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  2. LAUNCH OF A UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP.

    The United State battleship Utah has been launched at Camden, New Jensey. The vessel has a tonnage of £21,500 and is [?] of travelling at a speed of twenty ...

    Article : 45 words
  3. DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL FLAG.

    A [?] from the Dunedin (New Zealand) High School was received with enthusiasm by the Edinburgh. University. ...

    Article : 23 words
  4. THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

    The Colonial Institute is arranging for a series of luncheons at which colo[?] will address city men. The idea is basel upon the Canadian Club, which has ...

    Article : 38 words
  5. A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ARRESTED.

    Charles Adams, the head of a notorious [?] has been arrested is New York for having swindled English people out of £59,000. One of his victi[?] a window in ...

    Article : 49 words
  6. DEATH OF A WEALTHY AMERICAN LADY.

    The death is announced of Miss Ellea Morrison, sister of Charles, Morrison, from whom she inherited £3,000,000. The cause of death was appendicitis. The case was ...

    Article : 110 words
  7. MUTINIES ON DEVILS ISLAND.

    The Paris newspaper "Matins" states that several mutinies have occurred at Devils Island. Terro Del Fuego, South America, recently. In ...

    Article : 66 words
  8. A BALLOONIST MISSING.

    A balloon, with a lieutenant, which left Dresden (Germany), on the 18th instant and passed Stockholm (Sweden) in a northerly direction on the 19th instant, is ...

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  9. CONSULAR AGENT AND EXPLORED. MURDERED.

    The Marquis of Benzoai. who was lately Italian consular agent at Mocha, a seaport of Arabia, and Mr. Herman Burkhardt, [?] German explorer, who were travelling with ...

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  10. THE NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

    Four gamblers in cotton at New York, led by Mr. Patten, made £2,000,000 out of cotton that they bought ten months ago. They [?] at £8 per bale, and the ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. THE WEATHER IN EUROPE.

    Widespread damage has been caused it Switzerland by storms. The overflowing of the river Se[?] caused serious floods in Belgium, and ...

    Article : 243 words
  12. THE NEW BRITISH PATENT LAW.

    Foreign firms holding British pates have expended £500,000 in purchasing land and erecting building and plant in Britain in 1909 under the new Patents Act. ...

    Article : 34 words
  13. A MUNIFICENT GIFT TO A TOWN.

    Lord Ashton opened the municipal building at Lancaster, which are a gift by him to the town. The cost of the buildings was £150,000. ...

    Article : 34 words
  14. GAS EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY.

    An explosion of gas occurred in the Carterville colliery. Illinois, United States. Fifty-nine miners were entom[?]. The bodies of all the ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. AMERICAN ICE MONOPOLY.

    The American Ice Company, has been, fined £1000 for attempting to form a monopoly in the production of ice, contrary to the Dounclly law of the state of ...

    Article : 86 words
  16. FIRE CONTROL MASTS.

    A Board of officers at Washington is inquiring into the usefulness or otherwise of the fire control masts introduced into the navy in 1908. Some allege that the ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. OBITUARY.

    Mr. Ernest Carpenter, manager of the Ly[?] Theatre, London, died suddenly to-day. LONDON, December 28. ...

    Article : 75 words
  18. THE WEATHER IN AMERICA.

    A snowstorm and blizzard, the worst that has occurred for twenty years, was experienced in the eastern states of America on Saturday. The railway ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. BRITISH COPYRIGHT LAW.

    The Board of Trade has been inquiring into the bearing and effect of the revised international copyright convention of Berlin and recommends that the colonies ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. CREEK AFFAIRS.

    The deadlock in Greece is an end. The Military. League, having discovered that the late Minister for War (Lieutenant Lopathiotis) had promoted a large ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. PRINCES LOUISE OF DENMARK.

    The Vienna correspondent of the " Berliner Tageblatt" states that Princess Louise of Belgium, the eldest daughter of the late King, has outstanding debts in ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. THE BIG FIRE IN LONDON.

    The fund inaugurated for the relief of the sufferers by the fire in the stores of Messrs. Aiding and Hobby has reached £5000. ...

    Article : 31 words
  23. THE GERMAN PACIFIC

    Germany is bringing her protectorates in the Pacific Ocean into direct communication with the submarine cable system by means of a wireless telegraphic system on ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.

    The heir of a Neapolitan named Sivator Patania has had a bitter disappointment. He was reported to have been left a fortune of £800,000, which was said to be ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. PORTO RICO IN DARKNESS.

    Owing to the failure of the gas supply Port Rico, in the West Indies, is' in darkness. ...

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  26. BRITISH NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

    In view of the provisional order by the Admiralty of a battleship of the super-Dra[?]noughty type, the Thames Ironwares is raising £30,000 by debentures to ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. THE CANADIAN NAVY.

    The Canadian Government has purchased the British cruiser Rainbow as a training ship for the Pacific coast and is negotiating for the purchase of a second ...

    Article : 55 words
  28. DISASTROUS TRAIN COLLISION.

    An express train from Vienna collided with a goods train from Bohemia. Six carriages were wrecked. Eleven passengers were killed and twenty injured. ...

    Article : 31 words
  29. PARIS ELECTRICIANS THWARTED.

    In consequence of the recent activity of M. [?] Secretary of the Electricians Union in Paris, the Premier (M. Briand) recently secretly connected all the electric ...

    Article : 105 words
  30. REUNION OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES.

    Two large influential committees, consisting of ministers and laymen of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, have inaugurated a ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. MARK TWAINS DAUGHTER DROWNED.

    Jean, daughter of Mark Twain (Mr. S. L. Clemens), was drowned, in a bath at ber father's house at Reading during an epileptic [?] ...

    Article : 41 words
  32. A MOROOCAN LOAN.

    In consideration of a loan of £3,200,000 to be floated Paris, the Envoy of Malai Hafid, Sultan of Morocco, has accepted the terms offered by France, which include a ...

    Article : 42 words
  33. ATTACK ON THE REGENT OF CHINA.

    The Shanghai correspondent of the "Cologne Gazette." a leading German newspaper, states that a revo[?]sionary hailing from Southern China was ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. THE UNITED STATES COPPER MINES.

    It is reported—and the report is generally believed—that the principal American copper mines—are redding their out put. ...

    Article : 37 words
  35. CHRISTMAS IN LONDON.

    The weather in London on Christmas Day and Sunday was fine and mild. fifty thousand people were regaled at the workhouses and 13,000 at the hospitals. The ...

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  36. BEET CULTIVATION IN ENGLAND.

    Several farmers in Suffolk (England), owing to the better quality of the soil compared with the coil in Germany, have accepted a continental offer to grow beet ...

    Article : 66 words
  37. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The Chairman of the Australasian Chambers of Commerce (Sir John Cockburn), speaking at the annual meeting of members, announced that the Chamber and ...

    Article : 95 words
  38. PROSPERITY OF CANADA.

    The mild weather prevalling in [?] this year is accompanied by a wave of [?] prosperity. Work is [?] and the supply of labour cannot fill the ...

    Article : 57 words
  39. SEVERE WEATHER IN NEW YORK.

    A blizzard swept over New York. The snow in ,the city was a foot deep ; but there were drifts of snow four feet deep outside. ...

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  40. A CHURCH OVERWHELMED BY ROCK.

    A fall of rock at Barcovalderas, in the province of Orense (Spain) overwhelmed a church and a number of dwellings. Twenty-six persons were killed. ...

    Article : 32 words
  41. ACTION AGAINST LONDON MILKVENDORS.

    The London "Express" states that as a result of the pure milk campaign, the London municipal councils propose to strike 20,000 milkshops off the register at ...

    Article : 41 words
  42. RUSSIAN NAVAL POLICY.

    The National Defence Committee of the Russian Duma rejected the credits for the proposed new battleships of the Dread-nounght class on the ground that the sums ...

    Article : 68 words
  43. BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

    Dr. Paul [?]bach, one of the severest critics, of the German Government, in an article blaming the Government for their alleged pusillanimous concessions in Asia ...

    Article : 274 words
  44. A STEAMER COLLISION.

    The Pacific Cable Company's steamer [?] the Peninsular, and Oriental Company's steamer Nile, which was [?] for Calcutta (India) and which ...

    Article : 68 words
  45. THE BRITISH NAVY AND ARMY.

    "The Times" expects that there will be an increase in the next naval [?] of £5,000,000 and in the army estimates of £500,000. ...

    Article : 138 words
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