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  2. NEWS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS.

    Eleven persons were killed and forty injured in an accident to a crowded passenger train which crashed into a light engine near Rathe Station, between ...

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  3. CURRENT SPORT

    A good attendance was noted at the Canterbury Park (Sydney) laces on Saturday afternoon Inst., whore the admission fee, with the addition of the new ...

    Article : 286 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 90 words
  5. MISADVENTURES

    A railway fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon at Tascott near Gosford (N.S.W.), Mrs. Alice Branscombe being run over by a passing train. With her ...

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  6. FIELD OF POLITICS

    The Commonwealth political situation is still obscure, although recent events point to the possibility of matters assuming a definite course in the near future. ...

    Article : 442 words
  7. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

    An explosion that occurred in Mosman (Sydney), at about two o'clock, on Saturday morning, caused considerable damage to a house owned mid occupied by ...

    Article : 211 words
  8. FLOODS DISASTER

    The Hood waters in Central Queensland are gradually subsiding and with renewed means of communication with the deluged districts, brief particulars are being ...

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  9. Conflagrations

    Messrs. Ellis and Burnand's large timber yards and factories, covering eight acres, at Hamilton (N.Z.), were destroyed by fire last week. Huge stocks of dry ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. A LUNATIC ASYLUM BURNED.

    Forty-six women were burned to death in the destruction of a female lunatic asylum at St. Ferdinand (Megantic County), Canada. The fire occurred on ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. DEATH FROM BURNS,

    Mrs. Susanah Williams, of Richmond (N.S.W.), accidentally set fire to a mosquito net on Friday night last. In her excitement the aged woman, who had ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. FIRE AT CLARENCE TOWN.

    Early on Wednesday morning a fire broke out in Dark's general store, Clarence Town (N.S.W.), As there was no fire brigade in the town, all attempts to ...

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  13. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    A motor accident occurred on Saturday morning at Newtown (Sydney) resulting in the death of a little girl, Christina Higgins, nine years of age, and serious ...

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  14. COLLISION AT SEA.

    The French armored cruiser Ernest Renan collided with an Italian steamer at sea, cutting it in two. One hundred and fifteen passenger were picked up, but ...

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  15. WOMAN BRUTALLY ASSAULTED.

    At the Carcoar (N.S.W.) Police court on Saturday Herbert O'Brien, a swag man, was charged with having criminally assaulted assaulted a women at Mandurama, N.S.W. ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. ASPENDALE PARK RACES.

    Fine weather prevailed for the Aspendale Park (Vic.) races on Saturday afternoon last and there was a big attendance, The betting public had a ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. A COTTAGE DESTROYED.

    Owing to the upsetting of a kerosene lamp, a bouse in Maryborough (Q.) was completely gutted. Although the fire brigade was on the scene promptly, the ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. German Dyes Trust.

    The American dye-makers' periodical publishes a report that a new organisation has been formed in Berlin, in reality a vast trust, capitalised at 100,000,000 dollars ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. THE CALENDAR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 words
  20. SUIT CASE CAUSES DEATH.

    On January 3 Mrs. Krause, aged fifty six years, was lifting a suit case to the top of a wardrobe, when it slipped and struck her on the head. Later in the day ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. A MAN SHOT AT GRANVILLE.

    A man named Thomas Martin was shot in the right lung at Granville, Sydney, on Saturday night. He was removed to the Parramatta hospital, where he told the ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. FIRES IN THE CROPS.

    On Saturday morning a bush fire broke but on the boundary of the lachgower and Carranubitte Stations, about thirty miles from Forbes (N.S.W,) and fanned by a favorable wind, spread with ...

    Article : 307 words
  23. CAPTURED BY "BUSHRANGER."

    Willie Non, a former resident of Bendigo (Vic), has been captured by bush rangers in China and held to ransom for a large sum of money. He was a ...

    Article : 66 words
  24. A WHARF LABORER KILLED.

    Harry Anderson was working as a wharf laborer on a steamer lying at Tyser's Wharf, Sydney, on Thursday, when he fell a distance of 20ft. down the ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 words
  26. FOOTPADS IN SYDNEY.

    On Saturday night John Schofield, of Aracliffe (Sydney), was waylaid at Surry Hills by two men and robbed of a watch and chain worth £6. The thieves puffed ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. A NEW GERMAN DISEASE.

    A new disease is reported to be prev[?] in Hamburg, Germany. It is akin to cancer and is believed to have been caused, and the naw war foods. ...

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  28. A CHILD FATALLY SCALDED.

    Earnest Thomas, aged five years, who resided with his parents at Fairymead near Bundaberg (Q.), was palying about the house last week, when he tripped and ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. ALBION PARK RACES.

    The attendance at the Albion Park (Brisbane) races on Saturday afternoon last was a large out, and as fine weather prevailed, an enjoyable outing resulted. ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    At a meeting held in Sydney on Sunday last under the auspices of the Anti-conscription League, the following motion was carried: "That it is desirable that it ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. N.S.W. RIVER REPORTS,

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 words
  32. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT KYOCLE.

    In answer to an urgent cuff from Horseshoe Creek, the police from Kyogle (N.S.W.) went out and discovered a boy with his throat cut. He was ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. THROWN FROM HIS HORSE.

    Mr. Charles Phemister, an old resident of the Upper Clarence (N.S.W.), was found near the Washpool unconscious from a fractured skull, supposed to have ...

    Article : 48 words
  34. IN THE CAUSE OF CHARITY.

    Miss Shanks Sehaw has bequeatca £311,000 to Glasgow hospitals, including £100,000 to the Royal Infirmary. ...

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  35. OIL FUEL FOR MERCHANTMEN.

    The "Manchester Guardian declares that a British shipping syndicate will arry out a proposal to purchase oil interests in California, which were ...

    Article : 72 words
  36. CRUSHED IN A MINE.

    Joseph Allan Williams, aged seventy three years, a timberman on the South Miner at Broken Hill (N.S.W.), who, on December 21, was crushed at the 725-ft. ...

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  37. TEMPERATURES IN N.S.W.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 words
  38. VICTORIA PARK PONIES.

    The big crowd of punters at the Victoria Park (Sydney) pony races on Saturday afternoon last, had one of the best days that has fallen to their lot for many ...

    Article : 213 words
  39. PASSING OF THE PIONEERS.

    [?] occurred recently at [?]Laurence Bourke of Clifron (Q.). The deceased gentleman was fifty-seven years of age and a respected colonist of over thirty years' standing ...

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  40. RETURNED SOLDIER'S END.

    James Arbuckle, a returned soldier living at Kent-street, Sydney, was found on Sunday on the floor in the bathroom of his home bleeding from a large cut in the ...

    Article : 60 words
  41. Jelly-Backed Politicians

    The recent [?] (Mr. Hughes) in the House of Representatives that a majority of the men abroad voted in favor of conscription was ...

    Article : 699 words
  42. SHARKS AT YEPPOON.

    While bathing at Yeppoon (Q.), John Ford a resident of Mount Morgun, was attacked by a shark and bitten severely on the leg. He was in very shallow water ...

    Article : 69 words
  43. End of an Infamous Monk

    The death of the notorious Russian mystic monk, Gregory Rasputin, who was n great favorite with the Czarinn of Russia and was known as the ...

    Article : 573 words
  44. THE SUMMER HILL TRAGEDY.

    The chaullear, John Henry- Taylor, who was found shot in the bedroom of Miss. McLeod, daughter of Mr. F. McLeod, of Summer Hill (Sydney), last ...

    Article : 58 words
  45. PERISHED IN THE BUSH,

    Frank Murphy, an employee of the Wingadee Shire Council, perished in the bush near Coonamble (N.S.W., on Tuesday, while driving home his sulky came ...

    Article : 95 words
  46. QUEENSLAND RAINFALL,

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 words
  47. AIDING TO DESERT.

    At the Perth (W.A.) police court last week, Lieutenant George Henry Brown formerly military registrar at Perth was charged with aiding William Skinner ...

    Article : 130 words
  48. THE FIGHTS.

    At the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night, Tommy Uren met Fied Kay in a return fight for the middleweight championship of Australia. Kay, it will be ...

    Article : 78 words
  49. A SUNKEN STEAMER,

    The steamer Belmore, which was wrecked at the mouth of the Maclcay (N.S.W.) River, has impeded the passage of vessels in the waterway. At the Sydney Water ...

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  50. COUNTRY RACE MEETINGS.

    Resul[?] Welter Handicap, Valiant King [?] After Twelve 2 M[?] a thing [?]: Tim[?] Rosedell 2, Odd [?] Novice Handicap Obligation [?] Famous Pet 2, [?] ...

    Article : 58 words
  51. A SPIDER IN HER EAR.

    A woman had an unusual and unpleasant experience while picnicking at Manly (Sydney) on Friday last. Complaining that something was wrong with ...

    Article : 77 words
  52. The Liquor Problem

    It is announced, in refutation of rumors, that the British Government does not contemplate the nationalisation of the liquor trade during the war, being ...

    Article : 116 words
  53. COULOURH TROTS.

    Results—That Handicap Black Chick [?] Lady Isamilton 2, H[?]re King a Flying Handicap Lodgewood 1, King Rev 2, Lady [?]mo 3, Un-hopped Handicap Sir [?] 1, [?] 2 Taupo ...

    Article : 71 words
  54. APPETITE AND HEALTH

    Loss of appetite is a lure sign of ill health. Those who take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People as a tonic invariably ...

    Article : 214 words
  55. MUDCE

    Results—Opening Handicap, Tehama 1, Nellw Blue 2, Gold Scut 3, Trial Handicap: Waydoria Gold Scot 1, Tehama 2, Havilah Welter, [?] ...

    Article : 46 words
  56. DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

    While Mr. and Mrs. H. Oswin, with their two children, were bathing in the Mary River, near Aminanoor Crook (Q.). On Tuesday afternoon, the children found ...

    Article : 229 words
  57. A. USEFUL DIARY FOR 1917.

    "I wish I could remember what date I made that arrangment, or concluded that business," is an expression often heated, when past transaction have become h[?]y in the mem[?]. Yet it ...

    Article : 310 words
  58. WHISKY FOR MUNITIONS.

    The British Government has taken over the whole product of the Irish distilleries for munition purposes. This will not affect the retail supply for three years. A ...

    Article : 52 words
  59. REDUCTION IN VICTORIA.

    On Saturday night week [?] hotels in Victoria that had surrendered their licenses or whose licenses had been cancelled by the Licenses Reduction Hoard, ...

    Article : 73 words
  60. Advertising

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  61. DEATH OF MR. JOHN H. [?]OHMIOR.

    The death occurred on New Year's Eve of Mr. John H. Schmidt, who was sidely known through out New South Wales as the breeder of a new wheat known as Chmidt's No. 1. A characteristic ...

    Article : 75 words
  62. PRIMARY PRODUCERS' UNION.

    A sub-branch of the Primary Producer's Union was formed at Coff's l[?] (N.S.W.), on wednesday night, Mr. W. H. sharp was appointed delegate to the Central Committee. ...

    Article : 52 words
  63. EARLY CLOSING OF BARS.

    The six o'clock closing of bark throughout Tasmania came into force on Monday, in the majority of instances side doors were left open for the convenience ...

    Article : 49 words
  64. QUEENSLAND FARMERS' UNION.

    Eight Mile Plains and Kuraby. A successful meeting was held at Eight Mile Plains (Q.) on New Year's evening to form a branch of the Queensland Farmers Union. Mr. ...

    Article : 159 words
  65. Advertising

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    Advertising : 102 words
  66. Advertising

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  67. SLY CREE SELLING.

    At the Sydney Central Police Court on Thursday, George Bowe, who was charged with selling liquor without holding a license, was fined £10, in default six ...

    Article : 79 words
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