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  2. FRAUD AND THEFT

    Much interest is being taken in Bendigo (Vic.), in the case of the Chinese, Willie Tack Yow, who is charged with having failed to satisfy the police that [?] ...

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  4. THE WEEK'S FIRES

    At the Melbourne city court George T[?] aged nineteen years, a soldiers with the expeditionary force, was charged with having set fire to a dwelling house ...

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  5. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

    In[?] at the arrest of a comrade, a crowd of [?] handled Constable Gorton, of the No. 2 station, in most brutal fashion in Surry Hills, late on ...

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  6. MANY MISHAPS

    As a results of being separated from his friends at Greendale, about eighteen miles from Camden (N.S.W.), on Sunday, John M'Farlane, who lives in ...

    Article : 149 words
  7. SUDDEN DEATH

    Alfred Guest was bathing at the beach at Thirroul (Sydney), on Saturday with others, and had not been long in the water when he was caught in the ...

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  8. THE KING'S HIGHWAY

    A young man Eric Spencer Withnall, was accidently killed on Tuesday afternoon while working on his farm at Beral, on the Goombarra line. He ...

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  9. WEE WAA HOSPITAL DESTROYED.

    Wee Waa (N.S.W.) District Hospital was burnt to the ground on Saturday morning. The fire was first noticed shortly after 2 o'clock, and almost ...

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  10. A BOY BATHER DROWNED.

    A young lad, whose identity was not then established, was drowned while bathing in Hen and Chickens Bay. Sydney, on Saturday. The body had not ...

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  11. A TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE.

    Mrs. Marles, wife of Mr. Alf. Marles, shoeing smith, of Bunduberg (Q.), had a terrifying experience recently. She was in the act of lowering the sliprails ...

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  12. DEATH OF A CARRIER.

    The police at Hughenden report that Martin Mullins, aged fifty-eight years, left Prairie on Tuesday with a team for Glendower. The team was driven by an ...

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  13. A MAIL ROBBERY.

    A report has reached the Postmaster-General (Mr. Spence) that, on the arrival of the R.M.S. Moldavia at Adelaide on January 18, it was found that eight bags ...

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  14. A MELBOURNE DOMESTIC CRIME.

    A Tragedy occurred at Ascot Vale (Vic.) on Wednesday night, when Joseph E. Sweeney shot his wife, Margoret Sweeney, wounding her, and then shot himself. ...

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  15. AN OCTOGENARIAN'S DEATH.

    The body of Thomas Sotheran, eighty years of age, was found floating in Mulwarree River, Goulburn, after he had been missing for a day or two. It is ...

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  16. DROWNED IN THE DARLING.

    William Williams, the five-year-old ton of Mr. T. Williams, of Wentworth (N.S.W.), was drowned in the river on Wednesday. The boy and his sitter were ...

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  17. A MISSION PRIEST'S MIBHA[?].

    Father Jorgensen, who has conducted the Roman Catholic mission on Eyre's Peninsula (S.A.) for the past twenty years, fell on the altar steps of his church on ...

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  18. A TEAMSTER'S FALL.

    Fleet Henwood, an old resident of Bermagui, N.S.W., was starting from Wapengo for Bermagui, with a load [?] sleepers, when he fell, and the wheels of the ...

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  19. A COUNTRY STORE BURNT.

    Swarrah and Company's general store at Mungindi (N.S.W.) was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. During the past few years no fewer than six ...

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  20. THROWN FROM A CART.

    A five-year-old child named Adelaide Lucy Addiss was seated in a cart in Coward Street, Mascot, Sydney, [?] the return of her grandfather, with ...

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  21. DIED IN THE BATHS.

    Archibald Gardiner, a lad of seventeen, a railway porter, died in the ocean baths at Newcastle. He had been swimming and upon emerging from the water he ...

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  22. A SHUNTER CRUSHED.

    Rex Eltion, a young man engaged in shunting operations at Simpson's [?] Casino, N.S.W. was caught between the coupling of an engine and a ...

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  23. A SHEEP STEALING CHARGE

    A sensation has been caused in South Canterbury (N.Z.) by the prosecution of Robert Guthrie, a prominent Mackenne country runholder, on there charges of ...

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  24. SYDNEY FIRES.

    A fire occurred on Saturday at Glebe (Sydney) on the premises of Riley Bros. manufacturing confectioners. Three of the rooms were damaged by fire and ...

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  25. CHILDREN'S FATAL FREAK.

    A peculiar fatality recently occurred at Caroline Bay, Timaru (N.Z.). Two brothers, aged eight and six years respectively, endeavored to see which could hold his ...

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  26. LEANED OUT TOO FAR.

    Leaning out of a tram in Chalmers Street, Sydney, to say good-bye to a friend, Herbert Scott, a carter, struck his head on an iron stanchion, and had ...

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  27. DARING JEWELLERY ROBBERY.

    Burglars earned out a daring coup in Sydney early on Sundry morning and got away with £300 worth of diamond jewellery from Mr. William R. Show's ...

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  28. AN INFANTRYMAN INJURED.

    Mervien Cork, aged eighteen years, one of the infantry guard at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle (N.S.W.), after bathing in the ocean baths on Thursday, slipped on the ...

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  29. A CORPSE IN HYDE PARK.

    There is s[?] doubt as to the cause of the death of J. Steel, a tailor, sixty years of age, whose body was found by a constable in Hyde Park, Sydney. He left ...

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  30. A MOTOR CAR DESTROYED.

    A motor car belonging to Mrs. Fowler, of Sans Scou[?] (Sydney), was destroyed in a remarkable manner on Thursday. The car, which was a valuable one, worth ...

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  31. THE OTHER TRAM.

    Herbert George Hunichen, a blacksmith's striker, twenty-eight years of age, slighted on the wrong side from a tram near the railway station, Sydney, and was ...

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  32. AMAZING SHOOTING CASE.

    At extraordinary shooting case occurred in Ultimo, Sydney, on Friday afternoon, As a result of a revolver being used by, it is alleged, a boy sixteen years of ...

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  33. DANGEROUS SURF-[?]

    An instance of the dangers of surf-boards was furnished at Coogee, Sydney, on Saturday night. Mrs. M[?] Green, a woman of sixty, was bathing close in ...

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  34. DEFYING THE LAW.

    About 300 unemployed amonists at Broken Hill on Saturday removed the furniture for a tenant that had been served with a legal notice by an agent for the ...

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  35. A LONELY DEATH.

    The Sydney police have been unable to determine the identity of the woman whose remains, much decomposed, were found in Reid Park, Mosman, on January ...

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  36. COLLISION ON THE ROAD.

    A serious accident occurred on the Howlong Road, near Albury (N.S.W.), on Wednesday last. Cr.H. Bromfield was driving his motor car into Albury to ...

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  37. A PARKES BLAZE.

    A fire broke out at Parkes (N.S.W.) about 11.30 o'clock on Tuesday in portion of buildings known as Paddy's Market. It spread rapidly. Paddy's Market and ...

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  38. A BLASTING ACCIDENT.

    While blasting operations were being carried on in the vicinity of the Temye (Sydney) tramway depot on Friday morning, one of the charges caused a great ...

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  39. A DEAD BODY DISCOVERED.

    The body of a man, supposed to be named Newton, has bern discovered near the Cotter River, Queanbeyan (N.S.W.), Newton was missed from his residence ...

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  40. THREE ALBURY FIRES.

    A series of fires occurred last week in the Albury town and district. A large homestead owned by Mr. Lamb, at Dora Dora, on the Upper Murray, was destroyed, with ...

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  41. THE MARRENUP HORROR.

    At the Pinjarrah court (W.A.) on Thursday, Joseph Cutay, alias Sacheri, who was presented on a charge of having murdered Jean Bell, the twelve-year-old daughter ...

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  42. A STEPFATHER'S STATUS.

    An interesting legal point arose out of a summons case, heard before the Bathurst Police Magistrate. The plaintiff Rosina Mary Blackie was prosecuting ...

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  43. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    Kate Maddocks, need sixty years, on the night of the 9th inst., while crossing George-street, Sydney, stepped in front of a moving motor-car, and sustained ...

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  44. HIT BY A STRAY BULLET.

    John Simpson, a carter, living at Ultimo, Sydney, was shot in one leg by a stray bullet on Sunday, while walking along a street at Pyrmont. He was ...

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  45. A PEA-RIFLE FATALITY.

    A fatal shooting accident occurred at Tyalgum (N.S.W.) on Friday, when Victor Southwood, a lad aged fifteen years, went out with the intention of setting ...

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  46. A SPIDER'S BITE

    Little Louie Jeffies, the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Jeffes,of Lockrose (Q.), was bitten by a spider, the effects not yielding to home ...

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  47. THE BOGANTUNGAN ACCIDENT.

    The body of the man who was killed on the railway line near Bogantungan (Q.) on December 11, has been identified as that of Thomas Tierney, about fifty ...

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  48. EATING GREEN FRUIT.

    A lad named Brothetton, at Wolumia (N.S.W), affected by poison, belived to be caused by eating green fruit, remained unconscious for sixteen hours, but ...

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  49. A TROOPER'S MURDER.

    A remarkable feature at the coronial Inquiry into the death of Trooper Harris, set upon and murdered by larrikins at Port Cygnet (Tas.), on January 8 last ...

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  50. A TIMBER MILL DESTROYED.

    Early on Wednesday morning the British Australian Timber Company's mill at Coff's Harbor (N.S.W.) was destroyed by fire. The outbreak started near the ...

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  51. A MINER'S MISFORTUNE.

    James Walton, a wheeler, was admitted to the Newcastle hospital on Friday alternoon suffering with a fractured thigh. Walton was employed in the Glebe ...

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  52. AN ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED.

    On Thursday last George Henry Richard Bardsley, an engine-driver at Barakula State sawmills, Chinchilla, was found by two lads laying unconscious near the ...

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  53. MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.

    Alam Hamm was at the Ballarat (Vic.) East Court fined £l for having made a false declaration when signing a Commonwealth electoral card prior to the recent ...

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  54. LEAP-FROG AT SEA.

    Two nasty accidents occurred on the R.M.S. Niagara, which arrived at Sydney on Friday during her trip from Vancouver. ...

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  55. PROBABLY A LASCAR SEAMAN.

    No one has yet identified the man that was knocked down in Melbourne early on Saturday morning by a motor car containing Mr. Nankivell, a Melbourne man ...

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  56. A FIRE ON THE DOWNS.

    Late on Saturday night the residence of Mr. S H. Corby, Glencairn, in the Killarney Valley (Q.) was destroyed by fire. Mr. Corby was not at home at the time ...

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  57. SENTENCED FOR LIFE.

    John Walsh, a heavily-built laborer of fifty years, was charged at the Adelaide Criminal Sessions with having wounded Mary Kenrick, a wait[?] with intent to ...

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  58. A RAILWAY GUARD KILLED.

    Ronald Fagan, a guard in the employ of the Queensland Railway Department, was killed about noon on Friday at Normanby, near Brisbane. He was engaged ...

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  59. KICKED BY A HORSE.

    Harold Ward, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Ward, of Royal Farm, Goondiwindi, was kicked by a draught horse on horse on Saturday evening last, and ...

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  60. STREET BETTING IN SYDNEY.

    Albert Holdsworth, a laborer, of Surry Hills, was, at the Sydney Central Police Court, fined £100, in default nine months' hard labor, on a charge of having been ...

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  61. A STEAMER ON FIRE.

    A fire was discovered on board the &learner Loonganna early on Saturday morning, when that vessel was about sixty miles of the Tamar Heads, bout from ...

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  62. A N.S.W. GR[?] WILL.

    By the will of the late Thomas Gilmarti[?] grazier, of [?] near Forbes (N.S.W.), who died on November 13 last, testator appointed Laurence Gilmattin, former, of Avondale, near ...

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  63. A RAFT WASHED ASHO[?].

    A raft ten feet by six feel, with cross beams of Oregon pine, was washed ashore near The Bluff, South Island, N.Z., on Monday morning. It has been suggested ...

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  64. NED KELLY IN SYDNEY.

    A lad that went to the White City (Sydney) carnival as Ned Kelly, caused a sensation in Sydney streets when returning home. He was wearing tin armor ...

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  65. A BUSH TRAGEDY.

    A double tragedy is reported from Rongorea (N.Z.) Two old men, males and rabbiters, named Robert Paterson and Emanuel White, had been drinking ...

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  66. RAILWAY SMASH AT HARDEN.

    The ordinary express from Sydney fan into Louvre van standing on the main line at Harden station on Friday morning. The van was smashed, and two trucks ...

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  67. N.Z. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    A telegram from Taumarunui (N.Z.) states that an accident occurred on the Tariongamutu Timber Company's line to a train that runs from Taringgamutu to ...

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  68. THROWN AND KILLED.

    Mr. Joseph Head, an old resident of Pillipn (N.S.W.), and licensee of an hold there, died at the local hospital from injuries earned through a fall from ...

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  69. STRYCHNINE IN SUGAR.

    William George Parnell was charged at Lilydale (Vic.) court with having attempted to murder Ernest E. Hadfield to administering poison. ...

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  71. A SON CHARGED WITH PARRI[?]IDE.

    Albert Walker, aged twenty years, was charged with the murder of his father, aged fifty-three years, in Bendigo. It is alleged that the father struck the son ...

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  72. PROTECTING A BEATEN HORSE.

    Edward John was complimented by Mr. Burnett, S.M., at the Sydney Police Court on Wednesday for his manly conduct in endeavoring to prevent a young ...

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  73. A LUCKY MAN'S MONEY.

    A rictous mob got into holts outside the Cliff House Hotel, Bondi Beach, late on Thursday night, and during the brawl a roll of notes, totalling £113, which were ...

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  74. A SOOW TURNS TURTLE.

    A peculiar mishap occurred in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand, recently, when the scow Combine, which was loaded with about 100 tons of machinery ...

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  76. SHOOTING AT THE WRONG MAN.

    On Friday afternoon last two constables were searching for a man in Erskineville Park, Sydney. A man answering to the description of the suspect, ran ...

    Article : 65 words
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