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  2. THE BOAT DISASTER AT MORNINGTON.

    With almost every catastrophe is associated a characteristic epigram, which some irresponsible being finds time to invent. In relation to the melancholy boating fatality off Schnapper ...

    Article : 2,946 words
  3. THE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF RAILWAYS.

    Railway problems are at the present time engrossing attention in all parts of the world. This is one of the many consequences following upon the extraordinary development of railway ...

    Article : 2,118 words
  4. A PICTURESQUE CEREMONY.

    The most picturesque of Austrian Court ceremonies, the washing of the feet of 12 old men by the Emperor, took place in the grant Hall of Ceremonies in the Hofburg between 10 and 12 ...

    Article : 1,444 words
  5. THE SANITARY CONFERENCE AT VENICE.

    In spite of certain reticence on the part of the authorities concerned in the Venice Conference on the sanitary control of the Suez Canal, a correspondent sends us the following, taken ...

    Article : 807 words
  6. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At the meeting of the city council to-day the senior representatives of each ward were appointed to draft an address from the council to Mr. W. Collard Smith in slight recognition of ...

    Article : 904 words
  7. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The Executive to-day considered the case of Wm. Cecil, sentenced to death for the murder by shooting of Mrs. Sarah Ann Bloomfield, near Tumbarumba, in February last. On the strength ...

    Article : 242 words
  8. TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

    Drovers and others who have come down the north -east track from Hawker, almost at the junction of the three colonies of South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, report most ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN TASMANIA.

    The electric lighting committee of the city operation tabled a report at the meeting to-day [?] the adoption of Mr. K. L. [?] ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. QUEENSLAND.

    The three intercolonial crews are in hard training for the race on Saturday next. ...

    Article : 17 words
  11. SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    A meeting of the vigilance committee nominated by the Broken Hill shareholders on Thursday was held to-day, when the chairman and secretary wore appointed. A telegram was ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. A SUCCESSFUL BUTTER FACTORY.

    The fourth general meeting of shareholders in the Grasmere Cheese and Butter Factory Company was held in Warrnambool on Saturday. The chairman of directors, Mr. G. B. ...

    Article : 302 words
  13. TASMANIA.

    The Bank of Van Dicman's Land will declare another 1s. dividend at the middle of next month. Men have been put on to extend the Hobart ...

    Article : 43 words
  14. ASSAULTING A MARRIED WOMAN.

    The Richmond bench yesterday awarded solitary confinement to a dissipated youth named Joseph Nix, charged under the 39th section of the Crimes Act with committing an aggravated ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. A THROAT CUTTING CHARGE.

    At the Ballarat East police court to-day, before Messrs. Long and Fitzgerald, J.P.'s, the man George Farmer, bacon curer, of Eureka- street, was presented, after numerous remands, ...

    Article : 294 words
  16. THE RAILWAY REFORMS.

    In further justification of the reversion of passenger fares to a higher scale, the Railway Commissioners have compared the rates ruling in this colony with those in force in New South ...

    Article : 377 words
  17. THE CZAR IN WAX.

    The President of the Republic (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, telegraphing on 14th April), accompanied by M. de Laboulaye, ex -Ambassador of France to St. ...

    Article : 508 words
  18. KORUMBURRA AS A VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

    SIR, —As so much attention is being given to the village settlement scheme and offers of a number of sites are made to the promoters, permit me through your columns to draw the ...

    Article : 761 words
  19. THE STOCK TAX AND ULTRA PROTECTION.

    SIR, —I ask tho favor of space in your widely circulated columns to offer a few suggestions on the prospective bearing of the proposed stock tax as likely to affect the general interest of the ...

    Article : 869 words
  20. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.

    The 73rd anniversary of her Majesty's birthday will be observed as a public holiday to-day, and the usual lengthy list of attractions has been prepared, whilst the occasion ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    SIR, —From a democratic point of view tins league has an obvious advantage. Those who are so stupid and selfish as to join it may possibly learn, if not unselfishness, at least a ...

    Article : 285 words
  22. CITY COUNCIL.

    The usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. There were presont : The Mayor (Cr. M, Lang) in the chair, Aldermen Bayles, ...

    Article : 203 words
  23. THE ARCHDUCHESS STEPHANIE AS AN AUTHORESS.

    Arcuduchess Stephanic has just published a graceful little volume entitled Lacroma, which will certainly be read with interest both in and outside Austria. A miniature island in the ...

    Article : 397 words
  24. STEALING TOBACCO.

    At the Port Melbourne court yesterday, two seamen named Frederick Sargent and William Warzin were charged with the larceny of five boxes of tobacco, valued at £32, the property ...

    Article : 357 words
  25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    SIR, —Principally through your efforts a new era in railway management has been commenced, and a reduction of 880,000 miles in the running of trains accomplished, but a much ...

    Article : 199 words
  26. VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS SUBSCRIPTIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words
  27. Advertising

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  28. Advertising

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    Advertising : 86 words
  29. MINING NOTES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 words
  30. Advertising

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