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  2. SECOND EDITION

    It is officially announced that Sir James Fergusson was killed by the earthquake at Kingston, and that the rest of Sir Alfred Jones's party aro safe. ...

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  3. STATE POLITICS.

    The keenest anxiety is evident in political circles owing to the uncertainty of the situation, and there is a growing fear amongs[?] the Liberals that the party will be left ...

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  4. CANADA'S NEIGHBOUR.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, states that he is willing to negotiate with the United States for a permanent determination of a division of the ...

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  5. EARTHQUAKE IN JAMAICA

    A very severe earthquake occurred at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, on Monday afternoon. The city, it is reported, has been destroyed, and there has been much loss of life. ...

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  6. THE TALLOW SALES.

    At the sales of Australian tallow to-day 909 casks were offered and 418 were sold. Prices were:—Mutton, fine, 38s 3d; medium, 34s 6d; beef, fine, 36s Gd; medium, 33s 6d per cwt. ...

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  7. ALL AUSTRALIAN.

    In responding to the toast of "His Excellency the Governor-General at the A.N.A. Exhibition luncheon to-day. Lord Northcote said:— ...

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  8. GERMAN COLONIAL ACTIVITY.

    Germany is discussing a project to construct a great harbour and coaling station at Swakopmund, South-west Africa. The cost of the project is estimated at ...

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  9. UNITED STATES FISCAL POLICY.

    Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, addressing the Republican National Convention at Washington, advocated a maximum and a minimum tariff. ...

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  10. THE PORT OF KINGSTON.

    The harbour is a large and safe one, almost land-locked, running cast and west, and is capable of containing any number of vessels of large size. Kingston is an important coal ...

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  11. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS IMPERILLED.

    Great anxiety is manifested for the safety of a large party of distinguished English visitors who arrived at Kingston on Friday to attend an important agricultural conference there on Monday. Included among the visitors are the Earl and Countess of Dudley. ...

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  12. CONSERVATIVE CHINA.

    An Imperial Edict issued at Peking declares that the old Chinese learning is still the fundamental factor in national education, and that to it Western ...

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  13. THE GREAT EARTHCQUAKE OF 1692.

    A great earthquake occurred in Jamaica in 1692, when the chief part of the town of Port Royal, built on a shelving bank of sand, slipped into the sea. The loss of life was ...

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  14. GERMANS IN MOROCCO.

    France is disturbed at the presence of two German officers (Tschudi and Wolff) in Morocco contrary to the Algeciras arrangement. ...

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  15. THE WOOL SALES.

    The first of the 1907 series of wool sales opened to-day to brisk competition and unchanged prices. Jan. 16. ...

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  16. DREADEUL RAVAGES BY FIRE.

    Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P., cabled to the Colonial Office from Holland Bay, 35 miles west of Kingston, giving an account of the disaster. Mr. Greenwood states that all the buildings and dwellings in ...

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  17. JAMAICA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS.

    Although Jamaica [?]es well within the earthquake zone of the West Indies and Central and South America, it is remarkable that we have to go back to the calamitous quake of ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. A CHANNEL TUNNEL.

    It is officially announced that Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, dissents from the bill proposed to be introduced into the House of Commons for ...

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  19. SINGAPORE NAVAL CONFERENCE.

    yice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, of the Australian naval station, has arrived at Singapore in H.M.S. Powerful, and met Vice-Admiral Sir A. W. Moore, ...

    Article : 43 words
  20. SCIENTISTS INTERVIEWED.

    Professor E. W. Skeats, of the university of Melbourne, when seen at the Science Congress last week in reference to the recent disturbances of the crust of the earth beneath ...

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  21. THE FRENCH CONGO.

    French newspapers report acts of aggression by Germans in the French Congo. ...

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  22. TEE KILLED AND THE INJURED.

    Reuter's latest report from St. Thomas is that the fire is still burning in Kingston, though it is confined to the docks, and is being energetically fought. No mention in this latest message is made of shocks continuing. ...

    Article : 83 words
  23. SHIPPING COMBINE PROSECUTIO[?].

    'A' firm of exporters in New York is prosecuting the Union-Castle and other shipping companies for combining to restrain trade for the purpose of suppressing ...

    Article : 42 words
  24. A NEW LAMP FILAMENT.

    Professor Parker, of Columbia University, claims to have invented a metal filament for a lamp of 45 fold the efficiency of an electric carbon filament. ...

    Article : 39 words
  25. RIFLE TEAM FOR BISLEY.

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  26. FORTUNE'S TURN.

    A vagrant beggar at Findlay, Ohio, died from exposure. The body was identified as that of Count Crondhjelm, a Swede, to whom, though he was unaware, ...

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  27. CONSTERNATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Consternation prevails in New York over the disaster at Jamaica owing to thousands of American visitors being on the island. The Government of the United States minimises the extent of the disaster, but has ordered the fleet which is off Cuba to investigate the ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. SNOWDRIFTS IN THE CEVENNES.

    There are snowdrifts 50ft deep at the foot of the hills in the Cevennes, south-east France. The rain in some places froze 18in deep, the trees standing therein ...

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  29. THE LATEST MESSAGE.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announces that the Camp Hospital at Kingston is destroyed, that 30 people were killed and 300 injured. The fire, his message states, is confined to one-sixteenth of the ...

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  30. A POLITICIAN'S OPINION.

    A politician who has not been without a share in the responsibilities of office in the State Government exprossed the opinion yesterday that despite all the rumours of ...

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  31. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    The King has awarded the Victoria Cross to the representatives of six officers and men who for valour in past campaigns would have received the decoration ...

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  32. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

    The Social Democratic Federation has quarrelled with the Progressive Party respecting the County Council elections. ...

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  33. SHOCKS IN NORWAY.

    Earthquake shocks were recorded on Monday afternoon over the greater part of Northern Norway. ...

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  34. INTERSTATE YACHTING.

    Interest in the interstate yachting carnival is now centred in the races to be sailed on Friday and Saturdiy, and on Monday (if necessary) between Sayonara (representing ...

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  35. TASMANIA.

    Anglers are having a great time in the Tasmanian rivers. Drs. Hall and Harris have been fishing over the Dee for three weeks, and their record for that time is 401 English ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. THE NEW THEOLOGY.

    The Rev. Dr. Guinness Rogers, the distinguished Congregational minister, and other prominent clergymen severely rebuke the Rev. R. J. Campbell for his ...

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  37. THE CITY OF KINGSTON.

    Kingston, the commercial and political capital of Jamaica, stands on the north side of a land-locked harbour, the best in the island, and, for its size, one of the best in ...

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  38. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.

    Thomas Newton, aged 104, died in a charitable institution to-day. He was a native of Leeds, England. ...

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  39. THE AWA MARU REFLOATED.

    The Japanese liner Awa Maru, which went ashore on Westear Rock, Yorkshire, during the recent snowstorms, has been refloated, the property saved representing ...

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  40. LARGE WOOL SHIPMENT.

    Notwithstanding the endeavours of the Australian brokers to depreciate the Hobart special wool sales and their efforts to get wool sent from Tasmania to Melbourne for ...

    Article : 123 words
  41. LONDON SHIPPING TONNAGE.

    The tonnage of the port of London for 1906 was 27,145,000, being an increase of 1,250,000 tons compared with the preceding year. ...

    Article : 39 words
  42. ANOTHER DESCRIPTION.

    The following particulars about Kingston are gleaned from " The West Indies," written by Mr. John Henderson, as recently as 1905:—town of Kingston is made ...

    Article : 580 words
  43. A NEW PROPELLANT.

    Mr. Hudson Maxim, of New York, brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, has invented a motorite for the purpose of generating steam as a propellant attached to a ...

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  44. S.S. INDUNA AT NORFOLK ISLAND.

    The steamer induna arrived at 11.30 a.m. from the Islands, and sailed for Sydney at 8 p.m., with the following through passengers:—Mr. and Mrs. Cordin and two children, Messrs. Kinsey, Cater, Smith, ...

    Article : 66 words
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