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  2. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    An alteration is being made in the San Francisco mail service which will seriously affect the times of Victorian postage. It has been decided that the mail boats shall ...

    Article : 58 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    During the hearing of a case at the city court on Monday, in which Esther Rubenowitch as proceeded against by R. J. Gribble,solicitor, recovery of costs ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. THE WATER FAMINE.

    Owing to the total absence of grass or herbage, and the high price of fodder at Whitecliffs, horses cannot be engaged to cart water from Ford's tank, ten miles ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. THE DEMAND FOR REFORM.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 564 words
  6. THE ORDER OF BUSINESS.

    The Government has not yet definitely, decided whether the reform proposals will be made the first business after the Address in Reply has been got out of the way. Mr. ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The frank declaration of war against the Federation contained in Mr. Philip's statement to the Brisbane press on Saturday last was the subject of much comment ...

    Article : 207 words
  8. VIEWS OF MR. EMBLING, M.L.C.

    Mr. W. H. Embling, M.L.C. addressed a large meeting this evening in the mechanics' hall, the mayor, Cr. van Heurck, presiding. Mr. Embling said he had been asked by a ...

    Article : 228 words
  9. AN IMMENSE COFFIN.

    The mineral of Mr. Samuel Riley, of Murchison, which took place at the Murchison cemetery yesterday, was remarkable for the size of the coffin used. Deceased, who was ...

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  10. MR. BURTON AT STAWELL.

    The town hall was filled this evening, the mayor, Mr. Mitchell, presiding, when Mr. Burton, Minister of Mines, spoke on political questions. Mr. Burton, who ...

    Article : 507 words
  11. SYDNEY PRO-BOER LEGISLATORS.

    At the annual general meeting of the British Empire League to-night, reference was made to the pro-Boer utterances of Messrs. A. Griffith and Holman, M's.L.A. ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. BRIGHT, Monday.

    No rain has fallen since the middle of March, and the reservoir from which the town water supply is derived is almost dry. All the crushing mills are idle, and the ...

    Article : 195 words
  13. THE ARBITRATION ACT.

    The Operative Cigar Makers Union tonight considered a reported "lock-out" by an employer. The union decided that the employes had been "locked out," and that ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. BENDIGO.

    On Sunday night Hastings's Park View Hotel was broken into during the absence of the occupants, and several articles of jewellery were stolen. ...

    Article : 274 words
  15. ELECTORAL REFORM.

    When the Federal Electoral Bill has become law Sir William Lyne expects to be in a position to make enormous savings in the cost of all Federal elections. By means ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. NATIONAL CITIZENS' REFORM LEAGUE.

    A public meeting of the citizens of Fitzroy, convened by the Fitzroy branch of the National Citizens' Reform League, will be held this evening at 8 o'clock, at the School ...

    Article : 102 words
  17. A KLANDRA COPPER MINE.

    An exceptionally rich copper lode, 4 feet wide, has been proved to a depth of 130 feet at Lobb's Hole mine, in the Kiandra district. The ore assays 33 per cent. of ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

    The recent complaint by Mr. Philip against the Federal Government with reference to the arrears of payments due for the expenses of administering British New ...

    Article : 111 words
  19. THE PLAGUE.

    The Rev. William Allan O'Neill, who has been assisting Canon Boyce in Redfern parish for some time, was to-day found to be suffering from plague and was removed ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. FEELING IN THE COUNTRY.

    A meeting was held at Great Western on Saturday night, when the platform of the Citizens' League was adopted and a branch of the league established. Mr. Hans ...

    Article : 235 words
  21. A COURT HOUSE WILFULLY BURNED.

    Early on Thursday morning last the court house at Glen Innes was burned down, and the police records were destroyed. An inquiry into the matter was held to-day, and ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. THE BUILDING OF POST OFFICES.

    A survey of the condition of post office buildings throughout the Commonwealth has forced upon Mr. Drake's attention the fact that a reckless lack of foresight has ...

    Article : 174 words
  23. A PATIENT'S ESCAPE.

    A Frenchman named Dupuy, who is suffering from plague, escaped from the Coast Hospital last evening, but was captured later in bed in a lane off George-street. He ...

    Article : 40 words
  24. GEELONG.

    The May sittings of the Geelong Supreme Court were brought to a conclusion on Monday afternoon. August Mark Hager, farmer, of Wensleydale. proceeded against ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. POSITION AT PERTH.

    The question of dealing with infected grain at the Port mill, where the first bubonic patient worked, is rather a difficult one, inasmuch as no grain store or flour mill ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. A FAMILY SQUABBLE.

    An action in which a son-in-law and father-in-law were the parties was before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury in the Banco Court to-day. Plaintiff, a young man named ...

    Article : 252 words
  27. THEFT OF A LETTER.

    At the police court on Friday last a lad named Avery was fined £5 for stealing a letter containing money. the property of the Postmaster-General. The money had ...

    Article : 81 words
  28. TWO ASSEMBLY VACANCIES.

    Mr. Jacob Fotheringham, who held the Footscray seat in the Legislative Assembly. has at last had the grace to resign, after being for nearly six months from Victoria ...

    Article : 142 words
  29. A THREATENED INDUSTRY.

    Another case of departmental messing, which strikingly illustrates the fatuity of civil service methods, has been disclosed. Complaint has been made that the ...

    Article : 305 words
  30. A WILL CHALLENGED.

    A caveat was recently lodged against the granting of probate of the will of the late Mrs. Margaret Chapman, formerly of Flemington, who died on 11th January, and the ...

    Article : 213 words
  31. SUNBURY WATER SUPPLY.

    The much vexed question of taking the waters of the Baringo Creek for the supply of Sunbury has advanced another stage. The old scheme, which was so strongly ...

    Article : 159 words
  32. DEAD RATS ON AN INTER-STATE VESSEL.

    On the arrival of the Paroo from Fremantle to-day, the health officer was informed that there was a large number of dead rats on the vessel. As a case of ...

    Article : 149 words
  33. A VACILLATING MINISTER.

    The reprieve of the Leongatha labor colony, just as the long delayed and often threatened execution was about to take place, is illustrative of Mr. Duggan's whole ...

    Article : 703 words
  34. CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR.

    Percy H. Monkley, solicitor, was charged at the police court to-day with having feloniously appropriated a ring the property of Julia Green, of Albury and ...

    Article : 107 words
  35. REMOVAL OF AN OLD LANDMARK.

    What was known as the Old Sunbury Creek Hotel is in course of demolition, the present owner, Mr. N. Bedstrup, having decided to pull the older portion of the ...

    Article : 165 words
  36. BRISBANE, Monday.

    Another case of plague was reported today, the patient being a man employed in a grocery store. ...

    Article : 21 words
  37. CALIFORNIAN MAIL NEWS.

    Whilst the San Francisco mail steamer Sonoma was running from Pago Pago to Auckland, one of the oilers named L. D. Ferguson was caught in the main shaft and ...

    Article : 189 words
  38. THE EXTERMINATION OF RATS.

    At its meeting last evening the North Melbourne council agreed to co-operate with the metropolitan municipalities in continuing united action for the ...

    Article : 40 words
  39. QUEENSLAND.

    The Federal Commandant spent some time to-day with the Premier considering the Queensland defence estimates. Major General Hutton and his staff were ...

    Article : 90 words
  40. SPEECHES AT PORT MELBOURNE.

    At a complimentary smoke social tendered to Cr. J. K. B. Plummer at the Port Melbourne town hall last evening, Cr. H. N. Edwards, in proposing the toast of ...

    Article : 300 words
  41. MILDURA-WENTWORTH RAILWAY.

    Mr. Deane, Engineer in Chief of the New South Wales railways, and Mr. Rennick, of Victoria, in December last visited Wentworth and examined possible routes for a ...

    Article : 437 words
  42. MINE FATALITY AT BENDIGO.

    Shortly before 12.30 o'clock this morning George Williams was killed at the Shenandoah nine, and his mate. George Graham, was badly injured. The men were ...

    Article : 62 words
  43. TOBACCO GROWERS' PROSPECTS

    Mr. T. A. J. Smith, who has had charge of the local stemmery, has disposed of seventeen parcels of Victorian tobacco leaf, ranging from one to ten tons, which ...

    Article : 224 words
  44. BRISBANE, Monday.

    It is rumored that the Kenniffs have again been heard of in their old haunts. The services of Afr. Wandall. immigration lecturer, will he dispensed until in ...

    Article : 33 words
  45. MACHINE SHEARERS' UNION.

    The Registrar under the Arbitration Court came to a decision to-day with respect to the appeals lodged with him in connection with the Machine Shearers' ...

    Article : 92 words
  46. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. J. Jeanes, a Port Pirie hotelkeeper, asked the local municipal council to prevent the Salvation Army holding street meetings opposite his house, but the corporation ...

    Article : 76 words
  47. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    A conference of the representatives of the trades affected by the Factories Act was held at the Trades Hall last night; Mr. Sutch in the chair. It was arranged that ...

    Article : 178 words
  48. DIFFICULTY AT OUTTRIM MINE

    The Outtrim coal mine was thrown idle to-day owing to a difficulty having arisen between the management and the men regarding the weighbridge. The bridge was ...

    Article : 118 words
  49. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The transport Aurania has sailed from Albany for Melbourne. Her troops were all allowed ashore at first, but leave was stopped since Friday. While the men were ...

    Article : 154 words
  50. A MALICIOUS ACT.

    During the past three weeks the local Water Works Trust has been engaged at considerable expense in cleaning out the [?] from which townspeople are ...

    Article : 138 words
  51. ADDRESS BY MR. RAMSAY, M.L.A.

    Mr. Ramsay, M.L.A., addressed his constituents at the mechanics institute Williamstown last evening. The building was crowded; the mayor, Mr. J. J. Liston ...

    Article : 360 words
  52. NEGLECTED CHILDREN AND RELIGION.

    A religious question exercised the minds of the Prahran branch of magistrates yesterday, when the case of the three children-- John O'Shea, Mary O'Shea and Leo O'Shea- -remanded as neglected ...

    Article : 304 words
  53. LATE SPORTING NEWS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 words
  54. SUICIDE OF A WOMAN BY HANGING.

    A case of determined suicide was reported to the police this morning, when Frederick Matthes stated that his grandmother, Mrs. Blobel, aged 70, had been found, at 7.30 ...

    Article : 150 words
  55. Advertising

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    Advertising : 269 words
  56. PERTH, Monday.

    A young man named Robertson was killed this afternoon while pulling down a brick wall for the improvements at Foy and Gibson's. A warning was given to the deceased ...

    Article : 86 words
  57. NEW ZEALAND.

    William Parker, a saddler, living at Parnell, shot his wife and infant with a revolver last night. He afterwards attempted to commit suicide. Parker is in a ...

    Article : 64 words
  58. AN INDIGNANT SHIRE PRESIDENT.

    At a special meeting of the Healesville shire council to-day, to consider the removal of the inspector of nuisances from all appointments held by him under the council. ...

    Article : 147 words
  59. Advertising

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    Advertising : 23 words
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