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  2. DANGER IN THE DARK.

    Daring, skilful, and dangerous footpads enjoy liberty in Adelaide at present. A robbery, accompanied by a brutal assault, was perpetrated on Wednesday in the city ...

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  3. THE SOCIALIST TOLL.

    The New South Wales coastal steamship companies have decided to increase the freights and fares in consequence of the demands made by the labour unions connected ...

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  4. VALUABLE OFFICER RESIGNED.

    Mr. Peter Whitington, the Commissioner of Audit, has been on leave of absence, the period of which will expire on January 31. He, however, has decided to retire from the ...

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  5. FRENCH CRISIS.

    As a result of the political crisis the Bourse is weak. The office of Foreign Affairs, resigned by M. Deselves following a difference ...

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  6. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT.

    Mr. C. Fenwick, P.C. (Liberal M.P. for the Wansbeck division of Northumberland), who was for many years a working [?] stated at a meeting of Northumberland ...

    Article : 134 words
  7. TREMENDOUS GALES.

    Tremendous gales are sweeping the eastern Canadian coastline. An express train in Newfoundland has been blown off the track. Snowbanks are being cleared from ...

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  8. NEW YORK FIRE.

    The burning down of the Equitable Life Assurance building in Wall street cost six lives. Three employes were driven to the roof, and were cut off from rescue. ...

    Article : 315 words
  9. ELECTION NOTES.

    Dissolution, Tuesday, January 16. Issue of writ, Wednesday, January 17. Latest day of enrolment, January 17. ...

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  10. MINERS' STRIKE.

    All ballots taken by the colliery workers' unions of England and Wales in connection with the questions at issue between the coalowners and the employes show ...

    Article : 45 words
  11. KING AND QUEEN.

    Their Majesties the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress took thier departure to-day on their return voyage to England. Vast throngs assembled and cheered the ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. LORD DUDLEY'S CRITICISM.

    The Daily News, in commenting upon Lord Dudley's tribute to the purity of Australian's public service, observes:—"That is a great thing to say, and we believe it. ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.

    The President of the Scottish Miners' Federation (Mr. Smillie) addressing a mass meeting at Lancashire, stated that he had told the First Lord of the Admiralty ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. WILL VISIT THE CONTINENT.

    The semi-official announcement is made that their Majesties King George and Queen Marry will visit Paris in the spring, and afterwards proceed to BErlin on a visit to ...

    Article : 42 words
  15. HOW RESIGNATION WAS HASTENED.

    Inability to secure a successor to M. Delcasse, who accepted the office of Foreign Minister on condition that a strong man was selected for the Ministry of ...

    Article : 41 words
  16. A FAMOUS CRICKETER.

    The lines of John McCarthy Blackham, the finest wicket keeper the world has known, and one of the most famous of the cricketers produced by Australia, have ...

    Article : 850 words
  17. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    After the strain of a heavy year of politics the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) is holiday ending in the south of France. ...

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  18. AGITATORS SURPRISED.

    The Westminster Gazette states that when the trade union leader started the cotton strike in two sheds they did not expect that the employers would lockout ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. FEDERAL MINISTER'S COMMENT.

    Federal Minister, among others, read with interest the address entitled "Some impressions of Australia" delivered by Lord Dudley at the Royal Colonial Institute, ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. PREMIER CRITICISED.

    Liberate, a leading journal asserts that M. Ceillaux, from July 16 to July 31, when the Morocco crisis was at its worst, daily exchanged views with a Councillor at the ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. HOME RULE.

    In connection with the Royal Economic Society's Congress, now being held, a number of papers were read on the financial aspects of home rule. These generally ...

    Article : 137 words
  22. LORD LAMINGTON.

    Lord Lamington, who takes a close interest in Persian matters, has started on his tour to the Shah's dominion. Owing to the disturbed condition of the country, ...

    Article : 39 words
  23. WOOLCOMBERS RESUME WORK.

    The difficulty in connection with the strike of woolcombers at Bradford has ended. The masters resolved to lockout the operatives unless the woolcombers ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. SUFFRAGETTE SENTENCED.

    An instance of disorderly conduct on the part of a sufiragette was reported a few days before Christmas, when proceedings were instituted against Emily Davison, one ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. GRUESOME LESSON.

    Desiring to enforce the adage that death is the gate of life, Archdeacon Colley at St. Michael's, Stockton, Warwickshire, entered a glass-covered coffin in which he was ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. THE FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE.

    Referring to-day tot he views expressed by Lord Dudley regarding promotion in the Australian Public Service, and the breadth of view that comes from culture, ...

    Article : 444 words
  27. COLLIERS' MINIMUM WAGE.

    The Northumberland colliery owners have issued a manifesto in which they announce that a fixed minimum wage, irrespective of the work performed, as ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. GLENSESK INA GALE.

    The Glenesk has been towed into Lough Foyle, Ireland, having been crippled in a gale. ...

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  29. EARLY ABDICATION.

    The Pekin correspondent of the Times reports that the early abdication of the Chinese Emperor is certain, and that Prince Ching and other Princes are in favour of ...

    Article : 39 words
  30. BRITAIN'S AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS.

    The Daily Chronicle states that the committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the question of the breaking up of large estates reports against tenant ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. OUT OF QUARANTINE.

    The remainder of the passengers by the steamer Zealandic, who were quarantined at Torrens Island on account of the epidemic of measles and diphtheria, were released ...

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  32. ALLEGED RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

    The Attorney-General (Hon. W.J.Denny) stated at the Labour demonstration in the Exhibition Building on Tuesday evening:—"In the recent Coal Vend ...

    Article : 286 words
  33. "KILL THE RUSSIANS."

    The Russian officials with the troops at Tabriz state that Sikat-ul-Islam, the ecclesiastic, and the clergy who were put to death, preached the extermination of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  34. TREATMENT OF NON-UNIONISTS.

    A strike of weavers occurred at Great Harwood, Lancashire, in consequence of the employment of a non-unionist. Miss Bury, the non-unionist concerned, has been ...

    Article : 39 words
  35. DEATH OF SIR JAMES GIBSON, M.P.

    The death is announced, in his sixty-third years of Sir James P. Gibson, Bart. (Liberal member of the House of Commons for the East Division of Edinburgh). He was ...

    Article : 57 words
  36. ASSASSINATED RAJAH.

    The Government is making enquiries concerning the death of the Rajah of Maibar, who was shot in the street of his capital city during the Delhi Durbar. ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. CONGESTED WHARFS.

    Complaints were made at a meeting of the Melbourne Harbour Trust concerning the part which repacking played in the congestion on the wharfs. The ...

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  38. ON TRAIL OF SUSPECT.

    The detectives here confidently expect to trace soon the whereabouts of Anderson, who is suspected of being implicated in a recent bank robbery. ...

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  39. "A PAPAL TRAP."

    At a meeting of the State Council of the Protestant Defence Association of Australian to-night the Grand President (Rev. H. Gainford) stoutly opposed the proposal ...

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  40. ALLEGED DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY.

    A witness who was examined at the trail of Conners, who is accused among others of dynamite conspiracy, stated that he had heard Conners say that he intended ...

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  41. WANTED—WORKERS.

    Mr. Cuthbertson, a recently appointed Victorian immigration agent, in an interview published in The Manchester Guardian explained Victoria's demand for labour and ...

    Article : 61 words
  42. MISSING DESTROYER SAFE.

    The missing torpedo destroyer, thought to have been lost in recent gales off the Bermuda coast, is now reported safe, and is expected to arrive at Hamilton, ...

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  43. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of standard silver today is 2/1 3-16d. per oz., a rise of 1-16d. Bradstuffs,—The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 118,094,000 ...

    Article : 319 words
  44. WANTED IN ENGLAND.

    William Ward, otherwise George Smith, labourer, aged 39, appeared in the City Court to-day on a charge of being the murderer of Ernest Nixon Smith at Chiswick, ...

    Article : 145 words
  45. STRIKE THAT FAILED.

    The Syndicalist Union declared a 24 hours' strike as a protest against the trial of three of its members on a charge of having incited soldiers to desert. The strike proved ...

    Article : 72 words
  46. PREPARING FOR THE FRAY.

    The District Committee of the northern portion of Victoria and Albert will meet at Tailem Bend on Monday to select a candidate in place of Mr. J. McIntyre, who ...

    Article : 484 words
  47. BILLIARDS.

    Stevenson retains the lead in the second billiard test game against the Australian youth. Scores at the close of to-day's work at ...

    Article : 91 words
  48. WIRELESS.

    For the fitting up of two additional wireless stations, the Commonwealth propose to require apparatus from the Rev. Father Shaw's station in Sydney. Mr. Balsillie, ...

    Article : 160 words
  49. AVIATION FEAT.

    Lient, Samson, of the British Military Aviation Corps, performed the feat of flying in a biplane from a battleship. From planks built out from the turrets ...

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  50. MURRUMBRURAH.

    In giving a verdict of incendiarism regarding a fire at Murrumburrah, Mr. John Bourke, the local Coroner, said this was one of a series of acts of incendiarism which ...

    Article : 123 words
  51. "LOST NO WATER."

    In an almost inaccessible part of the Border Downs, a locality seldom visited, a swag was recently discovered neatly rolled up. No clue to the identity of the owner ...

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  52. FRENCH CENSUS.

    The census gives the population of France at 39,500,000, or an increase of 349,000 during the last five years. There has been continual migration from the rural ...

    Article : 55 words
  53. NEW ZEALAND CABLE.

    A line of cable to New, Zealand is already controlled by the Pacific Cable Board, but it is now proposed to establish more direct communication between ...

    Article : 178 words
  54. TASMANIA'S FINANCES.

    A large deputation waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) this morning to urge that the report of the royal commission recommending the payment of £900,000 to ...

    Article : 169 words
  55. MELBOURNE HARBOUR RATES.

    Towards the end of last year the State Ministry asked eminent counsel to advise whether the Harbour Trust could legally differentiate in its rates as between goods ...

    Article : 170 words
  56. DOCTORS AND INSURANCE.

    Altogether 27,000 medical practitioners in the United Kingdom are now pledged not to assist in the working of the National Insurance Act, unless on the basis ...

    Article : 44 words
  57. FREE WORKERS.

    Four States will be represented at the first congress of independent workers, which will be held in Melbourne on January 29 and the two following days. About ...

    Article : 66 words
  58. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The volunteer force of South Australia is now for the first time dressed in uniform. The suit of modest grey will be the clothing of all our rifle companies. Let English ...

    Article : 165 words
  59. Advertising

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  60. FISHING COMPANY'S REQUEST.

    The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Drew), in replaying to a deputation which asked for financial assistance for the Australian Fish Canning and Packing Company, to be ...

    Article : 80 words
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