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  2. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

    An accident in which four men lost their lives and five others were seriously injured, happened on the trans-continental railway line, West Australian end ...

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  3. THE BURGLARY BOOM

    [?] Reimann, a young German, was at the Sydney police court on Tuesday committed for trial on charge of burg[?] entering and [?] from the ...

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  4. CONFLAGRATIONS

    In a two-loomed cottage in WEnthaggi, Victoria occupied by Mr. Lovell and family a fire occurred on Saturday night, and four children were burned to death. ...

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  5. BARRIER TRAGEDY

    The Broken Hill outrage is being closely inquired into by the commonwealth military authorities. The Minister for Defence stated on Monday that he had ...

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  6. THE CRIME CALENDAR

    Grant Hervey, a Victorian journalist, has ben committed for trial at next sitting of Sydney quarter sessions on a charge of attempting to export £200 from ...

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  7. MANY DROWNINGS

    Alexander Oag, a Scottish immigrant, who had been eighteen months in West Australia was drowned in the Canning River while attempting to save his son ...

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  9. A SOLDIER'S DEATH.

    On Saturday afternoon George Renton twenty-two years of age, a son of Mr. W. G. Renton, of Stockyard Creek, and a member of the Expeditionary Force, was ...

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  10. DEATH FROM BURNO.

    The Sydney Coroner held an inquiry on Tuesday into the cause of death of Annie Elizabeth Flegg, aged fifty-nine years. In evidence it was stated that she used ...

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  11. FELL UNDER A TRAIN.

    William Wilson, a furniture dealer, of Bathurst, was boarding a train at Gosford station at about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night. when he fell between the train and ...

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  12. SPURIOUS SOVEREIGNS.

    A man named John Parrington Salvage was charged at the Burwood (Sydney) police court with attempting to utter a counterfeit coin, purporting to be a ...

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  13. A WAREHOUSE FIRE.

    Fire and water damaged the contents of E. L. Brown's fronmongery warehouse in Liverpool-street, Sydney, on Monday night. The obnoxious fumes given off ...

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  14. SYDNEY TRAM SMASH.

    A tram travelling at a high rate of speed in St. Peter's, Sydney, unaccountably left the rails and crashed into an electric current-bearing standard, with ...

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  15. COUNTRY JEWEL ROBBERY.

    Thieves broke into the home of Mr. Hubert K. Brown at Tocumwal (N.S.W.) and stole Dunlup Rubber strip of the face value ot £400, and jewellery worth ...

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  16. TRAM CONDUCTOR DROWNED.

    John Joseph Cooney, tram conductor, was drownrd in the Nepean River at Wallacin, near Mulgon, on Tuesday. Deceased was twenty-two years of age, and ...

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  17. FIRES IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The dry weather has resulted in further serious fires breaking out, in Sax swamps in New Zealand. At Longbush, in the Wairarapa, the flat on 400 ceres ...

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  18. A SOLDIER COVICTED OF THEFT.

    At the Coburg (Vic.) court, William Scott, a private attached to the military forces of Broadmemdows camp, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on ...

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  19. A RAILWAY SHUNTER KILLED.

    John Ryan, about twenty-six years of age, a shunter, was killed by a train during shunting operations at Hornsby Junction, near Sydney, on Wednesday night. ...

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  20. BOY OROWNED IN BREAKFAST CREEK.

    John Hynes, used fourteen years, residing in Jonathan-street, Bonen Hills, was bathing with other lads in Break-fast Creek, Brisbane, on Saturday ...

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  21. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

    A man named Robert Reid was on Wednesday committed in Sydney for trial on a charge of assaulting and robbing George Robert Barton. The ...

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  22. DESTRUCTION AT WACCA.

    The opening days of the new year were characterised by a series of small fires at Wagga (N.S.W.). On New Year's morning an outbreak occurred in a ...

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  23. A WRIT FOR LIBEL.

    Mr. Louis Waxman, solicitor, of Melbourne, acting on behalf of the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Limited, has issued a writ against David Syme and ...

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  24. TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.

    Two brothers, John and James Ryan, were drowned at Texas (Q.), on Tuesday while attempting to swim across the river. One of the men was carried down in the district for some time: they hailed from the Armidalc district (N.S.W.). ...

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  25. FELL FROM A TRAM.

    Miss Lena Reecham, a resident of Kembla, on a visit to Newcastle (N.S.W.) was admitted to the local hospital with her right leg broken below the knee ...

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  26. UNION OFFICIAL ARRESTED.

    William Mackinnell, a trade union officer appeared at the Katoomba (N.S.W.) court on Monday, charged with having embezzled £74 13s. 11d. the moneys of ...

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  27. A CANCER KILLED.

    A report received by the Queensland Commissioner for Railways stated that Ganger Wilson had been found dead at Torbanlea Gate He had apparently been ...

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  28. ALLEGED GERMAN BURCLAR.

    At the Brisbane police court on Monday paul Frederick E[?] a young German farmer, was charged with having [?] and entered the dwelling house of ...

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  29. FOUND IN A DAM.

    After a scorch of two days, James Graham, lately employed on the railway works at Coolalie. near Yass (N.S.W.), was discovered dead in a dam of water ...

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  30. OLD MAN BURNED TO DEATH.

    A fire at Railway Town, broken Hill, on Friday night destroyed a two-roomed house in Nicholls-street, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James E. O'Toole. Mrs. ...

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  31. Accidents With Horses

    At a pony race meeting at Pleystowe, Mackay (Q) on Saturday afternoon, during the principal event Southport fell in negotiating a dangerous turn, and ...

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  33. A PETTY THIEF PUNISHED.

    A man named Walter Bell was on Monday fined £20, at the Paddington (Sydney) police court, with a four months alternative. for having stolen venetian and ...

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  34. WASHED OFF THE ROOKS.

    Miss Isabel Hossack, daughter of John Hossnck, of Coburg and Ernest William Neville, of Willis Road, Balwyn, were washed off a rock while fishing at Back ...

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  35. A SAWMILL DEMOLISHED.

    Shore's sawmills at South Arm. Bellingen were destroyed by fire early on Tuesday morning. The mill had not been working since July last. The ...

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  36. SYDNEY CHOPS ROBBED.

    About 5.27 on [?] morning Constable [?] hole in the [?] shop, in Pittstreet, Sydney [?] showed that ...

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  37. A MOTOR CAR DESTROYED.

    At Roma (Q) Mr. William Bassnt's motor car has been destroyed by fire. The owner had Just returned from a drive. And left, the car standing while the ...

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  38. A ROCKHAMPTON FATALITY.

    George Pedley, aged twenty-seven years, was with a small party of men in a motor boat excursion up the Fitroy River (Q) on Saturday morning. When the ...

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  39. THROWN FROM A HORSE.

    An inquest was held at Guyra (N.S.W.) regarding the death of Jonathan Elvins Wooster, who had been found dead on the load about half a mile from Cuvra ...

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  40. Suicide and Sudden Death

    Major Head, of the Salvation Army, In West Australia, died suddenly, while dining with another officer of the Army, Brigadier Winter, at Rottnest on ...

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  41. A DICHONEST NEWSECY.

    As a rule the newboys of Sydney are strictly honest in their dealings with their thousands of [?] but during the holidays one of them overstepped the ...

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  42. NEATH COLLIERY UNSEALED.

    The fact that the Neath Colliery was unsealed on Monday, and found to be recovered from the late fire will, to some event, relieve the labor marker at ...

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  43. A SURFER CARRIED OUT.

    A man named Richard Boland was drowned on Scarborough beach (N.S.W.) whilst surfing on Tuesday evening. A navvy working: on the deviation works and ...

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  44. KNOCKED DOWN BY A RUNAWAY.

    The Misses Drury and Tag were walking along Manning-street. Taree (N.S.W) when the were knocked down by a runaway horse. They had to be ...

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  45. SUICIDE OF A GROOM.

    Frederick Thomas, a groom, was found at Kyeamba, Wagga, lying on a bed with a rifle between his legs. There was a bullet wound through the month. ...

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  46. THE WEATHER.

    The N.S.W. Government meteorologist reports for the twenty-four hours ending Thursday. 9 a.m.: Light and scattered rains with thunderstorms have been ...

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  47. MISHAP AT GLADSTONE.

    On Friday night at Gladstone (Q.) two men from the steamer Cooma—William A. Fouracres a native of London, and a resident or Sydney, and William ...

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  48. A CHILD'S LEG AMPUTATED.

    A child named William David Chambers, fourteen months old, was playing on the load outside his parents home at Redfern, Sydney, when he was knocked ...

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  49. THE STOLEN £1 NOTES.

    Regarding the 2000 £1 notes stolen while in transit from the Treasury in Melbourne to Perth through the G.P.O. there has been no arrest made vet, and ...

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  50. MAN SUFFOCATED IN BED.

    A verdict of death from asphyxia by suffocation, accidentally caused by lying fate downward upon a pillow, was recorded by the Sydney Coroner on ...

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  51. DRAGGED BY THE STIRRUP.

    John Rowls, a stable boy, was riding a horse at the Ascot Racecourse, Sydney on Tuesday, when he was jolted from the saddle. His right foot caught in the ...

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  52. AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.

    George Elkins, who hod been living In a tent near Belford. Singleton (N.S.W.), was found dend with his throat cut. He had been engaged as a spawler on the ...

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  53. FORGED COMMONWEALTH NOTES.

    On Wednesday last the Commonwealth Treasury discovered that forged Commonwealth notes for 10s. were in circulation in Melbourne. The ...

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  54. A COACH CAPEIZED.

    The Canungra to Jimboomba coach was capsized near Mundoolun (Q) on Tuesday night. Of eleven passengers aboard five were injured two seriously. Tom ...

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  56. QUEENSLAND WEATHER.

    Further intense heat has been experienced in North Queensland. Harry Speakman, formery an international footabller, died from heat apoplexy at ...

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  57. PAINTER'S FATAL FALL.

    William Montgomery, a painter, was working on a building in Princes Street, Sydney, when he slipped off a ladder, and fell to the footway 40ft. below. He fell ...

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  58. SOLDIERS IN THE SURF.

    All exciting incident occurred on the beach at Newcastle (N.S.W.), on Wednesday morning, when five artillerymen from the forts went into the surf and all met ...

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  59. A SENSATIONAL-MISHAP.

    Police-superintendent Trenchard, accompanied by a constable was driving in a phacton near the Bathurst showground when the from axle snapped. The horse ...

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  60. PECULIAR FATALITY.

    A man named Blandford in North Sydney, was driving a nail into a detonator to act as a spindle for a toy windmill when it exploded, blowing two ...

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  61. RUN OVER DY MOTOR CAR.

    As the result of a [?] car accident in Inch-street, Lithgow (N.S.W.) a six-year-old box named Jack Bryce, residing with his parents in that street, was ...

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  62. A PREMATURE EXPLOSION.

    The premature explosion of a blasting charge at the Patuahi quarry, Gisborne (N.Z.) threw two men, Green and Bugden, down the face of the quarry, which ...

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  63. METEOROLOGIST'S FORECAST.

    The Commonwealth meteorologist's forecast, issued at noon yesterday, is as follows:—Queensland: Still sultry and unsettled ...

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  64. A FALSE ALARM.

    Mrs. Ernest Humphries, of Glebe, Sydney, was informed on Tuesday morning by her seven-year-old ion that his bro-brother Ernie had fallen into Rotelle Bay ...

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  65. SMALLPOX ON THE RUNIC.

    On the arrival in Melbourne of the steamer Runic from England, two cases of smallpox were discovered. One was a ship's barber and the other a ...

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  66. ALLEGED FORGERY.

    At the Adelaide police court Cecil Paine, a young man recently arrested in Sydney and taken back to Adelaide, was proceeded against on charges of forgery ...

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  67. A REVOLVER ACCIDENT.

    On Wednesday night, Harvey Hargrove, son of Constable Hargrave, of Figtree, Wollongong (N.S.W.) was removing a revolver from his hip trousers pocket ...

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  68. WASHED OFF HIS HORSE.

    A few days ago a young man named Coffee was the victim of a drowning accident at Maclean (Q.) He was washed from the back of his horse while ...

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  69. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

    Taking with him a service rifle, a bayonet, and a quantity of ball ammunition, James Oburn left his home in Atchison-street North Sydney, on Saturday, and ...

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