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  2. THE WORK QUESTION.

    The circular from the secretary of the committee of the unemployed, proposing a conference, was read at the meeting of the Brighton council last night. The council was ...

    Article : 227 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    In the circuit court to-day, before Mr. Justice Simpson, Robert Wilson was charged with breaking and catering the Culcairn Hotel, pleaded guilty, and was remanded ...

    Article : 122 words
  4. A MARINE BOARD BUNGLE.

    At the present time when the unemployed difficulty has been receiving the earnest attention of the Government. It is somewhat surprising to find an influential public body ...

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  5. THE DREADED ANTHRAX.

    About the middle of December last some sensation was occasioned in the metropolis by the news that an outbreak of anthrax had occurred among a flock of sheep which ...

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  6. THE WEATHER.

    The rain still continues. There was a promise of breaking up on Sunday, but on Monday the rain descended with renewed vigor. The Tambo River, which was running a ...

    Article : 234 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    People interested in this railway have for some time been making strong endeavors to have the brunch reopened, and Mr. Galr, M.L.A., has been actively supporting them. ...

    Article : 88 words
  8. THE REFLECTION ON THE POLICE.

    Sir,--I am a tenant in the Market, and was approaching the Little Collins street entrance yesterday afternoon when I heard a shot. Immediately after some lads came ...

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  9. AMUSEMENTS.

    Last night s concert was, in most respects, save that of managerial arrangements, a repetition of that given on Saturday. The hall was again crowded in all parts, and the ...

    Article : 428 words
  10. COUNCILS IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.

    At the Fern Tree Gully shire council meeting, some discussion took place relative to a notice of motion by Cr. Chandler for the striking of an extra rate. Cr. J. T. ...

    Article : 319 words
  11. THE COLLINGWOOD LINE.

    With but a few exceptions all the claims for compensation for land required for the Collingwood railway have been sent in to the Government, and the aggregate amount ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. THE REGENT MURRAY WRECK.

    The Newcastle Marine Board to-day, after inquiry, found that the wreck of the barque Regent Murray last Tuesday, on Newcastle bar, was due to the extreme ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. THE UNEMPLOYED CONFERENCE.

    At a meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society held yesterday a letter was received from the hon. secretary of the unemployed, inviting the council to send ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. TO-DAY'S FORECASTS.

    The following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (Tuesday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Generally fine, except for a few clearing, showers in South-eastern and Eastern districts; light S.E. ...

    Article : 307 words
  15. LABOR FOR THE EMU BAY RAILWAY.

    Sir,--We, the committee of the unemployed, have had our attention drawn to the advertisement of Messrs. Baxter and Sadler, who profess to require 500 men for ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, Tuesday.

    The hearing of the charge against Samuel and Mrs. Berliner, Abigail Berliner, and Charles Levy, for setting fire to two large houses at Yerongpilly, was concluded in the It is expected that the new meat works at Burketown, erected on the site of the works which were destroyed by fire last year, will make a start this week. The company ...

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  17. LIGHTING FIRES IN THE BUSH.

    In the police court to-day, E. Devereaux, a laborer, was charged with careless fire lighting. He started a fire to burn a log fence which he had contracted to remove. ...

    Article : 188 words
  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Will you kindly make it publicly known through your columns that we are calling a conference, to be held at the Athenaeum Hall on the evening of ...

    Article : 172 words
  19. A PECULIAR DEATH.

    An inquest was commenced it the Morgue by Mr. Candler yesterday into the decease of Jessie Roslua Bentley, 24, who died at South Melbourne on Monday. ...

    Article : 295 words
  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--In view of the great sensation caused by Miss Amy Castles, the wonderful child Vocalist, as the mouthpiece of a large number of her admirers, I would like to ask if ...

    Article : 318 words
  21. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 words
  22. AN OLD "HATTER'S" DEATH.

    A mail about 70 years of age, named James Dick, a native of Leith, had been mining on the Lerderderg, midway between Blackwood diggings and Pentland Hills, for ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. [CIRCULAR.]

    Sir,--We, the committee of the unemployed, have resolved--"That the various organisations in sympathy with Social Reform be requested to send delegates to a conference to discuss the unemployed ...

    Article : 106 words
  24. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Lord Tennyson, the new Governor, has accepted the position of patron of the South Australian Jockey Club. After his levee to-morrow, the Governor ...

    Article : 60 words
  25. WAGES OF BUILDERS.

    A largely attended meeting of workers in the building, trades took place at Brunswick last night; Mr. J. H. Cook, M.L.A., presiding. ...

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  26. SWAN HILL HOSPITAL.

    The Treasurer has allocated to the local hospital £250 out of the £10,000 grant, on condition that the hospital spends £250 additional. Although improvements are ...

    Article : 76 words
  27. A SURPRISED NEWS AGENT.

    The body of the man run over and Killed by a tramear in Pultency-street was yesterday Identified as that of Jas. Scott, a news agent, by Henry Travers, one of Scott's ...

    Article : 314 words
  28. GENERAL BOOTH'S BIRTHDAY.

    To-night remarkable enthusiasm was shown at an immense meeting in the town hall, in celebration of General Booth's 70th birthday, which was attained yesterday. ...

    Article : 264 words
  29. OTHER DISEASES IN CATTLE.

    To-day, Mr. Pentland, Chief Inspector of Stock, made a post mortem examination of a cow which had exhibited symptoms of "lumpy jaw." The autopsy disclosed what ...

    Article : 311 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN MEAT TRADE.

    At the annual dinner of the meat salesmen Sir Horace Tozer, the Agent-General for Queensland, and Sir Montague Nelson, chairman of the Colonial Consignment ...

    Article : 686 words
  31. THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

    The missionary exhibition arranged in connection with the Church Missionary Association of Victoria will be opened this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, by Mrs. Howard Taylor, ...

    Article : 374 words
  32. STATION REPORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 words
  33. CROWN LAND SALE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 799 words
  34. THE ROYAL NATAL RESERVE.

    As bearing on some remarks recently made by his Excellency the Governor with regard to a proposal that lads of the criminal class should bo trained with a view ...

    Article : 335 words
  35. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Fears are entertained of further trouble in connection with the lumpers' strike at Fremantle. To-day the Adelaide Steamship Company's Willyama was unloading at the ...

    Article : 225 words
  36. THE YACHT DISASTER.

    Sir,--At a public meeting held at Williamstown on Monday evening, at the Advertiser Exchange, to devise means for assisting the widow and family of the late Arthur ...

    Article : 200 words
  37. INFANT LIFE PROTECTION.

    The disclosures made at an inquest on the body of an infant at the Morgue some days ago, when the Coroner adversely, commented on the lax way in which the ...

    Article : 366 words
  38. MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION.

    A well attended meeting of pioneers of tho May Day movement in Melbourne was held in the Temperance Hall inst evening, to protest against the action, of the meeting ...

    Article : 104 words
  39. COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

    That portentous and unconsciously amusing body, the Council for Agricultural Education, met yesterday at the public offices, under the chairmanship of Mr. George ...

    Article : 296 words
  40. PECULIAR LICENSING CASE.

    Jane Cole, licensee of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, Mount Alexander-road, Flemington, was charged at the local court yesterday with Sunday trading. The evidence of Constables Keane and ...

    Article : 246 words
  41. RAILWAY COMMISSIONER ON TOUR.

    The Rail way Commissioner and several departmental officers visited Daylesford to-day. Mr. John B. Howe, ex-mayor of Daylesford, and the town clerk, brought under the ...

    Article : 204 words
  42. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--When I made the appeal on behalf of the widow and children of the late Arthur Allan, I was unaware that there was an insurance upon his life, for £100. The ...

    Article : 221 words
  43. LIMEJUICE PROSECUTIONS.

    Sir,--In company with another firm of grocers, I was fined £2 2, with £3 3 costs, at the Essendon court on Monday for selling limejuice not of the quality demanded. ...

    Article : 154 words
  44. ACCIDENT TO A SHUNTER.

    John Herlihey, a railway shunter, living at 28 Bellair-street, Kensington, yesterday met with a severe accident at the Spencer-street station. After uncoupling some trucks he ...

    Article : 109 words
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