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AUSTRALIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, January 10. { Lancaster, the challenger for the chess j championship of Australia and £SO aj side, resigned at the ninth game, when the scores were: W. S. Viner seven, Lanj caster two. THE TROTTER MURDER. Sydney, January 10. The Government is offering £SOO for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of Trotter, and his employers arc offering £IOO. NEW MACHINE GUNS. ] Melbourne, January 10. ] A local engineer has invented a gun which he claims is a great improvement on the Maxim. The latter fires four hundred rounds a minute, though the new type shortly to be ism<'.i Rrtnin--six hundred per minute. Oik, '•••;■< rrn' i alone of the new invention fires four , hundred to six hundred shots per minI ute, and the two barrels are used altorI nately to give a speed of a thousand.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 199, 11 January 1913, Page 2
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145AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 199, 11 January 1913, Page 2
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