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  2. PERSIAN AFFAIRS.

    The correspondent of "The Times" at Tabriz, Persia, states that a period of promiscuous assassinations has begun. Two prominent merchants were murdered in the ...

    Article : 36 words
  3. FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA.

    Forest fires are sweeping along the Yosemite Valley, in California. The fire threatens the giant redwoods, which are conserved in the Valley. ...

    Article : 29 words
  4. THE BIRTH RATE IN FRANCE.

    Reuter's Agency states that the latest statistics show that the deaths last year in France numbered 794,000 and the births 774,000. This is the first instance in any ...

    Article : 42 words
  5. A LARGE ESTATE.

    The estate of the late Mr. George Cooper, the well known English bookmaker and landowner, is reported to be worth nearly £500,000. ...

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  6. BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

    To-day was the jubilee of the first treaty between Britain and Japan. "The Times" refers to the matter in specially friendly terms. ...

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  7. THE TRANSVAAL.

    General Louis, Botha speaking in the Transvaal Legislative Assembly said that Lord Milner's administration was the most unfortunate thing that had ever ...

    Article : 178 words
  8. THE BREWERS' EXHIBITION.

    The Brewers' exhibition, which will be opened on the 17th of October next, offers diplomas in six classes of wine and one class of brandy open to the products of ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. MORMONS DEPORTED FROM AMERICA.

    Two English girls, who are converts to Mormonism, landed at Boston, United States, but were deported again by the authorities because they were runaways. ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE.

    Mr. John Gates, a millionaire of Washington, United States, intends to have a golf course, racecourse, and concrete automobile track constructed at a ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer has authorised the statement that he has not arrived at any definite conclusion regarding the ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. A HIGHWAYMAN ROBS ELEVEN COACHES.

    A highwayman armed with a rifle held up eleven coaches laden with tourists in Yellowstone Park, Idaho, United States, secured $10,000 (about £2000) and many ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. BRITISH SMALL HOLDINGS.

    Under the Small Holdings Act 19,006 applications for land were made in the first half of this year, involving an area of 300,000 acres. Of seventeen schemes ...

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  14. ASIATICS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    The Transvaal Legislative Assembly has agreed to a bill that will meet the original objections of the Indian Association, but rejected the demand for the ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. THE RUSSIAN NAVY.

    Russia has accepted German designs for the construction of four warships of the Dreadnought type. The vessels are to be built in St. Petersburg. ...

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  16. POISONED BY EATING CONTAMINATED MEAT.

    Prince Friederich-Leopold of Prussia and his wife and daughter were poisoned by eating contaminated meat at Berlin. Their condition for a time was serious ; but they ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.

    Mr. J. Longstaff, an Australian artist, has been commissioned to paint the portraits of the Prince and Princess of Wales for the Imperial Colonial Club. ...

    Article : 35 words
  18. SEIZURE OF BRITISH TRAWLERS BY GERMANS.

    A German gunboat seized two fishing1 trawlers named ?he Taurus and the Cattoh, belonging to Grimsby, a fishing port on the cast coast of England, and ...

    Article : 358 words
  19. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

    In the week ended the 20th instant 1045 cases of cholers occurred in Russia, 517 of which proved fatal. Since then there have been 2024 cases, 900 of them ...

    Article : 39 words
  20. THE UNEMPLOYED IN GLASGOW.

    The Lord Provost of Glasgow states that the number of unemployed in the city is beyond all previous experience. ...

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  21. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The London "Daily News" and other Liberal papers bitterly oppose an increased naval programme on the lines foreshadowed by the "Westminster Gazette" ...

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  22. REMARKABLE DISCOVERY AT JERSEY.

    Excavations at Fort Hancock, Jersey. United States, revealed a vault containing the corpses of fourteen British naval officers and men, who were frozen to death in 1873 ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO TRUST.

    Owing to the night raiders' campaign, the American Tobacco Trust announces that its buyers will henceforth forsake Kentucky and transact business from ...

    Article : 38 words
  24. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced at Heildelburg, in the principality of Baden, Germany of Baron Speck von Sternberg, the German Ambassador to the United States. ...

    Article : 108 words
  25. THE BRITISH SUBMARINE BOAT [?]

    Lieutenant Groves, the second in command of the submarine boat A9, has not yet recovered his memory; but his recollection of incidents in his youth is ...

    Article : 205 words
  26. THE LATE BARON STERNBERG.

    The President of the United States (Colonel T. Roosevelt) telegraphed to the German Charge d'Affaires, stating that he was shocked and grieved at the death of ...

    Article : 137 words
  27. A COSTLY PAINTING.

    It is understood that the trustees of the British Naval Art Gallery have purchased for £25,000 a portrait group the painting of which is attributed to ...

    Article : 44 words
  28. AN UNITED STATES FIRST SUSPENDS BUSINESS.

    While the governing committee of the, New York Stock Exchange was yesterday inquiring into enormous bogus sales on Saturday Messrs. A. O. Brow and Co. ...

    Article : 97 words
  29. "BOSS" CROKER IN IRELAND.

    Mr. Richard ("Boss") Croker has been presented with the honorary freedom of the city of Dublin. ...

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  30. MR. KIDSTON AND HOME RULE.

    The Premier of Queensland (the Hon. W. Kidston), in acknowledging the reception tendered to him by the Nationalists of Belfast, said that the one thing which ...

    Article : 58 words
  31. A ROYAL TOUR.

    Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria have left Dundee, Scotland, on a visit to Norway and Denmark. ...

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  32. THE POPULATION OF IRELAND.

    The population of Ireland decreased by 14,674 in 1907 owing to the [?], more than balancing the excess of births! over deaths. ...

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  33. OVERDUE STEAMERS.

    The steamer Baron Minto, which felt Newport News (United States) for Auckland, New Zealand, on the 17th of June last and called at the island of St. Lucia ...

    Article : 96 words
  34. THE UNITED STATES SERVICE RIFLE.

    The Maxim device for muffling the report of the American service rifle has been officially tested at Springfield, Massachusetts. The report was barely audible ...

    Article : 37 words
  35. A NORWEGIAN STEAMER LOSE.

    Advices received at Bergen, Norway state that the Norwegian steamer Folgefonden stranded at Skaneuvik and sank in three minutes. Of the eighty-three ...

    Article : 46 words
  36. THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY.

    A United States squadron, consisting of six of the largest and must modern armoured cruisers and seven torpedo boat destroyers, has started from San ...

    Article : 88 words
  37. CUBAN ECCLESIASTICAL DISENDOWMENT.

    The United States has paid the Vatican £300,000 as indemnity in connection with ecclesiastical disendowment in Cuba. ...

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  38. THE TROUBLE IN ZULULAND.

    There is fresh arrest in Zululand, and troops and guns have been sent to Melmoth. ...

    Article : 23 words
  39. DISPUTE IN LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE.

    Seventeen thousand card loom in the cotton trade at Oldham (Lancashire) have unanimously agreed to oppose the reduction of five per cent in their wages ...

    Article : 66 words
  40. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Disastrous floods have occurred ?n North and South Carolina, United States. Whole districts were inundated, and operations at the cotton mills have been suspended. ...

    Article : 48 words
  41. A GERMAN MARRIAGE

    Prince Philip Eulenberg's son quarrelled with his father and a married a London performer at a German music hall. Prince Edenburg was recently tried on ...

    Article : 51 words
  42. A MYSTERIOUS ENGLISH MURDER.

    The wife of General Chutes Lugard, of Ightham Knoll, Serenoaks, twenty-two miles to the soth-east of London, was shot with a revolver and killed and then robbed ...

    Article : 247 words
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