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  2. MINE-CATASTROPHES.

    From Scranton, Pennsylvania, there is reported an appalling mine disaster. Between 50 and 75 men were at first believed to be entombed at Throop, a ...

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  3. RECIPROCITY.

    The Earl of Selborne (late High Commissioner for South Africa), speaking at on Imperial preference meeting, and referring to the Canadian reciprocity ...

    Article : 451 words
  4. PROTECTION OF AUTHORSHIP.

    The Copyright Bill, which aims to secure the utmost uniformity possible throughout the Empire, has passed the second reading stage in the House of Commons, ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. CIVIL WAR.

    Hostilities between loyalists and rebel bands have bands more or less desultory for months, but matters have developed with starting rapidity. Armies are in the field. ...

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  6. PERSIAN UNREST.

    Advices from Bagdad indicate that a band of robbers raided the buildings of the British Consul (Mr. W. MacDouall) at Kermanshah, an important centre of Persian ...

    Article : 59 words
  7. THE CORONATION.

    As already announced, the great naval Review at Spithead on the occasion of King George's Coronation will he on a more magnificent scale than any previous ...

    Article : 70 words
  8. RESTLESS PORTUGAL.

    A dispute in the matter of wages has resulted in mutiny among the soldiers quartered at the Arsenal (the headquarters of the revolutionary movement of last ...

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  9. SOUTH AFRICA DECLINES A FESTIVAL BUILDING

    South Africa has taken the stand adopted by the Commonwealth Government is regard to national representation at the Festival of Empire. ...

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  10. GUNRUNNERS.

    It was reported 10 days ago that to cope with the activities of the Persian gunrunners the British naval forces in the Persian Gulf were to be supplemented ...

    Article : 81 words
  11. CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

    The conference at Winnipeg between C.P.R. officials and mechanics on the railway systems has been disrupted, and strike may follow. The Government has ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. TINPOT NAVIES.

    In the House of Assembly Mjr. Percy I Silburn D.S.O (Natal), contended that the South African Union's contribution to the Imperial Navy should be based upon the ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. BLACK DAMP.

    Just when the first tidings of the Pennsylvanian explosion were made known another similar and equally disastrous explosion was reported from Littleton, ...

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  14. ELECTION SCANDAL.

    Tho petition of Mr. H. E. Duke, K.C, (who represented Exeter as a Unionist in the last Parliament against the election of Mr. H. st, Maur (liberal), who defeated ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. "GOLDEN RULE" MAYOR.

    Mr. Tom Loftin Johnson, the wealthy, popular progressive Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio—he, whose successive terms of Mayoralty have been characterized by such ideals ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. AMBUSHED.

    An Official message has been received from the authorities in Calcutta concerning a dacoit outrage whereby a prominent British district officer has lost his life. ...

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  17. TURKEY'S TROUBLES.

    One hundred big guns from the Krupp factories at Essen have arrived at the artillery headquarters here. The field weapons among them are to be dispatched to ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    In view of the success of the All-British Shopping Week, it is proposed to bold an All-Empire Week on similar lines. ...

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  19. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    British Trade.-British imports for March showed an increase over the corresponding month in 1910 amounting to £431.075. Exports had increased to the ...

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  20. FRANCE'S SAFETY.

    It was reported yesterday that Rouet, a clerk to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Maimon, an alleged British subject; and Pailiez (his secretary) had been ...

    Article : 315 words
  21. STRANDED STEAMER.

    The 2,500 passenger on board the German steamer Prinzess Irene, 10,881 tons, which became stranded off Lone Hill on Thursday, have been safely taken from the ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. BOY SUICIDES.

    An epidemic of suicided of boys has lately occurred in Berlin, and has been attributed to the reading of cheap sensational literature. ...

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  23. BUZZARD IN FRANCE.

    A blizzard has visited every part of France, and much damage has been caused to vines and fruit trees. Several deaths have occurred as a result of the extreme ...

    Article : 34 words
  24. MOROCCO'S THRONE.

    The situation at Fez is full of uncertainty. It appears that one reason why the present Sultan of Morocco has retaineu his throne for so long is that no one else ...

    Article : 141 words
  25. SPANISH SENSATIONS.

    A house in Granada suddenly collapsed and six of the nine [?] were killed. An earthquake in the Spanish province of Murcia created a panic among the ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

    Regulations were issued yesterday by the Central Postal Administration providing for a number of important alterations in the existing practices. The fee of [?] charged ...

    Article : 246 words
  27. "HENEMY OF THE WORKERS."

    No [?] meeting has yet been held in connection with the referenda campaign than that in the Port Melbourne Town Hall last evening. The hall was filled ...

    Article : 605 words
  28. FAMINE IN CHINA.

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  29. GRAY AND HIS BILLIARDS.

    writer in The London Sportsman, in commenting upto the remarkable skill in billiards of George Gray, the young Australian player, while regarding it ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. DISTINCTION FOR NEW ZEALAND PROFESSOR.

    The Royal College of Surgeons of England has awarded the Cartwright prize to Henry P. [?], Professor of Dentistry and Director of the Dental School in ...

    Article : 54 words
  31. KING AS GODFATHER.

    The infant son and heir of the Earl of crewe (Secretary for India) has been ceremoniously christened at the chapel Royal; St, James's palace. His Majesty the king ...

    Article : 44 words
  32. INDIAN COINERS.

    A few days ago the police raided the residence of Mohan Roy, a wealthy Hindoo landowner. They found a quantity of picric acid and dynamite, and a complete ...

    Article : 75 words
  33. "MR. ROOSEVELT'S AMBITIONS.

    Ex-president Roosovelt, who is at present at Seattle, has been touring the Western United states sneechmaking. He has announced that he does not aspire to the ...

    Article : 44 words
  34. A FAMOUS REM BRANDT

    Dr. Widener, a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, who has large financial interests in street railways and many important corporations, and privately is a well-known c ...

    Article : 165 words
  35. MORE WAGES WANTED.

    The union of Clyde engineers has requested the shipowners to concede a halfpenny per hour increase in the wage schedule. Meeting the demands of the man ...

    Article : 76 words
  36. UNCOLLECTED RENT.

    The Federal Auditor-General, in his annual report, states that the rent and charges on goods deposited by merchants in Kings Warehouse has been short collected ...

    Article : 119 words
  37. VISITING DOMINATION LEGISLATORS.

    The King has granted the use of West minister Hall by members of the houses of lords and Commons at a luncheon to the overseas Parliamentary visitors on ...

    Article : 33 words
  38. THE NEWEST FLIGHT.

    At Salt Lake City Mr. Glen Curtis has been carrying out successful experiments with his new areo-marine craft. He has hydroplaned for miles over Salt Lake, ...

    Article : 62 words
  39. FRENCH STRIKERS.

    A serious strike has broken out among the dockers of the busy river port of Bayonne, near the Spanish frontier. The men erected strong barricades in the ...

    Article : 125 words
  40. NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL.

    Lord Denman's appointment as the next Governor-General of Australia has been officially gazetted. ...

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  41. DEFAULTS AND IRREGULARITIES.

    During the past year the postal employee in the several states were guilty of default and irregularities involving loss of the public funds to the amount of £2,215. The total ...

    Article : 99 words
  42. IRELAND'S FINANCES.

    The Bishop of Ross (Right Rev, Donis Kelly), Sir, William Plrrio, Mr. Adams (ex-[?] to the Irish Agricultural Department), Mr. H, Neville Gladstone, ...

    Article : 52 words
  43. IMPERIAL COMMERCE.

    The Imperial Chamber of Commerce is organizing with a view of watching matters of interest to Chambers of Commerce in all parts of Empire, and to promote ...

    Article : 56 words
  44. WHITE V. BLACK.

    A mob of 200 masked men, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, stormed the local gaol building and secured a negro prisoner who had been arrested upon a charge of assaulting ...

    Article : 67 words
  45. FIFTY YEARS AGO,

    The Trinity Board at port Adelaide, desirous of ascertaining, the direction of currents on the coast of South Australia, has issued the following circular to captains ...

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  46. SIR ROBERT SOOTT'S SUCCESSOR

    Applications closed yesterday for the position of secretary to the Central Postal Administration in succession to Sir Robert Scott. It is understood that about half a ...

    Article : 72 words
  47. "BROKE PAROLE."

    The Home Secretary (Mr. winston Ghurohill) has been awarded damages in a slander action against a Conservative working man who, at a meeting at ...

    Article : 161 words
  48. REPELLANT TACTICS.

    Mr. Morton Frewen (Independent Nationalist), who was returned unopposed in December for Cork. Nurth-East—an Irish farmer with Canadian experience, and a ...

    Article : 65 words
  49. ROBBERS' COUP,

    The Hungarian State gold mine at Veresviz has been daringly robbed of a large quantity of valuable gold. It hat been ascertained that the robbers ...

    Article : 122 words
  50. STRYCHNINE IN RUM.

    Further evidence was heard yesterday by the Coroner in connection with the detail of Thomas Hill, an inmate of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, which occurred ...

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  51. PLAGUE IN JAVA.

    The outbreak of plague in Java, which is six days' sail from Broome, has received the attention of the Medical Department, and the quarantine officers along the north ...

    Article : 52 words
  52. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 words
  53. Advertising

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  54. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 words
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