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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    A serious accident occurred on Tuesday morning to the Moree outward-bound mail train, leaving werris Creek at 4.23. After leaving the platform, by some mischance the leading engine took ...

    Article : 617 words
  3. "FIREBALLS" DURING A STORM.

    A "fire ball" struck a house occupied by Mr. Poole at Faddington during a severe thunderstorm soon after midnight on Tuesday. Sir. Poole says that he does not wish to go through the same ...

    Article : 297 words
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  5. MELBOURNE MURDER MYSTERY.

    A man has been identified from a photograph in the possession of the police as baying actually had the last known interview with Mr. Bauer on the afternoon when the latter was ...

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  6. SURRY HILLS MURDER.

    The case of Richard Riley, recently sentenced to death for the murder of Rose Arnold, at Surry Hills, last year, was before the Executive Council, and it was decided to commute the sentence ...

    Article : 218 words
  7. MANUFACTURERS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.

    At the Water Police Court, Sydney, the case in which Abraham Myerson, 10, manufacturer, and Maurice Myerson, 27, manufacturer, were charged by warrant with conspiring to defraud W. S. ...

    Article : 582 words
  8. SENSATIONAL TALE OF THE SEA.

    A sensational tale of the sea was unfolded by the castaways from the Norwegian barque Albania, who were brought to Sydney from Tonga, in the South Seas, by the Union Company's island ...

    Article : 521 words
  9. IMPROVEMENT LEASE COMMISSION

    There were but two applications on the list for hearing during the week by the Improvement Leases Board, and they were disposed of. A. M. and Thomas Egan, executors of the estate of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. THE MAIL MUDDLE.

    Sir William Lyne, in the course of an interview at Perth, in reply to a question about the mail contract proposed to be entered into by the Federal Government, said: "Mr. Denkin ...

    Article : 454 words
  11. TUMULT IN FRANCE.

    Extraordinary scenes have been witnessed at Narbonne, South France, in the agitation against the wine measures of the Government. Late on Tuesday night the t[?]esin sounded. The ...

    Article : 363 words
  12. MORE TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

    The Czar has issued a manifesto respecting the dissolution of the Duma. It states that the Duma ought to be Russian in spirit, having been ...

    Article : 282 words
  13. DESPERATE FIGHT BETWEEN POLICEMAN AND FISHERMAN.

    Whilst attempting to arrest a fisherman, Dominick Tarraboucha, at Portarlington (Vic). Constable Cawsey was stabbed. The officer then fired several shots at his assailant, wounding his left ...

    Article : 312 words
  14. STATE ELECTIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 words
  15. THE GRACE BROS. CASE.

    The case of Mackenzie v. Grace Bros, was again mentioned in the District Court, Sydney, before Judge Murray, when Mr. Garland asked, on behalf of Joseph Neal Grace, defendant in the ...

    Article : 359 words
  16. PECULIAR LAW.

    At the Newcastle Police Court, before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M., the ease of the barque Piamore, in which the master, Captain Mullen, was proceeded against by Captain Mucking ...

    Article : 327 words
  17. SEDITION IN INDIA.

    Mr. Mackarness (Liberal) and Mr. O'Gradly (Labor), in the House of Commons persistently but vainly endeavored to induce Mr. Morley, Secretary of State for India, to discuss the action of the ...

    Article : 205 words
  18. MINE MANAGER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.

    At the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Murray and a jury, John Wilson, mine manager, was arraigned on a charge of having, at Scarborough, on April 13, feloniously killed Arthur Albert Selby ...

    Article : 173 words
  19. EX-MAYOR CONVICTED OF EXTORTION.

    Eugene Schmitz, ex-Mayor of San Francisco, has been convicted on a charge of extorting money from [?]staurant-keepers. The crime is one for which Schmitz is liable to ...

    Article : 59 words
  20. AUSTRALIA'S PERIL.

    At a meeting of the engineering section of the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, held under the presidency of Mr. T. W. Keele, consideration was given to a paper previously road by .Mr. J. ...

    Article : 273 words
  21. AN INTER-STATE FIGHT.

    An influential deputation waited upon the N.S. Wales Premier respecting the Victorian subsidy to a line of steamers to the East. It was stated that New South Wales had done ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. ACTION AGAINST SOLICITOR.

    A remarkable action, in which the defendant, Henry White, an ex-solicitor at present completing a sentence in gaol, was heard by the Chief Justice and a jury of four in the Banco Court ...

    Article : 323 words
  23. A PREMIER STONED.

    Senhor Franco, Premier of Portugal, met with a hostile reception in Oporto. The police had to shield him from the effect of popular fury. Crowds stoned both Senhor Franco and the ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. JUDGE ON "DREADFUL" LAW.

    Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson, during the hearing of a divorce case, said that the petition was apparently another attempt to obtain a divorce by a short cut by virtue of an Act of Parliament. ...

    Article : 173 words
  25. THREE MINERS KILLED.

    A fire occurred at Nightcaps Coal-mine, Southland (N.Z.). Three men, William Duncan, William Carson, and Patrick Walsh, were cut off from means of ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. MOTHER AND SON POISONED.

    A sensational occurrence, which may prove to have a tragic sequel, is reported from Williamstown (Vic.). A young married woman, Charlotte Kenny, was arrested on a charge of having ...

    Article : 87 words
  27. AUSTRALASIA AND THE NAVY.

    Sir Joseph Ward, in a Press interview, said that New Zealand was prepared to double the amount of its naval subsidy of £50,000. The apathy of Australians in regard to the ...

    Article : 44 words
  28. WIFE'S REMARKABLE "PERMIT."

    Before the Judge in Divorce during the hearing of the case Quinn v. Quinn, the husband deposed that hin wife gave him a card some two or three years ago, and said. "Here you are; here's a ...

    Article : 245 words
  29. YOUTH CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    The trial of the German youth Karl Schonherr, on a charge of wilfully murdering William Panton, an elderly man, at Wood End (Vic), on April 20 last, was commenced at the Criminal ...

    Article : 176 words
  30. A TRAGIC DISCOVERY.

    A woman named Catherine Smith was found dead in tt shed at the rear of a boarding-house in Hay-street, Perth, with her throat cut. and a table knife lying alongside her. The ...

    Article : 145 words
  31. CRIME IN MELBOURNE.

    Owing to the recent outbreak of crime in Melbourne, the Cabinet has decided to amend the laws relating to crimes and vagrancy. Under the bill to be introduced, police will have power ...

    Article : 89 words
  32. RAND AND CHINESE.

    Sir. G. H. Farrar, speaking in the Transvaal Parliament, censured General Botha for his statement respecting the repatriation of Chinese. He said tint the Premier was breaking a ...

    Article : 95 words
  33. RUSH FOR GRAVEYARD GOLD.

    The announcement that gold-bearing stone, 19in vide, bad been struck in a crave at the old cemetery at Ballarat North, has caused a great stir. When it was reported that a crushing of ...

    Article : 93 words
  34. ALLEGED DEFECTIVE LYDDITE SHELLS.

    The War Office is investigating certain reported disquietening defects in the steel casing of lyddite shells, and ninny thousands of shells issued are being examined. ...

    Article : 31 words
  35. 250 PEOPLE POISONED.

    Two hundred and fifty people, including several military offices, were poisoned at a banquet at Cos[?] Loi[?], in France. ...

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  36. THE RAND STRIKE.

    Rand strikers dynamited the houses of workers who had resumed after striking. The explosion killed a shift boss. ...

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  37. RACING SCANDAL.

    Edward Bourke and Thomas Varcoe, who wore arrested on the Broken Hill racecourse on a charge of false pretences and of attempting a fraud ever the racehorse Dignum, were before ...

    Article : 86 words
  38. AUSTRALIANS IN 'FRISCO.

    A resident of Goulburn has received a letter from a relative who is at present in San Francisco, giving a graphic view of industrial conditions there at the present time. At the time of ...

    Article : 225 words
  39. DYNAMITERS KILL THIRTY PEOPLE.

    An explosion of dynamite, which is attributed to the agency of dismissed workmen, wrecked a building at Covilha, Portugal. Thirty people were killed. ...

    Article : 27 words
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  42. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

    The Brisbane Commissioner of Police received a report on the finding of human bones in the trunk of a tree ut the Cedars, five miles from South Kolan. ...

    Article : 171 words
  43. MR. DEAKIN'S WELCOME HOME.

    An enthusiastic welcome was tendered to Mr. Deakin in the Queen's Hall, Perth, on his return from the Imperial Conference. Mr. Deakin Bald that the colonial visitors in ...

    Article : 147 words
  44. HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE.

    The Dutch Minister for Koreign Affairs welcomed the Hague delegates, and delivered a formal inaugural address. The President counselled the Conference against ...

    Article : 119 words
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