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  2. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS. STREET COLLISION.

    Yesterday afternoon two ladies, Mrs. I. Bush, of Nolan-street, and Miss Lily Crellin, of Quarry Hill, were proceeding along M'Crae-street, in the direction of White ...

    Article : 120 words
  3. TELEPHONE GIRL'S FORTUNE.

    A remarkable story of wealth suddenly acquired is that of Mrs. Anna Bennett Whitney, a pretty girl 20 years old, whose husband, Mr. E. R. Whitney, died ...

    Article : 106 words
  4. PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA:

    Mr. Murray, for Mr. Bent, replying to Mr. Solly, said that 6/ per day paid to laborers employed in the construction of locomotive engines was in accord with the decision of ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  5. ITEMS OF INTEREST. SWIM THROUGH PARIS.

    Within a week all Paris will be learning to swim, thanks to Miss Kellerman and the other champions who to-day took part in the Seine swim from one end of Paris ...

    Article : 513 words
  6. £1,000,000 WATER SCHEME.

    By the enterprise of a group of British engineers, Athens and the Piraeus may in the rear future enjoy a water supply that will be second to nove in any capital in the ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. CHILD'S FALL.

    A six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Orr, of Victorian-street, on Monday whilst playing in the street fell over the gutter, and striking her head on the kerbing, sustained a severe ...

    Article : 40 words
  8. CRUSHED FINGER.

    Wm. Sands, while carting wood for bridge building at Emu Creek yesterday, sustained a painful accident, the middle finger of the left hand being smashed by a falling ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. SPORTING.

    A footballers' ball and supper took place in the Sebastian public hall on 18th October, and proved very successful. Over 50 couples took their seats at the tables, which had been ...

    Article : 900 words
  10. FEARFUL BIRDNESTING ACCIDENT.

    A boy named Edward Rankowski, 11 years of age, was birdnesting at Echuca East to-day. when a limb of the tree broke, and he fell 40[?]. The poor boy sustained ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. RAILWAY TRAGEDY.

    The city coroner concluded the inquiry into the circumstances of the death of John William Douglas this morning. The deceaseds body was found in a shockingly ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. QUEENSLAND FATALITIES.

    Charles Anderson, aged 55, a married mall, employed on a dredging plant in the Brisbane River, was fatally injured to-day. He fell between two boats while attempting to ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. MILLIONAIRE HERMIT.

    The death has taken place of Mr. Jonathan Reed, the millionaire hermit of the Evergreen Cemetery. Brooklyn. He is to be buried in the magnificient mausoleum of ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    A shocking railway tragedy occurred near Erskineville, a suburb of Sydney, this morning. Thomas Keogh, a fettler's ganger was inspecting the line, when he was overtaken ...

    Article : 57 words
  15. LUMPER SERIOUSLY INJURED.

    James Scaland, a lumper, was knocked down the hold of the steamer Mount Kembla by a swinging basket of coal, and sustained a fracture of the skull, jaw, ribs, and thighs, ...

    Article : 43 words
  16. COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. DEAKIN, in reply to Mr. Crouch, said that representations had been made to the Imperial authorities as to the flagship supplied to the Australian squadron under the ...

    Article : 632 words
  17. TO ESCAPE CONSCRIPTION.

    The discovery that a pretty "girl" aged seventeen years, belongs in reality to the sterner sex has caused a commotion among the inhabitants of Moral a village ...

    Article : 122 words
  18. LIVING WITH ANIMALS.

    A terrible picture of the conditions under which the crofters in the Island of Lewis live is drown in the report of Dr. Dittmar. the medical inspector to the Scotch Local ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. LYNCHED NEGRO'S GOOD-BYE.

    A negro who confessed to outraging a white woman, has been burned at the stake near Howard in the presence of several hundred persons, many of whom had come ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.

    Mr. G. A. Jones writes from Bomaderry:—I have about 700 orchard trees, and everyone says they are the cleanest trees they have over seen. I attribute their cleanliness and ...

    Article : 216 words
  21. DIED FOR HIS CHILDREN.

    During a fire in a tenement here early this morning a family tragedy occurred costing three lives. After rescuing his wife from his room on the fourth story a ...

    Article : 152 words
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  24. BOOM IN THE STEEL TRADE.

    A Scottish steel company has secured, in competition with American, French, and German firms, large contracts from two Centinental Governments for steel plates ...

    Article : 68 words
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