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  2. NORTH LYELL DISASTER.

    The Royal Commission to inquire into the cause of the North Mt. Lyell mine disaster, which involved the loss of 42 lives, was reopened at the ...

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  3. HOBART TRAMWAY BILL.

    In the House of Assembly last evening the Hobart Tramway Bill came on for second leading. It will be remembered that earlier this session Sir Elliott Lewis ...

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  4. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    Mr. Macartnoy has issued a statement giving the rearons which led to his withdrawal from the Cabinet, in the course of which he says: "While ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. LABOUR METHODS IN AMERICA.

    Strikers on the New York and Susquehannah railroad opened fire yesterday on a boatload of strikebreakers. The strikers were lying in ambush at ...

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  6. GOVERNORSHIP OF TASMANIA.

    The Rt. Hon. William Grey EllisonMacartney, P.C, has been gazetted Governor of Tasmania, in succession to Sir Harry Barron. ...

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  7. DEATH OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE.

    The trial was continued yesterday at Agra of Captain Clark, an officer in the Medical Department at Allahabad, a widow named Fulham, and a native ...

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  8. TAXI-CAB TRAGEDY.

    Towards the end of October a woman named Florence Dudley, a music-hall artist of Balfour-road, Ilford, was shot as she was travelling in a taxicab with ...

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  9. BRITISH NAVY. FRICTION AT THE ADMIRALTY.

    Sharply questioned in the House, of Commons this afternoon on the retirement of Sir Francis Bridgeman, the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. ...

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  10. COMPULSORY TRAINING.

    Sir George Reid, speaking at a meeting of the British Empire League last night, said it cast shame upon England that when she saw what the Dominions ...

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  11. KUBELIK'S VIOLIN.

    Yesterday bailiffs appeared at the Berlin Concert-hall and seized Kubelik's Guarneris violin, which is valued at £2,500, to satisfy Hugo Gorlitz's ...

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  12. TEMPERANCE REFORM.

    Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying yesterday to a United Kingdom Temperance Alliance deputation, said he would be dishonest if he said there ...

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  13. MARCONI CONTRACT.

    At to-day's proceedings before the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the agreement between the Imperial Government and the Marconi ...

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  14. SITUATION IN MEXICO.

    Americans recently returned to Washington from Mexico have interviewed President Taft, and alleged shocking conditions in that country. ...

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  15. FEDERAL REFERENDUM.

    In the Senate to-day, Senator Russell continued the second reading debate on the Constitution Alteration Bills, supporting the proposed ...

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  16. THE LONDON TRAGEDY.

    A fortnight ago, following a convivial gathering in a house in Bloomsbury, visited by negro music-hall artists, a negress named Annie Cross shot dead ...

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  17. THE PART OF THE DOMINIONS.

    "The Times" states to-day that even with the Australian and New Zealand Breadnoughts the Admiralty programme in March, 1914, will be one ...

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  18. TARIFF REFORM.

    The Liverpool "Daily Courier" (Unionist) makes an urgent appeal today to Lord Lansdowne, the leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, ...

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  19. BOGUS MARRIAGE

    Two men named Graham and Crawley were arrested in August last and charged in London with performing a bogus marriage in the underground room of a ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. PHTUMAYO ATROCITIES

    The Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire whether any responsibility rests upon the British directors of the Peruvian ...

    Article : 320 words
  21. THE CHANNEL COLLISION.

    It is believed that the vessel sunk last night by the super-Dreadnought Centurion, 23,600 tons, while undergoing her steam trials in the English ...

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  22. PANAMA CANAL

    Some quarters in Washington regard the British case in respect to the Panama Canal as weakened by the finesse of the distinction between ...

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  23. THE CZAREVITCH.

    The Paris "Matin" states to-day that the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, the Czar's cousin, mid the fiance of the Grand Duchess Olga, is likely to be the ...

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  24. AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    The steamer Ceramic, which has been built at Belfast for the White Star Co., was successfully launched yesterday. THe new vessel is 675ft. long. ...

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  25. DR WOODROW WILSON'S LIFE THREATENED.

    Three men were arrested yesterday in New Jersey for sending threatening letters to Dr. Woodrow Wilson the President-elect of the United States. ...

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  26. THE WOKING OUTRAGE.

    Last week a respectably dressed man enticed Winnie Baker, aged twelve, a girl scout, from a drill at a mission hall at Woking, in Surrey, and both ...

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  27. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE HOME RULE BILL.

    The Home Rule Bill was advanced another stage in the House of Commons this afternoon. Sir Rufus Isaacs, the ...

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  28. LABOUR UNREST.

    The strike of the North-Eastern Railway Co.'s men has thrown 20,000 hands idle. The situation in regard to the miners is easier. The Mayor of ...

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  29. THE BALKANS WAR. THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

    The Peace Conference opens at St. James's Palace on Monday. Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated in the ...

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  30. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

    The memorandum of agreement of the Australian Swimming Union provides, into alia, that in 1912-13 not more than one week shall clapse ...

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  31. VILLA COLLAPSES.

    A shocking fatality occurred to-day at Archacon, to the south-west of Bordeaux, and one of the most popular watering places in France. Whilst ...

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  32. COMMITTEE STAGE COMPLETED.

    The House of Commons has completed the committee stage of the Home Rule Bill. Forty-eight clauses were guillotined in the last six days. The ...

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  33. DUBLIN CROWN JEWELS.

    Despite the offical denial, the "Daily News" asserts to-day that the St. Patrick jewels which were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907 have been ...

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  34. THE ATTITUDE OF AUSTRIA.

    Some of the London papers indicate that Austria will enter the Ambassadors' Conference with reservations. The paper belittle the warlike news from ...

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  35. AVIATION.

    Aeroplaning at Tunis yesterday, Garros, the French aviator, reached a height of 19,000ft., which is a world's record. ...

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  36. ATTITUDE OF SERVIA.

    General Novakovitch, one of the Servian peace delegates, has arrived in Paris on his way to London. He was received yesterday by M. Poincare, the ...

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  37. WHOLESALE SMUGGLING.

    The Federal authorities in the United Stages have discovered a smuggling conspiracy by which a million dollars' worth of ladies gowns have been ...

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  38. BLACK AND WHITE.

    Following the announcement that Jack Johnson, the champion boxer of the world, had married the girl he was charged with adbucting, ...

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  39. RAILWAYS BILL.

    It was announced last month that the railway companies had notified the Government that unless legislation was introduced in the present session, ...

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  40. PAPUAN AFFAIRS.

    From Mr. Justice J. H. P. Murray, Lieutenant-Governor, the Minister of External Affairs (Hon. J. Thomas) has rereived a voluminous report, showing ...

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  41. NEW OPERATION.

    Blood transfusion, using a syringe for the purpose, saved the life of an infant dying from homorrhage at Detroit yesterday. Surgeons Cooley and ...

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  42. GENERAL CABLES. THE IRISHMAN'S EMIGRANTS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Sydney Buxton, the President of the Board of Trade, replying to Mr. P. W. Raffan, the Liberal member for ...

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  43. STRIKE IN QUEENSLAND.

    The resident engineer on the Cloncurry to Mount Cuthbert railway telegraphed to the Commissioner of Police yesterday that a majority of the men and gone on ...

    Article : 110 words
  44. COURT OF REQUESTS

    At the Longford Court of General Sessians on Wednesday, Sarah Bartlott, of Longford, sued Wilfred Haslam, of Launceston, for £20 damages to her vehicle, ...

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  45. FAMILY LAWYER'S END

    Francis J. Tarr, a well-known and respected solicitor of Bristol, has died suddenly. An investigation showed that he was insolvent, and that he had ...

    Article : 48 words
  46. THE SUFFRAGISTS.

    The woman arrested last night for giving bogus fire alarms is named Elsie Howey. She is a suffragist, and was before the court to-day, and fined £20. ...

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  47. BRITISH OFFICER MURDERED IN PERSIA.

    Tribesmen at Shiraz, in Persia, have murdered Captain Eckford, of the Central India Horse, when he was on a shooting expedition. ...

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