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  2. TURKISH REFORM.

    One consequence of the institution of the new Government regime in Turkey has been the restitution of rights of citizenship to some of the Armenians who were exiled ...

    Article : 358 words
  3. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    Asked what had impressed him most in his ride from Port Darwin to Adelaide, Francis Birtles, the cyclist, who reached the city on Saturday, replied—"The great ...

    Article : 797 words
  4. MEN PAID OFF.

    Between 20 and 30 men on the fleet were paid off so soon as the warships dropped anchor off Williamstown. The term does not imply that they were discharged for ...

    Article : 131 words
  5. ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

    Tanned and weatherstained, Francis Birtles, accompanied by a little coterie of local cyclists, who had met him a few miles cut, pedalled along King William ...

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  6. DEATH AT THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL.

    At the request of the relatives an official enquiry is being made concerning the death of a young man at the Adelaide Hospital. Mr. W. Bonfield, of Union street, Stepney, ...

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  7. GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

    Considerable comment has been, caused in Great Britain and Germany by a remarkable leading article in The "National Zei[?]ung, one of the foremost newspapers of ...

    Article : 195 words
  8. THE WHITE ARMADA.

    Good fortune is still with the American Fleet, an with the people it comes to visit. Yesterday the battleships made their third triumphant, entry at on Australasian port, ...

    Article : 361 words
  9. FORTHCOMING RIFLE MATCH.

    No sooner were anchors down than steamlaunches were swung over the sides of the battleships, and within a few moments picked shooting men of the fleet ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. MARCH OF THE BALLARAT CADETS.

    The interest taken By the public in the march of the 62 naval cadets from Ballarat to Melbourne was manifested by the fact that a crowd of several thousand ...

    Article : 201 words
  11. SPYING GERMAN BOAT.

    Considerable comment has been caused in Great Britain at the action of a German torpedo boat. On Friday British naval manoeuvres were being carried but on the ...

    Article : 92 words
  12. RETURN OF THE "STRAGGLERS."

    By the Cooma, which left for Melbourne yesterday, 85 "stragglers", belonging to American battleships left for Melbourne. It is believed that all but a dozen who ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC.

    The pilot at Manning Heads telegraphed yesterday morning that the steamer Rakanoa, with the missing steamer Hawea in tow, had passed Crowdy Head. The ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  14. A FLOODED CITY.

    Twenty thousand people have been rendered homeless by the sudden bursting of the embankments of the Augusta Canal, Georgia, U.S.A., which flooded Augusta ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. SEVENOAKS MYSTERY.

    The murder of Mrs. Luard, wife of Mjr. Gen. Charles E. Luard, who was done to death at Sevenoaks on Monday afternoon at a quarter-past 3 o'clock, is ...

    Article : 308 words
  16. PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT.

    Much to the regret of the officers of the fleet, they did not have an opportunity until late in their stay at Auckland and Sydney of joining in the social life of these ...

    Article : 88 words
  17. THE BATTLESHIPS PROCESSION.

    Those who went to the heads on Saturday were fortunate in that that ever-winding channel gave them the fleet in many aspects. First, the long, straight line ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. PRESS DINNER.

    The dinner given by the Government last night at Parliament to press representatives accompanying the American Fleet was a brilliant function. The Premier ...

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  19. J A P A N E S E EXPENDITURE:

    In consequence of the severe commercial depression in Japan, the new Government has found it imperative to severely curtail expenditure. Reuter states that the ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. THE ADMIRAL'S LANDING.

    At St. Kilda and all along the shorefront to Port Melbourne on one side, and to Brighton on the other, immense crowds covered every place of vantage long before ...

    Article : 321 words
  21. MARINE MISHAPS.

    At about 12.30 yesterday morning the Adelaide Steamship Company's cargo steamer Colae and the Southern Coalowners' Agency's collier Pareora collided about 100 ...

    Article : 289 words
  22. A COLLIERY FIRE.

    A fire broke out on Friday morning in the timbering of the main shaft of the Shawfield coal mine, Lanarkshire. The flames raced furiously up the shaft, and ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. AMERICAN ANTI-GAMBLING LAWS.

    Owing to the operation of the new anti-gambling law in New York State Mr. James R. Keene, one of the leading sportsmen of America, is sending a second batch of ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. MAYPOLE MINE.

    Last week it was stated that the Maypole Colliery, the scene of the explosion which cost 76 lives, had been flooded, and that the fire which followed the disaster ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. SUNDAY IN THE CITY.

    This morning showed a sight rare in Melbourne on Sunday—trains to the seaside every five minutes. Though trams stayed indoors, the morning trains were only ...

    Article : 182 words
  26. STEAMER CAPSIZED.

    A terrible marine disaster is reported from Japan. The steamer Dunearn, 3,142 tons, which was built at Sunderlands in 1885, and belonged to the Dunedin ...

    Article : 92 words
  27. CLOUDBURST IN CENTRAL AMERICA

    Considerable loss of life and damage to property has been caused by a cloudburst in the village of Folsom, New Mexico, where there are gold, silver, and copper mines. ...

    Article : 46 words
  28. A SAILOR KILLED.

    The steamer Navua brings news from Papeete of a disaster which overtook the American ship. Eton Hall, bound from Newcastle for Valparaiso with a cargo of ...

    Article : 83 words
  29. TIMBER STACKERS' STRIKE.

    The strike of timber stackers employed by Messrs. John Sharp & Sons, timber, merchants, of South Melbourne, which took place on Friday, extended on ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. GERMAN-OWNED CABLE

    A group of German bankers have formed a company to lay a cable from Emden, a fortified seaport in Prussia, to the German African colonies, and across the South ...

    Article : 45 words
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  32. ALPINE FATALITIES.

    There have been an unusually large number of fatalities among Alpine climbers this year, and the death roll for 1908 already, numbers 200. ...

    Article : 30 words
  33. OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS.

    Seldom before had a more brilliant and representative feathering assembled within the walls of the State Government House then last night, when the Governor and ...

    Article : 198 words
  34. SULTAN MULAI HAFID.

    The reported capture of the Sultan Mulai Hafid (brother of the Sultan' Abd-el-Aziz) is still unconfirmed. ...

    Article : 22 words
  35. TONY PASTOR DEAD.

    The death is announced of Mr. Antonia Pastor, the famous proprietor and manager of Tony Pastor's Theatre, Fourteenth street, New York. ...

    Article : 33 words
  36. ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE.

    Capt. Tilney, of the New South Wales 1st Australian Infantry Regiment, and Capt. Russell of the Queensland Field Artillery, who had been ...

    Article : 102 words
  37. COUNT TOLSTOY.

    Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian philosophical writer, who celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth on Friday, and was stated to be seriously ill, is ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. VICTORIAN REVENUE.

    The revenue for August amounted to £509,272, which represents a decrease of £107,255 compared with the corresponding period of last year. The shrinkage has ...

    Article : 50 words
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