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  2. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPPING.

    The last year of the 19th century records exceedingly good prices for ships, rates of freight, and price of coal, but the figures, except for coal, have not approached "war prices." Probably the ...

    Article : 1,278 words
  3. IMPRESSIONS OF HIGH OFFICIALS.

    A high official expressed the opinion--enough he did to with some reservation--that the brake must have been applied suddenly just as the train passed the Spot where the engine left the line. ...

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  4. THE PLAGUE.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--There has been a fresh outbreak of plague at Bombay. Nine hundred deaths have occurred during the past week. ...

    Article : 33 words
  5. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

    LONDON, January 4.--According to the "Daily Chronicle," the first matter claiming Mr. Chamberlain's attention on his return to the Colonial Office is the representation of the ...

    Article : 164 words
  6. CLEARING THE LINE.

    The scene of the disaster presented a particularly weird appearance at night. Thousands of spectators had been attracted from the surrounding suburbs, and some scores oven from the ...

    Article : 382 words
  7. NEW YORK HARBOR ICEBOUND.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--New York harbor is icebound. A terrible snowstorm has occurred in the Eastern States. ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. THE NAVAL FORCES.

    "An Occasional Sydney correspondent" writes to "The Times":--"Sir J. A. Cockburn did me the honor to reply early in October in 'The Times' to some criticisms of mine on the ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. VICTORIA.

    At a meeting of the Marine Board this afternoon, the agent of the Orient steamer Ormuz wrote asking for a refund of £23 10s paid for pilotage on 11th December, on the ground that ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

    The Parisian press has taken but little notice of the birth of the Australian Commonwealth, and some of the papers that have commented thereon have managed to find in it a ...

    Article : 680 words
  11. AT SYDNEY HOSPITAL.

    The Sydney Hospital authorities are entitled to great praise for the preparations they made upon hearing of the disaster. As soon as the attendant received the news he informed Dr. Stacy, ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. A MECHANIC'S STORY.

    "Where is your hat and coat, mate?" "I don't know and don't care" was the hoarse reply of a sturdy young man in trousers and singlet, begrimed and bespattered with blood. ...

    Article : 434 words
  13. HOW THE DISASTER HAPPENED.

    An examination of the rails where the engine left the line reveals nothing which would account for the accident. Just at this spot the gauge seems to be all correct. The sleepers for a ...

    Article : 377 words
  14. SENTENCED TO DEATH.

    William Edwin Nash, who so deliberately shot his wife in Richmond on the night of 29th December, was tried at the Criminal Court to-day for wilful murder. The prisoner made a ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. MAILS FROM ADELAIDE.

    Mr. Gurr, State Postmaster-General, has given instructions that whenever the English mail arrives at Adelaide too late for the ordinary express, a special train must at once be put on to ...

    Article : 53 words
  16. BODIES AT THE MORGUE.

    Four of the killed were conveyed to the South Sydney morgue, at the Haymarket. All were in a terribly mangled condition. One, a boy of 15 years, was cut completely in two. The head ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. MU. J. H. CARROTHERS' OPINION.

    Interviewed last evening, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, M.P., State member for the district in which the victims of the disaster resided, said:--"I hope notice wiil be taken of the reported state of this ...

    Article : 295 words
  18. QUEENSLAND.

    Owing to the contingents for South Africa using Lytton as a camping ground, and to taking of the census at the end of March, it has been decided that the annual military encampment can not be ...

    Article : 189 words
  19. AT THE MARRICKVILLE HOSPITAL.

    Those who were recovered first were sent to the Marrickville Hospital, which is situated about a mile from the scene of the disaster. Altogether eight of the unfortunate men found ...

    Article : 409 words
  20. SCENE AT REDFERN STATION.

    About 7 o'clock in the evening the news that something unusual had happened on the railway line spread quickly in the vicinity of the Redfern railway station, and knots of people began ...

    Article : 566 words
  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Marine Board decided to refer the circumstances connected with the wreck of the barque Glenpark to the Court of Marine Inquiry. It is understood that the Crown law office will prefer ...

    Article : 268 words
  22. THE DRIVER OF THE TRAIN.

    "How the accident occurred I do not know," was the greeting from Engine-driver Matthew Doyle. "I have been a driver on that line for the last eight or nine years, and know every inch ...

    Article : 220 words
  23. TRAVELLED BY THE WRONG TRAIN.

    A remarkable escape was experienced by a young man named Thomas Foster, engineer, working at Station-street, Sydney, and living at Sydenham. ...

    Article : 301 words
  24. OTHER INTERVIEWS.

    Elias Slade, who resides in a cottage in Bridgestreet, outside which the fated engine forcibly dumped itself down, was having tea when he heard a terrible commotion. Rushing out to ...

    Article : 1,469 words
  25. THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHERN GROSS.

    Mr. A. G. Hales in the "Daily News" of New Year's Day formulates his views as to the Commonwealth's Army. He says:-- "Personally, I believe that the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 604 words
  26. SOME DOCTORS WHO ATTENDED.

    In response to telephonic messages from the railway authorities, the following medical gentlemen left their homes and proceeded at once to the scene of the accident:--Dr. Gwynne-Hughes, Dr. ...

    Article : 87 words
  27. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government has received a cable from London, announcing the death of Sir Edward Stafford, three times Premier of the colony. The total value of exports from the colony ...

    Article : 69 words
  28. HISTORY OF THE HISS.

    There is not an actor, an actress, a vocalist, or other public performer, including the politician, but must be interested in the hise and its origin. Dr. Ainsile Hollis, in the "Humanitarian," tells, ...

    Article : 326 words
  29. AT PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL.

    The scene at Prince Alfred Hospital from a few minutes to 7 o'clock was a pitiful one. Relatives and friends of passengers on the Sydney to Hurstville line thronged the road and clamored for ...

    Article : 591 words
  30. AN AMBULANCE MAN'S WORK.

    "Now it's all over I can only thank God that I was not mangled to pieces." This was how Mr. Joseph Wales expressed himself in a voice choked with emotion after ...

    Article : 654 words
  31. THE POLICE ARRANGEMENTS.

    The police arrangements in connection with the disaster were excellent. At all the hospitals where it was expected the injured would be taken a number of the members of the force attended, ...

    Article : 88 words
  32. HISTORIC STRAND TAVERN.

    The Edinburgh Castle, 322, Strand, which was the subject of a compensation claim between the London County Council and the freeholders, at the Westminster High Bailiff's Court. ...

    Article : 113 words
  33. ELECTORS' RIGHTS.

    The electors of Petersham are requested to call at the local police station for the purpose of obtaining their electoral rights. They may be obtained daily (Sundays excepted), between 8 a.m. ...

    Article : 152 words
  34. TOWN-HALL RECITALS.

    The Town-hall Organ Recitals will be resumed this evening. Mr. Arthur Mason, the present organist, will open his recital with the Dead March in "Saul" in memoriam of Queen ...

    Article : 104 words
  35. LATE SPORTING.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Bolanes has been scratched for the Newmarket Handicap. ...

    Article : 98 words
  36. THE AMBULANCE ASSOCIATIONS.

    As soon as the news of the disaster became known the various ambulance associations turned out to render any assistance that might be required. The Civil Ambuance Brigade sent out ...

    Article : 83 words
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