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  2. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    The Canadian Parliament has been dissolved, and the general election, which will be fought on the question of the reciprocity agreement with the ...

    Article : 217 words
  3. RAILWAY DISASTERS.

    An excursion train was derailed yesterday on Lehigh Valley railroad, in the State of Pennsylvania. The Pullman cars rolled down an embankment ...

    Article : 158 words
  4. CARTERS' AND. DRIVERS' WAGES.

    The dispute regarding an increase in wages which was arisen between the Carters' and Drivers' Union and the employers in the city has ended in the union ...

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  5. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    A shocking accident occurred yesterday at a building in course of construction in the Grand Rue Villy at Rouen, to the north-west of Paris. ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. DOMINIONS AND EMPIRE

    Mr. Andrew Fisher, the Prime Minister of Australia, arrived at Colombo this morning, and, on being informed of the sensation caused by the interview ...

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  7. PERSONAL.

    A cable from Melbourne states that the retiring Governor-General (Lord Dudley) will leave Adelaide for England on August 11. ...

    Article : 688 words
  8. BUNKERING AT HOBART.

    The extent to which Hobart is taken Advantage of as a coaling port is not, perhaps, generally known, and the following particulars should, therefore, prove ...

    Article : 769 words
  9. THE WAR CLOUD.

    The British Admiralty gave orders to-day for the immediate coaling of the battleships and cruisers attached to the first division of the Home Fleet under ...

    Article : 616 words
  10. EXTRAORDINARY STORM IN LONDON.

    An extraordinary storm took place yesterday in London. There was a sudden squall, the wind having a velocity of fifty-four miles an hour. An inch of ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. SCULLING.

    Yesterday afternoon, on the Parramatta River, Richard Arost rowed Henry Pearce for the sculling championship of the world, and £1,000 stakes. ...

    Article : 378 words
  12. CRICKET.

    In the county match between Middlesex and Essex, which was started at Louis yesterday, F. A. Tarrant, the ex-Victorian player, made 168 for the ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA.

    There has been a renewal of the serious forest fires in the United States. A conflagration is now raging in the San Bernardino Mountains, and several ...

    Article : 57 words
  14. ENGLISH RACING.

    Frank Wootton, the Australian jockey, who rode four winners at the Goodwood meeting yesterday, put up a similar performance at the meeting to-day. ...

    Article : 37 words
  15. UNIVERSAL RACE CONGRESS.

    At the proceedings of the Universal Race Congress, which is being held at the London University, and is attended by 50 branches of the human race, and ...

    Article : 223 words
  16. EARL OF YARMOUTH.

    The Earl of Yarmouth, against whom a receiving order was made last week, has been declared bankrupt. His liabilities are set down at £12,000, and ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

    Following the letter of Mr. Balfour, the leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, in which he expressed the view, that the majority of the ...

    Article : 288 words
  18. NEW-GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    The Governor-General designate and Lady Denman and staff arrived yesterday by the R.M.S. Omrah. They were welcomed by the Mayor and ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. A FATAL BLOW.

    The circumstances surrounding the death of a plumber named Michael Burley Rimington, 52 years of age, in Melbourne Hospital, on July 22, were ...

    Article : 159 words
  20. RUSSIAN HARVEST.

    The Russian Council of Ministers has decided to sell corn at cost price, and organise public works in South-east Rus[?]ia and the Steppes region of Siberia ...

    Article : 51 words
  21. RIVER TAMAR TRADE.

    It is not often the launch of a vessel takes place at this port, and therefore the ceremony of placing the s.s. Bass, which has been built to the order of ...

    Article : 468 words
  22. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The position of the mail steamer Empress of China, 5,497 tons, belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway and Steamship Co., which stranded on a ...

    Article : 206 words
  23. NATIONAL INSURANCE.

    At a meeting which was held yesterday under the auspices of the Independent Labour Party and the Fabian Society it has resolved to demand the ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. THE SUGAR STRIKE.

    Reports have been received of the refusal by the unionists to handle cargo at Maryborough and Bundaberg. Following upon the decision of the ...

    Article : 286 words
  25. A DEMENTED SEAMAN.

    An inquiry was held yesterday into the circumstances of the death of Alolph Molander, a Swedish sailor from the barque Yola, whose body, with ...

    Article : 175 words
  26. HUGE CONFLAGRATION.

    A clerk named Schottek was recently dismissed from the Austrian Railway Department fof drunkenness, and out of revenge for his dismissal, it is alleged, ...

    Article : 91 words
  27. AVIATION.

    The British Government has purchased from M. Beaumont (who is Lieutenant Connean, of the French Navy) the monoplane used by him in the "Daily ...

    Article : 40 words
  28. BY-ELECTION.

    The by-election for South-West Bethnal Green, the vacancy for which was caused by Mr. E. H. Pickersgill having accepted a magistracy, took place ...

    Article : 108 words
  29. LABOUR DISPUTES.

    The strike among the seamen and dock labourers at Cardiff has ended. The unions have been recognised by the employers, and the latter has promised not ...

    Article : 59 words
  30. AMERICAN TARIFF.

    The coalition of the Progressive Republicans and the Democrats contending for a far-reaching revision of the United States tariff, has declared for ...

    Article : 132 words
  31. FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

    During the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the Foreign Office vote. Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that ...

    Article : 156 words
  32. THE M'GOWEN MINISTRY.

    A cablegram was received yesterday morning from Mr. McGowen, confirming the action of Mr. Holman in connection with the intending resignation of the ...

    Article : 225 words
  33. BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

    At to-day's meeting of the members of the British Medical Association, which is holding its annual session in London, Professor Jordan Lloyd, the ...

    Article : 93 words
  34. CRYSTAL PALACE.

    Senator W. H. Story and Mr. P. J. Moloney. M.H.R., in a joint letter to the "Evening Standard," states that if the suggested gift by London of the ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY.

    Sir William Hartley Williams, a former Supreme Court judge in Victoria, who has just returned, after nine years' rasidence in England, made an ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords has given special leave to appeal in the case of Bouff[?]er v. Trevor Jones. In the case of Williams v. ...

    Article : 89 words
  37. SWIMMING.

    W. Taylor, of Bootle, and T. S. Battersby, of Stockport, swam yesterday for the mile championship. Taylor won, beating Battersby by 10 yards. ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    A case of bubonic plague has occurred in California, and arose from infection from a ground squirrel. The victim is a boy seven years of age. The health ...

    Article : 53 words
  39. THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

    The following promotions in the Tasmanian Postal Department are gazetted:—George Alexander Mills, letter-carrier, grade 4, mail branch, to be ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. BOXING.

    Articles have been signed for a boxing match between "Ad." Wolgast and "Packy" McFarland, for the lightweight championship of the world. The fight ...

    Article : 50 words
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