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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 340 words
  3. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY.

    A starting story of mutiny and murder was brought to Sydney on Monday by the steamer Germania. Two men, Joseph Mortimer and Jackson seized ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  4. DROWNED AT A REGATTA.

    A fatality occurred while the annual naval fleet regatta was being held at Hobart. During the progress of the races a number of seamen were congregated round the bulwarks of H.M.S ...

    Article : 124 words
  5. SHOCKING CYCLE ACCIDENTS.

    A 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 words
  6. WHARF LABORERS ON STRIKER

    The 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 words
  7. BOMBS FOR KING OF SPAIN.

    Before 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 words
  8. MAIL TRAIN DERAILED.

    The 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 words
  9. CLEVER GIRL THIEF.

    A 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 words
  10. REPORT ON POWER-HOUSE FIASCO.

    Mr. 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 words
  11. SOUTH AFRICAN LABOR PROBLEM

    The 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 words
  12. DOUBTFUL STORY OF A WILL.

    Peter 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 words
  13. VERE GOOLD GOES TO NOUMEA.

    Vere Goold who was convicted of the Monte Carlo murder, has been sent to New Caledonia. His wile will be imprisoned at Montpellier ...

    Article : 28 words
  14. CANNIBALISTIC SHEEP.

    A Gundagai farmer named R. Potter reports the less of a large number of fat sheep. On opening the animals' stomach he found them to contain the hoofs and wool of other sheep. Other ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. LATE MRS. E. P. MARKS' WILL.

    Probate has been granted the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Marks, of "Glenrock," Darling Point, widow, who died on January 19. The value of the estate for probate is stated at ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

    Deaths from influenza in London last week numbered 122 ...

    Article : 13 words
  17. MRS. THAW SEEKS DIVORCE.

    Evelyn 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 words
  18. PRISONER JUMPS FROM TRAIN

    At 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 words
  19. WOMAN SHOT AT BURWOOD.

    Early 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 words
  20. THREE KILLED IN MOTOR SMASH

    Motor 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 words
  21. THE CHAMPAGNE INDUSTRY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At 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 words
  22. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament 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 words
  23. RAM DISTURBS PICNIC PARTY.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 121 words
  24. OPIUM PROHIBITION FAILS.

    Dr. Wollaston, Controller-General of Customs, reports that it is doubtful if the prohibition order had lessened to any extent the amount of [?] brought into Australia ...

    Article : 51 words
  25. LUNATIC ATTEMPTS TO KILL KING OF NORWAY.

    An 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 words
  26. GIRL KILLED BY BALL.

    A 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 words
  27. THE KAISER'S LETTER.

    Lord 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 words
  28. BALLARAT SHAFT TRAGEDY.

    William 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 words
  29. SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.

    Mr. 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 words
  30. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BILL.

    The 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 words
  31. FATAL TABLEAUX.

    In 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 words
  32. GIRLS SQUEEZE THROUGH SIX-INCH BARS.

    At 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 words
  33. A BELLICOSE CLERGYMAN.

    Great 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 words
  34. A CONDEMNED MAN'S LETTER.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 167 words
  35. COMPETITION RESULT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 words
  36. CRIMEAN WAR VETERAN.

    At 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 words
  37. FIGHTING THE LIQUOR BILL.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 91 words
  38. WOMAN CARRIED TEN MILES ON STRETCHER.

    Dr. Muscio, of Emmaville, was called out to attend a Mrs.A. Eshman, postmistress at Torrington, last week. On arrival he diagnosed the case as one of appendictis, and ordered her ...

    Article : 236 words
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    Advertising : 157 words
  40. WIFE'S STARTLING ALLEGATIONS.

    Abraham Trevascus, a commercial traveller, was charged at the South Melbourne Court with having threatened the life of his wife, Alice Trevascus ...

    Article : 203 words
  41. FIRE EXTINGUISHED BY SNOW BALLS.

    Probably the most remarkable manner of extinguishing fire has occurred at Boswell, a mining town in Pa, America. Hundreds of men, women, boys, and girls ...

    Article : 113 words
  42. OUTRAGE AT A PEER'S HOUSE

    Mr. 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 words
  43. BRITAIN'S NAVAL STRENGTH.

    According 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 words
  44. ALCOHOLIC GINGER BEER.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 171 words
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  47. LAD'S PECULIAR MISHAP.

    A 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 words
  48. THE PORTUGUESE ASSASSINATION.

    Investigations 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 words
  49. 100 MILES AN HOUR.

    At 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 ...

    Article : 50 words
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