The large number of burglaries which have taken place in the city and suburbs during the past fortnight were added to last night, another being committed in ...
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Article : 1,263 wordsTo-day's conference on the tariff negotiations between the representatives of Canada and the United States will end the proceedings of the conference. ...
Article : 161 wordsThe provincial authorities throughout Canada are considering the construction of a national highway joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ...
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Article : 814 wordsThe Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Aotea, 5,600 tons, went ashore yesterday at Moville Point, close to the spot where the same company's steamer ...
Article : 272 wordsM. Hewvel, the French aviator, has been convicted on a change of manslaughter in killing a woman, owing to his machine descending on a public ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Dutch Ministers for War and Marine (MM. Sabron and Wentholt) last month issued a Note on the secret report dealing with the coast defences of ...
Article : 642 wordsM. Aristide Briand, the French Premier, stated in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday that the Government was convening an International Hygienic ...
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Article : 50 words"Die Ziet" states to-day that the first Austro-Hungarian Dreadnought will be launched in June next, and the second one in December. ...
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Article : 55 wordsThe captain, officers, and men of the steamer Parisiana, which was destroyed by fire when on a voyage from New York to Melbourne, arrived from Albany ...
Article : 698 wordsThe Empire Clubs throughout Canada are joining in a movement to petition the Canadian Parliament to invite King George to visit the Dominion in 1914— ...
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Article : 89 words"Reynolds's Newspaper," the Democratic weekly, is publishing the views of the leaders of all parties on the present political situation, and has an article ...
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Article : 263 wordsA committee of the United States House of Representatives favours the New Orleans site for the great Panama World's Fair of 1915. San Francisco is ...
Article : 57 wordsThe General Labour Council of France is issuing a placard protesting against the condemnation to death of Dr. Ketoku, his wife, and the other ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie has given £2,000,000 to the Washington Institute for Scientific Research. His total benefactions to the institute now amount to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe billiard match (9,000 up) between George Gray and the English professional Duncan, was continued at Bristol yesterday. At the close of the ...
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Article : 181 wordsThe Traders Hotel and theatre adjoining, with a number of business houses, were destroyed by fire yesterday at Clarksburg, West Virginia. ...
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Article : 365 wordsThe Black Sea was lashed by a storm yesterday, and an embankment at Batoum was undermined and collapsed. The waters then flooded the high school ...
Article : 57 wordsThe football match between England and Wales was played yesterday under Rugby Union rules, and ended in a victory for the Welsh team, the scores ...
Article : 53 wordsThe recent scenes in the Legislative Assembly, during which several Labour members were suspended, we[?] discussed at a meeting of the metropo[?]tan council ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Minister of Home Affairs (Hon. King O'Malley) was asked yesterday what he had to say on the claim proposed to [?] made by the State Premiers for ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe Home of Thomas Carlyle's boyhood at Ecclefechan, in Dumfries, has been purchased for the public, and will be furnished with relics of the ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe delegates to the board of the Newcastle Miners' Federation have considered a motion from the B[?]rwood Lodge that the trustees appointed by the effiliated ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Far Eastern tour of the Crown Prince of Germany has been modified, owing to the outbreak of plague in China. The Crown Prince will avoid ...
Article : 50 wordsThe official receiver appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Cha[?] Cross Bank, a money-lending concern which had 41 branches in various [?]ts ...
Article : 159 wordsThe conference of the Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia was continued yesterday. The principal subject for discussion was the ...
Article : 241 wordsSir James Henry Yoxall, the Liberal member for Nottingham West, stated yesterday that the invalidity insurance scheme of the Liberal Government will ...
Article : 187 wordsA collision occurred at the Central Railway Station early yesterday morning. While engaged in [?]ling a train laden with co[?] into the yard two locomotives ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Japanese Diet yesterday the Marquis Katsura, the Prime Minister, stated that the relations of Japan with the Powers were cordial, and the ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the Rochester Police Court yesterday, John Slattery was charged with having, on January 18, set fire to the stubble on a farm leased by his brothers Andrew and ...
Article : 227 wordsIn a speech delivered at New York yesterday President Taft said he would promptly vote a million sterling for the fortification of the Panama Canal. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Australasian championship swimming cernival was continued yesterday at the Dry D[?]k There were five starters in the 220 yards event, Wickham and ...
Article : 100 wordsIn accordance with the requirements of the Port of London Act, the Port of London Authority has adopted a schedule of rates on goods imported from or ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day there was a large attendance of Home, American, and Continental buyers, and bidding was spirited. All round there ...
Article : 120 wordsThe evidence at the Chinese immigration inquiry has disclosed the existence of a smuggling ring of opium sellers. Many prominent subscribers to the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe political disturbance which took place at Curepipe, the residential place for many Port Louis business people, has been followed by the mob wrecking ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Political Labour League of New South Wales, which is running Mr. Barge and a number of candidates for the municipal elections, favours land value ...
Article : 46 wordsThe dispute regarding wages for stevedoring work has been settled, the present ordinary rate being 1s, 3d. per hour. The men a asked for 1s 6d., and accepted a ...
Article : 57 wordsThe result of the Zeehan branch A.M.A. elections yesterday was as follows:—President, W. Barber; vice-president, E. J. Wingrove; secretary, W. S. Geard; ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 23 Jan 1911, Page 5
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