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  2. RAILWAY SMASH.

    The Paris-Brest express collided with two trains at a crossing at Courville yesterday, with the result that ten persons were killed and many others were ...

    Article : 60 words
  3. PLAGUE.

    Plague is still raging in Manchuria. At Ywang-che-ngtse 2,500 persons have succumbed to the scourge. The bodies of 7,000 victims at Fuchiaten have been ...

    Article : 65 words
  4. THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.

    Regulations relating to the Military College were approved to-day by the Executive Council. The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) stated subsequently that the only ...

    Article : 313 words
  5. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Several South African politicians favour the Union's contributing to the Imperial navy an amount equivalent to a certain percentage on the value of British goods ...

    Article : 239 words
  6. THE CHAFFINCH TANGLE.

    Mr. Bonwick, who with Messrs. Dyason and Greenway has been arrested on warrant charged with having conspired to depreciate the value of Chaffinch shares, has ...

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  7. COMMAND OF THE SEA.

    During a debate on the Naval Estimates in the Reichstag yesterday Herrvon Tirpitz (Secretary for the Admiralty) said that further improvements ...

    Article : 246 words
  8. THE AGENT-GENERAL.

    A large crowd assembled in the Lyric Theatre to-night, when a public conversazione was held to bid farewell to Sir Newton Moore prior to his departure for ...

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  9. THE REFERENDA.

    Mr. Wade, the ex-Premier of New South Wales, opened his campaign against the referenda proposals of the Federal Government at Chatswood to-night. ...

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  10. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated, in reply to questions, that no useful purpose would be served by discussing in the ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. ALL RED ROUTE.

    The "Times," in a special article on the revival of interest in the scheme for providing an "All-Red" steamship service to Australasia, via Canada, gives ...

    Article : 166 words
  12. HOUNDSDITCH SENSATION.

    In the Guildhall Police Court yesterday the eight Russians arrested on charges of having been concerned in the murder of three policemen at Houndsditch on the ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.

    William Eather, employed by the Leonora Municipal Council in connection with the electric tramway and lighting system, had a narrow escape from serious injury ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. ASSESSMENT OF HOTELS.

    On July 28 last the Court of Appeal, in deciding a Shoreditch assessment case, upheld the Divisional Court's declaration that an increase in the licence duty ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. THE CORONATION.

    The Manchester "Guardian" states:—"The Commonwealth Government is reconsidering its somewhat hasty decision not to send troops to London to take part ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. INDIAN SEDITION.

    Several months ago an Indian student, named V. D. Savarkar, was arrested in England and remanded to Bombay on a charge of having published seditious ...

    Article : 162 words
  17. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

    A man named David Clapham, arrested at Ida Bell, in Oklahoma, has been identified as one of the men alleged to have been concerned in the dynamite ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. CLAPHAM MURDER.

    Certain marks found on the clothes of Stinnie Morrison, who is charged with having murdered Leon Beron, on Clapham Common, were submited to what is ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    Messrs. Vickers, Son and Maxim have completed the Admiralty's dirigible. The latter, which is 514ft. long and 48ft. in diameter, will make her trial trip as ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. POLITICAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    The concluding session of the Political Labour Conference was held to-night, and a vast amount of business still remaining to be disposed of was rushed through. ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. AN AMERICAN STORM.

    During a severe storm at Hoquiam, near Seattle, to-day a sea-wall, an hotel, and a school were washed away. The children attending the school barely ...

    Article : 39 words
  22. FIGHTING IN AFRICA.

    Captain Faure has avenged the disaster which befell the French troops in the Soudan in November last. Captain Faure defeated Sultan Dubmurrab and killed 200 ...

    Article : 382 words
  23. ARGENTINA.

    The heavy rains that have ended the drought which affected the whole of the Republic have given a remarkable impetus to trade and to speculation in ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS BILL.

    The Kalgoorlie "Miner" is responsible for the statement that the constitutionality of the Redistribution of Seats Bill is about to be questioned. It says:—"The Bill has ...

    Article : 766 words
  25. STAGE SHOOTING.

    During a battle scene in the production of a Western play in a theatre here last night two actors were shot, but fortunately their injuries will not prove fatal. ...

    Article : 55 words
  26. DECLARATION OF LONDON.

    The London Chamber of Commerce has written to Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) stating that it is more than ever convinced that the ...

    Article : 56 words
  27. Family Notices

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  28. FIRE AT BUENOS AYRES.

    A fire broke out in the city last night and destroyed a number of warehouses and a Customs shed. The damage is estimated at £175,000. ...

    Article : 40 words
  29. FASHION'S FANCIES.

    Two women caused a commotion to-day by appearing on the Boulevards attired in a so-called harem skirt and Turkish trousers. A crowd gathered around the ...

    Article : 52 words
  30. ICE ON THE BLACK SEA.

    Twenty British steamers are ice-bound at Odessa. The ice extends for 100 miles out into the Black Sea. ...

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  31. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The s.s. Aotea, which is stranded at Capetown, has been reinsured at 15 per cent. against total loss. ...

    Article : 157 words
  32. THE IRON INDUSTRY.

    The strike of iron ore miners at Carcoar has extended to the Lithgow Ironworks. Forty labourers were engaged by Messrs. Hoskins to take the places of the men on ...

    Article : 97 words
  33. BRITISH REVENUE.

    The revenue of the United Kingdom for the current financial year already exceeds Mr. Lloyd-George's estimate by £14,000,000. There are indications that the ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. Family Notices

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  35. BEER DRINKERS ANNOYED.

    It is the intention of a large number of beer drinkers at Yarrawonga to strike unless a reduction from 6d. to 3d. per glass is made. Those who feel keenly in the ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. FEDERAL LAND TAX.

    The Federal Land Tax Commissioner has been frequently asked if it were within his power to ask for returns of property between £3,000 and £5,000 unimproved value. ...

    Article : 196 words
  37. OFFENCE AGAINST A CHILD.

    In the Court of Quarter Sessions, constituted by Mr. A. E. Burt, R.M., and Messrs. J Moir and C. S. J. Baesjou, and Dr. Ingoldby. J's.P., Leslie Millson, who gave his ...

    Article : 216 words
  38. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    It is understood that Queensland is negotiating for a loan of £500,000 from the Commonwealth. Including the Western Australian loan, this would make a total ...

    Article : 220 words
  39. ALBANY WEEK.

    The children's day in connection with Albany Week was carried through in glorious summer weather. Quite 600 youngsters assembled at the Town Hall. Marshalled ...

    Article : 151 words
  40. BULLFINCH BUSINESS SITES.

    A deputation of business people and residents of Bullfinch waited upon the secretary for Mines (Mr. King), in the absence of the Minister, yesterday to protest against the ...

    Article : 210 words
  41. A SERIOUS CRIME.

    In the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day Edwin Doady a middle-aged man was found guilty of two charges of offences against his daughters. ...

    Article : 103 words
  42. VICTORIAN VITAL STATISTICS.

    The Government Statist reports that the number of marriages last year, 10,240, was the highest ever recorded, and was greater by 208 than that for 1909. The marriage ...

    Article : 108 words
  43. LABOUR AND POLITICS.

    The Political Labour Conference to-night decided to limit the fighting platform of the State Labour Party to five planks, as follows:— ...

    Article : 133 words
  44. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor Sir Gerald Strickland returns to-day to his summer residence at Rottnest. On Saturday His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Edeline ...

    Article : 78 words
  45. WRECK OF THE NEW GUINEA.

    A telegram received to-day by the New Zealand Insurance Co. from Captain Cuthbert, the surveyor of the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association, stated ...

    Article : 111 words
  46. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Since the Advances to Workers Act came into force £57,810 has been allotted to 183 applicants—an average of £316 each. It is reported that, the Premier has been ...

    Article : 59 words
  47. LOSS OF THE GLENBANK.

    The Acting-Commissioner of Police yesterday received from Corporal Fry, of Roebourne, the following telegram relative to the wrecking of the Glenbank off Cossack:— ...

    Article : 59 words
  48. Advertising

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    Advertising : 371 words
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