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  2. WORK OF THE SESSION.

    The fourth session of the twenty-first Parliament of New South Wales, which was brought to a conclusion on Friday night, extended over nearly six months. Like the session of 1908, ...

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  3. UNITING THE ISLAND OF CEYLON WITH SO UTHERN INDIA.

    A very interesting railway scheme to connect Ceylon by rail with the mainland of Southern India has received the sanction of Viscount Morley. The scheme takes advantage of the islands which stretch outwards from Ceylon and from the coast of India. The task of linking these islands together with a continuous railway line will not be an easy one, and the completed work will be one of the most remarkable of its kind in the world. The Southern Indian railway system will be joined at Mandapam, the present terminus. A narrow channel ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 326 words
  4. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS

    A young man named Hedley S. Whalley who arrived in Sydney recently from England, was found dead in his bedroom at a boarding-house in Elizabeth-street, City, shortly ...

    Article : 189 words
  5. THE WARATAH.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Premier, Mr. Murray, has received a reply to his cable to the Premier of Cape Colony concerning the search by the Sabine for the missing steamer Waratah. ...

    Article : 263 words
  6. PERSONAL.

    Lord Chelmsford will be sworn in as Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney, at 9 a.m. to-morrow. It is expected that the steamer by ...

    Article : 889 words
  7. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.

    Elodie Chapman (11) left her parents house in Cleveland-street shortly after 9 o'clock on Saturday night to buy a balloon at the corner shop. When crossing the tram line near ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AID.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--It has been suggested to the Federal Government that stokers and other men from the Naval Depot might be lent to assist in manning any vessels that might be ...

    Article : 91 words
  9. KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAM.

    An elderly man named Alexander Graham, residing in king-Street, was knocked down by a tram car opposite the railway-square in George-street on Saturday night, and injured about the ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. FALL OF ABOUT 40FT.

    Charles Gustavensen (21), sailor, while walking along the edge of a quarry at Pyrmont yesterday morning made a false step, and fell to the bottom, a distance of about 40ft. He was ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. INDIAN OCEAN WRECKAGE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Captain J. Leary, of the steamer Walton Hall, which arrived from New York yesterday, reported that when his vessel was approaching Fremantle on December ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

    A boy Scout, named Arthur Denford (12), was accidentally shot in the abdomen by a comrade while a number of youths were practising on Saturday evening with a Winchester rifle in the ...

    Article : 98 words
  13. SUBSCRIPTION LIST SUGGESTED.

    The prospect of another ship being sent out to look for the Waratah has brought forward inquiries from persons in New South Wales as to subscribing to a fund to help defray the ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. FATAL SKYLARKING.

    ORANGE, Sunday.--The death occurred in the hospital yesterday, in peculiar circumstances, of Eric Clyne (17). Deceased and other boys were skylarking after breakfast on ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. ADDITION TO THE NORTH COAST COMPANY'S FLEET.

    The growing importance of the North Coast trade is evidenced by the fine type of steamers now being employed. The Burringbar is the latest. She has been specially constructed for the North Coast S.N. Company's line, and is intended for the Clarence River trade. The Burringbar was built by the Greenock and Grangemouth Co., and is equipped with all modern improvements. Her passenger accommodation is up-to-date. The new vessel is fitted with electric light throughout, and also with refrigerator plant for the carriage of 3000 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. MANLY IMPROVEMENTS.

    The Manly Council recently entered into a scheme of local improvements in connection with the reserves, and on the lines adopted by the city authorities. All railings have been removed, a fact that lends an air of freedom ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. FLOWER AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

    7 EMMAVILLE, Saturday.--The flower show and industrial exhibition in aid of the Church of England was opened yesterday afternoon in the Oddfellows'-hall in the presence of a large gathering. The display of ...

    Article : 298 words
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  19. THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.

    When the bill the Union of South Africa was before the House of Lords, Lord Crewe introduced it thus:--"I should like to ask your lordships to consider for a moment what the Union does. This Union of colonies marks, I believe, a great advance in the fusion of the race which inhabit South Africa--some of British, some of Dutch, and some of French Huguenot descent. Their ancestors through many years of history suffered and fought for freedom. They underwent poverty, exile, imprisonment, and on the scaffold and on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 350 words
  20. ALLEGED STABBING.

    BROKEN-HILL, Sunday.--Last night Geo. Cleland, residing in Crystal-lane, reported to the police that he hail been stabbed at a ham and beef shop in Oxide-street. According to ...

    Article : 76 words
  21. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,--Allow me to call the attention of your many renders to the once much-discussed steamer, the missing Waratah. It is now over four months since the vessel was overdue at Capetown, and since then no definite word ...

    Article : 555 words
  22. DROWNED IN A WATERHOLE.

    KURRI KURRI, Sunday.--Owen M'Dermott (27), a new arrival, got out of his depth when bathing with some companions in the chain of water holes at Heddon Greta yesterday ...

    Article : 38 words
  23. A NARROW ESCAPE.

    BROKEN-HILL, Sunday.--J. Massey, a married man, employed by the Silverton Tramway Company, was yesterday morning engaged in shunting trucks at the Proprietary mine when ...

    Article : 93 words
  24. RESCUED FROM THE SURE.

    COFF'S HARBOR, Saturday,--Mr. Krause, a representative of the Innes Motor Company, while surf bathing near the entrance to the creek, went out into the deep water, and was ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. A SWINGING STANDARD.

    BROKEN-HILL, Sunday.--J. Hodge, employed as a laborer at De Bavay's, had a narrow escape from death yesterday morning. He was engaged with others in the work of erecting an aerial ...

    Article : 73 words
  26. A BOARDINGHOUSE STEW.

    WELLINGTON, Saturday.--A man named Bayliss, of Stuart Town, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to poison a boarder by placing strychnine in some stew. The boarder ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. NEWCASTLE.

    Messrs. Fred Ash's bonded warehouse in Burwood-street, narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. By some inexplicable means a heap of rubbish in the yard ...

    Article : 66 words
  28. Advertising

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