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  2. THE POLICE FIREARMS.

    It will possibly be remembered that Sergeant Carroll, who organised the successful attack on the Wantabadgery bushrangers, stated in his depositions at Gundagai that his carbine missed fire ...

    Article : 300 words
  3. DEATH OF THE OLDEST NATIVE- BORN AUSTRALIAN.

    The Melbourne Age of Saturday last says that the death occurred in Geelong last week of Mr. Nicholas M’Cann, who was not only one of the oldest Victorian colonists, but also, it is claimed, ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. PRIZE FIGHT FOR TWENTY POUNDS.

    At the Cook River dam, Sydney, between 3 and 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, a pugilistic encounter for the sum abovementioned came off between two young men, one hailing from ...

    Article : 311 words
  5. LOTTERIES IN AMERICA.

    Lottery speculations (says the New York Tribune) have received a severe blow in the opinion just issued from the office of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Post Office Department. Its ...

    Article : 181 words
  6. A LIVERPOOL ORGIE.

    A “ Medical Man” relates the following incident which came under his own observation:— “I was called the other night to see a man in the agonies of cholera-cramp, apparently the result of ...

    Article : 314 words
  7. ARREST OF THE EX-PAYMASTER TO THE SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL.

    Stephen H. Dent, aged 38 years, ex-paymaster of the City Council, who was arrested by Detective Lyons by virtue of three warrants issued against him, was brought up on Monday morning ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. MOTHER AND SON RESCUED FROM DEATH.

    Another boat accident in which the drowning of a mother and son was narrowly averted, occurred about 11 o’clock on Monday morning off Port Macquarie. The woman, whose name is ...

    Article : 189 words
  9. JEWS IN ROUMANIA.

    So excessive is the agitation in Roumania against the free admission of Jews to all the privileges of citizens ordered by the Treaty of Berlin, that the Government of Bucharest has ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. CURIOUS LICENSING CASE AT BATHURST.

    Some days ago an account was telegraphed of how James Gleeson, of the Bock of Cashel Hotel, had made an application before the full bench at Bathurst to have his license transferred to Mrs. ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. REASONING POWER IN HAWKS.

    If a story told in the Telegraph, and related in the Evening Standard on different authority, is correct, hawks can hardly be machines. It is stated that, in eastern France and the north of ...

    Article : 149 words
  12. PAINLESS EXECUTIONS.

    It is not surprising (observes the British Medical Journal) that from time to time attention is recalled to the barbarous nature of the mode of executing the death-penalty in this country. ...

    Article : 234 words
  13. CURIOUS DISCOVERY.

    On Saturday a discovery of a very curious nature was made in an old claim situated near the slaughter yards at Back Creek, Sandhurst. The shaft has not been worked for about eighteen ...

    Article : 505 words
  14. SINGULAR PECULIARITY OF THE NATIVES OF SAIGON.

    Mr. Tremlett, the British Consul at Saigon in his report this year mentions a remarkable peculiarity of the natives of the country—that they the great toe of each foot separated from the ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. AN EXTRAORDINARY WAR VESSEL.

    The most extraordinary vessel of war ever constructed will (says the European Mail) shortly be launched from Chatham Dockyard. Her length is 240 feet, with a breadth of beam of 40 feet—a ...

    Article : 409 words
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    Advertising : 183 words
  17. THE TOTALISATOR.

    Mr. Garrett’s bill to legalize the use of the totalisator on racecourses consists of only one clause, as follows:—“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed in or implied by any of ...

    Article : 135 words
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