN ILL-HEALTH.

    Owing to the unsatisfactory health of the Czarina, the visits of the Czar to Constantinople and Rome have been abandoned. Their Majesties will remain at ...

    Article : 53 words
  19. PEARY AND THE POLE.

    Commander Robert Peary is 51 years of age, and is the oldest explorer to venture into the North since Sir John Franklin's day half a century ago. The Roosevelt, on which ...

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  20. PROVISIONING OF THE ROOSEVELT.

    The Roosevelt was well stocked with supplies. Among the provisions stored in [?]er hold were 16,000lb of flour[?] 10,000lb of coffee, and 10,000lb of tea, 20,000lb of corned beef. ...

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  21. KILLED WHILE HUNTING.

    Mr. Richard Lawley, only son of Sir Arthur Lawley, Governor of Madras (formerly Governor of Western Australia), was killed while hunting in the Nilgiri ...

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  22. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    The Legislative Assembly met this afternoon, when the second reading of the Sea Carriage of Goods Bill and the Licensed Surveyors Bill were carried. The Minister for ...

    Article : 131 words
  23. DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK.

    The Roosevelt left New York on July 6, 1908. She got in motion from the pier at East Twenty-fourth-street (writes the "New York Tribune"), and headed towards Hell ...

    Article : 253 words
  24. LAURENTIAN ASHORE.

    The Al[?]an liner Laurentian is ashore at Trepassey Bay, on the south coast of Newfoundland. The Laurentian is an old vessel, and in her ...

    Article : 120 words
  25. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly to-day the Government's progressive land tax proposals were further debated, and a test vote taken on the first resolution. The Labour members voted with ...

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  26. THE CONGO.

    "Patriote," a leading Roman Catholic newspaper in Brussels, declares that Prince Albert, nephew of King Leopold, and Heir Presumptive, during a recent visit to the ...

    Article : 85 words
  27. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Mayor (Alderman Molloy) and councillors of perth entertained at a banquet a large number of representative citizens, including the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland. The ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. PEARY'S LAST VOYAGE.

    A very short summary of Peary's 1905-6 voyage of discovery, in which he reached 87deg [?]min, N. lat., was printed in the "Herald" on the first announcement that Dr. Cook had ...

    Article : 1,333 words
  29. TRACES OF DR. COOK.

    Professor David reviewed the possibilities of Lieutenant Peary finding traces of Dr. Cook. He said it was not likely that the scaled tube which Dr. Cook claims to have left at ...

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  30. MISHAP TO THE FIONA.

    Just after entering the Heads early this morning the steamer Fiona, from Fiji, became disabled owing to her steering gear carrying away. The engines were at once stopped, and ...

    Article : 65 words
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