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  2. KILL THAT FLY!

    since the first article on this subject appeared we have received congratulations all round for undertaking the crusade against the great enemy. In pursuance of it the City Health ...

    Article : 393 words
  3. NEAR AND FAR.

    Mrs. Bennett, of Boston, who was sued for divorce by her husband, Dr. Bennett, produced a diary in Court in support of; her allegation that her husband subjected her to ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. CURRENT TOPICS:

    Mr. Webb, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, and. Mr. Taylor, of the Factories Department, admit in eftect that "outside stairways as fire-escapes are inadequate, unreliable and ...

    Article : 371 words
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    Advertising : 37 words
  6. MADNESS AND DESTRUCTION.

    The Council has it on Mr. Carmichael. "Those whom the gods wish to destroy," quoted the Minister, referring to the refusal of the Council to pass, the Sayings Bank Amalgamation Bill ...

    Article : 102 words
  7. NEW USE FOR CATS MEAT.

    Edward Ellis arid Jessie Ellis, his wife, were summoned at Stratford (Eng.) for using premises in Barking for betting purposes. It was stated that two police, officers who watched ...

    Article : 65 words
  8. DOLLS STUFFED WITH BANK NOTES.

    The Bank of France is destroying the soiled notes it has recalled. The notes are placed in a large vat, and then, under the supervision of inspectors and chemists, subjected to the action ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. THE BABY BONUS.

    I am surprised to learn that Mr. Fisher's proposal is "an insult to motherhood." Undoubtedly, in these days of materialism, practically everything is reduced to a cash basis ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. NAVAL HONORS FOR BOY SCOUTS.

    Mr. Churchill did well to allow the bodies of the boy scouts drowned at Leysdown to be brought to London in a warship. The man in him was stronger than the official to whom the ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. KISSING PROHIBITED.

    Visitors to Switzerland have been warned that kissing and embracing are strictly prohibited at the station of Sarnen, on the Brunig line, canton of Obwald, and that indulgence in ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. POULTRY INDUSTRY.

    That the demand for poultry is very much on the increase is shown by the many advertisements to be seen in the daily papers asking for the whereabouts of those who are desirous ...

    Article : 912 words
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    Advertising : 79 words
  14. A BLIND MARVEL.

    Miss Helen Keller has been chosen by Mayor Lunn, of the Socialist city ol Schenectady, N.Y., to serve as adviser to the city's Board of Public Welfare. The Board has jurisdiction over ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. THE FRUIT TRADE.

    Pessimistic fruit-growers occasionally assert, that, there is a danger of over-production of fruits of various description if too many people in Australia go into this industry. In answer ...

    Article : 426 words
  16. TOWN OF LUNATICS.

    Experiments have for some time been carried out in Germany with a view to abolishing the system of incarcerating lunatics in asylums, and a town has been built in Rhenish Prussia ...

    Article : 139 words
  17. THE 20,000 DEFAULTING CADETS.

    The Australian correspondent, of the London "Daily News" having alleged the other day that the Commonwealth Government, is faced with the necessity of prosecuting 20,000 boys for ...

    Article : 370 words
  18. ANTI-SUFFRAGETTE.

    Mrs. Humphry Ward and her newly-formed Local government Advancement Committee (Anti-Suffrasette) are to counteract votes for women on the Shakespearean aud homoeopathic ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. ITALIANS AND CIGARS.

    In Italy at the present day cigars are given to soldiers as part of their daily ration, but a writer recalls that in 1848, to protest against the Austrian dominion, the Italian pathiots ...

    Article : 117 words
  20. A SUGGESTION.

    Sir,—Having read your articles, on the above, and the endorsement by Dr. Willis, Acting-Chief Officer of the Board of Health, I beg to draw attention to his remark: "Not only does the ...

    Article : 231 words
  21. CRASS STUPIDITY.

    Well enough do we love our German cousins; thinking—and constantly implying in this place—that the mutual barking and recrimination between Teuton and Briton is lamentably sad and ...

    Article : 169 words
  22. TROUSERS FOR COWS.

    The latest thing in the sartorial line, in South Africa is trousers for oxen. This method of clothing beasts of burden is not due to any sudden accession of style in the Cape, but the ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. THE ALLEGED DISLIKE OF TITLES.

    "Only mediocro men want titles," remarked the Home Secretary apropos of the unfounded report that the administrator of the Federal Territory was to be addressed as "Your ...

    Article : 476 words
  24. MAIZE AND COB MEAL.

    An interesting exhibit at the Royal Show, Melbourne last week, was that of a kind, of stock food that is comparatively little, known in Australia, although in America it has been ...

    Article : 168 words
  25. LUMBER CARRIED ON BURROS' BACKS.

    The forests of Mexico are situated chiefly in the mountains or altitudes of 8000ft to 12,000ft. In the lowlands of the tropics there are scattered mahogany trees and a variety of other ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. £28,000 BLACKMAIL.

    A leading figure in a blackmailing gang, whose principal exploits caused a foolish woman to lose. £28,000, was captured by the Paris police last month, in the person of a man named ...

    Article : 465 words
  27. WING DAIRY COWS.

    An important object the Victorian Agricultural Department has in view at the present time, is the permanent improvement of the dairy herd in the matter of milk and butter ...

    Article : 775 words
  28. £12,000 IN RAIDED GAMBLING DEN.

    Many highly placed personages in the social and political world are involved in an extraordinary, scandal which has just been brought: to light at Montecatini, one of the fashionable ...

    Article : 422 words
  29. A STRANGE WAGER.

    The death is announced of Mr. William Yates, of Weir Cottage, Shepperton-on-Thames (Eng.). Mr. Yates became famous some six years ago as the result of what is generally regarded to be a ...

    Article : 332 words
  30. BORDER (RIVERINA) RAILWAYS.

    The financial position of this matter should be made perfectly clear. I think it is as follows: First, profits are made by the primary producers, the squatters, farmers, selectors ...

    Article : 402 words
  31. MAN OF MANY SUPPERS.

    An amusing story of an incident at a masked ball given at the capital of one of the smaller German principalities is being told in Berlin. The rule was printed upon the invitation cards ...

    Article : 328 words
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    Advertising : 167 words
  33. AN OXFORD DON.

    The announcement that the young Prince of Wales would be enrolled next term as an undergraduate at Oxford University naturally caused much excitement and interest in that famous ...

    Article : 202 words
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    Advertising : 57 words
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