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  2. VIVID DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVE VOLCANOES.

    An account of the volcanic eruption of Niuafoon, one of the outlying islands of the kingdom of Tonga, has just been received by a resident of Sydney from one of the white residents ...

    Article : 295 words
  3. A SURGICAL FEAT ON OCEAN LINER.

    At the Fremantle (W.A.) police, court last week, Thomas Hussey was charged with having. on November 3. on board the R.M.S. Osterley, on the high seas. attempted to steal a gold ...

    Article : 314 words
  4. ADVENTURES OF A CLEVER CRIMINAL.

    Houston, the prisoner who escaped from custody at Whangarel (N.Z.). as described in last [?] of the "Globe." but in again in the hands of the police under very close supervision. [?] ...

    Article : 569 words
  5. REMARKABLE FATE OF THREE SAILORS

    In the early days of New South Wales the number of boats trading on the coast was small, and their trips were few and far between. Twofold Bay wan the furthest they ...

    Article : 383 words
  6. ERADICATING OLD AND SAVAGE CUSTOMS.

    Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Nicholson, who have been carrying on mission work at Vella in Vella (an island of the Solomon Group), returned to Sydney last week. ...

    Article : 337 words
  7. ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. P. D. Montague. of the Cambridge University. who for some time past has been engaged in research work for the Western Australian Museum, was a passenger by a recent ...

    Article : 419 words
  8. Dramatic Incident in Waihi Strike.

    The miners employed at Waihl (N.Z.). when proceeding to work on Monday (November 11) morning last week, gathered a force of 300 and boldly attacked their tormentors. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 579 words
  9. FARM LABORER'S LUCK.

    The Sydney Eight Hour art union first prize. a diamond tiara, valued at £750, has been claimed by a farm laborer, Mr. J. W. Walker of Breakfast Creek. ...

    Article : 29 words
  10. WANT TO COME HOME.

    Many Australians serving in the Imperial navy are anxious to be transferred to the Australian navy, and have made the necessary application. As the result of negotiations with the Admiralty. ...

    Article : 53 words
  11. CONTROL OF IMMIGRATION.

    A draft scheme or combined action of the States engaged in dealing with immigration has been submitted by the Minister far immigration to the Victorian Cabinet. and has received its ...

    Article : 63 words
  12. Australasian News in Brief

    Mr. O'Malley attributes the tightness of money in Australia to the want of patriotism on the part of the financial corporations. The solution of the difficulty, he said, lay in the ...

    Article : 52 words
  13. Australasian News in Brief

    No more permits are to be granted to Chinese to bring their wives temporarily to Australia The Minister says it will be a waste of time for solicitors to interview him on this point. ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. GOLDEN NUGGET.

    Considerable excitement was caused at the Catheart mine (Vic.) last week, by the discovery of a fine nugget of gold weighing Slot 16dwt 17gr. This is the largest nugget yet ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.

    The Premier of West Australia has informed the Labor Women's Conference that he is in sympathy with its demand for a woman's right to alt in Parliament. He will make provision ...

    Article : 41 words
  16. GROWING IN POPULARITY.

    Claims for the Federal maternity allowance of £5 are now reaching the officials throughout the Commonwealth at the rate of over 800 a day. ...

    Article : 30 words
  17. THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER.

    Captain Pringle, who has just returned to Australia from abroad, said he was satisfied that the Australian could not be beaten anywhere for physique or mental alertness, but ...

    Article : 45 words
  18. MOTOR CYCLIST'S MISHAP.

    In a spin at Young (N.S.W.). prior to a race P. Mulcahy, a motor cyclist, bumped a fence. Splinters of bone from his leg were embedded in the post. ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. FEDERAL REVENUE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 words
  20. PRICKLY PEAR PEST.

    The Queensland Prickly Pear Commission has conferred with the N.S. Wales Director to Botanic Gardens regarding the eradication of the post. Singapore is to be the starting point of ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE.

    A business firm in Capetown (South Africa) has asked to be put late communication with Australian furniture-making firms. The inquirers point out that the furniture for which ...

    Article : 40 words
  22. THE MOUNT LYELL CATABTROPHE.

    Very heavy rain has fallen at Queenstown (Tas.). and large qualities of water are running into the North Lycli mine, the scene of the recent disaster. The additional water going ...

    Article : 49 words
  23. PRISONER TIRED OF LIFE.

    A prisoner in a Melbourne lock-up twice attempted suicide last week. On the first occasion he tried to strangle himself with his bootlaces. When these were removed he attempted ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. ELECTORAL REGISTRARS' PAY.

    Electoral registrars throughout the Commonwealth are agitating for increased pay. The maximum allowance—£15—is described inadequate, and several have decided in resign at ...

    Article : 33 words
  25. AUSTRALIAN PROTECTION SOUGHT.

    The King of the Solomon Islands, which are under French away, had an interview with the Federal authorities last week, and urged that they should be placed under Commonwealth ...

    Article : 44 words
  26. PECULIAR FATALITY.

    Nelt McKey. 24, was bushfelling at Ruaroa (N.Z.). when he felled a sapling which dislodged a limb of an old tree. This struck the ground, and bounded towards McKay, who ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. MALARIAL FEVER IN NOUMEA.

    News was received in Sydney by the steamer St. Antoino, that malarial fever was raging at Noumea when the vessel departed. The outbreak was so bad that many of the residents ...

    Article : 61 words
  28. SNAKE COMES TO TOWN.

    A lady accidentally trod upon a snake on the footpath in Liverpool-street, Sydney, last week. She felt the reptile riggle, and leapel clear. It was found on investigation that the heel ...

    Article : 61 words
  29. WHIRLED TO HIS DOOM.

    Robert Bell, a sawmill employee at Enoggern (Q.). was caught in the belting, and hurled violently round the shaft. His left arm was torn off at the shoulder, and both legs and ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 306 words
  31. BOATSWAIN'S END.

    During the voyage of the Sunoma. which arrived in Sydney last week from San Francisco the boatswain, J. Inglish (20). was washed overboard and drowned. ...

    Article : 26 words
  32. NATIONAL PROHIBITION.

    The Presbyterian General Assembly of N.Z. resolved in favor of a 55 per cent majority in the vote to carry national prohibition and local no-license polls. The Assembly hitherto ...

    Article : 54 words
  33. FAILED!

    Mr. L. A. Adamson, headmaster of Wesley College. Melbourne, who had returned from a trip to England, says that the territorial army has failed. ...

    Article : 23 words
  34. RADIO ACTIVE ROCK.

    Mr. Wragge announced at a lecture at Coolab (N.S.W.). that he had made the discovery not far from Rylstone, of the existence of radio active rock. ...

    Article : 33 words
  35. BORDER BRIDGE.

    A difference of opinion exists between the N.S. Wales and Queensland Governments regarding the material with which the proposed new bridge across the Barwon, on the border, ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

    The Australian cruiser Melbourne came through her torpedo and gun trial satisfactorily. All the usual tests have now been completed. and the cruiser will be thoroughly ...

    Article : 51 words
  37. HOBART EIGHT HOURS DAY.

    After a lapse of 21 years, the Eight Hours Day demonstration was revived in Hobart last week, and was a great success. The procession was interesting, most of the trades ...

    Article : 36 words
  38. "CEASE WORK" MANIA.

    During the past nine months there have been no less than 43 stoppages of work in the Newcastle (N.S.W.) mining districts. This state of affairs is making the position of the Conciliation ...

    Article : 61 words
  39. HOUSE BLOWN UP.

    A six-roomed house at Walbakoke (N.Z.) was blown up by 20lb of gelignite recently. Every board went sky-wards. There was no one in the house at time. The gelignite ...

    Article : 45 words
  40. RHINOCEROS BEETLE.

    A good dent of trouble is bring caused to the plauters in Samon owing to the ravages of the rhinoceros beotle. This insect is boring its a way. into the trunks of the coconut trees, which it ...

    Article : 45 words
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