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  2. TESTING THE BRAKES.

    The Coroner (Dr. Cole) has made a arrangements for testing the brakes. The test will be carried out at Sunshine in the course of a day or two, and the conditions ...

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  3. A GRIM COLLECTION.

    'At the end of platform No. 9 at the Spencer Street Railway Station is a cold and gloomy room usually used for the storage of luggage. In ...

    Article : 309 words
  4. MANCHESTER ELECTION

    Indications point to a close contest between the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Winston Churchill) and the Unionist candidate (Mr. W. Joynson ...

    Article : 268 words
  5. THE PASSING OF THE EX-PREMIER.

    Profound regret has been expressed throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire at the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (the ex-Prime ...

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  6. THE RAILWAY DISASTER.

    The sitting of matters in connection with the terrible railway disaster at Sunshine Station on Easter Monday night is mainly work for the Coroner. Already there are ...

    Article : 311 words
  7. WEIGHT OP BENDIGO TRAIN.

    A statement was prepared by the Railway Department showing the weight of the Bendigo train. The figures reveal that the total weight was approximately 340 ...

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  8. THE ONE-FIVE SIGNAL.

    Since Mr. Tait, speaking on behalf, of the Railway Commissioners, announced that the stationmaster at Sunshine gave the line clear to both Deer Park and ...

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  9. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION.

    The Coroner (Dr. R. H. Cole, P.M.), who has fixed the date of the inquest for Monday, May 4, will hold the inquest without a jury. Dr. Cole. when interviewed. ...

    Article : 257 words
  10. MORE CLAIMS.

    Names of additional persons who were injured in the disaster continue to filter in to the department. As indicated to-day this notification is tantamount to an ...

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  11. PATHETIC INCIDENTS.

    All daylong there was a procession of heartbroken men and women to and from the room where this grim collection was displayed ...

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  12. CONVERT TO HOME RULE.

    Mr. T. W. Russell—who has represented Tyrone South in the House of Commons since 1886, was Secretary to the Local Government Board in the Marquis of ...

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  13. MR. RUNCIMAN'S CAMPAIGN.

    The Irish Federation of Government Workers has issued a circular advising the electors of Dewsbury (the constituency in which the President of the Board of ...

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  14. THE STAFF AT SUNSHINE.

    The station staff at Sunshine consists of three officers and a boy, who looks after the lighting of lamps and other odd jobs of a light character. There is a station ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. A BROTHER BURIED IN AUSTRALIA.

    The death of the ex-Prime Minister of England is not without a certain melancholy interest by almost personal character to the residents of this State from the fact that ...

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  16. HIS MAJESTY'S EULOGY.

    His Majesty the King, who in his short stay in London between his return from Biarritz and his departure from Copenhagen, called at Downing street to enquire ...

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  17. JOBBERY IN NEW YORK.

    Circumstances of a suggestive character in regard to alleged political jobbery in connection with the street railways and tramways of New York were brought to light ...

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  18. MR. PRICE AT LIVERPOOL.

    The Premier of South Australia (Mr. Price) is visiting Liverpool. Speaking on Wednesday to the members of the Produce Exchange of that city, he said if the ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. OFFICIALS SUSPENDED.

    Pending the result of the enquiry to be held by the Coroner (Dr. Cole), the Railway Commissioners have, in accordance with the usual official procedure, suspended. ...

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  20. TRAGEDY NEAR THE BARRIER.

    The details of the Yancannia tragedy show that A. E. Schmelzkoff, M. Doyle, and Albert Heddle, recently from Victoria had a row. Heddle was hit and made ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. CONDITION OF DRIVER MULBURN.

    Driver Leonard Milburn, of the first Bendigo engine, has, since the accident, been confined to his bed, suffering a collapse from the shock. His medical adviser has ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Breadstuffs.—The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 48,449,000 bushels, compared with 50,098,000 bushels a week ago. The caroes of South Australian, ex the ...

    Article : 266 words
  23. BRAKES ON THE BENDIGO TRAIN.

    A most important phase of the railway disaster was brought to light to-day. When the accident occurred Milburn, the driver of the first engine of the Bendigo train ...

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  24. INCOMING MAIL STEAMER.

    The R.M.S. Ormauz arrived at Fremantle at 7 o'clock this morning. Passengers:— For Adelaide—Mrs. Bagot, Miss Milne, the Rev. Dr. Milne, and Messrs. Ragus ...

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  25. A SAD SEARCH.

    The story of the Sunshine tragedy is a sad, saditale. Fresh chapters, full of moving pathos, are daily coming to light. One surrounds the death of Mrs. Margaret ...

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  26. CONDITION OF INJURED.

    The following list gives the condition of the patients, who are most seriously injured:— Ethel Charlotte Lynch, broken ...

    Article : 278 words
  27. IMMEDIATE RELIEF.

    The Railway Commissioners have taken steps to immediately relieve any distress which the accident may have caused in the death or disablement of breadwinners. ...

    Article : 147 words
  28. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The plumbers' conference was resumed to-day. Mr. Robey (N.S.W.) moved— "That this conference approves of the adoption of a system of registration suitable for ...

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  29. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    When the Acting Premier (Hon. A. A. Kirkpatrick) and the Treasurer (Hon. A. H. Peake) leave Adelaide on Saturday afternoon to attend the Premiers' Conference ...

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  30. THE FUNERAL.

    It has been arranged that the first part of the funeral service of the late Sir Henry Camphell-Bannerman will take place at Westminister Abbey on Monday, and the ...

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  31. OFFICIAL VISITS TO THE HOSPITALS.

    To-day Mr. L. McClelland (Secretary for Railways) officially visited the various hospitals where the injured passengers are under treatment, and enquired regarding ...

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  32. SUFFERERS IMPROVING.

    No further deaths were recorded to-day, and the condition of those patients in the hospitals who are most seriously injured in most cases showed an improvement, and ...

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  33. UNITED STATES NAVY.

    Sir William Henry White, who organized the warship building department of Armstrong & Co., and from 1885 to 1902 was director of naval construction and ...

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  34. A SAD CASE.

    During the voyage of the Ormuz, which arrived at Fremantle to-day, Mrs. Sarah Andrews died at sea. The particulars surrounding the incident were extremely ...

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  35. MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.

    Mr. Tait has received a letter of sympathy from the Chairman of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation. The Acting Lord Mayor has received the ...

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  36. GOVERNOR-GENERALS INTEREST.

    The following telegram from Mr. H. H. Share (Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General) was received by Dr. McKelvie (medical superintendent of the ...

    Article : 89 words
  37. APPRECIATION OF COMMONWEALTH

    In the House of Representatives this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin, W.) said that the morning's cablegrams had informal them of the decease of the ...

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  38. HOW THE TRAINS WERE DELAYED.

    Had the train from Bendigo and the Ballarat train been running to their schedule times there could have been no disaster at Sunshine on Monday night. The ...

    Article : 250 words
  39. CLARENDON.

    Miss M. Morphett, P.O., Clarendon, S.A., writes:—"We have used Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Colds and found it very successful." ...

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  40. THAW CASE.

    Harry Kendall Thaw who was acquitted of the murder of Stanford White at the Madison Square Roof Garden Theatre in June 1906, on the ground that he ws ...

    Article : 71 words
  41. THE VICTIMS' TREASURES.

    The Footspray police brought to Spencer Street Railway Station three sacks filled with belongings of the injured and dead. The articles comprised gold watches ...

    Article : 224 words
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  43. MESSAGE FROM THE EARL OF CREWE.

    His Excellency the Governor has received the following cablegram from the Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies):—"I have read with great sorrow and ...

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  46. AMERICAN SHIPPING LAWS.

    The United States House of Representative has repealed the Act passed in 1906 (regulating the shipping trade with the Philippines. The repeal will allow foreign ...

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  47. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHY.

    A resolution of sympathy in connection with the Victorian railway disaster was carried by the Trades and Labour Council last night. ...

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  49. CONSTITUTION OF ENQUIRY BOARD.

    If the Premier. (Mr. Bent) is well enough to attend a meeting of the State Cabinet to-day will ask his colleagues to determine the basis of the constitution of some ...

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  50. STOCK EXCHANGE SYMPATHY.

    Reference was made to the disaster by Mr. A. J. Noall (Chairman of the Stride Exchange of Melbourne) at the first sitting of the exchange to-day. Mr Noall said he ...

    Article : 96 words
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