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  2. MINERS' RACE FOR LIFE.

    In a terrible race for their lives in the Birthday mine at Berringa, V., Charles Lacey lost, while his mate, D. McKenzie, had a narrow escape from death. The ...

    Article : 166 words
  3. ANOTHER BROKEN HILL FATALITY.

    Fatalities at the Broken Hill mines are of almost weekly occurrence. On Wednesday last, at the Proprietary mine, four men, including George E. Parnell, single, ...

    Article : 92 words
  4. "TATTERSALL'S" REPUDIATED.

    The Postal Department has received an intimation from the Commercial Bank of Tasmania that it is prepared to enter into an undertaking to send all letters received ...

    Article : 62 words
  5. KIDSTON ANNULS LIST OF Js.P.

    Mr. Kidston, Queensland Premier, has annulled the list of the commission of the peace issued by the ex-Premier, Mr. Philp, on December 29 last. The list consists of ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

    The declaration of the return of Senator, Vardon aa representative of South Australia is delayed until March 14, while two postal, votes, recorded somewhere about ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. COLORED MAN'S FUTILE BRAVERY.

    The colored cook of the barquentine Alexa, lying in Sydney Harbor, lost his life in an attempt to rescue a shipmate last Saturday night. William Steele, A.B., lost ...

    Article : 118 words
  8. A STREET ORATOR FINED.

    Percy Kelso alias McDonald, well known throughout the Eastern States as a violent street orator whose method of holding a large audience is by abusing public men, ...

    Article : 105 words
  9. EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.

    What Mr. Justice Hood described as the most extraordinary divorce case he had ever handled, was heard by him at Ballarat, V., last week. Thomas Cooper, a laborer, ...

    Article : 139 words
  10. POPULARITY OF SURF BATHING.

    The growing popularity of surf-bathing on the beaches near Sydney is attested to by the figures for tram and ferry traffic during 1907 in comparison with previous years. In ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. POLICEMAN INFRINGES LIQUOR ACT.

    A policeman, Francis J. Williams, was, at Parramatta, N.S.W., charged with sending a child under the ago of 14 to the General Bourke Hotel, Parramatta, for the ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. FEDERAL FINANCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 words
  13. A PROPOSAL OF PEACE.

    Melbourne Trades Hall Council has under consideration a novel peace proposal, formulated by a member of the Bakers' Union. It was put into the form of a motion, and ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. DESERTED GIRL MOTHER.

    A fifteen year old girl applied to the South Melbourne bench the other day, for instructions to sue her husband, who had deserted herself and child. "I have no ...

    Article : 148 words
  15. A FATAL FIGHT.

    Two factory hands, Alfred Spicer and James Sparkes, both a'bout 19 years of age, employed at Gavin, Gibson's boot factory at Alexandria, near Sydney, had a fight ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. ANOTHER SEQUEL TO THE ILLINGWORTH CASE.

    In the Perth, W.A., Police Court, Mr. W. A. G. Walter, P.M., gave his reserved decision in the case in which John Elliott, ex-M.P., was charged with having, on January ...

    Article : 126 words
  17. QUEENSLAND SPEAKERSHIP.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 words
  18. A "REIGN OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERROR."

    There are troublesome times ahead for the Anglican Church in Victoria. The Canon Nash case has caused a considerable stir, and now the dismissal of ministers is ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. "MARIAN'S CHILD."

    A newly-born child was found in the Ovens River, near Wangaratta, V., by the side of the mother, a young woman named Woodberry, who had drowned herself. ...

    Article : 140 words
  20. STRENGTHENING HIS RESOLUTION.

    Addressing William Minehan who had been found guilty of attempting to break and enter, Judge Docker, at Sydney Quarter Sessions, said: "The jury have found ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. OPPOSING THE NEW PROTECTION.

    Victoria impugns the constitutionality of the Federal Excise Tariff Act, 1906, which, among other things, imposes duties upon manufacturers of agricultural ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. A QUARRY NOT "A PLACE."

    On November 24, last, a number of policemen dressed up as swagmen, proceeded to a quarry a mile from Blayney, N.S.W., and took the names of some men who, it was ...

    Article : 283 words
  23. MORE BABY FARMING.

    Another case of baby farming, through not as bad as the one recently imported from Preston, V., goes to show that inspection by the State is pitifully inadequate, has come ...

    Article : 222 words
  24. AN ISLAND MYSTERY.

    A strange story comes from the Pacific by the Island steamer Navu. The auxiliary schooner Laurel, recently, arrived in Levuka, and the officers reported sighting, ...

    Article : 229 words
  25. AN UNLUCKY VESSEL.

    The steamer Elaine, at present at Bunbury, W.A., has had a run of misfortunes that fortunately seldom falls to the lot of a single steamer. On the way out, the first ...

    Article : 191 words
  26. UNCHRISTIAN CHURCHGOERS.

    The Rev. Carr Smith, of St. James' Church, Sydney, who became prominent some time ago because of his outspoken utterances in favor of Socialism, which ...

    Article : 186 words
  27. INTERFERING BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE.

    Though a person does not like to see a woman knocked about, even by her husband, it is always a dangerous matter to interfere. The chances are, also, that the ...

    Article : 337 words
  28. WHOLESALE OPIUM SMUGGLING.

    Little has come to light concerning the revelations promised with regard to opium smuggling," and which were to follow the arrest of H. Ellison in Adelaide, ...

    Article : 306 words
  29. MINERS INDIGNANT WITH MAUGER.

    Miners in the Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., district have taken to heart and keenly resent the recent statements of "Mr. Manger's (Postmaster-General) concerning the ...

    Article : 280 words
  30. SHIRE COUNCIL REBUKES A JUDGE.

    The Tamarang (Quirindi, N.S.W.) Shire Council were indignant at some remarks made by Judge Gibson at the Gunnedali Sessions, N.S.W., and passed the following ...

    Article : 247 words
  31. VAGRANCY IN MELBOURNE.

    In reply to certain allegations made referring to vagrancy in Melbourne, a report by Senior-constable Stapleton has been forwarded to the Chief Secretary. The report ...

    Article : 241 words
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