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Newspaper
Mackay Mercury
Location
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
5
London reports six more deaths in eastern American cities as news wires note an aero accident in San Jose California with an aviator killed. The brief dispatch reflects ongoing storm related fatalities and a separate aviation tragedy.
Lord Curzon criticizes W Brodrick's army reform plan prompting demand for full text of his speech. The Paris Matin reports suppression of bookmaking at French racecourses next September. Duke of Albany succession in Gotha marked by grand festivities as Prince Leo and Prince Alfred take ducal titles.
An Australian exclusive report quotes President Roosevelt discussing population trends and national gates. The piece references the Australian Alien Restrictions Act and concerns over declining birth rates while noting international reactions from London and St Petersburg.
In the House of Commons a Irish Land Commission measure spurred Redmond to move a cut in its costs. The division failed 199 to 196, Nationalists excited and Liberals cheering as Sir George Balfour responded. the Daily News calls for the Government’s resignation on appeal to the country. The Bloemfontein Congress favors responsible government for the Union.
A Congress Executive draft constitution proposes an Upper House elected by local franchises, a Zemstvos council, and a Lower House with four year terms. Police interrupted Zemstvos at Prince Dolgonronkoff’s palace. delegates countersigned a protocol asserting decrees override imperial ukase, while a plot to assassinate the Procurator-General and a bomb attack on the Deputy-Governor of Finland occurred.
The Full Court vacated a consent to judgment in the Chief Justice income tax appeal and will hear it afresh due to a misapprehension. Also in Brisbane the premier spoke of a land scheme to help unemployed artisans obtain land and earn a living from the soil.
A delegation of jobless citizens and several ministers met with the Premier and Treasurer to discuss relief ideas. The group presented multiple suggestions, but the overall plan was not yet deemed settled. The tone suggests cautious government deliberation on employment relief measures.
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