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  2. News by the Torres Straits Mail.

    Nearly twenty thousand pounds, including a cheque for a hundred guineas from the Prince and Princess of Wales, have been subscribed in London on behalf of the people who have been ruined by ...

    Article : 173 words
  3. The Labour Trade—Affray with South Sea Island Natives.

    THE schooner Stanley reports (says the MARYBOROUGH CHRONICLE) a fracas at Lepers Island, Two of her boats had been, engaged during Tuesday, 13th July, trading along the north-weat coast ...

    Article : 524 words
  4. Late English News via Melbourne.

    By the arrival of the Durham, papers [?] have been received. The Russian Cabinet has officially announced to the other powers its definite intention to abandon ...

    Article : 532 words
  5. MURDER IN HERTFORDSHIRE.

    A charge of murder was under investigation by the St. Albans magistrates on July 5. It appears that on Sunday screams of a woman in distress having been heard from n wheat-field at a village ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. HEAVY RAINS IN ENGLAND.

    While we have been bemoaning the evil doings of the Garonne, we have had almost equal cause to lament the continual appearance of rainclouds at home. With scarcely any ...

    Article : 264 words
  7. IRELAND.

    An Orange demonstration took place last week at Crossgar, near Downpatrick. The meeting was held in the open air. About fifty stands of colours were in the field, and there were about ...

    Article : 373 words
  8. IMPORTANT CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

    Probably one of the most important criminal prosecutions of modern times was begun on Wednesday at the Guildhall police court, when Messrs. Alexander and William Collie were placed in the ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. Remarkable and Fatal Accident.

    NEAR Inangahua, New Zealand, two lath splitters, named respectively George Brown and Frank D'Leancourt, were cross-cutting a fallen tree. The tree was lying lengthways down the face of a very, ...

    Article : 572 words
  10. ANOTHER GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.

    On July 6, a lady named Mrs. Brooke, arriving by the tidal boat at Folkestone, deposited her jewel case in a saloon carriage, which was in waiting. The lady, with her servant, stepped out ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. Shocking Suicide.

    A MOST determined and deliberate suicide was committed some time during yesterday afternoon writes the Bendigo ADVERTISER,) by a young man named William Furness, aged 22 years, in the ...

    Article : 429 words
  12. TWO LADIES DROWNED.

    On July 19 two young ladies. Miss Dicks and Miss Thorpe, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, whose families were staying at Whitley, were taken out in a bathing machine to bathe. They had only been a ...

    Article : 141 words
  13. EXTRAORDINARY SWIMMING FEAT.

    Another great swimming feat—probably the greatest on record—is reported this week. Captain Matthew Webb, the gentleman who a few weeks since swam from Blackwall to Gravesend, ...

    Article : 142 words
  14. SINGULAR DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT.

    An old Indian—quadruped, not biped has died under very singular circumstances. All who know anything of the Zoological Gardens will remember the elephant Chunee, which for the past ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE—5000 LIVES LOST.

    By the arrival of the Shannon at Plymouth on July 19, further particulars have come to hand of the late terrible earthquake on the borders of Colombia and Venezuela. A letter from Salazar ...

    Article : 366 words
  16. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    An inquest has been held at the workhouse Mint-street, Borough, on the body of Mr. Charles Wigmore, aged fifty, a cab and omnibus proprietor, who committed suicide under very shocking ...

    Article : 190 words
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