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  2. A Letter from Mrs. Needle.

    A REMARKABLE letter has been received by Otto Juncken from Mrs. Needle, who was hanged on the 22nd in the Melbourne Gaol. It was written a few ...

    Article : 421 words
  3. The Australian as a Drinker.

    THE following is an incident which Max O'Rell would have us believe is one of many such scenes "taken from the, lower classes," although it is difficult to ...

    Article : 290 words
  4. Retrenchment in the Works Department.

    THE rumor about extensive retrenchments in the Public Works Department, which was in circulation amongst members at Parliament House on Thursday ...

    Article : 682 words
  5. The Queensberry Divorce Suit.

    THE suit of Queensberry v. Queensberry came before the London Divorce on 24th October. It was a petition presented by the Marchioness of Queensberry, praying ...

    Article : 162 words
  6. A Possible Explanation of Spiritualism.

    MR. F. W. H. MYERS recently gave a most interesting and eloquent address before the Psychical Research Society at the Westminster Town Hall, in phenomena, particularly those vouched for by or connected with the late Mr. Stainton Moses, the well-known spiritualist. Mr. Myers first promised that ...

    Article : 416 words
  7. Wreck of the Rodondo.

    THE Court of Marine Inquiry at Melbourne last Thursday delivered its reserved decision as to the cause of the loss of the steamer Rodondo on Pollock's ...

    Article : 308 words
  8. Collect Telegrams and Newspaper Postage.

    IT is announced that the following amended regulation is substituted for that now in force in regard to "collect" telegrams, to date from the lst proximo: ...

    Article : 240 words
  9. Our Scullers in England.

    SULLIVAN, champion of England, seems to have silenced Gaudaur, the American champion. The latter seemed fully bent on making a match to be rowed on the ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. A Juror's Plea.

    IN considering the question of jurors' fines the other clay, the Full Court had to deal with a gentleman who had been ...

    Article : 163 words
  11. The Village Settlements.

    THE Minister for Lands has a handful with the "Village Settlements. He obtained authority the other day to issue a further grant to the one at Pitt Town ...

    Article : 487 words
  12. Fumigating a Room.

    THE proper way to fumigate a room is to close the doors, windows, fireplace, &c., and paste strips of paper over all the cracks. Fumigation by burning ...

    Article : 264 words
  13. Barristers' Practice Regulation Bill.

    IT is the intention of Mr. Miller, M.L.A., to introduce a bill "to regulate the admission of extraterritorial barristers to practise in New South Wales ...

    Article : 201 words
  14. Tyson's Start in Life.

    HERE (says a Queensland paper) is a page from the life of James Tyson, never before recorded. The embryo millionaire had, as a youth, earned £60 in three ...

    Article : 366 words
  15. Sewer Gas and Typhoid.

    IT has long been a question whether or not sewer gas produces typhoid fever, apart from contagion in other ways, and Dr. Alessi has recently shown by ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. Local Requirements.

    A DEPUTATION comprising Messrs. Ewing, Perry and Pyers, M's.P., with Mr. F. G. Crouch, Dr. Bernstein, and Alderman Wightman, waited on the ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. An Old-Time Relic

    MR. HENNIKER HEATON, M.P., has made a present to the Free Public Library of a valuable relic of olden days in New South Wales—a notebook used at ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. Queensland Note Issue System.

    HOW the Queensland Government note issue system has failed to command the general confidence of the banks and at the same time to bring in revenue to ...

    Article : 290 words
  19. Another Flying Machine.

    THE latest attempt to secure locomotion through the air has been made by Mr. Gordon, who has invented a flying machine. The appliance is located on a ...

    Article : 172 words
  20. Miss Issie Marina Spring.

    THE following flattering references were made to Miss Issie Spring on her appearance with the Cyril Tyler company at Newcastle, Maitland and Armidale ...

    Article : 303 words
  21. The Sugar Industry.

    MR. WILLARD considers that the remedy for the present evil in regard to the extension of sugar culture is the establishment of co-operative central mills ...

    Article : 306 words
  22. An Execution Photographed.

    RECENTLY a gaol surgeon, on the occasion of an execution, by the expedient of placing a couple of cameras in the deep pit beneath the gallows ...

    Article : 286 words
  23. Escape From Foxhounds.

    A SMALL boy playing the part of the fox in an exciting chase on the Cedar Hollow hills near Ph[?]enixville, narrowly escaped being torn to pieces by George ...

    Article : 287 words
  24. A New Goldfield.

    A TELEGRAM from Adelaide states that great excitement has been caused at Kangaroo Island over a rich discovery of gold-bearing country at a spot 31 ...

    Article : 276 words
  25. Uses of Refuse in France.

    EVEN the smallest scrap of paper, that which everyone throws away, here becomes a source of profit. Old provision tins, for instance, are full of money; the ...

    Article : 285 words
  26. Disappointed in Love at 73.

    A STORY of disappointed love comes from Schillgallen, in the district of Insterburg, Germany. The victim of the malady in the present case was one Herr Jurklies ...

    Article : 99 words
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