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  2. DRUCE MYSTERY.

    The Scotland Yard authorities are pressing for the extradition by the United States of Robert C. Caldwell, the American witness, who gave some ...

    Article : 92 words
  3. SUNBEAM DINNER.

    The annual Christmas dinner and entertainment, given to poor children, in London by the Sunbeam Society of South Australia—an organization connected with ...

    Article : 149 words
  4. TARIFF DECISIONS.

    Piano sconces, being brass receptacles for dies, dutiable (item 172), 30 per cent, foreign, 25 per cent. United Kingdom. Carbonate of magnesia in blocks suitable for ...

    Article : 336 words
  5. THE COUNTRY.

    MANNUM, January 2.—On New Year's evening C. Davison, engineer of the s.s. Tarella, when retiring to his cabin on deck, tripped against the ...

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  6. TO THE SOUTH POLE.

    The Nimrod took 1,500 letters addressed to the post office to be opened by Lieut. Shackleton at King Edward Land. ...

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  7. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    Australian Smelting Corporation.—The shareholders of the Australian Smelting Corporation have resolved to wind up its business voluntarily, and to construct ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. FEDERAL POSTAGE STAMP.

    When the report of the special committee appointed by the Federal Treasurer to enquire into the question of securing a uniform Commonwealth postage stamp was ...

    Article : 396 words
  9. AMERICAN RAILWAY CORPORATIONS.

    Receivers have been appointed by the Court to take charge of the affairs of the Chicago and Milwaukee electric railway and allied corporations. The concerns affected ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. VICTORIA.

    A destructive bush fire started on Poligolet, near Lismore, on Thursday. Assisted by a shifting wind it quickly spread over 7,000 acres of grass. On Poligolet and ...

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  11. REYNARD AT DAWSON.

    DAWSON, January 2.—The overseer on Messrs. Claridge Brothers' recently acquired Cavanagh property, while destroying vermin, came across and killed ...

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  12. CANON NASH.

    Today the Revs. E. S. Hughes, J. S. Hart, A. G. B. West, B. N. White, A. J. H. Priest, and H. S. Begbie waited on Archbishop Clarke, and handed him a list ...

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  13. GERMAN DREADNOUGHT.

    It is announced that the battleship Bayern, the first Dreadnought built by the German Admiralty, will be launched at the Imperial Dockyard, Wilhelmshaven, at ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL.

    Frank von Veltheim, the man mo was concerned in the shooting of Mr. Woolf Joel at Johannesburg in 1898, and who was rearrested in Paris on an ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. A TROUBLESOME SWAGMAN.

    YORKETOWN, December 31.—Some excitement was caused to-day by a swagman, who had been only a few hours in the town, getting into private rooms at ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 words
  17. CORPORATIONS.

    Present—The Mayor (Mr. R. Cruickshank), Ald. Degenhardt, Glover, Godlee, and Heinemann, and Crs. Anthony, Bradley, Crowley, Drage, Ford, Medlow, Miller, ana Twelftree. ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. REGISTRATION UNDER ARBITRATION ACT.

    An application was made by the Marine Cooks, Bakers, and Butchers' Association of Australia to be registered as an organization under the Commonwealth ...

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  19. YACHTING DISASTER.

    A boating accident occurred in Port Philip Bay this afternoon, when two girls—Gladys Raisbeck and Ivy Williams—were drowned through the capsize of a yacht ...

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  20. BIG CUSTOMS CLEARANCES.

    Melbourne clearing house returns for 1907 totalled £236,593,780, or an increase of £16,550,724 on the total of £220,043,056 for 1906. The clearances up to December 30 ...

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  21. A BABY KILLED.

    ROBERTSTOWN, January 2.—A fatal accident occurred at Bright to-day. Mrs. Launer, wife of Mr. Otto launer, farmer, of Bright, was driving in a spring cart ...

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  22. YOUTH DROWNED.

    Henry Trevor Jones, a youth, was drowned in a dam near Stawell to-day. He was bathing with five other, boys, who left the water without giving the alarm. ...

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  23. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Federal Sawmill at Tinonee, in the Taree district, owned by Capt. Hector. Golan, was completely destroyed by fire early on Thursday morning. The mill had not been ...

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  24. A STRANGE CAREER.

    On March 14, 1898, Britons were started by the news that Mr. Woolf Joel had been shot dead in his office in Johannesburg by an ex-trooper, Veltheim. It was alleged ...

    Article : 323 words
  25. WHEAT ON THE WESTERN SYSTEM.

    WALLAROO, January 2.—The new year as started with a buoyant traffic in wheat far exceeding expectations. During the last fortnight of the old year 180,000 bushels ...

    Article : 316 words
  26. RATE OF DISCOUNT.

    The open market rate of discount for best three months' bilk ruled on Thursday afternoon at 5 1-16 per cent., compared with 6 per cent, a fortnight ago. The ...

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  27. DRAMATIC SHAREHOLDER

    A dramatic scene took place at an extra ordinary meeting of shareholders in the Alexandra Reefs Consolidated Goldmining Company to-day. The Chairman of ...

    Article : 247 words
  28. CHURCH ROBBER.

    A man was caught robbing the library money box in St. John's Cathedral, West Maitland, on Thursday night, and, after struggling violently, he was overpowered ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. FEDERAL REVENUE.

    Owing to the holidays the Federal revenue returns were not made available be fore to-day. The receipts from custom and excise for December show a marked ...

    Article : 256 words
  30. GOVERNMENT STOCKS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 words
  31. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    The Premier's manifesto, issued to-night, proposes to repeal several Acts dealing with the dairying and pastoral industries, and says railway construction will be vigorously ...

    Article : 74 words
  32. LOSS OF DRAUGHT HORSES.

    Eight out of a team of 12 valuable draught horses, belonging to Mr. Hill's section at Murrumbidgerie, in the Wellington district, gorged themselves with new ...

    Article : 338 words
  33. PROSPEROUS VICTORIA.

    "I was able to announce a couple of days ago," said Mr. Bent, the State Treasurer, to-night, "that the surplus for the present financial year already stood at ...

    Article : 144 words
  34. AUSTRALIAN MINING SHARES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  35. RECKLESS MOTORIST.

    An alarming accident occurred on Thursday on the Brooklands Motor Course. H. C. Tryon was driving a 60-horsepower Napier machine at the rate of 85 miles an hour. ...

    Article : 71 words
  36. SUICIDE OR MURDER?

    Capt. Joseph Bradshaw, of Melbourne, received news by telegram to-day that a party of black stockmen had just arrived at Brock's Creek, in the Northern ...

    Article : 155 words
  37. GAMING SUPPRESSION ACT.

    NAIRNE, December 31.—At a fairly attended quarterly meeting of the Methodist Church, the Rev. T. M. Flood in the chair, it was resolved that satisfaction be ...

    Article : 79 words
  38. METALS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 words
  39. END OF A QUARREL.

    A quarrel attended by fatal results took place at Wellington this afternoon. John McAnally and James Sheridan were in the company of several other men, and ...

    Article : 104 words
  40. SUICIDE AT MURAT BAY.

    John Barry, a young man, commute suicide at Murat Bay by shooting himself through the body with a rifle on December 31. ...

    Article : 33 words
  41. TROUBLE OVER A CREW.

    The trouble over the ship Ancaros, members of the crew of which have been frequently before the Water Police Court since they were recently released after a ...

    Article : 167 words
  42. MOTOR BUSMEN ON STRIKE.

    About 1,000 motor busmen in the metropolitan area have gone out on strike owing to the employers notifying their intention of paying them according to the number of ...

    Article : 49 words
  43. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 2,267 words
  44. GRASS FIRE.

    MEADOWS, January 2.—A disastrous grass fire has occurred at Blackfellows' Creek. A good area of land was swept by the flames. Messrs. A. E. Cox, J. ...

    Article : 59 words
  45. MERCHANDISE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 words
  46. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

    At midnight on Thursday a plug of dynamite was placed under the back gate of Mr. J. Adkins's tobacconist's premise in Argent street, and the gate was blown ...

    Article : 66 words
  47. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED.

    The Premier this afternoon told a large deputation from the unemployed that for those willing to engage in ringbarking work would be found in the Tamin district ...

    Article : 109 words
  48. JAMES MARTIN & CO.

    GAWLER, January 3.—James Martin and Co. commenced operations in the High street engineering works yesterday. Only a few men were taken on, as the ...

    Article : 96 words
  49. HARVEST FORECAST.

    The Sydney Morning Herald, as the result of special investigations, gives the total yield of wheat for New South Wales 8,682,117 bushels—an average—of a ...

    Article : 41 words
  50. RUN OVER BY A MOTOR.

    Late last night, J. Hartley, a workman, was knocked down by a motor car, and killed. The car was travelling behind a tramcar and when endeavouring to shoot ...

    Article : 49 words
  51. WELCOMING TOM MANN.

    The City Council on Thursday night considered the arrival on Friday of Mr. Tom Mann, the Socialist agitator, and debate whether he should be officially received. ...

    Article : 106 words
  52. PROPRIETARY WORKS RESTARTED.

    PORT PIRIE, January 3.—Mr. W. Robertson (manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company here) was officially notified to-day that the roasting plant will be ...

    Article : 90 words
  53. NEW ZEALAND.

    A deaf and dumb slaughterman from Sydney, who was refused admittance under the Imbecile Passenger Act, will be taken back to Sydney. The Union Company ...

    Article : 63 words
  54. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London.—Somerset, steamer, from Sydney November 1; Tropic, steamer, from Sydney November 2; Katuna, steamer, from Port Pirie October 5; Pera, steamer ...

    Article : 107 words
  55. BUTTER FREIGHTS.

    It is understood that details have been finally arranged of the new butter contract, of which the main features wire settled a few weeks ago between the Butter ...

    Article : 49 words
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