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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 86 words
  3. THE WEEK'S

    Driver Groon has furnished the railway authorities with a statement regarding hte accident at Beaufort last Saturday, in which he said : "I signed on to run a goods train from ...

    Article : 852 words
  4. COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.

    The teller at the head offices of the Commercial Banking Company in the city found a spurious sovereign among, his cash. It was dated 1894 and was an excellent Imitation, except for the fact ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. MR. DEAKIN DECLARES POLICY.

    A meeting, estimated to contain 7000 persons, was addressed at the Ballarat Coliseum on Monday night by the Prime Minister, Mr. Deakin, in opening the Federal election campaign. The ...

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  6. CHINESE PORK CONDEMNED.

    The London Health authorities have ordered the reexportation of two shipments of Chinese frozen pigs, owing to indications of the animals having suffered from swine fever. ...

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  7. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The National Geographic Society of the United States has accepted the invitation of the Peary Arctic Club to send an expedition to the Antarctic at the commencement of 1911. A campaign to ...

    Article : 175 words
  8. TURKEY WANTS BRITISH ADMIRAL.

    Turkey has appealed to Great Britain for the services of an admiral as Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Navy, to succeed Admiral Gambie who resigned owing to ill health. ...

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  9. CHINESE BOYCOTT SAN FRANCISCO.

    The Chinese on the Pacific Coast have decreed a boycott of San Francisco. owing to the ill-treatment of Orientals at that city's immigration station. Chinese vessels have been instructed to ...

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  10. BOWLING AND OTHERS GAOLED FOR CONSPIRACY.

    Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert I Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray were on Thursday convicted of conspiracy in connection with the coal strike at the Central ...

    Article : 401 words
  11. A PLUCKY GIRL.

    At the Glebe Police Court on Thursday. before Mr. Bhrnett, S.M.Rodney Brown, aped 26. blacksmith, was charged with having assaulted Dorothy Boyd, at Camperdown on January 22 with ...

    Article : 553 words
  12. FOUR MONTHS' GAOL FOR CHILD-BEATER.

    W. E. Fisher was sentenced to four months' gaol at Hobart for beating a little boy, aged 3 years, with a heavy horsewhip, because he had annoyed him. The punishment indicted on the ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. DISASTER PREVENTED BY WIRELESS.

    The Alaska pacific liner Kentucky sank off Cape Hatteras owing to the seams opening through the vessel straining during a storm. A wireless message, however, brought assistance ...

    Article : 43 words
  14. PRIEST POISONED AT ALTAR.

    A priest at Villa Franca, Verona, Italy, was celebrating Mass, when he fell unconscious on the altar steps. The sacramental wine had been poisoned with sulphuric acid. ...

    Article : 51 words
  15. DIED IN PRISON.

    Dr. Martin Ekenberg, a chemist, who was ordered to be extradited from England on a charge of sending bombs to Mr. John Hamnmar, editor of the Swedish Export Association, 0f Stockholm, died ...

    Article : 40 words
  16. "JACK THE RIPPER" IN PARIS.

    A French "Jack the Ripper" has been terrorising the inhabitants of the Fifteenth Arrondissement, Paris. Six men and boys were murderously attacked ...

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  17. MEMBERS OF UNION FINED £38,000.

    Two hundred and forty-one members of the Hatmackers' Union of Danbury, Connecticut, have been ordered to pay £38,000 for boycotting a firm which refused to deal with Unionist factories. ...

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  18. FIRST AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP LAUNCHED.

    The torpedo boat destroyer Parramatta, the first vessel of the Australian navy, was safely launched on Wednesday at the yards of the Fairfield Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, ...

    Article : 297 words
  19. THE COAL STRIKE.

    A procession of about 1000 Socialists, coallumpers, and wharf-laborers marched from Miller's Point to the Darlinghurst Courts on Monday, singing the Socialists' song. The ...

    Article : 333 words
  20. LANDSLIP KILLS THREE WOMEN.

    A landslide of 500 tons of earth, which oc-curred at West Wylam, Tyneside, Northumberland, demolished three houses. Three women were killed and nine injured. ...

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  21. FISHING RESORTS.

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  22. SMASH AT CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION.

    At the Central Railway Station on Wednesday morning, four railway carriages, which were to form part of the 6.50 Newcastle train, crashed into a brakevan standing against the buffers at ...

    Article : 226 words
  23. BOYS BURN SHOP FOR FUN.

    Frederick Kelly and Arthur Baker, both 17 years of age, were charged at the Melbourne Court of General Sessions with arson. Evidence was called by the Crown Prosecutor to ...

    Article : 222 words
  24. AERONAUTICS.

    The Defence Committee of the Russian Duma recommends the provision of a flotilla of airships, and the acceleration of plans dealing with the enemy's airships in wartime. ...

    Article : 99 words
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    Sport in the Parramatta River is now very good. Flathead are being caught on the drift from Pulpit Rock to Woolwich, from Abbotstord to Chiswick, and in the vicinity of Ryde, Morllake, ...

    Article : 1,063 words
  27. VOLCANOES IN ERUPTION.

    New Zealand advises that Ruapehu, for the first time for 17 years, is emitting huge columns of steam. Ngaruahoe is also in eruption. ...

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  28. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    Cyril Thompson (Vic.) was killed by lightning at Bundoora settlement (Vic). Deceased had driven his parents home. At the gate, leaving his friends in the buggy, he ran through the ram ...

    Article : 73 words
  29. SIR FREDERICK DARLEY LEAVES £46,000.

    Probate has been granted of the will of the late Hon. Sir Frederick Matthew Darley, P.C., formerly Chief Justice of New South Wales.The estate was sworn at £45,929/16/1. Testator ...

    Article : 258 words
  30. CHARGED WITH INTENT TO MURDER.

    Robert Stephen Blacker, aged 25, laborer, was brought before the Mittagong Court and charged that he did cause grevious bodily harm with intent to murder one Ah Fung, a Chinese ...

    Article : 119 words
  31. SNAKE IN TOWEL.

    At Clifton Mrs. Fitzgibbons picked up a small towel in which a small leaden-colored snake was hidden. The reptile on being disturbed bit Mrs. Fitzgibbons on the back of the wrist. She at ...

    Article : 64 words
  32. MAN'S BODY IN SACK.

    While fishing at Tooradin (Vic.), a man named Attco hauled up a sack containing the body of a man. One of the hands was protruding from the side of the sack, which was ...

    Article : 163 words
  33. SEDDON MEMORIAL IN ST. PAUL'S.

    The memorial erected to the memory of the late Mr. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, was unveiled in St. Paul's Cathedral by the Duke of Argyll. ...

    Article : 186 words
  34. TRUSTS AND FOOD SUPPLIES.

    The New York correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states official returns show that .£600,000,000 worth of food is in the Beef Trust's cold stores, including 14,000,000 carcases of cattle, ...

    Article : 150 words
  35. MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev, Dr. Davidson, Primate of all England, in a letter replying to an inquiry, by the Rev. W. R. Lage, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at ...

    Article : 175 words
  36. DOCTOR'S METHODICAL SUICIDE.

    Dr. A. S. Stackpoole was found dead in his room at the Commercial Travellers' Club, Klin- ders-street, Melbourne. A detective called upon the club secretary and informed him that the ...

    Article : 139 words
  37. INDIAN PRESS BILL PASSED.

    The Legislative Council of India has passed the Press Bill, after a sitting of seven hours. The Earl of Minto, the Governor General, caused a sensation by stating that the Government had ...

    Article : 144 words
  38. CROWN PRINCE GETS 48 HOURS.

    The German Emperor sentenced the Crown Prince William to 48 hours' detention in the Palace at Munich for thoughtlessness in neglecting to notify the management of the theatre to reserve the royal ...

    Article : 68 words
  39. WARATAH SEARCH TO START ON MONDAY.

    The Victorian Premier has received the following cable from the Victorian Agent-General regarding the movements of the steamer Wakefield, which was to have left Durban at ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. NAVAL AFFAIRS.

    The Press Association confirms the report that four Dreadnoughts will be laid down next year but power will be taken to begin two others if it is found advisable. This policy is likely to ...

    Article : 174 words
  41. SEVEN MOTORISTS KILLED BY EXPLOSION.

    Disregarding a warning that blasting operations were being carried out. on a private road in Phoenix, Arizona (U.S.A.), a motor car was driven near a lighted dynamite fuse. An ...

    Article : 52 words
  42. MAMMOTH VINE.

    At the Culargambone Police Station there is growing what might be termed a mammoth grape vine. The trunk near the ground measures 33 3/4 in circumference. At 4ft from the ...

    Article : 98 words
  43. ELECTION FOR PRIMATE.

    Voting papers in connection with the election of Primate of Australia were opened on Thursday in the presence of the Acting Primate and the following scrutineers : Archdeacon Oakes ...

    Article : 158 words
  44. EX-PREMIER LOSES LIBEL ACTION.

    In the Tasmanian Supreme Court, Mr. J. W. Evans, C.M.G(ex-Premier), proceeded against Mr.George A. Hoggarth, journalist, to recover £50 damages for alleged libel, in having written ...

    Article : 158 words
  45. DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

    A tragedy occurred at Eureka, 15 miles from Lismore. A farmer there, Hugh Clark. aged 61, a resident of over 20, years, married, but without family, with whom resided the last three years ...

    Article : 198 words
  46. PEACEMAKER KILLED.

    Late on Monday night a man named Benjamin Hutchinson attempted to stop two men from fighting in Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park (Melbourne). One of the men turned on him ...

    Article : 122 words
  47. REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST AUTHOR.

    The trial is proceeding after two postponements at the Old Bailey of Thomas W. H. Crosland, author, on a charge of publishing a criminal libel In the "Academy" concerning the ...

    Article : 99 words
  48. FLOODS IN FRANCE.

    The French Government will ask Parliament for further £800,000 to relieve the sufferers. Among the suggested preventives of floods in Paris is the construction of an overflow canal from ...

    Article : 98 words
  49. CHURCH CHOIR ON STRIKE.

    A strike of choir members of St. John's Anglican Church, Soldiers' Hill. Ballarat, took place on Sunday. The trouble started on Thursday night, when the weekly practice was held, Conductor ...

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  50. CHARGE AGAINST ACTRESS.

    La Milo, a music-hall performer, Eerdinand Eggena, her husband, and Perey Easton, a motorcar agent were charged at Bow street Police Court with obtaining £7000 worth of jewels by ineans of ...

    Article : 117 words
  51. MILLIONAIRE POISONED.

    At the inquest on the body of Colonel Thomas Swope, a millionaire and philanthropist, of Kansis City, the jury found that death was due to strychnine contained in capsules prescribed ...

    Article : 58 words
  52. NEW ZEALAND'S DRINK BILL.

    New Zealand walker's annual drink bill for the Dominion shows that during 1909 the expenditure amounted to £3,628,137, as against £1,751,968 in 1908. The expenditure was £3 us per dead of ...

    Article : 65 words
  53. SACKVILLE BARONY CASE.

    In thee Probate Division of the High Court of Justice Ernest Sackville-West the claimant of the peerage and estates of the late Lord Sackville, informed Mr. Justice Bigham that since he was ...

    Article : 121 words
  54. INTENSE COLD IN NEW YORK.

    An Intensely cold gale has been experienced in New York .Scores of people have been received in the hospitals suffering from exhaustion and frost bite Eight deaths occurred on Tuesday ...

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  55. DEATH OF A.M.P. SECRETARY.

    Mr. Robert B. Cameron, secretary of the A.M.P. Society, died at Randwick on Monday, at the age of 61, and after 47 years' service in the society. Born at Belfast, Ireland, the late: ...

    Article : 113 words
  56. CANADIAN MAIL SERVICE.

    The present contract with the Union S.S. Com-pany for a mail service from Sydney to Vancouver, via Brisbane and Fiji, has been renewed. The contract provides for a subsidy of £66,OOO, of ...

    Article : 56 words
  57. PEOPLING TROPICAL AUSTRALIA.

    Professor Gregory, formerly of Melbourne University, now Professor of Geology at Glasgow University, in a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society on the conditions controlling ...

    Article : 100 words
  58. DYNAMITERS THWARTED.

    Two porters carrying a case with excessive care entered the Palace at Constantinople, where the Turkish Chamber of Deputies is temporarily sitting ...

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  59. ATTEMPT TO LYNCH WOMAN.

    M. Thain. cashier of the Lille branch of the Bank of France, called it a fashionable private house to receive £160. He was robbed and murdered and his body was discovered in a garret of ...

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  60. DIVORCED AFTER FORTY-SIX YEARS.

    At Melbourne. Arial ,Van Gelder, market gar-dener. 73 obtained a divorce from his wife. who is 70 years of age, on the ground of descrtion. The parties were married in 1861 and lived ...

    Article : 61 words
  61. MARRIED WOMAN'S SUICIDE.

    At the request at Hobart on the body of Therasa Enman 18. whose body was found in the Derwent, evidence was given that she married six months ago and her husband left her a ...

    Article : 118 words
  62. VICTORIA AND THE WHITE PLAGUE.

    At the Lord Mayor of Melbourne's quarterly dinner it was announced by Dr. Ham, president of the Board of Health, that the State government had decided to devote £10,000 to establishing a ...

    Article : 73 words
  63. ENGLISH LADS FOR VICTORIA.

    Sir J. W. Taveruer, Agent-General for Victoria, has chosen a dozen respectable lads from nominations by the Stratford emigration office for a year's training on Victorian farms. They will ...

    Article : 63 words
  64. GERMAN LOANS OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

    The German Imperial loan of £17,000,000 and the Prussian loan, of £7,000,000, issued at 102. and earnings interest at 4 per cent., have been over subscribed. ...

    Article : 13 words
  65. FORTIFYING SIMPLON TUNNEL.

    Italy and Switzerland are fortifying their respective entrance to the Simplou Tunnel. Mines are being laid Inside the tunnel. ...

    Article : 22 words
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