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  2. ALLEGED MURDER ON HIGH SEAS.

    About 3 a.m. on November 1, when the R.M.S. Himalaya, which arrived at Fremantle on Tuesday, was two days out from Colombo, a colored fireman named Curin Ellan Nawabklan, 23 years ...

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  4. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    In the Divorce Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson, Frank Anderson Carter, dentist, of Mittagong, petitioned for a divorce from Caroline Anna Carter, formerly Pyle, on the ...

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  5. ASSASSINATION IN INDIA.

    A dastardly attempt was made on the life of Sir Andrew Kroner, Licutenant-Governor of Bengal. As Professor Burton, of Chicago University, was about to give a lecture in the Overtoun Hall ...

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  6. THE LUARD MYSTERY.

    The police have offered a reward of £1000 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Luard, wife of Major-General Luard. at Seven Oaks in August last ...

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  7. ADVANCES FROM GOVERNMENT: SAVINGS BANK VALUATION FEES.

    The Commissioners of the Bank have recently had under consideration the question of valuation fees charged to applicants for loans from the Advance Department, and have decided that ...

    Article : 124 words
  8. FATHER SHOOTS SON.

    A report was received from Birregurra (Vic) concerning a shooting case which occurred in that township. Michael Darcy, aged 23 years, came into the township for medical treatment for ...

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  9. MISS ELKINS TO BE PRINCESS.

    Owing to Senator Elkins, of the United Stales, refusing to sanction a morganatic marriage between his daughter Katherine and the Duke of the Abruzzi, the cousin of the King of Italy ...

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  10. A BANKER MURDERED.

    An extraordinary outrage occurred in the Bureau of Mr. Julius Schlitte, a foreign banker, residing in Shaftesbury-avenue. A man armed with a revolver entered and fired ...

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  11. MR. McGOWEN'S CENSURE MOTION.

    In the Legislative Assembly at an early hour on Wednesday morning Mr. M'Gowen's motion of want of confidence in the Wade Administration was defeated, on division, by 41 to 23 votes ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    During a heavy thunderstorm a few days ago near Oban, Alexander Campbell was erecting a wire fence and straining a wire, when he was killed ...

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  13. THE KAISER AND PRINCE BULOW.

    At is stated that the Emperor is dis[?]sfied with Prince Bulow's attitude towards the attacks made upon the Emperor in the Reiehstag. The "Berliner Tageblatt" reports that Prince ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. PROFITS ON POPULAR PLAYS.

    "Everything he touches seems to turn to gold." A little coterie of actors and pressmen were talking together in a certain club, not a hundred miles from Trafalgar ...

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  15. PLAGUE AT LIVERPOOL.

    Two fatal cases of plague have occurred at Liverpool (Eng.). The third man who was attacked is recovering. All the men worked aboard a coaling barge ...

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  16. BIRTHDAY HONORS.

    Australia's share of the King's Birthday honors include the following:— K.C.M.C.. To be Knights Commander of the Most ...

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  17. RAID ON THE "ABODE OF LOVE."

    Three Londoners travelled by motor car to Spaxton, and there raided the notorious "Abode of love." They placed a helmet full of tar and feathers on the head of one Head, secretary to ...

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  18. ENGLAND'S FIRST LADY MAYOR.

    The elections of Mayors in England and Wales have resulted in the return of 165 Conservative Mayors, 19 Liberal Unionists, 121 Liberals, and 3 Labor Mayors ...

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  19. A BOAT'S CREW PASSING.

    Last Sunday morning John McNully, the light house-keeper at Barrenjocy, found a 22ft sailing boat, the Gift, lying on the beach badly damaged awl hall full of water ...

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  20. THE STATION TRAGEDY.

    At the Georgetown (Q.) Police Court Fanny Wilson appeared, charged on remand, in connection with the death of Miss Duffy at Carpentaria Downs ...

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  21. DEAKIN GOVERNMENT BEATEN.

    The Deakin Government was defeated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The Prime Minister moved that the House shall for the remainder of the session meet on ...

    Article : 332 words
  22. SERVIA'S POSITION.

    Thirty thousand people rapturously welcomed Prince George, Crown Prince of Servia, on his return to Belgrade, after visiting the Cazr. The Prince announced that the Czar and the ...

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  23. SEVEN DEAD NATIVES FOUND.

    The Commissioner for Police at Perth received the following wire from Inspector Duncan, of Menzis:—"Mr. Campbell Shaw, of the Ida H. mine, near Laverton, reports that seven natives ...

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  24. ROCKCHOPPERS RELEASED.

    The four members of the executive of the Rockchopers and Sewer Miners' Union' Messrs. T. Garraway (president), J. Ryan (secretary), T. Stade; and W. Eadie? who were recently sentenced ...

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  25. LICENSING BILL PETITIONS.

    Petitions in favor of the Licensing Bill contain 1,209,098 signatures, and those against 1.585.901 signatures ...

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  26. LUNATIC CAPTURED IN BUSH.

    William English, aged 35 years, who escaped from the Kenmore Hospital for Insane, Goulburn, on October 27 last, was captured on Thursday. Senior-sergeant Nies received word at midnight ...

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  27. TERRIBLE MINING DISASTER.

    A terrible disaster has occurred in Westphalia. An explosion of firedamp in the Radbod coal mine at Haumm entombed 400 men. Thirty-at men were rescued soon after, but ...

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  28. BATTLESHIP CHRISTENED.

    Mrs. Asquith christened H.M.S. Collingwood with Australian wine in the presence of 20,000 people at a successful launching ceremony at Devonport ...

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  29. INTERESTING SURGICAL OPERATION.

    At Parkes, while Dr. Boazman was engaged in removing an apparent growth in the armpit of Mr. Mervyn Seaborn, the knife struck some hard substance, which the doctor at first thought to be ...

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  30. TEN WEEKS TO SELECT A JURY.

    After ten weeks' work, and the rejection of 1000 jurors, a jury has been obtained to try Ab Ruef, the San Francisco "grafter ...

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  31. TRIAL OF ZULU CHIEFS.

    The trial ol Oakijuns. a Zulu chief, charged at Greytown, Natal, with high treason and acts of rebellion, in conjunction with Bambaata, has resulted in a verdict of guilty ...

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  32. EX-SENATOR SHOT IN THE STREET.

    A sensational street duel occurred at Nashville, Tennesee (U.S.A.). Robin Cooper shot ex-Senator Carmack owing to a political feud ...

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  33. CASABLANCA INCIDENT ENDED.

    France has accepted the formula of Germany expressing mutual regret that the incident at Casablanca involved acts of violence, and providing that whichever country the arbitrators should find ...

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  34. GAOL FOR ATTEMPTED BRIBERY.

    A coal-dealer at Wigan has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for attempting to bribe Todd and Johnston, New Zealanders, now members of the Wigan Northern ...

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  35. ELDER MACKIE DIVORCED.

    William Mackie, aged 34, who is at present serving sentence of nine months' imprisonment for deserting his wife, was the respondent in a divorce suit brought at Melbourne by his wife ...

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  36. BARMAIDS BOYCOTT BREWERS.

    An amusing partial strike of barmaids occurred in Nelson (N.Z.) hotels on Thursday, owing to a manifesto by three local brewers promising to prohibit the employment of barmaids in their tied ...

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  37. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD GIRL WEIGHS TWENTY STONE.

    At the Carlton (Vic) Court an application was made in respect of a girl in court. The subject of the application was a girl of 20, who weighed about 20st.. and who could only move about with ...

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  38. WHAT THE TWO-POWER STANDARD MEANS.

    Mr. Asquith, replying to a question by Mr. Arthur H. Lee (Conservative) in the House of Commons, said the Government accepted as the two-Power standard for the navy the combined ...

    Article : 80 words
  39. PRISONER ATTACKS POLICE IN COURT.

    At the Auckland (N.Z.) Supreme Court a powerfully-built man named M'Lean was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for attempting to murder a police-constable. While the latter was ...

    Article : 145 words
  40. ROW AT NO LICENSE DEBATE.

    A public debate at Dunedin (N.Z.), on the result at no-license between the Rev, W. Thomson (pro-liquor) ant] Sir. Adams. (prohibitions) resolved itself into one of the most disorderly ...

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  41. SUFFRAGIST AGITATORS IN PRISON GARB.

    A number of agitators for the women's franchise, dressed in prison grab, paraded the streets of London, and then went to Holloway Gaol, where they marched round the walla cheering the ...

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  42. SALVATION ARMY'S SELF-DENIAL WEEK.

    The final returns in connection with the recent self-denial week of the Salvation Army throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand have now been received at the headquarters of the ...

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  43. ATTEMPT TO KILL WIFE.

    Thomas O'Farrell, an employee at the Melbourne General Cemetery, attempted to cut his wife's throat and then cut his own. A neighbor saw them struggling together on a grass plot at the ...

    Article : 145 words
  44. PENNY-A-WORD CABLES.

    Mr. Henniker Heaton, speaking at the Colonial Institute, advocated a universal system of penny-a-word cables. Mr. Lemieux, Postmaster-General of Canada ...

    Article : 61 words
  45. MOTHER THREW BABY ON FIRE.

    An extraordinary case wan heard in the Auckland Supreme Court, when two natives, a mun and his wife, were charged with murdering their 18 months old child. The evidence showed that ...

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  46. BIG FIRE IN CITY.

    Shortly before midnight on Thursday a fore was discovered on the premises of Messrs, Johnson and Sons, wholesale and retail leather and grindery merchants, 203 Castlereagh-atreet, city. It burned ...

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