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  2. THE DIFFICULTY IN THE BUILDING TRADE.

    A mass meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and non-society men was held in the old Trades Hall last evening, to consider the position in regard to the action proposed to be ...

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  3. JAPAN AS A FIELD FOR ENGLISH TRADE.

    His Imperial Majesty the Mikado of Japan who so recently granted an audience to the travelling commissioner of the Pall Mall Gazette has just created an honorary consul in Great ...

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  4. OPENING OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL.

    Nine out of the ten representatives for the Australian colonies now in the Federal Onion were present at the opening ceremony of the Council this day, Fiji alone being ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The sixth span of the Hawkesbury railway bridge was successfully placed in position today. There is now only one span to place to complete the bridge. ...

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  6. A RIVER TRAGEDY.

    Yesterday morning the body of a young man was found floating in the Little Dock, Flindersstreet. The deceased, who was identified by Francis Burton, mate of the ketch Little ...

    Article : 343 words
  7. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

    There were 25,992 visitors to the Exhibition yesterday, 24,000 paying at the turnstiles, while 1992 were admitted on exhibitors' or attendants' passes ; 24[?]8 poisons visited the fernery ...

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  8. THE NEW FOREST MANAGEMENT.

    The Minister of Lands has been furnished by Mr. Perrin, conservator of forests, with an interim report of an extended inspection made by him of the Macedon ...

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  9. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The foundation stone of a new barracks for the Salvation Army at Chilwell was laid to-day by his worship the mayor, in the presence of a large number of soldiers and friends. The ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. MINING TROUBLES IN THE MARYBOROUGH DISTRICT.

    All the men working at the Duke Company's mine, Timor, numbering about 120, were discharged to-day. The mine, which is very expensive to Work, has not been ...

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  11. TRADES INTELLIGENCE.

    A meeting of the executive of the Cigar Makers' Society was held at the Trades Hall last evening ; Mr. Edersham in the chair. Some discussion took place over the dispute between ...

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  12. SUICIDE IN LAKE COLAC.

    A man named William O'Meara, about 45 years of age, engaged as billiard marker at the Union Club Hotel, Colac, disappeared from the hotel in rather a mysterious manner on ...

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  13. SANITATION AT BRIGHTON.

    For a long time past residents and visitors to Middle Br[?]ghton have had to put up with unpleasant and disagreeable odors proceeding from Messrs. Grant and Baker's butchering ...

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  14. QUEENSLAND.

    The Queensland Post and Telegraph department's exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition are to be handed over to the Queensland Museum. The hydraulic engineer intends to inspect the ...

    Article : 241 words
  15. THE TYPHOID FEVER CAMP.

    The question of the desirability or otherwise of joining in the proposal for the establishment of a fever camp in the grounds of one of the hospitals was discussed on Monday evening at ...

    Article : 254 words
  16. GOLD DISCOVERY AT BRISBANE.

    Very rich specimens of gold bearing quartz have been submitted to the Mines department. The quartz was discovered in Victoria Park, Brisbane, and a number of claims have been ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The schooner Maldon Lewis, which ran on the rocks at Point Morrison on Saturday during a stiff gale, and which it was feared would become a total wreck, was floated off this ...

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  18. GROCERS' ASSISTANTS' MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.

    At a meeting of the Grocers' Assistants' Mutual Improvement Association, held last evening, in the Melbourne Coffee Palace, Bourke-street, Mr. T. Byars in the chair, there ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. AN ELECTION DEVICE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Railway Commissioners have caused a pay clerk in the Railway department to be suspended for allowing notes with which he was to pay the railway employes at Lithgow to ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS.

    The last of the special orchestral concerts was given yesterday afternoon, commencing with Schubert's unfinished symphony in B minor, which consists of two movements, allegro ...

    Article : 302 words
  21. STORMING AN HOTEL.

    Under the elastic charge of "insulting behaviour," five young men, named Walter Hughes, Richard Fitzsmmons, Percy Dwyer, Jos. Malcolm and Peter Bennett, were ...

    Article : 331 words
  22. TASMANIA.

    The Launceston Marine Board has appointed a committee to report upon the best means of protecting the wharves, and pending such report, additional lights will be placed thereon. ...

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  23. FAREWELL TO CAPTAIN THOMAS AND LIEUTENANT HELY-HUTCHINSON.

    About 70 officers of the naval forces met last night in the supper room at the Town Hall, and entertained at dinner Captain Thomas and Lieutenant Hely-Hutchinson, who will shortly leave ...

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  24. THE GRAIN HARVEST.

    Threshing returns ate demonstrating yields to be much fighter than usual this year, aud many will only average about 3 bags of wheat and 4 of oats to the acre, though a good number of the ...

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  25. INQUESTS.

    KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.--The City Coroner, Dr. Youl, heldaninquest on Thursday [?] the body of John Phillips, who was run over [?] the Flinders-street railway line on Tuesday [?]ght, ...

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  26. SUBURBAN COUNCILS AND THE FIRE BRIGADES.

    In the matter of the recent fire brigades' dispute, the Kew council, a fortnight since, decided to give the control of all fires occurring within the district to the captain of the local fire ...

    Article : 176 words
  27. PASSENGERS BY INTERCOLONIAL TRAINS.

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  28. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES AT HAWTHORN.

    An extraordinary case of alleged false pretences by a young woman came on for hearing at the Hawthorn court on Tuesday, when Ada Grant, alias Mary Robinson, alias Mary Ann ...

    Article : 335 words
  29. JURY AWARDS.

    The following are the awards of the jury on the exhibits of flour, meal, &c., at the last special grain show, viz.:--FLOUR MEAL. ...

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  30. THE ORDER OF DRUIDS.

    The Mistletoe Lodge of Druids held their half yearly meeting on Monday last. The auditors' report showed the lodge to be making rapid progress, the amount to credit being £1300. The ...

    Article : 151 words
  31. SWIMMING IN THE BAY.

    Consequent upon receiving a communication from Mr. A. Little, of New-street, Brighton, in which he made grievous complaint of the indecency of grown up persons bathing in the ...

    Article : 290 words
  32. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH.

    The intercolonial cricket match, Victoria v. New South Wales, was resumed to-day. The weather was fine, but a high southerly wind proved rather disagreeable, and the attendance was very small, ...

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  33. HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

    A young man named Patrick M'Namara got the worse of liquor on Saturday and went home and abused his wife and beat her. She went in search of a constable, and succeeded in finding ...

    Article : 407 words
  34. NEW INSOLVENT.

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  35. BREACHES OF THE LICENSING ACT.

    At the Collingwood court on Tuesday, John Nolan, the licenses of the Glass House Hotel, Gipps-street, was charged under section 112 of the Licensing Act with having, on Sunday, 13th ...

    Article : 336 words
  36. ESSENDON LAND AND TRAMS COMPANY.

    SIR,--Would you please grant me a small space to call the attention of the shareholders in this company to the following facts ?--First, that decided action on their part is necessary. ...

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  37. CA[?]UALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    Tw[?]fowling pieces, valued at £50, belonging to Mr. J. G. Smith, a gentleman stopping at the Geo[?] Hotel, St. Kilda, were stolen from the bill[?]d room connected with the hotel on the ...

    Article : 258 words
  38. DISHONEST DEALINGS IN LAND.

    SIR,—In answer to your correspondent "Fair Play," who writes under the above heading, referring to my letter to you of the 22nd inst., I have to say that in the case I cited the two ...

    Article : 128 words
  39. A SAD CASE.

    A sad case was investigated before a full bench of justices at the Hawthorn court on Tuesday. A young girl of rather prepossessing appearance, named Helen Maud ...

    Article : 164 words
  40. THE RECENT CHEQUE FRAUDS.

    Emit Denis, the man who was arrested some little time ago in connection with the payment by the Bank of Victoria of three forged cheques, purporting to hear the signature of Mr. John ...

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  44. GROSS MISCONDUCT.

    At the St. Kilda court on Tuesday a young man named named Peter Oisten was summoned on a charge of insulting behavior. This consisted of gazing through the picket fence ...

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