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  2. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    To-day Mr. Justice Higgins continued the hearing as President of the Commonwealth Court of conciliation and Arbitration of the claim made by the Australian Boot ...

    Article : 628 words
  3. THE NORTH POLE.

    The American people continue to exhibit the liveliest interest in the claims of Dr. F. A. Cook and Commander R. E. Peary to have discovered the north pole. ...

    Article : 226 words
  4. SHAKESPEARE'S INCOME.

    Dr. Charles W. Wallace has discovered from the records of an old lawsuit the fact that the immortal Shakespeare, as one of the co-partners of the Hemyngses in the ...

    Article : 259 words
  5. QUEENSLAND ELECTION.

    General election day on Saturday was fine and warm. Considerable interest was evinced in the posting of the results at night. Queen street, opposite to The ...

    Article : 329 words
  6. ELECTRICAL WONDER.

    Arrangements have been made for the to formally open the Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute, which has been erected at Belmont Park, Montreal, ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    The Minister for Customs (Sir Robert Best) discussed the question of preferential trade to-day with Sir Albert Spicer und about 30 delegates to the Empire ...

    Article : 3,278 words
  8. SPAIN IN MOROCCO.

    Despatches from the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces operating in the Melilla district indicate a likelihood that the campaign against the Riff tribes may last a ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. DR. COOK—A PERSONAL DEPRESSION.

    A big, placid, bearded man, clear-eyed, Vikinglike, very straight, and sturdy, a man whom I regarded for a second long ago at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn ...

    Article : 1,002 words
  10. BUDGET FIGHT.

    According to The Standard, Mr. John Barns (President of the Local Government Board) and Mr. Lewis Harcourt (First Commissioner of Works) have ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. FIERCE CAVALRY FIGHT.

    Full details are to hand regarding the fighting at Arkeman, near Zoco-el-Arba (wrote the Melilla correspondent of The Daily Telegram on September 2). The ...

    Article : 307 words
  12. THE POET AS PROPERTY OWNER.

    The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, article "Shakspeare," says:—On May 1, 1603—the year of the production of Hamlet—Shakespeare, then a prosperous man, purchased ...

    Article : 232 words
  13. THE DASH NORTHWARD.

    In the published description of his journey to, the pole Dr. Cook says:—"A new highway with an interesting strip of animated nature has been explored. big game ...

    Article : 1,075 words
  14. BOY SCOUTS.

    King Edward has created Lieut-Gen. Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, F.R.G.S., a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, in recognition of the success which ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. COMMERCE DELEGATES.

    The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce has presented each visiting delegate to the Empire Congress of Chambers of Commerce with an Australian boomerang made by ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. IMPERIAL GENERAL STAFF.

    It is officially announced that Lord Morley (Secretary of State for India) has sanctioned the application of the Imperial General Staff scheme of the Indian Army. ...

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  17. ACTOR IN THE CITY.

    Shakespeare's active dramatic career in London lasted about 20 years, and may be divided into three periods. The first extends from the year 1587 to about 1593-4, ...

    Article : 149 words
  18. TURKEY AND ARABIA.

    Turkish troops are being poured into Arabia, where a Mahdi, with 40,000 followers, is causing disaffection among the Arab Tribes. ...

    Article : 43 words
  19. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    The blest figures in connection with the number of persons to whom the Federal old-age pension has been granted were supplied to-day by the Commissioner of Old ...

    Article : 257 words
  20. WOMEN AT LAW.

    The Women's Social and Political Union of the United Kingdom announces that writs hove been issued in connection with an action for assault brought by suffragist ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. AN INGENIOUS SWINDLE.

    An ingenious swindle was successfully carried out upon one of tie English delegates to the Commerce Congress while the party was in Sydney. The perpetrator ...

    Article : 394 words
  22. A LOYAL GREEK.

    Mr. Corgialegno a prominent Greek resident of London, has presented King George of Greece with £20,000 towards the carrying out of important military and ...

    Article : 185 words
  23. OLD-TIME LONDON THEATRES.

    "Curiosities of London," a work edited Dy John Timbs, F.S.A., in 1885, contains the following particulars of the Bankside theatres:—"The earliest was the Circus, ...

    Article : 454 words
  24. HIGH-PRICED COAL.

    The selling price pf Northumberland coal has shown an advance for the first time since 1907, and the Conciliation Board has in consequence increased the miners' wages ...

    Article : 51 words
  25. CABS AND TAXICABS.

    In consequence of the competition of taxicabs with their business, the owners of horse-drawn cabs have voluntarily introduced a minimum fare of 6d. a mile. The ...

    Article : 45 words
  26. PRESIDENT TAFT.

    The young man who was arrested at Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, while making a desperate effort to reach President Taft, is named Arthur Wright. He is of ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. GETTING READY FOR THE ELECTIONS.

    The results of the Labour pre-election are as follows:—Drawin—Mr. King O'Malley (unopposed). Franklin—Mr. W. E. Shoobridge (unopposed). Denison.—Mr. ...

    Article : 121 words
  28. ATLANTIC SHIPPING.

    The profits (amounting to £250,000) of the North German Lloyd steamship fine for the six months ended June 30, were due to enhanced receipts on the North ...

    Article : 80 words
  29. LAND IN THE ICEGRIP.

    Capt. I. E. Bernier, of the Canadian Government steamer Arctic (762 tons), has taken formal possession, for the Dominion of Canada, of Bank's Land and other ...

    Article : 167 words
  30. THE WOOL TROUBLE.

    It appears to be not absolutely certain that the deadlock in the wool tirade is at an end. Buyers and sellers would seem to here carried away from Friday's ...

    Article : 213 words
  31. CANADIAN TRADE.

    The Ottawa correspondent of The Times, in a telegram to that paper, nays that the refusal of the Council of the Montreal Board of Trade to participate in any ...

    Article : 120 words
  32. THE CAPITAL SITE.

    The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Fuller) and the Premier (Mr. Wade) had and other interview to-day with reference to the area for the Federal capital site. Mr. ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. RIVERS OF MUD.

    A correspondent, writing from Singapore on September 100, says:—"A report has reached here giving details of enormous damage in East Java owing to the crater of ...

    Article : 138 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Lieut.Gen. Sir Edward Hutton, formerly Commander of the Australian Military Forces, has resigned his claims as an accepted Conservative candidate for one of ...

    Article : 116 words
  35. NEW ZEALAND.

    The gold export last month amounted to 40.922 oz, of a value of £162,333, compared with 53, 123 oz, valued at £209,998 September, 1908. ...

    Article : 76 words
  36. Advertising

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  37. FASCINATION OF THE ALPS.

    Owing to the severe season and the increasing popularity of alpine climbing, the catalogue of accidents to tourists in the Swiss Alps has already this year ...

    Article : 74 words
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