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  2. THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. THE AURORA'S DREDGING TRIP.

    His Excellency the Admiral (Sir George King-Hall) paid a visit yesterday morning to the Aurara, and inspected the vessel. He was shown by Capt. Davis the charts ...

    Article : 528 words
  3. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. AN OFFER TO RANSFORD.

    Gregory, Hazlitt, Bardsley, Macartney, Emery, Jennings, Kelleway, McLaren, Whitty, and Webster, members of the fourteenth Australian, eleven, ...

    Article : 453 words
  4. THE CITY'S FINANCES. COMMITTEE'S REPORT FOR 1912.

    At last night's meeting of the City Council the Committee of Estimates and Ways and Means submitted their report for the year 1912. The report ...

    Article : 80 words
  5. PERSONAL.

    The death is announced by cable message from London of the Duchess of Buccleuch, who was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Alexandra, and ...

    Article : 775 words
  6. GREAT COAL STRIKE. THE DISASTROUS EFFECTS.

    The bill to be introduced in the House of Commons on Tuesday night to deal with the present crisis in the coal trade by making provision for the ...

    Article : 251 words
  7. THE PHOSPHATE STRIKE.

    To-day a number of farmers began operations at various phosphate manufactories in the direction of obtaining fertiliser supplies for the coming ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. LOSS OF THE OCEANA. THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL

    Further details of the disastrous collision which occurred in the English Channel yesterday morning between the P. and O. liner Occana and the German ...

    Article : 422 words
  9. BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL

    With a view to allaying anxiety, Senhor Falcao, the Premier and Minister of the Interior of Portugal, has denied the existence of an ...

    Article : 261 words
  10. General Account.

    The estimated receipts are, £24,4[?] Necessary expenditure for general purposes, £25,966 19s. 7d. Estimated debit balance of £1,486 ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. Water Account.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 words
  12. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

    Estimated receipts, £4,740. Estimated expenditure, £4,570. Credit balance (included in general account), £170. ...

    Article : 18 words
  13. ABATTOIRS.

    Estimated receipts, £3,594 10s. Expenditure, £3,199 10s. Credit balance. £395. ...

    Article : 11 words
  14. THE RATES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 words
  15. THE HIGH COURT.

    Argument in a special case stated by Mr. Justice Higgins as President of the Federal Arbitration Court in connection with the Federated Enginedrivers' and ...

    Article : 596 words
  16. GERMAN POLITICS.

    In reference to the resignation of Herr Wormuth, the Imperial Treasurer of Germany, owing to the Government financing the Armamonts Bill by means ...

    Article : 94 words
  17. SPEECHES ON THE BILL.

    Mr. Hartshorn, who is the leading spirit among the miners in South Wales, stated yesterday at Maestag that no bill will be acceptable to the ...

    Article : 235 words
  18. THE HOBART ASSESSMENT.

    The total amount of valuation upon properties is £270,700. Of this the sum of £23,408 has to be deducted for properties unoccupied, in course of ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. GERMAN TRIBUTE TO BRITISH SEAMANSHIP.

    The Occana sank six miles off Eastbourne. It is now believed that 17 people were drowned. ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. THE SUFFRAGISTS. SECOND THOUGHTS THE BEST.

    The majority of the woman suffragists who were sent to gaol last week for declining to find sureties to be of good behaviour have changed their ...

    Article : 67 words
  21. LANDING OF THE PARTIES.

    Mr. Herbert Dyce Murphy, who was to have commanded the third landing party of Dr. Mawson's expedition, has written in the course of a letter to his parents as ...

    Article : 561 words
  22. TRUMPER AND RANSFORD.

    It has been ascertained that some members of the Australian team were desirous that Ransford should join the team, and the Board of Control was asked ...

    Article : 182 words
  23. ALLOWANCE AND SALARIES.

    The estimate of allawance and salaries for the year total £5,845, divided as follows:—General, £2,087 10s.; water, £2,087 10s.; health, £850; Abattoirs, ...

    Article : 28 words
  24. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.

    The total amount of interest to be met is £14,224 10s., including £9,535 12s. 6d. interest on debentures (English loan), and the amount set aside for the ...

    Article : 435 words
  25. DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON.

    This afternoon about 1,000 women suffragists belonging to Church of England and Nonconformist leagues marched through the streets to Westminster. ...

    Article : 52 words
  26. DEPLETION OF UNION FUNDS.

    Mr. Will Thorne, the Labour member for West Ham, and the general secretary of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers, stated at ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. UNRULY APPRENTICES.

    Hundreds of apprentices in the engineering works in Glasgow yesterday visited the premises of the Women's Social and Political Union in the city, and ...

    Article : 32 words
  28. CITY OF LONDON.

    Last month an election was held for the vacant position of Alderman of Farrindon Within Ward in the City of London, the candidates being Sir ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. FOMENTING A GENERAL STRIKE.

    Since the transport workers strike the membership has rapidly increased, and a quarter of a million men are now enrolled in that union. The Syndicalist ...

    Article : 40 words
  30. JAPANESE NAVY.

    Another battleship of the superDreadnonght type for the Japanese Navy was laid down at Kure on Saturday. The displacement of the new ...

    Article : 84 words
  31. WAGES BOARD DETERMINATION

    The following is the determination of the Butchers' Wages Board, which is to come into force on April 8:— Shop Hands.—First shopman, per ...

    Article : 672 words
  32. SOLDIERS AND STRIKES.

    Mr. Victor Grayson, the Socialist, who was formerly member for Colne Valley, stated at Crewe yesterday that he had received a hundred letters from ...

    Article : 55 words
  33. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    A suit for breach of promise of marriage, in which Evelya Womersley of Murrumbeena, spinster, sought to recover £1,000 damages from Thomas ...

    Article : 425 words
  34. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The French Geographical Society has awarded Dr. Charcot (who has made two expeditions in the Pourquoi Paste to the Antarctic, his main object being ...

    Article : 56 words
  35. SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.

    The dockets at Middlesborough, Yorkshire, have refused to discharge a cargo of German coal intended for the use of the municipal gasworks. ...

    Article : 24 words
  36. GERMAN SHIPPING TRADE.

    At a conference of representatives of Bremen and Hamburg shipping interests, which was held on Satutday, it was decided to increase freights for ...

    Article : 62 words
  37. PITS FLOODED.

    Several pits near Swansea are flooded owing to the suspension of pumping operations. ...

    Article : 17 words
  38. STATE EDUCATION.

    Speaking at the Educational Congress dinner last week, the Prime Minister (Hon. A. Fisher) stated that anything the Commonwealth Government could ...

    Article : 200 words
  39. GERMAN BURGLARS.

    Last night a German corporal and two private soldiers surprised three burglars who had entered the canteen at Mulheim, in Rhenish Prussia. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  40. THE LOSS IN WAGES.

    It is estimated that 1,342,000 hands are idle, and that the loss of wages so far has been £5,643,000. ...

    Article : 26 words
  41. GENERAL CABLES.

    The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,950,000 quarters, as against 3,625,000 quarters a week ago. The quantity ...

    Article : 106 words
  42. CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE.

    The strikers and the police came into conflict on Saturday at the Rosehall pits in Lanarkshire, where 200 nonunionists are Working, and a sergeant ...

    Article : 43 words
  43. QUESTION OF PUBLIC RECEPTION.

    At a meeting of the general committee of the Tourist Association last evening, Mr. P. S. Seager, I.S.O., said: Before we proceed with the general business, I would ...

    Article : 787 words
  44. THE BRISBANE STRIKE.

    Following on the action taken by members of athletic bodies during the recent strike in helping to maintain order in the city, the Eight Hour Union decided at a ...

    Article : 120 words
  45. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    The majority report of the Royal Commission on trades and industries in South Africa recently recommended adequate but not ...

    Article : 92 words
  46. THE SYNDICALIST

    Benjamin Buck and Charles Buck. printers, and Guy Bowman,a journalist, were before the Westminster Police Court yesterday, charged with ...

    Article : 50 words
  47. MISHAP TO SOLDIERS.

    Last night a taxi-cab at Farnborough in Kent, dashed into a company of infantry who were engaged in night operations. Many of the soldiers were ...

    Article : 42 words
  48. BURGLARY AT PENGUIN.

    Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning, the manager of the Don Trading Company's Penguin branch discovered that the store had been burgled during ...

    Article : 113 words
  49. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Hon. Rupert E. C. L. Guinness the eldest son of Lord Iveagh, was returned unopposed yesterday in the Unionist interest for South-East Essex ...

    Article : 64 words
  50. COURT OF REQUESTS.

    A sittings of the Court of Requests was held yesterday, before Mr. Commissioner Wise. John K. Ritchie, veterinary surgeon ...

    Article : 131 words
  51. FRANCE AND SPAIN.

    In a statement made in December last in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Morocean settlements with Germany, M. de Selves, the then ...

    Article : 133 words
  52. BICYCLE AND MOTOR COLLIDE.

    An accident occurred late on saturday at East Brisbane, resulting in the death of a lad named Roy Buckley, aged 16. In company with two other lads, he ...

    Article : 120 words
  53. PORTUGUESE MONARCHISTS.

    Ex-King Manuel of Portgual, who is now visiting Paris, received a deputation yesterday of monarchists who have been exiled from Portgual and in reply ...

    Article : 63 words
  54. LAWN TENNIS.

    Misses P. A. Stewart, C. Lenevu, J. W. Salter, and E. M. Browning have been chosen to represent Victoria against Tasmania at Hobart on April 3. The team ...

    Article : 46 words
  55. SYDNEY TRAMS MORTALITY RATE.

    With the death of George James Pope, aged 70, who succumbed last night, the number of persons killed in connection with the Sydney electric trams has been raised to ...

    Article : 44 words
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