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  2. WESLEYAN TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION.

    A monster temperance meeting was held in the Centenary-hall last evening. An enthusiastic audience crowded every part of the capacious hall. The Rev. W. Clarke, ...

    Article : 411 words
  3. THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE.

    The Premier has received a telegram from New Zealand intimating that the members from that colony to the Federal Conference have decided to come by the steamer Tekapo direct ...

    Article : 91 words
  4. THE INTERCOLONIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The conference of the heads of the Education Departments of South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria has arrived at a series of comprehensive resolutions which, ...

    Article : 187 words
  5. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Friday.--A conference took place yesterday at the Colonial Office on the subject of granting responsible government to West Australia. ...

    Article : 202 words
  6. GENERAL NEWS.

    The exigencies of the trade between London and this port have induced the Colonial Union Company to again send one of their steamers--the Bayley--direct to this port from the old ...

    Article : 1,098 words
  7. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SINGLE TAX.

    We propose to do nothing whatever beyond changing the basis of taxation from industry, production, exchange or incomes to land values. We propose to exempt everything else ...

    Article : 2,827 words
  8. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS IN FIJI.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--At the Wesleyan Conference to-day, the Rev. G. F. Prior made a serious allegation against the operations of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji. Mr. Prior ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. STRIKE OF VICTORIAN DRAFTSMEN.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Twenty supernumerary draftsmen employed in the Titles Office struck work to-day. Owing to the exigencies of the department, the supernumerary ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. NEW MAIL TIME-TABLE.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--The P. and O. Company have notified the Government that their first steamer under the new mail time-table will leave Adelaide on April 23 at noon. The ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. FIRE NEAR ALBURY.

    ALBURY, Friday.--A disastrous fire occurred about 10 o'clock yesterday on the farm of Heickendorf and Sons, at House Greek, resulting in the destruction of property valued at ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. TASMANIAN REVENUE.

    HOBART, Friday.--The consolidated revenue for January amounts to £55,235, compared with £53,981 for January, 1889. ...

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  13. THE TRADES.

    The district committee of the Amalgamated Engineers' Association met in the Royal Foresters'-hall, Castlereagh-street, last night, and passed £3 towards the libel action defence ...

    Article : 370 words
  14. THE LONDON DOCKERS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. C. M. Norwood, the chairman of directors of the Associated London Dock Companies, is indignant at the recent action of the dock ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. THE VICTORIAN WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--At the sitting of the United Wesleyan Conference to-day a resolution was carried "That it be a recommendation to the general conference that the annual ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. AN AUCKLAND YACHTING CONTEST.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--At the regatta to-day, held in connection with the jubilee festivities, the yacht race for the Australian Mutual Life Insurance trophy was won by Spray, with ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. NEW SOUTH WALES RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    The annual meeting of the members of the New South Wales Rifle Association was held at the United Service Institute last night, Lieut.-Colonel T. J. Jacques in the chair. There was ...

    Article : 504 words
  18. THE CHARGES AGAINST SANDHURST MINERS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The two miners, Davis and Counch, in custody for the murder of the night watchman at the Untied Devonshire mine, Sandhurst, were to-day brought up charged ...

    Article : 68 words
  19. THE FLY PEST.

    ALBURY, Friday.--Mr. J. D. Laskester, of Ettamogah, reports that the greatest success has attended the treatment of the fly pest by behzine. All the vines on which the solution ...

    Article : 126 words
  20. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Another deputation from the unemployed waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday. They were Introduced by Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Howe, Ms.P., Messrs. Famuli, Ritchie and Dale, ...

    Article : 340 words
  21. RUSSIA AND CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday.--Russia is reported to be increasing her Pacific squadron and to be fortifying her frontier in Russian Turkestan, the avowed object being to prevent any ...

    Article : 41 words
  22. ACCIDENT ON THE LUSITANIA.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Just before the steamer Lusitania was timed to leave Williamstown pier on her homeward voyage a valve burst with a loud report, scalding two men. ...

    Article : 93 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Abington, who was alleged to have instigated the attack upon Slavin during his recent prize fight with Smith, has been requested to resign his ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. THE LETTER-CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION.

    A deputation from the Letter-carriers Association waited upon the Postmaster-General on Thursday to ask his approval of the association. They had nothing to add to what was ...

    Article : 399 words
  25. NEW ZEALAND IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--The exports from the colony for the quarter ending December 31 show an increase of £400,000 over the corresponding period of last year. The imports show ...

    Article : 42 words
  26. A ROYAL MARRIAGE.

    LONDON, Friday.--It is rumored that the Princess Margaret, the fourth sister of the Emperor of Germany, is to be married to Prince Frederick, the Crown Prince of ...

    Article : 33 words
  27. CYCLONE ON THE QUEENSLAND COAST.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--Bowen was yesterday visited with another cyclone. The wind blew for several hours with tremendous velocity, but fortunately only the edge of the cyclone touched ...

    Article : 103 words
  28. AMUSEMENTS.

    There will be another "juvenile night" at the Theatre Royal this evening, when the pantomime will begin at 7 p.m. and the whole entertainment will close at 10 p.m. Last night ...

    Article : 622 words
  29. THE UNIVERSITY BOATRACE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The annual boatrace between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has been fixed to take place on the Thames on March 26. ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. CARRYING WIRES UNDERGROUND.

    The necessity of removing the danger arising from carrying electric lighting, telegraph and telephone wires overhead has been engaging the attention of inventors and others in ...

    Article : 405 words
  31. ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR GOULBURN.

    GOULBURN, Friday.--At a special meeting of the borough council last night the tender of Messrs. Strickland and Co. was accepted for lighting the city with electricity for £6325, ...

    Article : 160 words
  32. SUSPECTED FRENCH ESCAPEES.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--In connection with the four suspected French escapees now in Brisbane Gaol, it is believed that five originally started from New Caledonia, but that one, owning a ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. COUNTRY INSTITUTIONS.

    The half-yearly meeting of members of the Maitland School of Arts was held on Thursday night, Mr. C. Moore (president) in the chair. The report presented, and subsequently adopted, ...

    Article : 316 words
  34. CONDITIONAL PURCHASERS AND THE SINGLE TAX.

    SIR,--"A Conditional Purchaser" in a recent issue of your journal seems to have taken the alarm at the prospect at all revenue being raised by the taxation of land values. I think ...

    Article : 197 words
  35. CONTINUED HEAVY RAINS.

    Unsettled weather continues along the coast and on the eastern slopes with light to moderate rains. For the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. yesterday the heaviest fall was at Bega, where 2.86in. ...

    Article : 394 words
  36. SUICIDE OF A CIVIL SERVANT.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--Mr. Roericht, chief draftsman in the Railway Department, was found dead last night in the Victoria Park with a revolver in his hand and a bullet wound in ...

    Article : 77 words
  37. THE MELBOURNE BOARD OF HEALTH.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The newly-constituted Board of Public Health met to-day for the first time, Mr. C. A. Topp, president, in the chair. As the Health Bill does not come into ...

    Article : 48 words
  38. A CHALLENGE.

    Sir,--As Mr. John Norton is anxious to prove the superiority of protection over the single tax and freetrade, I should be glad to debate the question at any time within the ...

    Article : 200 words
  39. ELECTRICAL TRAMWAYS.

    Sir,--I notice your correspondent Mr. Price-Howell has been describing the "Series" electrical tramway system in this morning's paper. While I have nothing to say against this ...

    Article : 231 words
  40. THE DOCK-STRIKERS' FUND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--A meeting of the London Dock Strike committee was held in Brisbane to-day in regard to the disposal of the balance of the Brisbane subscriptions, £484 ...

    Article : 72 words
  41. THE QUEENSLAND AGENT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The Government received to-day a cablegram elating that the Queensland Agent-General's offices, London, had been destroyed by fire yesterday. The ...

    Article : 44 words
  42. AN ADELAIDE TRADES-HALL.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--Mr. R. C. Parker, M.L.C., who promised during the debate in the legislative Council on the bill asking the Government to giant a site in Adelaide for a ...

    Article : 53 words
  43. FOR YEARS THE WORLD

    Has accepted Wolte's Schnapps as the best cordial, tonic and invigorant in its market, and its merits thus established nothing can affect it in the way deterioration or detraction.-- ...

    Article : 35 words
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