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  2. TALK OF WAR.

    VIENNA, Friday.--The Minister for Defence, in supporting in the Lower House of the Reicbsrath, a proposal to increase the number of army recruits, said, "Nobody can believe that ...

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  3. PANAMA TOLLS.

    WASHINGTON, -Friday.—Senator Chamberlain, on seeing Dr. Page's explanation that he was joking when he referred to the British use of the Panama Cabal, and the Monroe ...

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  4. "NOT TO BE BULLIED."

    LONDON, Sunday.--Mr. . Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Bradford, stated that the Unionists's duty was clear if they disliked the Act. They must agitato ...

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  5. THE SLIT SKIRT.

    BRUSSELS, Saturday.--King Albert, noticing at a court ball a lady attired in an extremely decolletto slit skirt, whispered to Hie court marshal. who offered his arm and led the lady ...

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  6. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

    The Minister for Railways (Mr. Hoyle), interviewed by a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" yesterday, stated that it was too early for him to have received any official in- ...

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  7. RICHMOND.

    Richmond in Victoria, has been the scene of two disasters, one in 1882, when three well- known business men were killed outright, and about 30 injured, and the one which occurred ...

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  8. SAFETY APPLIANCES.

    An Interesting point is raised by the Exeter collision, as to how far it could have been prevented by the use of the Angus Railway Safely. Appliance a Sydney invention, the ...

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  9. COOTAMUNDRA.

    The Cootamundra calamity took place on Anniversary Day. 1885, when a Melbourne train, comprising a sleeper. a first and second class carriage, and baggage waggons, crashed through ...

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  10. DEATH OF NURSE HEAVER.

    The nurses at Jennner Private Hospital, Macleay-street, are inexpressibly shocked at the tragedy which has robbed them of their little comrade. "She was loved by all the girls," ...

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  11. RIOT IN DUBLIN.

    LONDON, Friday.--An extraordinary scene occurred in Dublin to-day. Captain White, armed with a blackthorn, headed a procession of Labor louder Larkin's supporters, carryins ...

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  12. GERMAN RIDICULE.

    BERLIN. Friday.-- is semi-officially stated by the "Norddeutsche Allgomeine Zeltung" that Germany ridicules the threat contained in the Russian "Bourse Gazette," and does not be- ...

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  13. WINDSOR.

    Another Victorian tragedy was that at Windsor in 1888, when the Melbourne express crashed into a train to Brighton. Seven people were killed, and a large number Injured. ...

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  14. MINOR ACCIDENTS.

    Amongst minor accidents may be mentioned those' at Molong, Stanwell Park, Murrurundi, Illawarra, Bathurst railway, gates, and Bland-lord. ...

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  15. FRANCE MORE SECURE.

    PARIS, Friday.--The firm reply of the Russian "Bourse Gazctto" is enthusiastically welcomed. It is felt that the German menaco ...

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  16. COLLISION AT ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, ;Sunday.--A railway accident occurred on Saturday at the junction nearest the city terminal. A train bound for Gawler, which left Adelaide at 11.17 (three minutes ...

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  17. INQUEST OPENED.

    Late on Saturday afternoon, Mr. H. . Taylor, the district coroner, opened the inquest, at the Bowral School of Arts. As this preliminary court was only to settle certain formalities, few ...

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  18. STILL BANISHED.

    CAPETOWN, Saturday.--The Senate, by 25 votes to 10 rejected Mr W P Schreiner's amendment to delete the banishment clause in the Indemnity Bill. ...

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  19. CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT.

    WASHINGTON, ay.--The Senate Committee appointed to investigate "lobbying" has learned from witnesses that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace spent £6000 in ...

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  20. MELBOURNE'S MISTAKE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Considerable concern was felt at the Railway Department on Saturday morning,when the news of the catastrophe was received. Through some error it was ...

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  21. SPORTING NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--In yesterday's Rugby match Wales scored 11 points and Ireland three points. In the Association game Ireland and Scotland ...

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  22. OFFICIAL ENQUIRY.

    Messrs. C. A. Hodgson, Superintendent of Lines; Mr. E. E. Lucy, Chief Mechanical Engineer; and Mr, C. B. Bylos, Signal Engineer; have been appointed as a board of inquiry to investi- ...

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  23. "ULSTER WILL MAKE GOOD."

    LONDON, Saturday.--Sir Edward Carson, in the course of a letter, states: "We are going to make good in action all that we have been saying. We have been preparing two years ...

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  24. AN ENGINE-DRIVER'S YARN.

    An engine driver, who has had frequent charge of big express trains travelling over the Southern Line, spoke on Saturday morning of the system of signalling adopted on the State rail- ...

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  25. "NOT DISSOCIATED."

    LONDON, Saturday.--Livingstone, one of the deported South Africans, speaking at Aberdeen, denied that he had been dissociated from the other men who were exiled from South Africa. ...

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  26. HOW TRAINS ARE MARSHALLED.

    A railway official, who is regarded as an expert in the marshalling of trains, remarked yesterday that the order of marshalling observed on all mail trains in the State was incorrect, ...

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  27. THE FINANCIAL SIDE.

    NEW YORK, Saturday.--Professor Emery Johnson, addressing a banquet held by' Pennsylvania University men, stated that the nation would be obliged to meet a loss of £4,000,000 for ...

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  28. THE MEXICAN TANGLE.

    MEXICO CITY, Saturday.--General Alatrista was murdered his his force mutinied. The; officers who escaped mobilised a punitive force, aud fought a pitched battle. The mutineers ...

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  29. THE LATEST BULLETIN.

    The latest bulletin received last night and blackboarded at the Sydney Railway Station read:-- "All the injured at Bowral Hospital ...

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  30. BILLIARDS. I

    LONDON. Thursday.--Play was continued in the second heal of the championship game between Stevenson and Reece. At the end of the day's play the scores were:--Stevenson.7500: ...

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  31. OFFICIALS ARRESTED.

    NOGALES, Sonora, Saturday.--Two officials have been arrested, being accused of conspiracy against General Carranza, Constitutionalist leader. Other arrests are pending. ...

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  32. DEATH OF MR, JOHN KNEESHAW.

    Mr. John Kneeshaw, who recently retired from the position of superintendent of the Government tramways or New South Wales, died in a private hospital at Summer-hill last even- ...

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  33. VICE-REGAL SYMPATHY.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The following telegram has been sent by the Governer-General to the Governor of New South Wales:-- I am deeply grieved to hear of the ter- ...

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  34. NATIVES REPULSED.

    ROME, Frill ay.—Advices from Benghazi (north coast of Africa) state that Colonel Lavini's column repulsed 2000 natives at the Zutena oasis. ...

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  35. "PEACE AND PROSPERITY."

    "It is admitted," said Mr. Frank Brennan, M.H.R., on Saturday, "that irishmen have always borne their part manfully in the battles of the Empire. There can be no doubt that when ...

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  36. THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--"Sporting Life." discussing the 'Varsity crews's practice at Putney, says that compared with the Oxonians's ponderous, jerky, and irregular movements, the ...

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  37. STILL MILITANT.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Mrs. Pankhurst, who was recently arrested at Glasgow, has been released. During the early morning suffragettes ...

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  38. STEEL-FRAMED CARRIAGES.

    Addressing a gathering at Kogarah yesterday afternoon. Archbishop Kelly conveyed the condolences of the Catholic body to the relatives of tho victims of the railway disaster at Exeter. ...

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  39. THE N.D.L.

    LONDON, Friday.—The Norddeutsclier Lloyd Shipping Company's report stales that the main Australian line, which under tho existing contracts has been carried on at a lose, will ...

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  40. GENERAL NEWS BY CABLE.

    The Trinity College music examiners for 1911 are:--S. Myerscough, for New South Wales. Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia; Alfred Mistowski ior West Australia and Tasmania: ...

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  41. PREVIOUS DISASTERS.

    The Exeter disaster is the biggest experienced in Now South Wales, but is overshadowed by the Sunshine disaster in Victoria. In all there have been about ten big railway tragedies in ...

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  42. CARRIAGES SMASHED.

    Are the passenger carriages in use on the State railways too lightly constructed? The question suggested itself on Saturday morning at Exeter. The Temora mail was ...

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  43. JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDALS.

    TOKIO, Friday.--M. Iwa Hara, managing director of the Mitsui Yushan Kaisha (Shipping Co.) and a director of the "Oji" Paper Company, has been arrested in connection with ...

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  44. SUNSHINE.

    The Sunshine disaster occurred when, on a memorable Easter Monday night, 1908, about 11 o'clock, the Bendigo and Ballarat passenger trains, both crowded with holiday-makers, col- ...

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  45. EMPIRE DEFENCE.

    LONDON, Friday.--At a meeting of the Imperial Mission, Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter, urged the summoning of an Imperial Council of Defence to frame a scheme tor the ...

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  46. FRENCH NAVAL MANOEUVRES.

    PARIS, Friday.--The naval manoeuvres are to lie held in the Mediterranean in May, and will be conducted on a grand scale. Eighty- five bttleships and cruisers, 50 destroyers, and ...

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  47. THE TRAIN.

    There Were 134 passengers on the train as it steamed out of Central station on Friday night, distributed as follows:--First-class, 38; second, 79; and 17 in the sleeping-car. The weight of ...

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  48. ENORMOUS DEFALCATIONS.

    LONDON, Friday,--Investigations of the accounts of the Hamburg-South America Shipping Line have revealed defalcations amounting to £400,000, spread over 15 years. It is ex- ...

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  49. TROUBLED ALBANIA.

    ATHENS, Saturday.--Grave disorders have taken place at Koritza, European Turkey, where the Albanians attacked the Christians, and outraged women. ...

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  50. NORTHERN COLLIERIES.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Work at the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts during the fortnight ended on Saturday was brisk, the average being a fraction over nine ...

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  51. PEAT'S FERRY.

    The Peat's Ferry accident occurred on June 21, 1887. The train ran away down a steep incline on the Hawkesbury River, and wrecked itself on a siding to which it had been shunted ...

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  52. MANY PERSONS DROWNED.

    LONDON, Sunday.--A Router message -from St. Petersburg states that a hurricane in Kuban Province caused the Sea of Azoff to rise 9ft, and inundate Stanilza and Achtyrskaja, 1000 ...

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  53. AUSTRALIA'S SUBMARINES.

    MALTA. Saturday.--The cruiser Eclipse and the Australian submarines arrived here after a good passage, despite a heavy sea and an adverse wind. ...

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  54. BURNED TO DEATH.

    BRIDGEPORT. Connecticut, Friday.--A fire in an Italian rooming-house, in which there were 50 boarders, was followed by a panic. The police were forced to use their clubs to ...

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  55. MISSIONARIES SAFE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The board of the China Inland Mission has received a cable message stating that Dr. Lagorqnist and his wife and the Misses Black (three) and Miss Emily King ...

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  56. MAILS DELAYED.

    The superintendent of mails at the G.P.O. (Mr. Christie) at about. 12.45 p.m. stated that the sorting staff was working hard at the mails, which had arrived very late. It would ...

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  57. SYDENHAM.

    This occurred on February 15, 1901, when, owing lo a fractured rail of some description, a passenger train and engine left the lines. The engine turned right over. Eight persons ...

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  58. MELBOURNE RAILWAYS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The British Insulated and Helsby Cables Company has secured a £300.000 contract for the supply of the overbead electric equipment for Melbourno railway. ...

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  59. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    LONDON, Sunday,.--At the National Rifle Association meeting Mr. Fletcher, a director of.Da[?]gety's, and winner of the King's silver medal in 1908, proposed closer association be- ...

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  60. REDFERN.

    The Redfern disaster took place in broad daylight on the morning of October 31, 1894. Two passenger trains--the 9.30 for Goulburn, and the 8.50 from Parramatta--collided near ...

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  61. MARCONI SHARE INQUIRY.

    LONDON, Friday,--The inquiry regarding Lord. Murray's transactions in American Marconi shares, while chief Liberal Whip, has opened. Replying to counsel's query as to ...

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  62. PERSONAL NOTES.

    The postal guard. Alfred Charles Bray, was in his [?]rd year, and had been in the service of the department for about 28 years. A native of Redfern, he entered the local office as ...

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  63. AGAINST THE HINDU.

    WASHINGTON, Saturday,--Representative Church, of California, introduce a bill to exclude. Hindus, and providing that all Hindus shall bo regarded as laborers, unless it is ...

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  64. DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The result - of the meeting or the executive officers of the Colliery Employees Federation with the Premier and other Ministers in Sydney to-morrow is waited ...

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  65. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

    LONDON. Saturday.--A Router message reports that Signor Marconi has successfully tested a new wireless telephone, the tests being made between warships. ...

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  66. THE FUNERALS.

    Several interments of accident victims will take place to-day. The Railway Department is doing its best to facilitate the melancholy task of removing the ...

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  67. TARANA.

    There were nine killed and about 36 injured in the Tarana fatality, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1892. The Bourke mail from Sydney was the train which came to grief, the ...

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  68. WORLD'S STEAMING RECORD.

    NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Cunard Company's Atlantic liner Lusitania (31,550 tons) steamed 618 knots on the eastward run on Thursday, a world's record. ...

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  69. H.M.A.S. WARREGO.

    The destroyed Warrego arrived in the harbor yesterday from Melbourne, and moored in Farm Cove. The cruiser Sydney will be floated out of Sutherland Dock to-day, and return to Farm Cove to-morrow. ...

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