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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    While a number of Koreans were handling a torpedo which had stranded, it exploded, killing thirty-five. JAPANESE SPIES. ...

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  4. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO MURDER HIS WIFE.

    The Broken Hill Police Court was crowded when Thomas Baker was charged with conspiring to murder his wife, Elizabeth Ellen Baker. Sub-Inspector Sawtell detailed several ...

    Article : 411 words
  5. QUEEN VICTORIA HOMES FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

    A meeting of the executive of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives was held recently to consider the policy to be adopted with regard to the sanatorium known as the "Thirlmere ...

    Article : 264 words
  6. LOVED THE OTHER GIRL.

    In the County Court, Geelong (Vic), on Tuesday, before Judge Molesworth, a saleswoman named Emma Renshaw, aged 30, spinster, of South Geelong, proceeded against Lawrence Anderson, ...

    Article : 442 words
  7. LANDS ADMINISTRATION.

    "Before the Royal Commission on Monday Mr. R. D. Meagher was examined. He was asked: Have you not carried on business at Mr. Willis' office in Bligh-street? I have not. I know that the ...

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  8. LESSONS OF THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE.

    It is the intention of the British Admiralty to mobilise a number of reserve battleships and cruisers, with the object of experimenting in manoeuvres of the kind practised at Tsu-shima. ...

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  9. THE RABBIT PEST IN AUSTRALIA

    Mr. win. Rodier, Tambua Station, Cobar (N.S. Wales), writes: "As I have read in the papers lately several adverse criticisms on my plan of rabbit destruction, and consider that the persons ...

    Article : 396 words
  10. RUSSIA'S INTERNAL TROUBLES

    There are 60,000 workers on strike at Ivanovo, the "Manchester" of Russia. A crowd of workers in a street of the town, who were quietly discussing their needs, were ...

    Article : 70 words
  11. IMPORTANT HIGH COURT DECISION.

    The High Court unanimously decided on Monday that the Industrial Arbitration Court had no power to include in an award a direction to an employer to give notice to a union of employees ...

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  12. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    Carrier pigeons to the number of over 10,000 are used in the German Army. Sunshine Self-Raising Flour. Scones like snow, as light as air. All grocers.— ...

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  13. NARROW ESCAPE OF LADY PLUNKETT.

    a victoria containing Lady Plunkett, her infant son Brinsley, and Lady Kathleen Plunket, went over a 15ft. embankment at Wellington (New Zealand). Lady Kathleen Plunket and the ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. ESCAPED MANY TIMES.

    There arrived in Sydney from Brisbane by the steamer Arawatta on Monday morning, in charge of Constable J. Wilson, of the Queensland police, an escaped French convict named M. J. A. Marty ...

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  15. THE KAISER'S SCHEME THAT FAILED.

    German publicists and leading men openly admit that the Kaiser's scheme in regard to Morocco was designed to break the Anglo-French entente, and impress upon the Sultan of Turkey ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. MURDERS BY WESTRALIAN NATIVES.

    The Westralian Commissioner of Police has received the following telegram from Peak Hill Police Station:—"A native tracker arrived to-day with a report ...

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  17. REMARKABLE OCEAN RACE.

    The wheat barques Este, Iredale, and Inverurie, from Melbourne, were signalled off Queenstown almost simultaneously. The Este was actually first just beating the Iredale. ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. 500 KILLED BY COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    A tremendous explosion occurred at the Ivan colliery. Khartsick, in Russian Poland. Five hundred miners were killed. ...

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  19. SUBMARINE DISASTER.

    Captain Reginald Bacon, an expert in submarine boats, at the inquest on the victims of the disaster to submarine A8, deposed that on making an examination of the submarine when she was ...

    Article : 97 words
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  21. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS

    In the match with Dublin University, Australia I won by 231 runs. The scores were: Dublin, 141 and 136; Australia, 232 and 276. ...

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  22. STAR-BOWKETT BUILDING SOCIETIES.

    An appropriation meeting of the Burwood Society was held at the School of Arts, Burwood, on Wednesday. 21st inst., Alderman F. W. Parsons, Mayor of Strathfield, in the chair. The ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. MILITARY TREASON IN ITALY.

    The trial is proceeding at Messina of Major Ercolessi, of the Italian Army, and his wife, on a charge of treasonably selling military documents to a foreign Power. ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. ARMY CONTRACTS SCANDAL.

    Replying to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the leader of the Opposition, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons, that the Director of Public Prosecutions considered ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. DIED MERRILY.

    An inquest was held on the body of George Willis, a married man, 28 years of age, who was found shot through the head, near the Lighthouse, at South Head, on Tuesday afternoon. A revolver, ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. MAGNIFICENT BEQUEST TO CHARITIES.

    The late Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, of Vienna, bequeathed £830,000 to charities, especially to those, for the relief of the sick and suffering of Vienna. ...

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  27. EXPERT BURGLARS MAKE BIG HAUL.

    Some time between Saturday night and Monday morning burglars broke into the premises of S. Copell and Co., jewellers, situated in a lane off Little Collins-street, Melbourne, and got clear ...

    Article : 238 words
  28. BOGUS TELEGRAM INCIDENT.

    Patrick M'Kenna, who was recently charged in Melbourne Police Court with Bending a bogus telegram to his wife at Ballarat, announcing that he had been killed in a tram accident, and who, ...

    Article : 189 words
  29. LADY MURDERED IN PARIS STREET.

    While Miss Cary, an English governess, was (walking near Mont Valerien, Paris, she was strangled in broad daylight. Numerous suspects were arrested. Eventually ...

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  30. JAPANESE SHIPS WERE ARMED IN ENGLAND.

    In the course of a speech at the launching of the Achilles, Sir Andrew Noble, vice-chairman of the well-known firm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, mentioned that ...

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  31. SETTLED THE DISPUTE.

    "James," cried Mrs. Timmid, "there are burglars downstairs." "Oh, no, there ain't, my dear," replied Mr. Timmid. ...

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  32. GOOD SHOOTING AT OVER FIVE MILES RANGE.

    The British battleship Commonwealth, 16,350 tons, is conducting a gunnery experiment al Bantry Bay. Wonderful results have been attained at a range of 10,000 yards (5¾ miles). ...

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  34. DEALERS IN NAMES AND ADDRESSES.

    "The circular nuisance is becoming a plague," says the British householder. And never was complaint more justified. But plagues, philosophers tell us, have a ...

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  35. CHINESE BOYCOTT AMERICAN GOODS.

    Six hundred students, representing 26 colleges, resolved at Tientsin to issue leaflets in support of a boycott of American Roods. Two hundred members of the Commercial Guild, with ...

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  36. PORT ARTHUR FOR THE JAPANESE.

    Reuter's correspondent at Chifu states that Japan has ordered European and American firms at Port Arthur to depart within 40 days. ...

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  39. CLAIM FOR £10,0000 FOR LIBEL

    The case of McIntosh v. Dunn, reported last week, being a claim for £10,000 for alleged libel, is still unfinished. ...

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  40. TRAIN ACCIDENT KILLS 13 PEOPLE.

    The Chicago and New York express, while travelling at a speed of 70 miles an hour, struck an open switch at Menton, Ohio, and was derailed. 13 being killed and 20 injured. The ...

    Article : 52 words
  41. CENSURE MOTION.

    The division on Mr. McGowen's censure motion in the N.S.W. Assembly resulted: For, 29; against, 53. ...

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  43. HALF A MILLION GIFT FOR GERMAN OFFICERS.

    Herr Fuerst Henckel Donnersmarck, a Silesian coal magnate, has placed at the Kaiser's disposal £500,000 the interest of which is to be paid to German officers for special service or by way of ...

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