The Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers by the earthquake in Italy has reached £l25,000. LONDON, January 31. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe United States House of Representatives has added $500,000 (about £100,000) to the appropriation for the army for the purposes of aeronautical ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe shareholders of the Waihi Gold-mining Company, New Zealand, have resolved to increase the capital of the company by £100,000 and to issue ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Social Democrats at Hanover held a demonstration in favour of the extension of the Prussian suffrage. The police fired on the crowd and wounded twenty-five of ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe Frozen Meat Trade Association and the Local Government Board will shortly issue fresh regulations with reject to kidneys, sweetbr[?], and other offal. ...
Article : 80 wordsM. L[?]pukhin, formerly chief of the Russian detective service, and a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Russia, has been arrested in ...
Article : 315 wordsA volunteer organisation is being formed in London to secure the revocation of foreign patents unless they are adequately worked in Britain. ...
Article : 34 words"The Times" calculates that the British Admiralty ought to begin the construction of six armoured battleships before the end of 1909 and six more before ...
Article : 28 wordsThe second republic of Cuba has been inaugurated with General Gomez as President. Mr. C E. Magoon, the Provisional ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the London "Standard" mentions that the "Neue Freie Presse," a daily newspaper published in Vienna, has published the ...
Article : 105 wordsTwenty-four natives have been rescued from the Witwatersrand Deep mine, Johannesburg, in the Transvaal. They had been entombed since the 22nd instant and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe commission appointed by the President of the United States (Colonel T. Roosevelt) is intended, inter alia, to searchingly inquire into certain so-called ...
Article : 265 wordsThe German newspaper "Hamburger Nach[?]" states that the Royal Holland Steamship Company will start in July a direct line of steamers to Western ...
Article : 49 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" states that Lord Rayleigh, who is sixty-seven years of age, is seriously ill at Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal. ...
Article : 36 wordsImproved reports have been received from the shipbuilding yards of the Tyne and Clyde with regard to the shipbuilding trade ...
Article : 25 wordsAll earthquake and landslide has occurred between Centa and Tetuan, eighteen miles to the south of Tetuan, Morocco on the northern coast of Africa. One ...
Article : 40 wordsThe manager and five directors of the Mutual Bank of Glasgow, which suspended payment on the 19th of November last, have been arrested on charges of ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is officially stated at Pekin that the Health of the Emperor, who was reported to be suffering from confluent smallpox, gives no cause for anxiety. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe correspondent of "The Times" at Pekin states that since the death of the Dowager Empress the Government of China has been in the hands of ...
Article : 70 wordsAn anonymous play entitled "An Englishman's Home," which deals with the unpreparedness of England for war, is being produced at Wyndham's Theatre, London. ...
Article : 82 wordsThree Hindu students at Kolhapur have each been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for having stolen explosives for the purpose of making bombs. ...
Article : 113 wordsH[?]r Adolf Stein has published a life of the German Emperor. The book is apparently inspired. He states that the German Foreign Office, and not the Emperor. ...
Article : 148 wordsA heavy fog has prevailed in London for the last two days. Traffic in London was dislocated. The train services were also seriously delayed. Many highway ...
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Article : 51 wordsOwing to the revolts the S[?]h of Russia despatched a repressive expedition commanded by three generals to the provinces of Osalem and Karganerud. The ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Sultan of Obbin has defeated the Somali Mullah, whose raids recently on the tribes friendly to Britain in Somaliland have necessitated the strengthening of the ...
Article : 40 wordsA bill has been introduced by the Prime Minister of Canada (the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier) to make drastic amendments in the Immigration Act. It is ...
Article : 82 wordsMadame Melba, who visited Italy to give a concern for the benefit of the sufferers by the earthquake, has left Naples. She is looking forward to her Australian tour ...
Article : 85 wordsThe South London Railway from Victoria station to London Bridge has been successfully electrified by Dawson's single p[?] system alternating with the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe report of the directors of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand for the year ended the 31st of December last shows a profit of ...
Article : 26 wordsA fleet of flower boats at Canton has been burnt. Up till the present 170 charred bodies have been recovered and many more people are missing. It is ...
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Article : 83 wordsN[?]vri Bey, who ws appointed to succeed A[?]mond Mou[?]tar Pacha as Turkish High Commissioner in Egypt, has resigned. ...
Article : 27 wordsWriters connected with the Sinn Fein movement warn the bishops against interference with national issues. They also declare that the bishops will terminate ...
Article : 51 wordsMichael Arthur Ba[?], first Baron Barton, died yesterday, after an operation [?] an internal complaint. [Lord Burton was a director of Ba[?] and ...
Article : 244 wordsThe [?] issued by the Corporation of Dunedin, New Zealand, to the amount of [?]206,000, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent, at a minimum price of [?]100 ...
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The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 - 1929), Sat 6 Feb 1909, Page 21
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