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  2. FACTORY STATISTICS.

    In a recent controversy, arising out of a speech delivered at Portland by Mr. J. L. Dow, various comparisons were drawn between Victoria and New South Wales with regard to the ...

    Article : 3,075 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    A death from sunstroke occurred to-night, the victim being Dr. E. O. Giblin, of Hobart. The deceased held the rank of surgeon-major in the defence forces, and arrived at Launceston last ...

    Article : 88 words
  4. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Following upon the recent retirements and promotions in the police force, Superintendent Parkinson, of Ballerat, to-morrow proceeds to the metropolis to assume charge of the Bourke ...

    Article : 300 words
  5. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

    An important step in furtherance of tho Pacific cable was taken on the 19th inst., when a private interview took place at the Colonial Office between Mr. Chamberlain and the ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  6. HOW THE MALAGASY CAPITULATED.

    The Times gives a vivid impression of the situation in the few days before the flag of capitulation was hoisted above the Palace by the order of the queen:-- ...

    Article : 1,411 words
  7. QUAKED CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER.

    The high eatsem in which the Society of Friends has been held in this country during certainly the last 100 years imparts to the conference which its members are at present ...

    Article : 1,568 words
  8. CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR IDIOTS

    It may be as well to state at the outset, for fear of misconception, that the idiots here meant are the unfortunate inmates of the Kew Asylum. At present there are 170 of them, ...

    Article : 507 words
  9. DEATH FROM DRINKING FOETID WATER.

    Six men harvesting at Forest Hill, eight miles from Wagga, have been seized by typhoid fever, through drinking foetid water from a creek in the neighborhood. Kyamba Creek swarms with ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. NEW ZEALAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words
  11. FIRE AT DENILIQUIN.

    A destructive fire occurred here last night, about £4000 worth of property being destroyed. The buildings consumed were Mrs. S. Tyrer's drapery establishment, Mrs, Dow's fruit and ...

    Article : 139 words
  12. A SAILOR DROWNED.

    A seaman named Charles Johnson, employed on the ketch Tyro lying at the Little Dock, was accidentally drowned in the Yarra on Thursday afternoon. It is stated ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. HARVESTING AT SWAN HILL.

    Harvesting operations in this district are far advanced, and most of the farmers are now in a position to judge as to results. The returns have been fair, with the exception of Waitchie. ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BOURKE.

    A fire originated in a dentist's shop at Bourke yesterday, by which St, Stephen's hall, a weatherboard building, the Church of England and the dentist's premises were destroyed. The ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. THE INVENTOR THE PRODUCT OF CIRCUMSTANCES.

    A suggestive argument, likely (says the London Standard) to be received with some reserve by the more ardent admirers of scientific skill, occupied a great portion of the interesting and ...

    Article : 798 words
  16. NAVIGATION ON THE DARLING.

    River steamers have reported from the Lower Darling that the Mindoo's barge, laden with wool, has got a hole knocked in her bottom, and that all her lower tier of wool is damaged by ...

    Article : 123 words
  17. HOUSE ROBBERY AT CHILTERN.

    The premises Of Mr. Charles M'Intyre, at the rear of his business places in Conness-street, were broken into on Christmas Day during the absence of the family, and jewellery to the ...

    Article : 1,169 words
  18. A COCOANUT OIL MILL.

    At Balmain this morning Mr. W. H. Lever, head of the firm of Lever Bros., Sunlight soap manufacturers, turned the first sod of the excavations of the first oil mill in New South Wales. ...

    Article : 124 words
  19. ALLEGED " SWEATING " ON MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS.

    As a result of the refusal of the Hawthorn council to recognise the minimum wage principle, "sweating " in a bad form is alleged to be rampant in connection with certain municipal ...

    Article : 193 words
  20. WRECK OF THE BARQUE GRASMERE.

    The barque Grasmere, from Newcastle, bound for Wellington with coal, has been totally wrecked at Terawhiti, near Wellington Heads. All hands aboard were saved, and brought to ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. A BOY DROWNED WHILST BATHING.

    A sad fatality occurred to a young lad named Frederick Valentine Trawin, at Deer Park, yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. Trawin was bathing in the Kororoit Creek with another ...

    Article : 130 words
  22. CAST AWAY ON A QUEENSLAND REEF.

    Yesterday evening three wrecked castaways were brought from the North Shore by the George Walmsley. The men were sailing from Thursday Island to Cooktown in the cutter ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN CONVICT.

    David Lee, or Gipsy Lee as his mates called him, died in Parramatta Poor Asylum on Christmas eve, at the ripe old age of 102 years. From records in the institution, ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. SHORTAGES IN THE REVENUE.

    SIR,--In The Age of to-day it is stated the probability is that Mr. Turner's anticipations of revenue will fall short by about £100,000. The decrease daring the first three ...

    Article : 562 words
  25. HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IN SYDNEY.

    After an excessively hot day, about 7 p.m., a heavy electric storm passed over the city, and hailstones of abnormal size fell in thick showers in some suburbs, ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. THE IDEAL COSTUME FOR THE LADY CYCLIST.

    Mrs. Aria writes as follows to the London Daily Chronicle:--" Cycling is the order of the morning of the idle woman. The crowds in Hyde Park testify to the popularity of this means ...

    Article : 564 words
  27. BAY EXCURSIONS.

    It is announced that the p.s. Ozone will leave the Port Melbourne railway pier at 2 p.m. to-day for Queenscliff and Sorrento, and at 3 p.m. to-morrow for Schnapper Point, calling at ...

    Article : 198 words
  28. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, with a view to fostering the federal spirit, and perhaps, also with an eye on gate money, has decided to invite the Governors of all the ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. LETTERS IN BRIEF.

    J. T. Barton, Echuca, makes a complaint against the department having charge of neglected children. He states that some time ago, with his own consent, a female child of his was ...

    Article : 198 words
  30. TASMANIA RIFLE ASSOCIATION MATCHES.

    The annual competitions of the Tasmanian Rifle Association commenced to-day on the Launceston ranges. The shooting was good. Lieutenant Gatty won the championship with ...

    Article : 43 words
  31. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.

    The Railway department has accepted the tender of James Love for the supply of 319 tons of firewood for Camperdown at 2s. 9d. a ton, delivered at Cudgee. ...

    Article : 31 words
  32. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    On Boxing day Ada Mackay, aged 11 years, and Minnie Mackay, aged 8 years, sisters, were drowned in the Clarence River at Ulmarra. They went to the river to bathe, and it is ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. INQUESTS AT THE MORGUE.

    Two inquests were held at the Morgue yesterday by the City Coroner, Dr. Youl. The first related to the death of Crighton Strachan, a man of the vagrant class. Deceased, who was ...

    Article : 177 words
  34. Advertising

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    Advertising : 189 words
  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of Naomi Ethel Billett, a child who died on Christmas day from the effects of burns caused by a little brother of deceased, aged 3 years, igniting ...

    Article : 294 words
  36. A SEWER ACCIDENT.

    A laborer named William Ray, 21 years of age, met with a painful accident yesterday while employed in the sewerage works in Elizabeth-street. Bay was working in a shaft about ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. CHARITABLE DONATIONS.

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