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  2. EARTHQUAKE AT QUEENSTOWN.

    A sharp and severe earth shock passed right through the town to-night at 9 minutes to 8 o'clock, and created no small confusion. ...

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  3. PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    The Conference met in camera to-day, and got rid of the greater part of the subjects on the long agenda-paper by the very rough process of throwing them ...

    Article : 557 words
  4. MURDER IN THE SOUDAN.

    Mr. Scott-Moncrieff, a deputy inspector of police in the Blue Nile district, has been assassinated at Messalamie, a town 102 miles south-east of ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. THE GERMAN SCANDALS.

    A judicial committee has visited the castle of Prince Philipp Eulenburg at Liebenberg, and examined the Prince relative to the contradictions between ...

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  6. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    As an outcome of the resolution passed at a recent meeting of the City Council, with regard to the loitering of youths and girls in the public streets, special ...

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  7. THE WESTERN ROUTE.

    The stone from the gold discovery made by Mr. J. L. Moore, while engaged in track-cutting operations on the Great Western survey line this year, was ...

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  8. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE.

    The British outposts at Landi Kotal, on the Indian frontier, are being fired upon by tribesmen in British territory that have rebelled. ...

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  9. LOYALTY OF THE AFRIDIS.

    The unprecedented abstention of the Afridis, despite the great pressure exerted to induce them to take sides against the British, is the most ...

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  10. SHOCK AT ZEEHAN.

    A sharp shock of earthquake occurred at 10 minutes to 8 to-night, apparently travelling from north to south. Buildings shook and windows ...

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  11. SUNSHINE RAILWAY DISASTER.

    At 9 o'clock this morning a crowd of 50 persons gathered at the City Morgue. The business of the majority was to give formal evidence of ...

    Article : 366 words
  12. FIRE IN SYDNEY.

    A large warehouse situated in Clarence and Kent streets, and occupied by Messrs. W. W. Campbell and Co., Ltd., furniture warehousemen, was the scene ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. THE BENGAL OUTRAGE.

    Mrs. Kennedy, the wife of a barrister, who was injured in a bomb explosion at Muzaffurpur, Bengal, on Thursday, in which two persons were ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. A DRY SEASON.

    Settlers on the East Coast are being seriously troubled by a drought which has existed in that locality for some time past. The last month or two are said to ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. EXCITEMENT AT SIMLA.

    The military movements are severely censured at Simla. Many officers have departed for duty. The actual orders for operations are secret, thus ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. THE ALLANDALE MURDER.

    The adjourned inquest concerning the murder of the young woman, Lilian Bridge, at Allandale, on the night of April 14, was resumed at West ...

    Article : 401 words
  17. ANGLICAN SYNOD.

    This evening, a diocesan meeting was held in St. John's hall, under the presidency of Bishop Mercer. There was a large attendance. ...

    Article : 297 words
  18. A VERNACULAR PRESS.

    One of the Mazaffurpur assassins states that he was induced to commit the crime consequent upon a study of the vernacular press and the lectures ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. PERSONAL.

    The Prime Minister, after his speech at the Premiers Conference last week, left Melbourne for Point Lonsdale, where his wife is slowly recovering from ...

    Article : 666 words
  20. WESTBURY.

    Writing on Saturday, our Westbury correspondent says:—"A splendid shower of rain fell last night, but only sufficient to moisten the surface of the ground, and ...

    Article : 322 words
  21. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    Sir John Brunner, Liberal member in the House of Commons for Northwick, addressed a meeting of his constituents on Saturday evening, and in the course ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. ZEEHAN SMELTERS.

    Hon. J. W. Evans and Hon.D. C. Urquhart had another meeting to-day with Mr. Schmidt, the representative of the Tasmanian Smelting Co. The latter ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. LAWN TENNIS.

    A. F. Wilding, of New Zealand, and M. J. S. Ritchie, of England, have won the tennis covered courts doubles championship. They defeated A. W. ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. A TRAIN ROBBED.

    An, express train was "held up" on Saturday by a hand of masked robbers near Pittsburg, in the United States. A sum of £16,000 was being ...

    Article : 63 words
  25. MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT.

    At the invitation of Lady Lewis, a large number of ladies assembled at Werndee, Augusta-road, yesterday, to meet Miss Elsie Nicol, and listen to an ...

    Article : 390 words
  26. NOXIOUS TRADES AREA QUESTION.

    The question of recommending to the Government a site for proclamation as a noxious trades area, again came before the City Council to-day. The City Health ...

    Article : 386 words
  27. COPPINGTON.

    Rain would be very welcome. The ground is unusually dry for the time of year. Possibly when it does start, it will mean the breaking down of the weather ...

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  28. A TRAIN DESTROYED BY DYNAMITE.

    A train was destroyed by an explosion of dynamite near Butte City, Montana, on Saturday. Several persons were killed, and a ...

    Article : 47 words
  29. PERSIAN FINANCIAL TROUBLES

    The Persian Cabinet, being unablo to pay their officials and the soldiers the amounts in arrear, have resigned. The Azerbaijan province, which was ...

    Article : 51 words
  30. AVOCA.

    Although a few showers tell this morning, they have only laid the dust and enlivened the grass, and we are very much in need of a heavy fall. The crops ...

    Article : 158 words
  31. THE SHIPBUILDING TROUBLE.

    Six thousand shipbuilding employees in the Clyde works have been locked out. It is estimated that the stoppages in other trades consequent upon the ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. WRECK OF THE SWANHILDA

    The four-masted Swedish barque Swanhilda, 2,150 tons, has been wrecked off Buenos Ayres. Only one member of the crew was ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. THE PEARLING DISASTER.

    A telegram relating to the north-west pearling disaster was received by the commissioner of Police from Broome to-day. "Constable Mills reports the total ...

    Article : 103 words
  34. CANON NASHS RETURN.

    Canon Nash returned to Melbourne to-day from London. He would add nothing to Mr. G. S. Faulkner's statement that the charges against him had been ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. GENERAL CABLES.

    The statement of accounts of the New South Wales Land and Mortgage Company shows a profit of £29,496 on the year's operations. £2,500 have been ...

    Article : 143 words
  36. HOURS OF SHOP ASSISTANTS.

    The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. H. Gladstone) has intimated that the Government will introduce legislation in 1909 dealing ...

    Article : 74 words
  37. SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE.

    At the adjourned annual meeting of the local brunch of the Royal Society of St. George, which was held to-night, Mr. J. B. Waldron was elected president; Mr. ...

    Article : 83 words
  38. A.M.P. DIRECTORATE.

    The scrutiny of votes in connection with the election of three directors for the A.M.P. Society concluded to-day, with the following result:—R. J. Black, ...

    Article : 47 words
  39. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    Richard Millhouse and John Waterman were admitted to the Queenstown Hospital to-day, suffering from axeWounds, sustained while woo — chopping ...

    Article : 33 words
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