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Advertising : 340 wordsA starting story of mutiny and murder was brought to Sydney on Monday by the steamer Germania. Two men, Joseph Mortimer and Jackson seized ...
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Article : 124 wordsA shocking accident, resulting in the death of William Rowe, aged 18, occurred in Punt-road, Richmond (Vic). William McLaren, who resides at 220 Malvern-road, Prahran, was driving ...
Article : 386 wordsThe whole of the wharf laborers ceased work at midnight on Wednesday. 3200 men being on strike. At the meeting which decided the strike Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.P.. and a large section of the ...
Article : 102 wordsBefore daybreak on Wednesday a bomb exploded under the outer quay at Barcelona where King Alfonso was at the time on a visit. The damage was slight, and the matter was concealed until ...
Article : 191 wordsThe mail train which left Moree at 3.15 on Tuesday afternoon for Sydney was partially derailed between Blandford and Wingen, on the Northern line, shortly before midnight ...
Article : 381 wordsA remarkable story of crime has been told to the Melbourne police by a girl, 17 years of age, named Eva Holmes, who has confessed to the thief of 40 gold rings from various shops on different ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. G. A. Julius' further report on the powerhouse is a strung condemnation of the City Council. In the second paragraph of his conclusions the plainly indicates that had the enterprises of ...
Article : 705 wordsThe Mining Industry Commission of the Transvaal appointed to inquire into labour conditions recommends the stoppage of the importation of natives from Portuguese territories, and the ...
Article : 99 wordsPeter Bain, a retired Maryborough constable, died in April last, leaving property worth £5952. He had no relatives in Victoria, but left relatives in Great Britain. A week after his death the ...
Article : 397 wordsVere Goold who was convicted of the Monte Carlo murder, has been sent to New Caledonia. His wile will be imprisoned at Montpellier ...
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Article : 13 wordsEvelyn Thaw (Nesbit) seeks a divorce from her husband, Harry Thaw, who was recently acquitted of the murder of Stanford White, on the ground of insanity. The ground on which divorce is ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Perth Criminal Court, Alfred Abbott, alias Barrington, who is at present undergoing a term of imprisonment for stealing, was sentenced to three months for escaping from custody ...
Article : 84 wordsEarly on Wednesday rooming George Knight, aged 15, employed as a tenant by Miss Vickery, of Burwood, shot the cook. Annie Fealey, in the arm, with a revolver, and having discharged a ...
Article : 476 wordsMotor car races which were to have been held in honor of the Duke of Connaught at Cairo were abruptly closed owing to a car swerving and killing three people and injuring ten others ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the invitation of Messrs. James Angus and Sons, nearly 100 gentlemen interested in the wine industry on Friday paid a visit to that firms cellars at Minchinbury. Rooty Kill, to celebrate ...
Article : 311 wordsParliament was opened on Tuesday. The ceremony was exeedingly brief, the proceedings occupying less than 10 minutes. The Governor's speech indicated that bills ...
Article : 200 wordsA party of Albury ladies had an unpleasant experience on Sunday. They were picnicking in a paddock near the river with their husbands. The latter were away fishing, when a ram that ...
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Article : 51 wordsAn attempt was intended to bo made on the life of King Haakon of Norway on Tuesday. A Swedish laborer named Gren, a discharged lunatic, fired a dozen shots front a Remington rifle into ...
Article : 89 wordsA little girl named May White died suddenly from the effects of a blow from a rubber cricket ball. Marshall White, aged 21, and Robert White ...
Article : 134 wordsLord Tweedmouth explained in the Lords that the Kaiser's letter came to him by the ordinary post. He showed it to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and they agreed to treat it ...
Article : 262 wordsWilliam lies, who was apprehended at Nar Nar Goon on Thursday, in connection with the mysterious murder of Mrs. Mary Graham, whose body was found in a mine shaft at Vale Park, near ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. Mervyn H. Hughes, connected with the firm of H. P. Hughes and Sons, wool-brokers, committed suicide in a train while travelling to Lewes, England ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Industrial Disputes Rill introduced by the Premier creates a tribunal or tribunals to preserve the good principles of the present Act. The underlying principles of the Victorian ...
Article : 136 wordsIn a carnival at Braganza, Portugal, a shocking accident occurred during one of the tableaux. A peasant represented King Carlos in a carriage, a son represented the Crown Prince Luiz, and ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the Seymour (Vic.) Police Court a charge of theft was heard against a young woman named Josephine Biggott. In January the accused arranged with her two sisters to get into the ...
Article : 125 wordsGreat excitement was caused at the Church of England at Nanoka (Vic.) on Sunday afternoon, when the Rev. G. Gladstone, who was recently relieved by the incumbency of Nathalia diocese ...
Article : 135 wordsA Petition baa been drawn up at Perth (W.A.). asking that the death sentence on Hurry G. Smith be commuted or that the sentence shall be respited to give time fur the investigation of Smith's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsAt North Botany on March 10 there passed away, at the age of 79, Mr. Thomas Smith, a veteran of the Crimean War. Mr. Smith joined the Royal Artillery on January 27, 1853, and not ...
Article : 87 wordsA monster meeting of the liquor trade to inaugurate a campaign against the Licensing Bill was held in the Queen's Hall. So crowded was the meeting that 2000 publicans were unable to ...
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Article : 113 wordsMr. Justice Kenny (King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, Ireland), in refusing the appeal against the decision of the County Court, that damages should be awarded to Lord ...
Article : 155 wordsAccording to the Secretary to the Admiralty, in 1910 France and Germany together might have 12 battleships and cruisers to Britain's 12, but early in 1911 they would have 12 to Britain's 14 ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Collector of Customs held an inquiry into the complaint that Mrs. Threlfall, of Warrnambool, had unlawfully manufactured beer. It was shown that the officer had purchased ginger beer ...
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Advertising : 264 wordsA lad named Albert Morley was walking along the bank of the Tumut River, near Gundagai, when his foot touched a loaded rifle, which exploded. The bullet entered his left leg, went ...
Article : 61 wordsInvestigations which have been made at Lisbon prove that five or six conspirators fired at the Portuguese Royal carriage, but it is probable that those killed were not the actual ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the Ormond motor races, on Florida Beach (U.S.A.), one competitor, Mr. Bernin, drove a 60 h.p. Renault car 100 miles, in 72min 56sec—a world's record ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 15 Mar 1908, Page 12
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