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  2. EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. — A public subscription list, opened at New York has already attracted £4000 for the Messina earthquake relief fund. ...

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  3. GENERAL NEWS

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. — The Clyde shipbuilding returns for 1908 show that the shrinkage in trade for the year was the greatest for twenty ...

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  4. Advertising

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  5. BRITISH OVERSEA TRADE

    There are signs of genuine alarm in England at the great enthusiasm with which the renewed proposal for reciprocity approximating to free trade ...

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  6. TASMANIA

    BURNIE, Thursday.—On the manager of the Union S.S. Company opening the office this morning it was discovered that it had been broken into. ...

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  7. CHINA AND AMERICA.

    Canghaoyi's special mission to Washington was to induce the United States to form a practical alliance with ...

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  8. BRITISH CONSUL SAFE.

    Mr Ogston (the British Consul) relates that he and his wife, the latter carrying their little daughter, escaped from the Consulate through a window. ...

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  9. EMIGRANTS FOR QUEENSLAND.

    Three hundred assisted emigrants started for Queensland during December, including forty-five indented station hands. All were selected from ...

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  10. DEVONPORT

    DEVONPORT, Thursday. — H.M.S. Psyche arrived off the Mersey Bluff this morning, and entered the harbor with the afternoon tide, berthing off ...

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  11. SPORTING NEWS

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. — The New York Amateur Athletic Union has suspended several of its members for alleged professionalism. Those ...

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  12. A DISABLED VESSEL.

    The brigantine Iris put into port to-day from Port Arthur to Port Pirie, having injured her bowsprit, being struck by heavy seas passing through ...

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  13. DISCOVERY OF SPECIE.

    It is reported at Naples that sailors from the Russian warship Makaroff discovered in the ruins of Messina twenty million francs, supposed to ...

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  14. STRAHAN

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—The steam launch Lynx (late Alice), arrived this morning after a good passage from Launceston, via Burnie. Captain ...

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  15. DISCONTENTED INDIA

    Even after this lapse of time authorities differ as to the predisposing conditions which brought about our troubles in 1857; therefore where the mischief ...

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  16. THE PEOPLE FRANTIO.

    The people are frantio to go in search of their relations, one steamer captain refusing fifty pounds for a passage from Naples to Sicilian ports. ...

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  17. THE COMMONWEALTH

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The British directors of the Suez Canal Company, backed up by the British Government, have once more refused the ...

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  18. SHIPPING WARNED.

    Lloyd's ask the Admiralty to warn merchantmen that the earthquake has caused new risks to navigation in the vicinity of the Straits of Messina. ...

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  19. THE SHOCK FELT AT SEA.

    LONDON, Thursday Morning.—Early on Monday morning, when thirty miles from Messina, the passengers on board the Orenoque felt several shocks. They ...

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  20. RECORDS IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The seismograph, at the Melbourne Observatory recorded the terrible earthquake in sicily and Italy. ...

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  21. ENGLISH MAIL CONTRACT.

    The £17,500 recovered by the Federal Government over the late abortive English mail contract, has been made available. The Prime Minister. (Mr ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. KAISER AND PRINCE

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. — "Le Matin's" Berlin correspondent says that there is marked coolness between the Kaiser and Prince Bulow, the German ...

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  23. THE DEATH ROLL.

    Reuter's latest message estimates that 106,700 persons perished at Messina, including all the prominent citizens. ...

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  24. PUNITIVE EXPEDITION

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The methods adopted by the punitive expedition from H.M.S. Prometheus in avenging the recent murders committed on ...

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  25. COLD WEATHER

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.—Twenty-four degrees of frost have been registered in Essex. Scores of deaths from exposure are reported in ...

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  26. MYERS. THE FINANCIER

    A faultlessly dressed man, with a Vandyke beard and of distinguished appearance, who gives the name of Monteifiore Myers, was committed to ...

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  27. SNOWED UP TRAINS.

    LONDON, Thursday Morning.—The Scottish express was dug out at Drumlithie, after a delay of twenty-eight hours. Other trains were rescued ...

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  28. A BRAVE SINGER.

    Most of the members of the operatio company escaped at Messina, owing to the loading soprano knowing mattresses out of the window, and jumping ...

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  29. PRODUCE MARKETS

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Wheat is firmer, at 3s 8d. Flour: New, £8 10s; old, £8 15s. Gate, without alteration; sales at 1s 9½d to 1s 11d for extra, prime Algerian. ...

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  30. REFORMS IN PERSIA

    LONDON, Thursday Morning.—Russia and Britain intend to use the strongest pressure to compel "the Shah of Persia to accept a definite ...

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  31. DESTRUCTION BY FIRES.

    Fires have broken out at Messina, and there is great scarcity of water, owing to the destruction, of the aqueduet. Vast heaps of wreckage render ...

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  32. NEW SOUTH WALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 words
  33. ROYAL ASSISTANCE.

    The Barings and Lord Rothschild have subscribed one thousand pounds, to the London Lord Major's relief fund. King Emmanuel has declared ...

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  34. CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

    LONDON, Thursday Morning.—Burns has cabled to "The Sporting Life" that Johnson's seconds influenced the police intervention. He was going strong, ...

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  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 words
  36. THE DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

    Among the thousand and one projects on the programme of the Young Turks far the regeneration of Turkey, the Constantinople journals announce, with much satisfaction, ...

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  37. RUSH WEAVERS OF NORFOLK.

    The rushes which fringe the Norfolk Broads are used in great quantities, we learn from the "Country Home," in connection with the making of horse collars. ...

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  38. A TOWN IN RUINS.

    A few refugees report that the greater part of Reggio is in rains, and most of the public buildings, including the barracks, falling, killing hundreds ...

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  39. JEFFRIES RECLINES A BIG PURSE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Mr John Wren to-day received a cablegram from Mr W. W. Naughton, sporting editor of the San Francisco "Examiner," as ...

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  40. FURTHER SHOCKS.

    A slight further shock was felt at Palermo, and a more violent shock at San Marco, Argentine, accompanied by a prolonged subterranean thunder, ...

    Article : 79 words
  41. Advertising

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  42. THE NECESSITY FOR FIRM GOVERNMENT.

    In considering the remedies applicable the first thing to remember is that in an Eastern country you can only maintain peace and prosperity ...

    Article : 697 words
  43. THE EARTH SINKING.

    Professor Suess, the celebrated Austrian geologist, states that the theatre of the catastrophe is on the spot where the earth is sinking in a disc-like form. ...

    Article : 117 words
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