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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
May 15, 1869
Page
3
A hosted nature tale describes a scorpion and a mouse locked in a violent dual. The mouse chews off two scorpion legs while the scorpion’s tail pierces nothing after a long night journey. The mouse eventually eats the scorpion’s legs and the scorpion dies. The mouse is freed and the scorpion’s friends protest the fairness of the match.
A Manchester Examiner report describes a vast hoard found in Plotitzin Brothers cellars at Morghthanak near Moscow after Bolotin accused Maxim Plotitsin of secret funds. Gold bars and coins, some dating to Catherine II era, valued at over a million pounds sterling, prompted police risked surveillance and a probe into a rumored secret sect of money worship among powerful merchants.
South Australia notes on a railway to be built with private capital on government security. The Rockhampton Bulletin says the land along the line is largely barren with a pastoral settlement and undeveloped mines at the north end and a dreary stretch by Lake Torrent where no traffic will arise, yet the plan proceeds despite uncertainty.
Mr Fenwick argues in a Times letter that thieving is split into branches with a clear divide among burglars pickpockets and other thieves. He cites England and Wales figures 112 406 known thieves and depredators and notes reformatories ticket of leave and punishment gaps. He urges harsher punishment abolishing tickets of leave and a stricter vagrant act to curb crime.
In this vignette from Under the Crown, authors discuss rouge through satire and moral doubt. The piece cites a confessor absolving a woman for rouge, a Parisian painter’s shop, Lord Chesterfield’s view, and a Beauvais obsession with cosmetic experiments. A sermon condemns makeup while an augurer defends it as art. a bishop suggests a compromise of painting one cheek.
Melbourne May 11 Brunn a clerk in Chartered Bank Mount Egerton has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rob the Bank. The Waterworks Committee report is tabled noting the works in general amehdecery and lively headways. Fifty tons of flour sold by action at £14, establish price improvements Port Mac Donsul wheat 6s 7d maige 42 3d to da al.
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