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  2. ASIA.

    The King's Dock—the largest dry dock eastward of Suez—was opened at Singapore to-day It is capable of accommodating vessels of the size of the white ...

    Article : 60 words
  3. GUNPOWDER EXPLODED BY LIGHTNING.

    A quantity of gunpowder stored in a warehouse at Lerida wad struck by lightning yesterday, and the result was a terrible explosion. Great damage was done ...

    Article : 53 words
  4. Inter-State News.

    At the annual meeting of the Caledonian Society on Saturday night Mr. J. F. Nairn was elected chief in place of Mr, D. Low. Mr. J. Melntyre was elected secretary ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. DIED AT HIS POST.

    A party of divers who were exploring the wreck of a river steamer, which sank in the Mississippi near Lake Provideu e, in Louisiana, found the dead body of the ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. A REMARKABLE CLOUDBURST.

    An extraordinary, cloudburst occurred yesterday over the town of Ely, in Nevada and in a few minutes a tremendous wall of water was rushing through the streets. ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. A SUFFRAGETTE'S PLEA.

    The Trades Hall was addressed last night for two nouns by Miss Foxcroft, an English suffragette, in defence of militant methods. "What were we to do?" she asked. ...

    Article : 166 words
  8. GENERAL CABLES.

    The drought in the agricultural districts of England and Scotland is daily growing more serious. In Glasgow the water supply is so short that there is reckoned ...

    Article : 1,237 words
  9. AMERICAN ITEMS.

    Some sticks of [?]were tound to-day outside the ouces of Mr. Gaynor, he Mayor of New York, at the City Hall. A suggestion has been made that they ...

    Article : 466 words
  10. A DOCTOR FAVORS COMPULSORY VACCINATION.

    The increase which has occurred during the past week in the daily average of smallpox cases in Sydney is viewed with much apprehension by the Federal ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. THE LAST OF THE DIVERS.

    A telegram from Broome states that Mr. Saunders, the last of the white divers engaged there, died after working a fort-night in that ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. FREEZING CHAMBER DESTROYED.

    A fire occurred early this morning in the upper portion of the freezing chamber at the Tokomaru Hay works. The damage is estimated at £10.000. ...

    Article : 32 words
  13. PREMIERS IN CONFERENCE.

    A strenuous and fruitful day was spent by the Premiers of New South Wales (Mr. Holman) and Victoria (Mr. Watt to-day in conference on matters of ...

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  14. SPEARED A MAN TO DEATH.

    Nine natives from the King River were charged on Saturday before Messrs. Plarce and Fox with the murder in July of Clare Ernest Campbell at Guyon Point, and ...

    Article : 314 words
  15. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The steamer Devon is resting on a rocky bottom 100 yards from the mainland. The fact that no lights were burning on the vessel all night suggests that the ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  16. A DUSKY HEROINE.

    The Department of External Affairs has received from the Royal Humane Society a certificate and a bronze medal for presentation to Cissy McLeod, an ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. CONTINENTAL NOTES.

    The municipalities of Berlin, Charlotten-burg, and other suburbs have decided to import Australian muiton in large quanties to meet the prevailing scarcity of meat ...

    Article : 245 words
  18. A SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RECORD.

    A record in school attendance in the Kerang district has been put up by Hiss Ethel Lily Palmer, of Wandilla, who has attended, school without missing a day for eleven years. ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. SMALLPOX.

    Sydney is losing £120,000 a day on account of the smallpox outbreak. This statement has been made by a well-known commercial man in Sydney. How far this ...

    Article : 487 words
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