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  2. TASMANIAN GRANT.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, a message from the Governor-General, recommending a grant of £100,000 to the State of Tasmania, was ...

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  3. THE LAUNCESTON SHOW.

    Never in the somewhat chequered climatic history of the Launceston Show has this exhibition been favoured with more perfect weather than has been the ...

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  4. STORY OF THE SEA.

    A well-known Dunedin shipping man recently received from the skipper of one of the Shaw, Savill liners the following letter:—"Just a hurried line to ...

    Article : 372 words
  5. HOME RULE.

    Much anti-Home Rule feeling has been stirred up throughout Canada by a rumour that the Dominion Government intends to proceed against those aiding ...

    Article : 134 words
  6. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    In reference to the statement made that a conference on Imperial Defence has been arranged to take place early next year, and that the naval position ...

    Article : 394 words
  7. THE SUFFRAGISTS.

    On the occasion of the arrest of Miss Kenney, the militant suffragist, [?]at the London Pavilion Music-hall on Monday, several men and women (including a ...

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  8. LABOUR TROUBLES.

    Terrible picture are drawn of the misery in Dublin owing to the strikes and lockouts. It is estimated that 100,000 people there are facing ...

    Article : 314 words
  9. EGG PRODUCTION.

    Mr. William Cook, in experimenting with 6,000 hens at Orpington, in Kent, electric-lighted his hen-houses early in the evening and the morning, thus ...

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  10. STRIKE RIOTS.

    When the superintendent of a mine at Ludlow, in the State of Colorado, where a strike has occurred, left the mine yesterday, the strikers fired a ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. POWDER MILL EXPLODES.

    An explosion which occurred yesterday at a powder mill in Hamburg caused a fire to break out in an adjoining building, occupied as a sugar and honey ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. EMIGRATION FRAUDS.

    A man named Douglas McDonald, described as a clerk, has been charged in London with emigration frauds. He advertised in the Scottish ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. COLLISION AT SEA.

    The Imperator Alexander II., a Russian barque, with a cargo of timber, valued at £10,000, which was bound from the Baltic to Sydney, has been ...

    Article : 56 words
  14. LATE M. LABOUCHERE.

    The publication by Messrs. Constable and Co. of the Life of Henry Labouchere, the Liberal member for Northampton, and the editor and proprietor ...

    Article : 313 words
  15. SCIENCE CONGRESS.

    The following well-known scientists have been nominated as presidents of the various sections of the meeting to be held next year in Australia of the ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. WESLEYAN MISSIONS.

    At the Wesleyan Conference which was held at Cardiff in July, 1911, a resolution was passed in favour of making an appeal for £250,000 for foreign ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. RACE RIOTS IN AMERICA.

    Yesterday a race riot took place in tho village of Romeo, in the State of Illinois. Negroes wrecked tho gaol in order ...

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  18. JEWS IN RUSSIA.

    In June of last year an inquiry was held at Kieff as to the death of the boy Yushchinsky, the supposed victim of the ritual murder case, and it showed ...

    Article : 212 words
  19. DEFENCE.

    Statistics have been made available by the Defence authorities showing the strength of naval and military forces when the last quarterly count was ...

    Article : 259 words
  20. CHINESE REPUBLIC.

    After the election yesterday of YuanShi-Kai as President of the Chinese Republic, the election of Vice-President was proceeded with, and resulted in ...

    Article : 64 words
  21. HUNGER STRIKING.

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of Albert Davis, who was undergoing a term of imprisonment in Bedford gail for theft. Since his ...

    Article : 84 words
  22. BASEBALL AND POLITICS.

    The interest in America in the world's scries of baseball games is so keen that a Democratic member yesterday flippantly questioned the Chairman of the ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. KING LEOPOLD'S MILLIONS.

    In May of last year Princess Louise of Belgium commenced an action in Brussels against the Belgian Government, to recover £2,160,000 left by her ...

    Article : 243 words
  24. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.

    The Austro-Hungarian navy estimates propose an extraordinary vote of £6,000,000 for the laying down of two super-Dreadnoughts at the beginning ...

    Article : 98 words
  25. PALESTINE.

    Professor Sellin, who is undertaking excavations in Palestine, particularly in the (Jericho district, has definitely located Shccbem, at a short distance to ...

    Article : 43 words
  26. W.A. BUILDING TRADE:

    The executive committee of the Building Trades Union has recommended that a 14 hours week be brought into operation throught the trade without further ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. DECREASE IN CRIME.

    Mr. R. McKenna, the Home Secretary, in a speech at Pontypridd last night, referred to the report of the Prisons Commissioners, which showed ...

    Article : 115 words
  28. FIRE AND FLOOD.

    Further details are available to-day of the great disaster which has occurred at Nome, in Alaska, where fire broke out during a storm, and "a raging ...

    Article : 151 words
  29. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

    Unconfirmed reports which have reached Paris state that an attempt has been made to assassinate King Frederick of Saxony while he was hunting ...

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  30. CLOSING OF THE SMELTERS.

    At the meeting of the Zeehan Municipal Council to-day the proposed temporary closing of the Zeehan Smelters was discussed. ...

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  31. THE FRENCH TRAGEDY.

    A week ago one of the most dreadful tragedies in the history of crime was committed by a fifteen-year-old boy at Basbrige, near Na[?]tes, in the French ...

    Article : 225 words
  32. DAIRY SHOW.

    There are a record number of entries for the dairy show which is to be held at the Agricultural-hall, Islington. The entries include 24 in the cheese ...

    Article : 87 words
  33. THE BALKANS.

    Yesterday a force of 6,000 Albanians recrossed the Servian frontier, and stormed Djakova. The Servians used machine guns on the attackers, with ...

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  34. FLINDERS ISLAND.

    Flinders Island (Tas.) and the Domain (Victoria) spoke by wireless for the first time to-day, and communication will now be constantly maintained. ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Board of Trade returns for September show that, compared with the corresponding month of 1912, imports into Great Britain incresed by ...

    Article : 91 words
  36. SOCIALIST'S MAD ACT.

    A sensation was caused in Liverpool yesterday by a young man named William McDonald, a Socialist belonging to Overton, in Lancashire, who visited ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. RUSSIAN NAVY.

    The estimates submitted to the Russian Duma provide for an expenditure of £26,800,000 on the navy. This amount is an increase of £2,400,000 over ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    At the Hospital Board meeting to-night the resignations of Dr. McRac from the medical staff, and Mr. G. K. Brwon as dispenser, were accepted. The finance ...

    Article : 43 words
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