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  2. CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith) presided yesterday at the morning sitting of the Imperial Conference. "DUE TO A RING." ...

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  3. TO-DAY'S PAPER.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 446 words
  4. GENERAL NEWS.

    The Lord Mayor (Ald. Allen Taylor) has under consideration several important resumptions, which will have the effect of making further considerable improvement in the portions of ...

    Article : 258 words
  5. SIGNAL MISREAD.

    The full force of the recent which swept the Tasman Sea and severely tested the seagoing capabilities of many of the regular liners, was met by the steamer Bellambi, which arrived ...

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  6. MISSING REVENUE.

    A difference of a million and three-quarters in the revenue is a big thing for the State taxpayer to face, but that, according to the Acting-Treasurer, is what the change to the per ...

    Article : 503 words
  7. HAVOC AT TRIESTE.

    VIENNA, Thursday.--A violent storm has caused great havoc among the shipping at Trieste, the principal Austrian port, on the Adriatic. ...

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  8. IN THE AFTERNOON.

    LONDON, Friday.--A precis of yesterday afternoon's proceedings at the Imperial Conference has not yet been issued. It is understood that the conference ...

    Article : 130 words
  9. "WE'LL FIGHT IF WE HAVE TO."

    At the Swedish dinner last night to celebrate the birthday of King Gustav V., the Consul-General for Australasia, Mr. S. T. von Goes, said that Sweden would do her best to keep ...

    Article : 139 words
  10. WHERE WAS THE QUAKE?

    MADRID, Friday.--The seismographs here have registered an earthquake of great severity lasting for an hour. ...

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  11. THE ROCKS AREA.

    A further period of grace was asked for by a deputation of shopkeepers from the George-street portion of the Rocks resumed area, who waited yesterday on the Acting-Treasurer (Mr. ...

    Article : 214 words
  12. THE SHIPPING STRIKE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The seamen's strike for an increase in the rates of pay, has not, up to the present, assumed serious proportions. It is expected that some days will elapse ...

    Article : 270 words
  13. AUSTRALIA IN LONDON.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. E. A. Batchelor (Australian Minister for External Affairs) and 20 other Federal politicians, and others, yesterday inspected the Trafalgar. Strand, and other sites ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

    The following statement is supplied by the Chief Secretary's Department:--Thursday, June 22 has been proclaimed a public holiday throughout the State of New South Wales in ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. "SECRET MEETING."

    That which came to Mr. David Storey's knowledge regarding a "secret meeting" at the Randwick Town-hall was correct so far as the gathering is concerned. Mr. Roy Hendy is the ...

    Article : 319 words
  16. ATTEMPTING TOO MUCH.

    Mentioning the application of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association for a board in the Industrial Court yesterday, Judge Heydon dealt at some length with the question ...

    Article : 538 words
  17. MINISTERIAL MISSIONARIES.

    According to Ministerial programmes, to-day will find Mr. Beeby (Labor and Industry), Mr. Edden (Mines), and Mr. Carmichael (Acting-State Treasurer) at Newcastle; Mr. Griffith ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. A FISHMONGERS' BANQUET.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. J. S. T. M'Gowen (Premier of New South Wales), Sir E. Wittenoom (of West Australia), Mr. Justice Cohen (of Sydney), Sir John Forrest, M.H.R., and the ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. HOW CHINA ADVANCES.

    Seventeen years in China, doing the work of the Inland Mission, have convinced Mr. H. Curtis, who arrived in Sydney by the St. Albans yesterday, and who leaves this morning for New ...

    Article : 676 words
  20. TRAINED FARM LADS.

    "The demand for trained lads from our Pitt Town Farm still continues," reports the Director of Labor. "Employers desirous of securing any of these lads should book their ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. WHITE STAR SETTLEMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday Evening.--The Seamen's Union has arrived at a settlement of the difficulty as far as the White Star Company is concerned. ...

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  22. SHIPMASTER AS IMMIGRATION ENVOY.

    Captain Millington, of the P. and O. branch service steamer Narrung, takes a keen interest in immigration, and, as the passengers on her last voyage out continually questioned him about ...

    Article : 122 words
  23. SCARCITY OF LABOR.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The conference of representatives of Chamber of Manufactures and the Trades-hall Council met again to-day to consider the question of the scarcity of labor ...

    Article : 339 words
  24. SOUTHAMPTON COAL-PORTERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The coalporters at Southampton, who have been on strike for some days, have accepted the terms offered by the employers. ...

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  25. QUEENSLANDERS AT DINNER.

    LONDON, Friday.--The 25th Queensland dinner was held last night at the Trocadero, when the Agent-General (Sir T. B. Robinson) presided over an attendance of 170 persons. ...

    Article : 549 words
  26. SCIENCE AS A MATCHMAKER.

    Amongst the newest social movements to attain prominence in England is one for improving the human race by substituting for the present haphazard method of selection ...

    Article : 1,392 words
  27. FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

    TANGIER, Friday.--The French Government has caused the children stolen and sold into slavery after the Lemta raid, near Fez, on the occasion of the approach of General Monier's ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. DONATIONS TO MITCHELL LIBRARY.

    Among the donations recently received by the trustees of the Mitchell Library, special mention may be made of the silver trowel given to Sir Francis Forbes to commemorate ...

    Article : 128 words
  29. A SHEREEFIAN ARMY.

    PARIS, Thursday.--M. Cruppi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced in the Chamber of Deputies that it was intended to create a Shereefian Army in Morocco sufficient to restore ...

    Article : 37 words
  30. NOT TOO OLD AT SIXTY.

    Sir John Gordon at the Commonwealth Club, Adelaide, yesterday delivered an address on the question "Is a man too old at 60?" He referred to famous men who at a greater age ...

    Article : 201 words
  31. CAN BE REPLACED.

    The retiring age in the police force is 60 years, and the retention of the services of certain officers after they have reached that age has been a sore point in the force. A ...

    Article : 268 words
  32. THIRTY YEARS IN ASYLUMS.

    MADRID, Thursday.--A wealthy Spanish spinster, Matilde Andeyro, after having been immured in different asylums for a period of 30 years, has been released at the instance of a ...

    Article : 85 words
  33. PROTEST FROM LABOR FEDERATION.

    PERTH, Friday.--A deputation from the Labor Federation to the Acting-Premier (Mr. Gregory) opposed strongly the Chamber of) Commerce's request that the Government ...

    Article : 140 words
  34. BIRKBECK BANK SMASH.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In a reference in the House of Commons to-night, to the Birkbeck Bank failure, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that the Board of ...

    Article : 202 words
  35. AN IRRIGATION MISSION.

    The Minister for Lands (Mr. Nielsen) left last night on a visit to Victoria, where he will look into irrigation matters, and will also represent the State Government at the ...

    Article : 109 words
  36. FRENCH MAIL STEAMER IN DOCK.

    The French mail steamer Pacifique, which struck on a reef at Vila on her recent trip to the New Hebrides, was placed in Mort's Dock yesterday for survey. It was found that the ...

    Article : 118 words
  37. SHOCKING FATALITY.

    PENRITH, Friday.--A shocking fatality occurred at the deviation works, Glenbrook, to-day, when two men, James M'Nichol (an immigrant from Scotland) and Webber (from ...

    Article : 173 words
  38. TELEPHONE TRIALS.

    In some instances during the past week the commissioner appointed by the Lord Mayor and the president of the Chamber of Commerce to test the telephone system was answered ...

    Article : 306 words
  39. SIKH POLICE FOR FIJI.

    A party of ten Sikh policemen arrived yesterday from Hongkong by the E. and A. mail steamer St. Albans. They are en route to Fiji, having been selected for service at Government ...

    Article : 188 words
  40. ONE FOR THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

    With reference to the letter, signed "Mercator," 131 Pitt-street, Sydney, which appeared in Wednesday's issue of "The Daily Telegraph," suggesting that provision be made for messages ...

    Article : 96 words
  41. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 words
  42. THE SINGAPORE MURDER.

    SINGAPORE, Friday.--The trial concluded here yesterday of Mrs. Proudlock, wife of the headmaster of the Victoria Institution at Kuala Lumpur, who was indicted on a charge of having ...

    Article : 63 words
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