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  2. THE CANADIAN MILITIA.

    The Canadian Minister for Militia (the Hon. F. W. Borden) proposed in the Dominion House of Commons to-day that the militia force be increased to 100,000, such ...

    Article : 44 words
  3. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

    General Smith in the course of his evidence before the Phil[?]pine Islands Commission admitted that we ordered the [?] Rican troops to fire on a body 300. ...

    Article : 230 words
  4. FALL OF A CATHEDRAL TOWER.

    The tower of the large cathedral at Cuenca, the capital of the prowince of Cuenca, Spain, leff. It came down on three housed and several people were ...

    Article : 36 words
  5. THE S.S KINFAUNS CASTLE ASHORE.

    The Union-Castle liner Kinfanns Cattle. 9664 ton, from South Africa, was stranded on the coast of the Isle of Wight during a dense fog. The whole of the mails and the ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. ELECTRIC TRACTION IN UNDER-GROUND LONDON.

    Mr. C T. Yerkes, the American millionaire has secured a capital of £15,000,000 for carrying out a scheme of providing electric traction in the tunnels of London ...

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  7. THE SWEDISH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The Swedish antarctic expedition under Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, which sailed for the south in October last, has returned to Tierra Del Fuego. ...

    Article : 35 words
  8. THE BRISBANE ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

    The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Temple) has subscribed £25 to the fund for the erection of an Anglican cathedral in Brisbane. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. MURDER OF A RUSSIAN MINISTER.

    Balschanett, a student of the University of Kieff, who last year was punished for rioting assasionated the Minister for the interior (M. Sipiaguine) at St. Petersburg ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. ENDOWMENT TO THE SCOTTISH POOR.

    Lord Mount-Stephen, formerly President of the Cauadian-Pacific Railway Company, has endowed the poorer parishes of Scotland to the extent of £80,000 ...

    Article : 70 words
  11. IRELAND.

    A memorial signed by the Irish Unicuist Alliance has been presented to the Prime Minister (the Marquis of Salisbury) requesting him to maintain order and ...

    Article : 35 words
  12. THE STEAMER BANRIGH.

    News from Port-an-Spain, the chief seaport of the British island of Trinidad, states that the boilers of the Colombian insurgent steamer Banrigh (now called the ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. A SALVAGE AWARD.

    The owners of the Leyland line of steamers have been awarded £11,000 as salvage in connection with the towing of the Cunard liner Etruria into the Azoze ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. THE MEMBER FOR GALWAY.

    Mr. Arthur Lynch, the Nationalist member of the House of Commons, for whose arrest a warrant has been issued charging him with treason, is still absent from ...

    Article : 99 words
  15. FATAL EXPLOSION ON A BATTLESHIP.

    While the crew vas engaged m gunnery practice on board the twin screw first-class armoured battleship Mars, one of the vessels of the British Channel ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER'S ESTATE.

    The Duke of Manchester has made a settlement with his creditors. He is paying them 12s. 6d. in the £. ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. LAUNCH OF A KEW STEAMER.

    The steamer Koniga, which is being built at Glasgow for Messrs. M'llwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co, was launched to-day. ...

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  18. SWEDISH AGITATION FOR SUFFRAGE.

    The Swedish socialists have decided upon a general strike with the object of enforcing the granting of universal suffrage. ...

    Article : 27 words
  19. NEW STEAMER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    The Shaw Savill and Albion Company's new steamer Corinthic , 12,500 tons, for the trade between England and Australia was launched yesterday ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. A VENEZUELAN INCIDENT.

    A dynamite bomb was exploded outside the British legation at Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on Sunday. No harm was done. ...

    Article : 27 words
  21. THE CURE OF CANCER.

    The Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons have approved of a scheme for systematic research with regard to cancer. The scheme provides for ...

    Article : 48 words
  22. AFRICAN RAILWAYS.

    The section of the Rhodesia railway between Buluwayo and Zambed will be opened next year. At Victoria Falls a railways bridge 500 ft. hight is being built ...

    Article : 116 words
  23. THE DANISH WEST INDIES.

    The Landsthing the Danish Upper House has passed a resolution to sanction the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States until a plebiscite of ...

    Article : 70 words
  24. THE FINANCES OF EGYPT.

    The British Consul at Cairo (Earl Cromer) reports that the Egyptian finances show a surplus for the year of £2,000,000. ...

    Article : 27 words
  25. A GAMBLING SCANDAL.

    The Polish Count Potocki lost 3,000000 crowns at bacrarat at the Viennese Jockey Club, in twenty minutes, to M. Syemarne, an Austrian sportsman. Count Potocki ...

    Article : 44 words
  26. PENSION FOR MRS. M'KINLEY.

    The United Stales Congress has [?] a pension of $5000 (£1000) a year to Mrs M Kinley the wife of the late President (Mr. W. M'Kinley). ...

    Article : 32 words
  27. THE BRITISH EDUCATION BILL

    The Rev Hugh Price Hughes who was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1890 and the Rev Dr James Guinness Rogers who has been minister of the ...

    Article : 124 words
  28. ANOTHER AMERICAN STEEL TRUST.

    Mr. Frick, the American millionaire, has formed a rival steel trust with a capital of £40,000,000. The tract controls a large number of mill in the eastern, western, and ...

    Article : 38 words
  29. OUTRAGE AT SALONICA.

    A party of Turkish recruits stoned the German consul and has wife at Salonica, on the Gulf of Salonica, the second town of Turkey. ...

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  30. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    The American War Office is experimenting with wireless telephony with remarkable results. ...

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  31. TORTURING EGYPTIAN PEASANTS.

    The Egyptian governor who was charged with torturing native peasants has been dismissed. [The following cablegram appeared on ...

    Article : 94 words
  32. NATIVE OUTBREAK IN THE FRENCH CONGO.

    News from the French Congo states there has been a serious outbreak their amongst the natives. Many of the factories were locted and a number of the ...

    Article : 83 words
  33. AUSTRALIAN' COMPACT WOUND UP.

    An order for the compulsory winding up of the Melbourne Brewery and Distillery, Limited, has been issued. ...

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  34. AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY.

    The report of the directors of the Australian Land, Mortgage, and Finance Company Limited, for the year ended the 31st of December last has been presented to the ...

    Article : 77 words
  35. THE AMERICAN BEEF TRUST.

    There has been a heavy decline in the shipment of beef from the United States to England LONDON, April 15. ...

    Article : 60 words
  36. OBITUARY.

    The death in renounced at the Rev. Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage. New York, at the age of seventy years. [Dr. Talmage was born at BOund Brook ...

    Article : 260 words
  37. FIGHTING ON THE BULGARIAN FRONTIER.

    The Ottoman troops had an engagement with a party of Bulgariaus on the frontier in which light of the Bulgarians were killed. The garrisons of both sides of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. THE ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales were opened yesterday There was a large attendance of buyers and competition was animated. Of 1884 bales of La Plata wool ...

    Article : 88 words
  39. THE AFRICAN SHIPPING TRADE.

    Toe Union, Castle, Clan, and other South African shipping lines and the City, Hall, and Barrison line*, with vessels aggregating 600,000 tons gross register, are ...

    Article : 72 words
  40. TRIAL OF A FRENCH CRUISER.

    The trial of the new French arm[?]ured cruiser Jeaune D'Are. which has just been. constructed at Tonlon, proved unsatisfactory. The vi[?] of the hull was ...

    Article : 53 words
  41. PRINCE FOR FLYING MACHINE

    The "Daily Ex[ress" states that Sir Hiram Maxim, of the firm of Vickers, Son and Maxim—who has conducted extensive experiments with a view to ascertaining ...

    Article : 81 words
  42. MOISTURE IN BUTTER.

    The Australian Agent-General have addressed a joint memorandum to the President of the Board of Agriculture the [?] Hon R W Hanbury) suggesting ...

    Article : 75 words
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