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  2. PINNED BENEATH WRECKED ENGINE.

    A serious railway accident happened on the Burrinjuck to Goondah line (N.S.W.). The train left Burrinjuck at 6 o'clock. When about 12 miles out the engine ran off the line, taking the ...

    Article : 469 words
  3. ISLANDERS GIVE GREAT TROUBLE.

    Thingaroo, the native chief at Santo Island, in the New Hebrides, who is the ringleader in connection with the native rising there, has taken to the mountainous country, and all ...

    Article : 259 words
  4. "STOPPED OUTSIDE TO KEEP WATCH."

    At the Central Police Court, Sydney, a youth named Henry Alfred Long was presented on two charges. One was of receiving two watches, knowing them to have been stolen, and the other ...

    Article : 543 words
  5. DISEASE FROM THE BARBER.

    The many persons we meet with nowadays afflicted with skin and scalp diseases is strong evidence that e proper supervision or barbers' shops does not exist. One does nto need to be ...

    Article : 525 words
  6. A MOTHER-IN-LAW SUED FOR LIBEL.

    An action for £49 damages in respect of an alleged libel was heard in the County Court. Melbourne. Plaintiff was Polly Edith Moll, married ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. SWEPT OVERBOARD FROM SUBMARINE.

    H.M.S. Edgar, with the relief officers and crews for H.M. ships Fantome, Sealark, and Torch, came to an anchorage in Farm Cove. Sydney, on Wednesday, having had an exciting ...

    Article : 90 words
  8. CINEMATOGRAPHY IN EVERY HOME.

    The Australian manager of Pathe Frores was at by a "Globe" man with reference to a cable anouncing an entirely new development in cinematography, this being the placing on the ...

    Article : 728 words
  9. THE NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL.

    Destroyed by fire on March 29, a graphic account of which by mail appears on page 7. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  10. SHOOTING AFFRAY.

    At 11 o'clock on Tuesday night Thomas Watson, of Adelaide, found a Norwegian sailor named Peter Peterson in his back yard. He had angry words with him, and ordered him off ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. COMMONWEALTH BANK NOTES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 words
  12. PERISHED IN FIRE.

    Frederick Eberhert, of Morrisons (Vic.). heard means on Wednesday morning, and, on looking out of his window, discovered his brother's house on fire. He rushed over to the burning ...

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  13. AUSTRALASIAN NEWS IN BRIEF

    Compensation paid in connection with the Richmond (Vic.). railway disaster totalled £127,229. Altogether 490 claims were made. ...

    Article : 22 words
  14. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

    At the Circuit Court, Cloncurry (Q.). George Price and Reginald Coates, charged with horse stealing and robbery under arms, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to 12 months ...

    Article : 33 words
  15. MAIL BAG STOLEN.

    Whilst the Mount Kembla mail coach was conveying mails to that place from Wollongong (N.S.W.) one of the mailbags disappeared. The bag contained a postal note which bore the ...

    Article : 23 words
  16. DIAMONDS FROM FLINDERS ISLAND.

    Messrs. Golding and Son, jewellers, of Hobart. have exhibited a quantity of Tasmanian diamonds, set in jewellery, and otherwise, it appears that the stories were mined on Finders ...

    Article : 75 words
  17. MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE RETURNED.

    The by-election for the Queensland electorate of Dalby, necesitated by the death of the Speaker, Mr. J. T. Bell. was held on Wednesday, when the voting was as follows:—Vowles ...

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  18. BORIS SENKOVITCH REPRIEVED.

    The young Russian, Boris Senkovitch, who was sentenced to death recently for the murder at Bourke (N.S.W.). of Alexander Eismond, a fellow countryman, is not to suffer the extreme ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. THREW CARBOLIC ACID.

    A somewhat serious affair is alleged to have happened at Marburg (Q.) while some navvies were celebrating pay day. It is reported that one of the navvies threw carbolic acid on one ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. TO GUARANTEE PURE LIQUOR.

    The conference of the Federated Licensed Victuallers, sitting at Sydney, passed a resolution providing for a ''deputation to the Federal Minister of Customs and Excise, for the ...

    Article : 70 words
  21. FELL INTO HARBOR.

    Thomas Denham (46), fireman on the steamer Invertay, lying at Miller's Point. Sydney, was drowned into on Monday night near his vessel, to which he was returning. ...

    Article : 25 words
  22. NEW ARCHBISHOR CONSECRATED.

    The consecration of Archdeacon Crossley. formerly of Melbourne, as Bishop of Auckland (N.Z.). took place on Wednesday in St. Mary's Cathedral in the presence of a large gathering ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. LEGISLATIVE HORSE TEAM.

    The Broken Hill City Council the other day purchased three horses for the city's use, which have been christened respectively Griffith, Cann, and Thomas, after the local Parliamentary ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. OPIUM IN STEAMER.

    When searching the steamer Aldenham, which arrived at Brisbane on Friday from Japan, the Customs officers discovered 25 tins of opium concealed under the companion way leading to ...

    Article : 17 words
  25. FISHERMAN'S MISFORTUNE.

    Geo. Hibbs, fisherman, of Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.). who was on a fishing expedition at Pittwater, climbed a tree overlooking the river to watch a shoal of fish, when the bou[?]h of the ...

    Article : 12 words
  26. MOLDAVIA IN CYCLONE.

    The R.M.S. Moldavia, selling homeward from Fremantle on April 3. had a terrible passage to Colombo. The steamer ran into a cyclone, which struck her with such force that the ...

    Article : 17 words
  27. LOST SHEEP.

    Mr. R. W. White, of Harbendale (N.S.W.). consigned a number of sheep to Bathurst for competition at the show. The last he saw of them was at Flemington three days later, but ...

    Article : 27 words
  28. PULLED TEAPOT OVER HERSELF.

    The Sydney Coroner hold an inquest into the circumstances of the death of Dorothy Barbara Rigby, the nine months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rigby, of Glebe-street, Glebe. ...

    Article : 81 words
  29. BIGGEST CHEESE FACTORY IN WORLD.

    On Saturday the Minister for Agriculture laid the foundation stone of the new cheese factory at Kaupokonul, Taranaki, N.Z. When completed it will be the largest cheese factory ...

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  30. HOSPITAL WITH DEFICIT OF £5000.

    The burden of the speeches made at the annual meeting of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, was in relation to its finance, and the fact that at the present rate of income and ...

    Article : 59 words
  31. ATTORNEY-GENERAL INJURED.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) was a victim of the deadly hot pin in Melbourne, receiving a small gash under the left eye while wending his way through a crowd ...

    Article : 33 words
  32. DROWNED IN A BATH.

    Charles Tole, a cook, was drowned in a bath at the Victoria Coffee Palace, Melbourne. The bath was three-quarters full, and there were no signs of struggling or splashing in the room. ...

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  33. THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY.

    As a cab containing a bride and bridegroom left a certain church in Wellington (N.Z.). It was greeted with yells of laughter. The merriment grew as the cab proceeded down crowded ...

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  34. SHOT WITH BUSHRANGER'S GUN.

    Albert Keats. aged 14 years, was admitted to the Horbart Hospital suffering from a bulles wound in one of his legs. He was out near Richmond with a boy friend, and they bad with ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. PENSIONS FOR THE BLIND.

    Pending legislation, it has been decided by the Federal authorities that blind persons shall be treated in the same category as invalids in applications for invalid pensions. They will ...

    Article : 78 words
  36. SERIOUS CHARGE.

    A serious allegation of imposition has been made in connection with the Easter rifle matches at Leongatha (Vic.). It is averred that a member of a metropolitan club handed in a card ...

    Article : 89 words
  37. HAREM SKIRT PROSECUTION.

    The Ballarat (Vic.) police have initiated legal proceedings against a well-known draper on a charge of causing an obstruction of the footpath by inducing people to assemble to ...

    Article : 33 words
  38. HONOR FOR EQUINE HERO.

    There is no greater equine favorite with the show-going public than Desmond, the hero of innumerable high-jumping contests. At a meeting of the N.S.W. Royal Agricultural Society ...

    Article : 60 words
  39. THE ELECTORS AND THE REFERENDUM.

    There is no greater equine favorite with the show-going public than Desmond, the hero of innumerable high-jumping contests. At a meeting of the N.S.W. Royal Agricultural Society ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 71 words
  40. CHILD BU[?]NED TO DEATH.

    Mary Doig. 4½ years of age, died at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney. from severe burns. The child was playing in the back yard of her home. In Underwood-street, ...

    Article : 47 words
  41. THE STRIKE HABIT.

    A strike of bookmakers occurred at the Searsdale and Smythesdale races (Vic.). In the first event four horses started, the betting being 0 to 1 against new Moon, and 0 to 1 against ...

    Article : 50 words
  42. MR. ARTHUR H. EDWARDS.

    Inventor of the automatic gun-firer described on page 2, under the heading. "Is it Coincidence of injustice?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  43. MAN'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

    The past-mortem examination of the body of Y[?] an old-age pensioner, who died in the Melbourne Hospital without regaining conciousness, shows that he was the victim of ...

    Article : 66 words
  44. RECORD FRUIT EXPORT SEASON.

    At the beginning of the fruit export season it was estimated that 250,000 cases of fruit would be sent away from Victoria, but shipping operations are still in progress, and already the ...

    Article : 96 words
  45. WORRIED TO DROWNING HIMSELF.

    At the inquiry into the death of Harry Judd. whose body was found in the Gong Gong, near Ballarat (Vic.); on Easter Tuesday, the day following that one which he was to have been ...

    Article : 80 words
  46. CUSTOMS SENSATION.

    A somewhat unexpected sequel to the recent Customs sensations at Fremantle. In which Boarding Inspector Smith and Bryant were suspended and subsequently dismissed after an ...

    Article : 99 words
  47. PINNED DOWN AND DROWNED.

    The Miners' working at Round Hill. N.Z. Joseph Bates and Frank Smith, were found drowned. They were working in a hole, and it appears a fall of sludge pinned them. Before ...

    Article : 48 words
  48. MINERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.

    On Thursday an accident occurred in the Great Boulder Perseverance Mine (W.A.), and two men, named Carey and Bailey, were seriously injured. ...

    Article : 87 words
  49. BURGLARS FIRE AT PURSUER.

    On Sunday night two burglars, disturbed in a shop at Alexandria, Sydney. fired at a man who chased them. The burglars had entered the grocery store of Mr. Condon, at the corner of ...

    Article : 35 words
  50. LADY DUDLEY'S "FRAGRANT MEMORIES."

    Speaking at a function in Sydney last week Lucy Dudley said:—"I shall carry away with me from Australia some fragrant memories, recollections of interests here in which I have ...

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  51. MURDEROUS ATTACK ON WOMAN.

    A woman named Mrs. O'Connor visited a friend at Golden Gate (W.A.). and after leaving the railway station walked a distance of 100 yards. She was here overtaken and bludgeoned ...

    Article : 68 words
  52. BULLOCKS DISORGANISE TRAIN SERVICE.

    The train traffic on the Illawarra (Sydney suburban) line was disorganised on Thursday night owing to a number of bullocks shipping down between the girders of the railway bridge which ...

    Article : 106 words
  53. FREE FIGHT ON BOARD SHIP.

    When the United Tyser Line steamer Star of Australia arrived at Melbourne on Thursday the captain reported that a disturbance had occurred among certain members of the crew ...

    Article : 123 words
  54. YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS.

    At the Wagga (N.S.W.) Children's Court Mary Ryan, aged 10, and Daisy Ruschen, aged 12, were charted with being neglected children in circumstances likely to lead them to a life of ...

    Article : 108 words
  55. IMPRISONED FOR STEALING.

    Archibald Robert Hughes, a young man from Sydney, had the misfortune to be upstairs in the Bohemia Hotel, Perth, without lawful excuse, when £80 worth of rings, bracelets, and ...

    Article : 87 words
  56. DOG CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH.

    At North Sydney tae Coroner found that Donald Fraser Long. a child, 2 years and 5 months, of Campbell-street, North Sydney, died on April 13 as the result of being scalded on March 1. ...

    Article : 77 words
  57. TO ADVERTISE AUSTRALIA.

    The Prime Minister recently wrote to the Premier of N.S. Wales to the effect that the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) had been offered considerable space in leading ...

    Article : 133 words
  58. ASSAULTED HIS FATHER.

    Frank Whetton, a young man, was charged at the Water Police Court, Sydney, with having assaulted George William Whetton. The prosecutor, the father of the accused, said that on ...

    Article : 117 words
  59. STORY OF TWO ONE-LEGGED MEN.

    A disconsolate woman in Melbourne is auxious that her husband should return to her, though she will not admit that he had just cause to leave home. ...

    Article : 144 words
  60. INFANT EATS MATCHES.

    On April 23 John Herbert Dempsey, aged I year 8 months, son of Sir. John W. Dempsey. of Baimaio, Sydney, was admitted to the hospital suffering from phosphorus poisoning. The ...

    Article : 70 words
  61. DEATH FROM LOCKJAW.

    At Young (N.S.W.). Alfred Henry Copley, a youth of 15 years, a few weeks ago injured his foot with a piece of iron, which carried portion of his boot into the wound. Several days ago ...

    Article : 56 words
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