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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    DEATHS AMONG 37 CHILDREN. At the adjourned inquest on the death of the infant Ethel Booth, who died in the Perth (W.A.) Hospital on February 4 ...

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  4. POISONED BY CRETONNE CURTAINS.

    In the conrse of his address on "Food Adulteration" at the School of Arts, the Government Analyst (Mr. Hamlet) expressed the desire that legislation would prevent the adulteration of ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. REMARKABLE RIFLE SCORES.

    At the Port Melbourne Rifle Range a match was fired between teams of 20 men, representing those rifle clubs which make Williamstown and Port Melbourne their headquarters, and resulted in ...

    Article : 93 words
  6. CASTAWAYS RESCUED FROM RAFT.

    In latitude 74,5deg., and longitude 128.10deg. W., during a strong south-easterly gale, accompanied by furious squalls and hail, the British ship Barcore (which reached Port Adelaide from ...

    Article : 466 words
  7. CHOKED BY HIS FALSE TEETH.

    A youth named Archibald Anderson lost his life in a remarkable manner in the Yarra on Sunday. After he had been in the water a few minutes he was seen to sink, and when his body was ...

    Article : 69 words
  8. REFORMERS SCORE IN LONDON.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 words
  9. FATALLY SHOT BY A BOY.

    A young settler named Kenneth Hardie, son of the Rev. Andrew Hardle, of Richmond, was accidentally shot dead at his residence, near Warragul (Vic.). A week ago Hardie engaged a youth ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. BILLIARD RECORD.

    Playing against Inman in England, 16,000 up, Reece made a record break of 1263, including 521 consecutive cannons ...

    Article : 18 words
  11. CYCLONE IN WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

    A cyclone which struck the district on Monday night at 7.45 caine from the north-east—from Geurie—affecting, mainly, Comobella, Bodangora, and Artharville. At Bodangora it was in the ...

    Article : 682 words
  12. BOYCOTTERS ROB A MAN OF BREAD.

    Eight residents of Ballinbragh were charged at Leitrim Assizes with riot. The evidence showed that a man who was boycotted by his neighbors went twenty miles for ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. TRAM POWER-HOUSE BURNT.

    The power-house of the Brighton electric tramway, St. Kilda-road, Elsternwick (Vic), was burnt early on Thursday morning, the origin of the fire being a mastery. All the cars used on ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. RABBIT EXTERMINATION EXPERIMENTS.

    Dr. Danyaz, French expert, reporting to his employers, the Pastures Protection Board's Council of Advice, as to the experiments with his rabbit microbe at Bronzhton Island, says ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. GREAT DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

    A terrific explosion of a store of dynamite occurred in the Pennsylvania railways tunnel under the Hudson River, at New Jersey. The explosion was felt for a distance of 60 miles ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. BLUE ANCHOR LINER IN COLLISION.

    The Blue Anchor steamer Geelong, 7954 tons, from Sydney, came into collision with the Norwegian steamer Frogner, 1127 tons, off Beachy Head, Sussex, in a fog. The Frogner sank, and ...

    Article : 47 words
  17. BARONESS AS SPY.

    The Baroness Schoenberger, the Hungarian beauty, who was used by M. Polonyl, the Hungarian Minister for Justice, to spy on the Emperor Francis Joseph to final ...

    Article : 290 words
  18. GERMAN ACTIVITY IN MOROCCO.

    Commenting on the disclosures made by M. Tardieu, foreign editor of the "Temps," respecting the policy of Germany at the Algeciras Conference on the control of Morocco, the German ...

    Article : 73 words
  19. THE BETTING AND GAMING ACT AND COUNTRY SHOWS.

    When the Betting and Gaming Bill was first passed into law, chief amongst its most ardent supporters were the bulk of the members of the Bathurst A.H. and P ...

    Article : 169 words
  20. HAILSTORM DOES MUCH DAMAGE

    A hailstorm created havoc in the Mess Vale district on Saturday. At Exeter the beautiful gardens of Yates and Co. and Searl and Sons were devastated. Not a vestige of Mr. J. Marchic's ...

    Article : 185 words
  21. FRENZIED FINANCE.

    Mr. Harriman, the financier, and his friends, by forcing Readings (railway stock) from 114 to 125 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange, made several millions sterling profit ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. SALVATIONIST ACTRESS AND STAGE MORALS.

    Miss Ada Ward, a famous and popular actress same years ago, who was "converted," is now an evangelist attached to the Salvation Army. In an interview in Melbourne, Miss Ward told the ...

    Article : 740 words
  23. THE GODFREY DIVORCE CASE.

    After a hearing extending over several days. Mr. Justice Simpson, Judge in Divorce, delivered his reserved judgment in the Godfrey divorce case. He held that petitioner had not proved his case ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. ARBITRATION ACT A FAILURE—JUDGE'S STRONG COMMENTS.

    In delivering judgment in the claim of the Amalga[?] Miners' Association, Wrightville, against the Great Cobar Copper-mining Syndicate in the Arbitration Court, Judge Heydon, who with ...

    Article : 871 words
  25. ROBBERY OF SOVEREIGNS FROM STEAMER.

    Lawrence Christie and Patrick Manning were charged with the theft of 1000 sovereigus from the steamer Navna, at Auckland (N.Z). Detective Walker produced a confession by ...

    Article : 205 words
  26. BISLEY RIFLE TEAM.

    Corporal S. Edwards (Australian Rifles), W. H. Cutler (Bathurst), and W. A. Clark (Naval Brigade) have been selected to represent N.S. Wales in the Australian rifle team for Bisley ...

    Article : 33 words
  27. FREE FIGHT ABOUT EXISTENCE OF A SPOOK.

    A judge, an inspector of police, and the chief of the Grenoble detective force interviewed a mysterious spirit at Grenoble last month ...

    Article : 413 words
  28. DRAMATIC SCENE AT MURDER TRIAL.

    Last November Mueller, an ex-teacher, was sentenced to death at Bayrenth for the murue, of Bertha Wuenschelmeyer, a pupil, 11 years old. It was proved that the body of the girl lay in ...

    Article : 138 words
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  30. LIQUOR TRADES DEFENCE UNION.

    The following appeal has been issued, on behalf of the Union, by the chairman, Mr. F. Bligh:— "The Liquor Trades Defence Union of New South Wales has been formed with a view of ...

    Article : 587 words
  31. SOLICITOR STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS

    In directing that a solicitor named John Knox Malcolm be struck off the rolls, the Chief Justice said there were black sheep in every profession, but he was glad to say that there were not many ...

    Article : 174 words
  32. UNITED STATES HUGE APPROPRIATIONS'

    The United States Congress, in ten weeks, has voted £200,000,000 appropriations. This is a record. From the Ship Subsidy Bill the House of ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. CALIFORNIA AND JAPANESE.

    The Lower House of the State Legislature of California has parsed a Bill which virtually prevents aliens holding landed property in California. The Hill is adimittedly aimed at the ...

    Article : 35 words
  34. THE MAIL CONTRACT.

    Mr. William Beardmore (managing director of William Beardmore and Company, Limited) has made an official statement in regard to his connection with the English mail contract ...

    Article : 143 words
  35. CASE OF JURYMAN BROWN.

    The case of Andrew Brown, a juryman who was engaged in the Crick-Willis trial of a charge of conspiracy, was again before the State Full Court on Thursday. Brown was called upon at the ...

    Article : 504 words
  36. 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE TOO SLOW FOR NEW ZEALAND.

    It has been officially notified in New Zealand that, owing to the continued disarrangement of the San Francisco mail service, the Acting-Postmaster-General has directed that no mails for ...

    Article : 113 words
  37. BRITAIN AND THE TWO-POWER STANDARD.

    Mr. E. Robertson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, explained the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons. He said that the Admiralty believed that the present programme would ...

    Article : 231 words
  38. TRANSVAAL MINISTRY.

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  39. THE TARIFF AND DEFENCE.

    Mr. M. Kincaid Smith, M.P. (Liberal), addressing his constituents at Stratford-on-Avon, strongly advocated a small general tariff of one to two per cent. on all foreign manufactures entering the ...

    Article : 92 words
  40. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    At the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce a motion was carried urging the Government to so conduct the negotiations at the Colonial Conference that reciprocal trading may ...

    Article : 93 words
  41. JEALOUS HUSBAND'S DILEMMA.

    M. Claude Barbler. a French turf commission agent, introduced to the legal world last month a scene worthy of one of his own national farces ...

    Article : 295 words
  42. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Standard" states that General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, has accepted the invitation to take part in the Imperial Conference in London ...

    Article : 228 words
  43. TO ASSIST DISTRESSED AUTHORS.

    The committee appointed to draw up a scheme for the distribution of £500 a year voted by the Federal Parliament to assist destitute men of letters submitted a report to the Prime Miniser ...

    Article : 94 words
  44. EGYPT WANTS HOME RULE.

    At the instance of M. Yussey, editor of the "Moayyua," the Nationalist paper at Cairo, which is supposed to be backed by the Khedive, the General Assembly has passed a resolution ...

    Article : 49 words
  45. KILLING NO MURDER.

    The two brothers Strother, who in December last shot a yealthy Virginian (U.S.) landowner named Bywaters, who had wronged their sister, have been acquitted on a charge of murder ...

    Article : 84 words
  46. THE POSEIDON RUSH.

    On Friday evening Messrs. Wragg Bros. found a 46oz nugget. It was "knock on" time, and the slug was quickly brought to larnagulla. A peculiar incident is related in connection ...

    Article : 294 words
  47. ELINGAMITE'S TREASURE.

    The expedition in the schooner Huia to the wreck of the Elingamite has recovered an additional £300 of the sunken treasure, making about £2000 in all ...

    Article : 29 words
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  50. CIVILISED KANAKAS.

    From reports which have reached the Department of External Affairs, it appears that the only development that is promised in the New Hybrid's on Account of the Kanakas from Queensland who ...

    Article : 94 words
  51. GERMANY TO BOSS THE BALTIC.

    The Paris correspondent of "The Times" states that Germany has latterly made exertions to establish a policy of rapproach[?]ment with Denmark, in the hope of neutralising the Danish Straits ...

    Article : 89 words
  52. THE WHITELEY MURDER.

    Hor[?] Rayner, who is charged with murder [?] Whi[?]ley, the well-Brown London universal provider, has been committed for trial ...

    Article : 23 words
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