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  4. INTERSTATE NEWS.

    Low-lying lands at Kelso, in the Bathurst district, were inundated by a torrential downpour of rain yesterday. Lucerne crops and market ...

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  5. MOTOR FOR WAR PURPOSES.

    The Defence Department desires to notify intending donors of motor vehicles for use by the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force that the ...

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  6. MELBOURNE NEWS.

    To-day, the Prime Minister received the following wireless message from Captain Mackintosh, of the steamer Aurora, which is on its way to the ...

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  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Under-the will of the late Mr Wm. Hunter which, has been lodged for probate, the following bequests have been made:—To his brother (Mr. Robt. ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR.

    Captain W. Oswald Watt, of the Commonwealth Military Forces, is an aviator at the front, and he has written an intensely interesting postcard to Mr W. ...

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  9. FLANDERS CAMPAIGN.

    A communique issued in Paris reports that the enemy, after a violent bombardment, attempted to recapture trenches in the Perther region, but ...

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  10. THE BZURA CONFLICTS.

    The Germans seem to have staked everything on the crossing of the Bzura. Division after division was ...

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  11. TRAWLER STILL MISSING.

    The Commonwealth trawler Endeavor is now 20 days over due on the return voyage from Macquarie Island to Hobart. A wireless Message received ...

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  12. THE FIJI HURRICANE.

    It is believed that the Islands of Tavium and Seuva Levu sustained but little damage in recent gales. At the town of Rewa nine Indians were ...

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  13. BUNGAREE.

    The holdiays have been attended with anything but holiday weather. Sultry conditions prevailed up till Christmas. Eve, after which ...

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  14. BALLARAT PATRIOTIC FUND

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  15. STATE PENSIONS DECREASE.

    Pensions under the State Civil Service. Public Service and Special Appropriation Acts decreased to the extent of £943 last financial year. Lapsed ...

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  16. BEAUFORT.

    At the Beaufort Athletic Club's sports on Boxing Day the committee of the Beaufort Friendly Societies' Council collected £12 12s in aid of a ...

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  17. MINES NEAR SCARBOROUGH.

    Three steamers struck mines near Scarborough and there were some fatalities. ...

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  18. ENEMY'S ABORTIVE NIGHT ATTACK.

    "The "Novoe Vremya" states that when the Germans left the trenches near Bolimow, to carry out a night attack the fire of the Russian battery ...

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  19. MELBOURNE FUNDS.

    At noon to-day the total to the credit of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund was £154,655 7s 2d. One of the receipts to-day was £374 16s 9d ...

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  20. MR. FISHER IN AUCKLAND.

    Mr A. Fisher the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, was met on his arrival to-day by the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Massey) and public ...

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  21. BRITISH SEAPLANE RAID.

    It is officially stated that seven seaplanes attacked the German warships at Cuxhaven on Friday. The amount of damage caused by ...

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  22. A UNIQUE WOMAN.

    Still unable to speak or to indicate who she is, the woman who was found wandering about in the rain in Argyle street, St. Kilda, last Monday, remains ...

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  23. COLAC.

    The sum of 130 was netted by the industrial fair held to raise funds fox improvements at the Colac State school and infants' schools ...

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  24. AMUSEMENTS.

    Another excellent house attended last night to see the new programme of pictures, and the verdict was that they are well up to Coliseum standard. The ...

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  25. ASSISTING THE ENEMY.

    F. E. N. Gaudin, a member of the Auckland (N.Z.) City Council, who was sent to Samoa for trial on charges of having carried communications ...

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  26. RUSSIANS STRONG POSITION

    The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Petrograd, says that the meandering character of the River Bzura enables the Russians to command with a ...

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  27. GEELONG.

    A nonagenarian, Mr George Arnold, sen., of Elizabeth street, Geelong West, attended the service at St. Paul's Church on Christmas Day. He is ...

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  28. FATAL DRINKING BOUT.

    To-day, the death occurred in the Melbourne Hospital, of a laborer named Francis Green aged 31 years who recently arrived from Sydney. On ...

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  29. IMPORTANT BELGIANS SUCCESSES

    The official communique, issued last night, reports that the Germane made unsuccessful heavy artillery and infantry attacks at Laboiselle. ...

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  30. INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

    It is not likely that the action of the men at the Cockatoo dock in refusing to work during the holidays, unless given treble time instead of double ...

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  31. PICNIC AT LEARMONTH.

    The Neil Street Methodist Sunday School will hold their annual picnic on New Year's Day at Lake Learmonth. A special train will leave the Ballarat ...

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  32. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY.

    Advices from Berlin state that the British raid at Cuxhaven is causing the greatest excitement in Germany. The damage is believed to be great ...

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  33. AUSTRIANS DEFEATED.

    An official communique issued to-day stated— The Austrians have been driven back on the right bank of the Niela. ...

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  34. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    After being found lying near the river at Kew this afternoon, with a deep gash in his throat, a clerk named John Andrews was taken to the Melbourne ...

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  35. EXCURSION TO QUEENSCLIFF.

    The annual excursion to Queenscliff of Ebenezer Sunday School will be run on Friday, 8th January, 1915. A special train leaves Western Station at ...

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  36. HAMILTON.

    Nine out of ten horses nominated for the Steeplechase at the Penshurst Boxing Day Race Club's meeting fulfilled their engagements on Saturday. ...

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  37. CASUALTIES & FATALITIES

    Attempting to stun a native bear, with his pea rifle at Korumburra to-day, a boy named John Gordon Shaw, living at Balaclava, brought his pea rifle into ...

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  38. UNDERMINED TRENCHES.

    A desperate rush made by the Warwickshires gained the advanced trenches in Flanders, only to find that the trenches had been vacated and mined. ...

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  39. RED AND WHITE MINSTRELS.

    The Red and White Ministers comprising the members of the Ballarat Choral Union gave another delightful entertainment at the Mechanics' Hall ...

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  40. GERMAN AIRCRAFT ENGAGED.

    It is officially stated that the seaplane attack occurred at daylight in Schilling Roads, close at Cuxhaven, starting near Heligoland, whence the Germans ...

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  41. THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

    To-day was observed in Melbourne as a partial public holiday. All the Federal and State departments and the banks and warehouses were closed, but ...

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  42. FRIGHTFUL AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES.

    The newspaper "Messenger" states that the Austrians re-occupy Czernowitz, and that they were guilty of cruelties against those allegedly in favor ...

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  43. REPORTED GERMAN SUCCESS.

    A wireless message from Berlin officially states that it is now possible to judge of the success of the battle against the British and Indians at ...

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  44. NAPOLEONS.

    In reference to ray report in to-day's "Star" (Monday) of last Friday's thunderstorm here, I stated that a valuable cow belonging to Mr Irish ...

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  45. BRITISH AIRMAN'S ATTACK.

    A wireless message from Berlin states that a British airman dropped four bombs at Langeoog, Prussia, on the 25th December, but no damage was done. ...

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  46. PATHE'S PICTURES.

    The varied programme arranged by Pathe's management was responsible, for a packed house at the Alfred Hall last night. Stewart and Lorraine were ...

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  47. SHOT WITH AIRGUN.

    Joseph Berg aged 9, son of a Moorabool street tailor, was shot in the forehead, dangerously close to the eye this morning by the accidental discharge of ...

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  48. GERMAN FIND AT ROUBAIX.

    The Germans at Roubaix found £15,000.000 worth of raw wool. This is being despatched to Germany. ...

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  49. EASTERN CAMPAIGN

    The authorities at Petrograd attach much importance to the report that the Russians are making a serious breach in the German line on the ...

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  50. KICKED BY A HORSE.

    John Brown, formerly of Bendigo and employed at R. Henry and Sons' Timber Mill, in Otway Forest was feeding horses in a stable at mid-day when one ...

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  51. NEW YEAR'S DAY SPECIAL TRAINS.

    The Victorian Railways announce special trains on New Year's Day to Maryborough Highland gathering, Geelong Highland sports, Lal Lal races ...

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  52. ITALIAN OCCUPATION OF VALONA.

    It has transpired that the Powers of the Triple Entente previously consented to the Italian occupation of Valona. ...

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  53. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Festurbert states that the British casualties have been grossly exaggerated ...

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  54. THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT.

    Some months ago the Chief Engineer for Railway Construction (Mr M. K. Kernot) was instructed to proceed to Europe and America in order to make ...

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  55. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

    The Railway Department report that traffic outward from Melbourne was today light, while the traffic from the traffic from the country centres showed ...

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  56. VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE.

    The popularity of the programme of vaudevile de luxe being given nightly at Her Majesty's Theatre was demonstrated by a well-filled house last night ...

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  57. NEWSPAPERS' COMMENT.

    The newspapers describe the air and sea fight at Cuxhaven as one of the most thrilling incidents of the war, and comment on the success of British arms ...

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  58. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    News from Petrograd states that the report, emanating from the Japanese Embassy at Washington, that Russia had ceded her half of the Island of ...

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  59. AN ALTERED PROGRAMME.

    The Christmas festivities arranged [?] the German troops holding Ghent were a fiasco. Elaborate preparations had been ...

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  60. INCREASE OF TAXATION.

    Returns have been prepared showing how much teach, person—man, woman, and child—contributes on the average to the Customs and Excise revenue of ...

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  61. POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

    When the second annual balance sheet of the Post and Telegraph Department is issued one important feature will be the loss of nearly £620,000 ...

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  62. OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    It is officially announced at Pretoria that an outpost affair between South African and German troops has occurred at Gudous Drift, on the Orange ...

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  63. SPY GUIDES GERMANS.

    A court-martial, states a Paris message, has sentenced to death Bruno Maxheim, the spy who guided the Germans when they were entering ...

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  64. BERLIN'S VERSION.

    It is officially announced in Berlin that on Christmas morning British hydroplanes attacked our estuaries, and attempted to drop bombs on some ...

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  65. RAILWAY TRAFFIC LIGHTER.

    Outward frame from the city railway stations was light to-day. The inward traffic from the Victorian country towns has not been as heavy as in previous ...

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  66. GERMAN SOCIALIST LEADER.

    As a result of his recent protest in the Reichstag against the war, Dr Karl Liebknecht, the German Socialist leader, has been incorporated in the ...

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  67. CAPTURE OF GERMAN GUNS.

    It is officially announced that the captures in the German trenches at Perthes on 24th December included 200 mitrailleuses, several siege guns mounted on ...

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  68. THE BABY BOUNS.

    According to inquiries made by the officials of the Federal Treasury Department the proportion of parents in Australia who do not apply for the ...

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  69. GERMANS OCCUPY MLAWA.

    As regards operations in the eastern theatre, a Paris communique states that the Germans have reoccupied Mlawa. The battles on the Middle ...

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  73. IN AUSTRALIA.

    On Christmas Eve a cable message bearing the season's greetings was sent to General Bridges, in command of the Australian troops in Egypt. The ...

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  75. THE LIGHTER SIDE.

    Seymour Hicks and the National Theatre Company have started to make a tour among the soldiers at the front. Enchainments will be given at any ...

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  76. AUSTRALIAN EMPEROR'S HEALTH.

    The Kaiser has sent a letter to the Emperor of Austria, explaining that the evacuation of Belgrade was a strategic necessity, but this failed to ...

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