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  2. FLOODS IN PARIS.

    The worst thunderstorm experienced here for 50 years broke over the city yesterday, and for 2½ hours there was a torrential downpour of rain, with the result that ...

    Article : 290 words
  3. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the House of Lords yesterday the Marquis of Crewe (Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of State for India) announced that the motion for the second reading of ...

    Article : 264 words
  4. THE SLEEPER CONTRACT

    Yesterday evening the Premier (Mr. Scaddan) informed a "West Australian" representative that as the outcome to the consideration by Cabinet of the latest offer of ...

    Article : 1,212 words
  5. THE ANTARCTIC.

    Mr. J. F. Stackhouse proposes to start on his Antarctic expedition in December next. His plans include, besides a survey of the Antarctic coast-line, an oceanographical ...

    Article : 54 words
  6. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

    A suffragette plot to blow up the Metropolitan Water Board's reservoirs at Woolwich has been discovered. A woman in the garb of a hospital nurse ...

    Article : 107 words
  7. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    From what the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Fisher, said this evening after the adjournment of the Labour Caucus, it looks as if the proceedings in Parliament are not to ...

    Article : 144 words
  8. THE BUILDING TRADE.

    The resumption of work in the building trade in accordance with the terms of settlement under seal to the President of the Arbitration Court is taking place ...

    Article : 352 words
  9. FEDERAL ARBITRATION.

    The application for a writ of prohibition against awards made by Mr. Justice Higgins directed against the Brisbane Tramway Company and the Adelaide Municipal ...

    Article : 802 words
  10. PURPOSE AND PLANS.

    The main purpose of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1914, which is being organised by Mr. J. Foster Stackhouse, F.R.G.S., is (states the London "Times") to determine ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  11. PROTEST AGAINST FORCIBLE FEEDING.

    A resolution deprecating the forcible feeding of suffragettes in England, and calling upon the Imperial Government to end the agitation by giving the vote to women, came ...

    Article : 1,150 words
  12. POSITION IN VICTORIA.

    At a special meeting of the State Cabinet this afternoon Mr. W. A. Watt arranged with his colleagues to tender his resignation as Premier of Victoria. At the ...

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  13. AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

    President Wilson yesterday signed the Bill to delete from the Panama Canal Act the clause exempting American coastal vessels from the payment of tolls for the use of ...

    Article : 198 words
  14. ALBANIAN REVOLT.

    The Albanian insurgents made a desperate attack upon Durazzo yesterday and in the course of the fighting Colonel Thomson, a British officer, who recently took ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. THE GOVERNOR ON TOUR

    Since his arrival in the State his Excellency the Governor (Sir Harry Barron) has missed no opportunity of making himself acquainted with Western Australia, its ...

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  16. THE AMATEUR BURGLAR.

    Harry Pike, the engineer's fitter who last week broke into Buckingham Palace in order to demonstrate how simple was the task of committing a burglary there, was ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. BRITISH PUBLIC TRUSTEE.

    The "Daily Chronicle" urges the introduction of legislation to regularise the position of the Public Trustee, whose department is becoming one of the biggest in the United ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. BOY IMMIGRANTS.

    Speaking on the new immigration scheme to-day, the Premier (Mr. Denham) said that the boy immigration scheme had been so highly satisfactory that he had arranged ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    After investigations extending over two years, the committee appointed by the Unionist Party to inquire into industrial unrest recommends the establishment of a ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. MEXICAN WAR.

    The Peace Conference sitting at Niagara Falls has suggested the names of five men from whom the Provisional President of Mexico might be selected. The United ...

    Article : 55 words
  21. POISONING CASE IN SYDNEY.

    On the night of May 11 George Wiscombe, Mrs. Edith Devere Hunt, and others returned to Mrs. Hunt's boarding-house, in Wilton-street Sydney, after having ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

    Subject to Turkey's approval of some material points, Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and Prince Lichnowsky (German Ambassador) ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. BRITISH RAILWAYMEN.

    At a meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen, at Swansea yesterday, Mr. Bellamy, who presided, said that the fusion of the railway workers had already been ...

    Article : 84 words
  24. AVIATION.

    Mr. P. Singer is financing a French aviator, named Maicon, in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic in the spring of next year on a biplane driven by engines of 150 ...

    Article : 42 words
  25. CANADA.

    The Minister for Militis recently ordered the retirement of Major Leonard because the latter had, it was stated, disregarded the order prohibiting the use of alcoholic ...

    Article : 83 words
  26. Family Notices

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  27. SCULLING.

    The Australian sculler Paddon has accepted the hospitality of the West End Amateur Rowing Association, whose boathouse is at Hammersmith. The delivery of ...

    Article : 43 words
  28. SYDNEY DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.

    The investigations by the police in connection with the hold-up at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops last week when a masked and armed motor bandit seized a box ...

    Article : 160 words
  29. CRICKET.

    The death is announced of Mr. A. G. Steel, the cricketer The deceased, who was born in September, 1858, was president of the M.C.C. in ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A meeting of the Agents-General, held here yesterday, approved of the proposal of the Royal Automobile Club to urge the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. ...

    Article : 221 words
  31. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    One hundred and twenty-two competitors shot for the Caledonian Shield. D. L. McAlister (N.S.W.), 96, and F. G. Harrison (N.S.W.), 96, entered the final 40. McCue, of ...

    Article : 63 words
  32. ALLEGED SLANDER.

    The hearing of the case arising out of the recent Australian tour of the late Madame Nordica, in which Frederick Shipman, concert manager, sued Ernest ...

    Article : 147 words
  33. BOXING.

    "Young" Ahearn defeated Sid. Burns in the second round of a boxing contest at Premierland. Ahern outclassed his opponent. He timed his blows with the utmost ...

    Article : 182 words
  34. YARRAVILLE SHOOTING CASE.

    Thomas Patterson, 38 years of age, was found guilty in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having, on May 8, at Yarraville, shot at his wife, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

    Article : 53 words
  35. ATHLETICS.

    At the International Olympic Conference being held in Paris Australia is represented by Flack, Williams, Southwell, Kidston, and Inglis. The conference resolved to ...

    Article : 54 words
  36. LAWN TENNIS.

    Parke, Roper Barrett, Mavrogordato and Kingscote have been selected to represent England in the lawn tennis contests for the Davis Cup. Mavrogordato and Roper ...

    Article : 90 words
  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government has decided to introduce Legislation this session which will enable Parliament to vote a substantial sum of money for the encouragement of the ...

    Article : 123 words
  38. THE SACKVILLE PEERAGE.

    Ernest Henry Sackville-West, who in 1910 made an unsuccessful claim to the Sackville peerage, committed suicide here yesterday. He and his wife had been conducting ...

    Article : 111 words
  39. QUEENSLAND.

    When the American Trade Commissioners were in Brisbane they discussed the question of Queensland borrowing from America. The Premier (Mr. Denham), however ...

    Article : 68 words
  40. Advertising

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