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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 112 words
  3. WINDOW'S CLAIM.

    In the Banco Court to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Darley) and jury, Isa­bella Sutherland sued the City Finance Com­pany, Limited, to recover £500 damages in the ...

    Article : 189 words
  4. RAILWAYS AND ARBITRATION.

    The President of the Arbitration Court this morning delivered en important judgment, which had been reserved, and which defines the position of the Hallway Commissioners under ...

    Article : 664 words
  5. POISON IN TEE FOOD.

    MACLEAN. Tuesday.—Jane Davis, who had been housekeeping for some Kanakas, was yesterday arrested on a charge on attempting to ad­minister poison to one of them, named Williams. ...

    Article : 78 words
  6. TRAM UNDER FIRE.

    A rumour was current in the city this morning that a couple of revolver shots had been fired into a tram coming into the city from the eastern suburbs. ...

    Article : 136 words
  7. COST OF MAINTAINING THE INSANE.

    Though there has been an unfortunate increase in the number of inmates of Hospitals for the Insane during the past year, there has not been an Increase in that cost of maintenance per head ...

    Article : 182 words
  8. NEIGHBOURS AT LOGGER­HEADS.

    An action for alleged slander was brought by James Lenehan against Peter Cooney and his wife, before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury, to-day. Plaintiff alleged that the female defendant ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. FLIRTING IN THE DOCK.

    As a general rule, the young men who are placed in the docks of the police courts do not manifest any desire to indulge in excessive frivolity. Nor do the police authorities expect ...

    Article : 347 words
  10. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 158 words
  11. SHAMEFUL SIGHTS.

    According to Mr. Henry Varley, young women in tights are shameful sights, which, as the character in the novel said, is rhyme, even though we had not such intention. Several years ...

    Article : 348 words
  12. DESTRUCTIVE LIGHTNING

    During a storm at Blackheath on Sunday the lightning proved unusually destructive. Attracted by the hoop iron on the fences which surrounded the property of Mrs. Bradley, the ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. SPASMODIC MORALITY.

    The efforts of the police to enforce the morality laws seem to be of an irregular and spasmodic character. Now and again they wake up, and get a glimpse of what is going ...

    Article : 346 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL AMITY.

    IF we were to believe speeches and words ut­tered and spoken, the nations of the world—with the exception of the Russians and the Japanese—would seem to be simply yearning ...

    Article : 905 words
  15. SCORE OF CONVICTIONS.

    "This is one of the worst characters we have down here," said Senior-sergeant Baxter at the Water Polic Court to-day, of a fireman named Peter Moore, who appeared to answer two ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. WOMAN'S DREADFUL WISH

    "There's one thing," remarked Margaret Kane, at the Central Police Court to-day, "that I wish, and that is that he'll drop dead before I come out of gaol." ...

    Article : 148 words
  17. WOMEN AND LAND.

    The Women's Political Educational League met last night in the School of Arts, to discuss the leasing, as opposed to the freehold, system of land tenure. Miss Rose Scott ...

    Article : 644 words
  18. MINING.

    HILLGROVE, Tuesday.—The present price of scheelite locally is £67 10s, but it is asserted that it will reach £100 per ton before Christ­mas. Maddricks and Davis, at the Centennial, ...

    Article : 157 words
  19. MISFIT MEN.

    The Labour Commissioners' report for the past year seems to have been compiled by someone afflicted with acute literary discursiveness, as the doings of a small department are made ...

    Article : 308 words
  20. COSTLY DIP.

    Frederick J. 'Miller, a boy of 15 years, took a dip in the waters of Darling Harbour on Monday afternoon. His action wes witnessed by Constable Bryson, ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. MILK AND WATER.

    The schoolboy who wrote home and stated of the milk and water which he was given for breakfast, "This is indeed weakness," anticipated a report submitted by the Marrickville ...

    Article : 279 words
  22. MARRIED HIS WIFE TWICE

    Mr. Harold Dean Stickney, who was married at Newport in December last, to Miss Mabel Gould Slocum, or Newport, once on the comic opera stage, was married to his wife a second ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. TROUBLES OF A BANKRUPT

    Mr. Justice Walker had before him to-day an application for a writ of ha. to. directed against James M'Lean, a bankrupt. An order had been previously granted ...

    Article : 432 words
  24. BLAMING THE WORM.

    Dr. Charles Stiles, of the Public Health Ser­vice at Washington (U.S.A.), says laziness is caused by the hook-worm. This worm saps life and energy, and the sufferer becomes quite ...

    Article : 54 words
  25. 21 HOURS AT THE PIANO.

    The world's piano-playing record was recently broken at Grimsby, in England. William Blanche attacked the nineteen hours' record achieved by Mr. M'Meekin, and played ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. SEVENTY-FIVE NEW CARS.

    In a statement made last week the Premier announced that he had given instructions. In view of the prevailing want of employment, that such work as the Government required, ...

    Article : 99 words
  27. BULLFIGHTER'S DESPAIR.

    The prohibition of bullfighting in Spain on Sundays has been responsible for a tragedy. One of the best-known bullfighters of Madrid, nam­ed Stinger, sho himself through the head in the ...

    Article : 49 words
  28. BUNKING THE RULE.

    That mode of superficial search which a policeman bestows upon a suspected person by a kind of rapid pawing of the said per­son, is called professionally, we understand, ...

    Article : 312 words
  29. MUST WEAR TOP HATS.

    The "New York Commercial." in discussing United States trade with Great Britain, advises American manufacturers to sen to England only travellers accustomed to wearing frock ...

    Article : 73 words
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