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  2. COUNTERFEIT COINS

    There is a story of the bad old days concerning a man who tendered a bad half-crown to a shanty keeper. The proprietor tried the suspected coin with his ...

    Article : 210 words
  3. PARCEL OF PEARLS DISAPPEAR.

    The detectives have failed to trace a "parcel of pearls, valued at £2000, which was reported to have been stolen at On slow, W.A., last year. McDaniel Bios., ...

    Article : 130 words
  4. JAPANESE SAVE A TOWN.

    The Pearlers' Rest Hotel and the " Chronicle" office at Broome, W.A., were destroyed by fire on June 18. The damage is estimated at £1500. But for ...

    Article : 51 words
  5. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

    Ex-night officer Dwyer and ex-shunter Gibson have been committed for trial at Murrurundi Quarter Sessions commencing July 28 on charges in connection with ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.

    Elizabeth Anderson, 19 years of age was charged at Melbourne, V., last week with the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, at Carlton, on May 16. ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. ISLANDERS BUTCHER WHITE TRADERS.

    The Solomon Islanders who were recently deported from the sugar plantations in Queensland have been causing a deal of trouble since returning to their ...

    Article : 203 words
  8. UNSCRUPULOUS BOY.

    At the Children's Court, Parkes, N.S.W., last week, a boy, 14 years old, pleaded guilty to three charges of uttering spurious coins on a blind shopkeeper. ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. ALLEGED TOBACCO FRAUDS—LARGE SUMS INVOLVED.

    Two commercial travellers, Arthur Tillinghest and William Robertson, were before the Central Police Court, Sydney, last week, Tillinghest being charged with ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. DETERMINED SUICIDE.

    Frank Hayes, manager of skating rinks at Bairnsdale and Sale, V., made no mistake about suiciding. He fired four bullets into his body, and then drowned ...

    Article : 154 words
  11. BEWARE OF THE DOG.

    An officer of the Sydney Wate. and Sewerage Board was recently attacked by a dog, according to the officer, while he was in the execution of his official duty. ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. CLERGYMAN REBUKED.

    AL the trial of Frederick Corry at Melbourne on a charge of throwing corrosive fluid at his wife, Justice Hodges rebuked a clergyman who gave evidence for ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. GREEK SETTLES A QUARREL.

    Demetrios Petrus Chetis went to the house of Sophocles Servetopulos in Surry Hills, Sydney, one day last week, and said he had decided to take the life of a ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. STEAMER'S NARROW ESCAPE.

    On Thursday of last week a heavy fog hung over the N.S.W. coast in the vicinity of Sydney, and mariners, both in me harbor and outside, had an anxious ...

    Article : 174 words
  15. MAN'S INFAMOUS CONDUCT.

    A simple charge of stealing developed an extraordinary case at Melbourne, V., last week. The police were looking for Florence Trenchard, who was " wanted." ...

    Article : 304 words
  16. ALEXANDER BROWN'S DEATH.

    Mrs. Jane Baikie was acquitted at Sydney last week on the charge of having murdered Alexander Brown on April 25. The accused woman made a statement in ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. CHILD KILLS INFANT BROTHER.

    The death of a 2½-year-old child Alick Robertson, at Irishtown, North-West Coast, Tasmania, was responsible for an inquiry last week. After hearing the ...

    Article : 209 words
  18. WRECK OF THE BEGA.

    At the inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the N.S.W. coastal steamer Bega off Tathra on April 5, Mr. Walter Reoks, naval architect, was re-examined ...

    Article : 628 words
  19. THE BRAYBROOK DISASTER.

    William Darcy, guard of the Bendigo train, which was responsible, for the dreadful railway accident at Braybrook Junction, V., on Easter Monday, was ...

    Article : 597 words
  20. THE SIMPLE LIFE.

    He was a middle-aged man, or strong physique, but a typical " dead-beat," who appeared at the Newtown, Sydney, Police Court last week. His hat was torn, his ...

    Article : 230 words
  21. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    There was nothing very remarkable about the Bridgeland v. Roder divorce case, which was heard at Sydney last week, though Justice Pring described it ...

    Article : 440 words
  22. THE ELSTERNWICK TRAGEDY.

    The inquest concerning the death of Hugh Kyle Dunn, a supernumerary warder at Pentridge, which occurred through the explosion of a gun in a struggle with ...

    Article : 186 words
  23. MANIAC'S CRIME.

    R. G. Robinson, a lay preacher at Mount Blackwood. nine miles from Trentham, V., was shot dead on June 19 by William Pincombe, who lived by himself in a ...

    Article : 290 words
  24. HOW WATSON WORKED THE ORACLE.

    James Watson, 51,.was seen in George- street, Sydney, the other day making money hand over fist, so Constable Cox stepped up to see what he was doing it ...

    Article : 200 words
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