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  2. BOMB OUTRAGE IN MELBOURNE.

    A blood-curdling outrage of a kind happily rare in British communities was perpetrated at Nicholson-street, Fitzroy, on Saturday morning by some miscreant, who ...

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  4. HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD.

    Manuel Moino and Manuel Fernandez, both "knights of industry," says the "Heraido" of Madrid, finding the confidence trick business getting slow, hit upon the ...

    Article : 215 words
  5. THE HEAT WAVE.

    After five consecutive days with maximum shade temperatures at the Adelaide Observatory between 100 deg. and 113, and three of those days with a temperature of ...

    Article : 705 words
  6. FROM DAY TO DAY.

    Few people would be able to repeat the following, which is said to be a certain cure for the hi[?]ough if repeated in one breath. Indeed, there are few who would be able to ...

    Article : 1,385 words
  7. 116 DEG. AT PORT PIRIE.

    After a week of intolerable heat, with temperatures ranging from 99 to 116 deg., a cool change came last night, but it was hot again this morning. This evening, however, ...

    Article : 83 words
  8. FIERCE HEAT IN THE INTERIOR.

    Reports of intense heat arrived by the mail to-day from Haddon Downs, Nappa Merrie, and Innamincka. The maximum was 125 deg., the average for the last 14 ...

    Article : 286 words
  9. MURDER RELICS.

    Scotland Yard has two museums—one is Called the "Black" collection, and contains relics of notorious criminals dealt with at one time or another by the law; the other ...

    Article : 663 words
  10. SHOOTING AFFAIR AT THE ROTUNDA.

    A serious shooting case occurred at the Rotunda reserve about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, and the affair is surrounded by a certain amount of mystery. The city streets ...

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  11. TABLE OP PRECEDENCE.

    The Governor-General has directed the publication in this week's "Commonwealth Gazette" of the following table of pr[?]cedence, which has received the approval of ...

    Article : 545 words
  12. RECORD TEMPERATURE IN VICTORIA.

    Yesterday was another record breaker, so far as the heat was concerned. In the city at 9 a.m. the thermometer at the Observatory registered a shade ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. DEATHS AT BROKEN HILL.

    The weather now prevailing at the Barrier is the most oppressive and hotest experienced for many years. The temperature continues above 109 deg. daily. On ...

    Article : 257 words
  14. DEATH AT STEPNEY.

    The death of Mr. Martin O'Brien, aged 70 years, who had been gardener at Government House for about 18 years, occurred at Stepney on Friday night or early Saturday ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. QUEENSLAND STOCK ROUTES STILL CLOSED.

    The heat was terrible here yesterday. The rain has been very patchy, and not enough has fallen to open up the southern stock routes. ...

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  16. BEEKEEPER,S ABVENTURE.

    An honest Westphalian beekeeper (says the "Hanover Courier") boarded the train recently at Papenburg with a hive full of prize bees, to travel to Meppen, where [?]e ...

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  17. CHANGE IN TASMANIA.

    The recent spell of very hot weather today gave place to milder temperatures. Horsham, January 6. A heat wave of unusual severity is being ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. VICTORIA.

    The body of James Bohle, aged 74 years, who resided by himself in a hut in Victoriastreet, Sebastopol, was found floating face downwards in a dam at Ballarat yesterday. ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. VICTORIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

    No report has yet been received by the Railway Commissioners as to the causes of the series of accidents recently reported. The chief Commissioner remarked yesterday ...

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  20. DEATH AT PORT ADELAIDE.

    George Jones, aged 67 years, employed as cook on the schooner Beatrice, was stricken by the heat aboard the vessel at Port Adelaide on Saturday. He was taken ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. STEAMER SYDNEY DISABLED.

    The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Sydney, which heft Newcastle at midnight on Friday with passengers and cargo, met with a mishap shortly after ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. OVER 100 DEG. EOR THREE WEEKS.

    A record heat wave has been experienced in the north this year. For the past five weeks the temperature has reached over 100 deg. in the shade almost daily, and ...

    Article : 139 words
  23. MALTREATED BY ROUGHS.

    William Sparling, a young man residing in Hoddle-street, Abbotsford, was walking through the Fitzroy Gardens on his way home early yesterday morning, when he was ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND COAL.

    Mr. Seddon, in a speech at Greymouth yesterday, stated that importations of Newcastle coal could be met by having cheaper freights from the New Zealand mines to ...

    Article : 40 words
  25. PRINCELY SALARIES.

    The land of the big salaries is, of course, the United States, and much attention has lately been drawn to the subject by the insurance revelations. "It is not that the ...

    Article : 392 words
  26. TASMANIA.

    Mrs. Maud Allen, aged 28 years, living at Sandy Bay, committed suicide this afternoon by cutting her throat with a razor. The deed was done with great deliberation, and ...

    Article : 53 words
  27. DEATH FROM SUNSTROKE AT YORKETOWN

    Mr. Thomas Edwards, a local resident, and foreman of Jenzen's salt lake, near Yorketown, received a sunstroke yesterday. Dr. Hayward, after applying the necessary ...

    Article : 81 words
  28. A STATION TRAGEDY.

    It is reported from Carnarvon that a shearer named Fleming shot his mate named Louton after "daring" him to repeat an opprobrious name which the deceased had ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    On Friday afternoon Mrs. Cunningham, of King-street, Rockdale, and a [?]on 12 years old partook of some smoked sardines for lunch, and were afterwards attacked by ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. DEATH AFTER A FIGHT.

    Peter Small, aged 39, of Newtown, was found unconscious in Oxford-street last night, and died on tie way to the hospital. He was seen fighting with another man, ...

    Article : 54 words
  31. FATALITY AT PORT WAKEFIELD.

    One of the permanent way men, John Lysaght, was seized with heat apoplexy about noon yesterday, and died after remaining in an unconscious condition for ...

    Article : 36 words
  32. HUMAN SKULL INSIDE A SHARK.

    A gruesome discovery was made at Dunwick yesterday. A 10-ft. shark was hooked from the steamer Miner off the jetty, and Captain Craig shot it. The fish was hauled ...

    Article : 116 words
  33. FALSE ALARM OF "MAN OVERBOARD."

    A sensation was caused on the Manly steamer Manly yesterday afternoon by a cry of "man overboard." The engines were immediately stopped, and in a very short ...

    Article : 87 words
  34. THREE CASES OF SUNSTROKE.

    Several people in Adelaide and the suburbs were overcome by the severe heat on Saturday. About 2.30.p.m. Constable Mattin found a young woman in King ...

    Article : 183 words
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