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  2. AUTUMN RACING CAMPAIGN.

    Though the race will not be run until Saturday week, final forfeits for the Eleventh Caulfield Futurity Stakes had to be declared yesterday. After the expiration ...

    Article : 574 words
  3. WREN'S TROTTING EVENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 words
  4. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THIS WEEK'S EVENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 words
  5. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. ROAD COLLISION.

    As Mr. Kent, sen., and family were returning from chruch at Templestowe on Sunday afternoon their buggy was run into by the motor-car of Mr. Donald ...

    Article : 69 words
  6. PROBLEMS IN GRAIN CULTURE.

    There is room for increased attention to the production of malting barley. In 1897 there were 53,000 acres of malting barley cultivated in Victoria. Last year there were ...

    Article : 802 words
  7. POLO.

    This afternoon the Melbourne and Geelong polo clubs will again try conclusions of strength and skill on the Kooyong grounds. Play will commence at 3 o'clock sharp. This will be the third ...

    Article : 62 words
  8. CRICKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 words
  9. BOY KILLED BY CRICKET BALL.

    Joseph Austin, aged 10 years, was playing cricket with a number of other boys in Harper-street, Northcote South, on Saturday afternoon, when he was ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. NOTES AND CHAT.

    This afternoon there will be racing at Sandown-park. The entries were very good, and the sport promises to be interesting. Several Newmarket Handicap candidates, ...

    Article : 760 words
  11. DEATH UNDER AN AN[?]ESTHETIC.

    The death of Sister Bridget Slattery, 30 years of age, a nun, has been reported to the coroner. It appears that deceased had suffered from a pain in the right knee, and ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. COUNTRY STOCK MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 793 words
  13. BOWLS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 words
  14. SUDDEN DEATH IN HOTEL BAR.

    A man named Cornelius Price died very suddenly at the Sir Robert Peel Hotel on Monday night. Price had been in the company of a man named James Hunter, ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. VICTORIAN LADIES' ASSOCIATION.

    The first round for the champion rink tournament for the "Punch" medals will be played, this afternoon. The six clubs in the competition have to meet each other once on neutral greens, the club ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. WHARF LABOURERS INJURED.

    Charles Stewart, a wharf labourer, aged 33 years, who lives at 36 Lawrence-street, South Melbourne, was assisting the discharge of coal from the s.s. Lady Mildred ...

    Article : 134 words
  17. AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—C. E. Fisher, of Wellington, the 220-yards champion of New Zealand, goes to Hobart for the athletic meeting. ...

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  18. A.N.A. CONFERENCE.

    Several interesting public questions will be debated at the annual conference of the A.N.A., which will be opened in the townhall, Maryborough, on Tuesday, March 24. ...

    Article : 837 words
  19. WRESTLING.

    Followers of wrestling will have another opportunity of seeing the English crack, Peter Bannon, at work at the Melbourne Athletic Club on Friday evening, when he wrestles Bert Woods in a match ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. FOOTRACING.

    The main event arranged for decision at the weekly meeting of the Flemington grounds on Friday evening next will be a divided handicap of £10, run over 120 yards. Entries close to-day, ...

    Article : 36 words
  21. BOXING.

    Considerable interest is being taken in the return fight between Peter Felix (of New South Wales) and Bill Lang (of this state), for the boxing championship of Australia, which takes place at the ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. FALL ON RAILWAY PLATFORM.

    ARARAT, Tuesday.—On the arrival last night of the express train, the carriages of which are higher than the old ones, a traveller, Mr. Wishardt, fell heavily in ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. V.R.C. FIRST ACCEPTANCES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 477 words
  24. MINER KILLED.

    BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—A full of ground with serious results occurred on the South Blocks mine to-night. While Ernest Caudrey, 27, and Henry Crowder ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. MELBOURNE MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 4,134 words
  26. STOREKEEPER'S SUICIDE.

    CHARLEVILLE (Q.), Tuesday.—George Howlett an old resident, carrying on business as a storekeeper here, committed suicide to-day in the office attached to his ...

    Article : 66 words
  27. FATAL PTOMAINE-POISONING.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A fatal case of ptomaine-poisoning took place on Sunday at Gympic. The four children of Walter Wood, a carpenter, developed symptoms of ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. FITZROY RACING CLUB.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 words
  29. NEW WHEAT VARIETIES.

    With a view to prosecuting further inquires into the progress made by the different states in the creation of new varieties of wheat, the Agicultural superintendent ...

    Article : 340 words
  30. THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS.

    With this afternoon's matinee of "Humpty-Dumpty" at Her Majesty's Theatre, that Christmas pantomune reaches its sixtieth consecutive performance in Melbourne, and, judging by the crowded ...

    Article : 549 words
  31. MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bella Home, a daughter of Alfred Horne, of Roseberry, in the Taralga district, had a marvellous escape from death on Saturday last. She ...

    Article : 74 words
  32. SANDOWN-PARK RACES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 words
  33. ACCIDENTS AT HAY.

    HAY, Tuesday.—Thomas Smith was admitted to the hospital, suffering from serious injuries to the ribs and chest, due to being thrown from a waggonette while ...

    Article : 60 words
  34. SECOND DAY.—TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  35. MOOROOPNA RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 words
  36. FALL OF THIRTY FEET.

    WEDDERBURN, Monday.—Ernest Legg, son of the foreman of works at the new school-building, fell 30ft. from the fire brigade tower on Saturday night, and escaped ...

    Article : 44 words
  37. TRIAL HANDICAP

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 679 words
  38. THROWN FROM HORSES.

    SUNBURY, Tuesday.—Whilst riding along the "Rupertswood" drive yesterday a young man named E. Valanance, an employe of Sir Rupert Clarke, was thrown ...

    Article : 121 words
  39. LATEST SCRATCHINGS.

    In addition to the scratchings recorded foe the Eleventh Caulfield Futurity Stakes, the following for other events to be run at the V.A.T.C Autumn Meeting were ...

    Article : 128 words
  40. CRESWICK TURF CLUB.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 words
  41. FARM AND ORCHARD PESTS[?]

    The destructive weed St. John's wort has found its way to the Box Hill district, where during the week about 40 or 50 healthy specimens of the plant were ...

    Article : 363 words
  42. TARNAGULLA RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 words
  43. OLD SCOTCH COLLEGIANS.

    The annual business meeting, of the Old Scotch Collegians' Club was held yesterday evening at the club-rooms, Queen's-walk. Mr. Robert Morrison, M. A., the president, ...

    Article : 484 words
  44. SHOT BY A BROTHER.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A sad shooting fatality occurred at Moolarben, in the Mudgee district, yesterday, when Edward Charles Roberts, aged three years and five months, ...

    Article : 119 words
  45. COLLARIT.

    Mr. W. P. Crick's colt Collarit, who is now trained by H. Rayner, has arrived at Caulfield from Sydney. Collarit is engaged in the Caulfield Futurity Stakes and ...

    Article : 37 words
  46. THE OLDEST COLONIST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—In regard to the discussion as to who is the oldest colonist, I might mention that I landed in Sydney in 1829 from the barque Pluto (79 years ago). I am 88 years of age, ...

    Article : 88 words
  47. TRAINING NOTES.

    MOUNTAIN KING AND TARTAN IN FORM. FLEMINGTON, Tuesday.—Fine and cool was the weather this mroning. The sand track was in capital condition, as some of the gallops prove. ...

    Article : 459 words
  48. OTHER ACCIDENTS.

    ARARAT, Monday.—The Rev. P. O'Hare was on Saturday evening driving from a funeral at Mayston, when his horse shied, and the buggy was overturned. He escaped with a few bruises, but his ...

    Article : 434 words
  49. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Can my twin sister Mrs. Niel Jamieson, of Albury, and myself claim the title of old colonists? My father Mr. Duncan Brown, his wife, and three of a family, ...

    Article : 175 words
  50. BALLARAT MINERS' ENTRIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  51. HER FATHER'S WATCH AND CHAIN.

    On February 3 Constable Tully, of the Footseray police, arrested in Moreland-street, a young woman named Myrtle Mabel Henderson on a charge of having stolen, on the 30th ult., a metal watch ...

    Article : 159 words
  52. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—My parents arrived in Melbourne in 1841, and I was born in 1843, in Richmond, Melbourne, and I have lived in Victoria ...

    Article : 38 words
  53. A Favourite Sweet in England, CALLARD and BOWSER'S BUTTER SCOTCH.

    Children and adults enjoy and praise it for its delicious flavour. The "Lancet" describes it as "really wholesome confectionery." Only genuine if "Thistle" trade-mark is on the packet.—[Advt.] ...

    Article : 40 words
  54. SOME SMART GALLOPS.

    CAULFIELD, Tuesday.—The weather was coll and dull this morning, when some very interesting ...

    Article : 663 words
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