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  2. FIERCE GALES.

    Strong westerly winds, blew throughout Tuesday, attended in many parts or the State by light rain and hall. In the city the wind reached a high velocity, one, gust ...

    Article : 157 words
  3. REWARDING VALOUR.

    The Governor-General has received an intimation from the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Lewis Harcourt) that the King has been pleased to confer the Albert ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. AEROPLANE DISASTERS.

    Figures are published, showing that since 1908 no fewer, than 177 airmen have been killed. The fatalities include 53 in France, 34 in Germany, 26 in America, and 18 in ...

    Article : 350 words
  5. ORIGIN OF LIFE.

    Professor Ray Lankester says that really there is nothing new in Professor Schaefer's vision of life produced from matter. It was 30 or 40 years old, and was all in the late ...

    Article : 215 words
  6. MYSTERIOUS ARCTIC RACE.

    Vilhjmar Stefansson, leader of the scientific expedition sent by the American Museum of Natural History in 1908, to explore the Arctic coast of British Columbia, ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. GENERAL CABLES.

    Grave anxiety is felt in consequence of the situation in Mexico, and the political friends of the President (Mr. Taft). admit that American intervention' is ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. AN ABORTIVE CONFERENCE.

    Nothing came of the conference held in Melbourne on September 6 between the Premiers and other representatives of the Ministries of Victoria and South Australia. ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. THE NAVAL ALLIES.

    The French Minister for Marine (M. Delcasse) announces that six battleships of the French fleet will be transferred about the middle of October from Brest, ou the west ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. ITALY AND TURKEY.

    The Constantinople, correspondent of the "Deutsche Tageszeitung" states that as a result of the conference which has been, sitting at Lausanne, in Switzerland," the ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. SAFE ROBBED.

    Gelignite was used, and only too successfully, early last Saturday morning to shatter the safe of Mr. Alexander John Howard, jeweller, of 131 Toorak-road, South Yarra. ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.

    Sir George Reid is consulting with Mr. Foster and other members of the Canadian Government in regard to closer trade between Canada and Australia. Sir George ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. TURMOIL IN MOROCCO.

    Colonel Mangin, with 4,500 French troops, is marching on Marakcsh. Native couriers arriving at Casablanca since report that Colonel Mangin has ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. LIBERAL STRONGHOLD FALLS.

    The Midlothian by-election which was necessitated by the retirement of the Master of Elibank, the chief Liberal Whip, has resulted in the loss of another-seat in the ...

    Article : 231 words
  15. PANAMA CANAL BILL.

    Mr. Chauneey M. Depew does not think that the act will be amended, or that the proposal that the disputed provisions should be referred to The Hague ivill be adopted. ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. BABY BONUS.

    The following are a few of the suggestions which have been made to the Prime Minister by correspondents with reference to his proposed maternity allowance:— ...

    Article : 227 words
  17. AMERICAN ULTIMATUM.

    President Taft has sent an ultimatum to President Madero to the effect that he must take prompt action to protect American lives and property throughout Mexico, ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. GERMAN STRATEGY.

    Admiral Brensing, a well-known retired officer and writer on political and naval questions, delivered an address before the Pan-German League at Erfurt, in which he ...

    Article : 73 words
  19. BALKANS AND TURKEY.

    Further conflicts are reported to have taken place on the Greek frontier. The Turks lost seven killed and 13 wounded, and Turkish reinforcements are being ...

    Article : 327 words
  20. 40,000 CHINESE DROWNED.

    News of awful loss of life from floods is contained in letters from Wenchow, the treaty port of the province of Chekiang. Flood-waters, of the proportions of a ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. PERSECUTING A PRIVATE.

    In 1909, Emile Ronsset, a French soldier, in Algeria. reported that he had seen a lieutenant and two sergeants shockingly ill-treatta soldier who was ...

    Article : 208 words
  22. REJECTED LOVER'S SUICIDE.

    George M'Intyre committed suicide at Etton, Queensland, on Saturday night. Deceased had been keeping company with a girl employed at the Railway Terminus, ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. CAPTAIN SCOTT EULOGISED.

    Sir Clements Markham, late president of the Royal Geographical Society, in the course of a paper on Antarctic exploration read before the British Association for the ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. MR. WILLIS AND THE PRESS.

    Mr. Willis, the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, has aceeptcd an easy way out of the foolish position established by his exclusion of the ...

    Article : 112 words
  25. RAILWAYS IN CHINA.

    Dr. Sun Yatsen has been empowered to establish a Chinese Railway Corporation, which will carry out the construction of 70,000 miles of national railways. ...

    Article : 154 words
  26. SUFFERAGETTE STRATEGY.

    A suffragetts turned out of Mr. Churchill's meeting in Dundee went to the post-office, and pinning a card on her breast got herself delivered by express messenger at ...

    Article : 59 words
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  28. DEAD DOGS AND LOVE LETTERS.

    A few months ago a very old identity of Campbell's Creek, Mr. J. W. Stansmore, died at the age of over 80 years. He lived alone, ...

    Article : 95 words
  29. SUICIDE OF PUGILIST'S WIFE.

    The wife of "Jack" Johnson has committed suicide in Chicago. Before shooting herself she prayed with her two coloured mais, asking mercy of her [?]neliness. ...

    Article : 20 words
  30. DEAR FOOD IN GERMANY.

    The Berlin correspondet of the "Daily Chronicle" announces that, although retaining most of the provisions regulating the importation of meat and live ...

    Article : 33 words
  31. AVIATION RECORDS.

    M. Vedrines flying in the Gordon Bennett Cup race, at Chicago, averaged 105 milwes an hour, beating all the American reached the record altitude of 16,400ft ...

    Article : 38 words
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