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  2. A MISSISSIPPI SENSATION.

    A sensation occurred on the Mississippi River yesterday through a steamer with over 500 passengers on board catching fire and burning to the water's edge ...

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  3. RUSSIA.

    Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that Baron Ungern-Sternburg, correspondent for a semi-official Austro-Hungarian news agency, was ...

    Article : 89 words
  4. ENGLISH ELECTION TRAGEDY.

    Considerable excitement is being displayed in the contest for the East Dorset Parliamentary seat which was recently declared vacant by the Court of Disputed ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    The Italian Chamber of Deputies has voted £400,000 for the construction of dirigibles and aeroplanes for military purposes. ...

    Article : 115 words
  6. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    Referring to-day to the proposal made by the Acting Premier of Western Australia (Mr. F. Wilson) to the Government of South Australia, that each of the two States ...

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  7. STATE POLITICS.

    The vigorous speech at Jarrahdale this evening by Mr. A. J. Wilson, in support of his candidature for the representation of Forrest in the Legislative Assembly, ...

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  8. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    The Turkish boycott of Greek goods, merchants, and steamers as a protest against Greece's sympathy with Crete is disquieting. It now affects the Bank ...

    Article : 136 words
  9. THE NOR'-WEST PORTS.

    If one would make a trip to the North West—that vast tropical and semi-Oriental province which appeals so much to one's imagination—no better time could be chosen ...

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  10. POISON BY POST.

    Lieut. Adolf Hofrichter, the Austrian officer who confessed to having forwarded poison through the post office at Vienna, with the result that a fellow-officer was ...

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  11. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. Alexander Ure, Lord Advocate for Scotland, speaking on Saturday at Branxholm (55 miles from Edinburgh), said he believed the conference between the ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    At Buckingham Palace yesterday Queen Alexandra presented Captain Scott with a flag "to be planted at furthest south." ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. CANADIAN GOLD DISCOVERY.

    The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Victoria, British Columbia, gives further particulars of the gold find near Stewart, B.C. Free milling gold has, he states, ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. GREAT BRITAIN'S DEFENCES.

    The Imperial Maritime League has forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) a memorial appealing to the Government to sanction a loan of ...

    Article : 376 words
  15. A LOVE TRAGEDY.

    In the Central Criminal Court yesterday Thomas Craig was found guilty on a charge of having murdered the husband of Mrs. Henderson (his old sweetheart) at ...

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  16. RIOTING AT PARIS.

    At Paris yesterday 10,000 trades unionists attended the funeral of a cabinet-maker who was killed in a recent brawl between a body of strikers and a force of ...

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  17. A DARING ROBBERY.

    While a cashier engaged by a printing firm in the West End of London was ascending the staircase of his employers' premises at noon on Saturday with a bag ...

    Article : 73 words
  18. THE BOOT TRADE.

    In the High Court to-day Mr. Irvine, K.C., continued his argument, on behalf of New South Wales and Victoria, in the boot trade appeal case. ...

    Article : 268 words
  19. SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

    Fighting took place in a dense bush in Southern Nigeria recently between a British force under Major G. E. Bruce and 200 of the "Secret Ones" led by their ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL.

    Many of the leading Catholic clergymen of London will take part in the consecration of Westminster Cathedral. The exposition of the Holy Relics will be ...

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  21. NEW ZEALANDER'S SUICIDE.

    Captain Hugo Frank Henry, who served with the New Zealanders in the South African War, was found dead in a garden at Bath yesterday. A revolver ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. FATAL FIREWORKS.

    As a result of a premature explosion of fireworks at a Lifeboat Gala at Leeds yesterday three persons were killed and ten others were injured. ...

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  23. ARGENTINE BOMB OUTRAGE.

    A bomb was exploded in the Colon Theatre, at Buenos Ayres, during a performance in that building on Saturday night with the result that several ...

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  24. AMERICAN COTTON TRADE.

    Owing to a shortage of raw material the representatives of 58 cotton mills in North Carolina and South Carolina have agreed to cease operations entirely for ...

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  25. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra have become patrons of the Victoria League. ...

    Article : 502 words
  26. COUNTRY.

    The Arbour Day celebrations were carried out very successfully on Friday. In the morning a number of trees were planted at the Northam and West Northam schools, ...

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  27. PORTUGUESE POLITICS.

    Senhor Texeira Souza has formed a new Cabinet in Portugal after several other politicians refused to undertake the task. The trouble in the political world ...

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  28. PHIL MAY.

    Mr. Edward Tennyson Reed, Parliamentary caricaturist to "Punch," in unveiling a tablet to the memory of the late Mr. Phil May at Leeds yesterday ...

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  29. A SYDNEY COURT CASE.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury, the City Finance Company, Limited, sued Marie Napier Edwards for £656 10s. ...

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  30. RACING IN FRANCE.

    The Grand Prix de Paris, of 300,000 francs (12,000 sovs.), one mile and seven furlongs, was run to-day, and resulted as follows:— ...

    Article : 175 words
  31. NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION.

    General Estrada, the insurgent leader in Nicaragua; has captured the towns of Lalibertad and Prigalpa, a day's march to the castward of Managua, the ...

    Article : 37 words
  32. OTTAWA "GRAFT" SCANDALS.

    It is reported at Ottawa that the loss occasioned by the "graft" scandals in connection with the Canadian Government Printing Bureau amounts to ...

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  33. MEXICO.

    General D. Porfirio Diaz, who has been President of the Republic of Mexico since 1876, has been re-elected by a large majority. Senor Ramon Corral has ...

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  34. ANOTHER OCEAN MYSTERY.

    Anxiety is felt at Bombay regarding the Austrian-Lloyd steamer Trieste (5,095 tons), which has not been spoken since the 14th inst., when she left Aden for ...

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  35. JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

    There are 200 newspaper correspondents at Reno, in Nevada, recording the final preparations for the fight between Jeffries and Johnson for the boxing ...

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  36. RUSSIAN HEAT-WAVE.

    A prolonged heat wave has withered the crops, meadows, and orchards in Southern Russia. ...

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  37. RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

    The Czar will to-day attend the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the capture of Viborg, capital of a province of Finland. Extraordinary ...

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  38. FOUND IN THE RIVER.

    Mr. C. Hearn was startled this morning while on his motor boat moored near Princes Bridge to see the naked body of a man rise from the bottom of the river and float past ...

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  39. SCOTTISH BOATING ACCIDENT.

    A boat full of Sunday school excursionists capsized at Turnberry, in Ayrshire, to-day, with the result that five persons were drowned. ...

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  40. THE IRISH LANGUAGE.

    The Senate of the National University of Ireland has decided that the Irish language shall be a compulsory subject in matriculation examinations after 1918. ...

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  41. ROUGH WEATHER AT THE PORT.

    Extremely boisterous weather prevailed at the Port during yesterday. When day broke the wind was blowing strongly from the north-west, and during the forenoon there ...

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  42. ENGLISH LABOUR TROUBLE.

    The dock labourers at Avonmouth, who went out on strike in sympathy with the dockers at Newport, have agreed to resume work on the withdrawal of the ...

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  43. NOVAL CHURCH SERVICE.

    There was an innovation yesterday in the Methodist Church, when services were conducted by Mr. Enos Baker, a society entertainer. Mr. Baker gave Scripture lessons ...

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  44. FRENCH RAILWAY SMASH.

    An inquiry has shown that as a result of the recent railway collision at Villepreux, near Paris, 24 persons were killed and 41 others were injured. Three ...

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  45. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    In the course of an interview to-day Sir Joseph Ward laid great stress on the importance of passing legislation this session to provide for the expenditure of £500,000 ...

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  46. THE S.S. ZEALANDIA.

    A large and representative gathering was entertained at lunch to-day on board Huddart, Parker and Company's new steamer Zealandia. ...

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  47. EARTHQUAKE.

    An earthquake yesterday destroyed several houses at Aumal, in Algeria. Fourteen natives perished in the ruins. ...

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  48. A KALGOORLIE DIVORCE CASE.

    The case in which Ethel May Gardner Taffe petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage with William Taffe on the grounds of adultery with a young woman in ...

    Article : 71 words
  49. VICTORIAN STATE COAL MINE.

    About 400 persons attended a public meeting in the Town Hall to-night, convened by the Lord Mayor (Colonel Burston), to consider questions relating to the development ...

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  50. A SHIPPING DISASTER.

    The steamer Lauderdale, while on her way from Hokianga to Greymouth to complete her loading of timber for Tasmania, went ashore at Greymouth. The Lauderdale ...

    Article : 96 words
  51. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. George Metcalf of Ashburton, claims to have discovered a substitute for rubber for cycle and motor tyres, which is more enduring and cheaper than rubber. He is ...

    Article : 43 words
  52. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A quintette of exceedingly youthful thieves have been arrested in connection with numerous cases of purse snatching. The eldest boy is only 13 years old. ...

    Article : 31 words
  53. PERSONAL.

    Nurse Crombie, who for the past three years has been on the staff of the Fremantle Public Hospital, is about to sever her connection with that institution, to take ...

    Article : 98 words
  54. THE LAW COURTS.

    In Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice McMillan, and Mr. Justice Rooth. ...

    Article : 20 words
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