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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    Karl Sunell, 27, a native of Finland, described as a specialist, appeared before the Water Police Court to answer to a charge to riotous behaviour in George-street. ...

    Article : 367 words
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  4. CHINA CRISIS.

    A letter which is published in the "Tiraes" quotes official documents showing that Great Britain would be unable to rely upon Germany for help in any circu— ...

    Article : 159 words
  5. MOTHER AND CHILD MURDERED IN A CEMETERY.

    Ellen Jounquay and her child were found murdered in Taroom (Q.) Cemetery on Wednesday night. She was 22 years of age, and in £ habit ...

    Article : 300 words
  6. SHOOTING AT AN ARRESTING CONSTABLE.

    Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, while Constable Maurice Histon, of No. 1 station, was on duty in Hyde Park, Sydney, be observed a man, suspected of being a deserter ...

    Article : 348 words
  7. NOVEL DIVORCE PETITION.

    In the Divorce Court, Sydney, Sydney , Hull, a railway guard, sought a divorce from Sarah Jane Hull, nee Heffernan, on the ground of desertion. Petitioner said ...

    Article : 363 words
  8. FOUND DYING IN HIS BEDROOM.

    The death of Alfred Kerr, 32 years of age, which occurred at a boarding-house in Upper William-street, Darlinghurst, on Wednesday afternoon, from the effects of a ...

    Article : 348 words
  9. THE BOER WAR.

    Captain R. R. Thompson, of the 1st Australian (N.S.W.) Horse, has been appointed to the British Remount Department, with the rank of captain in the Army. ...

    Article : 697 words
  10. CUT HER BAB'/'S THROAT.

    A shocking attempt to murder her own child, aged 4 years, was made at Northcote, Victoria, by a woman, aged 41 years. While in a state of frenzy, .it is stated that the ...

    Article : 97 words
  11. JEALOUS HUSBAND USES A REVOLVER

    A serious domestic quarrel occurred in Fitzroy, a Melbourne suburb. A baker, Fredk. Tregoning, who six years ago married a widow with three children, ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. DETERMINED TO DIE.

    A story of determined suicide was related at an inquest at. Nathalia, Victoria, in the case of a laborer, John Daly. A carrier, named Baldwin, and his wife were driving ...

    Article : 135 words
  13. DISASTROUS BOILER EXPLOSION.

    A disaster occurred on the steamer City of Trenton on the Delaware River, United States. The boiler of the steamer exploded. Eleven persons were killed and 25 injured. ...

    Article : 31 words
  14. COLLIERY DISASTER.

    Owing to the moorland subsiding fourteen colliers were buried in the working's of a colliery in Fifeshire, Scotland. Three were rescued alive. All hope of ...

    Article : 43 words
  15. BETTING PROSECUTIONS.

    In connection with an alleged betting raid on Saturday night nineteen persons were charged, by warrant with having been found in a building in Bank-court, kept and used ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. TRAGEDY IN THE FAR NORTH.

    Francis Hickman, a farmer of over 70 ears of age, at Yorketown, Northern Territory, had for a month employed Edward Dingley, who was a quiet, ineffensive ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. UNIVERSITY ACCOUNTS DEFICIENT.

    The Government Auditor, in checking the acounts of the Melbourne University, found a difficulty in tracing a sum of £83 6s 8d, and an exhaustive audit was undertaken, ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. FRANCE AND THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    M.. Etienne, the leader of the French Colonial party, advocates that France should secure the abrogation of the Anglo-French self-denying ordinance regarding ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. STRANGE BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    Cecily Caulfield, a spinster, aged 32, sued John Edge, widower, aged 53 (at whom some months ago, in Spencer-street, Melbourne, she fired four shots), for £500 as ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. MORE MURDER'S OF BRITISH SOLDIERS-AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER SHOT.

    Lord Kitchener is forwarding to Mr. Steyn and General Botha sworn evidence, which was given before Major-General Elliott, showing that Lieutenant John Mair, late of ...

    Article : 346 words
  21. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    The Pacific Cattle Board has appointed Mr. C. H. Reynolds, late Director-General of Telegraphs In India, to the position of general manager of the Pacific Cable ...

    Article : 32 words
  22. SUICIDE IN A CAB.

    At the City Corner's Court an inquiry was held as to the death, of James Main-waring Smith on Tuesday. Drs. C. V. Bowker and Newton described ...

    Article : 345 words
  23. WAR OFFICE AND AIR SHIPS.

    The British War Office has ordered the construction of an air ship on the Barton system. The specifications State that the airship ...

    Article : 46 words
  24. THE BIG BURGLARY.

    At the Central Police Count, Herbert Peters, 36, carpenter, and Henry Henderson, 26, horse 'trainer, were charged with breaking and entering the shop of John J. Burt, ...

    Article : 112 words
  25. A RECORD VINTAGE.

    The vintage figures for the South Australian season show that the crop was a splendid one, 2,813,801 gallons being made, as compared with 1,558,285 last year. The ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. GARROTED AT HIS GATE-DEATH FROM THE EFFECTS.

    The death of Henry Francis Mills (44), or Shepherd-street, city, which took place at the Sydney Hospital on the 26th inst., formed the subject of an inquest before the City ...

    Article : 534 words
  27. DIED OF SNAKEBITE.

    A very old resident of Pimlico, Ballina district, was bitten by a snake on Tuesday. The remedies applied proved ineffective, and he died next morning. ...

    Article : 28 words
  28. GUILTY OF CRIMINAL LIBEL

    At the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions, John William Ford, who on the previous day had been convicted of publishing a defamatory libel reflecting upon E. W. ...

    Article : 186 words
  29. DEMOCRACY AND PRECEDENCE-A FUNNY STORY.

    Mr. George Jenkins, who recently relinquished his position as the first clerk of the House of Representatives in order to resume his post as Clerk of Parliaments in ...

    Article : 298 words
  30. TAMMANY'S BRIBES.

    The New York correspondent of the London "Times" states that one man hy means of blackmail in regard to the New York Fire Brigade contracts yearly ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. SENTENCED FOR MURDER.

    John Reuben, a Portuguese, charged with the murder of Fanny Hardwick, aged 23, on June 2, was found guilty at Rockhampton, Queensland, and sentenced to death. ...

    Article : 204 words
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  34. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    Boer prisoners at Capetown presented the Duke of Cornwall and York with curios made of Kruger coins. His Royal Highness shock hands with the prisoners. They were ...

    Article : 69 words
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