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  2. FIRE IN A BALLROOM.

    The most terrible catastrophe by [?]re which has occurred in Hungary since the burnrng of the Vienna Ringtheatre in 1881, when 447 persons lost their lives, ...

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  3. STATE FINANCES.

    There was an all-round increase in the Victorian revenue for April compared with that of April, last year, and the receipts for the 10 months are substantially ahead ...

    Article : 108 words
  4. NEW YORK HORROR.

    The murder of Miss Ruth Wheeler, the young stenographer whom Albert Wolter, a German youth, is accused of killing and burning, is occupying the attention of New ...

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  5. ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

    The Upper Derwent at Hobart was the seene for the first time yesterday of races for eight-oared and sculling championships of the Commonwealth. The weather was ...

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  6. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    A member of the mounted section of the military had a narrow escape from serious injury on Saturday afternoon. He was riding home from drill [?]ong King ...

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  7. LABOR IN POWER

    Mr. Fisher, Premier of the Labor Ministry, which was selected by caucus and sworn in on Friday afternoon last, is now complete master of the Federal machinery ...

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  8. A CITY SHAKEN

    Eastern files by the Taiyuan give details of the great dynamite explosion in Kobe Harbor, which caused damage to the extent of many thousands of pounds. The ...

    Article : 574 words
  9. FIRE AT PAYNEHAM.

    A fire occurred at Payneham early on Sunday morning and but for the smart work of the local volunteer fire brigade, under Fireman Webb, it would have ...

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  10. THE CARDINAL SPEAKS.

    After a spell of quietness Cardinal Moran has added his opinion to the long list of those who have endeavored to explain the Fusionist debacle at the recent Federal ...

    Article : 334 words
  11. SETTLER SERIOUSLY INJURED.

    John Tock, from Victoria, one of the new settlers at Peak Hill, met with a serious accident to-day. There were three plough horses in the yard. He got two ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The revenue returns continue buoyant, and for the month the returns exceed those of the same period last year by £164,747, while for the period, July to ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. FRACTURED SKULL.

    Mr. John Gavin Campbell, owner of Cudgello station, near Cowra, was thrown from a sulky, while driving home on Thursday evening, and died last night from fractured ...

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  14. A RECKLESS DRIVER.

    A small boy cyclist had a narrow escape from injury on Saturday afternoon. He was riding up Pirie-street towards King William-street when a butcher's cart, the ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. BITTEN BY A SNAKE.

    A fatal case of snakebite occurred at Jamberoo on Friday afternoon, when Mary Duggan, eight years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Duggan was bitten. First ...

    Article : 75 words
  16. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The revenue for April, inclusive of £60,474 from the Commonwealth, totalled £293,330. The expenditure was £328,522, and the accumulated deficit on April 30 ...

    Article : 37 words
  17. TRAIN ACCIDENT AT PORT ADELAIDE.

    The running of the train through St. Viucent-street, Port Adelaide, has been responsible for several accidents, some of which have been of a fatal character. The total ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The first business caller upon Mr. Josiah Thomas, the new Postmaster-General, on Saturday was Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company. ...

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  19. FATAL FALL FROM WINDOW.

    Early on Saturday morning J. J. O'Callaghan assistant clerk of Petty Sessions, Ipswich, was found at Ellenborough-street, near the North Star Hotel, unconscious, ...

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  20. "I WILL BLOW MY BRAINS OUT."

    Martin McPherson, a farmer, of Kialla, shot himself dead to-day. The deceased was 44 years of age. Last night, according to a statement of his eldest son, aged ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. CADETS' COMPETITION.

    The State Military Commandant (Colonel Stanley) yesterday received from Senator Neild a letter enclosing a bank draft for £25, being the amount of prize money ...

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  22. FIRST CABINET MEETING.

    The Fisher Government will hold their first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning. The Prime Minister stated on Saturday that the Cabinet would probably deal only ...

    Article : 79 words
  23. NEW ZEALAND.

    Joseph Walker, a trimmer on the steamer Moeraki, who pleaded guilty to stealing a lady's dressing case, containing jewellery, from the cabin of a passenger, was ...

    Article : 43 words
  24. DEATH BY DROWNING.

    A telegram was received by the police on Sunday, stating that John Ward, who was sent up by the Labor Bureau to work at Waikerie, had been accidentally ...

    Article : 62 words
  25. PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT.

    It is expected that the Government will shortly create a Prime Minister's Department, with a permanent secretary and a small staff. At present the Secretaryship ...

    Article : 168 words
  26. HOSPITAL SATURDAY.

    Splendid weather favored the hospital Saturday collection yesterday, a small army of ladies raking the metropolis from end to end for small coin. Amongst the ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. CASE AGAINST "TRUTH."

    In the case, Bertling versus John Norton[?] the defendant was ordered to pay the £320 costs of the action, in which the plaintiff succeeded, and to bring his appeal on at ...

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  28. WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT.

    About 10 o'clock on Sunday morning Louisa Scott, aged 49, wife of William Scott, blacksmith, of Gurr's-road, North Kensington, was found lying on her back ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. POWELKA IN COURT.

    Powelka, the prisoner who escaped and was recaptured recently, was before the magistrate to-day, and was committed to to the Supreme Court for trial on several ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. A FINGER SEVERED.

    While working at the automatic bacon cutter yesterday Mr. T. Foster, an employe of Messrs. Goode, got his hand caught, and one of his fingers was severed by the ...

    Article : 38 words
  31. THE BANANA TRADE.

    An Auckland auctioneer, with a large island business, states that consignments of bananas cannot be expected from Fi i for eight months. Tonga is shipping less ...

    Article : 116 words
  32. ELECTIONS IN THE WEST.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 words
  33. CADETS' WORLD TOUR.

    Arrangements were made some weeks ago for a mounted section of cadets, representing the whole Commonwealth, to make a world's tour, leaving by the R.M.S. ...

    Article : 147 words
  34. SYDNEY STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

    The University commemoration procession took place yesterday, and it was the maddest and most amusing procession that ever blocked traffic and brought the ...

    Article : 605 words
  35. SUPPOSED DEATH FROM THIRST.

    Belated reports state that the body of Donald Innes, who had apparently died from want of water, was found 31 miles south of the Gascoyne Riverr, in the ...

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  36. VICTORIA.

    Mr. Walter Angus Bethune Gellibrand, of Tasmania, left Victorian estate assessed for duty at £23,912, and estate in Tasmania valued at £92,519. ...

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  37. SERIOUS BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    A serious trap accident happened to Mr. M. B. Rankin, of Dry Plains, yesterday afternoon. He was leaving the town in a sulky, and driving a quiet pony, and when ...

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  38. RAIN WANTED.

    Agricultural operations are hampered by the continued dry weather, and unless the conditions improve shortly a much smaller area will be put under crop than was ...

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  39. TASMANIA,

    A man named Rushton has been arrested at Gladstone on a charge of incest. The case will be heard at Launceston. A heavy gale has been raging during the ...

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  40. MINER'S HOUSE ROBBED.

    John Gray, a miner, of Baliarat East, has reported to the police that his house was broken into on Thursday night during his absence at work, and that a tin ...

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  41. THE GOLD YIELD.

    The gold yield for April was 2,597 oz., valued at £11,768. Dividends totalled £4,500, including Bischoff £3,000. The Tasmania mine for April crushed 4,323 tons ...

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  42. MAY DAY.

    May Day was celebrated by the Melbourne Socialists to-day. Red handbills distributed in the city announced that Federal and State Labor members would attend ...

    Article : 266 words
  43. RETURN OF WRITS.

    As was anticipated, the date for the return of writs for the election of members of the House of Representatives has been extended to June 4. As Parliament must ...

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  44. GASH IN THE THROAT.

    Charles W[?]loughby, a coal miner from Jumbunna, 46 years of age, has been admitted to the Melbourne Hospital with a gash in his throat. He was brought to ...

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  45. JUDGING OF VEHICLES.

    Sir—Mr. Richards' pomposity of style, evasion of Mr. Horton's direct challenge, and attempt to sidetrack from the direct issue are only equalled by his other ...

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  46. AGED MAN INJURED.

    Mr. W. Innes, 80 years of age, for many years known on the river as an expert fisherman, met with a painful accident recently. While helping to free some calves ...

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  47. STRIKERS' BATTLE.

    Riots took place on the evening of March 25 in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-Levallois, where employes of the paper facto[?] went on strike. A number of women and ...

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  48. THE BEAUFORT DISASTER.

    It is reported that, following upon the enquiry held by the department into the circumstances connected with the Beaufort disaster, one employe at the Ballarat East ...

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  49. PASTORAL INDUSTRY.

    The Conference of Pastoralists' Associations, at which Mr. T. L. Browne and Mr. E. H. Bakewell, with Mr. J. W. Allen as assistant secretary, represented the ...

    Article : 324 words
  50. A BARRIER FATALITY.

    Thomas G. Roberts, who met with an accident on Thursday whilst at work at the Junction North mine, succumbed to his injuries on Friday night. He was 55 years ...

    Article : 155 words
  51. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Robert Workman, an old man living near Frederickton, was found dead in a barn. A rope was around his neck and tied to a beam. When found deceased appeared to ...

    Article : 87 words
  52. PROFESSIONAL HANDICAP.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 words
  53. A TRAIN TELESCOPED.

    Two passenger trains from St. Paul, United States, combined as one and drawn by two locomotives, were making a detour to get past a wrecked goods train near ...

    Article : 158 words
  54. FALL OF 20 FEET.

    Roy Turner, 11 years of age, shortly after 4 this afternoon, climbed on top of the service tanks used by the Silverton Tramway. He fell from a height of about 20 ft., ...

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  55. SUDDEN DEATH.

    Frederick Belcher, a fettler employed on the railway line at Fassifern, died suddenly while at work. With three other men he had just lifted a heavy trolly off the rails ...

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  56. VICTORIAN COAL MINE.

    The Minister of Mines states that as soon as Parliament gives the necessary authority he will be able to sell coal to the public at 14/ per ton, delivered at railway ...

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  57. OVERCOME BY GAS AT KAPUNDA.

    As Mr. George Pereira, the manager of the gasworks at Kapunda, was examining a main that was veing opened up on Southterrace to-day, he was overcome by the ...

    Article : 67 words
  58. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A conference of the Victoria district producers was opened at Geraldton by the Acting Premier (Mr. Wilson) on Friday, and was attended by the Minister of ...

    Article : 57 words
  59. A MYSTERY EXPLAINED.

    A young married woman, Mrs. Ezm[?] Susan Grace Hughes, of Howard-street, North Melbourne, who died in mysterious circumstances on Friday in the ...

    Article : 44 words
  60. TYPHOID IN MELBOURNE

    Four additional cases of typhoid fever connected with the group attributed to tainted milk have been reported, bringing the total number of cases to 109, all of ...

    Article : 55 words
  61. HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS.

    The Children's Hospital Saturday and Sunday collections in the metropolitan area amounted to over £400. The inland collections are expected to swell the total ...

    Article : 32 words
  62. A GERMAN'S FATE.

    The skeleton found in the scrub at Whipstick has been proved to be that of Jacob Schimpf, a German, who disappeared five years ago. A sister stated that the ...

    Article : 94 words
  63. SMALLPOX.

    E. Pike, chief engineer of the steamer Nevarra, which recently arrived at Bunbury, was found to be suffering from smallpox, modified by previous vaccination. ...

    Article : 86 words
  64. EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 words
  65. HARVEST OF THE SEA.

    The Federal trawler Endeavor returned to port yesterday after a further exploration of the great shelf which stretches away from the coast for miles under the ...

    Article : 120 words
  66. AEROPLANE FLIGHT.

    Houdini made a flight of nearly three miles at Rosehill this afternoon. When 190 yards had been traversed the front wheel left the ground and the machine ...

    Article : 192 words
  67. A STABBING CASE.

    Enquiries are being made by Detective Kiely and Plain-Clothes Constable Koetzfeld in order to trace a man who on Friday night stabbed Thomas Goldsmith, a ...

    Article : 169 words
  68. MUTINY ALLEGED.

    The sensational statements made in an evening paper on Saturday to the effect that the artillerymen had mutinied against an order to turn out and form a guard of ...

    Article : 121 words
  69. A FAMILY'S ILL-LUCK.

    The five-year-old daughter of Mr. David Cosgrove, of Porter's retreat, died on Friday night, and her eight-year-old brother died yesterday morning. Their sickness ...

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  70. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The steamer Taiyu[?]n arrived from Eastern ports to-day, bringing three Chinese passengers and 35 tons of general cargo. She sails again at daylight, taking ...

    Article : 65 words
  71. INJURED BY EXPLOSION.

    An employe at Bourke's Hill, A. Brown, was seriously injured to-day by an explosion of dynamite, and is now in the Emmaville Hospital in a critical condition. ...

    Article : 39 words
  72. QUEENSLAND.

    The road race over 50 miles for members of the League of Queensland Wheelmen took place on Saturday over the Rock Lea course. Twenty started, and the race ...

    Article : 52 words
  73. Advertising

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    Advertising : 71 words
  74. A VEHICLE ACCIDENT.

    William Clarke (22), living in Newtown, was injured in a collision in Mitchell's-road, near St. Peters-bridge, yesterday morning. A tram coming from behind ...

    Article : 79 words
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