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  2. A PROSPEROUS TOWN NOW IN RUINS.

    --Illustration kindly lent by Mr. E. Feil, Penshurst. THE TOWN OF MESSINA, IN WHICH 135,000 PEOPLE PERISHED AS THE RESULT OF THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  3. RESTORING ORDER.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Queen Elena of Italy is working devotedly in the hospital at Messina, where a panic occurred yesterday in consequence of a slight ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. TO-DAY'S PAPER.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 words
  5. RACING RUSH FIRES

    YASS, Monday.--Latest particulars from the scene of the bush fires confirm the gravest fears of the Yass people. The mountains beyond Little River are a seething mass of flame, ...

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  6. STUPENDOUS RELIEF MEASURES.

    LONDON, Monday.--King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena have returned to Rome. Their Majesties were accorded an ovation ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. SUICIDE IN THE CITY.

    At about 6 p.m. yesterday, Ernest E. Green, aged about 35, and recently a stud overseer on a station near Uralla, shot himself in, his bedroom at the Alameda Hotel, Margaret and Kent ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. TRUCK ACTS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Track Acts has handed in its report. ...

    Article : 301 words
  9. ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS.

    LONDON, Monday.--Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian, won the 25-mile race at Buffalo (U.S.A.) oil Saturday. Dorando, the Italian, collapsed and retired ...

    Article : 163 words
  10. DISMISSED

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--An edict has, been issued at Pekin dismissing Yuan-Shih-Kai, the head of the Chinese Government, as the result of a Manchu plot. ...

    Article : 39 words
  11. INTERESTING TO NUMISMATISTS

    Messina is one of the oldest of the cities founded by the Greeks in Southern Italy arid Sicily The original name of Messina was Zankle (the sickle). from the peculiar form of the harbor. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 374 words
  12. GREAT SENSATION AT PEKIN.

    LONDON, Monday.--The decree dismissing Viceroy Yuan-Shih-Kai is cold and Callous, aud has produced a great sensation at Pekin. ...

    Article : 234 words
  13. DEALING WITH THE LOOTERS.

    LONDON, Monday.--Sixteen looters wore shot and 600 arrested at Messina yesterday. Some were attacking the survivors, others killed an Italian sailor and wounded a. ...

    Article : 87 words
  14. WORLD'S BEST SPRINTER.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--R. E. Walker, of Durban, at Pretoria on Saturday ran 100 metres (100,3 yards) in 10 2-5,sees., thus beating the world's record. ...

    Article : 214 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    The Board of Control will not grant a conference on the question of terms to the players, or anyone else, but is willing and anxious to hear any grievances the players may have in ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. RESISTED THE SHOCK.

    Au Italian engineer states that the new houses, 30ft. in height', which were erected at Reggie di Calabria and Ferrazzano after the earthquake of 1905. have successfully ...

    Article : 40 words
  17. SURVIVOR'S GRAPHIC STORY.

    Mr. C. Calger, a naval architect, and Signor Doresa, a shipowner, both of London wore the only British survivors of the destruction of the Trinacria Hotel at Messina. ...

    Article : 184 words
  18. HORSE TRAINER'S SUICIDE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Mr. E. Couch, a Newmarket trainer, though he had arranged to return to Perth (W.A.) on December 20 with a consignment of ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. CASTE PREJUDICES IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Monday.--The police in a Suburb of Calcutta were set upon and mobbed because, in deference to the feelings of the Hindoos, they prohibited the sacrifice of ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. BLOODSHED IN PERSIA.

    LONDON, Monday.--A disturbance broke out at, the Consulate at Ispahan (the former capital of Persia), during which blood was shed ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Last year the New South Wales-Government gave assisted passages to 3090 immigrants, while the Victorian Government gave, assistance to only 70 families, ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. A CITY WHICH HAS DISAPPEARED.

    THE TOWN OF SCYLLA, ON THE CALABRIAN COAST, The city has been completely destroyed, The only survivors are two priests who Were in the vaults of the church. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,--Most people of Australia, I am sure, will have read with regret and disapproval the Prime Minister's statement that he does not intend to offer on behalf of tho great ...

    Article : 323 words
  24. BIG DIVIDENDS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The gold mining and other companion of South Africa paid dividends during 1908 amounting to £13,070,442. ...

    Article : 25 words
  25. NEW CALEDONIA'S SYMPATHY.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mr. P. Maitre, Acting Consul-General for Italy, has received the following cable message from the Governor of Noumea, New Caledonia:-- ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. THE NARROW ESCAPE OF NOWRA.

    NOWRA, Monday.--Bush fires have swept tho country to the west and south of the town, and numbers of settlers have been burnt out. In the forenoon dense bush fires were blazing in ...

    Article : 824 words
  27. BOMB EXPLOSION IN A CAFE.

    LONDON, Monday.--The "Dully Mail's" correspondent reports Unit after a student had temporarily deposited a packet containing a bomb oil a table at the Central Cafe, ...

    Article : 93 words
  28. DAY OF MOURNING IN BALLARAT.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Ballarat Italians are observing to-day as a day of mourning, on account of the calamity in Sicily and Southern Italy, and the Italian shops are all closed. ...

    Article : 75 words
  29. DR. CAPRA INTERVIEWED.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--in an interview yesterday, Dr. Capra, the Italian priest who celebrated High Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, described some of the devastated ...

    Article : 192 words
  30. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--Mr. Wade, Premier of New South Wales, reached Adelaide on the return Journey from West Australia this afternoon, and interviewed tho Premier (Mr. Price) ...

    Article : 92 words
  31. UNITED STATES BATTLE FLEET.

    LONDON, Monday.--The United States Battleship Fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Sperry, has arrived at Suez, homeward bound ...

    Article : 36 words
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