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  2. THE LOST PARISIANA.

    Further interesting information is to hand in regard to the steamer Parisiana, which was abandoned in the Indian Ocean owing to having caught fire and ...

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  3. AMERICA AND CANADA.

    Negotiations between the representatives of the Governments of the United States and Canada for the establishment of tariff reciprocity were concluded yesterday. ...

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  4. THE WORLD'S FAIR.

    Keen rivalry exists between San Francisco and New Orleans in connection with the selection of a venue for the great World's Fair, to be held in 1915, to mark ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. ANGLO-SAXON PEACE.

    A movement, is afoot among Empire clubs throughout Canada to present a petition to the Dominion Parliament to invite the King to visit Canada in 1914, when it ...

    Article : 56 words
  6. MARINE DISASTERS.

    The Shaw, Savill steamer Aotea, 5600 tons, which left Liverpool for New Zealand on 24th December, has gone ashore at Moville Point, near ...

    Article : 383 words
  7. BANKING REVELATIONS.

    The Official Receiver in Bankruptcy has completed his investigations into the affairs of Alfred Win. Carpenter, an insolvent, who carried on business as the ...

    Article : 382 words
  8. WORK AND WAGES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 846 words
  9. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.

    At Sorrento yesterday afternoon the steamer Hygeia was timed to leave at 4.30 p.m., but she did not start to load until 5.30, by arrangement made during the day ...

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  10. THE MASTER'S STORY.

    Captain Gordon, master of the Parisiana, is 46 years of age. He has been 33 years at sea, 20 years a master, and 25 years in the employ of the present company. He ...

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  11. POWERS AND HOLLAND.

    Referring to the proposed fortification of Flushing by the Government of Holland, the "Pall Mall Gazette" says—"It is difficult to believe that the Dutch Government ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. PLAGUE IN CHINA.

    Bubonic plague has spread to China. One ease in Pekin has ended fatally. BERLIN, 21st January. The tour of the Crown Prince of ...

    Article : 77 words
  13. FRANCE'S NAVY.

    M. Delcasse, formerly Foreign Minister and president of the commission which was appointed to inquire into the state of the navy, yesterday presented a report to ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. GOVERNMENT'S ACTION CRITICISED.

    During a debate in committee of the States-General, several speakers criticised the Government for devoting too much attention to coastal defence, and added that ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. STORM IN CASPIAN SEA.

    The Caspian Sea has again been lashed by a violent storm. The embankment at Baku, an important port on the western shore, was undermined by the waves. ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. FRANCE AND ENGLAND "AIMING AT GERMANY."

    General Keim, formerly leader of the German Navy League,, declares that in attempting to interfere with Holland's sovereignty in questions of national defence ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. TAXING THE KAISER.

    An amendment moved by the Conservative party in the Reichstag to exempt reigning princes, including the Kaiser, from taxation under the Unearned Increment ...

    Article : 40 words
  18. GENERAL CABLES.

    Sympathy is expressed by the General Labor Council of Paris for the Japanese conspirators who were either condemned to death or sentenced, to imprisonment for ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. ACCIDENT ON TRIAL TRIP.

    The new torpedo boat Vesta started from Karlskrona, a Swedish port on the Baltic, on a trial trip at noon yesterday, and as she failed to return a search was made. ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. AEROPLANING DANGERS.

    Two aviators have been prosecuted in the courts, and have been held to be responsible for the deaths of certain people who were witnessing their aerial flights. ...

    Article : 109 words
  21. OPIUM SMUGGLING.

    Evidence which has been given at the Chinese Immigration Inquiry, discloses the existence of a ring of opium smugglers and sellers. Many prominent subscribers ...

    Article : 97 words
  22. ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN.

    In the course of a speech in the Diet, Marquis Katsura, the Prime Minister, said that Japan's relations with the Powers were cordial. The alliance with Great ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. CARLYLE'S HOME PURCHASED FOR THE PUBLIC.

    The house at Ecclefechan, in Dumfries shire, Scotland, in which Thomas Carlyle was born, has been purchased for the public, and has been furnished with relics ...

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  24. LICENSED HOTELKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. THE NEW DREDGES.

    The annual excursion of the licensed hotelkeepers took place yesterday. The weather was perfect, and a brief sojourn at Sorrento could scarcely During his interview with the Iron Trades Council the Premier was driven to use the ridiculous argument that the establishment of a dredge-making works ...

    Article : 573 words
  25. BRITISH STEAMER ASHORE.

    A steamer flying the British flag has gone ashore on the reefs near Cape Florida. Her identity is unknown. Steamers have gone out to her assistance. ...

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  26. AEROPLANES AND WIRELESS.

    Lieutenant Beck, of the United States Signal Service, has succeeded in sending wireless messages from an aeroplane scouting over a supposed enemy's country near ...

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  27. MISS MARIE LOHR'S SUCCESS.

    Miss Marie Lohr, the young Australian actress, has achieved another triumph on the London stage. As leading lady she appeared in Mr. A. W. Pinero's new light ...

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  28. DECLARATION OF LONDON

    Throughout the United Kingdom protests are increasing against the ratification of the Declaration of London. It is condemned as prejudicial to British interests ...

    Article : 49 words
  29. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. F. E. Smith, Unionist member for the Waltham division of Liverpool, has written an article on the constitutional question for "Reynolds's Newspaper," ...

    Article : 145 words
  30. SPREAD OF CHOLERA.

    Early steps are to be taken in Continental countries to secure co-operation in preventing the spread of cholera. M. Briand, the Premier of France, announced ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. VICTORIAN INDUSTRY PREJUDICED.

    The new schedule of, port charges on imports recently announced by the London port authorities is having, a prejudicial effect upon Victorian wines. Sir John ...

    Article : 94 words
  32. AUSTRALIA'S PROTEST SUPPORTED.

    The "Daily Mail" to-day publishes a leading article and a two-column special article in support of the Commonwealth's protest against the ratification of the ...

    Article : 85 words
  33. INTERNATIONAL BANKING.

    What is described as a significant departure in international banking has been announced by the Vienna correspondent of the "Times." It is stated that a ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. PANAMA CANAL.

    Speaking in New York, President Taft said that he hoped Congress would vote promptly £1,000,000 for the fortifications of the Panama Canal. He would bring all ...

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  35. SIR GEORGE REID ON MILITARY TRAINING.

    Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, was present to-day at a regimental gathering of King Edward's Horse (the King's Oversea Dominions Regiment). This ...

    Article : 90 words
  36. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT TRADE.

    About 1000 members of the Victorian branch of the Federated Agricultural Implement Makers' Union attended a meeting which was held at the Gaiety Theatre ...

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  37. INVALID WORKERS.

    What is believed to be an authoritative statement of the Government's intentions in regard to the Lloyd-George scheme of invalid workers' insurance has been made ...

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  38. ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT.

    Mr. Andrew Carnegie has donated £2,000,000 to the Washington Institute of Research. His total benefactions to the institute now amount to £5,000,000. ...

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  39. COMPETING FOR PASSENGERS.

    Another batch of 350 Russians, returning to Russia from Canada via Rotterdam, have been detained at Oldenzaal, a Dutch town on the frontier, owing to the action of ...

    Article : 84 words
  40. THE REFERENDUM.

    During the present week the Prime Minister will have a conference in Sydney with Mr. M'Gowen, Premier of New South Wales, and members of his Government, ...

    Article : 86 words
  41. SALMON OVA FOR NEW ZEALAND

    Sir Wm. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has shipped 1,000,000 salmon ova to New Zealand by the [?] Ruahine. Half of the ova was ...

    Article : 65 words
  42. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 596 words
  43. THE GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN.

    The Prime Minister left for Sydney yesterday. With regard to the proposed referendum, he said that Ministers would speak in all States thereon, and the matter ...

    Article : 54 words
  44. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    The following message has been received from Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia:— In the Rugby football match between ...

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  45. ANCIENT RELICS FOUND.

    News has been received here of an interesting discovery by scientists in Samaria, Palestine. In all 100 clay tablets have been unearthed, and from, the inscriptions upon ...

    Article : 191 words
  46. RIOT IN MAURITIUS.

    Further reports from Port Louis, capital of Mauritius, state that in connection with the political disturbance there several business places and newspaper offices have ...

    Article : 68 words
  47. RAILWAY SMASH AT SYDNEY.

    Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning a serious railway smash occurred at the central station. Two locomotives which had hauled a coal train into the ...

    Article : 435 words
  48. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    W. S. Keely, a young man living at Molison-street, Abbotsford, was last night admitted to the Melbourne Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, caused by ...

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  49. YOUNG WOMEN MOBBED. TWO MEN ARRESTED.

    A gang of empty-headed hoodlums, who on Saturday night were amusing themselves in Elizabeth-street by mobbing and insulting a young woman who was dressed ...

    Article : 155 words
  50. BILLIARDS IN ENGLAND.

    The Australian billiard player George Gray has established a lead in his match with Duncan, the Scores now Being—Gray, 7500; Duncan, 5714. ...

    Article : 34 words
  51. PANIC AT AN AMERICAN FIRE.

    A disastrous fire has occurred at Clarksburg, West Virginia, an hotel, a theatre adjoining it, and a number of business places being destroyed. ...

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  52. KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAM CAR.

    A boy named John Egan, aged nine, was admitted into the Alfred Hospital late on Saturday night suffering from a severe injury to the knee, caused by his being ...

    Article : 102 words
  53. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  54. AUSTRIA'S DREADNOUGHTS.

    "Dio Zeit" announces that the first Austro-Hungarian Dreadnought will be launched in June, and the second in December next. ...

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  55. NEW GOVERNOR OF FIJI.

    Mr. F. H, May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong, who was appointed recently to succeed Sir Everard im Thurn as Governor of Fiji, and High Commissioner ...

    Article : 63 words
  56. LINKING TWO SHORES.

    A scheme for the construction of a national highway joining the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the Dominion is being considered by provincial authorities ...

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  57. CHILD KICKED BY A HORSE.

    A child two years of age, named William Henry Jones,, residing at Hallam, followed its mother into a paddock. The child was kicked by a draught horse, and several of ...

    Article : 71 words
  58. LABOR GOVERNMENT IN N.S.W.

    Speaking at the colliery employes' demonstration at Wollongong yesterday, Mr. Trcfle, honorary Minister, said that the Labor Government, though only ...

    Article : 187 words
  59. FOUND DEAD IN A PADDOCK.

    Edward Pickering, residing at East Wingham, was found dead on Saturday morning in a paddock at Upperstone. Deceased, who was employed at Mount Fox tramway ...

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  60. WASHINGTON, 22nd January.

    General Owen Summers, a veteran of the Civil war and the Spanish war in the Philippines, is dead. ...

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  61. WHARF LABORERS.

    Many months have elapsed since the Wharf Laborers' Union first submitted its demand to the Steamship Owners' Federation for increased wages. After a long ...

    Article : 132 words
  62. AMERICAN MAIL BOUNTY.

    A bitter fight is being made in the Senate against the Ocean Mail Bounty Bill, which is intended to buttress the declining trade of American mercantile shipping. It is ...

    Article : 70 words
  63. OFFICIAL CABLE MESSAGE.

    During the last twelve months 36,331 passengers left the United Kingdom for Australia, 9900 for New Zealand, 196,200 for Canada, 30,846 for South Africa, and 303,300 ...

    Article : 39 words
  64. Advertising

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    Advertising : 163 words
  65. "TIRED OF LIFE."

    At about 6 o'clock yesterday morning the body of a young man was found on the beach at North Steyne, Manly. The right hand held a revolver, and there was a ...

    Article : 81 words
  66. Advertising

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    Advertising : 56 words
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