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  2. ARMED BURGLARS IN LONDON.

    Ninety detectives, most of whom are carrying revolvers, are seeking the whereabouts of three men and a woman who are alleged to have been concerned ...

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  3. BOGUS ARISTOCRATS.

    Early in the year Count and Countess Aulby Deglatigny, well-known French aristocrats, were arrested at Tours, in France, and charged with having sold ...

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  4. PRAHRAN POISONING CASE.

    Intense public interest was taken today in the proceedings at the inquest concerning the deaths of Mrs. Elizabeth Moodie and her daughters Annie and ...

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  5. LOSS OF THE WARATAH,

    At to-day's proceedings of the official inquiry by the Board of Trade into the loss of the steamer Waratah, Mr. F. W. Lund, one of the directors of the ...

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  6. BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    The polls at East and West Wicklow, which wevo taken yesterday, completed tho British parliamentary elections, and counting the Nationalists, Independent ...

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  7. THE AMERICAN FLEET.

    The recent visit of the four divisions of Americun battleships to England and France, and the failure of either of the divisions to make a call at German ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    The Governor (Sir Harry Barron) left by express yesterday morning for Launceston. Lady Barron, who has been on a visit to the Scamander, returned to ...

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  9. ATLANTIC CABLES.

    In the proposals for the amalgamation of the Western Union and the Anglo-American Cable Companies, which together control six Atlantic ...

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  10. THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

    Sir Ernest Shackleton and six of his associates in the British Antarctic expedition which he led are to start in June next for the Spitzbergen group of ...

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  11. THE DRIVERS' STRIKE.

    Acting upon the advice of the Attorney-General (Mr. Denny), the Government has decided to take up a determined attitude with respect to the ...

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  12. FRENCH POLITICS.

    There was an excited debate yesterday in the French Chamber of Deputies, owing to the Socialists advocating clemency for the dismissed railway men. ...

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  13. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.

    The trial of the two British officers who were arrested at Borkum, in the North Sea, with plans of German fortifications in their possession, will start ...

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  14. FEDERAL LAND TAX.

    The first payment under the Commonwealth land tax will be due in the third week in May, and preparations for obtaining [?] are now well advanced. The Land ...

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  15. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    In April last, in Paris, a wealthy widoe named Vache, said to be worth four million [?], was secretly married to an outside stockbroker, some ...

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  16. THE DIVORCE COURT.

    In the divorce division of the High Court of Justice to-day Mr. Justice Henry Bargrave Deane gave his reserved decision in the case of Pretty ...

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  17. SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE.

    Two of the men prosecuted at Pontypridd for committing violence and performing acts of intimidation during the recent trouble among the colliers on ...

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  18. SOCIAL QUESTIONS

    Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister of England, was yesterday presented at Edinburgh with the freedom of that city. In the course of a speech. Mr. ...

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  19. RAILWAY TROUBLES IN CHICAGO.

    Although it was stated that the engine-drivers on the railway lines running west from Chicago were willing to submit their claim for increased ...

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  20. NAVAL BASE QUESTION.

    Admiral Henderson, who is inquiring into the naval base question, proceeded down D'Entrecasteanx Channerl and up the Huon River yesterday morning in the ...

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  21. NEW YORK EXPLOSION.

    The explosion which occurred on Monday at the six-storey power station on the New York Central railroad resulted in 11 people being killed. ...

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  22. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    In the House of Assembly yesterday General Botha, the Prime Minister, announced that the Natal poll tax on natives would continue, but the poll ...

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  23. INDIAN TROOPS.

    The Crown Prince of Germany, who is making a tour of the Far East, is at present at Hyderabad. He witnessed a magnificent review of Indian troops ...

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  24. COST OF LIVING IN AUSTRIA.

    A strong protest has been made in the Hungarian Chamber of Representatives against the importation of Argentine meat, which it is suggested will ...

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  25. BRITISH INVESTMENTS ABROAD.

    Mr. George Paish, for 20 years past the joint editor of the "Statist," read a paper yesterday at a meeting of the members of the Royal Statistical ...

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  26. RIOTING IN WINNIPEG.

    A thousand workmen struck at Winnipeg yesterday in sympathy with the tramway employees, and started a riot. They attacked the men at work on ...

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  27. COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN LANCASHIRE.

    LONDON, December 21, 11.35 a.m. News has just beeu received of an explosion at the Hulton Colliery at Bolton, to the south-west of Manchester. ...

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  28. FROZEN MEAT.

    The report of the Canterbury Frozen Meat and Dairy Produce Export Company shows a net profit for the year of £45,863. A dividend has been declared ...

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  29. MEXICAN REBELLION.

    Large reinforcements of Mexican Federal troops hare been despatched to Chihuahua, where, it is stated, there aro 3,000 revolutionists in camp. ...

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  30. FATHER'S TERRIBLE MISTAKE

    At North Melbourne late this afternoon, Dorothy Hamilton, aged four years, was accidentally shot in the head with a revolver by her father, and ...

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  31. CHICAGO UNIVERSITY.

    Owing to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the American multi-millionaire, declaring that the Chicago University ought to be controlled by the people, ...

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  32. CANADIAN RAILWAYS.

    The directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company have given orders for 7,000,000 dollars' worth of equipment for their lines, the whole, to be ...

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  33. ITALIAN FRANCHISE.

    The Italian Government has prepared a bill which provides for the extension of the franchise to all males able to read and write. If the bill ...

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  34. RA WSON INSTITUTE,

    The Rawson Institute for Seamen, which has been erected in commemoration of the Governorship of the late Sir H. Rawson, was formally opened to-day ...

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  35. FEDERATED SEAMENS COM PENSATION ACT.

    Before the Federal Chief Justice in Chambers to-day, the High Court made absolute a rule nisi for prohibition against Judge Rogers, of the District ...

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  36. FIRE AT A COLLIERY.

    The bodies of three miners hare been recovered from the Leyden Coal Company's mine near Denver, which caught on fire last week, and in which ten men ...

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  37. THE LONDON POOR.

    King George und Queen Mary have forvarded a number of gifts to the Salvation Army and the Church Army for distribution among the London poor. ...

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  38. BOXING.

    The fight between "Freddy" Welsh and "Jem" Driscoll for the light-weight championship of England took place yesterday at Cardiff. The stakes were ...

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  39. WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

    Continuing the debate on the Redistribution of Seats Bill in the Legislative Assembly last night. Mr. Bath (Labour) said that the bill was framed ...

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  40. FINANCIAL.

    The following were the closing rates to-day for Australasian stocks and shares:—Australasian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co. (4 per cent, perpetual ...

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  41. A NOVEL CASE.

    Two employees of a city storekeeper were proceeded against to-day for [?] tering. The allegation against them was that they were stopping passers-by ...

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  42. BRITISH COLUMBIA.

    At the inquiry into the smuggling of Chinamen into British Columbia the evidence disclosed that as many as 60 stowaways were hidden in caverns ...

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  43. BILLIARDS.

    George Gray, the Australian boy billiardist, is playing another match with George Nelson, the champion of Yorkshire. The contest is talking place at ...

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  44. PENSIONS IN FRANCE.

    The French Government is preparing a bill to provide for the payment of supplementary pensions to railway men based on the number of years of their ...

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