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  2. REVIVAL OF DUELLING.

    Is the abolition of duelling the cause of English women being treated with less respect than in former days, and thus indirectly the origin of the suffragette movement? ...

    Article : 589 words
  3. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    Captain Amundsen, leader of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, arrived at Hobart on Thursday from his voyage to the Polar regions in the Fram. He would not, ...

    Article : 281 words
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  5. ARMED AND MASKED BURGLARS.

    On Thursday morning six aimed and masked men entered a private residence and terrorised the inmates at the revolver's point into handing over their money and jewellery. ...

    Article : 497 words
  6. SUFFRAGIST RIOTS.

    A band of fifty women suffragists in cabs and taxi-cabs, armed with hammers and stones concealed in stockings, raided Knightsbridge and Kensington on Monday. They smashed the windows of a number of stores and private ...

    Article : 428 words
  7. MEXICAN REVOLT.

    An order was issued on Tuesday that all United States citizens must leave Mexico in consequence of the disturbed state of the country. The whole country is declared to be seething, and fighting has taken place ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. DOCTOR CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Dr. James Alexander Robertson was committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder by the City Coroner, in Melbourne, on Monday. At the inquiry into the circumstances attending the ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.

    The committee of the House of Representatives, Washington, has considered the question of tolls for the Panama Canal, but a decision was not reached. It is now considered likely that the Bill will be ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. PALMYRA ISLAND ABANDONED.

    The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs announced in the House of Commons on Monday that Great Britain had abandoned Palmyra Island (which was recently annexed by the U.S.A.), and was not further ...

    Article : 48 words
  11. INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE.

    Count Giesbeit Wolff-Metternich, who with a Roumanian as being tried in Berlin on a charge of card-sharping, accused Lieut. Beckhaus, from whom he alleges he won £350 in London, of espionage in England, under German ...

    Article : 88 words
  12. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN MELBOURNE.

    Little Collins-street, Melbourne, was the scene of a fire on Monday morning. The warehouses of Messrs. Briscoe and Co., wholesale ironmongers, were discovered to be burning fiercely, and when the ...

    Article : 299 words
  13. BRISBANE STRIKE ENDS.

    After having been in existence for five weeks, the Brisbane strike was declard off on Wednesday. The waterside workers decided to return to work, but they will only handle cargo from vessels which have not ...

    Article : 234 words
  14. FIRED AT MR. ROTHSCHILD.

    A Jewish merchant's agent named Tebbitt fired three shots at Mr. Leopold Rothschild as he was entering a motor-car in London on Sunday. Mr. Rothschild was uninjured, but a policeman was wounded, and the glass ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. SCHOOLMASTER KILLED BY BOYS.

    In connection with the charge of murder against eight boys belonging to the Heath Industrial School, England, for the death, of John Kelly, an assistant master, because he objected to the boys kicking wet ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. CONSPIRACY IN SIAM.

    Reuacr's Bangkok correspondent states that a revolutionary conspiracy has been discovered in Bangkok. Both army and navy officers are implicated. Many arrests have been made. ...

    Article : 31 words
  17. HORSE AND RIDER KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    On Friday, Florence Penhallurick, of Toolumbilla Station, Q., was struck by lightning and killed while attending to her horse. She had just dismounted when the storm broke. The horse was also killed. ...

    Article : 40 words
  18. MURDER AND SACRILEGE.

    The trial of the monk Damazy Mococh and his accomplices on a charge of having murdered his brother and eloped with his widow, and also with sacrilege and theft in the Church of the Holy Mother at Censtochowa, ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. INCINERATED IN LOCO FURNACE.

    Albert Koenig, a locomotive driver on the Eastern France railway, while suffering from neuras[?]henia, threw himself in the furnace of a rushing tram on Tuesday, and was incinerated. ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY—£12,744 INVOLVED.

    At the Water Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Love, S. M. Frank Denison Brown was charged, at a instance of Walter Charles Philips, of 119 York-street, Sydney, branch manager for the Singer Sewing Machine ...

    Article : 244 words
  21. STRANGLED IN MID-AIR.

    Owing to the breaking away of the airship Parseval at Berlin on Wednesday, an attendant was caught in a wire rope, and lifted 600ft. in the air, where he was strangled. ...

    Article : 34 words
  22. BANK ROBBERY.

    A gang of robbers attempted to loot a branch of the Royal Bank at Montreal West, Canada, on Monday. They were discovered by the police, and revolver shots were exchanged. One robber fell dead near a safe which ...

    Article : 86 words
  23. DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC CAREER.

    Mr. James McCredie died at his late residence, Duntroon, Hurlstone Park, on Wednesday. Mr. McCredie had a distinction enjoyed by the late Mr. Bridges, and the present Under-Seerctary for Public Instruction, of ...

    Article : 254 words
  24. IRISH HOME RULE CAMPAIGN.

    The Irish envoys, Messrs. Hazleton, Redmond, and Donovan, before a great audience in the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday, made an appeal for funds for Ireland's National Cause. The greatest enthusiasm ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. EARL GREY ON CANADA.

    Amid all the pomp and dignity which attends such a ceremony the freedom of the City of London, contained in a magnificent golden casket, was last month, at the Mansion House, ...

    Article : 448 words
  26. WHY HE ABANDONED SOCIALISM.

    "I've been thinkin' wot's the biggest diffrunce between this country an' England, an 'it seems to me as wot would cause the workin' man at 'ome the mos' surprise is that Uncle Sammy ...

    Article : 1,120 words
  27. TROOPS RIOT IN CHINA.

    Fifteen hundred Chinese troops stopped the trains running between Peking and Tientsin on Monday, the British troops ordered the rioters to clear out within an hour, but the Chinese refused to move until 700 of the ...

    Article : 217 words
  28. FISHING RESORTS

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  29. SENSATIONAL MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT.

    A party of Albury sportsmen who were returning from Toowong races by motor-car at night, had a sensational experience near Talmalmo. The car was travelling at the rate of 15 miles an hour, when a culvert was reached, ...

    Article : 139 words
  30. REWRITING THE DECALOGUE.

    Rewriting the Decalogue is now the fashionable pastime of the American Press and pulpit. Clergymen are the chief factors in the movement, and now there are many sets of brand ...

    Article : 323 words
  31. FERN GATHERER'S FATAL FALL.

    A fatal accident occurred at the Fitzroy Falls (N.S.W.). Frank Butler, who was on a tour of the South Coast, arrived from Sydney on Wednesday, and on Friday informed some of his fellow boarders that he ...

    Article : 182 words
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    Beach fishing is now good, Tailer, whiting, bream, and jewfish are being caught. Mr. Jackson landed a jewish at Manly estimated to weigh over 30lb. Blackfish have been captured off the Manly wharves ...

    Article : 816 words
  33. TRAMWAY BADGE JUDGMENT.

    The tramway badge case came before the High Court in Melbourne on Thursday. An application was made on behalf of the Adelaide (Municipal Tramway Trust and the Brisbane Tramway Company, for an order nisi ...

    Article : 113 words
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  35. STOLE A SAFE.

    Burglars entered Mr. Gregory Gill's general store at Guildford (W.A.) during Thursday night, and, using Gill's horse and cart, removed to West Guildford a quantity of tobacco and a fireproof safe containing ...

    Article : 70 words
  36. IMPERIAL WIRELESS.

    Mr. Herbert Samuel, British Postmaster-General, has accepted the Marconi Company's terms for the construction of Imperial wireless stations, subject to Parliamentary ratification. The stations will be in England, ...

    Article : 82 words
  37. SUBSIDISING PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

    There was keen discussion in the Legislative Assembly on Friday night over a motion submitted by the Minister for Education, seeking leave to introduce a bill to establish a fund for bursaries tenable in ...

    Article : 80 words
  38. A WICKED REVENGE.

    "You have shown a wicked and revengeful spirit," remarked Mr. Justice Ridley at the Old Bailey, London, in sentencing to three years' detention under the Borstal system Daisy ...

    Article : 248 words
  39. SHOT HER NEIGHBOR.

    Walking up to a neighbor, Mrs. Florence Ingulls, with whom she had quarrelled. Miss Jessie Chapman pulled a revolver from her pocket and fired six shots at her, at Lynn (Mass., U.S.A.), on Thursday. Mrs. Ingulls ...

    Article : 54 words
  40. TWO MEN CARRIED OUT TO SEA.

    On Sunday two young men, Athol Swain, of Urunga, and William Bennett, of Newry Island, attempted to cross the river at Bellinger Heads to fish on North Beach. Their flat-bottomed now was caught in a ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. KILLED AND EATEN BY WOLVES.

    A search party at Fort William (Canada) found the dead body of a mail carrier, who had been missing, partly eaten by wolves. Portion of the leather mail bags had also been devoured. The first clue to the tragedy was ...

    Article : 74 words
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  45. SAVE THE BABIES.

    Theer is no better medicine made for babies than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Its pleasant taste and prompt and effectual cures make it a favorite with mothers of small children. ...

    Article : 131 words
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