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In the Court of Marine Inquiry this morning Mr. Justice Campbell is to deliver judgment upon the collision between the ferry steamer Greycliffe and the Union Steamship…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Failure by the Tahiti, to observe the Harbor rule that enjoins overtaking steamers to keep out of the way of vessels ahead of them was the approximate cause of the collision with the Greycliffe on November 3. Such was the substance of the judgment of the Court of Marine Inquiry announced by Mr. Justice Campbell this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IF you send me to the triangles I'll take to the bush at first opportunity and do damage. to many before they catch me. You can please…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →JOHN STEWART MAIRS, the city accountant who disappeared some days ago with £1000 in his possession, after a big win at the races, was found at 4.30 yesterday afternoon dead in the bush at Wahroonga. Apparently the man had died of poison--there were certain signs that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ERNEST Ambrose Kleinert, 20, a laborer, residing with his father at Mitcham, was arrested yesterday morning by the police and was subsequently formally charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Sampson, on January 3…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mr. W. R. Wood, Federal Government valuator for the southern district, who lives at Wagga, is likely to have long remembrance of his present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following the finding of a bloodstained axe, and a shirt and scarf, also bloodstained, a man was detained at police headquarters in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad, 17 years of age, who was armed with a revolver of a heavy pattern, was arrested on the West Broken Hill rifle club's range yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MAY and June are, above all others, the months when the heart of every dowager and debutante in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Watson's Bay police were on the alert yesterday to prevent two Gap tragedies. One woman, who left her home in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALTHOUGH visitors and residents at Manly are not fained for wearing an over-surplus of clothing, yet they have their limits as to what really is a safe minimum. Charles James Bates, a 68-year-old engineer from Newcastle, overstepped…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SEEING the Old Year out with a kick was a popular diversion on December 31, but a gaol warder from Parramatta named Raymond John Comerford had the kick without the fun—the boot being on the foot of a fellow celebrant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TO plan a murder, announce it to a select circle of friends, and then calmly move off to perform it, was the extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →There were thrilling scenes in Surry Hills last night, when a posse of detectives and police, after surrounding the printing establishment of R. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SO anxious was Robert Thos. Jones at seeing hit pal, William Claude Humphries[?]turn nale when charged in Kogarah Court that he called a constable…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →LONG leave confronts Tom Mankey, one of the most efficient C.I.B. chiefs the State has ever known. After leave he retires on pension, because the age limit…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →IT isn't often that a man has a chance to bump a Baron in this democratic country. But, according to the Baron in this story, that pleasure was indulged in by Patrick Sharkey when the pair met in Pitt-street the other day. AGAIN, to quote the Baron, this boy from the bogs of Roscommon did not stop at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →AGAIN that head-scratching poser—When is a man drunk, and who is to decide? Here was a big city merchant who swore to having taken only two whiskies shortly before being arrested and locked up for driving a car while under the influence. He was allowed a few hours later to drive his car home. Yet no medical evidence was called to settle the hotly-disputed point, and he charged the police with refusing to call such aid…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →PARROTS are queer birds. In a way they are like pet dogs. Give them a name, and you imagine they'll always answer to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ERNEST Hartland, 27, painter, was sentenced by Mr. Gates, C.S.M. at the central Court to-day, to three months' hard labor on a charge of…
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