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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    At one of what is called "Pleasant Sunday Afternoons," in Melbourne, Mr. Judkins, the reformer, made sensational charges against Sir Samuel Gillot, Chief Secretary in the Bent ...

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  4. YOUNG MAN FATALLY STABBED

    On Wednesday the City Coroner inquired into the death of Sydney Edwin Bradford, aged 25, who was fatally subbed in Surry Hills on the night of December 3. ...

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  5. LAND CASES DROPPED.

    In the Legislative Assembly, on Thursday, the Premier gave notice of the following: motions:— "That, in pursuance of the resolution of the Legislative Assembly, passed on July 24, 1905, ...

    Article : 495 words
  6. COUPONS AND TRADING STAMPS.

    The Queen's Hall was crowded on Monday night on the occasion of a meeting of business people, held under the auspices of the Anti-Coupon League. The object was to devise ways and means to secure ...

    Article : 297 words
  7. A SOLICITOR'S CHARACTER.

    The Full Court (Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen, and Mr. Justice Pring) delivered its reserved judgment in the matter of the application of Thomas Edward Rofe for ...

    Article : 850 words
  8. LEGISLATIVE AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN AMERICA.

    In President Roosevelt's message at the opening of Congress he recommended that all corprations should be prohibited from contributing to the campaign express of candidates. ...

    Article : 569 words
  9. POISONED HERSELF WITH MATCHES.

    The death of Catherine Isabella Jamieson, which occurred on the 3rd instant at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, formed the subject of an inquest before the City Coroner. She was admitted to ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. ALLEGED CUSTOMS FRAUD.

    On the hearing of a charge of forgery preferred by the Customs Department against Frederick William Forwood, Customs agent, before the Port Adelaide Police Court, Mr. ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. GERMAN CREEK MURDERER.

    When the Legislative Assembly met on Friday, the adjournment of the House was moved by Mr. Thrower, to call attention to the determination of the Executive to carry out the death penalty ...

    Article : 402 words
  12. SPORTING LEAGUE.

    At a meeting in the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday night, presided over by Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, M.L.A., a Sporting League was formed. The following motions were carried:— ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. AMERICAN SHIPPING SUBSIDIES

    The consensus of opinion in Washington is that the Ship Subsidy Bill will pass Congress this session. Among other provisions the bill will give an additonal grant of £43,200 annually to the San ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. BOERS TO GET THE TRANSVAAL BACK.

    An anonymous correspondent signing himself "Liberal Imperialist," writes to the "Standard," stating that a representative Liberal plainly informed him that the concessions granted by the ...

    Article : 224 words
  15. "STARVING FRIENDLESS AND PENNILESS."

    The City Coroner investigated the circumstances surrounding the death of Hermann A. E. Nelson, 40, who was found in the bush some miles from Liverpool with his throat cut, and who died ...

    Article : 140 words
  16. GERMAN BARBARITIES IN THE COLONIES.

    Speaking in the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, leader of the Socialists, made a sensational speech. He declared that some officers in the Cameroons were guilty of unspeakable cruelties, which were let go ...

    Article : 230 words
  17. JAPANESE ARMY.

    The Tokio correspondent of the "Times" reports that Japan is contemplating changes enabling her to place an army of 750,000 men in the field (at present she can muster 640,701). ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. GIRL OUTRAGED BY BLACKFELLOW.

    On Thursday a girl, while riding along the Congarinni-road, Bowraville, North Coast, was pulled off her horse by a blackfellow, and outraged. All trace of her assailant has been lost, ...

    Article : 48 words
  19. PATTI'S FAREWELL.

    At the farewell concert given by Madame Adelina Patti in the Albert Hall, 9000 people were present. Several Royalties attended. Immense enthusiasm was displayd, and many people wept ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. FEDERAL OFFICERS MUST PAY INCOME TAX.

    The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in its reserved decision in the case of Webb versus Outtrim, ruled that officers of the Federal Government are liable for income tax, and the petition ...

    Article : 46 words
  21. A BIG SWINDLE.

    An Italian banker has been arrested in Paris for defrauding Prince Frederick Hohenlohe-Ochringen of £16,000 in connection with bogus shares in a Chinese syndicate. Other aristocrats ...

    Article : 32 words
  22. FOURTEEN YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

    William Sanday, a petty officer in the merchant marine was tried at the Assizes at Nottingham, England, on a charge of having killed Albert Smith cashier of Cook's Tourists' Bureau Branch, ...

    Article : 59 words
  23. VICTORIAN GAMBLING BILL

    The most important amendment made in the Legislative Council in the Gambling Bill was to allow the newspapers to publish odds available prior to the day of the race. The ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. RECORD BIG GUN SHOOTING.

    H.M.S. Drake, flagship of Rear-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, commanding the Second Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, in big gun tests at Aranci Bay, out of 133 shots fired from her ...

    Article : 49 words
  25. SHEEP KILLED BY SNAKE.

    Whilst a number of sheep were being driver across same land near the Orange cemetery, a large snake was discovered around the neck of one of them. The drover killed the snake, but ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. SOUTH HEAD LIGHT SEEN 70 MILES OFF.

    Captain M. Loumeau, of the French mail steamer Pacifique, stages that he saw the South Head light when 70 miles north of Sydney. ...

    Article : 31 words
  27. A CROWN FOR JUDKINS.

    At a fete organised by the Sandringham (Vic.) Total Abstinence Society, in obedience to signals, a large square card box was then handed up. Mr. Judkins looked at it in a confused manner. ...

    Article : 264 words
  28. KOPENICK SWINDLER GETS FOUR YEARS.

    Adolph Milner who, by pretending to be a captain in the German Army, induced a corporal's guard to arrest the Mayor of Kopenick, Bradenburg, and then decamped with the municipal ...

    Article : 66 words
  29. MOTHER'S HEROISM.

    At the cottage of Robert Hamilton, miner, in Campbell's Crescent, Redan (Vic.), Mrs. Hamilton was engaged in a front room when she saw smoke in a passage leading from the rear of the ...

    Article : 236 words
  30. MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

    At the Central Criminal Court William Worsley and Mary Ann Ryder were charged that they did on September 2, at Sydney, feloniously and maliciously murder Amy Devecke. ...

    Article : 183 words
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  32. TO GROW THEIR OWN COTTON.

    As the result of inquiries, the Lancashire and Manchester Cotton Spinners' Association is arranging to purchase 5000 acres in Louisiana and 5000 acres in Mississippi for the purpose of ...

    Article : 41 words
  33. MODESTY AND LIFE SAVING.

    At the inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Albert Hook, the oarsman who was drowned in the Yarra on Saturday, as reported in last issue, Robert Fawcett said that he saw the ...

    Article : 297 words
  34. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL RULE AUSTRALIA.

    The Rev. Father Francis, at the annual Communion breakfast of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, at Adelaide, on Sunday morning, said that the Catholic Church should be ...

    Article : 131 words
  35. RETURNED SOLDIERS' PAY.

    The New South Wales Legislative Assembly passed a vote of £20,000 for returned soldiers' pay. The Premier said that he hoped to be able to pay the amounts to the men before Christmas. ...

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  36. EDUCATION BILL PASSES LORDS

    In the House of Lords, the motion for the third reading of the Education Bill (materially amended) was carried by 105 votes to 28. The minority included all the Roman Catholic members of the ...

    Article : 52 words
  37. TOBACCO FACTORIES RAIDED.

    Three hundred masked men marched on Princeton, Kentucky (U.S.), and seized the police station and waterworks in order to prevent interference. ...

    Article : 58 words
  38. BOIS LE ROY OUTRAGE.

    The magisterial investigation concerning the attempted murder of Dr. Herbert by M. Cesbron at the latter's' villa near Fontainebleau, France, showed that Dr. Herbert had been throughout a ...

    Article : 48 words
  39. YOUNG GIRL POISONED.

    Mr. Robert Roden, residing; three miles from Wee Waa, mixed some arsenic with water for the purpose of poisoning birds, which are destroying his wheat, lie went to get some wheat to ...

    Article : 106 words
  40. SOUTH AFRICA TRIUMPHANT AT FOOTBALL.

    The South African football team defeated Wales at Swansea by 11 points to nil. South Africa scored two tries in the first half and a goal in the second. Fifty thousand people were present. ...

    Article : 41 words
  41. CARNEGIE AN ANTI-BRITISHER.

    Mr. Andrew Carnegie, speaking at the St. Andrew's Day banquet, in New York, said he rejoiced that Scotland had ceased to be a recruiting ground for the British army. Young men in ...

    Article : 90 words
  42. SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION,

    Dr. Jameson, Premier of Cape Colony, who has returned from England, states that the Cape has invited Lord Selborne, the High Commissioner for South Africa, to convene a conference to discuss ...

    Article : 39 words
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