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  2. IN THE HANDS OF MONEY LENDERS.

    A railway employe's dealings with money lenders were investigated before Judge Molesworth, in the Insolvency Court, yesterday, when an examination was held in ...

    Article : 670 words
  3. SHIPPING CHINESE LEPERS.

    On Saturday morning the steamer Whampoa, outward bound for China, dropped anchor off the quarantine station, for the purpose of taking on hoard the Chinese ...

    Article : 733 words
  4. AMUSEMENTS.

    Lord Brassey was quite right when in his remarks during the interval at the above concert he emphasised the value, to a young community like this, of having, in the ...

    Article : 551 words
  5. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Reference was made in the Collingwood council last evening by Cr. Langridge to the unsatisfactory state of Smith--street from the Grace Darling Hotel to Derby--stroot. In some places the road suddenly ...

    Article : 87 words
  6. OUR NEW ZEALAND LETTER.

    According to a recent decision of a Supreme Court judge at Auckland, it is quite an easy thing for people to divorce themselves, and get rid of disagreeable ...

    Article : 2,011 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    It is believed here that the late John Smith, a Castlemaine miner, who was found drowned in the Yarra, at Melbourne, has been a victim to foul play. When he left ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. THE CITY COUNCIL.

    The City Council met at the Town Hall yesterday; the Mayor, Cr. W. Strong, presiding. THE CHARITY VOTE. ...

    Article : 1,736 words
  9. A QUESTION OF VALUATION.

    At last night's meeting of the Collingwood council a letter was received from a property owner complaining that where he bad, in obedience to instructions from the council's officers, pulled down ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. SENSATIONAL COACH ACCIDENT.

    Owing to the breakage of the front axle the Ballarat to Rokewood coach was capsized to-day between Cambrian Hill and Napoleons. There were 17 passengers in ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. THE HACKNEY CARRIAGES BILL.

    A conference of metropolitan municipalities was held yesterday at the Town Hall, the Mayor of Melbourne presiding, to decide what action should be taken in regard to the ...

    Article : 283 words
  12. THE KEW CHARITABLE VOTE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 words
  13. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING FATALITY

    A boy aged 13, named Tallangatta Dyring, was accidentally shot by his nephew, Waldemar Dyring, same age, while out duck shooting at Noorongong station on Saturday. They were ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

    A meeting of the members of the Council of the Melbourne University was held yesterday afternoon; Mr. R. L. J. Ellery presiding. ...

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  15. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

    At last night's meeting of the Collingwood council, Cr, Colechin renewed his attack upon the Metropolitan Board of Works. The board had not acted fairly towards local cement manufacturers. ...

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  16. THE REV. P. KEARNS

    The Rev. P. Kearns, who, owing to some misunderstanding with his bishop, has been absent from his parish for the past few months, returned to Heathcote during the week. After ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. MUNICIPAL OBJECTIONS.

    The bill proposed for the amendment of the law relating to hackney carriages was strongly condemned at the meeting of the North Melbourne council last night. Cr. Barwise (mayor) said that he attended ...

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  18. POISONED BY RABBIT STEW.

    On Saturday afternoon, at about 2 o'clock, six men, two of whom had been working at the Cairn Curran Estate, near Baringhup, partook of some stew which had been prepared from a ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. VICTORIAN SEA WEEDS.

    The commercial possibilities of the seaweeds which abound on the Victorian coasts were touched upon by Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S., in a paper which he read at a ...

    Article : 290 words
  20. THE WEATHER.

    Only 35 points of main fell on Saturday and Sunday, although the fall was general throughout the district. Clouds are still hanging about, and the weather is cold. ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. AMALGAMATED MINERS' ASSOCIATION.

    The report to be submitted at the annual meeting of the Ballarat branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, to be held on the 17th inst., will include the following state ...

    Article : 248 words
  22. THE COMING ELECTIONS.

    Mr. Wm. Wilson will address the electors at the Temperance Hall on Thursday night. He will oppose the return of Sir John M'Intyre at the forthcoming general elections. This is the ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. TO-DAY'S FORECASTS.

    The following are to-day's forecasts:--VICTORIA, Monday, 6 p.m.--By Mr. Baracchi: Still cloudy, with some passing showers, especially in south-eastern districts : finer in the north with ...

    Article : 240 words
  24. BOARD OF WORKS BILL.

    A memorandum from the chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works respecting the Board of Works Amendment Bill was discussed last night at the St. Kilda council. Cr. Lemme, one of the local ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. THE UNEMPLOYED AND MALLEE RAILWAYS.

    Sir,--With the exception of the clearing done on Tyrrell Downs, which gave employment to 200 or 250 men for six months, there has been practically no reclamation of ...

    Article : 586 words
  26. RIFLE MATCH AT CASTLEMAINE.

    Two companies of the militia, the C company from Melbourne and D company, Castlemaine, fired a match here on Saturday. On three previous occasions ...

    Article : 77 words
  27. WRECK OF A MISSIONARY. SCHOONER.

    News by the schooner Ivanhoe, from New Guinea, shows that the Wesleyan missionary schooner Meda went aground on a reef off East Cape. New Guinea. 25 miles from Samurai. ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. A FACETIOUS CORRESPONDENT.

    An unusual kind of letter was read at the Collingwood council last evening. Mr. C. T. Jones forwarded a missive on a memorandum form showing a funeral procession. It was as follows ...

    Article : 260 words
  29. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

    The following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:--Weather Chart, Monday, 12th July, at 9 a.m.: An antarctic depression is passing south of ...

    Article : 279 words
  30. THE CHURCH AND THE STAGE.

    Sir,--In your account of last Saturday's matinee performance of the Sign of the Cross you mention that it was attended by over 100 ministers of various denominations. ...

    Article : 611 words
  31. A SUNKEN WHEAT BARGE.

    Another disastrous attempt to get the wheat cargo stranded in the Murray in February last was made a few days ago. The steamer Golds-- borough proceeded to the junction of the Ovens ...

    Article : 172 words
  32. LOCAL NEWS.

    Ratepayers at Canterbury are agitating for an increased service of trains. The president of Roroondara shire (Cr. Barrett), in response to a requisition, has convened a public meeting, to ...

    Article : 213 words
  33. FEVER AT ST. KILDA

    The health officer at St. Kilda reported four eases of diphtheria, one of typhoid fever and four of scarlatina to the council last night'. He attributed the continuance of scarlatina to the fact that it was ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    The fourteenth half yearly report and balance sheet of the Thoona Butter Making Company shows that the expenditure for the last six months was £3749 odd, made up thus:--Milk, ...

    Article : 1,596 words
  35. THE V.R.C. AND THE MUNICIPALITIES.

    At meetings of the North Melbourne and Brunswick councils held last night delegates to the recent conference with members of the V.R.C., relative to throwing open the Flemington race- ...

    Article : 75 words
  36. THE RAINFALL.

    From our own correspondents we have received the following messages under yesterday's date:--Beaufort: Steady, soaking rains have fallen ...

    Article : 121 words
  37. THE DEAD EXPLORERS.

    Mr. L. A. Wells, the leader of the Calvert expedition, is expected to arrive in Adelaide with the remains of Messrs. C. F. Wells and G. L. Jones on Thursday afternoon. The ...

    Article : 105 words
  38. SUDDEN DEATH.

    On Sunday night Benjamin Lawrence, ship's carpenter, residing at No. 4 Anderson--place, off Bank-street, South Melbourne, reported the death of Elizabeth Rowe, 49 years of age, with ...

    Article : 98 words
  39. THE COLLINGWOOD FOOTBALLERS.

    Sir,--In your issue of Saturday last appears a letter from Mr. E. W. Copeland, secretary of the Collingwood Football Club, in which he endeavors to clear the stigma that is ...

    Article : 353 words
  40. AN ESSENDON RATE CASE.

    Cr. Rogers, at the ordinary meeting of the Essendon council last night, asked if it were a fact that a certain ratepayer had been summoned for rates, although he bad made his payment. The ...

    Article : 169 words
  41. REPORTS FROM STATIONS.

    Received by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.:--Kerarbury, Bringageo, N.S.W., 12th July.--57 points of rain on 16th and 11th. Received by the Australasian Mortgage and ...

    Article : 45 words
  42. THE POOR OF FITZROY.

    At the last meeting of the Fitzroy school board of advice, Mr. E. T. Apps presiding, a long list of names of parents, who had neglected to send their children to school, in ...

    Article : 268 words
  43. COCKNEY SPORTSMEN AND HOMING PIGEONS.

    Sir,--Will you please give me a little space in your journal to make a complaint against a class of self-styled sportsmen who stand behind the railway" station and shoot the ...

    Article : 175 words
  44. THE ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    Sir,--A process of wholesale disfranchisement is going on throughout Melbourne and suburbs, whether accidental or deliberate and wilful I will not say. The result, however, is ...

    Article : 203 words
  45. CORPORATION WAGES AT ST. KILDA.

    In St. Kilda council last night a motion was submitted by Cr. Kemp that the finance committee consider the practicability of providing for an increase in the corporation laborers' wages from 5s. ...

    Article : 90 words
  46. ROBBERY AT A PARSONAGE.

    The residence of the Rev. Thos. Evans, Baptist minister, at St. Kilda, was broken into by thieves last evening. Being disturbed, they got away with only a little ...

    Article : 64 words
  47. HEIDELBERG DRAINAGE SCHEMES.

    The Heidelberg council contemplates floating a loan of £3000 to construct a main sewer to carry the drainage of the township to the Yarra. Mr. Thwaites, Engineer in Chief of the Metropolita ...

    Article : 134 words
  48. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

    Detectives Thompson and Deverell yesterday arrested Alfred Mutford, 30 years of age, on a charge of embezzing three small sums of money from his employers, Messrs. Walker and ...

    Article : 59 words
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