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  2. THE WEEK's MISCELLANY:

    A trial of the brakes of the Bendigo train was, despite protests from Driver Milburn's counsel, held on Tuesday morning, without Milburn being present, under conditions as nearly as possible ...

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  3. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    The Premiers' Conference was opened in Melbourne on Tuesday by the Governor of Victoria. Mr. Dent was appointed president. On Wednesday the desirability of establishing ...

    Article : 266 words
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  5. PEARLING FLEET WRECKED.

    The pearling fleet. Including many luggers, was wrecked at Lagrange Bay, 40 miles south of Broome (W.A.), as the result of a willy-willy. At an early hour on Monday morning, just as ...

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  6. OLD COUPLE'S CRIME.

    After forcing a deed to obtain the victim's house at Waterton, New York, a septuagenarian couple named Farmer Lured Mrs. Beenman, a friend and neighbor, into their house, where they killed ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. MOHMAND TROUBLE

    The Mohmands on the northern frontier of India have dispersed, except 500 at Bonaidag. The rest are harvesting at high speed, as they fear that the British forces, under Major-General ...

    Article : 48 words
  8. FINANCIER COMMITS SUICIDE.

    Mr. Charles Coster, a wealthy stockbroker of New York, committee suicide after losing £200,000, the money of his firm. The loss was incurred in desperate efforts to retrieve losses of ...

    Article : 38 words
  9. NAVAL DISASTERS.

    During a blizzard on Saturday afternoon, the American liner Saint Paul, 11,629 tons, outward bound from Southampton, crashed into the port side of the cruiser Gladiator, 5750 tons, off ...

    Article : 485 words
  10. KILLED ON PYRMONT BRIDGE.

    Mr. Walter Alfred Smith, metropolitan engineer in the Works Department, fell from Pyrmont Bridge on Tuesday, and was killed. He was ascending the iron ladder leading up ...

    Article : 46 words
  11. GERMANY AND EASTERN TRADE.

    The Federal Council of Germany has sanctioned the bill increasing the subvention of the North German Lloyd Company by £25,000 annually, to enable it to establish a regular monthly ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. PICTURES BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    M. Kaudsen, a Dane, demonstrated at the Hotel Cecil the operation of a machine for transmitting pictures by any system of wireless telegraphy ...

    Article : 31 words
  13. TORPEDO BOAT RAMMED.

    Another naval disaster occurred on Monday night. While engaged in night manoeuvres off the month of the Thames, the scoat Attentive, 2670 tons (Commodore Lewis Bayly), nammed the ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. THE ALLANDALE HORROR.

    The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Lilian Bridge, at Allandale, on the hight of April 14, was resumed before the Coroner, Mr. T. II. Wilkinson, at the West Maitland ...

    Article : 850 words
  15. GERMANY WANTS £50,000,000.

    Statements which have been submitted to the Budget Committee of the Rcichstag show that Germany must borrow £50,000,000 within the next five years, oven without fresh appropriations, in ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. BULLET IN LUNGS FOR THREE MONTHS.

    About three months ago Oscar Bruderlin, 15 years of age, of South Singleton, accidentally swallowed a revolver bullet. Subsequently the youth was taken to the Danger Cottage Hospital, suffering ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. FIVE SHOTS FAIL TO KILL.

    Benjamin Hickey, contractor to the borough of Goelong West, who attempted to take his life by firing five revolver shots into his head, was before the Geelong West Police Court on a charge of ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. ECONOMY AT THE CAPE.

    An influential deputation, including many Members of parliament, waited on the Colonial Secretary at Capetown, Mr. de Waal, and protested against the proposed disbanment of the naval ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. GRASS SIXTEEN FEET HIGH.

    Francis Birtles, the overlanding cyclist, stated at Port Darwin that he had had a difficult time crossing the tablelands owing to the heavy rains and floods, and the tall grass. In many places ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. BOILER TUBE BURSTS.

    The battleship Britannia, 16,350 tons, while voyaging from Queensferry to Portsmouth, burst a boiler tube. Five of her crew were seriously injured ...

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  21. SUICIDE'S LAST LETTER.

    An inquest was held on Wednesday at the Water Police Court, concerning the death of George James Pinson, 23, a laborer, who wad found dead at Watson's Bay on the 24th ult ...

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  22. SHIP'S OFFICER CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Amud Schrinder, chief officer of the Norwegrian steamer Opland, appeared at the Melbourne City Court, charged with the wilful murder of Yen Ah Guee on April 18 ...

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  23. WIRE NETTING DUTY.

    In connection with the Tarff debate during the week in the House, the Senate's reduction in wire netting to 5 per cent. general duty and preferential free was carried against the ...

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  24. SEVERE STORMS.

    A great snowstorm swept over the United Kingdom on Saturday. Sacral inches of snow fell in the southern counties. Great damage was dene to the fruit trees ...

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  25. LAND SLIDE DESTROYS VILLAGE.

    A land slide destroyed the village of Notre Dame de Salette in Ottawa, Canada. Thirty-two mills were demolished, and 25 people were killed ...

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  26. CRIMINAL POLITICIAN REELECTED.

    Signor Nasi, ex-Minister for Education in Italy, found guilty recently of peculation of public funds, and sentenced to imprisonment, has been re-elected by his constituency in Sicily to the ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED HOST.

    The London "Daily Telegraph" estimates that a moderate estimate sets down the unemployed in the United States at 3,000,000. Socialist leaders slate that the unemployed number ...

    Article : 42 words
  28. MURRURUNDI INQUIRY.

    The Board appointed to inquire into the cause of the collision which occurred at Murrurundi on the 7th ult. commenced its inquiry at the local court-house at 10 a.m. on Thursday. During the ...

    Article : 282 words
  29. THE COOMA GAOL-BREAKER.

    At the Goulburn Circuit Court on Thursday, William Johnson pleaded guilty to escaping from Cooma Gaol on April 4. He was further charged with breaning into a certain counting-house of ...

    Article : 217 words
  30. FOOTBALL DRAWS 70.000.

    In the final for the English Football Association Cup, Wolverhampton Wanderers scored 3 goals to Newcastle United 1. There were 70,000 spcetators present ...

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  31. FAMINE AND DISTRESS IN RUSSIA

    Terrible destruction has been wrought in the [?] districts of the Governments of Kazan and Smolensk, Middle Russia. Thousands of clildren are compelled to go absolutely naked ...

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  32. MASSACRE BY KURDS.

    News has reached Teheran, capital of Persia, that 3000 Kurds pillaged the village or Urmiah, Salinas, and Khoy, in the western districts of the province of Azerbaijan ...

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  33. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.

    Mr. W. Smith, of Comobella, Wellington district, met with a peculiar adventure. He was driving along a road, when a cat jumped from a tree on to the horse's luck. This frightened ...

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  34. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN'S FUNERAL.

    During the funeral on Monday of the late Prime Minister, Sir H. Campbell-Bancerman, at Westminster Abbey, many remarks of respect were shown in London ...

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  35. CHAUFFEUR COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

    The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Richard Woolf, recently living in Cathedral-st., City, who died on April 10 from injuries received by being knocked down by a motor car in ...

    Article : 116 words
  36. TERRITORIAL ARMY A FAILURE.

    The "Daily Express" reports that enlistment in the British territorial army is a failure. Instead of 75 per cent, of the volunteers and 90 per cent, of the Imperial yeomanry enlisting, only 34 ...

    Article : 49 words
  37. JAPAN'S REVENUE BUOYANT.

    The revenue of Japan is £7,000,000 above the estimate, and £1,000,000 has been saved in expenditure ...

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  38. CANON NASH'S CASE.

    The Rev. C. II Nash, of Christ Church, Hawthorn, Vic., who, with one of his church wardens (Mr. G. S. Faulkner), proceeded to England for the purposes of a thorough investigation into ...

    Article : 250 words
  39. PROMINENT SPORTSMAN DEAD.

    The well-known Canterbury (N.Z.) horse-breeder and commercial magnate, Mr. G. G. Stead, died on Wednesday, aged 67 years ...

    Article : 21 words
  40. DELUGE AT MOSCOW.

    One-fifth of Moscow has been inundated for several days. It is estimated there are 50,000 sufferers, and that the damage amounts to £3,000,000 ...

    Article : 27 words
  41. MARVELLOUS INVENTION.

    M. Armengand, President of the French Society of Aerial Navigation, has invented an apparatus supplementing the power of vision by artificial devises, issued on the employment of ...

    Article : 52 words
  42. BALLARAT SHAFT TRAGEDY.

    In the Ballarat Supreme Court on Wednesday, the trial wad continued of William Vincent lies, charged with the murder of Mary Graham, also known as Madge Byrnes, in Yale Park, Ballarat ...

    Article : 220 words
  43. SERIOUS COACH ACCIDENT.

    A sensational coach accident occurred on the Moc-Walhalla road (Vic.) on Friday. At the approach to Cobb and Co.'s stables at Tyers, 12 miles from Hoc, to reach which an incline two ...

    Article : 141 words
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  45. PILGRIMS KILLED IN COLLISION.

    Twenty-eight pilgrims have been killed in a railway collision at Cargantua, Mexico ...

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  46. PUBLIC OPINION.

    The opinions of tho leading skin authorrities of the world, viz., the late Professor Sir Rrasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Redwood. Ph., D., F.C.S., F.D.C., Mr. John L. Milton ...

    Article : 59 words
  47. IMMIGRATION LEAGUE OF AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Easton, the hon, secretary of the Immigration League of Australia, states that the following message was sent to the secretary of the Premiers' Conference : "The hamingration League ...

    Article : 135 words
  48. ROOSEVELT AND MILLIONAIRES.

    President Roosevelt in a message to Congress, urges in the strongest terms legislation limiting the use in injunctions in the case of Labor disputes ...

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  49. YACHTSMEN FOR COAST DEFENCE

    A movement is on foot in New Zealand to try by means of inter-State yacht racing to induce yachtsmen to build serviceable sea-going yachts, which might be used for coastal defence purposed ...

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  50. POSITANO SOLD FOR £4725.

    Mr. S. Green, of Melbourne has purchased the N.S. Wales thoroughbred stallion Positane (Imp.) by St. Simon from Ponza, for 4500 guineas ...

    Article : 27 words
  51. STRAWBERRIES BY ELECTRICITY.

    Electric strawberries are the latest dainty in Paris. The fruit, which is forced by electric currents, is excellent and large ...

    Article : 25 words
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  53. EXPLOSION ON JAPANESE WARSHIP.

    An explosion occurred on board the Japanese training cruiser Matsushima, 4277 tons, when off the Pescadores, south of Japan. The cruiser sank ...

    Article : 152 words
  54. ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE.

    It is alleged that an attempt was made on Monday to blow up one of the guns in the garrison at Thursday Island. A box containing a number of detonators, a packet of about 30 plugs ...

    Article : 171 words
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