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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12121, 24 December 1913, Page 4

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fßi' Electric TELEGHArn—CorTiucjHX.J (Pun Pit isss Association.) SYDNEY'S NEW HOSTELRY. Received December 24, at 10.25 a.m. ; Sydney, December- 24. <• The Sydney, a new palatial hotel) was opened yesterday. Ii; 'is opposite the Central Railway Stiition, contains 250 bedrooms, and cost £97,000. BRAYE, BANDSMEN. , Sydney. December 21. „ The Broken Hill bandsmen have erected a memorial to, the bandsmen t!rownedvin tlitv Titanic, and the luonunie'nt will be unveiled oil Monday. SMALLPOX. Received December 24, at 0.55 a.m. i Sydney, December 23. One smallpox ..case is reported. | DESTRUCTIVE BUSH FIRES. Melbourne, December"23. ; The official report is that 94 residences, irrespective of temporary structures, were destroyed by fires, in the Aspendalc district. L B.VBY FARMING. . :

Received December 24>-at'U.'la-a.ni. -■; Melbourne. December 2d. At the colonial. inquiry, into the death (if Mrs Newman antl also the deaths, of two infants found buried- on tlie beach at Garrum, » verdict was returned that Mrs Newman committed suicide arid' that the infants were murdered by her. The Coroner said that it appeared that baby-farming was made easy for this woman, for the interests of some persons in the getting rid of undesirable children made her methods simple. It was easy by means of advertisements for babv-farmers to get into touch with their victims.