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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    The British coal strike has entered upon its fifth week. The third reading of the Minimum wage Bill was carried in the House of Commons on Tuesday, by 213 to 48. Widespread distress exists in the affected district. ...

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  4. MURDEROUS GANG ROB BANK.

    A band of six apaches killed a chauffeur near Chantilly, France, on Sunday, and seized his car. They then drove to the Chantilly Bank, which they entered, and, after killing the cashier and clerk, looted ...

    Article : 565 words
  5. AMERICAN LAWLESSNESS.

    An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Schriever, the Mayor of Rock Island (U.S.A.), on Wednesday. Bullets were fired at him through the windows of the City Hall. ...

    Article : 163 words
  6. SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    On Sunday morning Mr. John Sands (head of Zollner, Limited), his son (Mr. Keith Sands), and Messrs. S. J. Larking and H. B. Woolnough, in a 30-h.p. car, were motoring from Sydney to Mess. Vale. They were ...

    Article : 192 words
  7. DROWNED IN THE SURF.

    A surfing fatality occurred at Bondi on Tuesday morning, Charles Morphitt, aged 20, a printer, living at Tempe, being carried out to sea. Morphitt, who was employed at the factory of ...

    Article : 340 words
  8. WILLOUGHBY SHOOTING CASE.

    At the North Sydney Court on Thursday Patrick Joseph Kearney (55) was charged with maliciously shooting at William Albert Worthington with intent to murder him at Willoughby on March 14. ...

    Article : 357 words
  9. DRILLING TO OPPOSE HOME RULE.

    The Ulster Orangemen continue to drill and perform route marches on a large scale. On the advice of Sir Edward Carson each man has signed a declaration before a magistrate that the object of the marches is ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. YOUTH'S TERRIBLE CRIME.

    A youth named Ratkewitsch, the son of a magistrate in St. Petersburg, Russia, and an extraordinary degenerate, has been sentenced to imprisonment for eight yean, with hard labor, for strangling and stabbing a ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. UNION FINED £100.

    In the Magistrates' Court, Wellington, on Thursday, the Tramway Employees' Union was proceeded against by the Inspector of Awards for the penalty of £200 for a breach of the Arbitration Act, on the ground that the ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. A SPORTING ARCHBISHOP.

    The Archbishop of Adelaide, the Right Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, in the course of an address on the religious agitator, in opening a new school for the Sisters of St. Joseph, prayed that the agitator might be consigned to ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. WEST AUSTRALIAN STORM.

    During the disastrous gale which swept over the north-west coast of West Australia, it is estimated that 32 white persons perished in the cyclone and 40 colored men. All were drowned between Canangarsea and ...

    Article : 273 words
  14. MAILMAN CHASED BY FIRE.

    Bush fires were burning throughout the Drouin district (Vic.). Mr. R. Reynolds, contractor for the conveyance of mails from Drouin to Lindermann's, Yelverton, Longwarry South, and Drouin South, had started ...

    Article : 198 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN NOTE ISSUE.

    A return issued by the Commonwealth Treasury shows that the Australian note issue has now exceeded the £10,000,000 mark, the value of the paper in circulation being £10,048,472. The £1 note is well ahead of the ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. NEW APPOINTMENTS TO UPPER HOUSE.

    Nine new appointments to the Legislative Council of New South Wales have been made by the M'Gowen Government:—Edward John Kavanagh, Cheltenham-road, Croydon; Francis Henry Bryant, 3 Richards-avenue, Surry ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. A GOLDEN ORCHARD.

    A nugget of gold weighing 111 ounces was unearthed by Messrs. Endicott Bros, and Blane on their claim at Merrendee. It has been brought to Mudgee and deposited at the Bank of New South Wales. The value is, roughly, ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. LASH FOR ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

    At the Maryborough (Vic.) Court of General Sessions on Tuesday, Claude Taylor was found guilty of a charge of having assaulted and robbed David Quinton Clark of £7 at Maryborough. Taylor admitted four prior ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. 1300 MILES IN A SULKY.

    Mr. W. K. Harris started on an overland journey from Newcastle to Adelaide a couple of months back, travelling by sulky and pony. He passed through Forbes on the return journey during the week, having in the 3½ ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. A DESPERATE DUEL.

    Following an old quarrel, in which the ex-Mayor (Mr. Snow) fought an assailant named Goldman, the latter, after his release from a penitentiary, waylaid Mr. Snow in the assembly rooms of the Congregational Church at ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. NEW DOMINION CABINET.

    The new New Zealand Cabinet was announced on Thursday, as follows: Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, Premier, Minister for Lands and Agriculture; Mr. A. M. Myers, Minister for Railways and Defence; Mr. George ...

    Article : 95 words
  22. LUNATIC SHOOTS POLICEMAN DEAD.

    An insane Swede, while firing a revolver indiscriminately on the water front at Vancouver, was ordered by a policeman to desist. The Swede replied by killing the policeman on the ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. PREACHER STRIKERS STRUCK OFF ROLL.

    A sequel to the strike of the seven Victorian Methodist local preachers in February took place at the quarterly meeting of the Castlemaine district local preachers on Monday night, when objection was taken to the ...

    Article : 123 words
  24. UNITED STATES AND THE PACIFIC.

    The U.S.A. Democratic caucus has adhered to its decision not to increase the number of battleships during the present year. The Secretary for War declares that this decision is ...

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  25. WOMAN AND CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.

    A block of tenements at Dartmouth (Eng.) was destroyed by fire on Monday. Mrs. Maud Callard and three children were incinerated. A fourth child was thrown from a window, and was seriously injured. ...

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  27. TERRIBLE MINE EXPLOSION.

    An explosion in the mine of the Jed Coal and Coke Company, Welch (West Virginia, U.S.A.), entombed seventy miners. The death-roll exceeds eighty. Ninety-three men ...

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  28. BITTEN BY POISONED DOG.

    Mrs. Nash, of Mount York, near Hartley Vale, N.S.W., had a remarkable experience a few days ago. Mr. Nash's dog picked up a poisoned bait, and was in the throes of agony when Mrs. Nash attempted to ...

    Article : 127 words
  29. UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN WATERS.

    A protest has been sent to the United States against a proposal to take an additional water supply for the Chicago drainage canal from the Great Lakes. It is contended that the scheme is likely to lower the legals ...

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  30. NO VOTES FOR WOMEN.

    In the House of Commons, London, on Thursday, the second reading of Mr. Shackleton's Conciliation Bill, which proposed an extension of the franchise to women, was resumed. ...

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  31. SPREAD OF CONSUMPTION.

    Professor Poncet, Paris, has made an important communication to the Academic des Medicine, in which he shows the virulent infectiousness of the sweat of consumptive patients. ...

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  32. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE BRITISH NAVY.

    In the South African House of Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Silburn introduced a motion in favor of South Africa contributing towards the cost of the up-keep of the British navy a sum calculated on the value of the ...

    Article : 100 words
  33. POISONED PAUPERS' CASE.

    In connection with the death of ninety-two paupers in Berlin workhouses at Christmas, Julius Scharmach, a chemist and maker of methylated alcohol, two commercial travellers, and two publicans have been arrested ...

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  34. N.S.W. RAILWAY PROGRESS.

    According to a statement made in the New South Wales Parliament on Monday by the Premier, in answer on the railways since 1903. The highest number in say to a question, 333 new engines have teen put into use ...

    Article : 85 words
  35. BURIED BY AVALANCHES.

    An avalanche buried eleven ski excursionists who were visiting Hochschneeburg, Austria, on Tuesday. Seven corpses have been recovered. Another party were overtaken by an avalanche at ...

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  36. MEMBERS' SALARIES BILL REJECTED

    In the New South Wales Legislative Council on Wednesday night the Members' Salaries Bill—an increase of £200 a year—was rejected by fifteen votes to ten on the second reading. The division was as follows:— ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. MAINE VICTIMS BURIED.

    The remains of the men who were lost by the sinking of the Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, and which were recovered when the vessel was refloated a week ago, were buried in Arlington National ...

    Article : 71 words
  38. DOCTOR SANDBAGGED AND ROBBED.

    Dr. James Moir, a well-known Auckland medical man, while proceeding to visit a patient in response to a telephone message late at night, was sandbagged and robbed. He was found early next morning lying on the ...

    Article : 46 words
  39. FISHING RESORTS

    Morning. Afternoon. Sunday, March 31 .. 7.23 .. 7.42 Monday, April 1 .. 8.2 .. 8.18 Tuesday, April 2 .. 8.33 .. 8.48 ...

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  40. DRIVING FATALITY.

    Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson were driving home near Natimuk (Vic.) when the horse bolted. Their son, who was riding a bicycle near at hand, called to his parents to run the horse into the road fence. This was done, ...

    Article : 89 words
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  42. REPORTED MARVELLOUS BRAIN OPERATION.

    Medical men at Baltimore, U.S.A., are marvelling at a recent operation, during which a portion of the brain of a man who had been suffering from drowsiness, due to an abnormal condition of the brain, was removed, and ...

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