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  2. CITY COUNCIL.

    The quarterly meeting of the City Council was held yesterday morning, the Mayor, Cr. M'Eacharn, presiding. THE MELBOURNE-COLLINGWOOD ...

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  3. THE MAYORAL LUNCHEON.

    The usual quarterly luncheon given by the Mayor of Melbourne took place yesterday in the Town Hall. Cr. M'Eacharn was supported on his right by the Chief Secretary ...

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  4. THE TYSON ESTATE.

    The next of kin of the late James Tyson, the Australian millionaire, held a meeting at Sydney in December last, at which it was decided that five of their number should ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    Two days ago a man named Fenton, while out getting ferns in a gully 3 miles from Helensburgh, found the body of a man who had evidently been dead for two or three ...

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  6. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD.

    At Caulfield shire council meeting last evening Cr. Riddell was re-elected representative on the Metropolitan Board, and in returning thanks, ...

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  7. GALES ON QUEENSLAND COAST

    The wodonga arrived from Cooktown today, and reports fair weather to Townsville, but thence to Bowen there were strong easterly, veering to north-easterly, winds, ...

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  8. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Yesterday three young Quantong settlers went to bathe in the Wimmera River, and shortly after entering the water, Mr. Herbert Charles Thorpe, aged 34 years, who was ...

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  9. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The expenditure for the seven months of the financial year has been £1,533,370, being £49,465 less than was estimated. The story told by Hershall to the Adelaide ...

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  10. SWEATING BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

    The case of the stone carters whose conditions of labor have just been revised with some display of benevolence by the City Council is sufficiently important-- or ...

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  11. TIRED OF LIFE.

    Richard Hickson, aged 43 years, a laborer, recently employed in the railway yard, was found dead in his tent this morning with a wound in his throat, which had been done ...

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  12. TASMANIA.

    At the request of the Council of Agriculture, the Premier has written to the respective Ministers of Agriculture of the various colonies, asking them to arrange for ...

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  13. AFGHANS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS.

    Trouble has arisen at Bourke between the Carrying Company and their Afghan employes. The Afghans, it appears, signed a contract to work for six years, at £24 per ...

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  14. AN OCTOGENARIAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

    A very old resident of this district, named Richard Hunter, 87 years of age, made an attempt to commit suicide this afternoon. He cut his throat, indicting two wounds ...

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  15. THE WEATHER.

    Yesterday the thermometer at the Melbourne Observatory topped the shade record of the previous day, but only by one-fifth of a degree. Starting from 9 a.m. with a ...

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  16. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.

    Mr. W. Little, of the Trustees, Executors and Agency Company, reports that the, late Mrs. Eleanor Hotham, who died a few days ago, has bequeathed to the Ballarat ...

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  17. HAWTHORN APPROVES.

    The letter from the secretary to the Premier, asking whether the local council favored the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into the proceedings of the ...

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  18. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN PASTORALIST.

    Mr. David M'Canghey, owner of the Coree Station, Riverina, died this morning, after a very short illness. Deceased belonged to the well-known M'Caughey family, and was ...

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  19. NEW ZEALAND.

    While the Tarawera, from Sydney, was berthing, her hawser slipped off the pilehead, and knocked down it dozen people. A man named Lorning was killed, and five ...

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  20. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Mr. W. H. Osborn, watch maker, formerly of Bairnsdale and Chiltern, attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver about 8 p.m. yesterday. He was placed ...

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  21. "YU THE SAVAGE."

    The telegram published recently, stating that the notorious Yu Mantze, that is, Yu the savage, who has been identified with previous anti-Christian and anti-foreign ...

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  22. AN INSANITARY DISTRICT.

    The sanitary arrangements here are in a very bad state, and prompt action is urgently necessary. Yesterday seven typhoid patients left here for the Bendigo Hospital, ...

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  23. A QUESTION OF TITLE.

    At the police court to-day a person was sued for water rates due, but it was proved that the construction and constitution of the trust, aud everything in connection with ...

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  24. IRRIGATION AT HAY.

    A meeting of lessees in the Hay irrigation area was held last night. It was decided that the Department of Agriculture be requested to send an expert in irrigation ...

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  25. DREDGIFG AND SLUICING THE MITCHELL RIVER.

    A petition was forwarded to the minister of Mines and Water Supply to-day, strongly protesting against the granting of any privileges to dredge or sluice the Mitchell River ...

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  26. RAN OVER A COW.

    During the journey of the morning train from Geelong to Queenseliff yesterday, the engine ran over a cow at the crossing adjacent to the Drysdale railway station. ...

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  27. THE MINISTER OF MINES.

    The Minister of Mines, accompanied by Miss Foster, arrived here this evening. Tomorrow morning Mr. Foster will go to Barker's Creek to investigate a complaint ...

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  28. DEATH FROM EFFECTS OF HEAT.

    The wife of Mr. Charles Kingston died from heat apoplexy last night, and Mrs. Austin, wife of John Austin, expired this afternoon from exhaustion, accelerated by the intense heat of to-day. ...

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  29. TO-DAY'S FORECASTS.

    The following are to-day's forecasts:--VICTORIA (Thursday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Continued hot weather, especially inland. Light winds from N. and E., and sea breezes on ...

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  30. THE GRAIN TRAFFIC.

    During January, 20,088 bags of wheat were sent away from the local railway station. All the stores are full, and considerable quantities are still arriving. ...

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  31. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    In anticipation of a large attendance at the Princess's Theatre on the occasion of the final performance of The Geisha on Friday last, a number of pickpockets hung about there, and at the ...

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  32. LOCAL NEWS.

    Arthur Melrose, against whom there were 20 previous convictions, was fined £5, or one month's imprisonment, at the South Melbourne court yesterday for using obscene language in City-road on ...

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  33. WATTLE DESTRUCTION.

    Recently the president of the Echuca branch of the A.N.A. drew attention to the destruction of the wattle by bark strippers on the Goulburn River, and pointed out to ...

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  34. PROCEDURE IN GARLTON COURT.

    Some confusion was created in the Carlton court yesterday by the extraordinary behavior of a baker named Charles Thomas Bowden, during the hearing of a case in ...

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  35. REGISTRATION OF MILK VENDORS.

    At the Port Melbourne court yesterday several dairymen were charged, at the instance of the local council, with having failed to register in that town. In the case ...

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  36. QUEENSLAND.

    A deputation of master, printers to-day urged upon the Minister of Public Instruction to have all State school books compiled and printed in the colony. Mr. Dairympie, ...

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  37. LAND BOARDS.

    At the local land board yesterday, before Mr. J. Lardner, the following applications were beard, and, unless otherwise stated, recommended:--Section 42: Michael Ward, ...

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  38. LICENSING PROSECUTIONS.

    James Kilkenny, the licensee of the Railway Club Hotel, Elizabeth-street, was fined £2 at the District Court yesterday for permitting drunken persons to be upon his licensed premises on Sunday, ...

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  39. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

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

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  40. ASSAULTING A WITNESS.

    Albert Patterson, aged 15, was charged at the South Melbourne court yesterday with assaulting a lad named George Goodall on 12th ult. Defendant's brother, "Buff" Patterson, and a youth ...

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  41. THE ARAWATTA-CHINGTU COLLISION.

    The investigation by the Court of Marino Inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamers Arawatta and Chingtu in the River Yarra on 24th ...

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  42. PICKPOCKETS AT BICYCLE SPORTS.

    An incident of the Austral Wheel Carnival at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 10th December last, was investigated before Judge Hamilton and a jury at the General ...

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  43. DISOBEDIENT SAILORS.

    At the Williamstown police court yesterday, Alfred Green, Walter Johnson, James Quinn, John Ashton, James Quinn John Drummond and Antonia Silva were charged with wilful ...

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  44. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner of Police, after examining William Farey and his son, Ernest, has come to the conclusion that neither had anything to do with the mysterious death of the ...

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  45. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The shade heat to-day was 09 deg. HAY, Thursday. The weather continues very dry and hot, and there is no appearance of a change. ...

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  46. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    William Wilson, of Buckley-street, Footscray, laborer. Causes of insolvency: Loss on contracts, insufficient employment and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £82 5s. 10d.; assets, 5s.; deficiency, ...

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  47. WILLS AND REQUESTS.

    Probate of the will and codicil of the late Hugh Montgomery, Thomson, late of Balaclava-road, St. Kilda, but formerly of Cocketgedong Station, New South Wales, was recently granted in Victoria to ...

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  48. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The heat was 104 in the shade to-day. ...

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  49. COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION.

    In the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice a'Beekett, on the motion of Mr. Duffy, made an order absolute for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of E. S. Martin and W. H. Westaway, ...

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  50. STATION REPORTS.

    Received by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.:--Weribone Station, Surat, Queensland: 2 inches 50 points steady rain; appears general; drought broken. ...

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  51. WAITING FOR HIS LUCKY DAY.

    A tall, saffron-hued celestial, who rejoices in the significant title of Hang On, was before Mr. Dobbin, P.M., at the District Court on 8th inst., charged on the information of ...

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  52. PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

    The Public Works department has accepted the following tenders:--Victorian Defences-- Painting orderly room, Castlemaine, G. Pullan, £19; new workshops for Postal department, Sturt-street, ...

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  53. SEAWEED AS MANURE.

    At the last meeting of the Queenseliff borough council the mayor stated that during the month seaweed and kelp had lodged in large quantities in the ladies baths, and ...

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  54. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

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  55. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    The supply of milk at the local factory continues to fall off, being only 99,980 gallons for the last month, as compared with 138,381 for December, and 179,794 during November. The ...

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  57. Advertising

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