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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The Mails.—A mail for the Eastern States, New Zealand, etc., will close to-day at 9.15 a.m. (late fee 10 a.m.), for conveyance by the s.s. Katoomba. A supplementary ...

    Article : 3,238 words
  3. SHOCKING CATASTROPHE.

    An appalling catastrophe is reported from Calumet, in Michigan, where much misery was previously caused by a strike of miners. While 700 children, most of them ...

    Article : 310 words
  4. FRENCH POLITICS.

    Addressing the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, the Premier (M. Doumergue) emphasised the continuity of France's foreign policy. ...

    Article : 156 words
  5. FIRE AT SEA.

    Driven by a fire in her bunkers to seek assistance in this port, the tramp steamer Ilford arrived in Hobson's Bay this evening, For over two days the fire has been burning ...

    Article : 341 words
  6. DERBY DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 12,750 words
  7. DISASTROUS FIRE.

    One of the most disastrous fires which has occurred around Adelaide for many years broke out at Messrs. A. Pengelly and Co.'s cabinet-making factory, South-road, ...

    Article : 420 words
  8. SIBERIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    Extraordinary reports of gold discoveries in Siberia have reached St. Petersburg. It is asserted that huge nuggets have been found on widely separated alluvial diggings ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. GERMAN UNEMPLOYMENT.

    The unemployment in Germany is the worst since 1908. The Socialists claim that there are 1,250,000 men idle, but the Conservatives estimate the number at 800,000. ...

    Article : 102 words
  10. THE INDARRA DAMAGED.

    An exciting adventure befell the 10,000 ton coastal passenger liner Indarra on Christmas morning. She was struck by a huge sea which, thundering over the starboard side, ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. BRITISH DOMINIONS.

    The Board of Trade statistical abstract for the overseas dominions for the period from 1897 to 1912 shows that during the 15 years the populations rose from 307,476,000 ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. BRITISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

    Cardinal Gibbons, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and other prominent Americans have forwarded to Mr. Borden (Prime Minister of Canada) a message conveying hearty ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. A CARDINAL'S WILL.

    Probate of the will of the late Cardinal Rampolla, which was drawn up in 1899 leaving £40,000 to the Cardinal's sister, has not been granted, owing to impending litigation ...

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  14. THE AFRICAN INDIANS.

    Mr. J. C. Smuts (Minister for Defence), in a letter to Mr. Ghandi, the Indian leader, rejects the demands of the Indians for representation on the commission inquiring into ...

    Article : 148 words
  15. THE SLEEPER CONTRACT.

    The Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) had something to say yesterday in reply to the Premier's observations published in Thursday's "West Australian," ...

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  16. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    There was activity on the Dublin quays last Wednesday, and the signs of there being a strike of transport workers were few. The wives of the strikers received ...

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  17. FATALITIES.

    An explosion occurred in a fireworks factory at Torre Annunsiata yesterday and destroyed a three-storeyed building. The exact loss of life caused by the explosion has ...

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  18. CAUCASIAN BRIGANDS.

    Lieut. Kibiroff has earned for himself the enmity of brigands in the Caucasus. Futile efforts had for a long time been made to capture Zelim Khan, a notorious brigand, ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. ALSATIAN AFFAIR.

    The Prussian Government is inquiring as to whether and to what extent Herr von Jagon (Director of Police at Berlin) exceeded the limitations incumbent upon a ...

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  20. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    From the beginning of April next the outward bound P. and O. mail steamers will call at Tangier on each alternate Tuesday before touching at Marseilles, and the ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. MAGNIFICENT ART COLLECTION.

    The Archduke Friedrich, who inherited from his uncle, the celebrated Field-Marshal Albrecht 100,000,000 Kronen (about £4,166,000), has undertaken to build as a gift to ...

    Article : 74 words
  22. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION.

    It is now officially announced that the fleet of the new shipping amalgamation, which will be known as the Commonwealth and Dommion Line, will comprise nine Port ...

    Article : 66 words
  23. HOLIDAY FATALITY.

    Mrs. Hinds, her three children, and her sister (Mrs. Curtis) were out driving at Burwood to-day, when the horse bolted and eventually crashed into a tree. All the ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND.

    The weather yesterday was the finest and coldest that has been experienced in England for years. Elaborate precautions have been taken to ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. DISHONEST SHAREBROKERS.

    As a result of an investigation into transactions in the shares of the Casey-Sutton Gobart Proprietary, Ltd., the committee of the Stock Exchange early in the week found ...

    Article : 160 words
  26. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    In the Bow-street Police Court last Wedesday John Lyons (33), an Australian, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide. The police stated that on ...

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  27. A DESPOTIC CORONER.

    At Omagh, in County Tyrone, last Wednesday, during an inquest concerning the death of a child, the Coroner refused to call medical evidence on the ground that he ...

    Article : 107 words
  28. SAWMILLS BURNED.

    After burning desultorily in the surrounding forest for a few days, a fire, fanned into starting activity by a fresh breeze, attacked and demolished on Monday the ...

    Article : 208 words
  29. THE PORTSMOUTH FIRE.

    On Wednesday last an impressive and unprecedented funeral services was held at Portsmouth over the unrecoverable remains of the two signalmen who perished in the ...

    Article : 140 words
  30. AVIATION.

    M. Vedrines, who left Paris some time ago with the object of flying an aeroplane to Constantinople and afterwards announced his intention of flying around the world via ...

    Article : 62 words
  31. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    The War Office has submitted to the National Rifel Association proposed alterations of the programme for the latter's annual tournament with a view of harmonising the ...

    Article : 87 words
  32. BARBAROUS MOORS.

    The steamer Ludgate, bound from Liverpool to Port Said, went ashore on the Moroccan coast on Wednesday. The Moors, armed with rifles, made an attack upon the ...

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  33. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The "London Gazette" publishes an Order-in-Council creating British Consular Courts, with civil and criminal jurisdiction, in Abyesinia in view of the possibility of ...

    Article : 145 words
  34. FIREPROOF TRAINS.

    The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company is testing what is claimed to be a fire-proof steel train. The latter is provided with emergency exits for passengers and gas ...

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  35. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    During a debate last week in the Federal Parliament with regard to the construction of the trans-Australian railway, it was stated that the Commonwealth Government ...

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  36. THE LATE W. T. STEAD.

    As memorials to the late Mr. W. T. Stead, the distinguished journalist who perished in the Titanic disaster, hostels for girls and women are being opened at ...

    Article : 100 words
  37. COLUMBIAN OIL CONCESSIONS.

    Speaking to an interviewer at New Orleans yesterday, Lord Murray, of Elibank, referred to the oil-field concessions he had negotiated for in Columbia, in Central ...

    Article : 143 words
  38. COLLIE MUNICIPALITY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 words
  39. IRELAND AND HOME RULE.

    Mr. Andrew Agnew, president of the Ulster and Loyal Irishmen's Association in Melbourne, to-day sent the following cable message to Sir Edward Carson:—"Christmas ...

    Article : 65 words
  40. Advertising

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