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  2. INDECENT PARAGRAPHS IN "TRUTH."

    The editor and manager of "Truth" newspaper, Perth (W.A.), haa been committed for trial on a charge of having published an indecent paragraph concerning ...

    Article : 35 words
  3. CABLE NEWS.

    France is devoting £31,832 to the Franco-British Exhibition. A strong party is growing in Japan to oppose increased armaments and taxation. ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  4. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

    While digging on the site of an old building which had been recently demolished at West Maitland (N.S.W.), William Gardner unearthed the heads of six blackfellows and ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. WOMAN HAWKER AT SEVENTY-FIVE.

    An old Goulburn (N.S.W.) identity, Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, has died at the age of 75. She was a hawker, drove her own own horse, and slept under the tilted cart. ...

    Article : 54 words
  6. AXE-SWINGING RECORD.

    Jack Griffiths, at Cobar (N.S.W.), has lowered the world's record for axe-swinging. He succeeded in swinging two 4lb. axes for nine hours nine minutes, finishing ...

    Article : 48 words
  7. TERRIBLE SUICIDE.

    No notice was taken of a loud explosion recently in the vicinity of the New Plymouth (N.Z.) baths, as rock-blasting operations were proceeding in the vicinity. An ...

    Article : 89 words
  8. LIONEL TERRY SECURE.

    Lionel Terry, who shot a Chinaman in New Zealand as a protest against the Asiatic menace, and whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, has ...

    Article : 81 words
  9. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT COBAR.

    The magazine at the Great Cobar mine (N.S.W.) contained, on Saturday last, 22851b. of gelatine and gelignite. At about 6.30. p.m. on that date, the surface ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. MINER'S EYES BLOWN OUT.

    Men coming on shift at the Associated mine, Kalgoorlie (W.A.), on the night of Jan. 22, were horrified to find a contractor, John Watson, groping about the plat ...

    Article : 150 words
  11. SWIMMER'S STRANGE ACCIDENT.

    Swimming in a 50 yards handicap at a carnival at Lavender Bay, Sydney, a lad named W. Byrnes, of the Leichhardt Club, was going like a winner when he received ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. WRECK NEAR SYDNEY.

    A Norwegian tramp steamer, the Thode Fagelund, went ashore during a fog at the northern end of Cronulla Beach (N.S.W.), near Port Hacking, and it is feared, will ...

    Article : 91 words
  13. EXCURSION TRAIN SMASH-UP.

    Stanwell Park (N.S.W.) has again been the scene of a railway smash, which, in this instance, was responsible for loss of life. On Jan. 25 the 3.36 p.m. train ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. A WOMAN IN A SHAFT.

    The body of a well-dressed woman in an advanced state of decomposition was found in a 16-feet shaft near Vale Park, identifiable. Mrs. Impey, of Geelong, ...

    Article : 122 words
  15. FOR THE SOUTH POLE.

    The Koonya, which towed the exploring ship Nimrod, with Lieutenant Shackleton's party, to the edge of the Antartic ice, has returned to New Zealand. Very rough ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.

    The person, who hesitates in a Sydney street stands a chance of being run over. Fortunately, fatalities as the results of tram accidents are, despite the narrow streets, of ...

    Article : 147 words
  17. STATE BOUNDARY DISPUTE.

    The territory on the boundary between South Australia, and Victoria, which was the subject of a conference between representatives from both States, at which an ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. THE PARSON AND THE SINNER.

    The Rev. George Gladstone, of Holy Trinity Church, at Nathalia (V.) takes credit unto himself for "scorching" all the sinners, dancers, drink traffickers, etc., out ...

    Article : 196 words
  19. PROSPECTOR'S TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

    Caught like a rat in a trap; able to do nothing but to wait for the explosion. This was the terrible predicament of James Enright, a prospector who, with his mate, ...

    Article : 196 words
  20. MATE TURNS KING'S EVIDENCE.

    There is one thing for which men have no forgiveness—that is, going back on a mate. On Jan. 11, at Lillimur (V.), David McAdam, 75, who had been drinking in ...

    Article : 330 words
  21. CAMELS GO MAD.

    The party which is searching for the murderers of Stephen Grace on the Mackay Ranges (W.A.), has been having some terrible experiences. They left on November ...

    Article : 323 words
  22. VENUS ON STRIKE.

    On Saturday, January 25, the Manly (N.S.W.) Surf Club and kindred bodies, held a grand aquatic carnival, principally for the purpose of further populating, if ...

    Article : 263 words
  23. RIDERLESS CAMEL RETURNS.

    How often has the riderless horse returned, the mute witness of a tragedy. In the dry Westralian back country, camels replace horses, and on December 15—it ...

    Article : 200 words
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