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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 183 words
  3. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS SENT BY POST.

    An the Post Office permits human beings to he despatched by "express letters" two women advocated of woman suffrage, were delivered as "letters" by a telegraph messenger at the house ...

    Article : 167 words
  4. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    The nautical inquiry into the loss of the steamer Penguin was opened in New Zealand on Monday. The captain contended that he set a course that made him absolutely safe under normal conditions. ...

    Article : 727 words
  5. TRAGEDY IN THE CITY.

    A tragedy occurred in the Empire Hotel bar, at the comer of Pitt and Hunter streets, city, a few minutes before 6 o'clock on Friday evening, when a young man, said to be named Thomas ...

    Article : 495 words
  6. AMERICAN FLEET ARRIVES HOME

    The American Fleet anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on Monday, after an absence of one year two months and six days. Thirty thousand people welcomed the ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. THE CURE OF LEPROSY.

    At the Bombay Medical Congress on Tropical Diseases, Captain Williams, Residency Surgeon at Bushire, in the Persian Gulf, announced that as the result of eight months' treatment he had ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. SHARK ATTACKS FISHERMAN'S BOAT.

    About 9 o'clock on Thursday morning Michael de Lace, on old fisherman, was in his boat, just arriving at his fishing ground, hall-a-mile outside Long Bay Heads. A shark charged the boat, ...

    Article : 501 words
  9. THE EARTH'S OSCILLATIONS.

    Professor Heeker, of Potsdam, during observations extending over six years, measured the diurnal oscillations of the solid earth, which he declares are analogous to tides rising and falling ...

    Article : 66 words
  10. FAITH-HEALER AND BOY.

    At the Bendigo (Vic.) Court, Mrs. Amelia Murray, of South Yarra, was charged with obtaining £15 from John Hynes, by a false pretence. Charlotte Mary Hynes said her boy Jack, five ...

    Article : 465 words
  11. MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ART GALLERY.

    Visitors to the National Gallery, London, on Wednesday, were startled by a well-dressed man suddenly shooting and killing his woman companion and then committing suicide. The man ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. KRUGER'S GOLD STORY A MYTH

    The first full and complete story of the gold that was smuggled out of the Transvaal just before the Boer war has just come to light from the diary of Colonel ...

    Article : 545 words
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  14. LABOR AND POOR RELIEF.

    The minority report of the four Labor Members on the Poor Law Commission is attracting the attention of the Radical Press. The minority recommendations include ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. CHINAMAN STABS WOMAN.

    A stabbing affray occurred in Pacific-Street, Newcastle, on Monday. Shortly after 5 o'clock a Chairman named Ah Cow ran into the police station, and stated that ...

    Article : 287 words
  16. EXPLORING IN PAPUA.

    Mr. W. J. Little, a partner in the Mackay exploring party, which is working in Papua, interviewed at Thursday Island, stated that they had fairly good luck. Excepting one boy killed ...

    Article : 1,087 words
  17. FLOODS AND ICE IN GERMANY.

    Fifty thousand acres of country in the valleys of the Elbe and the Havel, North Germany, were inundated, and eighty towns and villages under water as the result of floods. Ice-breakers and ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. AGRARIAN CRIME IN IRELAND.

    Mr. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for freland, speaking in the House of Commons in reply to Mr. J. H. Lonsdale (Unionist), said there had been 576 agraian offences in Ireland during 1908, ...

    Article : 425 words
  19. QUEEN WEARS CULLINAN DIAMOND.

    King- Edward directed that the Cullinan diamond in the Imperial Crown should be detachable for the Queen's use on State occasions. Hence the Queen wore it on the opening of Parliament. ...

    Article : 37 words
  20. PENSIONS ESTIMATES NEARLY DOUBLED.

    A supplementary estimate laid on the table of the House of Commons adds £910,000 to the original estimate of £1,200,000 for old-age pensions for the first quarter of 1969 (the last quarter ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. CITY OF WHIST PLAYERS.

    "Are you going to revoke, sir ?" asked the lady in the reception office of the hotel. Then she blushed and corrected herself hastily. "I mean-er-that is to ...

    Article : 555 words
  22. LONDON'S TERRITORIAL QUOTA OBTAINED.

    Since the recruiting campaign started two weeks, ago, 11,000 men, the number required, have been added to the London Territorial Regiments. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. BROKEN HILL AFFAIRS.

    A mass meeting at Broken, Hill protested against Tom Mann and his colleagues being tried at Albury. It was contended that the change of venue was a slur on the honesty of Broken Hill jurors. ...

    Article : 214 words
  24. A JUDGE ON FALSE WOMEN.

    In the Melbourne Divorce Court on Friday, John Bunyan Flitton, aged 39, of Prahran, draper, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Ethel Flitton, aged 20, on the grounds of misconduct, ...

    Article : 245 words
  25. REPARATION AFTER 50 YEARS.

    Samuel Roebuck, a wire manufacturer, late of Brooklyn, and a reputed millionaire, left £500,000 to his daughter, Elizabeth Bird, the wife of a small baker in Northampton. Roebuck, ...

    Article : 47 words
  26. WARSHIP'S TREASURY LOOTED.

    Thee sum of £2500 in notes and gold was stolen from the treasury of H.M.S. Indomitable while the warship was anchored at Sheerness. ...

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  27. LONDON'S VIGOROUS EDUCATION POLICY.

    The London Education Committee propose to spend nearly £l,O0O,O0O during the ensuing 1b months on elementary and secondary schools. The London School Board had adopted the ...

    Article : 77 words
  28. THE DEATH-KNELL OF BIG ESTATES.

    The Premier (Mr. Wade), in opening the Tamworth Show on Wednesday, said the Government realised that if it wanted to have a country in the future that would be capable of securing more ...

    Article : 436 words
  29. THE SANTIAGO TRAGEDY.

    Reuter's correspondent, at Santiago, Chill, telegraphs that investigations into the death of a porter at the German Legation, and into the charge of misappropriation against the Chancellor, ...

    Article : 136 words
  30. FLOGGINGS FOR ASSAULT.

    In the Melbourne Criminal Court on Friday, Mr. Justice Cussen ordered two men to be flogged. Patrick M. Lynch had been found guilty of an assault upon a constable, occasioning actual bodily ...

    Article : 185 words
  31. SIX YEARS FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.

    William Hall Verinder, secretary of the Penge Building Society (Eng.) has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. His defalcations amounted to £20,000. ...

    Article : 31 words
  32. OVERWORKED OFFICIAL ACQUITTED OF LARCENY.

    At the Adelside Criminal Court, Pieter Gerardus Berahard was charged with the larceny of £16, the property of the Postmaster-General. According to the evidence for the prosecution defendant was ...

    Article : 254 words
  33. £21,000 FINE.

    The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld a line of £21,00O imposed on the New York Central Railway Company for granting rebates to the American Refining Company. ...

    Article : 49 words
  34. BOY IS A HUMAN STORAGE BATTERY.

    E. G. Alloy, a seven-year-old boy, of Russian parentage, born in America, and living in Houston, has been discovered to be a human storage battery of electricity, ...

    Article : 263 words
  35. TRAIN HURLED OVER CLIFF.

    A train at Riobamba, Ecuador, became derailed, and was hurled from a ciff 100ft. high. Twenty-five people were killed, and 40 others were injured. ...

    Article : 31 words
  36. MONSTER MURRAY COD.

    The village of Currawarna, about 22 miles from Wagga, has become famous for large codfish that have been taken from the Murrumbidgee River lately. A few weeks ago a fish weighing 871b ...

    Article : 112 words
  37. OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

    Lord Chelmsford will enter upon his duties as Governor of New South Wales early in June. The Acting Chief Justice will act as Deputy-Governor on the departure of Sir Harry Rawson on ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. DEATH OF SIR JOHN HAY.

    Sir John Hay, I.L.D., of Coolangatta, died at 2 p.m. on Friday, at Crow's Nest, North Sydney, from heart failure. Sir John Hay was born at Coolangatta, on the ...

    Article : 104 words
  39. SHIP ON FIRE.

    The steamer Presidents Roca, while running between Southern Argentina and Buenos Ayres, caught fire and sank. Forty people were drowned, and 360 saved. ...

    Article : 31 words
  40. NEW ZEALAND'S PROSPECTS.

    Mr. Harkness, chairman of the Wellington (New Zealand) Chamber of Commerce, in his annual address, said the revival in the price of wool the steady market for frozen meat, and the phenomenal ...

    Article : 118 words
  41. ARGENTINA AND AUSTRALIAN LIVE STOCK.

    The Argentine Republic has consented to permit the entry of Australian live stock, provided the Commonwealth gives certain assurances regarding the freedom of the stock from disease. ...

    Article : 33 words
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  43. JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC.

    Mr. Rato, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, interviewed in London, emphasised the excellent relations of Japan with all Powers and her honest love of peace. ...

    Article : 143 words
  44. NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS.

    H.M.S. Bellerophon, 18,000 tons, has been commissioned for service 20 months after her keel was laid at Portsmouth. Mrs McKenna, wife of the First Lord of ...

    Article : 89 words
  45. £10,000 LIBEL SUIT.

    Mr. Drysdale, formerly factor of the Dalmeny estate, is suing the Earl of Rosebery for £10,000 damages for alleged libel. ...

    Article : 25 words
  46. RINGLEADERS OF FORGERY GANG ARRESTED.

    Milan detectives have arrested four ringlcaders of a well-known International gang, operating chiefly in London and New York. Forged notes and cheques valued at many thousands of pounds ...

    Article : 42 words
  47. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    The French Press in utilising the German Emperor's telegram to Prince Radolin, German Ambassador at Paris, warmly thanking him for concluding with France the treaty regarding Morocco, ...

    Article : 93 words
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  49. FATAL DOMESTIC TIFF.

    A report was received by the Newcastle police on Tuesday that a man named Rennex, a miner, living at Back Creek, Miami, had been found dead in a room in house. It was stated ...

    Article : 115 words
  50. ATTACKED BY ALLIGATOR.

    The Chief Protector of Aboriginals has received a report concerning the experience of an aboriginal at Ayr. The report states that last week three, aboriginals were fishing in Klondyke Lagoon. One ...

    Article : 123 words
  51. OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST TEMPERANCE DRINKS.

    The authorities in England are determined that temperance drinks, at any rate, shall not be easy to obtain in London after 10 p.m., and a campaign of ...

    Article : 147 words
  52. SEDITION IN INDIA.

    There is much correspondence in recent English newspapers respecting disloyal Indian natives living and studying in Europe. A circular has just reached the Sikh Regiments at Lahore from ...

    Article : 78 words
  53. AUSTRALIAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY AND UTTERING.

    Duncan McIntyre [?] in the employ of Younghushared, [?] was remanded in the [?] charge of the forgery of a telegraps, by[?] ...

    Article : 87 words
  54. GUARD KILLED BY TRAIN.

    A railway accident happened at one o'clock on Wednesday morning at Oodla Wirra (S.A.), 15 miles from Peterburg, on the Broken Hill line. The guard, Schomburgh, aged 53, was run over ...

    Article : 91 words
  55. CLERGYMAN'S SUCCESS WITH DIVINING ROD.

    The Rev. Mr.Whitten, Methodist minister, of Marranders is greatly in demand owing to his success with the divining rod in finding water. Round Barelian and elsewhere has largely ...

    Article : 45 words
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