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  2. THE COAL STRIKE.

    At the request of the strike congress Messrs. Estell and Charlton, members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, will leave for Melbourne to-morrow to conduct a ...

    Article : 111 words
  3. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The R.M.S. Ophir Mail.—Mails which left Fremantle on October 27 by the R.M.S. Ophir arrived in London on Monday morning last. ...

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  4. THE SPRING VALLEY DISASTER.

    The number of men rescued on Saturday from the St. Paul Company's mine at Spring Valley, Illionis was misreported, only 20 instead of 78 of the ...

    Article : 185 words
  5. BRITISH BUDGET.

    Soon after the House of Lords resumed business yesterday the Chamber was crowded in anticipation of the debate on the motion for the second reading of the ...

    Article : 1,138 words
  6. THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION.

    The "Standard" reports that the insurgents under Estrada are now in command of half of Nicaragua, including the Atlantic coastline of the country. ...

    Article : 96 words
  7. FEDERAL ELECTORATES.

    In the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr. Fuller moved that the House should approve of the distribution of the State of Western Australia into electoral ...

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  8. SETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFICULTY.

    An ex-president of the Newcastle Miners' Union, Mr. Estell, M.L.A., suggests that the time has arrived when the Premier should, in the interests of the general community, ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. BLACKLISTING.

    The Conservation of the American Federation of Labour, sitting at Toronto, has decided to vote Mr. Gompers (its president), Mr. Mitchell (its vice-president), ...

    Article : 154 words
  10. MINERS BECOMING RESTLESS

    The miners of the southern district are evidently becoming restless. A meeting of the Mt. Kembla lodge was held to-day, and a resolution was agreed to recommending ...

    Article : 153 words
  11. GERMANY'S NAVAL DEFENCES.

    The German Naval Estimates include an increase of £500,000 owing to the larger size of the Dreadnoughts under construction. Provision is made for an ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. ENGINE DRIVERS AND FIREMEN.

    The officers of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association have addressed a letter to all the branches, in which reference is made to the refusal of ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. OIL FUEL USED.

    Birt and Co., Ltd., have installed an apparatus for burning oil fuel at their cold stores, Darling Harbour, and the innovation has proved eminently successful. The ...

    Article : 51 words
  14. THE TENERIFFE VOLCANOES.

    The explosions in the volcanoes on the island of Teneriffe, off the West Coast of Africa, are increasing in frequency, and the streams of lava are slowly creeping ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. THE AMERICA CUP.

    Sir Thomas Lipton announces that be has issued a challenge to race for the America Cup (yachting) in 1911. He has decided to build two yachts, one of ...

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  16. THE STRIKER'S DEMANDS.

    Mr. Lee, the Acting-Premier, received a letter to-day from Mr. Hughes on behalf of the strike congress as follows:—"Herewith I am forwarding a reply to the Premier's ...

    Article : 479 words
  17. FEDERAL INTERVENTION IMPROBABLE.

    Mr. Hughes does not think that there is any likelihood of Federal intervention. He gathered that although the Governor-General was willing to act as mediator he was ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. SIR WILFRID LAURIER'S BIRTHDAY.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, who celebrated the 68th anniversary of his birthday last Saturday, has received from His Majesty the King a ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. A POLISH TRAGEDY.

    A farmer and seven members of his family were murdered recently in Prussian Poland. The police employed bloodhounds to unearth the murderers and ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. EFFECT ON SHIPPING.

    There is a probabiliry that the Eastern, a passenger steamer belonging to Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., will be laid up. The White Star liner Runic was to have ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE.

    Colonel J. J. Astor, a New York millionaire, who with his yacht Nourmabel has been missing from Jamaica since the recent hurricane swept over that island, ...

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  22. FATAL FOOTBALL.

    Twenty-six men were killed and 209 were injured in college football matches in the United States during the past season. ...

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  23. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Greenwich Observatory reports that Halley's Comet is 80 times brighter than it was in September. ...

    Article : 156 words
  24. THE STRIKERS' MINES.

    A starting statement was made in Newcastle of to-day in regard to the working of the Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association. Dissension has evidently been ...

    Article : 180 words
  25. BOMB IN A LETTER.

    At Schillersdorg, in Austria recently Baron Albert Rothschild received a number of blackmailing letters. Yesterday a stranger while in the vicinity of ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. DIVORCE FOR DESERTION.

    The hearing of a suit for dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion brought by Florence Evelyn Clancy, 24 years of age, against Bertram Clancy, was concluded ...

    Article : 255 words
  27. Family Notices

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  28. SUGGESTED MEDIATION OF LORD DUDLEY.

    In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Liddell (N.S.W.) asked Mr. Deakin whether, in view of the distress and suffering the dislocation of trade and the monetary ...

    Article : 169 words
  29. A SHIPPING DISASTER.

    Giving evidence to-day at the inquiry into the loss of the Duco, Mr. Bates, the Government Meteorologist, said that he informed Captain Abrahams of the prospects ...

    Article : 107 words
  30. STRIKERS AND ARBITRATION

    Mr. Hughes, referring to the statement by Mr. Wade that the position of the strikers was that they would not have arbitration, said to-night:—"The position of the men is ...

    Article : 154 words
  31. THE KARRAKATTA TRAGEDY.

    The Minister for Defence has received a report concerning the recent accident at the Karrakatta rifle range, whereby a cadet was killed. It is stated in the report that the ...

    Article : 152 words
  32. SAD BOATING FATALITY.

    A boating fatality occurred on the Yarra at Kew last night, the victim being Miss Violet Scott, aged 19 years. Accompanied by Leslie Phillips, 19 years of age, she ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. THE VICTORIAN HARVEST.

    Reports received from the principal grain districts indicate that the harvest prospects are good. A better wheat yield than that of last year is anticipated in most districts, ...

    Article : 61 words
  34. EUROPEAN-AUSTRALIAN FREIGHT RATES.

    The "Times" states that the companies in the Australian Shipping Conference have advanced the outward measurement freight rate for next Friday's mail steamer by 15s. ...

    Article : 102 words
  35. PARCELS OF COAL.

    The strike Congress will deal on its merits with each separate parcel of coal as it arrives in Sydney, and it will be unloaded or not according to the decision then ...

    Article : 143 words
  36. THE DUNGOG MURDER.

    In connection with the murder of Frank Coleman, whose body, enclosed in a bag, was found in a waterhole near Dungog, the Crown Law Department made an ...

    Article : 99 words
  37. PERSONAL.

    The Minister for Defences (Mr. Joseph Cook) has decided that Lord Kitchener is to be met at Thursday Island by Major-General Hoad. It is probable that Mr. ...

    Article : 295 words
  38. A SERIOUS CHARGE.

    The adjourned case in which Edward Fisher Gryst was charged with having about November 1 used an instrument on Mabel O'Dea was resumed at the Adelaide ...

    Article : 91 words
  39. STRIKE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The latest reports from Greymouth regarding the trouble in the State coal mine state that a mass meeting of miners was held yesterday to hear the report of the ...

    Article : 118 words
  40. STRIKERS SECURE WORK.

    Matters are very quiet in the Maitland district. Numbers of the strikers have succeeded in obtaining work other than mining elsewhere, but this action on their part is ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. NORTHERN TERRITORY OUTRAGE.

    The Minister controlling the Northern Territory received a telegram from the Government Resident at Port Darwin to-day, stating that Mr. McPherson, a Trepang ...

    Article : 70 words
  42. NOTORIOUS NEGRO CONVICT.

    The notorious negro convict William King who, on the 10th inst., attacked Warder A. Curtis at the Prentridge Gaol, is to be charged with attemepted murder. ...

    Article : 71 words
  43. Advertising

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    Advertising : 230 words
  44. COAL LUMPERS' UNION.

    The Coal Lumpers' Union held a meeting at Miller's Point this morning. About 900 members were present, the majority of whom, it was explained, were out of work ...

    Article : 88 words
  45. A GOOD THING FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    When asked yesterday what the position of the Scottish Collieries Co., Ltd., was, as affected by the coal strike, Mr. Wall stated that the mines were daily increasing ...

    Article : 191 words
  46. THE POSTAL COMMISSION.

    The Public Service Commissioner, giving evidence to-day before the Postal Commission, and referring to the supposed grievances of telegraphists, said that their hours ...

    Article : 93 words
  47. THE LAW LIST.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.50 a.m., before the Acting Chief Justice and a jury—[?]. Ma[?]n and the Geraldton Express Co., Ltd., Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...

    Article : 39 words
  48. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 68 words
  49. THE INVINCIBLE COLLIERY.

    At the Invincible mine at Cullen Bullen, in the western district, about 30 men are engaged in filling slack coal, and 30 trucks are being despatched daily. One of the men ...

    Article : 89 words
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