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A COLLISION.
A DREDGE SINKS
Received February 24, 10.9 p.m. BRISBANE, February 24._ The steamer Bombala collided with the steamer-dredge at Pinker) ba. The dredge went down bow foremost, but the crew were rescued. The Bombala was badly dented in the starboard bow, near the waterline.
ACCIDENT TO A PARACHUTIST.
Received February 24, 10.21 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 24. Stewart, an aeronaut, descended in a parachute a distance of 5,000 feet. He struck the rotunda in the cemetery, and sustained a broken leg, besides receiving internal injuries.
BALLARAT'S GENUINE CHRISTIANS. ONLY NUMBER 5,000. Received February 24, 10.21 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 24. In a farewell sermon at Ballarat the Rev. Mr Harry said there were only five thousand genuine Christians in Ballarat. The population of Ballarat is 44,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 903, 25 February 1908, Page 5
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136AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 903, 25 February 1908, Page 5
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