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  2. Brisbane Letter.

    As I write the rain is coining down in fine, soaking showers. just the thing to usher in a splendid springtime. And under ...

    Article : 862 words
  3. Cape Colony Coastal Dangers.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Cape Colony is appointing commissioners to inquire into arrangements dealing with shipping casualties and the cost with a view to ...

    Article : 59 words
  4. De Boers Diamond Mines.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (South Africa) have declared a dividend of 20 percent in anticipation of the distribution which in the ...

    Article : 204 words
  5. Butter Trade Outlook.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Messrs. W. Weddel and Co., in their annual review of the produce markets, anticipate that prices for butter during the coming season will be rather ...

    Article : 51 words
  6. CABLEGRAMS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The deliberations of the committees of the Imperial Defence Conference are approaching an end. The next plenary meeting of the conference will take ...

    Article : 239 words
  7. Australian XI in England.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 679 words
  8. Swedish Labour Trouble.

    LONDON, Friday.--There are 285,762 persons on strike in Sweden out of a total of 460,000, and exclusive of 800,000 agricultural labourers who refused to join in the strike. ...

    Article : 64 words
  9. Earthquake in Japan.

    LONDON, Sunday.--An earthquake has occurred at Nagoya, Kyoto, and Osaka, in the centre of Japan. Thirty people are reported to have been killed and 82 injured. ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. Empire Defence.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Imperial Government's proposals, accepted by the Imperial Defence Conference, provide for interchangeability of the forces in all parts of the Empire, ...

    Article : 690 words
  11. German Finance.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Germany's deficit for the financial year ended March 31 is £8,800,000. The taxes on imports were £4,900,000 below expectations. ...

    Article : 39 words
  12. Tammany Hall.

    LONDON, Monday.--The American correspondent of "The Times," Mr. Smalley, states that General Bingham, Commissioner of New York police. declares in an article to be ...

    Article : 120 words
  13. Fire on a Cunard Liner.

    LONDON, Monday.--A fierce fire broke out yesterday in the steerage quarters, saloons, and hold of the Cunard mammoth liner Lucania at Liverpool. The fire raged for 15 ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. CONGRATULATIONS OF ALL GOOD SPORTSMEN.

    "The Times" remarks that the Australian cricketers have deserved the success which has attended them during their tour, and that congratulations by all good sportsmen will go ...

    Article : 160 words
  15. British Army Airship.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The British Army aeronaut, Mr. Cody, yesterday covered four miles in six minutes in an airship at Aldershot after covering the plain in describing a ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. British Budget Proposals.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Lord Manson has declined to attend a Liberal demonstration at Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, on the ground that the Budget proposals are ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. The Waratah.

    LONDON, Monday.—The owners of the Waratah are quite sanguine in regard to iter safety. They emphasise the fact that other vessels have been upwards of a fortnight ...

    Article : 1,075 words
  18. British Finance Bill.

    LONDON. Saturday.--Clause XIV. of the Finance Bill relating to total value and site value of land was adopted in the House of Commons yesterday by 112 voles to 38. ...

    Article : 172 words
  19. An Old Man's Suicide.

    Henry Graham, 85, a musician, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at his residence at Glebe this morning. He had been in bad health for some time. A little ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. University of Oxford.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Dr. Evans, a tariff reformer and a distinguished archaeologist, has agreed to contest in opposition to Lord Hugh Cecil (Unionist freetrader) who has ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. Postal Trouble.

    Giving evidence before the Postal Commission to-day, one witness stated that, the reason so many letters and papers went astray was that the sorters and letter carriers were ...

    Article : 56 words
  22. One-class Passenger Steamers.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Peninsular and Oriental Company have placed two steamers, each of 7000 tons, on their Bombay service by which only one class of passengers, ...

    Article : 60 words
  23. The Maori Wreck.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--An official inquiry into the wreck of the Shaw. Savill liner Maori near Capetown on August 5 shows that the cause of the disaster was an abnormal ...

    Article : 56 words
  24. Illicit Opium Trade.

    After a police court hearing extending over several days Constable Sydney Wickham and Customs Officers Thomas Love and Frederick Dansey, who were charged with conspiring to ...

    Article : 50 words
  25. British Navy.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Sub committee of the Cabinet which has been inquiring into Admiral Lord Charles Beresford's allegations in regard to the Navy has issued its report. ...

    Article : 502 words
  26. Administration of Macedonia.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Ambassadors at Constantinople have presented to the Porto a collective note intimating that the Powers have decided to suppress the international ...

    Article : 86 words
  27. Fire at Auckland.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 words
  28. Execution of Dhingra.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Dhingra, the Indian native student who murdered Sir W. H. C. Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca at the Imperial Institute, was executed this morning. ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. Australia v Gloucestershire.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 654 words
  30. Strike at Newcastle.

    Coal-loading operations at Newcastle were practically at a standstill this morning, a strike being entered upon last night by the employees of Mr. Hestelaw, who has the contract with the ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. Thirty Thousand Ton Battleships.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Now York "Tribune" states that the U.S. Secretary for the Navy, Mr. Mayor, has under consideration the construction of 30,000 ton battleships. ...

    Article : 55 words
  32. South African Union Bill.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The second reading of the South African Union. Bill was carried without a division in the House of Commons yesterday, the bill being referred to a Committee ...

    Article : 286 words
  33. Arms and the Afghans.

    LONDON, Monday.--Advices from Simla state that 40 breechloading rilles and 2000 cartridges have been captured near Nawshera whilst being smuggled to the Swat Valley ...

    Article : 122 words
  34. Foul Play Suspected.

    Geo. Steanon, a Bulgarian, has been missing from the Tasmanian Smelting Co.'s works at Zeehan since. Monday week. The man is known to have carried £154 in his belt, and it ...

    Article : 51 words
  35. BEAT LOT'S WIFE.

    A man named Stone and one named Wood met on the street recently, and they stopped for a moment to exchange a few cheerful, views, when a woman in a particularly ...

    Article : 52 words
  36. New Dry Electric Accumulator.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Christiania correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that an inventor there, who is of German origin, claims to have invented a dry electric ...

    Article : 129 words
  37. Greek Flag in Crete.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Cretan Government have intimated their resignation owing [?] the failure of their efforts at persuasion and heir being unable to lower the Greek flag ...

    Article : 214 words
  38. A TALE OF TWO SIGHS.

    There was some speculation as to whether the instrument would benefit an old gentleman or not. Ono was holding the car trumpet, while another was explaining its use, ...

    Article : 151 words
  39. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Sir William MacGregor is progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. LONDON, Saturday.--The Prince of Wales ...

    Article : 78 words
  40. Fifteen Mile Swimming Race.

    LONDON, Sunday.--H Taylor, of Chadderton, Lancashire, who won a championship at the Olympic Games in London, led throughout and won the 15 miles swimming contest ...

    Article : 75 words
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