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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    Frank Denison Brown, 51, and John Macpherson, 40, were charged at the Water Police Court on Tuesday that during the month of December, 1907, they did conspire together to cheat and defraud the Singer ...

    Article : 1,768 words
  3. LITERARY LUMBERLAND.

    The some while back discovery at the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, of a Hebrew Bible in MS. adds one more instance of a valuable literary find unearthed from the unexpected ...

    Article : 916 words
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  5. THE BRITISH NAVY—INCREASE IN ARMAMENTS.

    In introducing the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons on Monday night, Mr. Winston Churchill. First Lord of the Admiralty, said that the fertile Budget of 1908 had made possible an increase in armaments ...

    Article : 940 words
  6. TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.

    The boiler of a locomotive exploded in the round house of the Southern Pacific Railway at San Antonio, Texas, and the free laborers who were working in the building were killed. ...

    Article : 110 words
  7. FARMERS TAKE STRIKERS' PLACES.

    In Adelaide (S.A.) on Monday a number of farmers began operations at the various phosphate manufactories in the direction of obtaining fertiliser supplies for the coming seeding. Large quantities of artificial manures ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. SAVINGS BANKS BILL VETOED.

    In the New South Wales Legislative Council on Friday night the Savings Banks Amalgamation Bill, which has for its object the amalgamation of the Government Sayings Bank and the Savings Bank of 'New South ...

    Article : 55 words
  9. TRAIN SAVED BY A DREAM.

    At Atlantic. Georgia, U.S.A., a section foreman dreamed he saw a neighboring trestle bridge collapse, and on awakening found that the bridge had really been wrecked He know that a train was approaching ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. GOVERNMENT HOUSING SCHEME.

    In the N.S. Wales Legislative Assembly on Monday the Treasurer (Mr. Dacey) gave notice of his intention to move for leave to introduce a loan bill for £200,000. When subsequently asked what the bill was for, ...

    Article : 108 words
  11. £500 A YEAR FOR STATE MEMBERS.

    The following was the voting in the N.S. Wales As-sembly on the third reading of the Bill to raise the salaries of members from ,£300 to £500 per annum:— For the Increase. 41.—Jones. McDonald. Bruntnell, ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. MAIL LINER SUNK—SEVENTEEN MISSING.

    The German barque Pisagua collided with the P. and O. Company's liner Oceana, outward bound for Bombay, oft Beachy Head (Eng.), in the dark, early on the morning of Friday, March 15. ...

    Article : 346 words
  13. LAST OF THE MAINE.

    The [?]ull of the battleship Maine, which was blown up in 'Havana Harbor just prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, was towed into deep water and sunk amid the thunder of ...

    Article : 71 words
  14. LASH-ORDERED FOR GARROTTERS.

    Judge Johnson, in sentencing three young men—Henry Bolton, Thomas Kenneth, and Thomas Murphy—for robbery in company, in Melbourne, said they were members of a gang which frequented Queen's Bridge. They seized ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. BURGLARS SHOT IN CANTEEN.

    A corporal and two soldiers at Muclheim surprised three burglars in a canteen. The burglars showered bottles, glasses, and plates at the soldiers. Eventually one of the thieves surrendered, but the ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. EXCITING FIGHT WITH INFURIATED BULL.

    On Tuesday morning John Mackel, a screen-hand, working at South Greta Colliery, near Maitland, was crossing a paddock at Farley, on his way to work, when he was attacked by a young Alderney bull. The animal ...

    Article : 147 words
  17. DEATH OF EX-UNDER-SECRETARY.

    The death of Mr. John Manifold Gibson, who retired from the post of Under-Secretary to the Chief Secretary in 1910, occurred at Ocean-street, Woollahra, on Tuesday morning. The late Mr. Gibson was a brother of ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. SCHOOLBOYS' STRIKE.

    Owing to the police having seriously injured a schoolboy during a demonstration at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, the students at the grammar schools in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia struck. ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. SEVENTY LIVES LOST IN MINE.

    A gas explosion occurred at McCurtain, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, entombing 80 men. Twenty bodies have, so far been recovered. They are blackened beyond recognition. ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. CONFINING SPORTS TO UNIONISTS.

    Following on the action taken by members of the various athletic bodies during the recent Brisbane strike in helping to maintain order in the city, the Eight-Hour Union decided at a recent meeting that the ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE—QUARREL OVER A PIECE OF CAKE.

    At a magisterial inquiry held at Murwillumbah into the circumstances surrounding the death of Minnie Bashfora, aged 15, the Coroner found that she died from the effects of strychnine poisoning, administered by herself. ...

    Article : 103 words
  22. MOTOR ENTANGLED IN LIVE WIRE.

    On Wednesday night an overhead tram wire in Loftus-street, Sydney, broke, with startling results. It fell to the roadway, and became entangled with a passing motor-car an occupant of which. John Poolman, of ...

    Article : 191 words
  23. BOMB MANUFACTURER'S PREMISES WRECKED.

    Bombs manufactured on a barber's premises at Oporto, Portugal, exploded and wrecked four houses. Four bodies have been recovered. Five persona were also injured. ...

    Article : 30 words
  24. RACE PONY CHARGES JUDGE'S BOX.

    During a pony race at Pyramid Hill (Vic.) on Thursday, one of the horses dashed off the course and headed for the spectators. Several persons were knocked down and injured. Sir. J. M'Cready's jaw was broken, ...

    Article : 129 words
  25. STEAMER FOUNDERS—ONE SURVIVOR.

    The steamer North Briton, bound from Sundarland to Sumna (Roumania), foundered, and 20 of the cerw of 21 were drowned. The sole survivor landed at Spezia, near Genoa, Italy. ...

    Article : 34 words
  26. FEMALE WARDER ASSAULTED.

    On Friday night a female warder at the Kew Lunatic Asylum (Vic.) was returning to the institution, and when near the bridge between the Yarra Bend and Kew a man rushed out and struck her in the face, knocking ...

    Article : 98 words
  27. LEG TAKEN OFF BY TRAM.

    Mr. Walter Simpson was alighting from a Bondi-bounrt tramcar at the corner "of Oxford and Elizabeth streets, on Wednesday, when he slipped on the wood blocks and fell under the car. His left leg was severed below the ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. FISHING RESORTS

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  29. TERRIFIC HAILSTORM.

    News received in Goulburn shows that last Sunday's storm was of unprecedented violence at Bronte (N.S.W.). Hailstones of abnormal size fell, killing thousands of rabbits and all sorts of birds. Miles of fencing were ...

    Article : 127 words
  30. REBELS CAPTURE GENERAL.

    The Mexican rebels captured General Mills, the Federal leader, following on a sharp engagement in the Laguna district. They have ordered him to be shot. Ail the foreigners in the Laguna district are fleeing ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. AMAZING SLANDER CASE.

    A case which Mr. Justice Edwards said was the most amazing ever brought under his notice was heard in the Supreme Court, Wellington, N.Z. Plaintiff, a married woman claimed from her borther damages for ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. BALLOON FIRED IN THE AIR.

    A balloon manned by two officers broke from its moorings at Berlin on Tuesday, and drifted, dragging a steel rope. The latter touched a high-tension electric wire, causing ...

    Article : 54 words
  33. STATE DAIRY FARM.

    The Government of West Australia proposes to utilise 400 acres of Claremont Asylum Reserve for a State dairy farm, carrying 70 cows, to supply the hospitals and sick children with pure milk. There is an artesian bore on ...

    Article : 57 words
  34. THE SPY SCARE.

    Four alleged German spies have been arrested in the precincts of St. Helen's Fort, which forms the eastern defence of the Isle of Wight (Eng.). ...

    Article : 28 words
  35. SNAKES KILL CATTLE.

    Mr. R. T. Mitchell, of Casterton (Vic), recently lost several head of healthy cattle. He was at a loss to account for the mortality. While resetting some troughs eat which the cattle were accustomed to ...

    Article : 65 words
  36. YOUNG WOMAN AND CHILD DROWNED.

    When returning from a fishing trip on Friday, Stanley and William Parrot found the bodies of a young woman and a male child in a bay near the St. Kilda pier (Vic) The woman was about 30 years of age, of ...

    Article : 88 words
  37. DROWNED IN A TANK.

    The body of Maggie O'Donnell (25) was found on Sunday afternoon in an underground tank at the residence of her stepfather, Patrick Freel, Railway-street, Mere-wether. Newcastle. Miss O'Donnell had been missing ...

    Article : 40 words
  38. EIGHTY-SEVEN DEATH SENTENCES.

    The Russian court-martial at Tabriz, since the recent troubles commenced, has sentenced 37 persons to death, and the acting Governor of Azerbaijan has sentenced an additional 50. Quiet has now been restored. ...

    Article : 36 words
  39. EXCELLENT READING.

    Two new series of great interest have commenced in "The Globe." "Life Stories of the Living Great" deal with the great ones of to-day, as did the "Life ...

    Article : 116 words
  40. £1.000.000 FOR ORPHANAGE.

    The personalty of the late Lord Wandsworth has beer sworn for probate purposes at £1,488,000. Of this sum £1,000,000 goes to found an orphanage. ...

    Article : 27 words
  41. TAXI-CAB DASHES INTO INFANTRY.

    A taxi-cab at Firmborough (Eng.) dashed into a company of infantry which was engaged carrying out night operations. Many were severely cut, and two are in a critical condition. ...

    Article : 38 words
  42. GERMAN IMPERIAL TREASURER RESIGNS.

    Herr Wermuth, German Imperial Treasurer, has' resigned owing to the fact that the Government is financing the armament bills by means of anticipated surpluses on existing taxation instead of reintroducing the inheritance ...

    Article : 45 words
  43. MESSRS. HOSKINS SUE THE GOVERNMENT.

    A writ was issued on Monday on behalf of Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, of Lithgow Ironworks, in an action commenced by that firm against the Government for the cancellation of the steel rails and iron contracts. The ...

    Article : 49 words
  44. SUPER-DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED.

    The super-Dreadnought Ajax, 23,600 tons, was launched at Greenock (Eng.) on Thursday. The designed speed of the vessel is 22 knots. ...

    Article : 23 words
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