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  2. SAILORS EXECUTED.

    Two French sailors were executed at the Toulon Rifle Range yesterday for having murdered a comrade at Ajaccio last January. The victim of the murder in the ...

    Article : 138 words
  3. STRIKE CHAOS.

    If the outlook in the shipping strike was serious yesterday, it is blacker still to-day. The vast bulk of the people generally are beginning to feel the direct ...

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  4. DREADFUL COLLISION.

    Two tragedies of the sea have occurred in the past 24 hours, and many lives have been lost. It is reported from Gibraltar that during ...

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  5. PLENTY OF BUILDINGS.

    No department of the public service is feeling the pressure of prosperity more than the works and building once. With an expanding revenue there has come an ...

    Article : 389 words
  6. THE VETO FIGHT.

    During the Veto debate in the House of Commons Mr. H. Bonar Law, one of the leaders in the Unionist ranks, expressed the view that if the Irish Loyalists would ...

    Article : 390 words
  7. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council.—Long debate on informal motion by Hon. A. W. Styles on question electoral irregularities. Vaccination Exemption and Lands Clauses Bills passed. Chief Secretary ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. ENCOURAGING RIFLE SHOOTING.

    On Thursday morning a deputation from the National Rifle Association waited upon the Premier (Hon. J. Verran) and asked that the Government should allow portion ...

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  9. WINDY WEATHER.

    Evidence of the close relationship between the conditions in the rural districts and the commercial activities in the metropolitan area has been provided during the ...

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  10. IN THE COUNCIL.

    One of the stormiest afternoons ever known in the history of the Legislative Council was experienced on Thursday, as the result of an ...

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  11. A SHIP SANK.

    A telegram from Rotterdam reports that the boiler of the steamer Gutenberg exploded, with the result that the ship sank. Two of the crew were killed outright, and ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. DOMINION NAVIES.

    The Secretary of the United States Navy (Mr. Meyer) is visiting England with a view to making investigations in the hope of being able to reduce the expenses of the ...

    Article : 206 words
  13. ANGLO-AMERICAN TREATY.

    A serious hitch in connection with the ratification of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty has arisen in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. A BARRIER PASTIME.

    The Barrier branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association took complete charge of Australia's affairs at its meeting on Tuesday night. The following were among the ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. STEEL CORPORATION.

    Mr. G. Perkins, a director of the United States Steel Corporation, is not to be committed for contempt of Congress, the Congressional Committee of Enquiry having ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. DR. MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.

    Government supplementary estimates have been laid upon the table of the House of Commons. They contain an amount of £252,000, set aside for the payment of ...

    Article : 155 words
  17. ARMY OF STRIKERS OVER 100,000 IN LONDON.

    It is estimated that there are over 100,000 strikers in London. The number is made up of the following:—20,000 dockers, 36,000 carmen. 7,000 lightermen and engineers ...

    Article : 58 words
  18. MOROCCAN CRISIS.

    In view of numerous and varied rumours, a semi-official announcement has been made that no opinion can be expressed whether a definite Franco-German agreement upon ...

    Article : 78 words
  19. SHEARERS' WAGES.

    The hearing of the claim by the Australian Workers' Union upon the Pastoralists' Federal Council and other respondents for a revised agreement regarding ...

    Article : 429 words
  20. CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE.

    The English solicitor who has been arrested at Bremen on a charge of espionage is Mr. Bertrand Stewart, a member of Mark by Stewart & Co., well-known solicitors ...

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  21. SHIPPING DISLOCATED.

    One hundred and fifty vessels, laden with meat, wheat, butter, and fruit are lying in the Thames awaiting discharge. A prominent salesman of the Smithfield Market ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND THE GOVERNMENT.

    Vorwarts, the leading Socialist journal, demands that the Reichstag shall be immediately summoned to consider Germany's policy in regard to Morocco. ...

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  23. THE POPE.

    The latest bulletin concerning the health of the Pope is that every one has been excluded from the chamber where His Holiness is lying, except his doctors and nurses. ...

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  24. THE CASE OF HOOLEY.

    Last month Ernest T. Hooley was punished for contempt of Court in not surrendering to a writ of attachment. He served the few days of imprisonment then ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. ROYAL MOTORIST.

    Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German Emperor, and an enthusiastic motorist, was motoring yesterday, when his car swerved to avoid collision with another ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. THOROUGHFARES PICKETED.

    All thoroughfares leading to the docks are picketed. Carmen picketing Goswell road unharnessed the vans of Pickfonds, Limited, & Patersons, and cut the harness. ...

    Article : 110 words
  27. DEATHS IN FRANCE.

    Since Sunday 27 cases of cholera, 12 of them proving fatal, have occurred in a lunatic asylum at Marseilles. Grave and wide-spread alarm has been occasioned by the ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. NEW HEBRIDES.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was visited to-day by Bishop Wilson. Mr. Hughes stated afterwards that the Bishop had called to make representation in ...

    Article : 177 words
  29. MILITARY TRAINING.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, the well-known Labour M.P., has published a cablegram, which he has received from the Anti-Militarists' Council at Christchurch, New Zealand, to ...

    Article : 73 words
  30. ANARCHISTS' PLOT.

    The bridge across the Hughli, which connects the suburb of Howran with Calcutta, and much of the congested shipping upon the river, have been subjected to great ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. BATON CHARGES.

    Owing to the strikers endeavouring to prevent his progress the driver of a van in the Minories fired a revolver, and slightly wounded a boy. The driver was ...

    Article : 148 words
  32. NINETY-NINE DEGREES IN THE SHADE.

    The shade temperature yesterday was [?] degrees. A mirage appeared on the Bois de Boulogne, and promenaders witnessed the unusual spectacle of a lake receding as ...

    Article : 37 words
  33. SOLICITOR'S CONDUCT.

    The Full Court to-day considered further the report made by the taxing master (Mr. M. M. Phillips) to the Court, impugning the conduce of Joseph Woolf, a ...

    Article : 270 words
  34. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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  35. BRITISH ARMY.

    Gen. Sir John D. P. French, who has been Inspector-General of the Forces since 1907, has been gazetted Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lieut.-Gen. Sir ...

    Article : 48 words
  36. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  37. BUTTER TAXES.

    A deputation representing the co-operative dairying companies of Queensland waited on the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Tolmle) this afternoon. Attention was ...

    Article : 143 words
  38. IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    The members for Alexandra constantly keep the question of the Murray waters problem before the House, and on Thursday Mr. Ritchie ascertained that the ...

    Article : 620 words
  39. CHANNEL SWIMMING.

    Taking advantage of the warm weather, Heaton, the English long-distance swimmer, emulated the attempt of J. Wolffe last month to swim the English Channel. He ...

    Article : 56 words
  40. SERIOUS SITUATION IN LIVERPOOL.

    The situation in Liverpool has assumed a threatening aspect. Pickets are preventing goods from leaving the docks and the railway depots, and the goods service of the ...

    Article : 123 words
  41. THE FEDERAL CABINET.

    Federal Ministers are likely to begin almost immediately on the arrival of Mr. Fisher the presessional sittings of the Cabinet. The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. ...

    Article : 100 words
  42. DOUBLE CENTURY.

    It will be a matter of grave loss if C. B. Fry cannot go out to Australia as a member of the English cricket eleven next month. He is at the top of his form, and ...

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  43. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

    Sun rises 7.1 a.m.; sets 5.40 p.m. Moon rises 6.45 p.m.; sets 7.58 a.m. Semaphore Tides.—Low water, 10.40 a.m.; high water 4.43 p.m. ...

    Article : 111 words
  44. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    In the House of Commons, in moving the second reading of the Finance Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George) stated that 800,000 properties had ...

    Article : 50 words
  45. LABOUR OFFICIAL'S STATEMENT

    Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labour member of the House of Commons for Derby), who is organizing secretary for the western district of the Amalgamated Society of ...

    Article : 179 words
  46. SPENCE MEMORIAL (REGISTER) FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 words
  47. AMERICAN CROPS.

    The drought and intense heat are seriously affecting the corn and wheat growing areas in the United States. According to a report issued by the Department of ...

    Article : 42 words
  48. A FATHER'S SACRIFICE.

    An interesting story of a father's sacrifice for his child is reported from Warrnambool. A few weeks ago Mona Young sustained extensive burns on various parts ...

    Article : 105 words
  49. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.

    Sir—Our [?] is accorded a considerable degree of prominence in your issue of Thursday in reference to an anonymous letter received by the late Trade ...

    Article : 114 words
  50. MINCHELIN CUP.

    M. Vedrines, the well-known French aviator, travelled on his aeroplane 808 kilometres yesterday, and won the Minchelin Cup. ...

    Article : 25 words
  51. Advertising

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  52. QUEENSLAND IMMIGRANTS.

    By the steamer Durham, which is expected on August 24, a further lot of 380 navvies will arrive for work on the Queensland railways. Another batch, totalling 700 ...

    Article : 49 words
  53. GREAT GERMAN LOCKOUT.

    About 22,000 metal workers have been locked out at Leipzig and several of the neighbouring Thuringian manufacturing towns. Anxiety is felt lest the trouble ...

    Article : 38 words
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