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  2. A CITY COUNCIL CHEQUE.

    What on the surface looked like an unimportant clause in the lighting committee's report, at the meeting of the City Council yesterday, was responsible for a stormy, ...

    Article : 2,100 words
  3. FEDERAL FINANCE.

    There will be three outstanding features in Mr. Fisher's Budget speech, which will be delivered on Thursday next. The first is that his estimates of Customs and Excise ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  4. SENSATIONAL COLLISION.

    A sensational motor-car and van collision, which ended in a man being almost roasted alive through his clothing becoming saturated with petrol and then igniting, occurred ...

    Article : 377 words
  5. THE SIXTH TEST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 549 words
  6. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    A meeting of ten thousand strikers at Tower Hill yesterday unanimously rejected the Strike Committee's manifesto recommending the men to return to work. The ...

    Article : 168 words
  7. TURKEY'S TROUBLES.

    The Porte has resolved to dissolve Parliament constitutionally when the Chamber of Deputies exhausts its power to resist certain Bills, a second rejection entailing a ...

    Article : 359 words
  8. SCULLING.

    The sculling race for the championship of the world and £500 a-side, between R. Arnst (the holder) and E. Barry (the challenger), took place on the championship course on ...

    Article : 351 words
  9. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The Mails.—A mail for the United Kingdom and foreign countries is notified to close at the General Post Office this morning at 11.30 o'clock (late correspondence, if ...

    Article : 3,209 words
  10. ATTITUDE OF SEAMEN.

    The firm action taken by the Sailors and Firemen's Union in opposing a national strike was the decisive factor in the London Strike Committee's decision to order a ...

    Article : 354 words
  11. TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES' CLAIMS.

    The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration resumed its sittings to-day, when the claim by the Australian Tramway Employees' Association against, the Prahran ...

    Article : 501 words
  12. A POSSIBLE SEQUEL.

    The Vienna correspondent of the "Times" states:—"The Turkish crisis is being closely watched here. Some circles fear that the growing chaos in Turkey will severay strain ...

    Article : 66 words
  13. THE COMPETITORS.

    Ernest Barry, who is 30 years of age, is a tanner by trade. He, however, belongs to a family of watermen, and for years he has been regarded by English critics as a ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  14. COLLISION AT SEA.

    During a for off Cape Breton Island, close to the coast of Nova Scotia, yesterday the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer, Empress of Britain (14,189 tons), ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

    King George, as patron of the British Royal Institute of Health, has telegraphed from London to the Anglo-British Health Congress expressing the hope that that and ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. COLLAPSE OF A JETTY.

    While 1,000 holiday-makers were on a jetty at Ruegen to-day waiting for steamers the balustrade of the structure broke, with the result that 100 persons were precipitated ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the course of his address to the Unionist demonstration against the Home Rule Bill at Blenheim Park, in Oxfordshire yesterday, Mr. Bonar Law, M.P., gave strong ...

    Article : 506 words
  18. PERSONAL.

    Mr. R. G. Burchell has been elected president of the council of the Western Australian Railway Officers' Association. At the last annual meeting of the ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. THE MIKADO.

    The Mikado has had a further relapse and he is sinking rapidly. A bulletin issued at 1 o'clock this morning stated that his pulse was too irregular to count and that ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. PORTUGAL.

    Jao Almeida, one of the leaders of the recent abortive Royalist rising in Portugal, was yesterday sentenced to six years' solitary confinement with deportation ...

    Article : 48 words
  21. AUSTRALIAN ACTORS' UNION.

    Mr. Justice Higgins, the President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, had before him to-day and application by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., and other ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. L'EGACY DUTIES.

    The late Sir, Edward Sassoon, who left estate valued at £1,000,000, states in his will that he has made no bequests to charities, firstly because he gave during his ...

    Article : 65 words
  23. THE IRISH ENVOYS.

    The passengers by the R.M.S. Otway, which is due to reach Fremantle from the Eastern States early this morning, include the two Irish envoys, Messrs. W. Redmond ...

    Article : 336 words
  24. CUSTOMS HOUSES.

    An International Customs Congress will meet here in May next to promote (1) an International Statistical and Customs Bureau; (2) new rules regarding ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. SEA TRAINING.

    At a meeting of Furness, Whithy and Co., Ltd., yesterday the chairman (Lord Furness) proposed an amalgamation of his pension fund for old Hartlepool seamen with a wider ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. COMPULSORY TRAINING.

    It is understood that the new military regulations are causing some discontent among members of the Australian Garrison Artillery at Sydney. Dissatisfaction has existed ...

    Article : 408 words
  27. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A volunteer corps of airmen is being formed in Germany. During a flight at Munich yesterday an aeroplane fell, with the result that two ...

    Article : 262 words
  28. ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

    A deputation representing the Chamber of Commerce to-day waited on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) and presented him with the resolutions carried at the annual ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. A LONDON FRAUD.

    In the Old Bailey yesterday a share dealer, named Edward Donaldson, who conducted a "bucket shop" in London, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for ...

    Article : 68 words
  30. ARTILLERY INCIDENT.

    During an attack by destroyers off Spithead on Friday night in connection with the mobilisation of the Portsmouth garrison a shell that should have been fired at ...

    Article : 66 words
  31. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    "It is not a bad suggestion," said the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) when seen to-day regarding the proposal of Mr. Scaddan, the Premier of ...

    Article : 205 words
  32. THE NAVIGATION BILL.

    A well-attended deputation from the Federated Engineers' Association of Australia waited on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) this afternoon and asked for a ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. COUNTRY.

    At a recent meeting of the Emu Hill Progress Association it was resolved to circulate a petition for signature praying for the early construction of the ...

    Article : 126 words
  34. THE ARCTIC.

    The explorers, Mikkelsen and Sverseu, who have just returned after a trip through the Arctic regions, report that they suffered terrible hardships while crossing the ice from ...

    Article : 53 words
  35. CHINESE STOWAWAYS.

    As a sequel to the discovery of 19 Chinese stowaways on the Steamer Empire at Sydney on July 17, the master of the vessel, Captain George, was to-day fined £100 in ...

    Article : 82 words
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