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  2. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 298 words
  3. Monte Carlo.

    "Behind the Scenes of Monte Carlo" is the most striking article in the December number of the "Pall Mall Magazine" It shows to what tremendous dimensions the great gambling ...

    Article : 1,150 words
  4. Land of the Slack Swan.

    At Ma reception in Perth his Excellency Sir Gerard Smith was reminded at every torn that he was in the land of the black swan. The two engines which drew the vice-regal train ...

    Article : 129 words
  5. Table Sapping.

    An amusing story comes from China. It appears that the President of the [?]-li-Yamen at Pekin, was greatly incensed with the British Ambassador, Sir Nicholas O'Conor, owing to ...

    Article : 114 words
  6. Curious Trial.

    It is reported from Sierra Leone that the trial of James Hastings Spain, postmaster, upon charges of falsification of accounts, embezzlement, and forgery has concluded, and ...

    Article : 239 words
  7. Wolseley's First Levee.

    The new Commander-in-chief held his first levee at the Horse Guards, Whitehall, on December 5, in the afternoon. The presentations were limited to 160, and it was directed that ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. Commandant "Ffrench."

    With regard to the appointment of Brigadier-General, Ffrench (saye the S. M. Herald, January 13) to the command of the forces of the colony, the Premier states that the New ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. Dead or Alive.

    A romantic subject is dealt with in the London. Times under the somewhat prosaic title "In re William Whiting, deceased." It refers to one who was an Australian colonist, even if he is ...

    Article : 238 words
  10. Murderous Attack by Woman.

    An extraordinary affair has be en reported to the Shand Town constabulary near Belfast. On December. 3, while a youth named James Menown, an employee of Mr. Walker, J.P., ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. Diabolical Work.

    A diabolical attempt was made to Scuttle the steamer Whampoa on her arrival at China from the colonies According to the captain's story the vessel was between Shanghai and ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. Vampire Bats.

    Few persons have any idea of the remarkable characteristics of bats, especially the enormous species found, in some parts of India, Africa, and South 'America, known as the vampire. ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. Horrible Death.

    The [?] Advertiser reports that a little while back a man named Durand, who was living at Kromdraai, had to get to Krugersdorp,or invented some excuses to go there, as ...

    Article : 433 words
  14. Lost at Sea.

    Two young foreigners named Pope Bennecke, a German, and Julius Allop, a Russian, had an experience last week that will not soon be effaced from their memory, (says the Gladstone ...

    Article : 340 words
  15. Life at Buluwayo.

    [?] is still forging shead. "The life and go of the place is quite wonderful," writes a correspondent of "South Africa." Some of the houses are quite charming, very ...

    Article : 273 words
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