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  2. HYDRAULIC MINING.

    The marvellous development which is taking place in the gold dredging industry of New Zealand is of too striking a character to escape the ...

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  3. PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.

    The difficulties that have beset engineers and municipal authorities in older and more densely populated countries wlth regard to the disposal of sewage have not presented ...

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  4. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Thomas Northway, a miner, working in Devil's Gully yesterday, had sunk a hole several feet deep, close to some old diggings, when about two tons of earth fell in, ...

    Article : 102 words
  5. ARTIFICIAL FERTILISERS.

    It was recently announced that the Acting Minister of Agriculture intended to organise a series of experiments and lectures by experts on tbe proper use of artificial ...

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  6. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    Late on Friday night a policeman went to arrest what seemed to be an intoxicated youth, but he found it was a female in man's clothes. She said she had so attired ...

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  7. THE COOL STORAGE COMMISSION.

    The Cool Storage Commission took evidence here on Saturday afternoon. Mr. H. N. Reid, manager of the Portland freezing works, stated that ever since the ...

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  8. RAILWAYS STANDING COMMITTEE.

    The Railways Standing Committee left Stawell yesterday morning in drags for Glenorchy, where an inspection of the weir over the Wimmera River at that place was made. ...

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  9. A DETERMINED SUICIDE.

    At Ashfield this afternoon, a determined case of suicide was reported. The victim was a man named Emanuel Mandelson, who was staying at an hotel. Going to the top ...

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  10. A BLASTING ACCIDENT.

    A serious accident occurred last night at the South mine. Andrew Anderson, working at the 800 feet level, and charged and fired three holes, two of which exploded. ...

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  11. RAILWAY TO MILDURA.

    The Minister of Railways will receive a deputation from the Cronomby to Mildura Railway League on Wednesday with reference to the making of a trial survey of the ...

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  12. THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY.

    The Ballarat Trades Council has resolved to place the matter of purchasing non-union made tobacco before the societies connected with the council, with the view of enlisting ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. AN UNREGISTERED CHILD.

    At the South Melbourne police court on Saturday. Alfred Timms, of 45 City-road, South Melbourne, was charged with being the occupant of a home wherein a child had been born, and failing ...

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  14. A POPULAR PRESIDENT.

    At the annual meeting of the agricultural society yesterday, Mr. D. C. Sterry, M.L.A., was re-elected; president for the 21st year in succession. Messrs. J. Abbott, M.L.C. ...

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  15. A STEAMER ON FIRE.

    The Union Steamship; Company's steamer Mahinapua, Captain Sufferan; left here at 9 o'clock last night for Strahan, with a full cargo and a large number of passengers. At ...

    Article : 220 words
  16. QUEENSLAND.

    A conference of railway commissioners will commence at Brisbane, on Tuesday morning next. The following commissioners will take part:--Mr. Gray, the Queensland ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. FATAL FALL FROM A HORSE.

    Mr. Samuel Marshall was returning home on horseback last night, when he was thrown and killed. ...

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  18. A PLAGUE OF MICE.

    In the Cannum district, the damp, cold weather is driving immense numbers of mice out of the wheat paddocks, into the farm houses and hay stacks, where they are doing ...

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  19. LARRIKINISM AT CARLTON.

    A disturbance of a disgraceful nature took place in Rathdown-street, Carlton, yesterday. About 2 a.m., a man named Archibald M'Nicol, with several companions, left a coffee stall in Elgin-street, ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    The Premier, Mr. Dickson, has cabled to Sir--Horace Tozer requesting him, in co-operation with the Agents-General of New South Wales and Victoria, to express ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    Mr. William Findley, timber merchant in North Melbourne, was on Saturday driving to the Carlton court house to answer a charge of allowing his horse to wander, when the horse shied at a hawker's ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The Richmond court on Thursday resolved to communicate with the committee of the Women's Hospital asking whether it was true that in future applicants for admission would have to ...

    Article : 81 words
  23. THE MISSING PERTHSHIRE.--

    The steam tug Champion, which left Sydney at midnight on Sunday last in search of the disabled steamer Perthshire, returned to Port yesterday morning without having ...

    Article : 117 words
  24. COMPLAINT BY STONEBREAKERS.

    At the meeting of the South Melbourne city council on Thursday, a petition was received from the stonebreakers of the city yards, calling the attention of the council to the fact that spawls were ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. A CHINESE GARDENER FIXED.

    A Chinese market gardener, named Hung Wah was charged at the Caulfield court last Friday with spreading nightsoil on his land in Bambraroad, Caulfield, without the written consent of ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A petition agalnst the return of Mr. Charles Tucker, for the Encounter Bay district was filed at Parliament House yesterday. It is unlikely that anything will be ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. A QUESTIONED MARRIAGE.

    At the Richmond court on Saturday, before Mr. Keogh, P.M., and a bench of justices, Henry Norman, chemist, was charged with two breaches of the Registration Act, in falsely stating on the ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. THE WEATHER.

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  29. THE MISSING OHAU.

    In connection with the Ohau disaster off the New Zealand coast the flags on the Union Steamship Company's vessels in port were flying half mast to-day. ...

    Article : 63 words
  30. THE BUNDALEER CATASTROPHE.

    The inquest on the victims of the Bundaleer Water Works accident was not concluded till 1 o'clock on Saturday morning, when the following verdict was returned:-- ...

    Article : 145 words
  31. THE KETCH PETERNELL.

    After a passage of 33 days from Snowy River, this ungainly looking ketch, brought her cargo of maize to Hobson's Bay late on Saturday night. She started from Melbourne ...

    Article : 241 words
  32. BAR DOOR OPEN.

    At the Caulfield court on Friday, George Mackinder, licensee of the Rosstown Hotel, Rosstown, pleaded guilty to having his bar door open on Sunday, the 14th May, and was fined £5. ...

    Article : 37 words
  33. LOCAL NEWS.

    Sarah Machin, aged 65, a resident of Evans-street. Port Melbourne, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday evening suffering from severe burns, caused by her clothes catching fire as she ...

    Article : 236 words
  34. PRAHRAN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE

    There stands in Chapel-street a large two story building, known as the mechanics' institute. This structure was in 1854 built with public money, on ground given for the ...

    Article : 442 words
  35. LOCAL OPTION POLLS.

    Local option polls were taken yesterday in East Torrens and West Torrens, to decide whether any new publicans' licences, wine licences and storekeepers' wine licences ...

    Article : 105 words
  36. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Heavy rains fell in the city on Saturday and to-day. ...

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  37. QUEENSLAND.

    Steady rain has fallen here for the past two days. Now fine and cold. ...

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  38. LATE MINING NEWS.

    The Tasmania yield from 1620 tons of quartz is 1922½ oz. gold, and 853½ oz. were obtained from chlorination; total, 2776 oz., or an average of 1 oz. 8 dwt. 22 gr. per ton, valued at £10,623. A ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    There is a great revival in business generally, and wholesale and retail dealers all report a much healthier tone than for many months past. ...

    Article : 36 words
  40. TUBERCULAR DISEASE.

    Sir,--My remarks regarding the prevalence of tubercular disaese in dairy cattle have received an unwarrantable share of criticism. I was led to believe that the object of the ...

    Article : 268 words
  41. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    A big rise has taken place in London in the price of True Blue shares, which are quoted from 31 to 34. The manager, Mr. Grace, knows no reason for the rise: but it is currently reported that it ...

    Article : 145 words
  42. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Walter John Fell, of Warracknabeal, tinsmith. Filed at Warracknabeal. ...

    Article : 12 words
  43. TASMANIA.

    The General Manager of Railways has been here for a week. He states that the appearance of the district thoroughly justifies the expenditure by the Government on ...

    Article : 84 words
  44. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

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  45. Advertising

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  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Premier states that the steamer Tukanekai may have to be despatched to Samoa again. The Dunedin Law Society has forwarded ...

    Article : 112 words
  47. Advertising

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  48. Advertising

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