A report from Colinroobie says:—Some excitement was caused locally when word cached here that a well-known resident, Mr. Robert Hill, had been found lying dead beside ...
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Advertising : 283 wordsNumerous complaints are constantly being made by those concerned in the rabbit trapping and export business. The consignments are sent from the Eurea station in good ...
Article : 114 wordsThe fifth Victorian contingent, of 1000 mop, embarked on Friday by the Orient troopship for South African. They were headed by the Australian Artillery Band, and accompanied ...
Article : 163 wordsA fatal accident occurred at Jappa, about, four miles on Goulburn, its victim being Arthur Messes Hunt, 20 years of age, the son of Mr. James Evans Hurt, a dairyman. The ...
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Article : 184 wordsAn English paper writes thus of our Governor-General :—" It is impossible for there who have not correspondents and friends in Australia to realise how greatly Lord ...
Article : 112 wordsThe steamer Sonoma, one of the bister ships built expressly for the service from San Francisco, arrived on Sydney on Saturday morning, having made a record voyage between ...
Article : 90 wordsPeople who laugh at superstition would be surprised if they knew the extent to which "scientific" palmistry is practised in Melbourne. A few men follow this profitable ...
Article : 140 wordsA number of soldiers, returned from South Africa, complain that they have been harshly treated in the matter of pay. While in South Africa they received the Imperial rate of 1s. ...
Article : 99 wordsA shocking accident, resulting in the Instantaneous death of Charles M'Cartney, gatekeeper, at the Holmes-street gale crossing, took place shortly before 6 o'clock on Friday ...
Article : 153 wordsThe inconvenience to which several carriers were subjected by the closing of the Customs offices at Yarrawonga on Monday was brought under the notice of Dr. Wollaston, Secretary ...
Article : 116 wordsThe State Minister for Works reiterates his intention to proceed next session with the scheme that he caused to be drafted last year for a circular railway through Sydney. ...
Article : 90 wordsA good story cornea from Victoria touching a missing horse. A farmer arose one morning to find that a valuable drought horse bad mysteriously disappeared from a yard attached to ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is estimated that there in a total of 250,000 bags of wheat in the Wellington district this season, equaling 1,000,000 bushels About 50,000 bushels will be needed for seed ...
Article : 181 wordsA young man named Ernest M'Donald, 21 years of ago, was drowned in a quarry hole, Ballarat. He had been on fishing excursion at Lake Wendouree, and as he did not reach ...
Article : 129 wordsIt appears that our recent Commonwealth junkettings have been watched with interest in the far off dominions of the Czar, where according to the correspondent of a Sydney ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Romsey paper says that "Mr. Peacock owes his succession to the Premiership to his personal popularity, aud not to any compicuons qualifications as an adminiatrater. His failures ...
Article : 108 wordsA most painful accident occurred at Carapook, when Miss Cheslett, who had been out riding, lost control of her mount, which, after bolting a considerable distance, throw her ...
Article : 100 wordsA black-and-white fox terrier belonging to Mr. R. Shaw, porter at the Rutherglen railway station, which is in the habit of rushing along the line in front of approaching trains ...
Article : 149 wordsThe doctrine of Import duties as a safeguard to a nation's industries was admirably summed up in a passage of one of Mr. M'Kinley's speeches. He said :—We are one ...
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