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  2. THE DESTRUCTION OF WILDFOWL AND THE SWIVEL GUN.

    Sir,—As the bill for the prohibition of swivel guns is now before the Assembly, I hope some of our shooting sportsmen will bestir themselves and place their views on ...

    Article : 823 words
  3. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.

    Last evening a serious accident, which may result fatally, happened to the Rev. J. Black, Presby terian minister. He had conducted the services in the ...

    Article : 283 words
  4. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Constable Bain, of Per[?]ydale, is to be removed to E[?], and the police station at Pereydale is to be closed. The inhabitants are very indignant at this. ...

    Article : 867 words
  5. SANDHURST.

    The passengers per the early up train from Wycheproof, due here at 2.30 p.m., were considerably alarmed when approaching the local station. A heavy train from Echuca, ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. OLD COLONISTS' ASSOCIATION.

    The 15th annual meeting of the Old Colonists Association of Victoria was held at the Town-hall yesterday afternoon. About 25 gentlemen attended, and the president (Mr. ...

    Article : 1,922 words
  7. THE DISPUTE IN THE BOOTMAKING TRADE.

    There are no fresh developments in the difference existing between the boot manufacturers and the Operatives' Union, as far as the former are concerned, beyond that they ...

    Article : 458 words
  8. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

    The result of the settling over the Murrumbidgee Spring Meeting is as follow:—Total amount, £1.999; special trophies, value £240. —W. J. Thorogood, £568; J. Monagham, ...

    Article : 3,183 words
  9. DR. DAVY AND THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

    Sir,—I am glad to see that Dr. Davy's friends in Victoria are bestirring themselves to do "honour to whom honour is due," and with your powerful advocacy I have no fear ...

    Article : 2,036 words
  10. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

    The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Religious Tract Society of Victoria was held Yesterday afternoon at the society's office, Swanston-street. The Rev. J. J. Mackenzie ...

    Article : 422 words
  11. TRADE SOCIETY MEETINGS.

    The fortnightly meeting of the Melbourne United Labourers' Protective Society was held at the Trades-hall last evening, the president (Mr. G. Glanford) occupying the ...

    Article : 386 words
  12. ECHUCA.

    The Lancashire Lass and Corrong arrived on Saturday with 1,200 and 1,000 odd bales of wool from the Murrumbidgee River, and the Enterprise, with 100 bales of Darling River ...

    Article : 171 words
  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—There appears to me to be a method of preventing the market supply of duck and suchlike wildfowl falling off, and yet making it a brench of the law of use the swivel gun, ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    The body of a man, name unknown, who is said to have, during a fit, fallen into the Yarra near Toorak, was conveyed yesterday, by the Toorak police, to the morgue for ...

    Article : 464 words
  15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—If the use of the swivel gun is not "swept off the face of the earth." wildfowl will soon be, unless the swivel gun is prohibited. ...

    Article : 408 words
  16. OLD SCOTCH COLLEGIANS.

    The members of the Old Scotch Collegians Society gave a complimentary dinner to their president, Mr. Thos. Cumming, M.L.C., at Gunsler's Cafe, last night. There was a very ...

    Article : 341 words
  17. THE DRY ROT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.

    Sir,—It was a case of too-condensed reporting—it was indeed [?] What I a[?]rmed and a[?]irm was that these younger poets, who are doing their level best to found the ...

    Article : 448 words
  18. RECENT MEETINGS.

    The annual meeting of the Fitzroy branch of the Australian Wes[?] Missionary Society was held at the Brunswick-street W[?] Church last evening. Mr. F. ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. BUILDING SOCIETIES.

    The Premier Permanent Building, Land, and Investment Association held us tenth annual meeting at the Temperance-hall, Russell-street, last night, the president, Mr. ...

    Article : 548 words
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    Advertising : 280 words
  21. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    Gertrude Douglas, a rough, middle-aged woman, was charged before Mr. J. Wilton and a bench of other justices, at the City Court on Monday, with having broken £3 worth of ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. LAW NOTICES.—(This Day.)

    Davis v. the Board of Land and [?] (Before Mr. Justice Higinbotham.) Andrews v. Corr. (Before His Honour Mr. Justice Holroyd and a Special ...

    Article : 342 words
  23. GEELONG.

    A meeting of the Citizens Vigilance Committee was held to-day, when Mr. T. C. Harwood was appointed chairman, and Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson, M.A., secretary. The ...

    Article : 359 words
  24. BALLARAT.

    With references to the action of the local boot manufacturers on the lock-out question in Melbourne the Ballarat branch is not satisfied with the action taken, and ...

    Article : 231 words
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