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  2. BATTLE FOR MILLIONS.

    A legal battle has begun at New York for the possession of the states of "Lucky" Baldwin, valued at £2,000,000. The property was accumulated by gambling on the Turf and mining. ...

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  4. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    What had become known as the West Perth Mystery was solved on Friday, when the body of Ethel Harris, who had been missing since March 14 last, was unexpectedly found by Plain-clothes ...

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  5. WARAT AH INQUIRY.

    An Inquiry was opened at the Board of Trade into the loss of the steamer Waratah. which disappeard off the coast of South Africa in the middle of 1909. ...

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  6. REVOLT IN MEXICO.

    The Mexican Minister at Washington has received official news to the effect that the insurgents were completely defeated near chihuahua. Sixty of the insurgents were killed, and the ...

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  7. VESSEL DRIVEN ON ICE.

    The Alaskan liner Olympia id forced ashore on Bligh Island, Alaska. The Olympia departed from Cordova on Saturday. Her afterhold was empty, her stem was ...

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  8. ADVERSE REPORT ON CHAFFINCH.

    The following telegram was received by the directors of the Great Chaffinch Company from Mr. Grut :- "Acting under your Instructions, and after ...

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  9. DIVORCE AND THE BIRTHRATE.

    Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce, the Rev.W. I. Carr-Smith, formerly rector of St. James church, Sydney, said that as far as Australia was concerned no hardship ...

    Article : 118 words
  10. £5000 DAMAGES FOR LIBEL.

    In the action brought by P. C. Simmons against the proprietors of the "Daily Chronicle" (London), alleging libel made in the course of an article last January, the jury found for the ...

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  11. NAVAL AFFAIRS.

    The German Navy League demands the annual construction of three capital ships instead of two, in view of the number of obsolete vessels in the navy. ...

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  12. IMPORTER FINED £1980 AND COSTS.

    There was brought before Mr. Justice Higgins in the High Court (Melbourne) a case in which Charles Brown Kellow, importer, of Exhibition-street, was charged with various offences under ...

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  13. MRS. EDDY LEAVES £30O.000.

    The estate of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church, in valued at £300,000. Bequeste made to relatives will be subtracted, and all the remainder ...

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  14. DISASTROUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    Twenty-two miners were Wiled and id entombed in the Green Mine, Tacoma, Virginia (U.S.A.), the result of a terrific explosion. ...

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  15. REMARKABLE CASE OF POISONING.

    A case of belladonna poisoning was treated in Melbourne Hospital. 'Clifford Markby, 34 years, who lived at Sandringham, entered the institution bearing all the symptoms of a person who ...

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  16. THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BLIND INSTITUTION.

    We have received from the secretary a copy of (he 49th annual report of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind limitation, Darlington. Decides pointing out the splendid work done by the institution ...

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  17. GERMANY WANTS COLONIES.

    Herr von Lindequist, the Secertary of State for the Colonies, delivered the colonial statement in the Reichstag. The Colonial Secretary said that Germans ...

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  18. SENSATIONAL INCIDENTS AT FIRE.

    Mr. Abe Nathan's furniture emporium, at the corner of Dean and Townsend streets, Albury, was completely gutted by tire on Monday night. Window-dressing was in process when the ...

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  19. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Sixteen hundred women are working as navvies on the construction of the Debalzevo Schterovka Extension Railway, Odessa. ...

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  20. RICHMOND RAILWAY DISASTER.

    The departmental inquiry into the cause of the Richmond railway disaster, which occurred on July 1S, will be opened on Tuesday. Charges of breaches of departmental regulations will be ...

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  21. FLOODS IN EUROPE.

    Terrific storms have occurred in Spain, and the majority of the Spanish ports are inaccessible. Floods hare occurred in many districts ...

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  22. STEAMERS COLLIDE.

    The steamers Kitsap and Indianpolis came into collision in a fog in Seattle Harbor. They were Interlocked for 20 minutes, during which time the passengers of the Kitsap were ...

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  23. BANK COLLECTOR ROBBED

    In October last a collector in the service of a Paris bank was robbed of a satchel containing £2280 in the Boulevard des Italians. It was bread daylight at the time. ...

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  24. DESPERADO COMMITS SUICIDE.

    Ira Ward, a desperado, robbed the State Bank at Paradise, Kansas, and secured £500. Ward took to flight to the hills, where a posse of farmers surrounded him. He then committed suicide. ...

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  25. GOT MARRIED TO GET BILLET.

    A Cairns wire states that the Perthshire arrived with a large number of immigrants on the steamer. An interesting wedding took place on board. The immigrant agent announced a ...

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  26. FIGHT OVER PORRIDGE.

    Seventy inmates of a workhouse at Sutton, Surrey, refused the porridge supplied to them, and demanded bread and butter. A free fight followed between the officials and the inmates. ...

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  28. BURNS PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED.

    Tommy Burns, the former heavy-weight champion pugilist of the world, was severely injured in a collision between trams at a suburb at Seattle. Ho is now permanently incapacitated ...

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  29. WOMEN AS JURORS.

    At Olympia, in the State of Washington, five women acted on a jury in a civil case. The judge declared them to be the beat jurors who had ever sat in his court. A recent women ...

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  31. CAPTAIN WASHED OVERBOARD.

    The Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association received a cablegram announcing the arrival or the British barque Annesley at Queens-town. This vessel left, Melbourne on September ...

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  32. TWO YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

    The trial of David Morgan Edwards, 21 years of age, on a charge of wilfully murdering hid father, Alexander Edwards, police constable, at Moorabbin, on November 20, was concluded in ...

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  33. STOKER DIES OF THRASHING.

    A court-martial has, at Kiel, sentenced two engineer petty officers of a torpedo destroyer to seven years' imprisonment for twice rope-ending a stoker because be was unable to clean a ...

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  34. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

    The Nobel Peace Prize of £80OO, refused by the late Count Tolstoi, has been awarded to the Peace Bureau at Berne. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given £2.000,000 ...

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  35. SHOCKING ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    Political convicts in the Vologda Gaol who complained about their food were Hogged. Many of the prisoners afterwards committed suicide. The Duma, by 121 votes to 111 ...

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  36. £25,000 FOR UNIVERSITY.

    The firm of De Beers, of diamond mine fame, has given £25,000 to the South African University. ...

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  37. OFFER OF COAL MINE REFUSED.

    The Minister for Mines, after due investigation, prepared a minute advising that the [?]er of the Warner Estate of the coal under, some ...

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  38. BOYS CRUELLY BEATEN.

    A terrible case of cruelty to boys has been brought to light at Mieltschin (Germany). Pastor Breithaupt, director of the Boys' Reformatory in that town, and eight subordinates have been ...

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  39. LAKE COMO TRAGEDY.

    The United States has issued to the Italian Ambassador a warrant for the extradition of Porter. Charlton, charged with the murder of his wife at Lake Como. ...

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  40. STRIKE STATISTICS.

    The "Socialist Annual" states that in the trade disputes in 1000 of the workpeople of the United Kingdom involved 11 per cent, won, 22 per cent, lost, and 66 per cent, compromised. ...

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  41. CATHEDRAL BURGLARS.

    Burglars entered St. George's Roman Catholic Cathedral and the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southward (England) adjoining, and stole challices, signet rings, and ...

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  42. S[?] ANDER ON PEER'S DAUGHTER.

    Lord Knollys' daughter has been awarded £500 damages in an action against "John Bull" for alleging that she had eloped to the Continent. ...

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  43. A LONG DRIVE.

    Mr. F. S. Lovett, of Wongarbon, Wellington district, received a wire calling him to the bedside of his father, and he and his brother, leaving Wongarbon at 0 p.m., arrived at Avisford, a ...

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  44. SHIPPING ACTIVITY.

    Their is almost unprecedented shipbuilding activity in Glasgow. Contracts include 20 warships (battleships, cruisers, and destroyers), and merchant vessels aggregating 200,000 tons. ...

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  45. KILLED WITH CROWBAR.

    Nathan B. Hyde, an ex-member of the New York Bar, and recently State Commissioner of Wisconsin, was found murdered in his residence at Chicago. The murderer had used a revolver ...

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  46. BRAZIL NAVAL MUTINY.

    The mutineers who were concerned in the revolt which occurred on five warships in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, on November 25, have been dismissed the service. ...

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  47. MELBOURNE POISONING CASE.

    The Deputy Government Analyst has discovered arsenic in the bodies of Annie ami Alma Moodier sisters on Olive Amelia Moodie, who is at present ...

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  48. FIRE AT CHILDREN'S HOME.

    While 47 children were praying in the Children's Home at Springfield, Missouri, U.S., prior to going to bed for the night, a fire started in the building. One child was burned to death ...

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