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  2. ADELAIDE'S SEAMY SIDE.

    Distinctly the most interesting feature of the annual meeting of the Lady Victoria Buxton Girls' Club on Wednesday were the personal notes giving an insight into the ...

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  3. MISSING BOAT.

    The prolonged absence of news concerning the fate of the missing boat of the wrecked steamer Fifeshire, in charge of the second officer (Mr. J. G. Caulfield), is ...

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  4. NOT YET OVER.

    The Prime Minister, in moving the adjournment of the House of Commons until the autumn session, beginning on October 24,; announced the personnel of the railway ...

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  5. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WEEK.

    The Adelaide Racing Club's Grand National Meeting is splendidly illystrated in this week's issue of The Observer. There is a good snap of the finish of the big ...

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  6. GONE ASHORE.

    A telegram from Monte Video, the capital of the South American Republic of uruguay, states that the barque Arethusa, 1,197 tons, Capt. Penicuik, which was ...

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  7. THE ENGLISH ELEVEN.

    Mr. P.F. Warner, who has been offered the captaincy of the English Eleven, to visit Australia this season, has written an interesting critical article upon the personnel ...

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  8. SONS OF THE VIKINGS.

    "Back to the land," is an oft-repeated and urgent cry, but now the call of "Back to the sea" is being heard almost as insistently. The huge fleets of merchantmen. ...

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  9. BULLETS AT DUBLIN.

    There have been severe outbreaks of rioting in Dublin. Business premises were attacked. The police who attempted to restore order were driven back momentarily ...

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  10. PLEASURE RESORTS.

    For many years, until quite recently, little was done by the State to make the pleasure resorts adjacent to the city—except the National Park—either accessible ...

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  11. THE ARETHUSA.

    The Arethusa has been rrefioated without having sustained any damage. English Bank is a very dangerous shoal in the approach to La Plata, in Argentina. It ...

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  12. GERMAN NAVY.

    Germany has 12 new submarine vesseled completed. Fourteen more are under construction, and it is stated that they will be fished by the end of next year. ...

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  13. COAL MEN CALLED OUT.

    Owing to the short Beatradera' attitude in rejecting the proposals to refer their difficulties to settlement by arbitration all workers in the coal trade connected with the ...

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  14. GRAVE DISTURBANCES.

    Grave disorders occurred on the northeastern railway system at Darlington and New Shildon yesterday. Mobs prevented the delivery of Roods which were being ...

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  15. WORLD-FAMED PAINTING.

    One of the world's most famous portrait paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's "La Joconde"—a painting upon a wooden panel—has been mysteriously stolen from the ...

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  16. SPEED MANIA.

    It is reported from the City of Elgin Illinois, that Ralph Ireland, an automobile, racer, was killed to-day while taking part in a contest, and speeding at the rate of ...

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  17. VETERAN OF THE MURRAY.

    "Just on 79, and without an ache or a pain." Those were the words of Capt. William Barber, the sole survivor of a sestet of masters who half a century ago ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. "BREACH WIDER THAN EVER."

    The North-Eastern Railway Company has invited applicants for permanent service. The men employed by that system who hare been on strike, regard this as a ...

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  19. AN ARMY OUT OF WORK.

    Out of 212,350 miners in Durham and Northumberland only 47,000 have been working since Friday. Owing to the strike 2,000 dockers are idle and the total ...

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  20. "CLOUDS LUTED."

    The Prime Minister said that clouds had lifted. Both Parties had agreed to an immediate investigation by an Imperial tribunal. The great point to-day was not to ...

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  21. SCAVENGERS AT WORK.

    The Liverpool transporters of every grade of service ore still idle, bat the scavengers have resumed work, seeing that the citizens were determined to keep ...

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  22. STRIKE OF QUAYMEN.

    Five hundred permanent quaymen on the wharfs at Tower Bridge have joined the labourers on strike at the wharfs. They are chiefly engaged in short sea trade. ...

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  23. PRESIDENT'S VETO.

    The special session of Congress, called to consider the Canadian reciprocity agreement and certain tariff questions, had ended. ...

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  24. SETTLEMENT AT MANCHESTER.

    Mr. G. R. askwith, K.C., of the Board of Trade, who is at manchester, has been successful in mediating in connection with the carters' trouble. He has announced ...

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  25. MORE STRIKES.

    Three thousand biscuitmakers have struck for increased wages, and there are several other minor strikes. ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.

    Mr. Percy Hunter (Director of the Immigration and Tourist Bureau of New South Wales), in the course of an interview on Australian immigration, states ...

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  27. JEWS AS LANDLORDS.

    The rioting at Tredegar, Ebbw Vale, and Rhymney was the culmination of long-standing grievances on the subject of alleged exorbitant house rents against the ...

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  28. WORK AT LIVERPOOL.

    The non-union tramway men in Liverpool largely outnumber the unionists who have struck. The non-unionists have not ceased work, but they threaten to do so if ...

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  29. CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

    The Hon. Clifford Sifton, K.C., who was Minister for the Interior in the Laurier Administration from 1896 to 1905, has taken the field against Canadian and ...

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  30. KEIR HARDIE'S VIOLENCE.

    Mr. Keir Hardie violently attacked the Government for its employment of troops during the crisis. The Chancellor of the ...

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  31. NORTH-EASTERN TROUBLE SETTLED.

    After a long conference at York between the men's executive officers and representatives of the railway company, the dispute in connection with the North-Eastern ...

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  32. THE COMMISSION.

    In the House of Lords yesterday the Minister for War (Viscount Haldane), in announcing the names of the commissioners appointed in connection with the ...

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  33. FROZEN TO DEATH.

    A telegram from Colorado Springs states thai two tourists, Mr. Skinner and bis wife, have been found frozen to death on the' summit of Pike's Peak, Colorado. The ...

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  34. FLYING MEN'S RISKS.

    Death has come upon men engaged the science of aerial night in a new lon not, aa usual, in the act of flying, but in preparation for it. ...

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  35. MIDLAND EMPLOYES.

    The Midland Railway Company will reinstate applicants for work at the old rates of pay. Sir William Granet(general manager of the company) has ordered that ...

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  36. CABLES IN BRIEF.

    The Premier of victoria (Mr. Murray) and the Agent-General (Sir Joh Taverney) are paying a visit to Ireland. There they have been the guests of the Earl of ...

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  37. Anti-Jewish Riots.

    Rioting was renewed at Ebbw Vale, in Monmouthshire, on a large scale yesterday. The Riot Act was again read, and the military, with fixed bayonets, succeeded in ...

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  38. EXPLOSION IN THE CONGO.

    A telegram from Matadi, a station in the Congo Free State, announces a terrible explosion on the Congo River. The German steamer Edea was unloading ...

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  39. TROOPS WHERE NECESSARY.

    In reply to questions in the House of Commons yesterday the Home Secretary (Mr. Churchill) said he had informed the Lord Mayor of Liverpool that it was not ...

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  40. DEATH OF SIR YELVERTON GORING.

    The death has occurred of Sir Harry Yelverton Goring, Bart., who had been associated with New Zealand. The deceased baronet, the eleventh of his line, was born ...

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  41. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer, (Mr. Llyod George) read to the House the published report of a speech in which Mr. Keir Hardie told thousands of assembled people ...

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  42. INSURANCES.

    Presumably connected with Stock Exchange dealings, some insurances to covet risk against the outbreak of war in Europe have been effected at Lloyd's at the rite. ...

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  43. NEW AUSTRALIAN STEAMER.

    There has been launched at Troon. in I Ayrshire, the steamer scoramba, to the order of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, of New South Wales. ...

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  44. THE LATE LORD CHARLES SCOTT.

    Admiral Lord Charles Scott, G.C.B., an ex-Commander-in-chief on tho Australian Station, who died yesterday at the age of 71, had been ailing for a long time, and ...

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  45. DROUGHT BROKEN.

    The extraordinary number of 145 rain less days has been registered in London so far this year, out of 234 days. The drought which to seriously threatened the ...

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  46. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The comer stone of the new Congregational Church, Hindmarsh square, Adelaide, was laid on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of between 200 and 300 persons. ...

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  47. LONDON, August 23.

    Sir John and Lady Quick and Rp. Fuller and Mrs. Fuller, of Australia, are touring in Ireland and Scotland. They will sail for Australia by the R.M.S. Orvieto. ...

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  48. THE SCULLING MATCH.

    The Sportsman strongly comments upon the fact that Ernest Harry, the English champion sculler, who is matched to row Fogwell, the Australian, on the Thames, has ...

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  49. TOLL OF THE ALPS

    There have been many Alpine "fatalities this season. Six persons have lost their lives through falla in the past few days. ...

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  50. ADJOURNMENT.

    The House adjourned till October 24. ...

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  51. ESPERANTO CONGRESS.

    A congress of 2,000 Esperantists is taking place at Antwerp. Among that number, practically from all parts of the world are 600 Britons. ...

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  52. EFFECT ON BUSINESS.

    Orders for enormous quantities of goods packed in Birmingham and other cities ready for shipment have been cancelled. Owing to the strike much business has been ...

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  53. FAMINE FEARED.

    Private advices indicate that the Indian monsoonal season has proved a failure in its expected relief of the famine conditions. Starvation now threatens a very large ...

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