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  4. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    George John Jones, driver, of 98 Michael street, North Fitzroy. Causes : Falling off and losses in business at the Clifton Hotel corner of Lanbridge and Oxford streets, ...

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  5. THE WEATHER.

    Yesterday and to-day the weather has been of a genuine holiday brand, and if such spells could only be depended upon for any length of time, the beginning ...

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  6. THE NOMINATION OF A PILOT.

    At the last meeting of the Marine Board, Captain Campbell, from a number of applicants, was nominated for a vacancy in the pilot service. An objection has since been ...

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  7. IN THE DOCK.

    Mr C. B. Finalyson prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. Mr W. E. Johnston appeared for the defence, instructed by Mr Seton Williams. ...

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  8. FOUND DROWNED.

    Many years ago -- how many it almost makes one feel old to recall, but some where about the year 1870--a great sensation was created in Melbourne by the ...

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  9. THE SECT.

    Thereupon he founded the Church of the Firstborn, a singular compound of Wroeism and Mormonism. The church mounted to 120 men and women, who ...

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  10. WROEISM.

    Fisher tried to affiliate with the Christian Israclites, the sect left by John Wroe, who died here and professed Messianic inspiration. They would not ...

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  11. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A TRADESMAN.

    Charles Godfrey, a fancy goods dealer carrying on banners in Chapel street, Windsor, was charged with indecently assaulting a little girl seven years and a half old, the ...

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  12. WHAT BIGNELL WAS.

    Bignell enthusiastically joined Fisher, receiving the title of John the Baptist. The next man in importance was Andrew Wilson, called Simon Peter. Fisher, like ...

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  13. BIGNELL'S DREAM.

    The saints used all to relate dreams. Bignell told one himself of how he separated from Fisher. Bignell dreamt he saw a field, with stumps, and to 1 there ...

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  14. FAILURE OF HOOT MANUFACTURERS.

    Chas. Daniel Robinson and Edward William Mills, trading as Robinson and Mills, boot manufacturers, of 136 Flinders lane, Melbourne. Causes : The depreciation in the ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. "NO FEAR," SAYS FISHER.

    Fisher thereupon undertook to give the right interpretation, which was that Bignell would be unfaithful, seduced away by gold. Bignell split off, founded a new ...

    Article : 58 words
  16. THE ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS.

    The cables in the morning Press announcing that the London money market had been seriously alarmed by the proposed simultaneous issue of Treasury ...

    Article : 126 words
  17. THE FINANCIAL TROUBLES.

    The directors of the Land Credit Bank have been in meeting all the morning, with a view of preparing the case against Taylor, the late manager, who will ...

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  18. LATE SPORTING.

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  19. NEWS AND NOTES IN A NUTSHELL

    An attempt is being made in England to suppress rabbit coursing. State school teachers instructed to warn their pupils against lighting fires in ...

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  20. SLY-CROG SELLING AT ALBURY.

    Michael Thomas Fell, previously a publican and an olderman of the borough Council, was charged at the Police Court this morning with selling fifteen gallous of ...

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  21. FISHER AS ELIJAH.

    Andrew Wilson's child died. Fisher got L10 from him to raise it to life. He spread himself on the child the name as the prophet Elijah and said some ...

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  22. FISHER'S MORMONISM.

    Signal and other enemies of Fisher told me particulars of how Fisher practised Mormonism. These might be true, or malicious. However, Wilson, who, I ...

    Article : 48 words
  23. SECOND CIVIL COURT.

    Charles Boxall was charged with forging and uttering a promissory note for L200. On the 13th of February the accused was alleged to have discounted the note in question ...

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  24. A HORRID SELL.

    Fisher was grossly deceived by a man named Levine. He professed to be a messenger from the head fo the Freemasons in Denmark, and that he had ...

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  25. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

    It is stated that the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who represents the Government in the Legislative Council, entered into a compact with the leaders of the ...

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  26. FOURTH VICTORIA PERMANENT SOCIETY.

    The annual meeting of shareholders in the above Society will take place this afternoon. The directors' report states that the profits for the year, including credit balance ...

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  27. A SHOCKING CASE.

    James Graham, a middle aged man, of dissipated appearance, was charged at the Fort Melbourne Court this morning with criminally assaulting a child under 10 years ...

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  28. THE MYSTERIOUS LADY.

    They took Fisher by night to a house in Melbourne, and showed him a voiled lady sitting, with an apparently gilded box. This was a gin case, representing the ...

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  29. A JOURNALIST'S SCHEDULE.

    Edwin Finn, of Elgin street, Hawthorn, journalist, Causes : Compulsory sequestration and adverse judgment in the Supreme Court. Liabilities L1835 12s ; assets, Nil ; ...

    Article : 32 words
  30. THE RAILWAY BOGIE MAN.

    Ever since Mr Kibble, the late traffic manager on the Victorian Railways has returned after his holiday to Europe, his name has been used as one with which to frighten ...

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  31. A BILLIARD-ROOM LESSEE.

    John George Herbert, of Pickett street, Footscray, billiard room lessee. Causes : Losses in business, sickness in family, and depression in business Liabilities, L143 [?] ...

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  32. A QUEER ORGY.

    A great coremontal took place at a house in Prahran, inauguration of Fisher as head of the Freemasons. Fisher and a number of other principal men were in ...

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  33. DEATH OF MR M. A. CRAVEN, J.P.

    The death of Mr Moses Alfred Craven, J.P., which took place at Healesville yesterday through the bursting of a blood vessel, has caused profound regret in ...

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  34. A QUARTETTE OF ROBBERS

    Four young men, named William Pettis, Edward Leggatt, Charles Thornton and John Hamer, who had been found guilty of robbery in company, were brought before Mr ...

    Article : 265 words
  35. SACRILEGE AT EAST MELBOURNE.

    On Friday night last Holy Trinity Church, George street. East Melbourne was broken into by thieves. Entrance was gained by cutting a ...

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  36. BIGNELL OF LATE.

    Bignell was worrying me of late to get some notices in the papers about his coal discovery schemes, and told me he had "turned up" the Spiritual line. ...

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  37. LATEST SCRATCHINGS. V.A.T.C. MEETING.

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  38. WHAT FISHER IS DOING.

    According to my last advices, Fisher flourishes in Nunawading. They tell me he and his followers astonish the natives on moonlight nights with a game called ...

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  39. FALSE PRETENCES AT PRAHRAN.

    David Galcie, a cab proprietor, came up at the Prahran Court this morning on a charge of obtaining 1.3 by false pretences from Robert Douglas, chemist and druggist, High ...

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  40. ASSAULT BY A CONSTABLE

    Martin Glen is the boots and cellarman at the Rose of Australia Hotel, at [?] corner of Bourke and King streets. On Sunday last, according to his statement in ...

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  41. THE CITY'S ACED POOR.

    Threeold men, two of them bent double with age, were assisted into the City Court to-day charged with vagrancy. They work all very hard of hearing, and trembled ...

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  42. HOSPITAL SUNDAY COLLECTIONS.

    Mr J. Williams, secretary to the Hospital Sunday movement, has made up the total amount received from all sources up to date from the Hospital Saturday and Sunday ...

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  43. CRICKET.

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  44. SUNDAY TRADING IN TOBACCO.

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  45. SHOPLIFTING.

    At the Collingwood Court to-day, Annie Bryant and Maria Smith were charged with larceny from a shop. It appeared that on Saturday afternoon one of the ...

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  46. DEFRAUDING THE PEOPLE.

    Mr Herrington, market inspector, proceeded against John Hawke, before Mr Shuter, at the District Court this morning, for selling short weight at the Victoria ...

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  47. BREACHES OF THE LICENSING ACT.

    Inspector Ellis proceeded against C. H. Procter, licenses of the Fire Brigade Hotel. A'Beckett street, at the District Court this morning, for Sunday trading on the 13th ...

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  48. A WELL-DESERVED TRIBUTE.

    Prior to the business being called on at the Carlton Court to-day. Mr W. H. Leonard, M.L.A., asked permission to say a few words, and then expressed deep ...

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  49. BROKEN HILL MINING NEWS.

    The Proprietary nine is still unable to start up the concentrators again, owing to the supply of water from Block 10 being still limited. The weather has set in ...

    Article : 138 words
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  51. THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

    The following notice [?] posted at the University this morning :--PRESENTATION OF DECREES. Wednesday, 23rd December, 1891, at 3 ...

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  52. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ASSAULT.

    At the Prahran Court this morning. Richard Evans was charged with attempting to assault Edith Emily Wells, a girl 15 years of age. The latter ...

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  53. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET.

    SIR,--There is a strong feeling strongest cricket enthusiasts that Mr E. A. Barrott, the South Melbourne batsman, should have been selected to practice with the chosen 18 ...

    Article : 97 words
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  55. TELEGRAPHIC RAINFALL RECORD.

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  58. FISHER'S INSPIRATION.

    About 1868, Fisher, a Nunawading charcoal burner, also member of various local bodies, professed to obtain revelations from Heaven. He and he dreamed ...

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