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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    At their home in Amy-street, Erskine-ville, N.S.W.. on Wednesday evening, Ernest Russell, tram conductor, shot his wife dead, and fired three bullets into his ...

    Article : 984 words
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  4. SUCCESSFUL N.S.W. BAND.

    For the second year in succession the Newcastle, N.S.W., Band won first honors at the Ballarat (Vic.) band contest, the prizes for which were £200, £75, £40, and ...

    Article : 46 words
  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    In Committee of Supply of the Cape House of Assembly, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, the Premier, brought down a vote for the reorganisation of the defence forces of the ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S TOUR.

    Mr. Chamberlain, on his South African tour, will confer with the leaders of the Afrikander Bond at Capetown in addition to consulting the Ministry. He will ...

    Article : 71 words
  7. TWENTY-TWO LIVES LOST BY A COLLISION.

    The steam collier St. Regulus came into collision with the Spanish steamer Enero, off Dungeness, in the English Channel. The Enero was struck abaft the engine-room, ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. RESULT OF THE MELBOURNE CUP.

    The Melbourne Cup, run at Flemington (Victoria), was won by The Victory, Vanity Fair second, and Abundance third. The Victory was a 50 to 1 chance. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. FOUND SH0T DEAD IN THE PARK—EVIDENCE ABOUT TOUTS.

    The adjourned inquest concerning the death of John William Haines, who was found in the scrub on Sydney Common near the Centennial Park on the morning of ...

    Article : 1,418 words
  10. SIX MONTHS' GAOL FOR IRISH M.P.

    Mr. William Redmond, M.P. for East Clare, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol for intimidation. The "Irish Independent" states that the ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. FOUR PRISONERS ATTACK WARDERS AND ESCAPE.

    Four long-sentence prisoners at Hokitika Gaol (N.Z.), attacked and overpowered two warders, secured their rifles, end escaped. They are expected to become ...

    Article : 32 words
  12. PECULIAR MURDER CASE.

    A man named William John Martin was arrested at Little Dublin (S.A.) on a charge of murdering his wife, from whom he had been, separated for some time. ...

    Article : 493 words
  13. CAMEL CHEWS MAN'S ARM.

    A team of camels, in charge of Europeans, arrived at Milparinka from South Australia, and whilst one of the drivers was loading a camel it snapped him by the ...

    Article : 50 words
  14. SEVEN YEARS FOR PERJURY.

    In the Supreme Court, Brisbane, the case was concluded, in which John Richards Campbell was charged with committing perjury in the evidence given by him in the ...

    Article : 342 words
  15. ELECTION REJOICINGS KILL 12 PEOPLE AND INJURE 80.

    While 30,000 persons were watching the posting of the election returns at Madison-square, New York, an explosion occurred at a display of fireworks which was being ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. Indigestion from Birth.

    One of the most difficult of home problems is how to get food to suit the baby—it is twice as difficult if the child has weakness of the digestive organs. Here is the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 548 words
  17. ATTEMPT TO LYNCH A MURDERER.

    Henri Vidal, who confessed at Nice to having murdered three sweethearts, and to having attempted the murder of a fourth, was tried and found guilty of murder and ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. 100 CHILDREN POISONED AT A PICNIC.

    What threatened to be a most serious case of poisoning occurred at the picnic of the Victorian United Methodist Churches. About 500 or 600 children left ...

    Article : 333 words
  19. SHOT HIMSELF BECAUSE HIS WORK WAS BEHIND.

    Samuel Bragg, aped 66, for nine years clerk to the Gooburrum Board (Q.), committed suicide at the board's office at 8 o'clock on Thursday morning. He went to ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. PUBLIC DEAL WITH CRUEL HUSBAND.

    A resident of White Cliffs went home at midnight, and, it is alleged, began to ill-use his wife in a shocking manner, and to create a disturbance, which had the effect ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. N.S.W. COAL FOR VICTORIA.

    The Victorian Minister for Railways has accented he tenders of Huddart, Parker and Co, and James Patterson and Co., for a supply of coal for the next two years. ...

    Article : 82 words
  22. HAILSTORM KILLS STOCK AND RUINS CROPS.

    Although only lasting a couple of hours, upwards of 5 inches of rain were recorded during a hailstorm at Daysdale (N.S.W.). In several parts the track of the hail was ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. THE SENSATIONAL FOUNDERING OF THE VENTNOR.

    The crew of the steamer Ventaor, which foundered off the New Zealand coast when carrying the remains of 500 Chinese and coal for China, differ as to the probable fate ...

    Article : 596 words
  24. EX-CONSTABLE CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER.

    Robert Crooks made a determined attack on a woman named Ada Wood at Perth (W.A.). Crooks was dismissed from the force owing to his relations with the ...

    Article : 123 words
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  26. PLAGUE CONCEALED AT 'FRISCO

    An alarmist message conceiting the prevalence of bubonic plague at San Francisco has been published in the New York papers. ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. SUICIDE OF A CONSTABLE.

    At the inquest respecting the death of Clarence M'Carron, police constable, residing in Hanson-street, Adelaide (S.A.), whose body was found at his house with a ...

    Article : 218 words
  28. SHOCKING TREATMENT OF A WIFE.

    At Newtown Police Court, Isaac Davis Clay was sent to goal for two months for ill-treating his wife, Mary Louisa, to whom the had been married about 12 months, this ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. GERMAN OBJECTION TO BRITISH PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    The "Vossische Zeitung," of Berlin, states that after Germany's retaliation on Canada for giving preference treatment to Great Britain, the Colonies will not ...

    Article : 44 words
  30. RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    A return has been forwarded to the State Premier by Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician, regarding the religious denominations to which persons employed in the ...

    Article : 48 words
  31. CHINESE ARSENALS WORKING AT HIGH PRESSURE.

    Dr. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the "Times" reports that the promotion of a fourth-grade official to the rank of a mandarin of the first grade has been gazetted ...

    Article : 121 words
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  33. CHARGED WITH MURDERING JOHN KENSITT.

    A laborer, named M'Keever, has been committed for trial on a charge of the murder of Mr. John Kensitt, the anti-ritualist. The evidence showed that the wound caused ...

    Article : 53 words
  34. BURNT AT THE STAKE FOR MURDER.

    Four thousand whites and negroes at at the stake a negro who had confessed to Darling, in the State of Mississipi, burned having robbed and murdered two whites. ...

    Article : 38 words
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  36. TRIAL. OF THE KENNIFFS.

    The trial at Patrick and James Kenniff upon a charge of murdering Constable George Doyle at Lethbridge's Pocket, near Mitchell, on March 30 last, was conducted ...

    Article : 159 words
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