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  2. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

    The Coroner received to-night a telegraphic message from Woolamai announcing the occurence of a ghastly tragedy in which four persons lost their lieves. The ...

    Article : 309 words
  3. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Mail for the Eastern States.—A mail for the Eastern States is notified to close at the G.P.O. to-day at 10 a.m. (late fee 11 a.m.) per R.M.S. Orontes. ...

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  4. POLAR EXPLORATION.

    Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, writing from Madeira, states that his ship, the Fram, is bound on a secret expedition to the Antarctic region. The ...

    Article : 175 words
  5. YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS.

    A few days ago two boys, named Desmarest (16) and Tissier (17), decoyed a bank collector, named Andre, to a house in the Belleville quarter of Paris by ...

    Article : 207 words
  6. AVIATION.

    At Mourmelon, in France, yesterday M Wynmalen flew a biplane to a height of 9,174 feet. His stock of petrol then became exhausted, and he was forced to ...

    Article : 399 words
  7. INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

    The prospects of a settlement of the industrial dispute in the cotton trade in Lancashire are now more hopeful. Mr. Askwith, Comptroller of the ...

    Article : 279 words
  8. COST OF LIVING.

    Over 100,000 persons paraded the streets of Vienna yesterday as a protest against the high cost of living. At meetings held by the demonstrators speeches ...

    Article : 101 words
  9. THE NEAR EAST.

    The Athens correspondent of the "Times" states that the situation in the Near East is one of extreme gravity as peace or war rests with the irresponsible ...

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  10. SYDNEY EIGHT HOURS' DAY.

    To-day was observed as a general holiday in communication of Eight Hours Day. The customary procession of trades through the city took place, and it was larger and ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. THE EMPIRE'S DEFENCES.

    Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., speaking yesterday at Dumbarton (near Glasgow), said the Liberals and the Tories defended the extraordinary ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. BERLIN STRIKE RIOTS.

    The assault committed by the police upon four English-speaking journalists during the recent strike riots in Berlin is still being widely discussed. In ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Mr. Marconi Claims to have established the feasibleness of wireless telegraphic communication between Europe and South America. He has already, he ...

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  14. SPANISH UNREST.

    Many Roman Catholic demonstrations took place in the large cities in Spain yesterday, and several of them were broken up by the Republicans, Street fights ...

    Article : 51 words
  15. CRICKET.

    Mr. Abe Bailey, who presided at a farewell dinner given at Johannesburg yesterday to the South African cricket team about to visit Australia said ...

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  16. MR. CARNEGIE'S BENEFACTIONS.

    In opening a public library at Luton (among the Chiltern Hills 31 miles northwest of London) on Saturday, Mr. Whitelaw Reid (United States Ambassador) ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. LADIES' HEADDRESSES.

    On Sunday week the Rev. L. B. Fletcher, the minister of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church, made an announcement that for a long time he had been receiving ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN THEATREGOERS.

    On his return to London yesterday Mr. Oscar Asche, the well-known actor, was interviewed on his recent tour of Australia. "The Australians," he said, ...

    Article : 62 words
  19. PEDESTRIANISM.

    H. A. Wilson, of the Hallamshire Harriers, has decided to become a professional runner, and to accompany R. E. Walker, the South African sprinter, to ...

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  20. CHOLERA.

    Sixteen more deaths from cholera have occurred at Naples. Fugitives from the city are carrying the disease to the surrounding country. ...

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  21. BRITISH CAPITAL.

    The "Economist" states that for the past nine months the issues of British capital totalled £216,750,000, of which £54,800,000 was for the United Kingdom, ...

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  22. THE LATE KING.

    Two donations of £50,000 each and one of £25,000 have been received towards the cost of establishing a Welsh national sanatorium as a memorial to the late ...

    Article : 36 words
  23. BILLIARDS.

    The "Morning Post" says that since the billiard cracks are unwilling to meet Gray unless he accepts a start, the young Australian's best course is to ...

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  24. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARNARVON.

    Late last Monday night the Charon's cabin boy, Wang Ban, 24 years of age, was killed. He and another boy were fishing off the south side of the jetty, close ...

    Article : 266 words
  25. AN OVERDUE STEAMER.

    The German-Australian liner Annaberg is overdue here from Hamburg and Antwerp, via South African ports. Advices to hand state that the Annaberg left Algoa ...

    Article : 134 words
  26. THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER.

    Twenty-seven of the dead bodies taken from the reopened Wellington colliery at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, have been identified. It is feared, however, that ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. A DESPERATE THIEF.

    At Leipzig, in Germany, yesterday a bicycle thief, named Oselenski, killed a policeman who was endeavouring to arrest him. The murderer has since been ...

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  28. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The object of Lever Brothers and Co., the well-known soapmakers, in increasing the capital of their company is to secure independence of the ordinary market for ...

    Article : 212 words
  29. THE BOURKE MURDER.

    The young Russian Senkovitch arrived in Sydney early on Sunday morning. A large crowd assembled at Central Railway Station but their morbid curiosity was not ...

    Article : 155 words
  30. CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

    "A Church court had said that a certain man. Mr. Frackelton, is no longer the minister of Ann-street church, Brisbane. A Civil Court, on looking into the matter said ...

    Article : 386 words
  31. BRIGANDAGE.

    While Count Cahen, a millionaire, was motoring near Orveito (78 miles north of Rome) a few days ago he was captured by brigands. The latter forced the ...

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  32. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A goods train was standing at the Tarana platform on Saturday night, when another goods train from Bathurst dashed into it. In a carriage attached to the stationary ...

    Article : 101 words
  33. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN VICTORIA.

    The report of the special committee appointed to advise on the best means of improving and co-ordinating the various branches of agricultural education in ...

    Article : 114 words
  34. ABORIGINES AT WAR.

    A report reached the Laverton police to-day that a native had been killed at Erlistoun, near Dower's battery. From the meagre particulars to hand it ...

    Article : 136 words
  35. FIRE AT BATHURST.

    The room of the Bathurst Agricultural, Horticultural, and Pastoral Society at Bathurst were destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire originated in the office ...

    Article : 77 words
  36. PERSONAL.

    The Victorian delegates of the A.N.A., Messrs. E. D. Wilcox and J. Lemmon, M.L.A., returned to Perth yesterday morning from the goldfields, and addressed a ...

    Article : 192 words
  37. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The White Star liner Corinthic, which arrived on Friday, had on board Dr. Wilson, the leader of the scientific branch of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition. He ...

    Article : 196 words
  38. ALLEGED FALSE IMPRISONMENT.

    In the Full Court to-day judgement was given in the appeal case of Varawa v. Howard Smith and Co. The effect of the judgement was to set aside the verdict of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  39. A FRENCH EXHIBITION.

    The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Batchelor) has placed himself in communication with the State Governments in reference to the preparation of exhibits for ...

    Article : 111 words
  40. THE ESPERANCE RAILWAY.

    Cr. McClintock, when speaking at a public meeting at Boulder on Saturday night, severely condemned Mr. J. T. Glowrey, M.L.C., for not having attended as a ...

    Article : 169 words
  41. COMMONWEALTH DEFENCE.

    A map issued with the special "Federal Gazette," proclaiming Sunday, January 1. as the day on which the compulsory training provisions under the Defence Act are to ...

    Article : 203 words
  42. CHURCH WORKERS.

    Western Australian delegates to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia referred to the need for men in church work in their State. It was said ...

    Article : 87 words
  43. THE LAW COURTS.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before Mr. Justice Rooth:—1. In the matter of the Companies Act, 1893, and in the matter of the Esperance Land and Estate Co., ...

    Article : 79 words
  44. PROPOSED LABOUR PAPER.

    Mr. Spence, the president, and Mr. Macdonell, the general secretary of the Australian Workers' Association, have issued an official notification in reference to the ...

    Article : 124 words
  45. FIRE AT NORSEMAN.

    Cooper's Princess Royal Hotel was totally destroyed by fire this morning, the damage being estimated at £1,500. The origin of the outbreak is unknown, the ...

    Article : 82 words
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