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  2. LONDON STRIKE.

    The lightermen's strike, which originated through the employment of a non-union watchman at the Millwall Dock, is spreading and it is expected that 80,000 men will be ...

    Article : 212 words
  3. TITANIC DISASTER.

    At to-day's sitting of the British Commission appointed to inquire into the Titanic disaster Mr Lightoller, the liner's second officer, gave further evidence. ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

    The capital stand made by Kelleway and Minnett in the second innings of the Australians against the M.C.C. eleven, which resulted in a win for the visitors by five ...

    Article : 120 words
  5. EMPIRE DAY.

    Empire Day, Queen Victoria's birthday, will be celebrated by the children throughout the State to-day. The movement for the celebration of May 24 as ...

    Article : 1,397 words
  6. VICTORIA LEAGUE.

    The annual meeting of the Victoria League, held at Government House yesterday afternoon, was well attended. The president (Sir Edward Stone) presided and among ...

    Article : 1,821 words
  7. THE LIBERAL PARTY.

    The deliberations at a conference of the Liberal Leagues of Australia, which met on Tuesday and yesterday, resulted in the unanimous adoption of a complete platform ...

    Article : 982 words
  8. DISCHARGE OF NON-UNIONISTS.

    Judgment was delivered by Judge Box to-day in connection with an action brought by Wm. Bond against Joseph Morris, of Thomas-street, Port Melbourne, union ...

    Article : 406 words
  9. WAGIN STATE SCHOOL.

    A largely-attended meeting, comprising all the leading residents of Wagin, was held in the Town Hall to protest against the notion of the Public Works Department in further ...

    Article : 306 words
  10. AUSTRALIANS V. OXFORD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 844 words
  11. FRENCH DESPERADOES.

    The desperado, known as Bill, who recently murdered a man, named Blanchet, returned to Nancy last night and fired shots at a window in a room occupied by a ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. LATER DEVELOPMENT.

    The National Transport Workers' Federation this morning ordered a general strike out of sympathy with the lightermen. ...

    Article : 24 words
  13. VICTORIAN DIVORCE SUITS.

    In the Divorce Court to-day Ellen Marion Jones, 33 years of age, of Fitzroy, petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage with Joseph Ballantyne Jones, a miner, 35 ...

    Article : 622 words
  14. MINERS' WAGES.

    In South Yorkshire Sir Edward Clarke, Chairman of the District Minimum Wage Board, has awarded the highest rates yet fixed for mine workers in Great Britain. The ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. PLAGUE.

    Two hundred and eight cases of plague have been reported here during the past week, and of these 179 have proved fatal. ...

    Article : 24 words
  16. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 748 words
  17. MAN RUNS AMOK.

    At Hull yesterday a railway guard, named Jackson, apparently suffering from hydrophobia, ran amok and with a gun wounded two policemen who approached his house ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES' CLAIMS

    When the President of the Federal Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Higgins) resumed the hearing to-day of the tramway employees' case, Mr. Willcox, representing the ...

    Article : 360 words
  19. FLOWERS AND FRUIT.

    His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the International Flower and Fruit Show at Chelsea yesterday. The newspapers unanimously describe the display ...

    Article : 177 words
  20. AFRICAN POLITICS.

    In the Union House of Assembly yesterday a debate took place upon the resignation of Mr. H. C. Hull (Minister for Finance). The Leader of the Opposition (Sir T. W. ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. THE KAISER.

    The close of the session in the Reichstag yesterday was marked by violent Socialist attacks upon the Kaiser in consequence of his having threatened to incorporate ...

    Article : 95 words
  22. MISS MALECKA.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) gave a guarded reply to questions regarding Miss Malecka, who was ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN NATIVE NAMES.

    The conference of Surveyors-General of the Commonwealth and New Zealand was concluded to-day. Consideration was given to the naming of ...

    Article : 189 words
  24. THE MEDITERRANEAN.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Times" states:—"The fact that Mr. Asquith, Mr. Churchill, and Lord Kitchener are to confer at Malta is interpreted to mean that Great ...

    Article : 134 words
  25. BRITISH NAVY.

    Some newspapers state that the Government is discussing the questions of (1) providing for another Dresdnought during the current year; (2) increasing the pay of ...

    Article : 58 words
  26. MUNIFICENT GIFT TO CHARITY.

    To-day the representatives of the widow of the late Mr. Walter Russell Hall made known her intentions of enlarging her late husband's bequests of £20,000 to the ...

    Article : 257 words
  27. SUFFRAGETTE CONSPIRATORS.

    The trail of Mrs. Pankhurst, Pethick Lawrence, and the latter's wife on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the militant campaign of the suffragettes was concluded ...

    Article : 223 words
  28. MEXICAN REVOLT.

    A f[?]ce engagement between the Government troops and the rebels is in progress near Bellano, in the north of Mexico. ...

    Article : 26 words
  29. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    The apples shipped from Western Australia by the s.s. Demosthenes sold at from 7s. to 12s. 6d., while the pears sold mostly at from 13s. 6d. to 15s. 6d., although a few ...

    Article : 93 words
  30. "WESTERN MAIL."

    A graphic account of a Los Angeles girl's fight against Indian child marriages is given in the current issue of the "Western Mail." "Miss Carrie Tennant," the article declares, ...

    Article : 330 words
  31. NATIONALISED FERRIES.

    Since the Government assumed control of the ferry system between Perth and Mends-street the South Perth Council has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the ...

    Article : 464 words
  32. THE EMPIRE'S DEFENCES.

    The "Manchester Guardian" questions the Government's right to ask that the warship New Zealand should be stationed in British waters. ...

    Article : 333 words
  33. POLAR EXPLORATION.

    Captain Amundsen, who arrived here yesterday after his discovery of the South Pole, states that he intends to leave San Francisco in March next to journey towards ...

    Article : 48 words
  34. SOUTH AFRICA V. OXFORD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 words
  35. THE COST OF LIVING

    Giving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission on food supply, William Burns, an employee in the retail butchering trade, said that the men were not any better off ...

    Article : 98 words
  36. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Sir William Bennett has given the London School of Tropical Medicine £10,000 bequeathed to him by the late Lord Wandsworth for the purpose of medical research. ...

    Article : 171 words
  37. THE LATE PRINCE GEORGE.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Kaiser has refused to be represented at the funeral of the late Prince George (eldest son of the ...

    Article : 69 words
  38. GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

    Addressing the German colony in London yesterday Count Wolff-Metternich, who is retiring from the position of German Ambassador, said that unless all the signs of ...

    Article : 90 words
  39. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    It is hoped by the Postmaster-General's Department that the wireless telegraphy station on the southern and eastern coasts will be completed in two months. If that is ...

    Article : 124 words
  40. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    The returns from the primaries in Ohioin connection with the Presidential campaign show that Mr. Roosevelt has secured 32 delegates to the National Convention as ...

    Article : 76 words
  41. BOXING.

    Carpentier defeated "Willie" Lewis, of America, on points after a 20 rounds' bout Lewis was completely exhausted. There was a big attendance. The winner ...

    Article : 46 words
  42. SOUTH AFRICA V. WOSSES TERS[?]HIRE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 343 words
  43. Advertising

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    Advertising : 303 words
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