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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    Some remarkable disclosures were made at the inquest concerning the victims of the burning tragedy at West Melbourne, when Mrs. Day set fire to her house, with the result that her three ...

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  4. SPECIALIST FINED £50.

    Before Mr. King, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court on Friday, the police proceeded against F. C. de Sylva, of Hurstville, on an information charging him—he no being a legally qualified ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. NAVAL AFFAIRS.

    The Admiralty has decided to build a dry dock for accommodating Dreadnoughts at Portsmouth. The cost wil be £1,000,000. The Navy Estimates were laid on the table of ...

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  6. GENERAL STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA.

    The moment a general strike was declared an Philadelphia the orchestras in the hotels and cafes ceased playing. Cab drivers and drivers of taxicabs abandoned ...

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  7. PRINCELY OFFERS FOR JOCKEY.

    It is said that D. Maher, the American jockey, had an offer of £3000 to ride Mr. Fairie's Lemberg in the Derby. It is rumored that if he rides Lord Rosebery's Neil Gow he will receive ...

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  8. ALLEGED CATTLE STEALING AND OBSTRUCTION.

    In the Charters Towers Police Court, William McDowall, owner of Christmas Crock cattle station, was charged with cattle stealing, and was remanded for a week. William McDowall, Robert ...

    Article : 346 words
  9. £100,000 FOR PHILANTHROPIC WORK.

    The late Mr. Edward Massey, brewer, of Bure[?]ey, has bequeathed £100,000 for philanthropic purposes. ...

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  10. FISHING RESORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 words
  11. "BLACK HAND" THREATEN CARUSO.

    Two Italians, members of the Black hand Society, have been committed for trial in New York on a charge of attempting to extort from Signor Caruso, a well-known tenor, £3000 by ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. MR. ROOSEVELT IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

    Mr. Roosevelt bus been describing in the London "Telegraph" his first buffalo hunt and a visit to the ranch of Mr. Heatley, which comprises 20,000 acres, ...

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  13. RAILWAY DISASTER NARROWLY AVERTED.

    An accident of a thrilling character occurred on the Preston railway line between Clifton-hill and Merri Station (Vic.), about 12 o'clock on Tuesday night. That it was not attended with fatal ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. PEARY DOUBTED BY POLITICIANS.

    A sub-committee of the House of Representatives of the United States has decided against honoring Commander Peary until he submits proof of his having reached the North Pole. ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. COAL CRISIS IN BRITAIN.

    The coal exports from South Wales in February, 1909, decreased 260,827 tons, compared with the same month of 1909. Foreign firms secured contracts at the expense of the Welsh ...

    Article : 254 words
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    Heavy sens alonp the const will spoil fishing from the ocean pocks. Last Sunday an angler had a narrow escape from death while fishing from the rocks at Curl Curl. He was washed off and ...

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  17. NEW POLICE OFFICIAL.

    It Tuesday's meeting of the State Executive Council, Mr. E. C. Day, police superintendent, second class, who has lately been in charge of the Dourke-street depot and the eastern police ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. EX-CONSTABLES GET GAOL FOR ROBBING DEAD MAN.

    At the Lismore Quarter Sessions, before Judge Hamilton, the trial of Francis Toohey and Thomas Smith Bartlett, ex-constables in the local police, who were charged with stealing three scarf pins ...

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  19. 7000 WOOLCOMBERS ON STRIKE.

    Seven thousand Bradford woolcombers are on strike. Gangs visited woolcombing works of Bradford and Shipley, and in every rase succeeded in inducing the operatives to cease [?]ork. ...

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  20. COMMITTAL FOLLOWS CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE.

    The adjourned inquest on Jimmy Jumma, the Indian, who was found dead in the street at Kempsey on February 6, was resumed. An analysis of the stomach was made by Mr. Hamlet, and ...

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  21. JEALOUS MILLIONAIRE'S REVENGE.

    Returning unexpectedly home, Mr. John P. Cudahy, a millionaire packer in Chicago, attacked Mr. J. Lillis, a wealthy banker, whom he suspected of intriguing with his wife. He ...

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  22. NEW ATLANTIC LINE.

    The Canadian Northern Railway Company is inaugurating a line of 21-knot steamers between Bristol and Canada. The first steamer will leave in May. ...

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  23. 92 PERISH BY SNOWSLIDE.

    In a snowslide at Rogers' Pass, Cascade Mountains, Washington State, 92 of the laborers engaged in clearing the railway were killed. ...

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  24. VESSEL SUNK IN HARBOR COLLISION.

    The steam collier Currajong, inward bound from Wollongong, collided with the outward bound passenger steamer Wyreema on Tuesday night off Bradley's Head, Sydney Harbor, and the former ...

    Article : 401 words
  25. LADY DUDLEY ILL.

    Her Excellency Lady Dudley underwent a serious operation in London on Thursday, but is progressing favorably. An early-morning bulletin stated that, although ...

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  26. BALL TO CELEBRATE DIVORCE.

    To celebrate the granting of the decree absolute in the Astor divorce suit, Colonel J. J. Astor gave a great ball to the New York "Four Hundred." ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. PRISONERS SEIZE GAOL.

    Forty prisoners in Cartagena, Spain, took possession of the gaol, after disarming the sleeping warders, and attempted to escape. They were fired on by troops, however, and ...

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  28. TWO PRIESTS KILLED BY BOMB.

    A bomb was thrown at some priests in a dining-room, where a dinner was being held to celebrate clerical victories at the municipal elections in Noveda, Spain. Two priests were killed. ...

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  29. SIR MALCOLM McEACHARN DIES SUDDENLY.

    Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn died suddenly from heart [?]re at Cannes. He had been ill for a long time. The late Sir Malcolm was chairman of directors ...

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  30. COAL STRIKE OVER.

    The northern coal strike is ended. Negotiations for settlement were successful on Friday, and the mines start on Monday morning. The miners go back under old conditions; ...

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  31. GIRL STRUGGLES WITH BURGLAR.

    Early on Monday morning a commotion was caused at the residence of Mr. C. H. Britten, the schoolmaster at Sackville. Mr. and Mrs. Britten were roused by screams in a bedroom, ...

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  32. PRINCE OF WALES TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA

    The Prince and Princess of Wales will travel to South Africa in a Union Castle liner, via the West Coast, with an escort of warships. They will depart from England at the end of ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. EXPLOSION IN STARCH FACTORY.

    An explosion occurred in a starch factory at Noby, Indiana, U.S.A. Eight people were killed and 17 injured, many of them fatally. ...

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  34. A RUNAWAY MARRIAGE.

    The principal of Morris Heights College, Providence (U.S.A.), expelled Philander Knox, son of Mr. P. C. Knox, Secretary of State, for refusing to say whether he was married. He had eloped ...

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  35. GIRL SHOT DEAD BY PORTUGUESE.

    Norma Plush, aged 12, was shot at Tanunda, S.A., by a Portuguese employed by her father, and died next day. An [?] was held, and Carl Bonello was committed [?] trial on a charge ...

    Article : 141 words
  36. FIVE YEARS FOR EMBEZZLING £7000.

    F. C. Knight has been, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for embezzling £7000 from the Barnsley (Eng.) Building Society. ...

    Article : 26 words
  37. HEAVY DAMAGES FOR LIBEL.

    Messrs. Ogston and Tennant, soap manufacturers, have been awarded £9000 damages against the Glasgow "Daily Record" for defamation in connection with the same series of libels for which ...

    Article : 63 words
  38. AERONAUTICS.

    M. Henry Farman; with a machine combining the biplane and monoplane, flew at Chalons, with two passengers, a distance of 14 miles in 16 1/2 minutes, which is the world's record. ...

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  39. MESSRS. HOSKINS FINED.

    The trouble recently at the Lithgow Iron Works mine, when a number of men employed by Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins were discharged on account of their refusing to work on pay Saturday, was ...

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  40. REMAINS OF ANCIENT CITY DISCOVERED IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Wrigge, who has been doing some exploring work in the far north of New Zealand, claims to have discovered in the neighborhood of the Buy of Islands "the remains of an ancient ...

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  41. TO POLE BY AIRSHIP.

    Herr Hergsell has informed the Airship League in Hamburg that two airships will be used in the Arctic expedition, one for flights north, and the other to remain at Spitsbergen as auxiliary. ...

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  42. YACHT RACE ACROSS ATLANTIC.

    The Atlantic Yacht Club is offering a 5000dol. trophy, to be called the President's Cup, for an international race from Europe to Sandy Hook in the Summer of next year. ...

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  43. MITCHELL LIBRARY OPENED.

    The Mitchell Library, at the Domain gates, was opened on Tuesday. It is entirely separate and distinct from the Public Library—it will have a different purpose, and will never be open ...

    Article : 97 words
  44. "THE WINDSOR."

    The "Windsor Magazine" for March is an attractively varied issue, full of fiction by distinguished novelists and entertaining articles, lavishly illustrated ...

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  45. STEAMER CEVIC LEAKING.

    The White Star steamer Cevic, from Australia, with wool, struck ground in the Suez Canal, end returned to Port Said leaking. She discharged her cargo from holda Nos. 1 and 2. ...

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  46. RONALD-HARPER CONSPIRACY CASE.

    The hearing of the charge of conspiracy against Patrick Hill, John Huxley, Robert Harper, William Harper, Walter Kemp, and William Brockett was not proceeded with at the Melbourne City ...

    Article : 70 words
  47. CARNEGIE STILL GENEROUS.

    Mr. A. Carnegie bus given £600,000 to establish a fund in ten leading cities of the United States for the sending of teachers abroad to study education methods. ...

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  48. SPECIAL EASTER TOURS.

    T[?] special tours have been set down by the Government Tourist Bureau to take place in the Easter holidays. One is to Mount Kosclusko and the Snowy Mountain ...

    Article : 56 words
  49. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    Mr. Jacob Schiff, a financier, speaking at the New York Republican Club, said:—"The understanding between Russia, Japan and Great Britain will constitute in the next few decades the ...

    Article : 110 words
  50. PROGRESS OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Hull trawlers, which have been fitted with wireless telegraphic apparatus, are able to be informed of the state of the fish markets, and can therefore hurry to places where supplies ...

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  51. ART SECRETARY SENTENCED FOR FORGERY

    Carew Martin, assistant secretory to the Royal Society of British Artists, has been sentenced to nine months' Imprisonment in the second division for forging the name of the society's ...

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  52. DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC.

    An epidemic of diphtheria is at present rasing throughout New South Wales, and threatens to assume serious proportions. The City Health Officer advises parents to take ...

    Article : 38 words
  53. RAILWAY CYCLIST'S CLOSE CALL.

    Mr. Percy Roberts, permanent way inspector on the railway, was proceeding from Ryistone to Wallarawang on a motor-cycle when he [?]et a special train coming to Ryistone in a cutting near ...

    Article : 93 words
  54. NEWMARKET TRAGEDY.

    The shocking murder and suicide which occurred in Newmarket (Vic.) last week, when John William Kennedy, a journeyman saddler, shot his wife, Mary Ann Sarah Kennedy, with a revolver, ...

    Article : 158 words
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  56. ANARCHIST DIES WITH 17 WOUNDS.

    Ten police at Odessa attempted to arrest Sllviniski, a notorious anarchist. He kept the police at bay [?] two revolvers, wounding three, and thus escaped. ...

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  57. MISAPPROPRIATION OF £400,000.

    M. Duez, liquidator of several religious associations, has been arrested at Paris on a charge of misappropriating £400,000. M. Duez attributes his defalcations to unlucky ...

    Article : 69 words
  58. A PRETTY FAIRY TALE

    An instance of how the globe trotter's leg is pulled, and how ridiculously he may write, is afforded by the following, extract from a serious article by John Foster ...

    Article : 101 words
  59. DOCTOR ACCUSED OF MURDERING MILLIONAIRE PATIENT.

    Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde has been indicted on a charge of murdering Colonel Thomas Swope, a millionaire, and philanthropist, at Kansas City, U.S., and eight members of the Swope family. ...

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  60. FROZEN WALLABIES IN LONDON.

    Three thousand frozen wallabies have been landed in good condition in London. Jugged wallaby is served in city restaurants. ...

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  61. TRANSPORTED FOR SEDITION.

    Nand Gopal, editor of the Allahabad "Swarajya," has been sentenced to five years' trans-tation for publishing a seditious book. ...

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  62. POISONED CHOCOLATE CASE.

    At the Forbes Quarter Sessions Ellen Jones. (24) pleaded net guilty to a charge of attempting to cause poison to he taken by Keith Grant, a boy of 13, with intent to murder. This was a case ...

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  63. PEER DROPS DEAD IN STREET.

    The Earl of Carnwath fell deal in Victoria-street while going to the House of Lords. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where papers in his pocket revealed his identity. He was need 62 ...

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  64. VOTES AT BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    The votes polled during the recent general flections in Great Britain totalled 6,667,810, out of a possible 7,706,049. ...

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  65. 4000 MILES TRAMP THROUGH ASIA.

    Lieutenant Etherton, of the 39th Garhwal Rifles, has completed a journey of 4000 miles on foot. He left the Himalayas, crossed the Pamirs, passed through Yarkand, in Chinese Turkestan, ...

    Article : 53 words
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  67. GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE THREATENED.

    Eighty-eight per cent, of the enginers and firemen employed on fifty railroads in the west, north-west, and south-west of the United States, have voted in favor of a strike for higher wages. ...

    Article : 37 words
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