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  2. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The Australian Governments have agreed to the appointment of the Agents-General for New South Wales and South Australia as members of a commission which it is proposed to appoint ...

    Article : 99 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A farmer named John Stacey came into the town yesterday, and while transacting business became unconscious and otherwise showed symptoms of sunstroke. Dr. Brown, of ...

    Article : 48 words
  4. THE WEATHER.

    The Chief Inspector of Stock received a telegram to-day from the inspector at St. Lawrence to the effect that the country there is flooded, and he is unable to travel to Thargomindah. ...

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  5. DOCKING FACILITIES IN MELBOURNE.

    The arrival of the Messageries Maritimes steamer Armand Behic nearly two days behind time yesterday, caused by her shedding portion of a propeller blade, ...

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  6. THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.

    Paris has been divided into two hostile camps over the Dreyfus case, and much bitterness of feeling exists between those who believe that he is guilty and those who ...

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  7. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    A young man named Benjamin Byrne, a cripple, with only one leg, was charged at the Fitzroy court yesterday with insulting behavior and wilful damage to property. On New Year's eve a ...

    Article : 220 words
  8. VICTORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY.

    The annual exhibition of the Victorian Artists' Society will be opened at 3 o'clock this afternoon by Mr. M'Eacharn, the Mayor of Melbourne. As an exhibition of ...

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  9. THE BENEVOLENT ASYLUM.

    At the ordinary meeting of the committee of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum yesterday afternoon, Mr. D. W. Ramsay in the chair, the sub-committee, ...

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  10. A BRUTAL HUSBAND.

    The domestic affairs of Chas. Tremewan, sign writer, living at 10 King-street, Prahran, were ventilated in the local police-court yesterday, when Rebecca Tremewan, his wife, prosecuted him ...

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  11. SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM.

    Last night about 11 o'clock a fire broke out in a log fence on the Killingworth Estate, not far from the homestead, where the grass was highest. By much exertion it was put under ...

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  12. THE NEW CALEDONIA CABLE.

    The cable repairing steamer Sherrard Osborne has picked up one of the breaks in the cables from New Caledonia to Bundaberg 60 miles from the lastnamed place. She is now ...

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  13. CARELESSNESS WITH FIRE.

    Yesterday, at the Collingwood court, three boys, Arthur Dwyer, Arthur Sutcliffe and James Hoey, whose ages ranged from 9 to 12 years, were charged with wilfully igniting the grass in ...

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  14. AFFAIRS AT MILDURA.

    At a monthly meeting of the shire council to-day, a motion by Cr. J. W. Thomas was carried authorising the raising of £2000 by debentures to pay off the existing mortgage on ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. A DISHONEST CUSTOMS AGENT.

    At the Criminal Court to-day, John Pearse, customs agent, was charged with larceny as a bailee of money belonging to John Hunter and Co. Pearse was engaged to pass goods through ...

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  16. BUSH FIRES.

    Eight thousand acres of bush and crops have been burned in the Nelson district. Unless rain comes soon there will be great distress. ...

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  17. TO-DAY'S FORECASTS.

    The following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Fine, but becoming warm generally, with light E. to N. winds. Smooth sea. ...

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  18. A CHRISTMAS DAY QUARREL.

    Charles Olsen, a resident of Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, was charged at the local court yesterday with assaulting his wife, who keeps a secondhand clothing shop. Mrs. Olsen said she did not want ...

    Article : 287 words
  19. A COFFEE PALACE "BARBER."

    A well dressed young man, named Frederick Walters, who has been convicted nine times before for criminal offences, was yesterday brought before the North Melbourne magistrates on a charge of ...

    Article : 299 words
  20. THE PORT PIRIE WATER SUPPLY.

    A deputation from Port Pirie to-day waited on the Commissioner for Public Works, and brought under his notice the low condition of the water supply at that place. The mayor ...

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  21. THE EASTERN VERMIN BOARD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
  22. PROTECTION OF WORKMEN'S WAGES.

    At a meeting of the shire council yesterday the question of protecting workmen from contractors was discussed. Cr. Nicol suggested that means should be devised by which councils ...

    Article : 186 words
  23. THE MOUNT LYELL FIRES.

    The man Baxter, who was so badly burnt by the fire at the North Lyell mine on Friday morning, died last night. ...

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  24. POLITICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Premier, Mr. G. H. Reid, speaking at Mudgee to-night, said a general election would take place in June next, and law reform was foreshadowed as the principal feature for next ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. THE MERCHANT STOPPING LAW.

    Until very recently, when the practice was found to be outside their jurisdiction, the magistrates at Port Melbourne were in the habit of sending seamen to gaol for being absent without leave from ...

    Article : 206 words
  26. OVERTAXING SCHOOL CHILDREN.

    At a meeting of the Council of Education to-day statements were made that in some cases children of school age are required to work several hours, rendering them mentally and ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

    The following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- Weather Chart, Thursday, 6th January, at 9 a.m.--High atmospheric pressure (above 30.2 ...

    Article : 332 words
  28. AT 11 P.M. IN BOUVERIE-STREET.

    During the hearing of a charge of insulting words preferred against a woman named May Ross, at the Carlton court, yesterday, Mr. Kane, who appeared for accused, pleaded that though he ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. GLYCERINE AND CALF LYMPH.

    An important discovery was announced by Lord Lister at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, no less than that any possible injury from the use of vaccine ...

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  30. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At Orange this morning a man named Wm. Egan, 62 years old, while having breakfast was stricken with paralysis, and died almost immediately. ...

    Article : 117 words
  31. A REGISTRAR WANTED.

    Great inconvenience is being experienced at Thoona through there being no registrar at the place, the one who was there having resigned about a fortnight ago, whilst his successor--the ...

    Article : 137 words
  32. LORD BRASSEY ON TOUR.

    Lord and Lady Brassey and the Earl of Shaftesbury arrived at Sydney this morning from Melbourne. They leave to-morrow on a visit to the Jenolan Caves. ...

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  33. A BAD CASE.

    A few days since Constable Robinson visited an old shed in South Richmond and found a middle aged woman named Elizabeth Walker lying almos[?] naked on the bare ground in an unconscious ...

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  34. ACQUIRING A BICYCLE.

    According to the preliminary statement of his solicitor, George M'Gibbon, who pleaded guilty at the City Court yesterday to the larceny of bicycle parts worth £5, was led astray by a craving to ...

    Article : 87 words
  35. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN ADMIRAL.

    Rear-Admiral Pearson, who is coming to Sydney with the new flagship Royal Arthur, is expected to arrive on Sunday afternoon. Rear-Admiral Bridge, on the Orlando, will ...

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  36. HE WAS "A TRAVELLER."

    "I'm a traveller," exclaimed Charles Reekitts, when questioned yesterday by the Richmond bench as to how he obtained a livelihood, and then he was forced by Sergeant Gray to confess that a ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Statistics issued by the Postmaster-General show that money orders received from West Australia last year amounted to £141,051, while orders for only £13,037 were sent from South ...

    Article : 85 words
  38. A BRUTAL ASSAULT.

    George Stoddart, a powerful looking man, was charged at the Footscray court yesterday with unlawfully assaulting one Patrick Purcell on Boxing night. Evidence was given that defendant knocked ...

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  39. BATHING IN A RESERVOIR.

    The turncock of the local water trust came across a party of five men who had been swimming in the place from which water is supplied to the people of Dandenong. One of them, ...

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  40. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The following report of the health officer, Dr. M'Carthy, was read at a meeting of the Footscray council on Wednesday evening:--"I desire to draw the council's attention to the disgusting state of ...

    Article : 221 words
  41. THE A.N.A. SPORTS ART UNION.

    At the hospital committee meeting this evening a deputation from the Melbourne A.N.A. carnival attended to try to persuade the committee to reverse its resolution not to sell art ...

    Article : 94 words
  42. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Some officers of the military force waited on the Premier to-day, and asked him to communicate with the home Government, requesting that Colonel Wilson's services as commandant ...

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  43. THE WRONG PATH.

    A girl of about 18, named Norah M'Veigh, wearing a Kate Greenaway gown and a silly expression, was brought before the North Melbourne bench yesterday on a charge of vagrancy. She had been ...

    Article : 171 words
  44. MILITARY MUTINY AT THE CAPE.

    Late on Wednesday night, 8th December, whilst the ball at Admiralty House was in full swing, a very different scene was being enacted (says the "Cape Times") in the ...

    Article : 376 words
  45. A WARNING TO BOYS.

    At the city court to-day, before Messrs. Johns, P.M., Heinz, Clark, Talent and Pearse, J's.P., a boy named William Elliott, aged 15 years, was fined £10, in default ...

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  46. THE CONDENSED MILK INDUSTRY.

    Sir,--Notices have appeared in the press during last week to the effect that the Minister of Agriculture has entrusted Mr. Sachse, M.L.C., with a commission to make ...

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  47. ARARAT, Thursday.

    A deputation waited upon the shire council to-day, and asked that steps be taken to prevent the diversion of the Mount Cole and Spring creeks and the head waters of the ...

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  48. "LOOK AT MY 'ED."

    A delicate looking woman named Catherine Louisa Jones proceeded against her husband, Chas. Richard Jones, waiter, at the North Melbourne court yesterday for maintenance. Complainant ...

    Article : 252 words
  49. SANITATION OF RICHMOND.

    A report was laid before the Richmond council yesterday, in which an inspector of the Public Works department charged the municipal authorities with converting the Barkly Gardens into ...

    Article : 135 words
  50. TASMANIA.

    A few weeks ago Mr. Bowes Kelly offered to contribute £500 towards opening a road from Tyenna to Port Davey, conditionally on the citizens of Hobart providing a like amount. ...

    Article : 92 words
  51. AN HOTEL ATTACKED.

    The circumstances of an attack on the Tramway Hotel, City-road, by a "push" of young men were ventilated at the South Melbourne court yesterday, when Samuel ...

    Article : 279 words
  52. MUNICIPAL RETRENCHMENT AT RICHMOND.

    In view of an unusually heavy bank overdraft, amounting to £8077 6s. 7d., the Richmond council has found it necessary to adopt a radical scheme of retrenchment for the remainder of the financial ...

    Article : 256 words
  53. THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

    News from Samoa announces that Mr. Ernest George Berkeley Maxse, her Majesty's consul at Athens, has been appointed British consul for Samoa, and will arrive at Apia at the end ...

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  54. STEALING LEAD.

    With his arm in a sling, an old marine collector, named Wm. Woods, faced the North Melbourne magistrates yesterday and pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of lead from a house whore he had ...

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  55. LYNCHING IN AMERICA.

    At Genoa, Nevada, United States, on the morning of 7th December. Adam Uber was (says the "San Francisco Chronicle") taken from gaol and lynched. He had shot a man ...

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  56. THE SEWER RELIEF FUND.

    The Richmond council yesterday was asked by Mr. A. J. Hardiman to co-operate with the Richmond Amateur Orchestra in organising an entertainment for the relief of the widows and ...

    Article : 58 words
  57. CIVIL SERVANTS AS DEBTORS.

    "It I had the control of affairs, I would dismiss all civil servants who did not pay their debts. It's ridiculous the way some of them squander their earnings." Thus spoke Mr. B. Lee, J.P., in the ...

    Article : 156 words
  58. WINE FROM LEAVES.

    A French druggist has conceived the idea that the flavor of the fruits of shrubs and trees is generated in the flowers of these plants, and passes from them into the fruits. ...

    Article : 339 words
  59. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    The American Waltham watch, No. 2335685, for the larceny of which a man named Geoffrey Purcell was arrested the other day, has not yet been claimed. The ...

    Article : 77 words
  60. COBURG FIREMEN ON STRIKE.

    The five men who have been employed as auxiliaries at the Coburg fire brigade station took an extraordinary step, in the hope of obtaining redress of an alleged grievance, on ...

    Article : 255 words
  61. STEALING RACING PROGRAMMES.

    Hedley Foote, 17, was charged at the Richmond court yesterday with stealing £1 5s. worth of programmes of the Austral cycling sports. He engaged to sell the programmes for Mr. A. Wood, ...

    Article : 59 words
  62. AUSTRALIAN PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMPANY.

    The annual meeting of shareholders in the Australian Plate Glass Insurance Company was held yesterday at the company's offices, Temple-court, Mr. A. W. Harston ...

    Article : 138 words
  63. Advertising

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  64. VANMEN AND "MOONLIGHT FLITTERS."

    A trio of furniture van drivers was brought before the Prahran police court yesterday for assisting a tenant in an apparent attempt to evade his liabilities by making a moonlight flit in the ...

    Article : 190 words
  65. Advertising

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    Advertising : 64 words
  66. Advertising

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    Advertising : 34 words
  67. Advertising

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    Advertising : 35 words
  68. Advertising

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  69. STEALING A BAROMETER.

    William Proctor, aged 80, was charged at the Port Melbourne court yesterday with stealing an aneroid barometer, valued at 30s., belonging to William Kenyon. The barometer was stolen from ...

    Article : 80 words
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