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  2. FEDERAL REVENUE. INCREASE OF £922,604.

    The Federal revenue, as disclosed by the figures for the eleven months ended May 31, continues to show a buoyancy which is likely to result in a total revenue for the ...

    Article : 413 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 words
  4. STATE COAL MINE.

    POWLETT, Wednesday.—A serious accident happened to-day to a miner named Wallace Newell. He was descending one of the shafts of the State mine, when he ...

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  5. BARRIER WATER SUPPLY. MR. SWINBURNE'S VIEWS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Public Works Committee to-day further considered the proposed Umberumberka water scheme for Broken Hill. ...

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  6. METHODIST MISSIONS. HOME AND FOREIGN WORK.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The General Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church was resumed to-day, when the discussion regarding the recommendations of ...

    Article : 973 words
  7. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ELECTIONS TO-DAY.

    Polling will take place to-day for various provinces in which there are contests for the Legislative Council. The hours of polling are from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ratepayers who ...

    Article : 1,239 words
  8. BISHOP OR STONEBREAKER.

    SYDNEY, wednesday.—The Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Stretch, in addressing the Anglican Synod yesterday, made reference to those parsimonious parishes which, ...

    Article : 209 words
  9. WELLINGTON.

    BALLARAT, Wednesday.—There is not a great deal of interest being taken in the election for the Wellington province, and a heavy poll is not expected. The ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. MINISTER ON TOUR.

    RUSUWORTH, Wednesday.—Mr. M' Bride (Minister for Mines), accompanied by Mr. M. Cussen, M.L. A. and Mr. Rowe (mining inspector), visited this district ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. THE WEATHER. OFFICIAL REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 508 words
  12. MUNICIPAL ACTION.

    BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—A resolution was passed by the city council last night that Mr. Cann, M.L.A., be appointed to represent the council at meetings ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. POWELKA'S BURGLARIES.

    WELLINGTON Wednesday.—At Palmerston to-day, Joseph Powelka who earlier in the week was found not guilty of the murder of Sergeant M'Clure pleaded ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. SUBURBAN TRAVELLING.

    At the Hawthorn Council,meeting last night, Councillor M'Donald stated that recently he had been travelling second class on the different suburban railway lines, and ...

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  15. CAMPASPE WATER RATES.

    It was reported in "The Argus" yesterday that Mr. Read,a Restdown settler, had interviewed the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Baillicu), and had stated that there ...

    Article : 197 words
  16. TWENTY YEARS SPEAKER.

    ADELAIDE, wednesday.-—A meeting of members of the House of Assembly was held at Parliament-house on Wednesday to deal with the election of a Speaker. ...

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  17. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. WOMAN DROWNED IN CREEK.

    ST. ARNAUD, Wednesday.—Mrs. Mary Medlyn, farmer, who resides south of St. Arnaud, was to-day found drowned in two and a half feet of water in a creek ...

    Article : 104 words
  18. QUEENSLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 words
  19. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN LINE.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—The Minister of Works has received the following telegram from the officer in charge of the boring operations at Eyre, on the route of the proposed ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. BULLET THROUGH THE THIGH.

    SWIFTS CREEK, Wednesday.—A serious shooting accident befel Edward Clarke, an employee of Mr. Alex. M'Coy, of Scotsburn, on Monday. Clarke was driving a ...

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  21. NEW SOUTH WALES. THE RIVERINA.

    DENILIQUIN, Wednesday.—The election of four members to the Pastures Protection Board resulted in the return of Messrs. J. V. Ingram, J. H. Nixon, J. ...

    Article : 165 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—For some months past the professorial board of the Victoria College, Wellington, has been engaged in a campaign for the reform of the ...

    Article : 169 words
  23. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Wednesday.—Tasmania's revenue for the past 11 months was £905,979, as compared with £858,664 for the corresponding period of the previous year. ...

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  24. POISONED BY SULPHURIC ACID.

    KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.—Malcolm Small died in the Leonora Hospital this morning from the effects of taking sulphuric acid yesterday. Deceased was an ...

    Article : 40 words
  25. PERTH'S MANAGEMENT.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—Mr. Rankine, town clerk of Subiaco, has described the city of Perth as the most mismanaged city in Australia. He had seen roads put ...

    Article : 104 words
  26. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    Some interesting figures are given in a table showing the progress of the growing list of old-age pensions. In the four weeks from April 29 to May 27 applications from ...

    Article : 170 words
  27. HEALESVILLE JINKER ACCIDENT.

    HEALESVILLE, Wednesday.—Messrs. C. Sergeant and W. Condon were not injured as the result of the capsizing of their jinker on Thursday last, as was reported, ...

    Article : 63 words
  28. KILLED BY A TRUCK.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Frank Brosnap, a timberman, employed on the Otira railway tunnel construction works, was knocked down by a truck and killed. ...

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  29. THE BARRIER.

    BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—The city council decided last night not to defend the appeals against ratings lodged by the Proprietary and British companies, but to ...

    Article : 44 words
  30. REMAND TO SYDNEY.

    Michael Lynch, who was arrested upon warrant from Sydney upon a Charge of conspiracy in connection with the Beatty will case, and against whom the New South ...

    Article : 109 words
  31. THE RAINFALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 448 words
  32. THE RIGHT OF RESISTANCE.

    An interesting point of law arose, during the hearing of a case by Mr. Cresswell, P. M., and Messrs. A. Phillips and R. B. Anderson,J.P.'S, in the City Court ...

    Article : 338 words
  33. TYPHOID FEVER.

    The Board of Health returns of typhoid fever cases for the fortnight ended May 31 report 126 cases, with two deaths for the whole State In the previous three ...

    Article : 143 words
  34. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—The gold yield for May was 127,320oz. Messrs. William Somerville (Labour), W. A.Murphy (Independent Ministerialist), ...

    Article : 255 words
  35. SIZE, OF CORNSACKS.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) said yesterday that he would require very strong reasons indeed to induce him to make any alteration in the present size of ...

    Article : 80 words
  36. SUPPOSED FUGITIVES.

    JAMIESON, Monday.—Exitetement was caused in the district on Saturday by the appearance of a man resembling M'Kie, alias Thurgood, who escaped from the ...

    Article : 194 words
  37. CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH.

    An enthusiastic Foreign Missions rally was held in the Pirie-street church to-night in connection with the Methodist General Conference. People crowded every aisle of the ...

    Article : 165 words
  38. "WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS."

    HAY, Wednesday.—The annual synod of the diocese of Riverina was opened on Tuesday night, when the Bishop of Riverina (Dr. Anderson) delivered his ...

    Article : 179 words
  39. THE HOTEL TRAGEDY.

    Melanie Dean, whose throat was cut by John Tunks at the Sir Walter Scott Hotel, Elizabeth-street, is still in a precarious condition at the Melbourne Hospital. In cases ...

    Article : 92 words
  40. CARRENO.

    The only matinee by Madame Carreno takes place this afternoon, in the Townhall. A programme has been arranged which includes,besides a Beethoven Sonata ...

    Article : 49 words
  41. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday —The price of flour has been reduced by 10/ per tons making it £9/10/. At the southern ports the export of gold ...

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  42. LABOUR PARTY'S QUARRY.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Mr. J. R. Dacey, M.L.A., speaking at Alexandria tonight, said that in the coming State Parliamentary contest there would be but one ...

    Article : 129 words
  43. A KINDLY ACT.

    BALRANALD (N.S.W.), Wednesday. — Mr. John David Horsburgh, grazier, of Whroo, Wakool Crossing, was killed late last night. He was driving Dr. Foster to ...

    Article : 76 words
  44. ALIENS AT LARGE.

    ADELAIDE, wednesday.—In the Port Adelaide Police Court, Charles Frederick Lockstone, master of the steamer Peshawur, represented by Mr. J. C. Neill, was charged, ...

    Article : 133 words
  45. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 267 words
  46. WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.

    The matinee in aid of the Women's Hospital Building fund, originally set down for Monday May 9, but postponed on account of the death of King Edward took place ...

    Article : 124 words
  47. LAND AND PROPERTY SALES.

    Messrs. W. P. Smith, Nicolson, and Co. Proprietary Limited 383 Bourke-street, report having sold, on behalf of Mr.F. Wiltshire, Blackburn, his property of five acres on Fulton-road to Mr. M' Murtrie, ...

    Article : 222 words
  48. THE CAGE MISHAP.

    Sir,—In issue to-day there is a paragraph from your Bendigo correspondent relative to the "hanging- up " of a cage at the Confidence Extended Company's mine ...

    Article : 139 words
  49. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Wednesday.—The secretary of the Tasmanian Shropshire Sheepbreeders' Association advises that 654 Shropshires are being sent to Sydney for the July sales. ...

    Article : 59 words
  50. STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY.

    RIDDELL, Wcdnesday.— Speculation was rife last evening as to the cause of shafts of light which flashed at intervals in all quarters of the sky. ...

    Article : 32 words
  51. BERWICK POLLING-BOOTHS.

    Commenting on the paragraph in "The Argus" regarding the position of the polling-booths in the Berwick Division of the South-Eastern Province, the chief State ...

    Article : 159 words
  52. LIMITING RIFLE RANGE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The council of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales to-night discussed the question of long-range shooting, and the proposal of ...

    Article : 77 words
  53. DESERTER'S POINT.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—F. J. Bell, who was arrested on Monday, on the arrival of R.M.S. Ormuz, charged with deserting the Royal Engineers at Colombo, pleaded, at ...

    Article : 110 words
  54. SPENDING SUNDAY.

    Sir,—I notice in the columns of "The Argus" that the question of Sunday entertainments is again being ventilated, and Mr Murray asks, "Where are the people ...

    Article : 193 words
  55. "OTHER SECTS."

    TALLANGATTA, Wednesday.—It has been the practice in the past on the part of the cemetery trust to recognise only Anglicans,Presbyterians,Methodists,Roman ...

    Article : 41 words
  56. UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

    Passed (7).—John Kennedy,Alfred Fay Maclure, Charles Inglis M'Laren,Edward Perey Oldham, Charles Gordhan Shaw,Carl Vivlan Stephens,Alfred John Trinea. ...

    Article : 31 words
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  58. WHITEHAVEN DISASTER.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—The Government have voted £1,000 towards the relief of the sufferers by the Whitehaven (England) colliery disaster. ...

    Article : 27 words
  59. THE BENT MEMORIAL.

    KILMORE, Wednesday.—At the last meeting of the Merriang Shire Council a request was read from Brighton for a subscription towards a memorial to the late ...

    Article : 102 words
  60. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    MALDON, Wednesday.—A six- roomed weatherboard house, owned by Mr. J.Bryson, and situated at Sandy Creek was, with the contents destroyed by fire yesterday. The cause of the outbreak is ...

    Article : 57 words
  61. EPIDEMIC OF MUMPS.

    DIMBOOLA, Wednesday.-Mumps are very prevalent in this district, and numbers of farm hands are afflicted. ...

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  62. SOUTH-EASTERN.

    LANG LANG, Wednesday.—Mr. W. G. A'Beckett, one of the candidates for the South-Eastern Province, addressed the ratepayers in the Mechanics'-hall on ...

    Article : 108 words
  63. Advertising

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  64. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    WELLINGTON (1.479 Miles). — Arrived.-—June —Moana, from Sydney. PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES. The Largest varity of Pictures,Framed and ...

    Article : 27 words
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