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COUNTRY NEWS
WOMEN AS FARMERS OVERTIME RULES IGNORED. ROCHESTER, Friday.
Undue prominence has not been given to irrigation farming s a feminine industry but the women settlers in this district are showing the way in ...
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FIRE AT WANGARATTA
POOR WATER PRESSURE. WANGARATTA, Friday.
Owing, to the poor pressure of water the fire brigade was compelled to stand by and watch the destruction by fire last night of a fine weatherboard villa, owned ...
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A meeting of Commissioners was hald on Thursday night, when the question of improving the water service was discussed at considerable length. The Trust ...
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DOGS WORRY CATTLE
SEVERAL DEATHS RECORDED. ROCHESTER, Friday.
Mysterious deaths have been occurring among settlers' stock. Last evening Mr Climo, of Bamawm, found a valuable dairy cow and a horse dying in a ...
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ENGINE BREAKS DOWN
RAILWAY PASSENGERS INCONVENIENCED, MARYBOROUGH, Friday.
As a result of the up-train from Mildura being delayed through the failure of its engine, railway arrangements were upset on the Maryborough to Melbourne ...
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ROUGH ON SPARROWS
AN INVENTOR'S TRAP. ROCHESTER, Friday.
Mr. Alfred Thorpe, who is the inventor a very simple sparrow trap, has handed in over 3000 sparrows' heads to the Rochester Shire secretary, in order to ...
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RIVER DRYING UP
FISH DYING IN HUNDREDS. CASTERTON, Friday.
The River Glenelg having ceased to run at Casterton in the immediate vicinity of the freezing works, the fish in a large hole adjarent are dying in hundreds. ...
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There is keen competition between the Horsham branch of the Colonial Gas Association and the Horsham Electric Supply Company. Both companies have ...
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BENDIGO.
BIRTH AND DEATH STATISTICS.
Dr J. M. Eadie, health officer for Bendigo, reported at the meeting of the City Council on Friday that in the quarter ended 31st December there had been 103 ...
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COUNTRY NEWS
BERRINGA. MINERS' ASSOCIATION.
The committee of the Rokewood, Pitfield, and Berringa branch met on Thursday evening: Mr E. Luck (president) in the chair. It was decided that the ...
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BUNINYONG.
FIREMEN'S DEMONSTRATION.
The firemen are busy practising for the Bendigo demonstration. There are several new men it, the teams, which comprise:—Emgine fives: T. Butler, W. Pyke, ...
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COLAC.
STOLEN OATS.
Frederick Long and Charles Telford, of Apollo Bay, were charged at the Coloc Police Court on Thursday with having seed oats in their possession suspected of ...
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LINTON.
OLD LINTONIANS' ASSOCIATION.
The committee of the Old Lintonians Association met on Thursday night; Mr R. Ching presided. A number of Detters were received from old scholars who bad ...
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The annual picnic of the Smythes Road Sunday school took place on Thursday and was unanimously pronounced a great success. Children, parents, and friends ...
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INDUSTRIAL MATTERS
LABOR ORGANISATIONS. FEDERATION AND COUNCIL. SYDNEY, Friday.
Mr B. J. Kavanagh, secretary of the Sydney Labor Council, in his half-yearly report, says that one reason why the council refrained form allying itself with the ...
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The demand of the Glebe Island slaughtermen for wages of £6 a week of 48 hours and 3/ an hour overtime was not made with the sanction of the Australian Meat ...
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After three hours' discussion at a meeting of farmers, wheat buyers, and Labon organisers last night, a settlement was arrived at, and the strike of ...
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ROBERT BURNS
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH.
Deservedly proud is Scotland of the Ayrshire ploughman who became the greatest of her national bards. The poet ever loved deeply "the land of brown ...
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OBITUARY
MR SAMUEL WALKER.
Although of late the burden of increasing years prevented his being out much there was until recently no better-known figure in the streets of Dallarat then Mr. ...
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The Lydiard street Y.M.C. met on the 19th inst., the president (Mr W. Prowse) in the chair. The election of officers was postponed for a fortnight. The syllabus ...
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