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  2. THE LATE CATHERINE HELEN SPENDS.

    A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. I recollect my father getting a large cask of whisky direct from the distillery which ...

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  3. BARRIER QUARTER SESSIONS.

    At the Quarter Sessions to-day, before His Honor Judge Gibson, Emily Faggotter, who was charged with having maliciously sent poison to Elsie Johns in a piece of ...

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  4. MEMORIES OF A AGENARIAN.

    While at the Haven I became acquainted with a Sydney merchant. He is the founder and Chairman of the Royal Lifesaving Society, and who for many years has ...

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  5. THE MURNPEOWIE METEORITE.

    The Murnpeowie meteorite (2,520 lb.), which is available for public inspection in the mineral museum of the School 01 Mines, is of its kind among the wonders ...

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  6. CO-PARTNERSHIP.

    In response to appeals, the West Hartlepool shipbuilding firm of Furness, Withy, & Co., is considering the possibility of continuing its scheme of co-partnership ...

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  7. SMALLPOX.

    No further cases of smallpox were reported to-day, and all the patients at the quarantine station are progressing satisfactorily. Seven first-class passengers by the ...

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  8. HOWLING MOB.

    That party which has set itse[?]f to drown every argument of its opponents in howls su[?]tained its unenviable reputation at the Collingwood Town Hall to-night, when ...

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  9. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. Sanderson, a fusionist candidate for the Senate, speaking at Perth last night, said the issue was not between labour and capital, but between centralization and ...

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  10. TO THE SOUTH POLE.

    Capt. Scott, R.N., who will lead an expedition to locate the south pole, speaking at a meeting in Liverpool, made an appeal for £6,000 to complete the £40,000 which ...

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  11. ANOTHER CASE IN THE WEST.

    Another case of smallpox among the Otway passengers at the quarantine station has been reported. The sufferer is a boy aged four years, named Sydney Curtis. The ...

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  12. THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.

    The Premier (Mr. KidstoN) has issued the following message to the people of Queensland:—"On April 13 you will be called upon to decide the all-important ...

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  13. ANOTHER BALLOON FATALITY.

    The disaster to the balloon Pommern, which nude such a sensational ascent from the City of Stettin and such a calamitous descent into the Baltic Sea, has been ...

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  14. SYDNEY PATIENTS PROGRESSING.

    No fresh cases of smallpox have occurred among the Otway's passengers in quarantine, and the three patients are still progressing. Dr. Ashburton Thompson says ...

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  15. VICTORIA.

    The Minister for Public Works has decided to take what action may be necessary to secure the punishment of people who exhibit rocket, signals off the coast ...

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  16. CHEAPER COAL.

    Statements made by the Premier (Mr. Murray) and the Minister of Mines (Mr. McBride) to-day make it apparent that the Ministry intends to endeavour to get ...

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  17. THE NEW COINAGE.

    The Secretary of the Federal Treasury (Mr. G. T. Allen), in referring to the statement that the banks of New Zealand intend to refuse the new silver money of ...

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  18. DEAD AVIATOR HONOURED.

    M. Le Blon, a daring French aviator, who was one of the principal contestants at the Doncaster aviation meeting in October last, was killed when engaged in n flight ...

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  19. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. Justice Street in the Equity Court to-day sanctioned the scheme of recoustruction of the A.J.S. Bank authorizing the new bank to take over the business ...

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  20. THE BARRIER.

    Mr. Martin O'Niel, aged 49, one of the pioneers of unionism on the Barrier, died in the hospital on Monday of pneumonia. He was born at Deniliquin, and had spent ...

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  21. LIVE WIRES.

    Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury tried in the Supreme Court to-day an action by William Henry Holmes, of Newcastle, painter and decorator, against the ...

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  22. RUSSIAN FLYERS.

    Russia has determined not to be outdistanced by the other nations in the equipment Qf an aerial fleet. The Duma has voted a sum for the construction ofa ...

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  23. HIT ON THE JAW.

    Sr. Trenwith was leaving the South Melbourne Town Hall with his wife, after a stormy meeting, on Thursday night, when a man came up ...

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  24. BOY'S DEATH RIDE.

    A boy was swept to death, wrote the Waterbury correspondent of The New York Herald, in an icefloe flood which has changed the usual placid rivers of that ...

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  25. NEGRO COMEDIAN SUED.

    Mrs. Neinke, lessee of the local Hippodrome, where vaudeville and picture shows are given, sued, before Mr. Garstang, D.S.M., to-day, George Washington Sparks, ...

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  26. ETHERGRAMS.

    A remarkable record in long-distance ethergram messages has just been achieved. Communication, by means ethergrams was continuously maintained betweenn ...

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  27. VISITING PROFESSORS.

    Dr. C. T. Dones, professor of geography, and Dr. K. Domin, professor of botany at the Bohemian University, Prague, are visiting Brisbane. They have visited ...

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  28. A LARGE SHIPMENT.

    The Omrah reached Fremantle to-day with a large consignment of new silver [?]oins, including £4,000 worth of florins and £2,000 worth of sixpences for Perth, ...

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  29. DRIVE IN THE DARK.

    Thomas Bushell and Frank Baynton were charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with manslaughter in connection with the death of William James Boatwright on ...

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  30. CORPORATIONS.

    Present—The Mayor (Mr. W. H. H. Dring), Ald. King, Blight, and Brown, and Crs. Murphy, Wood, Hallett, Richardson, Mortin, and Park.—Receipts, £300; expenditure, £151; debit balance, £669, ...

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  31. LEVY MEMORIAL FUND.n

    The sum of £3,000 has been subscribed towards the memorial fund in memory of the late Mr. B. W. Levy, of Sydney. The committee has decided to found with ...

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  32. NOUMEA CYCLONE.

    The Ville de la Ciotat, which was at Noumea during the recent disastrous cyclone, brought full accounts of the extensive damage done. The cyclone wrought ...

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  33. QUEENSLAND.

    Following upon a request made by a deputation to the Treasurer recently it has been decided to remove certain restrictions which have existed limiting the number ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND.

    The draughts championship was won by W. Penman Huntley, who defeated J. A. Boreham, the Australian champion. ...

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  35. A TALK ON METEORITES.

    Meteorites were regarded by the ancients as of miraculous origin, and were carefully preserved, and even worshipped as gods, Thus, a stone which fell in Phrygia was ...

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  36. MARIE CORELLI.

    Miss Marie Corelli, the famous novelist, who was reported a few days ago to be stricken with pneumonia, at her home in Stratford-on-Avon, ia now recovering her ...

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  37. THEBARTON: Tuesday, April 5.

    Present—The Mayor (Hon. A. W. Styles, M.L.S.), Ald. Brazel, Klauer, and Menhennet, Crs. Bramstrom, Green, Ryan, White, Morris, and Broadfoot,—Receipts, £1,115; expenditure, £1,937; ...

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  38. GAWLER: Monday, April 4.

    Present—The Mayor (Mr. C. G. Rebbeck), Crs. McLean, Haydock, Connor, Hill, Temley, and Thorup, the Town clerk (Mr. S. B. Rudall), and the Inspector (Mr. P. cheek).—The Town clerk ...

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  39. TIMBER INDUSTRY.

    The quarterly report on the timber industry of Queensland to the Department of Public Lands shows that the revenue derived by the department for the month ...

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  40. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The directors of the New Zealand shipping Company have declared an interim dividend of 5/ per share.r ...

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  41. FALSE PRETENCES.

    'A clean-shaven young man, who looked as if he had just emerged from a fasmon plate, was ca[?]ed up for sentence at the Quarter Sessions to-day. His name is ...

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  42. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Mining Share.—Broken Hill Proprietary, buyers 39/, sellers 40/; British, 25/6 and 26/6. Copper.—Standard brands, on spot buyer ...

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  43. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The population of the State at the end of March was 279,545. This is an increase for the month of 1,461. At the Kalgoorhe Circuit Court last month ...

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  44. BARRIER BLAZE.

    A fire just after 6 o'clock this morning destroyed the greater part of the Social Democratic Club buildings in Argent street. The fire was one of the largest in the till ...

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  45. SURPLUS OF WORK.

    A return furnished by the Government Labour Bureau shows that during March 601 men were wanted in the country, and only 298 accepted work offered. ...

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  46. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At Falmouth or in Channel.—Strathclyde, steamer, from Port Adelaide January 15; King George, steamer, Port Adelaide January 26; Indianic, steamer, Port Pirie ...

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  47. OMRAH AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. Omarh, from London, arrived this morning with the following passengers:— For Adelaide—Messrs. Lee Levetus, ...

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  48. PERICLES WRECK.

    Telegrams from the Leeuwin state that hundreds of boxes of butter from the wrecked steamer Pericles have flouted ashore at Flinders Bay, and are being ...

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  49. STUPIDITY THE BEST EXCUSE.

    Isabel Griggs was charged at the criminal Court to-day with having attempted to bribe the Public Service Commissioner Mr. Jull) by forwarding him a cheque for ...

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  50. EXEMPTION REFUSED.

    Judge Gibson, in refusing yesterday to exempt Mr. George Weir (General Manager of the North Mine) from jury services, said the representative of a large ...

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  51. NEW ZEALAND MINERAL EXPORTS.

    During the March, quarter 113,976 oz. of I gold, valued at £451,000, was exported, compared with 117,274 oz., valued at £466,238 for the same period last year. ...

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