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  2. TRAIN DISASTER.

    At an early hour this morning word reached Sydney that a serious railway accident had occurred at Exeter, a station about six miles from Moss Vale. ...

    Article : 166 words
  3. TO-DAY'S PAPER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 419 words
  4. PANAMA TOLLS.

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.--The Senate has adopted a motion calling upon Dr. W. H. Page, United States Ambassador in England, to explain his Panama Canal speech before the ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. NAVAL ESTIMATES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The navy estimates total £51,550,000. The new building programme will absorb £14,817,000 and provides for the construction of four battleships, four light ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. "THE SOLITUDE OF THE ICE."

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A man who gave the name of Sydney Jeffryes, and who declared that he had acted as wireless operator with Dr. Mawson on the Australasian Antarctic ...

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  7. A "GO SLOW" POLICY.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--In this, the second year of the existence of the militia army, the Minister for Defence is faced with a military expenditure that has alarmed him and caused ...

    Article : 224 words
  8. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--Messrs. Josiah Thomas (Barrier), and D. C. M'Grath (Ballarat), M's.H.R., spoke at a public meeting at Railwaytown last night. ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. BUDGET REFLECTIONS

    Mr. Holman's first Budget did not create anything like the same interest that would have been attached to a less-belated pronouncement. Nevertheless, it was discussed freely in ...

    Article : 684 words
  10. FARMERS SUPPORT A LIBERAL.

    INVERELL, Friday.--The local branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has decided to support the candidature of Mr. J. E. Blackney, in the Liberal interest, for the Gwydir ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. LABOR MEN IN BROKEN-HILL.

    BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--Messrs. Josiah Thomas and D. C. M'Grath, Ms.H.R., opened a second meeting at South Broken-hill last night. Mr. Thomas said that he hoped another general ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. ALLEGATION OF BRIBERY.

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.--Before the Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee, a witness, Clarence Knight, admitted receiving 1000 dollars from ex-Admiral Bowles, the head of a ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. THE FLYING CORPS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Minister for Defence is quite satisfied with his flight on Wednesday at Point Cook in the Bristol biplane, which was handled by Lieutenant Harrison, as ...

    Article : 430 words
  14. ELECTORAL COMMISSION.

    HOBART, Friday.--The Electoral Commission began taking evidence to-day. Stewart Irwin, Commonwealth Electoral Officer for Tasmania, said that he was appointed to ...

    Article : 140 words
  15. KILLED.

    Guard A. BRAY, of Carlton, attached to the mail, train, his injuries consisting of a fractured skull. FRED KEEZENHOGEN, of Albert Street, ...

    Article : 50 words
  16. RUSSIA'S MILITARY, ESTIMATES.

    ST. PETERSBURG, Thursday.--The Budget Committee of the Duma is examining the extraordinary military estimates, amounting to £12,500,000. This represents an increase of 30 ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. ULSTER.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, asked members to postpone a number of questions regarding the details of the Ulster ...

    Article : 161 words
  18. THE MILITANTS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mary Richardson, the suffragette who slashed the Velasquez "Venus," was to-day sentenced to six months' gaol at the Bow-street police court. She is in a weak ...

    Article : 235 words
  19. INJURED.

    So far as can be ascertained, a number of people were injured by the mishap. They include:-- Mrs. CLARKE of Chip Chi[?] Street, ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. HURRICANE IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

    SUVA, Friday.--The American mail steamer Ventura, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, reported by wireless at 11 a.m. to-day, when 240 miles east of Suva, that she had been ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. HOW IT HAPPENED.

    Later messages state that the mail van leading carriages, and sleeper of the mail train have been badly smashed. All these carriages had their full complement of ...

    Article : 171 words
  22. THE MAIN ISSUE.

    Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P., speaking at West Birmingham, gave the Prime Minister credit for his anxiety to prevent calamities, but, he said, they could not expect Ulster to disband ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 words
  24. THREE MEN KILLED.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A fatality, resulting in the loss of three lives, occurred at Orbost to-day. Blasting operations were in progress on ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. SEVENTEEN WRECKS.

    MADRID, Friday.--A terrific gale is raging on the African coast. There are 17 vessels ashore near Melilla, Morocco, and several warships are in great danger. ...

    Article : 58 words
  26. SMALL--ARMS FACTORY.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Minister for Defence, in view of the statement of the failure of rifles turned out at the Lithgow factory, obtained a special report from Major Heritage, ...

    Article : 271 words
  27. "A MUSTARD PLASTER."

    "It is not an application of political massage; it is a legislative mustard plaster, put on hot." The speaker was not an American. He was a ...

    Article : 602 words
  28. DR. MAWSON'S STATEMENT.

    Interviewed yesterday evening, Dr. Mawson expressed his deep regret to learn that Jeffryes had not arrived safely at his home in Queensland. ...

    Article : 451 words
  29. BEQUEST OF £500.

    Edward, son of Sir Almroth Edward Wright, has made a bequest of £500 to the National Union of Women's Suffragette Societes. Sir Almroth Wright has published a book ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 793 words
  31. HURRYING TO THE SCENE.

    A special train left Goulburn for the scene of the disaster with a staff of nurses and doctors, and help was also sent from Moss Vale. ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. THE DEPORTEDS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Livingstone, one of the deported men, was summoned on a charge of drunkenness, but failed to appear. The eight other deported men now disown Livingstone. ...

    Article : 157 words
  33. A CLEAR DENIAL.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Notwithstanding the recent denials by the Minister for External Affairs and Mr. Deakin himself of the report that Mr. Deakin was likely to be appointed ...

    Article : 156 words
  34. REMOVING THE INJURED.

    Advices from Moss Vale state that there are seven deaths known for certain, though of course, there is the possibility that there may be more. ...

    Article : 90 words
  35. THE WAR SCARE.

    ST. PETERSBURG, Friday.--The newspapers unanimously refuse to be intimidated by the Austro-German press campaign against Russia, and recall that Germanay set the example of ...

    Article : 130 words
  36. FOURTEEN KILLED.

    At 4.30 this morning a message was received from the scene of the mishap to the effect that the number of dead was 14, and six were seriously injured. ...

    Article : 69 words
  37. GOING ALONG SMOOTHLY.

    LITHGOW, Friday.--The Small Arms Factory manager states that everything is going along smoothly at the factory. A further consignment of 14 cases of rifles were forwarded to ...

    Article : 64 words
  38. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

    CAPETOWN, Friday.--In the House of Assembly, the first reading of the Women's Enfranchisement Bill has been carried by 62 votes to 30. ...

    Article : 28 words
  39. CITY SERVICES.

    The Electric Light Committee yesterday dealt with those sections of the Lord Mayor's report which concerned them particularly. In regard to the stores it was urged by Mr. ...

    Article : 88 words
  40. WONDERFUL EXPERIMENTS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Professor William Bottomley, speaking before the Society of Arts, described a wonderful series of experiments at King's College, in producing bacterised peat, ...

    Article : 65 words
  41. NOISY ELECTORS.

    WELLINGTON, N.Z., Friday.--Mr. Fisher, Minister for Marine, endeavored to speak to the electors of Wellington Central to-night. The result was the most disorderly meeting ...

    Article : 143 words
  42. PUNT SUNK.

    A punt belonging to the German-Australian S.S. Co., sank in Woolloomooloo Bay early yesterday morning. The punt was laden with 90 tons of zinc concentrates for transhipment to ...

    Article : 74 words
  43. COMPULSORY TRAINING.

    LONDON, Friday.--In the House of Lords, Lord Willoughby de Broke introduced a bill to create an imperial force to supplement the Territorials, providing that the youth of the middle ...

    Article : 139 words
  44. SIR ALLEN TAYLOR AND THE TOWN CLERK.

    Following is a copy of a communication forwarded to the Town-clerk by Sir Allen Taylor, and which we are asked to publish:--"A.M.P.-buildings, 89 Pitt-street, Sydney, New South ...

    Article : 198 words
  45. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The decision of the Railway Department to demolish the buildings in which the Customs and several State departments are housed, and use the site for a ...

    Article : 199 words
  46. "THE DON'T LABOR PARTY."

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. Watt, the Victorian State Premier, at a banquet at Neerim, described the Labor party as the "Don't Labor party." Did anyone, he asked, ever hear that ...

    Article : 168 words
  47. RESCUED FOUR CHILDREN.

    BOMBALA, Friday.--News was received last night of a burning accident at Bungarby yesterday, when a boy, used two years, the youngest son of Thomas Murdock, a selector, was ...

    Article : 136 words
  48. MATUNGA MISHAP.

    The steamer Matunga, of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co.'s line, which ran on a reel in New Guinea recently, floated off apparently uninjured. A wireless message was received ...

    Article : 54 words
  49. NORMANBY (Q.) BY-ELECTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 words
  50. CONDEMNED BY FREETRADE LEAGUE.

    The Free Trade and Land Values League on Thursday agreed to the following motion:-- That the Free Trade and Land Values League strongly condemns the Government's taxation proposals, as they ...

    Article : 164 words
  51. Advertising

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