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  2. A DISASTROUS FIRE.

    A destructive fire broke out to-night in the extensive and well-appointed flour-mills of Messrs. W. S. Kimpton & Sons at Kensington. The efficiency of the ...

    Article : 526 words
  3. VICTORIAN CYCLING.

    The attendance at the postponed day's programme of the Melbourne Bcycle Club, held on Saturday afternoon on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, suffered by reason ...

    Article : 1,810 words
  4. VICTORIA.

    At Carlton Court on Saturday a burly tinker, named Charles O'Rourke, was fined £2 or in default six months' imprisonment, for having brutally attacked his wife ...

    Article : 219 words
  5. BRITISH POLITICS.

    An election took place on Friday in the Ashburlon Division of Devon, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Right Hon. C. Scale-Hayne. The voting ...

    Article : 242 words
  6. TEST MATCHES IN ADELAIDE.

    Adelaide is about to have her sixth test, match, and Australia must win the forthcoming straggle in order to have a chance in the present series. This fact lends an ...

    Article : 1,089 words
  7. THE THREATENED WAR.

    The Japanese authorities assert that Admiral Alexcieff, the Russian Viceroy in the Far East, and M. Bezabrazoff, one of the Secretaries of State at St. ...

    Article : 318 words
  8. JAPAN TREATING FOR A TURKISH CRUISER.

    The Philadelphia Record states that the Japanese Government has secured the option of purchasing the cruiser Medjidia. which is being completed by Messrs. Cramp ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. VIEWS OF A MILITIA OFFICER.

    Lieut.-Col. who has been on a business visit to the East, is a well-known Canadian militia officer, and has gathered some interesting impressions ...

    Article : 421 words
  10. GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA.

    The Governor of Tasmania (Sir Arthur Havelock) is about to retire. his Excellency, who assumed office on November 8, 1901, has intimated to Ministers that ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. A CRICKETER HONOURED.

    Mr. A. E. Knight, a member of the visiting English cricket team, is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Rechabites in Leicestershire. On Saturday ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. MORE FAVOURABLE NEWS.

    On Saturday, owing to the receipt of better news from the Far East, business on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges was characterized by a strong tone. ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Miss Geraldine Duffy, a daughter of the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, was robbed at Nice on Friday. The crime was committed by a band of Hooligans, who waylaid ...

    Article : 274 words
  14. DISAGREEABLE WEATHER.

    The climate of Melbourne was seen in one of its evil aspects on Saturday, when seasonable summer heat was associated with a boisterous northerly wind, highly ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. THE BARRIER TRADE.

    Taking Broken Hill trade for the past year, the figures are very satisfactory, not-withstanding the water famine. The total amount contributed to the revenue was ...

    Article : 243 words
  16. EFFECT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE.

    Official circles in Paris have learned from the Russian Embassy that protracted correspondence between the St. Petersburg Foreign Office and Admiral Alexcieff ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 552 words
  17. RAILWAY PORTER INJURED.

    A serious accident occurred a Caulfield Railway Station on Saturday, to W. Hunter, a porter, aged 32. He was engaged in connection with shunting cars, when he ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Henry Hourigan, while fishing to the north of Bondi yesterday afternoon, came upon the body of a man on the low-lying rocks above high-water mark. The cliffs ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. BRITISH AND AMERICAN PRECAUTIONS.

    Reuter's correspondent at Hongkong reports that 250 British regulars and a transport steamer are being held in readiness to proceed to an unknown destination at ...

    Article : 100 words
  20. FRUIT PROHIBITION.

    Last month the Agricultural Department passed a regulation prohibiting the introduction into Mildura of any grape vines, fruit trees, plants, or secondhand fruit cases ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Advices from Capetown state that the Africander Bond is "engineering" an extensive campaign against the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa. A ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. EDUCATION IN VICTORIA.

    Taking advantage of the presence of many of the state school inspectors in Melbourne, a conference of those officials has been held during the afternoons of the ...

    Article : 247 words
  23. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Legislative Assembly will meet next Tuesday, and probably adjourn on the following day to allow of a message to come to hand from the Council with respect to ...

    Article : 40 words
  24. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 405 words
  25. ATTEMPT AT ASSAULT.

    Persistent attempts were made this morning to assault a servant girl, who was walking from Wagga to North Wagga. A man knocked her down, but after a long struggle ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. NEW ZEALAND.

    The steamer Kolya encountered a strong gale on January 1. It lasted three days, and the vessel spent the greater portion of that time under water. One lifeboat ...

    Article : 96 words
  27. QUARRELSOME SAILORS.

    At an inquest held yesterday concerning the death of Ezer Harris on the barque Dowan Hill on the previous day the evidence showed that several of the crew had ...

    Article : 117 words
  28. MR. SEDDON'S VIEWS.

    Mr. Seddon, addressing his constituents, said if, as a result of the Transvaal being brought under the British flag hordes of Chinese were ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. BRITISH TRADE.

    The Board of Trade returns reveal that the value of British-manufactured goods exported during the year 1903 showed an increase of £7,351,420, as compared with ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. CUT TO PIECES.

    George Bates and his son, William, railway employes, were returning home to Guyra, in the Glen Innes district, on Friday night on a tricycle when they were ...

    Article : 66 words
  31. INTERSTATE YACHT MATCH.

    The first of a series of interstate yachting between Sayonara (Victoria), and Bona (New South Wales) was sailed yesterday outside the Heads over 20 ...

    Article : 221 words
  32. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Commonwealth Gazette contains the formal announcement that the date for the return of federal election writs has been extended from January 22 to February 10. ...

    Article : 78 words
  33. A VALUABLE SEARCH.

    The police yesterday arrested a man on whom, on being searched, there were found three pairs of valuable earrings, a gold watch, several gold studs, and ...

    Article : 205 words
  34. THE COOGEE COLLISION.

    The subscriptions to the fund for the relief of the widow and children of the late Capt. Carrington reach a total of £119. At the instance of the owners of the ...

    Article : 68 words
  35. A FRENCH VIEW.

    La Depeche Coloniale, a Paris newspaper, contained on December 4 an interesting article by Francis Mury, from which we extract as follows:—"The eventuality of a ...

    Article : 822 words
  36. CYCLING, SWIMMING, AND WALKING.

    The New South Wales Cyclist Union held a meeting on the s[orts ground yesterday. The chief event, the Mile Amateur Championship of Australia, was won by P. ...

    Article : 229 words
  37. THE FEDERAL MINISTRY.

    In federal political circles there are persistent rumours of coming changes in a [?] of [?] kind. Its precise character is as much a matter of surmise as ...

    Article : 245 words
  38. THE WALLAROO DISASTER

    Arrangements have been completed for repairing the damage done to the boiler of H.M.S. Wallaroo, and it is expected that within the next 10 days the vessel ...

    Article : 82 words
  39. AUSTRALASIAN MINING STOCKS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 words
  40. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN.

    A telegram from Guyru states that George Bates and his son William were returning home last night on a tricycle, and were ran down a mile and a half from ...

    Article : 126 words
  41. Advertising

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  42. NEW ZEALAND CONSUMPTIVES.

    At the [?] Congress Sir Joseph Ward said he intended to ask the hospital boards in those districts where the climate was known to be favourable to chest ailments ...

    Article : 141 words
  43. IMAGINED THAT HE WAS BEING SHADOWED.

    An inquest was held to-day regarding the death of Edwin Martin, who was found drowned in a tank at the All Nations Hotel, South Broken Hill. The evidence ...

    Article : 82 words
  44. THE ARGENTINE CRUISERS EN ROUTE TO JAPAN.

    The two armoured cruisers Kasuga and Nisshin each of 7,700 tons displacement, built at Genoa, for Argentina, and sold by her 10 Japan for £1,500,000, started for ...

    Article : 179 words
  45. Advertising

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