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  2. CABLE NEWS.

    There is reason to believe that the increase in the British fleet which has been decided upon by the Admiralty was not wholly due to the Transvaal difficulty, as ...

    Article : 77 words
  3. THE EFFICACY OF THE GALLOWS.

    ADVOCATES of capital punishment are tireless in their efforts to point out how the grim institution[?] crime. It would be well for them to consider the testimony of ...

    Article : 114 words
  4. [?]AKES!

    THAT grat recontour, the ubiquitous merry wine traveller, has a new one and a true one (for a change). There was a show held on the South Coast road last week and the local ...

    Article : 250 words
  5. INGENIOUS JUMBUCKS.

    AWAY out in the Nulla Mountain, the home of Starlight, the Marstons, and Warrigal, settler William Cox has a fine orchard of cherry trees and, just now, those trees are ...

    Article : 226 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 57 words
  7. A LEAP FOR LOVE.

    AMONG the thousands of Leap Year proposals, sent by the young ladies of New South Wales to the 'handsome' members of our staff, the following takes the biscuit:— ...

    Article : 262 words
  8. LAWYER AND SNAKE.

    CERTAIN people in the Grafton district were never whipped for [?]ling tarra-diddles, if the following be true:—'While a gentleman connected with the legal profession was out ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. THEY AND ABYSSINIA.

    A report has been received from General Baratieri, the Italian Commander in Commander in Ayssinia, stating that the shoas in great force attacked the Italians ...

    Article : 50 words
  10. A LADY'S DESIRE.

    THE Caucasian must be played out and given the 'go-by,' when we read such applications as this in the 'Daily Telegraph:—'A young lady wants an educated Chinese ...

    Article : 188 words
  11. A FARMER AND FINANCE.

    A FARMER in the Forbes district has had an unique experience in the fine art of finance. He was in need of a little monetary assistance, and he tendered his farm as ...

    Article : 166 words
  12. TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

    A terrible earthquake has occurred in Persia Eleven hundred persons were killed, and thousands of houses at Zanzabad aid Goi, ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. JOHANNESBURG.

    THE building boom in Johannesburg is marvellous. Handsome edifices are being erected at an electric rate, and yet an Australian, who arrived in the city of the ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. THE NEW TRAM-FARE SYSTEM.

    ON Monday last, a new system for the collection of fares was brought into operation on the Ocean-street cable, North Shore cable and electric tram lines. The sections and ...

    Article : 291 words
  15. REMOVING FURNITURE.

    A STIPENDIARY Magistrate, at Redfern, on Thursday, inflicted an extraordinarily severe penalty on Michael Dynon, of 41 Little Albion-street, Surry Hills, for ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. CONNELLY, OF THE CAMMERAY.

    THE record of the Connelly family, of Balmain, as life-savers, is perhaps unique-Alderman Connelly has rescued numbers of people from watery graves during his long ...

    Article : 413 words
  17. ALLEGED BANKING FRAUDS.

    M. Balenski a well-known banker of Paris, has absconded. He is charged with having defrauded the late M. Max Lebaudy of 6,000,000 francs (£240,000). ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. TOO MUCH LAW.

    FARMER VANHEIDAN, of Lancefield, Victoria, suicided with a gun on Wednesday, as he could no longer endure the throes of litigation. He haunted the Law Courts and ...

    Article : 168 words
  19. BOGAN BILLY'S WHEREABOUTS.

    IT is now ten or twelve weeks since the bravado, Bogan Billy, burst from the bracelets, and escaped from the Cowra train and the custody of Constable Healy. His ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. COMME[?]

    FOUR w[?] mercha[?] week, as a f[?] ...

    Article : 446 words
  21. ON THE RAMPAGE.

    THE Glebe Bench had a task [?] sort out and assess the va Patrick Higgins. Patrick saulting Mrs Williams, at ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. JINGOES III MELBOURNE

    THE Victorian is an aggressive jingo and a bounce when the odde are on his side. On Thursday a Gorman band was playing in Swanston-street, Melbourne, when some of ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. SHERIDAN SLAUGHTERED

    THE traditions of Botany Bay were consistently adhered to on Tuesday morning, when Thomas Meredith Sheridan was launched from the gallows bears to sudden death 9ft ...

    Article : 767 words
  24. THE POLICE V. THE PEOPLE.

    THE residents of Waterloo are battling with words and resolutions and indignation meetings against the Police Force of that excited [?]urb. The trouble arose in consequence ...

    Article : 784 words
  25. LOWENTHAL, THE MURDERER.

    THERE died in a quiet, uneventful way, on New Year's Day, in Adelaide Hospital, the notorious murderer, Charles Lowenthal. The crime which shocked Australia was the ...

    Article : 209 words
  26. THE HEAT WAVE.

    THE heat wave has withered the city daring the week. It came in on Monday in a full furnace blast, and it has not yet receded. The oldest inhabitant does not remember ...

    Article : 698 words
  27. NF

    CHAR robbe[?] actu[?] him ...

    Article : 215 words
  28. DROWNED AT NARRABEEN.

    A DROWNING fatality occurred at the lagoon, Narrabeen, on Friday night. Ernest Crocket, 4, a waiter, employed at the Rock Lily Hotel, in the company of William Hunter, ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. A SHARK HORROR.

    ANOTHER bathing horror, rivalling the recent terrible fate of the boy, who, while [?]athing at a Balmain water resort, was seized by a shark and disembowelled, occurred at ...

    Article : 154 words
  30. NORTH SHORE AGAIN!

    NORTH SHORE certainly supplies more sensationalism to the evening papers than any other two and half suburbs of Sydney. George Dean gave North Shore and some of ...

    Article : 528 words
  31. OFF TO COOLGARDIE.

    THERE is excitement in every settlement in New South Wales over the goldfields of the West, and this colony is losing some of its pluckiest and most enterprising young ...

    Article : 229 words
  32. CONSULTATIONS.

    THE open dealing received by the public from Mr George Adams in running Tatter[?]'s Consultations has received one more [?]p. At the commencement of the new ...

    Article : 304 words
  33. HIS EXCELLENCY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.

    GOVERNOR HAMPDEN has found the attractions of Moss Vale particularly enjoyable during the warm weather, but, pleasant as they are, the allurements of Mr. C. B. ...

    Article : 81 words
  34. BOER LAW.

    A BOER named Snyman, of Middelburg, being dissatisfied with a Kaffir girl in his service ordered two of his servants to give her twenty lashes. The woman was severely ...

    Article : 184 words
  35. A BIG SALE.

    A GREAT improvement will shortly be seen in King-street. That well-known corner, which everyone has recognised as 'Nicholson's' has been taken in by Messrs W. T. ...

    Article : 85 words
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