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  2. BOX OF GOLD OVERBOARD.

    A box, reported to contain £1,200, when being removed from the main deck of the steamer Gem to the wharf at Mildura, was accidentally dropped overboard into the ...

    Article : 79 words
  3. SYMON VERSUS FORREST.

    Speaking to a representative of "The Advertiser" yesterday Senator Sir Josiah Symon said:—"A few words will do for Sir John Forrest's feeble flutter this morning. ...

    Article : 571 words
  4. THE GAMBLING EVIL.

    The Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Darley) to-day, while delivering judgment dismissing an appeal arising out of the police raid on the Empire Pastime Club, said that the ...

    Article : 530 words
  5. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

    In reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Winston Churchill, Colonial. Under-Secretary, justified the modus vivendi which had been ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. ROBBERIES IN RUSSIA.

    It is reported from St. Petersburg that the three officials who were entrusted with the money stolen from a Treasury carriage by a terrorist gang have been arrested on ...

    Article : 472 words
  7. GENERAL NEWS.

    The railway earnings, for the week ended October 27 amounted to £29,139, as against £26,236 for the same period last year, showing a total increase from July 1 last ...

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  8. ALCOHOL IN A PATENT MEDICINE.

    An order nisi was granted to-day by Mr. Justice Hood to review a decision of a magistrate in dismissing a charge against an employe of Foy & Gibson of having sold ...

    Article : 68 words
  9. COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

    A collision occurred yesterday in the English Channel through which the German steamer Hermann, bound from Antwerp to Mediterranean ports, was sunk. ...

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  10. THE MISSING DREDGER WALRUS.

    The Government have arranged with the Premiers of Western Australia and South Australia to ask all vessels to keep a lookout for the missing dredger Walrus. The ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. THE GERMAN NAVY.

    The German naval authorities announce that Prince Henry, brother of the Kaiser, who has been appointed supreme head of the navy, will next year command a fleet of ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. BALLARAT COMPETITIONS.

    The literary awards were as follow:—Original story—M. Grant Bruce (Traralgon), Tilly Garson (South Yarra), Isabel Tibbs (Hobart); hon. mention, Mrs. Munster ...

    Article : 406 words
  13. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Times," referring to the International Conference of wireless telegraphy experts in session in that city states that there is some prospect ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES LAND SCANDALS.

    The trial of Willis, McNair, and Hoskins for conspiracy, arising out of the land scandals, was continued to-day. Mrs. Willis was called, and was ...

    Article : 392 words
  15. MELBOURNE BUILDING TRADE.

    A strike in the building trade is expected to start to-morrow morning, the demand of the bricklayers, carpenters, and builders' laborers for 44 hours a week having been ...

    Article : 340 words
  16. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 words
  17. MOROCCO.

    In answer to a question concerning the predicament of British residents of Arzila, in Morocco, where the rebel chief Raisuli proclaimed himself governor after, on ...

    Article : 72 words
  18. NEW ZEALAND.

    Ann Foster was to-day convicted of the manslaughter of her daughter's illegitimate child by starvation, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Wheat.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,600,000 quarters, as against 1,535,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the Continent is ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. EARTHQUAKE TREMORS.

    Sicily has again been shaken by earthquake tremors. The inhabitants of Palermo, the capital, and Termini Imerese, 20 miles to the eastward, were greatly ...

    Article : 57 words
  21. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The retirement of Mr. F. L. Outtrim from the position of Deputy-Postmaster-General of Victoria will make the eighth vacancy of the kind that has occurred ...

    Article : 163 words
  22. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Terms of settlement were filed in the High Court to-day in the case in which John Henderson Roberts sought to be reestablished in the position of director and ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. THE DREADNOUGHT.

    The Dreadnought, the largest and fastest battleship of the world's navies, is to be commissioned as the flagship of Admiral Bridgeman, who will assume command of ...

    Article : 41 words
  24. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The October State revenue was £257,603, and the expenditure £305,021, leaving a shortage of £47,418. The Treasurer's estimates of revenue and expenditure have so ...

    Article : 2,084 words
  25. SUSPICIOUS GOLD DEALING.

    Detective-Sergeant Kavanagh, who has conducted enquiries in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in connection with the Western Australian Gold-stealing ...

    Article : 299 words
  26. VICTORIA.

    The remarkable apathy with which the ratepayers of the Melbourne Corporation regard the welfare of the city was exemplified to-day, when everyone of the nine ...

    Article : 49 words
  27. BROKEN HILL.

    In the Small Debts Court to-day Donald Campbell and W. J. Roe, check weighers to the miners at the British, mine, sued William E. Johnson for 4/7, his quota from ...

    Article : 324 words
  28. FLASH POINT OF KEROSINE

    The kerosine flash point test varies in the different States of Australia, though an official minimum of 73 deg. Fahrenheit was fixed by proclamation in 1904. It is ...

    Article : 239 words
  29. TASMANIA.

    The French ship St. Louis arrived to-day. When the vessel was crossing the Equator a demented sailor jumped overboard, but was rescued. Captain Hourder died on the ...

    Article : 140 words
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  32. CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

    A cablegram was received to-day by the Christian Science authorities in Sydney from Mr. Alfred Tallow, head of the Christian Science publication committee of ...

    Article : 92 words
  33. BOWLS.

    Entries for the Bowling Championship [?] Australia closed to-day, when no fewer than 109 players were nominated. Among the number are representatives of New ...

    Article : 61 words
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