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  2. THE RABBIT PEST.

    WELLINGTON, Friday. -- The Government have refused to make experiments with M. Pasteur's system for exterminating the rabbits on the island offered them until they have ...

    Article : 49 words
  3. AMUSEMENTS.

    At the Theatre Royal "Dorothy," which has been drawing crowded houses during the week, will be repeated to-night, and there seems every probability of the lively comedy-opera ...

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  4. THE DEFENCES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Daily Telegraph this morning adversely criticises the statement of the Hon. Edward Stanhope, the secretary of State for War, as to the ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. THE CHINESE QUESTION

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- Sir F. Dillon Bell, the Agent-General for New Zealand, has had an interview with Lord Knutsford, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on ...

    Article : 125 words
  6. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. A MUSIC TEACHER CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. THE POWERS OF RACING CLUBS.

    WILCANNIA, Friday. -- Mr. Gower, the police magistrate, has been offered the magistracy of Broken-hill, Mr. Wyman Brown, the present police magistrate and warden, finding his work CROOKWELL, Friday. -- Joseph Walker, a music teacher, was charged at the police court to-day with abducting Lydia Grimson, 19 years of age. Both parties are well known here and MORUYA, Friday. -- At the District Court to-day a case of great interest, Crapp against the jockey club, came on, for forcibly removing a fruit cart from the racecourse. The judge held ...

    Article : 196 words
  7. VICTORIAN ELECTORAL REFORM.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Cabinet considered the question of electoral reform to-day, when the views of the country party on the subject were brought forward by the Premier. ...

    Article : 66 words
  8. THE SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 914 words
  9. A SMALL-ARMS FACTORY.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Government have decided to establish a small-arms factory, with the assistance of South Australia aud Tasmania, whether New South Wales joins in the ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. FIRES IN THE FORBES DISTRICT.

    FORBES, Friday. -- On Wednesday night Hodge's Hotel, at Budgercbong, was burnt to the ground. The place is said to have been injured for £570. Two children who were in bed ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. THE DEFENCE BILL.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Imperial Defence Bill has been issued. It ratifies the agreement entered into with the Australian colonies at the Imperial ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. CHOP-STICK JOTTINGS.

    Chinese society is divided into as many sections as a Chinese bedroom. In Sydney, for instance, they have their cliques aud coteries just as we have ours. Each "guild" has its ...

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  13. THE MELBOURNE SOCIETY SCANDAL.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The case against Mrs. Rappiport, wife of the well-known J.P., charged with stealing jewellery from Mrs. Simon Fraser, was again called on at the City Court ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. CURIOUS ACCIDENT TO A MINISTER.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- During the Wesleyan Conterence, the Rev. A. J. Webb, a delegate from New South Wales, was taking his seat when his chair fell over the platform, bringing ...

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  15. BREACH OF THE COAL MINES ACT.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- At the police court to-day the Bench gave their decision in the case of the Government Examiner of Coalfields against Richard Thomas, manager of the ...

    Article : 78 words
  16. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- An elderly man named William Brightwell was run over by a train at the level crossing at the Upper Footscray today and cut to pieces. His head was severed ...

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  17. VICTORIAN CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Mr. Perrin, of Tasmania, has been appointed conservator of forests in Victoria. Mr. Perrin was selected out of 13 applicants from the various ...

    Article : 32 words
  18. "LARKING" AT A WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- In connection with the alleged cases of improprieties between nurses and students at the Women's Hospital the sub-committee of investigation have found ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. CARDINAL MORAN IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Cardinal Moran, who arrived from Sydney yesterday en route for Europe, performed the ceremony of consecrating 250 members of the women's branch of ...

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  20. THE POPE'S DECREE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- His Holiness the Pope objects to the comments and strictures made by Mr. Parnell, the leader of the Home Rule party, on the Papal decree condemning ...

    Article : 90 words
  21. SUICIDE AT NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A half-past 3 this afternoon a carpenter named Henry Young, aged 60, committed suicide in Railway-street by shooting himself. When discovered Young ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. THE AUSTRALASIAN WES-LEYAN CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Both the morning and afternoon sittings of the Wesleyan Conference to-day were occupied in discussing the clauses of the lengthy report of the proceedings of the ...

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  23. THE CHINESE ON THE AFGHAN AND TSINAN.

    There was no fresh development of the Chinese trouble yesterday so far as the owners and agents of the steamers Afghan and Tsinan are concerned. As before, both vessels were ...

    Article : 132 words
  24. VICTORIA AND THE "BOARD OF TRADE JOURNAL."

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A meeting of the various organisations connected with the industrial, commercial and manufacturing industries of the colony was held to-day to consider ...

    Article : 123 words
  25. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Mrs. Mary Thornycroft, the eminent sculptor, has been elected a member of the Royal Academy. ...

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  26. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

    Mr. F. B. Suitor delivered a lecture last night, in connection with the Bathurst Lecture and Debating Society, in the Oddfellows'-hall, the subject being "My Travels." The chair was ...

    Article : 307 words
  27. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- Ebneter's jeweller's shop at Maryborough was entered by burglars last night and 60 gold watches and other jewellery stolen of the total value of £1200. ...

    Article : 32 words
  28. ACTION OF A TRADE SOCIETY.

    The Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union has passed a resolution prohibiting any member buying from or dealing with Chinamen. Any member found transgressing the rule is liable to a fine. ...

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  29. THE TRUST AND AGENCY COMPANY.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The London manager of the Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, Limited, is retiring on a pension. ...

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  30. BANK OF NORTH QUEENSLAND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 words
  31. THE THREATENED EXPULSION FROM CROYDON.

    CROYDON (Q.), Friday. -- Twenty special constables, including the leader of the Chinese League, have been sworn in for the defence of the Chinese, should the public attempt to drive ...

    Article : 121 words
  32. A PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- At the Supreme Court to-day W. H. Hester, S. L. Hester and T. W. Donaldson, of Kilkivan, sued Captain W. H. Eldred to determine the division of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  33. UNCLAIMED COLONIAL DIVIDENDS. THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY BOARD.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- Sir F. Dillon Bell, the Agent-General for New Zealand, has submitted to the other Agents-General the draft of a bill dealing with unclaimed LONDON, Thursday Night. -- Sir F. Dillon Bell, the Agent-General for New Zealand, is not satisfied with the applications which have been received for the position of ...

    Article : 84 words
  34. THE DECENTRALISATION LEAGUE.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- At a meeting of the Lambton branch of the Decentralisation League last night it was resolved -- "That this branch is of opinion that the division of the ...

    Article : 110 words
  35. DECISION OF THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT.

    WELLINGTON, Friday. -- The Premier (Major Atkinson) has announced that the Government propose to follow the Victorian legislation relative to Chinese immigration. They ...

    Article : 65 words
  36. BANQUET TO MR. BENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Mr. Thomas Bent, M.P., leader of the Opposition, was tendered a banquet to-night in the Masonic-hall, about 200 persons being present, including many members ...

    Article : 165 words
  37. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to-day inspected the collection of British pictures to be sent to the Melbourne Exhibition, and expressed ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. INQUESTS.

    An inquest was held before the City Coroner at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, yesterday touching the death of a newly-born female infant which was found in front of the ...

    Article : 118 words
  39. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

    Sir, -- The report of the Department of Public Instruction is at length before us, and the lesson to be learned from its array of figures is not very gratifying. It has been said that "figures ...

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  40. THE MELBOURNE TRADES HALL AND MR. BENT.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A lengthy discussion arose to-night at the Trades-hull in connection with the remarks made by Mr. Thomas Bent the leader of the Opposition, at the banquet ...

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  41. LORD CARRINGTON'S VISIT TO NORFOLK ISLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- H.M.S. Nelson, with Lord and Lady Carrington and party on board bound for Norfolk Island, arrived at Lord Howe Island on April 28. The party went ...

    Article : 291 words
  42. ACCIDENTS.

    Edgar Hebblewhite, a steward on board the Oroya, was admitted to the Sydney. Hospital yesterday suffering from a fracture of the right fibura, caused through a fall. He was attended ...

    Article : 77 words
  43. A PRESENT DANGER.

    Sir, -- Referring to Mr. Haynes' letter under the above heading which I noticed in yours of the 1st inst., I would like to ask : Can Mr. Haynes or anyone else deny that while we ...

    Article : 461 words
  44. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 482 words
  45. SHAM EDUCATION.

    Sir, -- My boys bring home from school, day after day, certain very complicated sums in arithmetic, ready worked out for them by their teacher, said boys ...

    Article : 366 words
  46. THE ORE STEALING CASE AT ORANGE.

    ORANGE, Friday. -- John Richard Bowyer was again brought up this morning in connection with the ore stealing case. Further evidence was adduced to show that the stone came from ...

    Article : 160 words
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