One man was killed and 18 others injured through a blasting accident at Brisbane on Friday afternoon, January 24. The accident occurred near the river bank at ...
Article : 584 wordsAn Australian author, Mr. E. J. Brady. who recently visited the islands to the north-west of Australia. to study the Asiatic problem, in an interview at Adelaide, made some pointed ...
Article : 653 wordsIn connection with the finds of radio-active ores in South Australia. Mr. Radeliff. who is [?] charge of the Radium Hill Company's works at Woolwich on the Parramatta River (near ...
Article : 372 wordsA serious accident occurred in the Golden Horseshoe mine at Kalgoorlie (W.A.) one evening last week. The night shift was going below at No. 2 shaft, when the clutch sprang out of ...
Article : 237 wordsAn interesting discovery of an ancient forest, which at one time was buried by the sea, has been made in the North Auckland district of New Zealand. ...
Article : 414 wordsAt the Mount Eden Goal (N.Z.). Edgar Lansing Huston, who was recently sentenced to four years' imprisonment was charged with attempting to escape. ...
Article : 631 wordsAccording to figures prepared by the Federal Census Bureau life in Tasmania is favorable to longevity. Taking the statistics for males during the deceanium 1901-10, it seems that a child ...
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Article : 8 wordsAt the funeral of Mr. Doran, aged 85, who was drowned, in Mallacoota Lakes, near the New South Wales border week, last a service was held at Mr. Doran's residence prior to the ...
Article : 84 wordsA conference convened by the Labor Federation (N.Z.) is attempting to consolidate the present divided forces of organised Labor in the Dominion. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe death sentence on Charles Bernard Roberts for the attempted murder of Sydney George Parkes, licensee of the Captain Cook Hotel. Sydney, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Premier of Queensland was entertained at luncheon by the Commonwealth Club in Adelaide last week. Mr. Denham said the policy of Australia should be to secure a large agrarian ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Victorian Government, according to its Minister for Works, intends to give £1,000000, and also to lend £1,000,000, repayable in 31½ years, for road construction. ...
Article : 31 wordsMiss Mary Holloway, of Hawthorn, Victoria, has been accepted by the Anglican Board of Missions an its first lady missionary to China. She will proceed after Easter next the diocese ...
Article : 44 wordsIn a report by Dr. Lebour. the Government medical officer at Noumea, he lays stress on the fact that in one district the percentage of leper[?] is nearly 2 per cent., and of this number 25 are ...
Article : 68 wordsA. strong protest against the Commonwealth Government framing regulations. In favor of fire branding of lambs and sheep for export was made to the Minister for Customs last week ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the Fiji Legislative Council a memorandum on the cultivation of jute was presented. It is proposed to import several backs of seed from India, and to plant small plots of each species ...
Article : 54 wordsThe effect of immigration on the returns of insanity was dealt with by Dr. Jones, Victorian Inspector-General of Insane, in a report which stated that the increase in the number of cases ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Henry Pretty, 73, one of the pioneer prospectors of the Barrier, died last week at Broken Hill, N.S. Wales. His name was associated with much of the early history of the Barrier ...
Article : 52 wordsMembers of the N.S. Wales Tuborculosis Board witnessed moving pictures, produced with the object of assisting in the fight against the white plague, last week. The president said that a ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Commonwealth Minister for Customs. Mr. Tudor, on behalf of the Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, has written to the Premier of Victoria. Mr. Watt. announcing that the Commonwealth ...
Article : 41 wordsA cable message received by the Commonwealth Naval Board states that 13 of the Australian seamen who went Home in H.M.S. Challenger have been detailed for special training in ...
Article : 64 wordsThree aboriginals, arrested recently on Fitxwaurice River, on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of two old Chinese at Howley, in November last, escaped from custody, at ...
Article : 62 words"The demand for land has never been as keen in New Zealand as it is bore in the north." remarked a deputationist to the Premier at Dargaville. The speaker added that gum lands in ...
Article : 48 wordsRepresentatives of the Melbourne Hospital medical staff have had an interview with the State Premier, and asked that authority should be given for the purchase of radium on behalf o[?] ...
Article : 62 wordsCaptain Maruo, a Japanese cavalry officer, was a passenger on the steamer Kuman Maru, which left Sydney for Yokohama last week. He took with him 15 thoroughbred horses for the ...
Article : 68 wordsOnly 12 members of the Federal Parliament and, up till last week responded to the invitation of the Minister for Home Affairs, to suggest a suitable name for the Federal capital. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Atua, which arrived in Sydney last week from the islands, reached Niuafou on January 12. The volcano on this island had subsided, but the white people ...
Article : 79 wordsA flerce whirlwind at Mudgee (N.S. Wales) frightened a horse attached to a sulky, in which a lady and child were seated. The animal bolted, but was stopped by a young man. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe gradual decrease in the native population of the Solomon Islands is a matter of some concern to planters in the Pacific .Dr. W. Thorold Qualie, medical officer to Lever's ...
Article : 77 wordsAttention is directed to the advt. of Stott's Correspondence College appearing in this issue. Those of our readers interested in self-improvement should lose no time in sending for a free ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Arthur Lloyd Windoor, editor of the Melbourne "Age" from 1872 till 1000, died at Brunswick (Vic.) last week, at the age of 77. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe first issue of the new Commonwealth Bank notes will be made towards the end of March. ...
Article : 21 wordsA farm for the training of orphan immigrants, organised by Rhodes scholars, has been started in Western Australia. ...
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Advertising : 234 wordsInvestigations recently completed prove that the water supply in the Federal territory is satisfactory. ...
Article : 17 wordsThere is a great scarcity of domestic servants 1. Broken Hill (N.S.W.). It is said that people are giving up housekeeping and adopting hotel life. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe railway carriages which were to have formed a mail one day last week from Wallangarra (N.S.W.) to Brisbano were burnt our. The damage is estimated at between £12,000 ...
Article : 35 wordsA station hand named Bushell was struck dead by lightning during a storm at Moogoon station (Q.). Two others were injured. ...
Article : 24 wordsAs the result of floods in Queensland, last week. two adjacent bridges were washed away, and a train which had just passed over one was isolated. ...
Article : 29 wordsMuch activity is at present being shown in the erection of the chain of wireless telegraphic stations around Australia. The Darwin station has been designed for defence purposes. Two ...
Article : 43 wordsAn accident occurred last week at a foundry at Orange (N.B.W.). a man's arm being drawn round a shafting and torn off at the elbow The injured man walked immediately to a doctor. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Vancouver mail steamer which arrived last week brought amongst her passengers I6 farmers and farm laborers for Victoria. ...
Article : 22 wordsParrot have made their appearance in un-usual numbers in and about the towns and farms on the Murrumbidgee (N.S.W.) this Summer. They are said to have appeared in ...
Article : 48 wordsA train from Bankstown to Sydney narrowly escaped being detailed last week through a sleeper lying across the rails. The driver noticed the obstacle in time. He promptly ...
Article : 38 wordsSome very interesting features have been revealed by the examination at the teeth of school children in Queensland. The teeth of aboriginal children were found to be in a better state of ...
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