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  2. TESTS OF TIMBER.

    The Timber Board continued their experimenta at the Newport workshops yesterday, and succeeded in disposing of no less than 25 samples of intercolonial timber. There were ...

    Article : 563 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The schooner Enterprise which left Melbourne last week for Bairnsdale came in sight this afternoon but too late to get in with the tide. She will probably be towed ...

    Article : 769 words
  4. THE TAXATION PROPOSALS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A public meeting was held to-night in the Town-hall for the purpose of protesting against the fiscal policy of the Government. There was a very large attendance, the chair ...

    Article : 1,506 words
  5. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    On Sunday night three show-cases which were outside Messrs.George and George's premises, in Collins-street, and contained samples of photographs, were wantonly ...

    Article : 247 words
  6. BANK FRAUDS IN ENGLAND.

    Another bank secretary (states our London correspondent, writing on November 30) has absconded, and is "wanted" by the police. The criminal in this case is Mr.James Davis, ...

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  7. THE OPERA-HOUSE.

    Dr.Silvester, the "Fakir of Oolu," gave the first representation in the Opera-house last night of his conjuring entertainment, before a fairly large audience. The first part ...

    Article : 286 words
  8. THE WEATHER.

    Early on Sunday morning a severe thunderstorm, accompanied by a terrifle gust of wind and heavy rain, passed over the district. The rain continued at intervals all day up to ...

    Article : 213 words
  9. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Stock Movements.—Feb.2—3,000 store, sheep (Williamson and Carr's) crossed, travelling to Victorian pastures. Yesterday, 10,000 store sheep, from Baruga station, ...

    Article : 321 words
  10. GEELONG.

    The Cerberus, after remaining in Corio Bay since the l6th ult, left for Hobson's Bay to-day. During her sojourn here the war vessel has been visited by a large number of the ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. VICTORIAN CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURED.

    A meeting of the council of the Victorian Chamber of Manufuctures was held at the Echange, at half-past 7 p.m., yesterday. present—Messrs. F. Stuart, vice-president ...

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  12. RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

    A cheap and condensed edition of Baron Nordenskiold's Voyage of the Vega cannot fail to extend the populanty of a work which has already taken rank with the most ...

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  13. AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

    On Saturday evening a heavy thunderstorm passed over the district, and heavy rain fell for several hours. The lightning was exceedingly vivid, and the weather for fully ...

    Article : 405 words
  14. TRADE SOCIETY MEETING.

    The Melbourne United Labourers' Society a held a meeting at the Trades hull last night It was iinnounccd that the bricklayers' labourers engaged m the erection of ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TITLES OFFICE.

    The new arrangements for the better and more speedy despatch of the business of the Titles office have been concluded, and it has been reported to the Attorney-General that ...

    Article : 528 words
  16. THE LAND QUESTION.

    Sir,—Now that the Minister of Lands has accomplished a settlement ot tin land ques turn m the north western district and is looking to the eastern with anew to the ...

    Article : 887 words
  17. SANDHURST.

    For some time past complaints have been made that the authorities in Melbourne advertise and sell lands in auriferous districts without commutucuting with the local ...

    Article : 514 words
  18. THE ROYAL-PARK.

    Sir,—A paragraph in your issue of this day, in relation to the proposed sale of some disused gasworks adjacent to, and which were erected for the purposes of the "Industrial ...

    Article : 317 words
  19. THE LAW RELATING TO SEDUCTION.

    A public meeting was held in the Alfredhall to-night to consider the case of the girl Lizzie Murphy, who committed suicide by drowning in Lake Wendouree on Sunday ...

    Article : 273 words
  20. THE REMARKABLE SUNSETS.

    Sir,—I have read with much interest your article on the subject of the light in the sky after sunset. I do not pretend to be a learned man, and it may appear ...

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  21. INQUESTS. SUICIDE BY DROWNING.

    Dr.Youl, the city coroner, held an inquest at the morgue yesterday on the body of Joshua Parker, aged 17, lately employed as groom by Dr. Balls-Headley. On the 28th of ...

    Article : 128 words
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  23. CASTLEMAINE.

    Mr. Tolstrup, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry to-day on the body of the woman Elizabeth Soanes, which was found in a waterhole at Moonlight-flat yesterday. The ...

    Article : 349 words
  24. FOUND DROWNED IN THE SALTWATER RIVER.

    Mr. Candler held an inquest at the Townhall, Footscray, yesterday, on the body of a young woman named Annie Cuthbertson, found in the Saltwater River on the previous ...

    Article : 428 words
  25. PROFESSOR SAMPLE'S DONATION TO THE CHARITIES.

    Sir,—Consequent on the entertainment given by me last week, beveral representatives of the chanties of the city have sent me requests for a proportion of the amount ...

    Article : 286 words
  26. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    At the meeting of the Essendon council, held last evening, those present were the mayor (Councillor Swan), Councillors Parsons, Puckle, Boyd, Graham, M'Lean, ...

    Article : 240 words
  27. THE POSTAGE RATES.

    The letter which it was understood had been forwarded by the Postmaster-General of Victoria to the Hon.W.J.Trickett, on the subject of the P.and O.and Orient ...

    Article : 140 words
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