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  2. RAILWAY MAGNATE.

    There had been for several weeks much gambling in railway stock upon the New York Stock Exchange owing to the circulation of rumours regarding the illness of ...

    Article : 156 words
  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    His Excellency the Governor, Lady Bosanquet, the Misses Bosanquet, and Capts. Wright and Neame left Adelaide on Friday morning for Pinnaroo. The Chief ...

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  4. BRITISH BUDGET.

    In the House of Commons on Thursday the consideration of the Budget Bill was continued in committee. All the clauses relating to the liquor trade were disposed ...

    Article : 68 words
  5. THE WARATAH.

    The Union-Castle liner Sabine, which has been engaged for a three-months' quest for the Waratah, will carry a powerful searchlight for night work. An Admiralty ...

    Article : 197 words
  6. THE BOY SCOUTS.

    If I should call upon you later in life, the sense of patriotic responsibility and discipline acquired in boyhood will enable you to do your duty as men in the event of danger threatening ...

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  7. POLAR WAR.

    Commander Robert E. Peary, in dealing with the claim of Dr. Cook to have discovered the north pole in April, 1908, said that Cook located himself at Etah ...

    Article : 493 words
  8. STAMP DUTIES.

    The Times reports that a deputation from the committee of the London Stock Exchange have conferred with Mr. Lloyd-George regarding the proposed alterations ...

    Article : 82 words
  9. STATE OWNERSHIP OF LAND.

    Among the Government amendments to the Budget Bill is one which permits the State to accept real property, instead of cash in payment of estate duty. Members ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. BIOGRAPHICAL.

    The late Mr. Edward Henry Harriman, whose health recently caused him to journey to Vienna to consult a specialist, controlled 72,000 miles of transportation lines. ...

    Article : 894 words
  11. LABOUR QUESTIONS.

    At Thursday's sitting of the Congress of Trades Unions at Ipswich, the Parliamentary committee's proposal that the State should make grants to trades unions for ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA.

    The Hon. J. G. Jenkins, of South Australia, who with several others has returned from a visit to Papua, was most favourably impressed by the possession. He ...

    Article : 354 words
  13. TARIFF REFORM.

    The "advanced" policy of the Asquith Government has caused the Unionists to abandon the determination to make Tariff Reform the main plank of their platform ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. CONFIDENCE TRICK.

    A case of working the confidence trick upon an Australian visitor has been ventilated in the Law Courts, with the result that the accused, a jockey named Burns. ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in reply to a question by Mr. W. P. Byles (Liberal, Salford, North Division) in the House of Commons, reiterated his previous ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. HONOUR FOR DR. COOK.

    The University of Copenhagen has conferred upon Dr. Cook its degree of doctor. The bestowal of the tribute was made the occasion of a brilliant and representative ...

    Article : 171 words
  17. THE MORRIS CASE.

    The jurymen in the case in which Martha Rendell and Thomas M. Morris are charged with wilful murder were informed that there was no possibility of the ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The English estate of the late Dr. Whisshaw, of Toowoomba, Queensland, has been sworn at £8,385.—Proposed Imperial Agricultural Union. ...

    Article : 161 words
  19. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

    The select committee appointed by the British Parliament to enquire into the question of imprisonment for debt has reported against its complete abolition ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1859.

    The new Bible Christian Chapel at Undalya, near to Auburn, will be opened on Sunday, September 18. Plans and estimates are invited for a new Congregational ...

    Article : 391 words
  21. POLE GIVEN TO PRESIDENT TAFT.

    Commander Peary, who is returning to New York via Labrador, telegraphed on Thursday to President Taft:—"I have the honour to place the ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. ATMOSPHERE OF MARS.

    Professor Percival Lowell, the eminent astronomer, of Boston, reports having observed oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars. It is now assumed that life exists on the ...

    Article : 74 words
  23. POTATO BLIGHT.

    Two days ago the Minister for Lands (Mr. Mitchell) was shown some oats which had been certified clean by the Victorian authorities. The sample contained seeds of ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. CANADIAN CLAIM.

    Some of the Canadian newspapers are already claiming the north pole as the property of the Dominion, under the old boundary arrangements. ...

    Article : 35 words
  25. GERMAN AIRSHIPS.

    The Emperor William, in the course of a speech at Stuttgart on Thursday, said that Heaven bad allowed Count Zeppelin, the airship inventor, to perform splendid ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. LONDON WATER SUPPLY.

    Owing to the exorbitant charges for water made by the Water Board, 150 artesian wells have been sunk recently in London, especially for business firms. ...

    Article : 33 words
  27. RUSSIAN BOBBERS.

    A daring robbery, attended by murder has taken place at Miass, Orenburg, in Russia. A gang of masked men entered the post office, and, after killing the ...

    Article : 55 words
  28. MOROCCO.

    In consequence of protests by the British and French Consuls, the Sultan of Morocco has ordered the Pretender (Bu Hamara) to be uncaged, and the population will not ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. GAS EMPLOYES.

    A strike of employes was threatened to-day at the North Shore Gas Company's works, and it was rumoured that in the event of its taking place the strikers ...

    Article : 111 words
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