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Is Swanston ' Jack the Bipper ?'
Was there more than one of them ?
-? More rain has fallen to the Eastward.
Things are now booming in Geraldton.
Toe new railway time table is now in
force.
What about 'Jack the Ripper's' crimes
at Gate .head?
Gold from Southern Cross coming in by
the hundredweight.
Jacoby's Bohemian Hall is a comfortable
and agreeable resort.
Much interesting cricket in Perth and
Fremantle this afternoon.
A blood-stained strap found in the Al
bany's cabi-i occupied by Swanston.
Yesterday tbe'new Police Act came into
operation. No more sweeps and lotteries.
Kuffell's description of 'Jack the Bipper '
corresponds closely with that of Swanston.
A magnificent supply «f fresh water
struck at BlackUourne's mine, Southern
Cross.
They were Bohemians, all who assembled
last evening under the Presidency of
Mr. Savage,
It lcoks as if another big financial crisis
were impending in England and her Indian
and Colonial possessions.
Mr. Savage wonld make an admir
able Chairman of the Savage Club, although
his manner belies his name.
Deeming is a wild beast and not s
human being, and a good many would
like the sport of hunting him.
The deata of poor young Daniels justifies
the recent strictures of the Daily News npon
the condition of our only Hospital.
The next criminal sessions will be the
heaviest on the records of this colony, and
will include, it is expected, four capital
charges.
There are 25 specially imported agrieul
tural labourers awaiting employment at
Fremantle. What have you to say to that,
Mr. ThrosseU ?
A man in a fit of delirium has made his
escape from the hospital. There have been
those who were in their sober senses who
have been glad to escape from it.
Members of our civic corporation are con
stituting themselves censores morum, or
guardians of the public morals. Quis cus
to&iet ipsos custodes ? Eh, Cr. Molloy ?
Mr. V. H. Jacoby's offorts to e-tablish
an Ambulance Association have proved
highly successful. Already there is a large
number of amateur surgeons in the City.
Deeming did not take Mr. Welter's ad
vice and beware of widows, though they
might well ljeware of him. And now, ap
Tom flood wonld say, ware be the widders ?
It is not indicative of musical or social
culture to sit in a prominent position and
giggle and sneer through a concert — yide
the conduct of some soi-disant musicians
in the Town Hall last Wednesday.
Three more murders alleged to have been
committed by Deeming. The ferocity of
the South African crimes points to the pos
sibility of bis having committed some of, if
not all, the Whitechapel murders.
Why do the detectives allow Swanston,
alias Williams, alias Deeming1, to wear
glasses in the Melbourne Police Court,
unless they are anxious that he should
further baffle his would-be identifiers ?
A comet has appeared. What does it
portend? What is it Shakespeare says
about comets ? ' When beggars die ther-»
are no comets seen ; the heavens them
selves blaze forth the death of princes.'
An extensive camel carrying business to
be established between York and Yifgarn
and Gerjldton and the Murchison by one
of the followers of tbe Prophet. Let us
hope that he will profit by the venture.
Sir William Robinson returns to Wes
tern Austral :a altno=t at onee. Ii is gen
erally known that Viscount Gormanstoa,
who was mentioned as likely to be appoint
ed as Governor of this colony ,:s a connection
of Sir William.
Three more swindles, one bigamy and
another alias charged agains1' Deeming.
People will begin to think that he is a per
sonification of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
and besides having a dual personality is
able to be in two or even more places at
one time.
An Englishman once boasted that he had
been mistaken for a member of the Royal
family. A Scotchman hearing this, replied
that he had been addressed as the Duke of
Argyll ; whereupon an Irishman said that
he had been taken for a far greater parson
than either, for as be was walking along
the street one day a friend came up to him
exclaiming, ' Holy Moses ! is that you ?'
Mr. Leeder's recently imported colt Se
bastopool has been scratckod for all engage
men s of the W.A.T.C. Autumn Meeting.
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