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  2. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

    In the backblocks near Owhango (N.Z.) a woman was attacked by an unknown assailant while her husband was away. She was shot in the head and ...

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  3. FRAUD AND THEFT

    A robbery was carried out at Willoughby (Sydney) on Wednesday morning, when thieves broke into the home of Ah Quinn, in Forsyth-street, and stole £134 in money ...

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  4. FOREIGN CABLES

    A Petrograd message reports that the Committee of Ways and Means of the Duma has unanimously recommended the Government to declare a monopoly of ...

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  5. SUDDEN DEATHS

    Hurry Richard Phillips, a fur[?]man employed at Metiers, Limited, Alexandria (Sydney), met with an unusual accident at the works on January 21, which ...

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  6. Advertising

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  7. SOME LUCKY ESCAPES

    M. Marduel, the well-known French airman, and a male friend, had a miraculous escape from serious injury while bi-planing in Centennial Park, Sydney, on ...

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  8. MISDEMEANORS

    A case at the Darlinghurst (Sydney) sessions had a sudden termination. It was one in which Albert Edward Kingsley was charged with having, in ...

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  9. THE EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

    Badly damaged by the recent earthquake in Italy, the historic monastery of Monte Cassino, where St. Benedict, in 529, founded the religious order bearing his ...

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  10. DEATH OF A DROVER.

    On Monday, afternoon Thomas Cowling who was in charge of a mob of cattle from Grafton met his death while watering his cattle in the river near the ...

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  11. DARING THEFT FROM THE CUSTOMS.

    During last week three octaves of whisky, valued at £80, were stolen from No. 2 Customs Shed, Victoria Dock, Melbourne. They formed part of a ...

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  12. PERUVIAN EARTHQUAKE.

    A report from Lima states that an earthquake has occurred at Carhuas, in Peru. The detonations with which It was accompanied caused a panic, but up ...

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  13. ITALIAN'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    Early on Wednesday morning F. Clement, an old-age pensioner, an Italian, living in Granville, Sydney, died suddenly from heart failure. Clement was ...

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  14. HOTEL STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    During a thunderstorm Rodd's Hotel, at Figtree, Wollongong (N.S.W.), was struck by lightning. Mrs. Rodd and Mrs. Edwards were in the sitting-room ...

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  15. RAILWAY ROBBERIES.

    The measures taken by the N.S.W. Railway Department to put down the extensive thieving from the trucks at the various goods yards in and around ...

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  16. A FLOODED COAL MINE.

    Twenty-two men were drowned in consequence of the flooding of a coal mint at Wellington (Vancouver Island). Abandoned workings adjoining were full with ...

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  17. TABLECLOTHS AND SERVIETTES.

    Ada Battye was sent to gaol for fourteen days at the Sydney court, on Tuesday, on a charge of obtaining a number of articles at the shop of Farmer and ...

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  18. TRAGEDY AT DARLINGHURST.

    A shocking tragedy occurred yesterday morning in a small, two-storey house at Darlinghurst, Sydney. Hearing a commotion, Constable Quinn proceeded to ...

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  19. MANGLED BY A TRAIN.

    Joseph Cashin, a seaman, died in the Newcastle Hospital on Tuesday from the effects of injuries received at the Dyke. He had attempted to past between two ...

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  20. ANARCHY IN ALBANIA.

    In consequence of the intrigues of the Austrians and Young Turks, anarchy in Albania is daily becoming more serious. Bandits are robbing and Killing the ...

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  21. A LIGHTNING STROKE.

    During the storm at Quirindi (N.S.W.), on Tuesday, a large tree near D. Coward's residence, Hawker Street, was struck by lightning, and Miss, Coward ...

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  22. A JOCKEY'S LAST RIDE.

    Edward Hempson, a jockey employed by Mr. Isaac Foulsham, the Randwick trainer, who it at present in Melbourne wish the Newmarket Handicap favorite ...

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  23. A BABY SCALDED.

    A twelve-months' old child, Marjorie Stevens, living with her parents at Newtown (Sydney), was severely scalded on Tuesday morning, her legs and arms ...

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  24. FOOTPADS AT WORK.

    Two footpads waylaid Mr. John Hertgog, secretary of the Manchester Unity Lodge of Rockdale (Sydney), within a short distance of his home, on Tuesday ...

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  25. STRUCK WITH AN AXE.

    On Monday Sarah Bourne, a middle-aged woman, was removed in an unconscious condition from a bedroom at a coffee palace in Perth (W.A.): She and ...

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  26. RUSSO CHINESE TREATY.

    A Petrograd despatch says that the Foreign Minister is hopeful of being able to announce shortly that the signatures have been attached to a ...

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  27. A BOY'8 LEG BROKEN.

    Thomas Mackay, aged nine years, residing with his parents at Ultimo, while attempting to climb into a timber waggon, slipped, and his right leg went ...

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  28. A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.

    Mack Albert and Cyril Gregory were charged on Wednesday at the Sydney police court, with conspiring together to cheat and defraud Charley Sant, a ...

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  29. BRITISH STATESMAN'S DEATH.

    The death has occurred of the Marquis of Londonderry, at the age of 63 years. The deceased statesman entered the British Parliament in 1978, in the ...

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  30. COMMITS MURDER WHILE DRUNK.

    The south-west district of West Australia is becoming notorious for the frequency of murders, and another must be added to the list. A farmer named John ...

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  31. A GIRL'S SKULL FRACTURED.

    Linda Thomson, a tailoress, living in North Sydney, was seriously injured through falling from a tram on Tuesday morning. She got on to the tram ...

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  32. BROTHER SHOOTS SISTER.

    Elsie Jean Hodgson, aged five years, whose parents reside at Washpool (N.S.W.), was accidentally shot dead by her brother Vincent, aged fifteen years ...

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  33. TEACHING A TRADE.

    Walker Sanstrom, who was wearing a military uniform, was charged at the Melbourne court on Tuesday with having stolen £30 from Frank Viney in Sydney. ...

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  34. A WATCH SNATCHER.

    A pickpocket mo[?]d about in a crowd at the corner of Dowling and Oxford streets, Darlinghurst (Sydney), on Monday night, and snatched a gold watch ...

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  35. MT. LYELL ACCIDENT.

    A fatal accident occurred at Mount Lyell mine (Tas.), on Tuesday, resulting in the death of Ganger Patrick Sullivan. He was supervising the unloading of ...

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  36. RAILWAY LABORER INJURED.

    Alexander Morrison, a laborer on the Scarborough (N.S.W.) railway deviation works, was working on a bridge when he was struck by an iron girder, and ...

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  37. THE LAND OF ICE.

    A [?] under date November 30, has been received in London, from Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famous explorer, and trader of the British Antarctic expedition. ...

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  38. TWO GIRLS WAYLAID.

    Two sisters, Bertha and Vera Green, aged respectively twenty-four and seventeen years, were roughly assaulted by a footpad at Ryde (Sydney), on Friday ...

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  39. BOMB THROUGH THE POST.

    Joseph H. Shepherd, an auctioneer and dealer in second-hand furniture at Kurri Kurri (N.S.W.), reports having received a bomb through the local post-office on ...

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  40. THE BARRIER HORROR.

    Mr. J. Thomas, member for the Barrier, has made a formal application to the Minister for Defence for compensation to be paid to the relatives of the ...

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  41. GUN ACCIDENTS.

    A youth named Hamilton M'Combe, eighteen years old, a resident of Kilkivan, was getting through a fence on Friday, when a pen rifle he was carrying ...

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  42. ARM[?]ALE MOTOR FATALITY.

    The inquiry commenced on Friday at A[?]midale (N.S.W.) regarding the death of Mitchel Diore, who was injured in a motor accident between Uralla and ...

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  43. PASSING OF THE PIONEERS.

    BENNETT.—Mr. Joseph Bennett, who was well known in mining and racing circles throughout Australasia, died on Sunday at Newcastle. Mr. Bennett was associated with the Aucland Stud Company ...

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  44. STREET BETTING.

    A bookmaker has been fined £30 for street betting in Christchurch, N.Z. Referring to the police statement that the accused, Stewart Russell, had been ...

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  45. DANGEROUS CRIMINALS.

    Judge Wasley, at Melbourne, on Monday, sentenced Lenroy Walker and Edward Hugh Robertson to three years' hard labor for having assaulted and robbed ...

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  46. A SEAMAN'S SKULL FRACTURED.

    Charles Salmi, a seaman, was unloading on the steamer Haskings on Tuesday at a Sydney wharf, when a keg of beer fell on his head, fracturing his skull. ...

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  47. SOLDIER HARRIS' DEATH.

    Private Thomas Harris, of the Tropical Forces., who was found drowned in George's River (Sydney), on Thursday, had overstayed his leave, and missed the ...

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  48. CIVIL AMBULANCE AGAIN.

    Last Sunday while the Civil Ambulance was conveying a man to the Sydney hospital, the vehicle came into, collision with a motor cycle at the corner ...

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  49. SEETHING WITH MAGGOTS.

    John Wright, a butcher, of Croydon, Sydney, was proceeded against by Inspector Kench, for having failed to keep his shop clean as required by the N.S.W. ...

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  50. COAL ON RAILWAYS.

    A case of interest to railway employees was heard in the Bathurst police court, when William E. Barrett was charged with stealing a quantity of coal valued at ...

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  51. Conflagrations

    An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fire in Cunningham-street, Dalby, on January 12, when eleven shops were destroyed, was concluded last ...

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  52. A BOY SHOT ACCIDENTALLY.

    On Monday morning, while picking blackberries on the Bulli Mountain (N.S.W.), a boy named Angus M'Donald, was accidentally shot by another ...

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  53. A WELL SINKER KILLED.

    A well sinker named Edward Cerphey was killed at Marra station, Wilcannia (N.S.W.), on Tuesday. He was working at the bottom of a 250 feet shaft, when ...

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  54. BURIED UNDER LOGS.

    On Saturday a young man named William Woods was unloading logs with his father at Hood's sawmill, Parkes (N.S.W.), when one of the logs slipped ...

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  55. OUTBREAK AT TOOWOOMBA.

    On Saturday morning an outbreak of fire occurred at the residence of Mr. L. W. Groom, in Campbell-street, the Range, and destroyed the greater portion ...

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  56. MISSING WOMAN DROWNED.

    The body of Mrs. M. Robbins, who was missed from her home at Mittagong (N.S.W.) late on Sunday, was discovered by the police early on Monday ...

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  57. A PROWLING GERMAN.

    Waldemar Muller was recently found prowling about the railway yards at Granville. He had previously been warned not to approach the place. Inspector ...

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  58. N.Z. SHEEP STEALING CASE.

    The jury in Wellington (N.Z.) disagreed in the case of Robert Guthrie, the Mackenzie Country (South Canterbury) runholder, who is charged with ...

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  59. CASES OF SNAKE BITE.

    A three-year-old daughter of Thomas Storey, Mount Kiera, Wollongong (N.S.W.), was bitten on one hand by a snake on Sunday while standing near ...

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  60. A BOY'S BODY FOUND.

    The body of the boy James Brown, who left his companions at Aquarium Passage, Morcton Bay, on Saturday, to have a row in a dingy, was found in the ...

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  61. GOOMERI MILL DESTROYED.

    On Saturday morning Ross and Co.'s mill at Goomeri was completely destroyed by fire. The estimated damage is £5000. The total amount of insurance ...

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  62. FALSE PRETENCES.

    On Monday, Reginald B. Levien, ex-Victorian Agent in the East, appeared on remain, in Melbourne, to answer two charges of having obtained money by ...

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  63. BURNING-OFF REGULATIONS.

    The N.S.W. [?] Secretary notifies that owing to the conditions at present prevailing in Hume and Coreen shires, the regulations under the Careless Use ...

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  64. FIRES AT BROKEN HILL.

    A fire at Broken Hill on Friday night destroyed a five-roomed wood and iron house, owned by A. Considine and occupied by Wm. Lees. The house was ...

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  66. DRANK POISONOUS LINIMENT.

    Annie Webb, of Buckland Street. Sydney, accidentally drank a quantity of poisonous liniment on Monday night. She was conveyed to the hospital in a ...

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  67. A MYALL LAKE BLAZE.

    Mr. Asquith's house, at the river entrance, Myall Lake, Bullahdelah, has been destroyed by fire. The loss includes a motor car, a net, and some boats. The ...

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  68. DISREGARDED SIGNALS.

    Captain H. G. Shaw held a preliminary inquiry in Brisbane into the cause of the accident to the tail shaft of the steamer Karema. ...

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  69. ICE CREAM VICTIMS.

    On Friday last, at Petersburg, S.A., a large number of persons were taken ill after eating ice cream. Between sixty and seventy cases are under medical ...

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  70. SMALLPOX AMONG MINERS.

    A telegram from Kurri Kurri (N.S.W.) says: Smallpox in its most virulent form has broken out at Weston Eleven patients are reported, and there are over fifty contacts. The Board of Health is sending a special officer. The outbreak at Newcastle has been traced to the original patient at Weston, who lately ...

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  71. FIRE AT GERRINGONG.

    A house at Gerringong (N.S.W.), [?] property of Phoenix Wells, was burned to the ground on Monday morning. The building was insured. ...

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  72. BUSH FIRES AT RYLSTONE.

    Bush fires have been burning [?]rent parts of the Rylstone district. At Kilcoola a large strip of densely timbered country has been swept. One fire ...

    Article : 53 words
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