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  2. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The Euroka bore, 14 miles distant from Walgett, on the Coonamble-road, struck a flow of fresh water on Tuesday at a depth of nearly 1500 feet. The supply is about 5,000,000 gallons ...

    Article : 196 words
  3. A SEDUCTION CASE.

    An action for the recovery of £1000 damages and of £6 special damages was commenced yesterday in the First Civil Court by James Masters, farmer and blacksmith, Dandenong, ...

    Article : 1,900 words
  4. PAUL KRUGER.

    The President of the South African Republic is older than the State over which he reigns. He is a Cape Colonist by birth, and is therefore an Uitlander in the Transvaal. It was ...

    Article : 4,990 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

    The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held to-day, the chair being taken by Sir J. P. Abbott. Among the others present were Mr. ...

    Article : 537 words
  6. SPORTING NOTES.

    SATURDAY, 9TH MAY.--Melbourne Hunt Club races at Flemington; South Australian Jockey Club Autum Meeting at Adelaide (third day); football pennant matches; lacrosse matches; ...

    Article : 321 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    John Francis Fortune, travelling book agent and general canvasser, was charged, on remand, at the local court yesterday morning with falsely representing himself as a canvasser for ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. LACROSSE.

    To-day's fixtures are:--Brighten v. South Melbourne, at Brighton; Essendon v. Caulfield, at Essendon; Auburn v. University, at Auburn; Flemington v. Melbourne, at Melbourne cricket ground; Collingwood v. ...

    Article : 26 words
  9. YACHTING.

    Port Melbourne Yacht Club's last race of the season starts this afternoon at 3 o'clock. St. Kilda Yacht Club hold a second class race for a trophy presented by Cr. Miller. Starting gun at 3.6. The ...

    Article : 23 words
  10. BASEBALL.

    M.C.C. v. Metropolitan, at Essendon, at 2.30. East Melbourne v. Carlton, at East Melbourne, at 1. ...

    Article : 16 words
  11. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    A meeting of the North Western Dairymen's Association was held here last night, Mr. Reginald Argyle in the chair. The following resolution was carried, viz.:--"That in view of the ...

    Article : 1,136 words
  12. ROWING.

    "The Essendon club hold combination fours, open to all rowing clubs, on the Saltwater River, Marlbyrnong, this afternoon. ...

    Article : 13 words
  13. CRICKET.

    Melbourne Sports Depot Trophy.--The final match-- La Mascotte v. Capulet--will be continued on the Northcote cricket ground. Present scores:-- Capulet, 141 and one for 9; La Mascotte, first innings 135. ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. FRUIT GROWERS' CONFERENCE.

    At the fruit growers' conference to-day papers read on the suppression of insect and fungoid pests caused considerable discussion, and it was intimated that the New Zealand ...

    Article : 54 words
  15. THE "SECRET PROFITS" OF COMPANY PROMOTERS.

    A special sitting of the Full Court, consisting of Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice A'Beckett and Mr. Justice Hodges, was held yesterday, in order to allow of a settlement or compromise ...

    Article : 505 words
  16. LAWN TENNIS.

    M.C.C. v. South Yarra (third class pennant).--This match is cancelled. South Yarra being unable to raise a team. ...

    Article : 20 words
  17. VICTORIAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.

    The ordinary meeting of the Victorian Football Association was held last evening at Young and Jackson's Hotel; Mr. W. D. Beazley in the chair. Mr. D. Chessell, secretary of the Richmond ...

    Article : 871 words
  18. ASCOT RACES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 368 words
  19. A CROP OF SUGAR BEET.

    A square chain of land planted with beetroot at Tenterfield has yielded 28 cwt. of root, or at the rate of 14 tons per acre. The farmer who grew the roots said that ploughing the acre took ...

    Article : 89 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A meeting of citizens, sympathetic with the Uitlanders of the Transvaal, was held in Sydney this evening, and a resolution was carried to wait on the Mayor and request the use of the ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. MELBOURNE HUNT CLUB RACES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 words
  22. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

    On Friday, 1st inst., a woman named Mary Enright, 45 years of age, called at Tankard's Temperance Hotel, Lonsdale-street west, and engaged a room. Nothing ...

    Article : 298 words
  23. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Thynne, who has taken over the Department of Agriculture, intends to establish an agricultural college. The Chief Inspector of Stock has received a ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. S.A.J.C. MEETING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 words
  25. AMUSEMENTS.

    Again that drama of the hour, Trilby, was performed at the Princess's Theatre last night to an appreciative audience, and the Svengali of the piece reaped the usual encomiums. The ...

    Article : 575 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner of Crown Lands estimates that the territorial revenue this year will amount to £203,000. The commissioner will during next week leave on a trip to the eastern ...

    Article : 193 words
  27. KILMORE HIBERNIAN RACES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 words
  28. THE SYDNEY TOURNAMENT.

    The weather was again delightful for the lawn Tennis Tournament to-day, when semi-finals were contested and the way cleared for the finals to-morrow. One of the most interesting games of the ...

    Article : 590 words
  29. NEGLECTED CHILDREN AND PARENTAL CONTROL.

    At the City Court yesterday JohR Mariner, a middle aged man, was called upon to answer a charge of being illegally on, and refusing to leave, the premises of Mrs. Stewart, secretary ...

    Article : 309 words
  30. A SUSPECTED JEWEL ROBBER.

    For some months past numbers of the jewellers in the city have been loud in their complaints regarding unaccountable thefts which have taken place from their counters, and the ...

    Article : 344 words
  31. TASMANIA.

    With reference to a statement made in the Cheltenham police court by one of the lady visitors from the Methodist Central Mission that there were in Tasmania no homes for neglected ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. NEW ZEALAND.

    Parliament opens on 11th June. The Brunner royal commission to-day opened the inquiry concerning the disaster. The public are admitted, but the commissioners refuse to ...

    Article : 85 words
  33. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

    The session of the Commission of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was concluded yesterday in the Assembly Hall, Collins-street; the Rev. J. D. ...

    Article : 271 words
  34. POLITICAL MEETING AT BRUNSWICK.

    Last night Mr. J. H. Cook, M.L.A. for East Bourke Boroughs, addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents at the Brunswick town hall; the chair being occupied by Cr. Wales. ...

    Article : 366 words
  35. A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

    Herbert Howells, a locomotive engine driver, in the employ of the Victorian railways, was engaged early yesterday evening in shunting the trucks of a goods train at ...

    Article : 197 words
  36. ANOTHER PROVINCIAL BANK NOTE.

    A middle aged woman called yesterday afternoon at a draper's shop in Sydney-road, Brunswick, and purchasing some articles of apparel, proffered a £5-note on the defunct Provincial ...

    Article : 148 words
  37. THE A.N.A. ART UNION AND CHARITABLE DONATIONS.

    At the monthly meeting of the Metropolitan Committee A.N.A., held last evening at the Austral Salon Rooms, the sum of £697 was voted amongst the charities as under, out of ...

    Article : 210 words
  38. FOOTBALL.

    The senior clubs play their second round of pennant matches to-day as follows:--Fitzroy v. St. Kilda, at St. Kilda; M.C.C, v. Footscray, at Footscray; Collingwood v. Richmond, at Collingwood; South Melbourne v. North ...

    Article : 66 words
  39. RUGBY RULES.

    Rovers v. Pirates, on No. 1 ground; Pioneers v. Melbourne, No. 2. ...

    Article : 15 words
  40. CYCLING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 words
  41. GIPPS WARD ELECTION.

    Mr. W. Gaunson, one of the candidates for Gipps Ward, City Council, addressed a large meeting of ratepayers last night at the Globe Hotel, Swanston-street. After fully expressing ...

    Article : 52 words
  42. THE DUNLOP SHOOTING CASE.

    Constable Robert Steven Dunlop, who was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital after having shot himself in the brain with a revolver on Thursday evening, died at 12.30 ...

    Article : 45 words
  43. THE FALL FROM A COFFEE PALACE WINDOW.

    Frank Wardle, the man who was found lying unconscious on Thursday morning in the yard of a Chinese, after having failen from the third story window of the Melbourne Coffee Palace, ...

    Article : 79 words
  44. A MAN MISSING.

    John Frederick Lewis, boot salesman, 269 High-street, St. Kilda, is reported to the local police as being missing since Wednesday evening. He went out ostensibly to deliver an order, but never ...

    Article : 86 words
  45. BRUNNER COLLIERY ACCIDENT RELIEF FUND.

    The following additional subscriptions have been received by the central committee:-- Amount previously acknowledged, £749 17s. 2d. Further amounts received by the Arous to date, ...

    Article : 41 words
  46. Advertising

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    Advertising : 41 words
  47. AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

    The following club runs have been arranged:--Carlton Harriers, from Grandview Hotel. Fairfield, at 3.30. Essendon Harriers, from St. Thomas's Schoolroom, at 3.30, Coburg Harriers, from Gurney's Hotel, ...

    Article : 117 words
  48. Advertising

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    Advertising : 32 words
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