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  2. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    A deputation representing the boot manufacturing industry waited upon the Chief Secretary (Dr. Butler) yesterday afternoon in connection with the ...

    Article : 639 words
  3. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    Lord Malmesbury, a Conservative peer, introduced in the House of Lords yesterday a Land Purchase Bill for England and Wales. The bill contains ...

    Article : 487 words
  4. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    Early in March Mr. Lewis Harcourt[?] the Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question referring to the appointment of a permanent ...

    Article : 357 words
  5. STANLEY-BALFOUR RAILWAY.

    To-day was a gala day in Stanley on the occasion of the Governor (Sir Harry Barron) turning the first sod of the Stanley-Balfour railway. The quaint old ...

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  6. RIOTS IN CANTON.

    The Hongkong correspondant of the Paris edition of the "New York Herald" states that the situation in Canton is now quiet. ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Rowland Hunt, the Unionist member for the Ludlow division of Shropshire, asked the Prime Minister, in view ...

    Article : 163 words
  8. PERSONAL

    The officers of the Australian Imperial Regiment which sailed for South Africa on May 1, 1900, meet annually in Melbourne. The annual reunion was held on ...

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  9. ATLANTIC CABLES.

    The "Evening Standard" states that amalgamation has taken place between the Western Union and the Anglo-American cable companies, which together ...

    Article : 79 words
  10. NATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS.

    President Taft, in addressing a meeting here of the National Peace Congress yesterday, emphasised that the United States had no desire for an extension ...

    Article : 87 words
  11. LEATHER TRADE.

    John A. Bowron and Sidney Bowron, the principals of the firm of Bowron Bros., wholesale skin and leather merchants, of Eermondsey, South London, ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. THE CORONATION.

    There is an extraordinary exodus of people from all parts of South Africa to witness the Coronation ceremonies in London. The passenger ...

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  13. CLEARING HOUSE FOR GOODS.

    At a meeting held at the Society of Arts yesterday, Mr. H. S. Cautley, the Unionist member for East Grinstead, advocated the establishment of a ...

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  14. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Lieutenant Filehner, who will lead the German expedition to the Antarctic, and sails in his vessel (the Deutschland), on the 7th inst. for Buencs Ayres, ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

    The movements of the various French columns have stopped the revolt in the northern portions of Morocco, and some of the tribes have rallied round the ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. AUSTRALIAN NAVAL DEFENCE

    Navy orders were published to-day dealing with the naval reserve and the enrolment of cadets. Senior Cadets now serving as naval volunteer cadets ...

    Article : 267 words
  17. NEW ZEALAND TRADE.

    A representative of the "Financial News" had an interview yesterday with Sir. Joseph Ward, the Prime Minister of New Zealand. In the course of his ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.

    Labour members of the House of Commons and representatives of the Trades Unions of Great Britain met to-day and informally conferred with a ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. BRITISH EXPEDITION TO JERUSALEM.

    An expedition under Captain Parker, a brother of the Earl of Morley, has spent £60,000 in searching for two years the passages cut out the rock ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. THE REFERENDUMS.

    The complete returns for all the electoral divisions of the State have now been received by the Commonwealth electoral officer (Mr. J. P. Bichord) with the ...

    Article : 271 words
  21. THE SMOKERS' STRIKE.

    The labour trouble at North Lyell mine is at an end for the present, though it may possibly he reopened when Mr. Sticht, general manager for ...

    Article : 251 words
  22. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    The Chester Cup (handicap) of 2,350 sovs. (a cup value 50sovs. and the remainder in specie); the second received 300sovs., and the third 200sovs. Old ...

    Article : 81 words
  23. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    With H.M.S. Jason now attached to the Home Fleet, as the parent ship, the Admiralty recently proposed to station at Grimshy, in the North Sea, six ...

    Article : 108 words
  24. MEXICAN REBELLION.

    General Madero, the leader of the Mexican rebels, has met, near Juarez, Judge Carbajal, the peace envoy of the Diaz Government, and informally ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    The training schooner Steadfast, which went ashore yesterday at Thameshaven with a crew of four officers and 40 boys, and was considered to be in a ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. GUN RUNNING.

    The gun-running traffic in the Persian Gulf has assumed such serious proportions that a comprehensive plan of action, both at sea and on land, was ...

    Article : 134 words
  27. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

    The Presbyterian Assembly continued its sittings to-day. There was considerable discussion over the home mission work. ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. THE LOST YONGALA.

    The Queensland State Treasurer will to-morrow issue advertisements, offering a reward of £1,000 for the discovery of the spot where the Yongala was ...

    Article : 42 words
  29. GENERAL CABLES.

    At the auction sales of tallow to-day 1,980 casks were offered, and 1,277 casks were sold. Fine mutton sold at 36s. 6d. per cwt., and medium at 34s. ...

    Article : 203 words
  30. SOUTH WALES COAL STRIKE.

    The miners who are out on strike at Tonypandy, South Wales, yesterday captured a non-anionist. They attired him only in a/w[?] ite shirt, and compelled ...

    Article : 56 words
  31. REVENUE RETURNS.

    The revenue for the March quarter was £1,044,776, a decline of £47,011, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. The expiration of the ...

    Article : 58 words
  32. THE HAREM SKIRT.

    One of the young ladies who appeared last night at the skating rink in a harem skirt to-day paraded the streets and created some excitement, especially ...

    Article : 112 words
  33. PENNY POSTAGE.

    Further congratulations were received to-day by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Josiah Thomas) on the introduction of penny postage. ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. BLACK HAND IN ITALY.

    At yesterday's proceedings at the trial of the Camorrists at Viterbo, to the north-west of Rome, there was a dramatic scene when Abattemaggio, who is ...

    Article : 83 words
  35. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA.

    Whilst five buttalions of Turkish troops were marching yesterday to Tashi they were attacked in a narrow defile,at Groppa by a large number of ...

    Article : 64 words
  36. THE SMALL-POX CASE.

    The remaining nine passengers by the R.M.S. Mooltan were released from quarantine to-day. ...

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  37. NEW ZEALAND OIL FIELD.

    The Taranaki Petroleum Company has earned the first £2,500 of the Government bonus for the production of the first 230,000 gallons of crude ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.

    The Acting Premier (Mr. Watt) said to-day that he had received from Mr. Holman a statement of his proposals regarding the transfer of industrial and other ...

    Article : 129 words
  39. STEALING LETTERS.

    John Wiison, aged 13 years, was arrested at Ballarat to-day on a charge of having stolen letters containing cheques valued at over £100. The boy was ...

    Article : 84 words
  40. ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday, when there was a large attendance of buyers nnd animated competition. Ordinary sorts of wool showed an ...

    Article : 73 words
  41. ANTI-TRUST LAW.

    The American House of Representatives has ordered an investigation with a view to determining whether any violation of the anti-Trust law has been ...

    Article : 71 words
  42. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Queenstown Brass Band's balancesheet shows that the year has ended with a debit of £25 8s. 4d., and it was agreed that some special effort would ...

    Article : 80 words
  43. GOOD SAMARITAN FUND.

    The Good Samaritan Fund Committee has been notified by the Chief Secretary (Dr. Butler) that a Government grant in-aid of £50 has been made to the fund ...

    Article : 44 words
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