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  2. EARLY CLOSING.

    Although the provisions of the Early Closing Act came into force yesterday, many shopkeepers took advantage of the three days' grace allowed by the Minister, and ...

    Article : 1,347 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 words
  4. BUSH FIRES RELIEF.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 514 words
  5. THE RAINFALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,093 words
  6. MILITARY AFFAIRS.

    Among the various changes in the administrative work of the Defence department which the Minister (Senator Playford) contemplates, it is likely that the duties of ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    On February 15 a hawl [?] named Jacob Slonim was travelling in the Bungaree district, and during an absence from his cart a h[?]mper, containing £11 worth of ladies' ...

    Article : 345 words
  8. OBSERVATORY WEA[?]THER REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 583 words
  9. FIELD ARTILLERY.

    Disappointment is felt by the members of the Field Artillery Brigade owing to the fact that their Easter man[?]uvres will have to be carried out with the old field guns. ...

    Article : 458 words
  10. WATER CONSUMPTION.

    It must be a source of comfort to metro-politan residents to know that not the remotest possibility exists of a water famine in Melbourne. There is more than 23ft. of ...

    Article : 639 words
  11. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    A crusade against fruit hawers for loitering in the streets is being [?]tively carried [?] Thomas Brown and James Baker pleaded guity of offen[?] at the court on ...

    Article : 466 words
  12. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The consolidated revenue for February shows an increase of £82,172. For the eight months the increase reaches £677,692, compared with the ...

    Article : 432 words
  13. TRAINING SOLDIERS.

    It is probable that the second batch of officers to proceed to England for military instruction, in accordance with the recent decision of the Minister of Defence (Senator ...

    Article : 361 words
  14. THE MINE FIRES.

    BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—The Proprietary mine and mill continue closed down, and the manager (Mr. Delprat) announces that he will not put men in for ...

    Article : 371 words
  15. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    At the meeting of the Geelong Council on Thursday night, the mayor (Councillor T. E. Bos[?]ck) suggested that all the members of the council should visit Sydney and ...

    Article : 348 words
  16. JUBILEE OF PRAHRAN.

    The Prahran Council having taken no steps to commemorate the fifty years jubilee of the city, a meeting of pioneers are held at the Rechabite-hall last evening, with the ...

    Article : 226 words
  17. ARBITRATION LAWS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The deadlock created in the Arbitration Court by the decision of the High Court in the Pelaw Main case was the subject matter of a ...

    Article : 608 words
  18. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—The suitability of Queensland pine for butter-boxes has been thoroughly demonstrated by the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Thomson, ...

    Article : 556 words
  19. WHISTLES IN WARFARE.

    The use of the whistle as a means of signalling has been approved by the military authorities, and the neccessary amendments have been made in the "Mounted Servi[?] ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. CHILD ABANDONED.

    A young woman named Mary Lear was arrested shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday by De[?]ectives Coonan and Sam-bury and Plain-clothes Constable Dainty at the ...

    Article : 208 words
  21. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    HAMILTON, Thursday.—The land board to allot the Strathkeller blocks—Messrs. Jenkins and Burgess—sat yesterday and to-day. One hundred applications have been ...

    Article : 246 words
  22. HAMILTON.

    Some good bags of qu[?]il were obtained on Thursday. One party secured [?] b[?] and another [?]. The Rev. [?]ather Sheil, of Rockhampton, ...

    Article : 59 words
  23. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.

    Candidates for appointment as officers on the administrative and in[?]tructional military staff will in future be required to ob[?]ain 50 per cent. of the marks allotted to ...

    Article : 188 words
  24. RIVERINA.

    WAGGA,[?]The body of a female infant, which had apparently been several weeks in the water, was found by boys in the Wollundry Lagoon on Thursday. ...

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  25. DESERTED REFORMATORY.

    APOLLO BAY. Thursday.—Two more boys, Charl[?] Henry Hare and Harry Org[?]n, escaped from the Church of England Reformatory here yesterday, their excuse to ...

    Article : 1,221 words
  26. MINERS AND ENGINEERS.

    The annual training of the No. 2 Submarine Mining Company of the Corps of Australian Engineers will be continued at Swan Island, at the termination of the ...

    Article : 63 words
  27. SUBDIVISIONAL LAND SALE.

    CHARLTON, Thursday.—Messrs. Federal [?] ch[?] conducted a highly successful [?] h[?] yesterday, when the remaining part of Mol[?] and Wate's Springbank Estate was disp[?] of, ...

    Article : 133 words
  28. SYDNEY LAND SCANDALS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It was explained in evidence before the Lands Commission to-day that the officers of the Lands department worked at high pressure on November ...

    Article : 138 words
  29. THE MOTH-EAT[?]N SADDLES.

    Inquiries made yesterday showed that the Minister of Defence (Senator Pla[?]ford) was mistaken in imagining that the military [?]addl[?] in the ordnance [?]tor[?], which he ...

    Article : 437 words
  30. COMPULSORY CLOSING OF SHOPS.

    Sir, A letter appears in "The Argus" of to-day, over the signature of "J. N. Williams, Hon, Secretary Shopkeepers' Committee." On behalf of close on 1,000 ...

    Article : 299 words
  31. LORD NELSON MINE.

    ST. ARNAUD, Thursday.—Last night the crand-shaft of the winding engine at the Lord Nelson claim broke in two. Fortunately the engine[?] driver noticed it in time, and [?]verted any danger. ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. STRANGE SHOOTING CASE.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—An extraordinary shooting affair is reported from Newas Vale, 17 miles from Gympie. At midnight last night a dairyman named ...

    Article : 232 words
  33. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. G. H. Reid, referring to the report of the Federal Old-age Pension Commission, said he was so much in earnest about the establishment of ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The [?] show of the Royal Agricultural and Horti-cultural Society was opened to-day, in the Jubilee Exhibition grounds. It was a ...

    Article : 77 words
  35. Advertising

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  36. DREADFUL SUICIDE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—A shocking case of suicide occurred last night at Balmain, A hairdresser named Edward Butterworth drenched his clothing with kerosene from ...

    Article : 129 words
  37. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Thursday.—The revenue for February this year amounted to £278,[?] compared with £278,387 for February last year. The expenditure amounted to ...

    Article : 181 words
  38. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    BRISBANE.—Arrived.—March 1—R.M.S. Orient, Barrier, and Telemon, from Sudney; Konoowar[?] It[?] Rockhampton. KEPPLE BAY.—Sailed.—Feb. 28—Gabe, for ...

    Article : 59 words
  39. SILVER.

    Bar silver was quoted to-day at 30 7-16d. per ounce standard, a decline of 3-16d. since yesterday. ...

    Article : 27 words
  40. LIGHT HORSE SCHOOL.

    The examination held at the termination of the school of instruction for Light [?]or[?] held at Flemington Show-grounds at the [?] ginning of February, re[?]ulted as follows: ...

    Article : 153 words
  41. JAPANESE SQUADRON.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Japanese training squadron, consisting of the Matsushima, the Itsukashima, and the Hashidate (the three vessels which visited Australia ...

    Article : 112 words
  42. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.—The Methodist Conference has passed a resolution recommending the New South Wales Conference to suspend the legislation agreed ...

    Article : 119 words
  43. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    James Plant, of Hald Rork, farmer, who died on November 2[?], under a will made on March 29, [?] left estate valued for probate at £3,070, including realty £2,634 and personalty £1,6[?]5, to his ...

    Article : 118 words
  44. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Thursday.—The consolidated revenue for February amounted to £63,370, compared with collections for the corresponding month of last year of £57,381. ...

    Article : 80 words
  45. Advertising

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    Advertising : 32 words
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