Cardinal Moran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and titular head of the Church in Australia, was found dead in his room at the Cardinal's Palace, Manly, last Wednesday ...
Article : 459 wordsPeculiar circumstances have come to light in connection with the imprisonment and death of Frederick Edward Harstein, musical lithographer, who lodged at Hawksburn, on Thursday ...
Article : 269 wordsA critical stage was reached last Friday in the prosecutions concerning the mysterious death of Ethel Bradley at Christchurch (N.Z.). In February last. ...
Article : 138 wordsA report on the Lutheran Aboriginal Mission at Hermansburg, on Fiake River, in the Northern Territory. has been supplied to the Acting-Minister for External Affairs by Captain H. V. ...
Article : 259 wordsA remarkable suicide occurred near the Tottenbam station, Victoria, between Footscray and Sunshine, one morning last week. Deceased, a rather fine-looking youngish man, ...
Article : 418 wordsA dual tragedy occurred at Eringerah. on the Murrumbidgee, near Wantabadgery, on the afternoon of August 13. A man named James Conques cut his wife's ...
Article : 426 wordsThe notorious Maori prisoner Powelka, who, a year ago, was sentenced to 21 years Imprisonment for various offences, after causing a great deal of trouble while at large, escaped from ...
Article : 560 wordsThe Kyeamba Shire Council (N.S.W.) has decided to take steps to stop racing by motorcycles or other motor vehicles on any of the shire roads. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe cost of administering the Federal Land Tax Act up to June 30 was £17,121. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHE FRENCH CHANNEL SQUADRON HURRYING TO SEA — BATTLE FIRING PRACTICE DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE RECENT ANGLO-GERMAN TENSICH. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsOne result of the redistribution of electoral boundaries in the Dominion is that some places having hotels have been incorporated in the dry areas, and unless the votes in these places are. ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Associated Master Bakers it was resolved to raise the price of the 21b load by 2d, from 3d to [?]d. The reasons for the rise were the increased ...
Article : 64 wordsTwo men named John McDonald and James Feakin are said to have quarrelled at Brixton (Q.) last week. McDonald was shot [?] in the left breast, and died instantly. Feak[?] ...
Article : 51 wordsOne of the drills operating on three-acre leases at Wonthaggi (Vic.) has struck a seam of coal 6ft 6in in thickness. This is the fourth bore that has been out down on these leases. ...
Article : 45 wordsA wireless telegraph station, under the Telefunken system has been opened for public business at wellington. Messages will be accepted for vessels approaching or departing ...
Article : 48 wordsThe new electric tram service was officially opened at Launceston(Tas.) last week by the Mayoress (Mrs. Oldham). Six cars laden with citizens took a trip of six miles. ...
Article : 31 wordsA case of oranges grown at the Pera Bore Experimental Farm (N.S.W.), is to be forwarded to London as a gift to king George from the State Government. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe New South Wales Board of Health has recommended the Government to place £5000 on this year's estimates for the erection of a Government crematorium. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt the Wollongong (N.S.W) Police Court last week, George Fuller was fined £2 and £1/5/ costs for conducting the examination of a coalmine with an unprotected light. Three others ...
Article : 35 wordsOn a turnover of £8856 the Gawlia State Hotel (W.A). male a profit of £1687 for the year ended June last, against £1655 for the previous twelve months. The decrease of profit ...
Article : 47 wordsAt banedin (N.Z.) Ah Loy was fined £50 for having opium in his possession. The police stated that owing to the difficulty of getting opium the Chinese were now evaporating ...
Article : 43 wordsJ.T. Batson of Whittlesea (Vic.) was awarded £115 damages for injuries inflicted by a neighbor's bull that had wandered on to his farm. Whilst trying to eject the animal it ...
Article : 50 wordsThe enrolment of the first batches in all the States of cadets for naval training has been completed in Sydney and Melbourne the enrolment is 800 each. Newcastle 200, Brisbane ...
Article : 42 wordsAfter the monthly parade last week the Perth metropolitan police held a meeting and decided to make a request to the Commissioner for increased Day of 1/6 a day. ...
Article : 35 wordsAfter the recent billiard match in which Lindrum defeated the English champion. Stevenson, by 3564 in a match of 18,000 the former being conceded 4000 points. Stevenson prophested that ...
Article : 45 wordsAda E. Beckett called at a house in a Sydney suburb in answer to an advertisement, and was bitten by the owner's dog. She claimed £200 damages, but agreed to take £10 in settlement ...
Article : 23 wordsThe successful acclimatisation of trout in Murray waters was shown last week, when W. Kelly applied for and obtained the reward offered by the Municipal Council for the first ...
Article : 38 wordsRobert Brown, a half-caste aboriginal, was assaulted at the Narrandera (N.S.W.) blacks camp on August 1, and succumbed to his injuries last Thursday. Albert Ward, a ...
Article : 7 wordsR. Men[?]les boring paint has struck a splendid supply of water in the police padlock at Charleville (Q.) at a depth of 132ft. The water rose 26ft above the surface. ...
Article : 45 wordsMort's Dack and Engineering Company of Sydney, earned a net profit of £12,077 during the half-year, making with the amount brought forward £22,105 available for distribution. Out ...
Article : 50 wordsThe first prize in the Druids Gala art union was won by Mr. W. E. Nonmus, of the Club Hotel, Morwell (Vic.), but he has mislaid the ticket, and cannot and it. He has the number ...
Article : 54 wordsMary Brown of Bathurst (N.S.W.). was last week freed from a sentence of one month's hard labor in entering into a recognisance to be of good behaviour for 12 months, having ...
Article : 37 wordsThomas Begley, of Glenrowan (Vic.) was sentenced at Wangaratin to 48 hours' imprisonment for refusing to be sworn and give evidence in a case in which he was brought before ...
Article : 54 wordsA sensational incident occurred at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, early last Saturday morning. A patient, John Williamson (52), suddenly got out of control and jumped ...
Article : 46 wordsSince 1901 the number of factories in N[?] South Wales has increased by 44 percent., and the number of persons employed by 51 percent. In the last ten years the value of the output ...
Article : 66 wordsSome anxiety is felt as to the whereabouts of the Presbyterian mission steamer John Douglas. It is teared that she has broken down. The Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (Judge Murray) ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the Wellington (N.Z.) Supreme Court a man named Keeble. 20 years of age, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for having administered a drug to a girl and for another ...
Article : 49 wordsA nurse at the Fremantle Public Hospital, upon entering the bathroom, was horrified to see the body of Henry Byfield, an inmate of the institution, lying in the bath with his throat ...
Article : 65 wordsAlexander Ironside, for the theft of sums amounting to £70 from the Christchurch (N.Z.) branch of the Public Trust Office, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe South Australian Cabinet held a special meeting, and decided to give £5000 towards the cost of Dr. Mawson's expedition to the Antarctic. ...
Article : 30 wordsHarry Thompson. tin-miner, was burned to death in a camp at Molyella (W.A.). after a drinking bout. ...
Article : 5 wordsPeter Flood, a full-blooded aboriginal, aged about 86, died at the Brewarrina District Hospital, N.S.W. , of pneumonia. He was one of the survivors of the Hospital Creek massacre, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Kumano Maru has arrived at Townsville (Q.) from the East. Among the passengers were 52 Russians (46 booked for Brisbane and six for Melbourne). The new comers hope to ...
Article : 55 wordsA man named Thomas Drury completed last Thursday, his 47th year as an inmate of the Castlemaize (Vic.) Benevolent Asylum. He was admitted on August 16, 1864, at the age of 22 ...
Article : 81 wordsLast Friday night a blind man. Patrick O'Connor, 55, fell down the stairs of his residence at Perth (W.A.), and broke his neck. ...
Article : 29 wordsLatterly loud noises resembling continuous blasting are occurring in the vicinity of Paid Hill, near Campbell's Creek (Vic.), and are causing considerable uneasiness among the ...
Article : 45 wordsTwo Victorian railway enginedrivers, who were suspended for having refused to go on further duty, having already worked long hours, have been reinstated after a special inquiry. ...
Article : 29 wordsA young man named Harry Graystone was committed for trail at Mildura (Vic.), on charges of larceny from dwelings, theft of jewellery, and house-breaking with intent to ...
Article : 85 wordsWilliam Cross was fined £50 at Wellington (N.Z.) for sly grog-selling in the Mataura no-license district. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe annual report of the Dominion Labor department states that the dearth of labor continues, especially in regard to boys and girls for the manufacturing industries. Orders for ...
Article : 55 wordsDemetrius Hiropedes, a dark-complexioned man, evidently a Greek, entered the gunshop of J. W. Roster to Bourke-street, Melbourne, last Saturday, examined a Webley-Scott automatic ...
Article : 165 wordsWhat must be nearly a record will take place at the Coombermartin and Wellshot shearing sheds (Q.) which are practically one, where between 280,000 and 290,000 sheep will be shorn. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe commandant of the New Zealand military forces has reported to Parliament that he expects to begin training the territorials under the new compulsory system next month. An ...
Article : 48 wordsOn the bank of Ross Creek (Q.). the legs and pelvis of a male human body were discovered. The bones of the right leg were complete, those of the other leg were missing from the knee. ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is officially stated that Commonwealth Government is considering the question of making a practical trial of the automatic telephone system. ...
Article : 26 wordsThree horses, attached to a large grocery van bolted at Koondrook (Vic.). and in their mad career they got on to a footpath, in the middle of which was seated a child in a perambulator. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Merriwa Shearing Company at Longreach (Q.), employing 40 shearers, put through 110,000 sheep in 213 actual working days. On one day they shore 6000 sheep. The average ...
Article : 43 wordsWork in the Victorian State mine since the wheelers wages were increased to 9/2 per shift has gone on more smoothly. This with other alterations has resulted in the output being ...
Article : 59 wordsA bush fire, resulting from a fencers' camp ignited the grass at Lerida (Q.) and burnt out 33 miles of country. The combined efforts of the hands of three stations just saved the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe golf caddies went on strike at Tamworth (N.S.W.) for a higher rate of wages. They had been receiving 1/ for two rounds. but the boys demanded an increase to1/6. As this was not ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Dominion Chief Justice, Sir Robert Scout has completely exonerated the Commissioner of Cook Islands (Captain Smith) from various charges made against him locally. In the ...
Article : 41 wordsDr. Gordon, of Carlton (Vic.). was driving his motor, accomplished by his chauffeur, across the railway line near North Carlton, when a train suddenly appeared from behind a curve. ...
Article : 61 wordsWm. Ramisford, 45, was knocked down by a motor in a Sydney suburb last week. sustaining a broken leg and fracture of skull. The motorist did not wait, but made off, leaving ...
Article : 42 wordsWalter Ashington, 22 years, was out at Charleville (Q.) turkey shooting. He stood his gun against a bush and on mounting his horse stooped to secure his gun, when the weapon ...
Article : 70 wordsWalter Oakey, who was lost in the bush near Charleville (Q.), was found by the police and a tracker lying on his back unconscious. His jaws had to be forced open to permit a ...
Article : 66 wordsAbout 4 o'clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out in at. Insulated chamber of the old portion of the Redbank Meatworks (Q.), the part originally used as a preserving works. The fire ...
Article : 59 wordsJ. W. Taylor, of Fitzroy (Vic.). was awarded £12 damages last week for injuries received by himself and done to his bicycle, through the lash of whip wielded by the driver of a drag ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsA fatal accident happened last week at Moama (Vic.). Denis Hayes, an elderly man bringing a load of wood, had reached the Moama approach to the Murray Bridge, when he was ...
Article : 87 wordsFrank Britton. a young man who. at the Benalla (Vic.) General Sessions, hold in May last. was sentenced to two years' hard labor on a charge of having committed an offence ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the Colac County Court (Vic.). Thomas Smith and Edith Smith. of Cororooke, sued Timothy McGrath for £150 damages for negligence of his servant. James Mahoney. The ...
Article : 63 wordsA calf wandered into Port Fairy (Vic.) fire station, and getting tangled with the bell-rope, raised the alarm. The firemen rushing from their homes arrived to find the scared animal ...
Article : 42 wordsOpenings for a trade in butter with Turkey appear to exist, according to the report of the Consul for Australia in Turkey. The Department of External Affairs has a translation of the ...
Article : 27 wordsA horse attached to a milk cart last week bolted from Chilwell (Vic.) to Moolap, a distance of three miles, with a locked wheel, being finally stopped by farm buildings and high ...
Article : 51 wordsA fearful burning accident occurred at Adelaide last week. The victim, John Hodge. 85 years, had been bedridden for over 12 months, and was quite helpers. While lying in bed he ...
Article : 113 wordsJohn Owen, alias George Rowe, was charged at the Auckland court with the attempted murder of Augustus Percy Easton at Foxton in 1906. Owen. after the crime, disappeared ...
Article : 83 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held last week into the origin of the fire which destroyed a stationery establishment at Temora (N.S.W.). The police and several other witnesses gave ...
Article : 74 wordsRemarkable fecundity amongst sheep is shown in the [?]lock of Mr. J. G. Stewart, of "Marathon." Kanawalla (Vic.). This season three Lincoln ewes have borne triplets, and of 17 other ewes ...
Article : 78 wordsA farmer at Tintenbar (N.S.W.) from two and a half acres of land has already harvested 70 bags of beans, and his average return was 33 per bag, making a total of £116/11/. By the ...
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