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  2. General Cables.

    Mr. Cody won £4000 in an aeroplane competition open to the world. M. de Perdussin, on a monoplane was second with £2000. Mr. Cody won ...

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  3. PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS BALL.

    A plain and fancy dress ball in aid of the St. George's Hall fund, will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow night. A large number of tickets has ...

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  4. Sensational Accident.

    A sensational accident occurred to a team of tennis players in the Engelsburg district on Saturday. It appears that a team of 10 players from ...

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  5. Imperial Defence.

    The "Daily News" declares that a scheme of a single Imperial fleet and not single control has no chance of acceptance in the Dominions. The ...

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  6. Triangular Cricket.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 381 words
  7. Panama Canal.

    M. Bunau Varilla, the negotiator of the sale of the Panama Canal to the United States of America, believed that if Great Britain and America ...

    Article : 243 words
  8. China and Thibet.

    The memorandum submitted by Sir John Jordan (British Ambassador at Pekin) to the Chinese Government, in regard to the management of ...

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  9. THE TURKISH EARTHQUAKE.

    The King has forwarded £100 to the Mansion House fund for the relief of sufferers in the recent earthquake in Turkey. ...

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  10. PROBATES GRANTED.

    Probates have been granted as follows:— Hannah Bailey (wife of William J. Bailey's Crow's Nest), to William J. Bailey, Crow's Nest, farmer, realty ...

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  11. London, August 31. ROYAL MAIL COMPANY.

    There is an unconfirmed rumour that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company is negotiating for the acquisition of the interests of P. and O. Company ...

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  12. SOCIAL AT MARBURG.

    A social in connection with All Saints' Church, Marburg, was held in the School of Arts on Thursday night (writes our correspondent) and ...

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  13. London, September 1. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the wife of Lord Henry Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, brother and heir presumptive of the Duke of Newcastle. ...

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  14. THE LATE MIKADO

    A room in the Imperial Palace adjoining that in which the late Emperor died, has been set apart as a sanctuary for his spirit. Services will be ...

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  15. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION DENIED.

    The P. and O. Company and Royal Mail Packet Company disclaim having entered into any amalgamation. ...

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  16. REDUCTION IN CABLE RATES.

    The Western Union Atlantic Cable Company has reduced its rates on Press cables messages to Eastern Canada to 3½d per word during slack ...

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  17. Australian Cruiser.

    At the launch of the Commonwealth second-class protected cruiser Sydney, at Glasgow, to-day, the christening ceremony was performed by Lady ...

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  18. U S. Presidency.

    Speaking at Columbus, in Ohio, President Taft explained the exercise of his power of veto. His friends had told him, he said, that it any king ...

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  19. MOUNT CROSBY MAIL SERVICE.

    Mr. H. Sinclair, M.H.R., is in receipt of the following letter from the postal authorities, which speaks for itself :— "With reference to that portion of ...

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  20. Berne, September 1. FIGHTING A MADMAN.

    An insane soldier named Schwarz is reported to have made a desperate fight for liberty, before he was over-powered by the men sent out to ...

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  21. Paris, August 30. CHINESE MILITARY ADVISER.

    Gen. Brissant de Smaillet has been appointed military adviser to the Government of China. ...

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  22. FINNEY, ISLES, AND CO., LTD.

    The eighth annual general meeting of the shareholders of Finney, Isles, and Co., Limited, was held in the registered office of the company, Brisbane, ...

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  23. Washington, August 30. STATE PARCELS POST IN AMERICA.

    The United States has decided to inaugurate a State parcels post system on 1st January. The delivery of parcels over 1,000,000 miles of rural ...

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  24. Australia v. Kent

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 366 words
  25. Rome, August 31. COUNTESS TARNOWSKA PARDONED.

    King Emmanuel has pardoned the Countess Tarnowska, who was undergoing a sentence at Venice for instigating the murder of her husband, ...

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  26. Engelsburg, September [?]. (From a Correspondent.)

    The accident to the team of tennis players on Saturday evening, caused a great sensation here. All those in the waggonette were Engelsburg ...

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  27. Floods in England

    The damage to the city of Norwich by the floods is estimated at £100,000. The trees in the city and neighbourhood are infested with rats, ...

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  28. Quebee, August 31. AN APPEAL TO THE HAGUE.

    The descendants of the French seigneurs, the earliest colonisers of Quebec, held a public meeting, at which it was decided to demand the ...

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  29. Antarctic Exploration

    Commander Evans has sailed to rejoin the Antartic expeditionary ship Terra. Nova, which is to return to the Antarctic regions to pick up ...

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  30. Paris, August 31. SHOT DEAD.

    Madeline Grondona, a singer from Nice, hearing that her lover, Nickolas Dikairtz a Russian architect, had married, got a revolver and deliberately ...

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  31. PIGEON SHOOTING AT PEAK CROSSING.

    A goodly number of shooters and spectators writes a correspondent) assembled at the Peak Mountain Hotel to witness a shoot for a solid ...

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  32. Dynamite Outrage.

    Dynamitards to-day attempted to destroy the house of an Austrian, named Dragin. They blew up a portion of the house, and the 13 ...

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  33. AVIATION IN GERMANY

    The national aviation fund subscriptions now total £300,000. ...

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  34. Vienna, August 31. FATAI CAR ACCIDENT.

    Through the brake failing to act, a motor-car fell over a precipice, a girl and a lady were killed, while another lady lies in a critical condition. ...

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  35. QUEENSLAND LABOUR PARTY

    Mr. David Bowman (leader of the Labour party in the State Assembly) has decided, on the recommendation of his medical adviser, to relinguish the ...

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  36. Singapore August 31. STEAMER MATARAM INJURED.

    The steamer Mataram has been damaged by running on a rock near Port Moresby and she proceeds to Sydney direct. ...

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  37. Battleship Iron Duke

    The Admiralty is expediting the launch of the super-Dreadnought battleship Iron Duke at Portsmouth by a month, in order to enable the ...

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  38. Billings (Montana), August 31. FROM COW-PUNCHING TO PEERAGE.

    The Hon. Cecil Talbot Clifton, a Montana rancher, has become heir to a British Peerage, through the death of Lord Grey de Ruthyn. Clifton has ...

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  39. CANADA.

    The Duke and Duchess of Connaugh are touring the middle west of the Dominion. Wherever they went they have been lavishly entertained and ...

    Article : 131 words
  40. German Naval Expert.

    Captain Persius, naval expert of the "Tageblatt," describes a visit which he paid to Harwich, England, during which he was not molested. ...

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  41. THE BALKANS

    The Turks recently attacked four Greek blockhouses on the frontier, and killed six men. In another, skirmish, two Turks were killed. ...

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  42. Engine-Drivers' Examination.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  43. Brussels, August 31. SUGAR CONVENTION.

    Italy notifies that she will withdraw from the Sugar Convention in September, 1913. ...

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  44. Colliery Flooded.

    An inrush of water from the old workings flooded a colliery at Aberdare, in Wales, and 300 men who were below had narrow and sensational ...

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  45. AUSTRALIA V. SURREY AND MIDLANDS.

    The following is the team selected to represent Surrey and the Midlands in the match against the Australian Eleven, which is fixed to commence at ...

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  46. The Olympiad.

    Mr. James Sullivan, the United States Commissioner at the Olympic games, has published a statement replying to charges made against the ...

    Article : 64 words
  47. New York, September 1. INTERNATIONAL MOTOR-BOAT RACES.

    America has won the first of the motor-boat races in the international series. Blackstone's Reliance II, was first beating the British challenger ...

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  48. The War

    The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that there is every prospect that in the official pourparlers Turkey will renounce the ...

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  49. Child Falls 2000ft.

    A terrible balloon accident has happened here in the presence of thousands of people, who were helpless to aid the unfortunate little victim. A ...

    Article : 126 words
  50. The First Steamship.

    The centenary of the construction of the first steamship, the Comet, was celebrated yesterday at Glasgow, with an imposing maritime pageant, in ...

    Article : 57 words
  51. Railway Collision.

    Four persons were killed and seven others were injured yesterday through a passenger train coming into collision with and wrecking a train which ...

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  52. MOROCCO.

    Advices from the interior state that El Siba, the pretender to the throne, has sustained a severe defeat. His losses are enormous, and his brother ...

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  53. Chinese Customs.

    Information has bern received that two European Customs officers were bound by marauders at the Customs houses at Lofong, and Samchun. The ...

    Article : 45 words
  54. Cycling

    The Ipswich Amateur Wheelers held a two-mile bicycle race on the Blackstone-road. The event, after some keen and interesting racing, was won ...

    Article : 31 words
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