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  2. PARLIAMENTARY.

    IN the Council on Wednesday some little demur was raised to the proposal to pass the second tending of the Consolidated Revenue Fund (Municipal Grant) Bill, and the much discussed question of local ...

    Article : 848 words
  3. THE LATEST.

    THE Assembly sat until past 3 o'clock this morning over the City and North Sydney Railway Bill. Owing to obstruction, no Progress was made, but an amendment of ...

    Article : 273 words
  4. PUBLIC SCHOOL CHEMISTRY EXAMINATION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 373 words
  5. CYCLING NOTES.

    A NOVEL case of a cyclist suing a surveyor for having bad roads is likely to come on at Cannock. A printer named Lunt was summoned for riding a bicycle on the footpath. He pleaded that owing to mining ...

    Article : 1,134 words
  6. BREVITIES.

    A LITTLE more burlesque would have been acceptable in the "Trial by Jury" on Tuesday evening. The make-up of the characters was amusing. Mr. J. Phelan succeeds Mr. Arthur Badcock as ...

    Article : 668 words
  7. Advertising

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    Advertising : 354 words
  8. THURSDAY'S POLICE COURT.

    BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant for the above was fined 5s and 5s 6d costs. ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. SIFTINGS.

    Man has often been likened to a vegetable. The late Lord Derby is said to have habituated himself to speaking by addressing the cabbages in his kitchen garden. Afterwards, in order to overcome a ...

    Article : 1,389 words
  10. Accident.—A Testimonial to the Railway Ambulance.

    A young man named Joseph Donohoe, when returning home from Goulburn Lands Office on Tuesday, had the misfortune to have his horse stumble and roll on him, breaking his thigh. The ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. WEEKLY CALENDAR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 words
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    IT seems just likely that New Zealand will be the first country in the world to institute a general system of pensions to the old, infirm and poor members of its community. ...

    Article : 906 words
  13. The Rainfall.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 255 words
  14. Bankruptcy.

    THE adjourned meeting in the estate of. Samuel Hallett Fisher one before Mr. Caswell, district registrar, thin morning. Mr. E W. Johnson appeared for the bankrupt and for three proved ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. A Profitable Piece of Work.

    THE Minister for Lands (Mr. J. H. Carruthers) says he has finally decided to dispose of the Terragong Swamp by special lease in areas not exceeding 20 acres. A portion of about 60 or 70 acres will be ...

    Article : 522 words
  16. Hospital Saturday.

    MR. MACDONALD, secretary of the Goulburn Hospital, has received £13 6s 9d from Crookwell and £1 8s from Marulan in connection with Hospital Saturday, making a total up to date of £171 13s ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. CABLE NEWS.

    It is believed that Germany will endeavour to obtain a lease of the port of Kiao-chou from China. Russian approval of the project is uncertain. Dec. 8. ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. United Prayer Meeting.

    THERE was a very good attendance at the usual monthly prayer meeting hold on Tuesday evening in the Lecture-hall, Goldsmith-street. The Rev. J. Gardiner presided and addresses were given by Ravs. ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. HAYTI AND GERMANY.

    The difficulty between Germany and Hayti, arising out of the imprisonment of Herr Luders, a German subject, by the Haytian Government, has been settled. ...

    Article : 29 words
  20. The Test Match.

    THE unfavourable weather yesterday again prevented any practice by either of the teams that are to be pitted against each other to-morrow (Friday) in the first of the series of five test matches. So ...

    Article : 236 words
  21. Perseverance Lodge, I.O.G.T.

    ON Monday evening an open meeting arranged by the members of the above lodge was held in the Garfield hall. Notwithstanding unsettled weather there was a fair attendance, including some visitors ...

    Article : 319 words
  22. GERMANY'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.

    The naval programme of the German Government is being hotly debated in the Reichstag. ...

    Article : 20 words
  23. RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.

    Baron do Mohrenheim, Russian Ambassador in Paris, has resigned, and will be succeeded by Prince Frussoff. M. ado Giers, a member of the Russian Diplomatic Corps in Paris, has been transferred to ...

    Article : 43 words
  24. BRITISH ENGINEERING TRADE.

    The City Corporation of Coventry, Warwickshire, has given orders in the United States for 900 tone of electrical machinery and 2000 tons of rails. ...

    Article : 30 words
  25. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LANDS FOR 1896

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 611 words
  26. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    The French Senate has unanimously approved of the attitude of the Government with regard to the Dreyfus case. ...

    Article : 24 words
  27. Help for the Victorian Treasurer.

    THE Victorian Treasurer will have a fair round sum in his balance-sheet this year from the estates of deceased persons. Last week he received a cheque for £99,511 as the probate duty in the estate ...

    Article : 167 words
  28. LABOUR TROUBLES.

    A ballot has been taken by the master cotton spinners as to whether the proposed reduction in the wages of the operatives should be enforced. The result showed a majority against the ...

    Article : 91 words
  29. Cricket.

    THE following team will represent the Globe C.C. against the Civil Service B on Saturday next on the Ambulance wicket, play to commence at 2 30:—Boys, Pryke, Gordon, Stewart, Marshall, ...

    Article : 38 words
  30. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 47 words
  31. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The total quantity catalogued during the sales was 124,000 bales, of which 38,000 bales were sold for home consumption, 65,000 bales for the Continent, and 3000 bales for America. 32,500 bales ...

    Article : 96 words
  32. State Children's Relief Board.

    THE annual report of the president of the State Children's Relief Board has been presented to the Legislative Assembly. It appears from the document that since the initiation of the boarding-out ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. Goulburn and District Hospital.

    THE usual monthly meeting of the committee was held last evening. Present—Messrs. Bryden (president), Fitzgerald (vice-president), Freeman, Kerr, Manfred, Richardson, Gillespie, Oliver, ...

    Article : 125 words
  34. AMERICAN CURRENCY REFORM.

    The "Times," in commenting on the American currency proposals, as embodied in President M'Kinley's Message to Congress, says that inasmuch as the United States Treasury is responsible for ...

    Article : 89 words
  35. Goulburn Jury List.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 words
  36. Contract versus Day Labour.

    THE select committee of the Assembly, appointed on June 30 last, "to inquire and report upon day labour as compared with the contract system in connection with the railway deviation," presented ...

    Article : 202 words
  37. Severe Shock of Earthquake.

    A severe shock of earthquake was experienced over the whole of the North Island, N.Z, and as far south as Christchurch, shortly before 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Its duration was from ...

    Article : 145 words
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