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  2. POLICE OFFENCES

    The cake in which Gordon Charles Webber, M.L.A., defended a claim for £249 for slander, was concluded before Mr. Justice Moule and a jury in the ...

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  3. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

    The Government steamer Belama, which arrived in Sydney from the Solomon group on Friday, brought news of a tragedy that occurred in the island ...

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  4. FRAUD AND THEFT

    In December last year, the chief steward of the steamer Allinga, Frank James Dalton, made the acquaintance of two men, who induced him to invest £300 in ...

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  5. MASTER AND MAN

    An interesting case has come under the notice of the Victorian Minister of Labor (Sir Alexander Peacock) of the evasion of section 226 of the Factories ...

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  6. FOREIGN CABLES

    The Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, California was formally opened on Saturday. President Wilson dispatched a wireless ...

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  8. SUDDEN DEATHS

    At Boonah (Q.) a few days ago a young man named James Kerwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kerwin, of Heatherside. Coochin, Boonah, was killed while ...

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  9. THE WEATHER.

    New South Wales was on Friday and Saturday last visited by a series of thunder storms of tropical character, that, while conferring benefits by the ...

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  10. BUSH AND TOWN FIRES

    A disastrous fire broke out in High Street, Bowraville (N.S.W.), on Wednesday night, when five shops were destroyed. The fire was first discovered in ...

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  11. A THIEF IN THE POST OFFICE.

    At the Inverell (N.S.W.) Quarter Sessions, Reginald Claude Preston, aged nineteen years, was sentenced by Judge Hamilton to fifteen months' ...

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  12. TWO GIRLS ASSAULTED.

    At the Ryde (Sydney) police court, Edward Hill was charged with having assaulted Bertha and Vera Green with intent to rob them, as reported in these ...

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  13. BOTH LEGS CRUSHED.

    Timothy Parker, a cordial manufacturer's carter, died in the South Sydney Hospital on Friday night, as the result of injuries received through being run ...

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  14. A SHIRE COUNCIL SUED.

    Rose Henness, of Bulli, sued the Bulli Shire Council before the Wollongong (N.S.W.)., District Court on Thursday, for £400 damages, in respect of damage ...

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  15. LABOR IN BRITAIN.

    The South Wales Miners' Federation in England will give three months' notice on April 1 to terminate the wages agreement. This is in consonance with the ...

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  16. CARPENTER AND EMPLOYER.

    In a recent case in a Sydney industrial court, a carpenter was fined 5/- and costs for failing to ask for his fares from the suburb in which he lived to the other ...

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  17. A VERDICT FOR £200.

    In December last, in the Banco Court, before the N.S.W. Chief Justice (Sir William Cullen) and a jury of four, John Vincent Andrews, carrier, of Nambucca ...

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  18. A SUSPICIOUS PLANT.

    The Sydney police raided a house in Woolloomooloo on Thursday and arrested four men. They charged the men with vagrancy, pending inquiries ...

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  19. A SAILOR'S DEATH.

    A Norwegian seaman, Theo Gulbrandson, was walking across King Street, Sydney, with a bottle containing carbolic acid in his top coat pocket, when a cab ...

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  20. POST-OFFICE IN FLAMES.

    The post-office at Upper Orara (N.S.W.) and the store and dwelling-house occupied by Mr. H. Burling, were burned down on Friday morning. ...

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  21. HAY PLANT DESTROYED.

    Fire broke out in a chaff-cutting plant working at Lake Midgeon Station, Narrandera (N.S.W.), on Thursday, while the men were away from camp buying ...

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  22. A FATAL BLOW.

    After lying in a stable for several hours with a fractured skull Arthur Bruce Williams, a driver, twenty-three years of age, walked to his parents' home, in ...

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  23. ILLEGAL AGENTS' CHARGES.

    Thomas Long and William Wild, who were convicted of falsely pretending to taxpayers that they were authorised by the Taxation Department to fill up ...

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  24. IN THE MURRUMBIDGEE.

    Herbert Edwin Dobney, aged twenty-one years, son of Alderman Thomas Dobney, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga on Wednesday last. ...

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  25. FALLS WHERE GREATLY NEEDED.

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  26. A NON-UNION GIRL.

    On Wednesday last at Charleville (Q.) a strike occurred among die women workers at an hotel. The unionists objected to work with one non-union girl ...

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  27. "SWEAR NOT AT ALL."

    When called us a witness in a stealing case in Sydney police court, a resident of Kent-street refused to he sworn on the Hible, and the police magistrate asked ...

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  28. A WOLLONGONG COTTAGE.

    An outbreak of fire occurred on Friday morning in a weatherboard cottage occupied by Mrs. Jenkins, of Garden Hill, Wollongong. The building and contents ...

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  29. BRITISH RAILWAY WORKERS.

    The British railway workers' agreement made since the war, owing if to me high cost of living, gives an increase of 3s. weekly to employees whose wage is ...

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  30. DEATH FROM TETANUS.

    Alfred Ernest Summon, a tanner, died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, on Friday from tetanus. Medical evidence at the inquiry showed that ...

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  31. A COUNTERFEIT COIN.

    At the Wollongong (N.S.W.) Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, Richard Dennis and Fredrick Barlow pleaded not guilty to offering and uttering a counterfeit coin ...

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  32. THE MEN THAT LOAF.

    Mr. Smithers, stipendiary magistrate, of Sydney, considers that the unemployment problem can be grappled with, and in this connection he took the ...

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  33. CHALLENGING JURORS.

    At the Sydney Quarter Sessions, Mr. H. E. M'Intosh was defending a prisoner who happened to be a foreigner, and he asked judge Backhouse if he might be ...

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  34. OUTBREAK AT A FARM.

    A fire at Mr. S. Rubie's farm, Garra, near Molong, destroyed twenty-five tons of hay, nine tons of chaff, a large new shed, und part of a chaff-cutting plant. ...

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  35. LOST AT AYRSHIRE DOWNS.

    On Wednesday of last week James Ryan, an employee on Ayrshire Downs station, in the Winton district, lost his bearings while looking for horses. A ...

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  36. MAD ATTACK ON A WOMAN.

    About 10 o'clock on Friday night a man knocked at the door of a house in Paddington, Sydney, where Mrs. Jaeschke rives, and without any preliminaries, it ...

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  37. WALLSEND COTTAGE CONSUMED.

    A four-roomed cottage, with contents, owned and occupied by Mr. Alfred Reichart, at West Wallsend (N.S.W.), was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The ...

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  38. BURGLARS' CHAMPAGNE TREAT.

    Burglars entertained themselves on Saturday night at the expense of Fredrick Bishop, North Sydney. They broke into his pantry, and after drinking three ...

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  39. ANOTHER MOTOR VESSEL.

    Australian ports are to be visited by a run her motor ship similar to the Annam, which recently attracted such attention on account of the fact that she possessed no funnels. ...

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  40. A DESPATCH RIDER'S FATAL FALL.

    An unfortunate accident occurred at St. Peters (Sydney) on Sunday morning, when T. Carter, a member of the Expeditionary Force, was thrown from his ...

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  41. QUEENSLAND RAINFALL.

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  42. HARD-WORKING THIEVES.

    Patiently working for about two hours on Saturday night early on Sunday morning, thieves removed about twenty bricks from the back wall of Norman ...

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  43. A LAUNCH DESTROYED.

    The motor launch Thisbe, 33ft. long, owned by Mr. A. E. Davis, of Hendra, near Brisbane, was burnt to the water's edge on Friday. It is ...

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  44. FATAL BUSH FIRES.

    Tasmania is enduring the driest season for thirty-six years, and bush fires are raging in many districts. A great number of settlers have been burnt out, ...

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  45. THE RIMUTAKA SAFE.

    The fire on the New Zealand liner Rimutaka has been extinguished. Messages to the offices in London state that the crew is safe, but give no cause for ...

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  46. A FIGHT AMONG SAILORS.

    Shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday night a light between sailors took place in the [?] of the Boat-towers' Hotel, at North Stockton, Newcastle. About ...

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  47. "NO MORAL GUILT."

    At the Sydney Quarter Sessions, Ellen Dunleavy pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. On April 27, 1993, she married Anthony Dunleavy, and on May 13, 1911. ...

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  48. THE DUNGAY ACCIDENT.

    Mr. Robert Howe a well-known dairy fanner at Dungay, Tweed River, who was severely injured in a driving accident about three weeks ago, died on Saturday. ...

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  49. A JUDGE ON PERJURY.

    When sentencing two young men at Inverell (N.S.W.), who had been convicted of perjury in an a[?]liation case both having sworn that they were not in ...

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  50. Misadventures

    Five occupants of motor-car that left Sydney on Saturday morning had a sensational experience when nearing Denison bridge, about a mile from Bathurst. ...

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  51. A MAN'S NECK BROKEN.

    Mr. Marin. a resident of Seven Hills (N.S.W.), was walking along the railway line between Wentworthville and Toongabbie on Saturday night with two ...

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  52. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

    A cablegram from Berlin says: Professor Goldstein has issued a glowing tribute to the reception accorded the visiting members of the British Association for ...

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  53. RAILWAY THIEVING.

    Concerning the pilfering at Darling Harbor, Sydney, railway goods yard and the system of espionage established by the authorities, the general secretary ...

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  54. A SAVAGE PRISONER.

    Constable Limbrey Hooper had a painful experience on Saturday evening in Oxford-street, Sydney, the particulars of which were referred to at the Central ...

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  55. AN AVALANCHE IN ITALY.

    An avalanche near Mesoo, in the commune of Tenda, Italy, buried a hutful of workmen. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. ...

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  56. KILLED AT THE STEEL WORKS.

    [?] stone, a rigger at the steel works at Pott Waratah (N.S.W.), died at the Newcastle Hospital on Saturday from the effects of injuries ...

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  57. GENERAL KEKEWICH'S ESTATE.

    The estate of the late Major-General Kekewich the defender of Kimberley during the South African war, has been valued for probate purposes at £23,743. ...

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  58. METEOROLOGIST'S FORECAST.

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  59. SUSPICIOUS OUTBREAKS.

    An inquiry was held last week into the outbreaks of fire in the premises occupied by Robert Leemon, in Kincaid Street, Wagga (N.S.W.). The first outbreak ...

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  60. BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED.

    John Cavanough, eleven years old, was killed by a fall from a bullock dray laden with pit props at Neath (N.S.W.) on Friday last. One of the props fell on him, ...

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  61. MISHANDLING A REVOLVER.

    While examining a revolver on the verandah at his residence, Bexley (Sydney), on Saturday night, George William Doerge narrowly escaped being shot, ...

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  63. N.S.W. STATE TRAWLERS.

    The three trawlers built to the order of the New South Wales Government have sailed from Hull to Sydney. They will go by the Cape route. ...

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  64. A STATION HAND'S DEATH.

    Wylie Crouch, aged twenty years, died in the Mitchell (Q.) hospital on Wednesday as a result of an accident at Woomblebank station. He was drafting at a ...

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  65. PASSING OF THE PIONEERS.

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  66. CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Charles Harvey was arrested at Feilding (N.Z.) on a charge of having murdered Wong Way Ching at Wellington on September 12 of last year. Deceased ...

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  68. A SAN FRANCISCO ROBBERY.

    The Inspector-General of Police in Sydney (Mr. Mitchell) has received word from the Chief of police at San Francisco that on the night of December 31 ...

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  69. A CHILD'S SHOCKING DEATH.

    The infant son of Mr. Syd. Flood, of Narrandera, walked into some live ashes on Wednesday, so severely burning his feet that he died from shock the following ...

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  70. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    A man named Faull, employed at the Orange sewerage works, had a narrow escape from lightning on Friday afternoon. The local story is that the current struck ...

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  71. A SHIRE CLERK'S SUICIDE.

    A verdict of suicide was returned at the inquest yesterday morning Sydney, concerning the death of Stephen Middleton Hill Trickett, shire clerk at ...

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  72. A PIONEER SQUATTER.

    At Gisborne (Vic.) on Monday the unveiling of a stone cairn and tablet to the memory of Henry Howey, pioneer squatter of Victoria, and first while man to ...

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  73. ROPE AND CORDAGE INDUSTRY.

    A deputation representing the Rope and Cordage Employees' Society in Melbourne, waited upon the Minister for Customs, and requested him to consider ...

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  74. DANGEROUS SLEEP WALKING.

    Henry Stoltenberg, a Narrabri farmer, while asleep, fell twenty feet from a window to the yard, at the Great Southern Hotel, Sydney, on Saturday morning. ...

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  75. BIG INTERSTATE ESTATES.

    The late John Russell, of Albion Park, Wollongong (N.S.W.), died intestate, and the properties will all be submitted at auction. The value of the estate is estimated at nearly £100,000. ...

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  76. A HOTELKEEPER'S FORTUNE.

    Mr. Myer Rintel, late of Victoria Hotel, Geelong (Vic.), licensed [?], who died on December 8, left £44,890 11s. 2d. is [?] ...

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  77. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

    On Tuesday last a youth named Sidney Knight was the victim of a shocking accident at Gympie. A plug of dynamite, which he was in the act of throwing into ...

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  81. LICHTING WOLLONGONG.

    After a prolonged discussion in committee on Thursday night the Wollongong (N.S.W.) council decided to invite tenders for the bulk supply of electricity ...

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