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  2. ALLEGED ROBBERY.

    The Acting Commissioner for Police on Tuesday received the following telegram from Inspector D. Graham, of Townsville: Mrs. Powell reported to the ...

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  3. News and Notes.

    It is reported that a Chinaman named Gin Lin suicided in Boggo road gaol on September 18. The usual magisterial inquiry will be held. ...

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  4. Late Cablegrams

    Colonel Penshing, in charge of a number of United States troops operating against the Filipinos, reports having captured seven forts, killing 25 of the enemy and wounding ...

    Article : 39 words
  5. Czar in Danger.

    A number of rails were removed from two lines oh which the Czar was expected to travel from Korak homewards. The express preceding the Czar's train was wrecked, but ...

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  6. Steamer Nithsdale.

    The report recently received that the British steamer Nithsdale had foundered, and the captain and 13 of the crew drowned, proves incorrect The vessel was only stranded, and ...

    Article : 53 words
  7. Parsee Generosity.

    Nowrojee Manockjee Wadia, a Bombay Parsee, has given £1,000,000 for the relief of persona in any country who may have been deprived of their means of subsistence ...

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  8. GYHPIE BUSH FIRES.

    Gympie had a unique as well as unpleasant experience on the night of September 16. For nearly a week now the bush fires for miles round hare raised volumes of ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. Affront to Kitchener.

    The corporation of Bombay, after voting an address of welcome to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in connection with his forthcoming visit to India, have rejected a motion ...

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  10. Street Preaching Sentence.

    The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Right Hon. A. AltersDonglas) has declined to interfere with the sentence of three months' imprisonment ...

    Article : 64 words
  11. Four Girls Burnt to Death.

    An awful tragedy is reported from the hopfields of Kent. Foot girls have been burnt to death in a hop-picker's barn near Canterbury. Their mother has been arrested ...

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  12. Release of Prisoners.

    The first recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the sentences passed by courts-martial in South Africa, and to report on the expediency of a ...

    Article : 85 words
  13. Colombian War.

    Captain M'Lean, commander of the United States cruiser Cincinnati, which was recently despatched to the Isthmus of Panama in view of the activity of the revolutionists in ...

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  14. DUBUNDTUR ESTATE FIRE.

    The Durundur repurchased estate, which will be thrown open, in all probability, on October 21, for selection, has recently been visited by fire, but it is not thought the ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. Wireless Telegraphy.

    Wireless telegraphy for general purposes being now considered to he assured, Germany has initiated an intercolonial conference, to be held in October, to adopt roles for the use ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. New South African Colonies.

    The "Morning Post" urges the Government to make an authoritative declaration as to its proposals for the taxation of the new South African colonies. ...

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  17. Alleged Overcrowding.

    An inquiry has been held with regard to the alleged overcrowding of the troopship Oswestry Grange, which has arrived from South Africa, measurements being takeu ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. LAIDLEY WATER SUPPLY.

    The Laidley people have good reason to feel uneasy regarding their supply of water for household purposes, it being estimated that the top lagoon, whence the only ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. Marquis of Salisbury III.

    The Marquis of Salisbury, the late British Premier, who is visiting Switzerland, is reported to be ill, and confined to his bed He is at present being attended by an English ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. DEATH FROM DEEP DIVING.

    The portmaster (Captain J. Mackay) has forwarded to the Treasurer for information the following telegram received from the inspector of pearl fisheries at Thursday Island: ...

    Article : 74 words
  21. Miscellaneous Messages.

    A new first-class cruiser named the Berwick, which has a speed of 23 knots an hour, was launched yesterday at Glasgow. LONDON, September 22. ...

    Article : 410 words
  22. Claim on De Beers Company.

    The Do Beers Company intend to contest legally tho claim for £1.000,000 made by the Inland Revenue Commissioner for income tax on the past profits of the company. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. PREVALENT EPIDEMICS.

    Many of the shearers and hands on the Bundaleer shed hare been laid up by some hind of an epidemic, probably a bad form of influenza. One poor fellow (says the ...

    Article : 89 words
  24. FOUND DEAD AT BROWS PLAINS ROAD.

    The South Brisbane police report the discovery of the dead body of a bushman at Brown's Plains road, about 16 miles from Brisbane, at 11.30 a m. on Monday, and which ...

    Article : 138 words
  25. Soufriere Again Active.

    The steamer Newington, when four and ahalf miles from the volcano of Sonfriere, recovered the end of the broken cable to St. Vincent The cable was found to be in a ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. NORMAMTON FIRE.

    The acting Commissioner of Police on September 18 received the following telegram from Sergeant King, of Normanton: "A fire broke out this morning in the kitchen of a ...

    Article : 93 words
  27. Mr. Merriman's Motion.

    In the Caps Colony Assembly yesterday, the debate oil the resolution by Mr. J. X Merriman, denouncing the movement for the suspension of the constitution of Cape ...

    Article : 301 words
  28. SUGAR TRAIN ABLAZE.

    Wanora railway station, on the Brisbane Valley branch line, was on Saturday evening last, the scene of a fire which might have resulted somewhat disastrously had it not ...

    Article : 173 words
  29. Boer Generals at Rotterdam.

    General Botha delivered a lecture at Rotterdam yesterday, in which he stated that as a result of the war in South Africa 20,000 women and children were dead, 4,000 men ...

    Article : 124 words
  30. RAILWAY RATES.

    A deputation recently waited on the Hon. J. Leahy, Minister for Railways, asking that the increase of 50 per cent put on the freights on certain lines in the north be reduced. The ...

    Article : 93 words
  31. MOUNT MORSAN WATER SUPPLY.

    The matter of the supply of water for the town still occupies the consideration of the council (says the Mount Morgan correspondent of the Rockhampton "Record" a of September ...

    Article : 150 words
  32. Persecution of Jews.

    In the "Roumanian Bulletin" a protest is made against the treatment of the Jews in that country by the publication of letters from prominent persons deploring the ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. Cruel Punishment.

    A Berlin telegram to the "Daily Mail" dated August 9 says:—August Bochm, a shoemaker, served 50 years' imprisonment for murder. Last May ...

    Article : 99 words
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