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  2. RIVER STEAMER ON FIRE.

    There was a narrow escape yesterday from a terrible disaster on the River Mississippi, in the United States. A river steamer, packed with 500 ...

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  3. A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

    A shocking tragedy was disclosed at Lismore yesterday, when a European woman, Mrs. Frahms, was found dead in the premises used by her as a ...

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  4. FIGHTING IN NIGERIA.

    The Southern Nigerian Frontier Forces, under the command of Major Bruce, have secured the surrender in dense bush of the chief Nzekwe and 200 ...

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  5. TURKEY AND GREECE.

    The Turkish boycott of Greek goods is arousing disquietude. The boycott includes the Bank of Athens and Turkish sho[?]s employing Greek assistants at ...

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  6. GREAT GOLD RUSH IN CANADA.

    Following up the statement made by the engineers of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co. that an enormous deposit of gold-bearing quartz had been ...

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  7. JEALOUSY AND MURDER.

    The sensational tragedy which occurred in April last at Gateshead, in County Durham, ended yesterday in Thomas Craig, the murderer of James ...

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  8. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor (Sir Harry Barron) accompanied by Captain Shaw, leaves Hobart to-day for Sheffeld. To-morrow he will open a new ...

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  9. BRITISH POLITICS.

    There are exciting scenes at the election now proceeding at East Dorset, where Captain F. Guest, the Liberal, was unseated last month for bribery ...

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  10. MILITARY POISONING CASE.

    A secret court-martial was held last month in Vienna, at the trial of Lieutenant Adolf Hofrichter, of the 14th Infantry Regiment, who was charged ...

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  11. DOCKERS'STRIKE.

    Last week 1,000 dockers at Avonmouth, in Gloucestershire, struck work in sympathy with the men already out at Newport. The warehousemen and ...

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  12. SHAW SAVILL CO.

    The directors of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Steamship Company have informed the holders of B £5 ordinary stock that they have received an offer ...

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  13. STEAMER ASHORE.

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

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  14. BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

    Nationalists in the province of Bengal are greatly disturbed because of the knighthood recently conferred on Mr. J. D. Rees, the Liberal member for ...

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  15. JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

    Two hundred correspondents of American newspapers are at Reno, in the State of Nevada, where the fight between Johnson and Jeffries takes place ...

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  16. DEFENDANT'S DIATRIBE.

    Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury the City Finance Co. Ltd. sued Mari[?] Napier Edwards for £556 10s. in the Supreme Court to-day. According to ...

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  17. ELECTIONS IN MEXICO.

    The Presidential election in Mexico has resulted in General D. Porfire[?] Diaz, who was first elected in 1876, and been dictator ever since, being again ...

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  18. FOREIGN RACING.

    The Grand Prix de Paris, of 300,000[?]. (12,000sovs.), second 1,200sovs., and third 6OOsovs, from stake, 1 mile 7 furlongs, was run at Paris to-day, with the ...

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  19. THE PORT OF HULL.

    Leading exporting firms in the port of Hull, in Yorkshire, have concluded arrangements with the members of the Shipping Conference for renewing the ...

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  20. RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

    The Czar of Russia will attend to-day the 200th anniversary of the capture of the port of Viborg, in Finland. Extra-ordinary precautions have been taken ...

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  21. AMERICAN COTTON MILLS.

    Recently the managers of seven cotton mills on the Falls River, in Massachusetts, notified that they would shut down on alternate weeks for an ...

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  22. ANARCHY IN ARGENTINA.

    General Escada has captured Libertad Prigalpa, which is a day's march from Managua. A bomb thrown in the Colon Theatre ...

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  23. BOOT TRADE APPEAL.

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

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  24. BOATING DISASTER IN SCOTLAND.

    Yesterday a number of Sunday-school excursionists went out in a boat on Turnberry Bay, on the West Coast of Ayrshire, in Scotland. The boat ...

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  25. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

    Sir W. Hall-Jones, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, in presiding at the Institute of Marine Engineers, stated that New Zealand's only trouble ...

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  26. GREAT BRITAIN'S SAFETY.

    The members of the Imperial Maritime League, which was founded for the maintenance of British Sea power, have forwarded to Mr. Asquith, the Prime ...

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  27. AVIATION.

    Colonel S. F. Cody, who was badly injured on Thursday at Aldershot through the collapse of his aeroplane, is progressing favourably. ...

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  28. EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS.

    At the gala now being held at Leeds, in Yorkshire, in aid of the funds of the Royal Lifeboat Institution, a premature explosion occurred yesterday among the ...

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  29. FRENCH SUBMARINE DISASTER

    On a further examination made of the French submarine Plaviose, which sank with all hands after collision with the passenger steamer Pas de Calais in ...

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  30. BARON ARRESTED.

    Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that yesterday Baron U[?]gernsternburg, who is correspondent of the semi-official Austro-Hungarian news ...

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  31. CORRUPTION IN PORTUGAL.

    A political crisis has occurred in Portugal owing to the resignation of the Ministry of Senhor Wenceslau de Lima. Senhor Texeira de Souza has formed ...

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  32. NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATION.

    In the course of an interview, the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) laid great stress on the importance of passing legislation this session: ...

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  33. BAGDAD RAILWAY.

    In connection with the construction of the Bagdad railway, a continenta[?] syndicate issued last week £4,312,000 worth of stock at the price of £86 10s. ...

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  34. DARING ROBBERY IN LONDON

    A daring robbery took place yesterday in London in broad daylight. The cashier of a printing establishment, who had been to a West End ...

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  35. PHIL MAY.

    Yesterday Mr. Edward Tennyson Reed, the parliamentary caricaturist for "Punch," in unveiling a tablet erected in Leeds to the memory of the ...

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  36. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Captain Scott, the leader of the expedition which has left in the Terra Nova for the South Polar regions, visited Buckingham Palace yesterday, and ...

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  37. A RUBBER SUBSTITUTE.

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

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  38. MAIL STEAMER MISSING.

    There is much anxiety in Bombay owing to the non-arrival of the Austrian-Lloyd mail steamer Trieste, 5,095 tons, which has not been spoken since ...

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  39. THE NAVAL BASES.

    In connection with the approaching visit of Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson to Australia, arrangements have been made by the Defence Department ...

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  40. RAILWAY DISASTER IN FRANCE.

    As the result of inquiry into the recent railway disaster at Ville Pre[?]x, to the westward of Versailles, in France, where an express train dashed ...

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  41. NOVEL CHURCH SERVICE.

    An innovation in church services took place at Lithgow yesterday, when those in the Methodist church were conducted by Mr. Enos Baker, society ...

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  42. WESTMINISTER CATHEDRAL.

    The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Ashley-place, Westminster, will be consecrated to-morrow, the pre-arranged date. The whole cost of the immense ...

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  43. GENERAL CABLES.

    An attack was made on Friday on the Russian Governor of Kharbin, in Manchuria. He was wounded. His assailant escaped. ...

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  44. EARTHQUAKE IN ALGERIA.

    An earthquake occurred yesterday at Anmal, in Algeria, and destroyed several houses. In the collapse of the buildings 14 natives perished. ...

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  45. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    A quintette of exceedingly youthful thieves have been arrested in connection with numerous cases of purses[?]atching. The eldest boy is only 13. ...

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  46. RIOTS IN PARIS.

    A serious outbreak occurred yesterday in Paris. Ten thousand, Trade Unionists attended the funeral of a cabinet-maker, who was recently killed ...

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  47. "GRAFT" IN CANADA.

    In connection with the "Graft" scandals reported as having taken place in the Government Printing Bureau in Ottawa, and which led to three officials ...

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  48. EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

    The senate of the National University of Ireland has decided that Irish shall be a compulsory subject for matriculation after the year 1913. This action is ...

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  49. A NEW LINER.

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

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  50. SETTLERS FOR VICTORIA.

    Mr. McKenzie, the Victorian Minister of Lands, and Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the Victorian Water Supply Commission, and who arrived in ...

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  51. OFFICER'S SUPPOSED SUICIDE.

    Captain Hugo Frank Henry was found dead yesterday in a garden at Bath, in the West of England. A revolver was beside him. He had ...

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  52. HEAT WAVE IN RUSSIA.

    For several days past the heat has been severe in South Russia, and it has withered the crops and damaged the meadows and orchards. ...

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