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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At a land board sitting to-day, presided over by Messrs. Jenkins and Hall, the chief business was to receive objections to the throwing open for selection of the Conoongella Park reserve of ...

    Article : 145 words
  3. HOW TO MAKE THE RAILWAYS PAY.

    We make the following additional extracts from the evidence given before the Railway Inquiry Board:-- SOMETHING MORE ABOUT ROAD ...

    Article : 1,766 words
  4. OUR LONDON LETTER.

    The House of Commons has been laboriously marking time during the last few days, but it has finally settled down to the consideration of the estimates, with which necessary work it has ...

    Article : 4,128 words
  5. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

    If the recommendation of the Railway Board that the partitions in carriages should extend to the roof were now in force, Mr. Arthur Ellis, who apparently is what is called "a bit of a sport," ...

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  6. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    At a meeting of the Executive to-day the appointment of Sir George Dibbs as managing trustee of the Savings Bank was confirmed, on the condition, it is understood, that in the event ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The trial of Constable Robinson, charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Charles Nelson, in a lookup, was commenced to-day. He was acquitted. ...

    Article : 202 words
  8. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The thirty-eighth annual session of the Municipal Council opened to-day. The president's report made regretful allusion to the fact that the greater portion of the colony was still not ...

    Article : 179 words
  9. SUICIDE OF A FINANCIAL AGENT.

    Robert M'M. Browne, carrying on business as a financial agent, committed suicide this evening by taking strychnine. He was well known in Warrnambool, where he owns ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. CURIOUS WAGES PROPOSAL.

    The men at the Cornstalk mine, Bald Hill Crock, struck work last Saturday on account of their wages being in arrear. The company offered to continue them at work if they would ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. QUEENSLAND.

    Willie Farr, a lad aged about 17 years, was picked up unconscious yesterday in his father's cane field at North Gairloch, and died just before reaching the hospital. ...

    Article : 31 words
  12. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The R.M.S. Australia, which sails to-morrow for London, will take 375 boxes of best quality South Australian butter. Several of the most prominent factories have not yet shipped any ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    Last night about 11 o'clock W. J. Ryan, saddler, of Broken Hill, left for the Burra by the Adelaide express to attend the bedside of his dying father. He was intoxicated, and when ...

    Article : 184 words
  14. A SHEARING STRIKE.

    The first difficulty of the shearing season has occurred at Hynam, in this district. The station offers 13s. 6d. per 100, and the men have struck and formed a camp. ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. AMUSEMENTS.

    There was again a very large attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the second of the farewell series of concerts by this admirable company of artists took place. Miss ...

    Article : 747 words
  16. THE STREZLECKI COAL MINE.

    Messrs. L. L. Smith, Millard, Sherrard, Moses and Oakley, directors of the Strezlecki mine, accompanied by the legal manager, Mr. Abrahams, visited here to-day for the purpose of ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

    The article entitled Ruined Queensland, which appears in the August number of the Westminster Review, is somewhat of a misnomer. The writer, Mr. W. Boyd Mackay, ...

    Article : 1,059 words
  18. SYDNEY ANGLICAN SYNOD.

    The tenth Anglican Synod of the diocese of Sydney opened to-day. The Primate, in his opening address, made sympathetic allusion to the recent Chinese missionary massacres, and ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. SUGAR BEETROOTS ANALYSES.

    Interesting analyses of sugar beet grown in the district have been made by Mr. A. N. Pearson. He had samples from five farmers, Messrs. R. Skilbeck, J. W. Anderson, J. Scroggie, ...

    Article : 179 words
  20. CENTENARY OF A MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

    The supporters of the London Missionary Society this year celebrate the centenary of their organisation, which was founded on 25th September, 1795. On 5th March, 1797, its first ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. MUNICIPAL WAGES AT EAGLE-HAWK.

    The Eaglehawk council to-night let the annual contract for carting. Last year O'Halloran and Sons bad the contract at 6s. 8d. a day, but at its last meeting the council decided ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. INTERCOLONIAL ODDFELLOWS' CONFERENCE.

    The Intercolonial Oddfellows' Conference was formally opened to-day. The representatives present were Messrs. Brown, Timbrell, Collins, M'Cubben and Moon (New South Wales), Joel ...

    Article : 141 words
  23. THE CASTLEMAINE AUSTRALIAN NATIVES.

    The Castlemaine branch of the A.N.A. gave a return social to its president, Mr. Van Heurck, to-night. The social was very enjoyable, the refreshments being tea and coffee. ...

    Article : 1,182 words
  24. WALLAROO AND MOONTA COPPER MINING COMPANY.

    The half yearly meeting of the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company was held to-day. The chairman, Mr. James Hardy, stated that the number of hands employed by ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. SLAUGHTER HOUSE CRUELTY.

    The circumstances of a gross case of cruelty were related to the Flemington bench yesterday, when a slaughterman named Richard Parsons was charged with cruelly ill-treating a ...

    Article : 389 words
  26. MARK TWAIN IN SYDNEY.

    "Mark Twain" delivered his last Sydney lecture to-night to a large and enthusiastic audience. He will start for Melbourne to-morrow. ...

    Article : 27 words
  27. FATAL FALL IN A HURDLE RACE.

    At Ingham a sad accident occurred on Saturday in a hurdle race. Kelly, who was riding Mr. Blackloor's Raker, had a fall over the hurdles, and never regained consciousness, dying last ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. LETTERS IN BRIEF.

    "CIVIL SERVANT," referring to the intention of the Premier to withdraw at the end of the month the opportunity offered to public servants to retire on six months' pay, hopes that ...

    Article : 143 words
  29. PORT ACCOMMODATION AT WILLIAMSTOWN.

    The port charges and port accommodation were discussed by the Williamstown council yesterday. A tracing was submitted by the town surveyor, Mr. H. V. Champion, ...

    Article : 386 words
  30. THE RIVERINA SHEARING.

    All the earlier Riverina sheds have either cut out, or are about to do so. Gunbar, Carr's and Cowl Cowl finished last week, and shearers are all moving towards the border to fill ...

    Article : 156 words
  31. A POSTAL COMPLAINT.

    SIR,—About three weeks ago I dropped a packet, together with a letter of advice regarding the packet, into one of the elegant letter pillars that adorn some of our street corners. ...

    Article : 220 words
  32. QUEENSLAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 words
  33. HOTEL PROSECUTION.

    Hannah Mulcahy, licensee of the Cornstalk Hotel, Victoria-street, was charged yesterday at the Collingwood court with having a bar door open during prohibited hours. On Sunday, the ...

    Article : 121 words
  34. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.

    The Railway department has accepted the tender of J. C. Coate and Son, at £712 14s. 1d., for the erection of a bridge over the Mordialloc Creek at Mordialloc. ...

    Article : 32 words
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  36. Advertising

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