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  2. NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES.

    Mr. L. T. Chambers encloses some small lime-like buttons, picked up under gum trees. In their mushroom shape and composition they are exactly similar to others ...

    Article : 1,846 words
  3. FICTION OF THE DAY.

    It is a very difficult thing to appraise adequately Mr. E. F. Benson's new book, "A Reaping." (London: Heinemann; Melbourne: Melville and Mullen.) For it is a ...

    Article : 1,477 words
  4. QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR. A POPULAR SYMPOSIUM.

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  5. IN THE STATE GALLERIES

    Private members had their weekly field-morning in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, and up to the lunch hour they brought forward the bills embodying their ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  6. LABOUR NEWS. TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES.

    An important subject, affecting the question of the method in which Parliament can deal with legislation affecting the wages and conditions of employees of tramway ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  7. PRINTING TRADE DISPUTE.

    A meeting of the employing printers of Victoria, called by the Master Printers' Association, was held at the Employers' Federation rooms last night, ...

    Article : 264 words
  8. NEW BOOKS, &c. GENERAL LITERATURE.

    "British Weights and Measures." Official Report and Journal for July. "Our German Cousins." (London: "Daily Mail.") ...

    Article : 370 words
  9. RAFFLES AT BAZAARS.

    Sir,—In the event of tacit permission being given to hold raffles at a bazaar, is it legally allowable to raffle articles at double their value or more, or to raffle pound-notes ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. ECLIPSES.

    Sir,—In leading Mr. Baracchi's account of eclipses in your paper last week, I was reminded of an entry in my diary which I made on May 28, 1900, while off ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERATION.

    A conference was held at the Federated Parliament-house yesterday, between delegates from the carters' unions of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, ...

    Article : 365 words
  12. ABORIGINAL SURGERY.

    Sir,—Reading the account of aboriginal surgery by your correspondent recalled to my memory the following passage from Emerson's essay on self-reliance, "What ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. A PAINTER'S LOVE STORY.

    "The Romance of Fra Filippo Lippi," best known to English readers by Browning's poem, has been told by Mr. A. J. Anderson (London: Stanley Paul and Co.), who has ...

    Article : 2,958 words
  14. FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT.

    Sir,—In your leader dealing with the agreement made between the Prime Minister and the State Premiers in conference in respect of industrial matters of an ...

    Article : 395 words
  15. THE UNION LABEL.

    At the meeting of the Trades-hall Council last night Mr. R. Joyce (Shop Assistants' Union) moved— "That this council commends the action of the ...

    Article : 512 words
  16. COATS-OF-ARMS ON COLONIAL COINS.

    Sir,—The second reading of the Coinage Bill has passed through committee in the Senate; and still we apparently stand committed to a map of Australia, instead of ...

    Article : 305 words
  17. TRAMWAY MEN'S UNION.

    A memorandum which, it was alleged, had been issued by the assistant manager and secretary of the Melbourne Tramways Company (Mr. H. A. Wilcox) to gripmen and ...

    Article : 536 words
  18. WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.

    At a well attended meeting of the Liquor Trade Employees' Union on Wednesday evening, it was decided to interview the Minister of Labour (Mr. Murray) with the ...

    Article : 99 words
  19. PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—In "The Argus" of the 25th inst. "M.C.P." says that he disbelieves the statement made by "Britisher" (Saturday's "Argus"), which is as follows:—"It is ...

    Article : 254 words
  20. MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT.

    Judgement was delivered by Judge Box yesterday in the County Court in the action Novonovsky v. Duckett, heard on the previous day. In this case Mrs. Rae ...

    Article : 244 words
  21. YARRA IMPROVEMENTS.

    On the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon Mr. Solly refused to the Ministry's intimation that further Yarra improvement ...

    Article : 92 words
  22. HEALTH QUESTION.

    A deputation representing different sections of residents from the shire of Mulgrave waited on Dr. Ham (chairman of the Board of Public Health) yesterday ...

    Article : 327 words
  23. BREACHES OF FACTORIES ACT.

    In the District Court yesterday, Sung Lee, a cabinet-maker, was proceeded against on the information of Factories Inspector Bishop, on a charge of having permitted a ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. STATE PUBLIC WORKS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—My reply to "M.C.P." is that the statements I made in my letter are perfectly true. What is the value of his "contradiction" when he known nothing ...

    Article : 158 words
  26. NAVVIES' DISPUTE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The labour dispute at Newne's Blue Mountains works of the Commonwealth Oil Corporation, which has been in existence for seven months, has ...

    Article : 151 words
  27. ROSE GARDENS FOR STATE SCHOOLS.

    Mr. S. Brundrett, rosarian, of Moonee Ponds, has presented to the Essendon State School a collection of 130 varieties of roses. Mr. Brundrett has also offered a similar collection to the Moonee ...

    Article : 116 words
  28. Advertising

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  29. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Though one of the least of the church's little ones, I was grieved at reading "An Australian Native's letter, for the reason that he calls himself a Catholic. The ...

    Article : 187 words
  30. Advertising

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  31. Advertising

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