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  2. TERRIFIC SQUALL.

    One of the most severe windstorms experienced for a number of years suddenly struck the city at a quarter to 5 yesterday afternoon from the direction of south-west. There ...

    Article : 421 words
  3. EIGHT-HOUR BANQUET.

    The annual banquet in anticipation of Eight Hours Day was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday night, and was one of the most successful, if not the most successful, of all the ...

    Article : 3,173 words
  4. QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

    Election day (Saturday) was fine and warm. Considerable interest was evinced in the posting of the results at night. The principal feature of the contest was the defeat ...

    Article : 226 words
  5. MOORS' FURIOUS ATTACK.

    Spaniards at Zuluan, near Mount Gurugu, during a strong reconnaisance movement, repelied the Moors, and were withdrawing in good order, when the Moors ...

    Article : 75 words
  6. PROTECTION FOR SHIPPING.

    President Taft proposes to ask Congress to devote 7,000,000 dollars (£1,600,000), the annual profit from the mail service, for the subsidising of steamship lines to South ...

    Article : 118 words
  7. BRITISH FINANCE BILL.

    Mr. R. Hunt (Conservative), in the debate on the Finance Bill last night, moved to repeal the duty on raw cocoa and the reduction of the duty on manufactured ...

    Article : 177 words
  8. RETURNED UNOPPOSED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 words
  9. THE WOOL SALES.

    The wool sales closed yesterday, prices being firm at full late rates. Oct. 2. There were catalogued at the sales just ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. NORTH POLE DISPUTE.

    Commander Peary, aboard the Roosevelt, received an enthusiastic and popular welcome at New York. He is participating in the Hudson-Fulton celebrations. ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. WOOL SALE DEADLOCK.

    The "Yorkshire Post" writes in reference to the dispute in Sydney that Australian woolbrokers not only aspire to do the whole of the selling, but also to regulate the ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. MORE LEISURELY PROGRESS.

    The "Times" writes that members of the House of Commons regard the petition from city bankers and merchants to the House of Lords, asking that the people ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. THE ELECTORATES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 803 words
  14. SUBMISSION OF RECORDS.

    The National Geographical Society of the United States, of which Dr. Cook is a member, has declined to accord him official recognition when lecturing at Washington ...

    Article : 76 words
  15. POSSIBILITY OF A HITCH.

    It is not absolutely certain even now that the wool crisis is past and done with. It appears that buyers and sellers have carried away from the last conference different ...

    Article : 931 words
  16. ADRIFT AT SEA.

    At about half-past 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon a boisterous cold westerly wind sprang up, which immediately commenced to blow at hurricane force. A number of ...

    Article : 326 words
  17. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Messrs. Burns, Philp and Company's new steamer Mataram has made a successful trial trip on the Clyde. AEROPLANE FOR AUSTRALIA. ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. ALLEGATIONS OF COLLECTIVISM.

    Lord Hugh Cecil (Conservative Freetrader), in a letter to the "Spectator," writes that the evils of tariff reform are less grave and less irremediable than those ...

    Article : 91 words
  19. THE DANGER TO RULERS.

    President Taft was entering yesterday an automobile at Portland, Oregon, to participate in a military parade, when a man was arrested who was trying ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. LIBERAL PARTY'S POSITION.

    Sir Robert Perks, M.P. (Liberal), speaking at Louth, said that the Liberal party was marching to political disaster. The position, he said, was similar [?] ...

    Article : 61 words
  21. MR. J. C. WILLIAMSON.

    Mr. J. C. Williamson has returned to Australia by the Vancouver mail steamer which reached Brisbane on Saturday. During an interview Mr. Williamson stated ...

    Article : 840 words
  22. AEROPLANING AT POTSDAM.

    Mr. Orville Wright, at Potsdam, attained on his aeroplane a height of 700ft, which is a record for an aeroplane. Oct. 3. ...

    Article : 86 words
  23. UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

    The Central committee on unemployment in London has resolved to call the attention of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister to the fact that the Unemployed Act is quite ...

    Article : 96 words
  24. PILOT STEAMER DESPATCHED.

    At 2.o'clock this morning the pilot steamer Captain Cook was despatched from Sydney to search for the missing boat. ...

    Article : 24 words
  25. MISHAP TO A STEAMER.

    The French mail steamer Dumbea—a vessel of nearly 5700 tons, lying in the explosives area in Rose Bay—dragged her anchors during the height of the storm, but was brought ...

    Article : 184 words
  26. CAPTAIN CRESWELL.

    Captain Creswell, Director of the Commonwealth Naval Forces, has sailed for Australia by the R.M.S. Otranto, which left London on Friday. ...

    Article : 93 words
  27. SHOCKING SUICIDE.

    After a quarrel with her lover—a liontamer at the Theatre Moncey, Paris— a girl committed suicide. She first infuriated the lions with a ...

    Article : 52 words
  28. UPSETS ON THE HARBOUR.

    The police launch Argus was kept busy during yesterday afternoon picking up and rendering assistance to sailing boats which had met with mishaps. ...

    Article : 153 words
  29. AMERICAN BLUEJACKETS.

    The sailors who made the recent round the-world cruise in the United States battleship fleet have subscribed a gold loving cup for presentation to the Japanese navy ...

    Article : 50 words
  30. DIVORCE IN ENGLAND.

    The Law Society has resolved in favour of conferring limited divorce jurisdiction upon County Courts, thereby bringing divorce within reach of the poorer classes, ...

    Article : 360 words
  31. SOUTH AFRICAN COAST.

    The Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony has decided against the view of the Premier, Mr. J. X. Merriman, that the erection of another lighthouse would lead ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. JAPANESE IN PERIL.

    Four Japanese had an exciting experience in the squall, and narrowly escaped with their lives. They arrived at Watson's Bay from Sydney during the morning and hired one of ...

    Article : 188 words
  33. COTTON ADVANCING.

    American cotton is quoted at Liverpool for October-November delivery at 7.015d a pound. Prices of cotton between July 22 and August ...

    Article : 35 words
  34. MRS RENDALL'S CASE.

    A deputation, comprising the Rev. T. Allan (Methodist), Mr. Haynes Clydesdale (defending solicitor), and others, waited on the Government on Saturday, asking that the death ...

    Article : 63 words
  35. A POSTPONED MARRIAGE.

    Under the new Marriage Act, persons desirous of being married must give three days' notice, failing which an order signed by a justice of the peace is required. So when ...

    Article : 203 words
  36. MISHAP OFF SOUTH REEF.

    The sailing boat Molar became unmanageable when off South Reef, and with her four occupants was drifting rapidly to sea, when the attention of those in charge of the ...

    Article : 169 words
  37. WASHED OVERBOARD.

    During the voyage of the Italian barque Blanchette from Marseilies to Melbourne one of the crew, Carl Bandamer, who was on lookout duty, was washed overboard by a ...

    Article : 93 words
  38. IRRIGATION IN CANADA.

    The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has sold nearly l,000,000 acres of land which have been irrigated east and south of Calgary, to an American syndicate, ...

    Article : 52 words
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