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  2. THE EMPIRE.

    The ex-Governor-general of Australia (Lowl Dudley) has given a press interview, which he stated that probably few people realized what an extraordinarily prosperous ...

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  3. AFRICAN BLACK SENTENCED TO DEATH.

    Last May a white girl at Port Elisabeth while proceeding on a lonely road after dark, was criminally, assaulted by a native. The people of Port Elizabeth were highly ...

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  4. CONCILIATOR HONOURED.

    His Majesty the King, at Balmoral on Saturday, conferred a knighthood upon Mr. G. It. Asktwith. C.B., K.C.. the Comptroller of the Labour Department of the Board of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. CHAOS EEIGNS.

    The railway strike in the south-west of Ireland has become very serious. Dublin, Limerick, Tipperary, and Ennis (on the Waterford-Limerick system), have ...

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  6. LABOUR UNREST.

    The companies' case has been opened before the Royal Commission on Railways. The assistant manager of the London and North-Western Railway stated that the ...

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  7. COMMONWEALTH OFFICES.

    The committee of the Westminster Council has agreed to sell the Strand site for approximately £360,000. This includes the Victorian Government site. ...

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  8. WILFUL MURDER.

    The inquest at Lancaster on the body of James Binpgham, whose death, was surrounded with mystery, was concluded yesterday, when the Coroner's jury returned ...

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  9. THE RAILWAYS COMMISSION.

    Lord Claud Hamilton (Unionist m.P. for Kensington South, and Chairman of the Great Eastern railway), testified before the royal commission upon railways that the ...

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  10. THE FIFESHIRE'S BOAT.

    The third officer of tie wreeked steamer fifeshire, Mr. Clinton, who has arrived nt Plymouth following his rescue, and land. fog at Marseilles last week, stated in an ...

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  11. TWO MILLION DAYS LOST.

    It has been estimated that an aggregate of 2,323,000 working days were lost in Britain during August owing to the strikes, Altogether 373,615 workers were involved in ...

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  12. KOUBAIX EXHIBITION.

    An influential deputation from the principal centres of the British wool industry, members of Chambers of Commerce, manufacturers, merchants, and others will visit ...

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  13. UNION MONEY TIED UP.

    Mr. lien tillett, speaking at southamp ton in reference to the Osborne judgment (that restricting the use of trade union monevs in relation to political purposes) ...

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  14. THE NAIRNSHIRE.

    'A cable message from Monte Video, the capital of Uruguay, reports that the steamer Nairnshire, from New Zealand ports, has arrived at the South American port, ...

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  15. RECIPROCITY.

    A sensation has-been caused by publishred statements authorized by. the Ihiel Detective Agency to the effect that President Taft incited Mr. Hearst to flood Canada ...

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  16. CRUX OF INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    The case for the railway companies was, continued to-day before the royal commission which is enquiring into the grievances of the railway workers ...

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  17. LArG'E ESTATES.

    The Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Agriculture (Sir Edward Strachey, part.), speaking at Snepton Mallet, Somersetshire, advised county councils to purchase ...

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  18. FEDERATING THE WORKERS.

    Mr. Fox (Secretary of thie raliway Drivers and Firemen) has formulated a scheme for the federation of the Railway Workers' Unions. If theis is accepted ...

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  19. AVIATION.

    The famous racing flyer, m. Vednnes, was reported to have narrowly escaped death by a fall from his aeroplane yesterday. ...

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  20. -A STEAMER'S FATE.

    News has been received that the English steamer Belliver has met with disaster in the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Baltic. The vessel has either foundered or been sunk in ...

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  21. NON-UNIONISTS OBJECT TO TYRANNY.

    A meeting ot non-umonist, railwayme held at Widnes, Lancashire, yesterday, resolved to form a society of free workers. The speakers protested against what they ...

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  22. (ThE COMING FIGHT DENOUNCED.

    Denunciations of the loruicunung pugilistic encounter between Jack Johnson and Bombadier Wells, at Earl's Court, were made in numerous pulpits yesterday. ...

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  23. STRIKE ON THE. CLYDE.

    .A thousand men in a Clyde shiptuniding yard have struck in defiance of the instructions of the executive of their union. The result has been to throw thousands of ...

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  24. DENTIST MISSING.

    The police arc searching tor a dentist named Henderson, of Rutherglen, Victoria, who disappeared from an hotel in London In October, 1910. A man resembling hiin ...

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  25. MINERS SEEK INCREASE.

    .Twelve hundred miners in the Bristol district have struck work. They demand that their waves shall be increased id the same proportion as the addition ...

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  26. ANOTHER FRENCH VICTIM.

    A military airman named Neuport has succumbed to injuries received while flyine at Verdun in connection with the French Army maneuvres. The Cross of the Legion ...

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  27. INTERNAL WAR,

    It is reported that severe street figuting has taken, place in connection with the industrial,upheavel at Bilbao. ...

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  28. BURNT PAPANUI.

    The Governor of St. Helena (Lieut.-Col. Sir H. L. Gallwey) has informed the Colonial Office that there is a sufficiency of provisions for the requirements of the ...

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  29. FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.

    The young aviator James Ward is mak ing good progress in his attempted aerial journey from the Atlantic coast to San Francisco. He has covered since his start, ...

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  30. DUBLIN TIMbermen STRUCK.

    The timbermen in Dublin have struck because the employers have declined to recognise the Irish Transport Workers', Union ...

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  31. SPAIN IN AN UPROAR.

    A position of terrible possibilities confronts the authorities in the revolutionary and'strike centres of Snain. It is officially stated that the Anarchist ...

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  32. OFFICER'S SHOckiNG DEATH.

    Aviation has claimed another victim. ' Lieut. R. A. Campbell, R.E., who in recent. months had achieved some notable sue-: cesses when flying at Hendon, on Saturday. ...

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  33. BOYCOTTED BY UNEMPLOYED.

    The unemployed persons in Leicester have started to boycott the Government Labour Exchanges. The men contend that the officials send ...

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  34. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMPLETING THE JOURNEY.

    A cable message was received by the Minister of Lands from the Agent-General yesterday stating that it was hoped that arrangements for the conveyance of the ...

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  35. LABOUR FEDERATION ACTIVE.

    The Labour Federation at Saragossa has ordered its members to throw down their tools in sympathy with the strikers at Bilbao, where there has been severe street ...

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  36. BANISHING BOOKMAKERS.

    The Governor of Bombay (Sir George Sydenham Clarke) has embarrassed the Indian Government through his announced intention to bring about the reduction ...

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  37. RIOT AND REVOLUTION.

    A general revolutionary strike has bee proclaimed at Valencia, and the whole of the district has been placed under martial law. Troops occupied the town and ...

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  38. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    It is officially announced that Sir Charles Inigo thomas, K.C.B. (.permanent Secre tary to the Admiralty), who is in his sixty sixth year, is about to retire. He will be ...

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  39. IRISH RAILWAYS.

    A general stoppage of work in connection with the railways in Ireland is threatened. The. railway porters at Limerick have ceased work. Troops are held in readiress ...

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  40. FLYING TO FEZ.

    The inhabitants of Morocco, along the direct route from Tangier to the capital, have been profoundly alarmed at the sight of a flying machine passing over their ...

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  41. A HUgE THEFT.

    A sensauonui and (Ailing bank robbery was committed at. New Westminster sometime during Thursday night.. Three, armed burglars dug through the ...

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  43. MELBOURNE SINGER'S SUCCESS.

    Miss Kitty Conlcy, the young Melbourne soprano, met with marked success at her debut in the Sunday League concert at the Queen's Hall. ...

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  44. STRENUOUS POLITICS.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier's French-Canadian ponent for the constituency of Soulanges Mr. Leduc, a Nationalist—has withdrawn from the contest, and the Premier has been ...

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  45. NATIONAL INSURANCE.

    The Manchester Unity Oddfellows have issued a strong manifesto against the National Insurance Hill. They urge that Mr. Lloyd-George's proposed amendments ...

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  46. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.

    The chairman of the Parliamentary labour Party (Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald) was invited to accept the presidency of the Indian'National Conference, but he has ...

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  47. A FREE FIGHT.

    Nominations for candidates for the general elections have taken place throughout the Dominions. The Premier (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) was nominated to run for two ...

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  48. MAPPING The cOAST.

    Reports issued, in alaska assert that compander Hirago, an attache of the Japanese leation, has been mapping. along the laskan coast and harbours. An enquiiy ...

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  49. DEATH OF INDIAN POTENTATE.

    The Maharajah of Coombahar, who was a visitor to the.Coronation and was Beized with illness in July, has died at BexhiLl, Sussex. ...

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