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  2. THE PORT MELBOURNE SEWER FATALITY.

    The adjourned inquest on the body of James Phillips, who was killed by a fall of sand in a sower tunnel at Port Melbourne, on 7th May, was resumed at the Morgue, yesterday, before ...

    Article : 768 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    This afternoon David Plozza, a wood carter, and his son, aged 13 years, were riding home on a dray load of wood, when the horse bolted. Both were thrown off the cart, which passed ...

    Article : 87 words
  4. CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES.

    The eighteenth annual meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures was held last night at the rooms of the chamber. The Blook, Collins-street. The president, Mr. N. Levi, M.L.C., occupied ...

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  5. THE BANKING COMMISSION.

    The Banking Commission took evidence in the shire hall at Numurkah to-day, Messrs. Winter, Cook, Kennedy, Sachse and Beasley being present. Mr. E. Richardson Miller, ...

    Article : 701 words
  6. CHARGE OF FRAUD.

    Some remarkable revelations are likely to arise in connection with the arrest of a man named Richard Patrick O'Grady, who was apprehended yesterday afternoon by Detective ...

    Article : 1,299 words
  7. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The steamer Gulf of Siam, due at Sydney today from London, will, on the discharge of her cargo, load live cattle and frozen meat for the English market. She is expected to take 70 ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Appeal Court to-day ordered that the name of Leonard Harper, formerly of Christchurch, should be struck off the solicitors' roll. There was no appearance on behalf of Harper. ...

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  9. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Walter Plant, sen., aged 74 years, a farmor, living near here for over 40 years, attempted to out his throat yesterday with a butcher's knife. The wound is not serious. He had been ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. AN UNREGENERATE RASCAL.

    A despicable theft, coupled with the crime of false pretences, was admitted by a young man named Patrick O'Sullivan in the Prahran court yesterday. Along with Annie O'Keefe, who ...

    Article : 461 words
  11. TASMANIAN INCOME TAX APPEALS.

    The first appeals in the Launceston Supreme Court under the Income Tax Act were heard by Chief Justice Dobson to-day. Twenty-five out of 45 appeals turned on the interpretation ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. A HORRIBLE CASE.

    John Henry Tow, storekeeper, of West Alberton, was charged at the Yarram police court yesterday with carnally knowing his daughter, Annie, 20 years of age. The offence ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. PECULIAR SLANDER ACTION.

    Mr. John M'Elbone, ex-M.L.A., who, as a member of the previous Assembly, acquired an almost Australian reputation for the vigor of his language, was sued to-day by Chas. Augustus, a ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. A HARD CASE.

    A sorrowful story of deprivation was told in the Water Police Court to-day, when a man was charged with stealing a quilt, valued at 8s., the property of Herman Wilhelm. The accused, ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. THE FLAX INDUSTRY.

    A large and appreciative audience, composed chiefly of farmers, assembled in the Masonic Hall last evening to hear a lecture on Flax Growing and its Cultivation, by Mr. W. M'Farland, ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. ACCIDENTAL POISONING WITH ARSENIC.

    At Goulburn a case of poisoning occurred last evening, resulting in the death of one child and the serious illness of another. At the inquest this afternoon evidence was given that the twin ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. ALLEGED CATTLE STEALING.

    At the Oakleigh court yesterday Alice Cullinan, a railway gatekeeper, was charged on summons with stealing a heifer calf, value £2, from Mrs. Slater, a dairy keeper at Heatherton. ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. THE BALLARAT WOOLLEN MILLS.

    Seven new looms for the Ballarat Woollen and Worsted Company have arrived in Melbourne by steamer from London. The machines weigh 16½ tons, and have been constructed on ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. AMUSEMENTS.

    So far as the appreciation of the audience is concerned last night's encores was a repetition of all that have preceded it, encores and recalls being the rule rather than the exception. Miss ...

    Article : 709 words
  20. THE TARIFF QUESTION.

    The council of the Protection Association met last night at Cromwell-buildings, Bourke-street; Mr. E. H. Poulter in the chair. A number of delegates from industries likely to be adversely ...

    Article : 235 words
  21. THE RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 words
  22. A MAORI TRAGEDY.

    A Maori named Ben, living at the Mahootalie Pah, yesterday murdered his wife with an axe and shot his daughter through the back of the head, the bullet coming out of her mouth. He ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. ENGLISH SPECULATORS AND BENDIGO MINES.

    A syndicate has offered to purchase the North Prince, Princess May and Sebastopol Hill claims north of the New Prince of Wales, for flotation in London. The North Prince has rejected the ...

    Article : 65 words
  24. THE SPOTTISWOODE SEWER DISASTER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 words
  25. INSOLVENCY REFORM.

    SIR,--Under the above heading, in your issue of to-day, I notice a letter signed C. C. Gardiner, in which the writer suggests chat the amount mentioned in section 37 of the Insolvency ...

    Article : 578 words
  26. TRIPLE BIGAMY CHARGE.

    At the Wollongong police court to-day, Alfred Eric Arkins, remanded from Ballina, was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. Evidence was given showing that accused married ...

    Article : 64 words
  27. POSTAL RETRENCHMENT.

    The inhabitants of the borough of Chewton showed some perturbation to-day, owing to a notice being posted outside the post and telegraph office stating that on and after the 20th ...

    Article : 187 words
  28. THE QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    The Mackay Sugar Journal reports better weather throughout the sugar districts and crops improved, but estimate unaltered. The Journal, referring to the waste of cane tops in ...

    Article : 68 words
  29. TALLOW REFINERY AT RICHMOND.

    The application of Messrs. Rooney Bros. for a licence to carry on a tallow refining business in Berlin-street, South Richmond, was further considered in the local council yesterday. ...

    Article : 123 words
  30. RATING OF TRAMWAY LINES.

    The Richmond council yesterday unanimously decided to support the Melbourne City Council in contesting the appeal by the Tramway Company to the Privy Council in respect of ...

    Article : 100 words
  31. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At the adjourned inquest to-day on the fire which destroyed a weatherboard cottage, the property of Charles Bownds, insured in the New Zealand Company for £150, the mystery ...

    Article : 98 words
  32. JOURNEYMAN COACH MAKERS' SOCIETY.

    At a meeting of the above society, held at the Trades Hall last night, the proposed reductions in the duties on carriages, &c., were discussed, and the following resolution was carried, viz.:-- ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. BENDIGO MINES AND WATER RATES.

    Complaints are made with regard to the proposal of the Water Supply department to raise the rates for water supplied to crushing batteries, and Mr. George Lansell is especially ...

    Article : 114 words
  34. QUEENSLAND.

    The difficulty in the boot trade remains unsettled. Three hundred men are now on strike. The aboriginal who tomahawked a Malay at ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. PUBLIC SERVANTS AND THE INCOME TAX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 353 words
  36. FURTHER MEETINGS.

    In connection with the agitation on behalf of the protected trades against the adoption by the Government of the proposals of the Tariff Commission public meetings are announced to ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. NEW INSOLVENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  38. SLY GROG SELLING IN GIPPSLAND.

    A number of oases of "sly grog selling were investigated at the Coongulmerang police court yesterday, all the defendants being storekeepers on the Bulumwaal gold field. Three Chinese, ...

    Article : 185 words
  39. THE DUTIES ON MINING MATERIAL.

    A petition against the proposed increase of duties on mineral oil, lubricating oils, oils and explosives and other materials used in connection with the mining industry has been ...

    Article : 57 words
  40. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The members of Field's Columbian Worlds Transportation Commission, who arrived by the Orotava on Tuesday, visited Port Piri[?] to-day, where they inspected the smelting works. They ...

    Article : 210 words
  41. CANADIAN CHEESE MAKING.

    SIR,--I notice in your issue of the 13th inst. that another appeal has been made to the Minister of Agriculture to get a Canadian cheese maker for instructing Victorian butter ...

    Article : 194 words
  42. COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATIONS.

    Mr. Justice Hood in the Practice Court yesterday, made an order for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of Thomas Newton, of Moorabool, grazier, on the motion of Mr. Woolf. ...

    Article : 99 words
  43. A NEW MARINE BOILER.

    A new water tube marine boiler, invented and patented by Mr. Montague Shann, of Melbourne, underwent a successful test last evening at Fry's Flour Mills, Lake Wendouree. ...

    Article : 270 words
  44. BACON CURING.

    SIR,--I notice a special article in this morning's issue of your paper, relative to the possibilities of establishing a large export trade in bacon curing, &c. Being interested in one of ...

    Article : 286 words
  45. A DRUNKEN MAN RUNS AMUCK.

    Charles August Mortison, a Swede, following the occupation of a fish hawker, was charged at the Flemington court yesterday, before Mr. Keogh, P.M., with inflicting grievous bodily ...

    Article : 222 words
  46. THE SILTED CASTLEMAINE CREEKS.

    At the borough council meeting to-night a letter was received from the Public Works department stating it could not agree to clear out the silted creeks except on condition that the ...

    Article : 912 words
  47. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 words
  48. TASMANIA.

    In the Supreme Court to-day William Fuller, for indecent assault, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. William Peter Synnot, for using false dice, was sentenced to six months in ...

    Article : 208 words
  49. THE AFFIDAVITS FEES ABUSE.

    SIR,--The thanks not only of the public, but of the profession, are due to you for the article in your issue of 15th inst, and for the attention you have called to the subject for years past. It ...

    Article : 138 words
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