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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    In the half yearly report of the Ballarat branch of the Miners' Association, issued on Saturday evening, regret is expressed at the continued dulness of the gold ...

    Article : 697 words
  3. RAINFALL IN QUEENSLAND

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 words
  4. THE BUSH FIRES.

    The two bush fires in this district burned fiercely on Friday night. On Saturday the Trawool fire raged with unabated fury, but the one north of Seymour did not spread ...

    Article : 513 words
  5. Advertising

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  6. DEATH IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

    A married woman named Elizabeth Beckett was admitted to the hospital a few days ago and died suddenly on Friday. She made a statement to the medical officer ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. AT BEECH FOREST.

    A bush fire raged fiercely at Beech Forest on Friday, and the township and railway station were threatened. The fire broke out near Weeaproniah, and travelled with ...

    Article : 269 words
  8. FIRES AT CASTLEMAINE.

    A fire occurred at midday on Saturday in the long grass in the paddock in Forest street used as the borough pound. The fire brigade was at work three minutes after ...

    Article : 353 words
  9. RAIN IN TASMANIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 28 words
  10. KYNETON HOSPITAL NURSES.

    Some three months ago, on the resignation of a certificated nurse and a probationer nurse from their positions at the Kyneton Hospital, the committee decided ...

    Article : 346 words
  11. THE OBSERVATORY REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 413 words
  12. IN RIVERINA

    Word was received here yesterday that a fire, the result of lightning, occurred the previous evening, about ten miles from Deniliquin, on a farm owned by M. ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    With the heat at 105 in the shade, and a hot north wind, the past two days have been well suited for fires, and several have been burning in the district. One ...

    Article : 213 words
  14. THE UPPER YARRA DISTRICT.

    It was hoped that the slight fall of rain on Friday night would have had the effect of checking the bush fires, but all hopes in this direction were shattered on Saturday ...

    Article : 560 words
  15. THE WESTERN DISTRICT.

    Some fresh outbreaks of grass fires occurred in this district on Friday. The shire fire engine was taken to Panmure, in readiness to prevent the advance of the ...

    Article : 297 words
  16. IN THE GRAMPIANS.

    A fire broke out at Back Creek, between Mount Dryden and the Grampians, on Thursday afternoon. Fanned by a northerly wind, it quickly spread over a large tract ...

    Article : 248 words
  17. AN OLD OFFENCE.

    William Murphy, laborer, aged 33 years, was arrested at Cobram on Saturday, by Constable Ivey on a charge of stealing two draught horses, the property of Edward ...

    Article : 112 words
  18. SATURDAY'S FORECASTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 words
  19. SUCCESSIVE FIRE OUTBREAKS NEAR .YEA.

    A disastrous fire has been raging in the Cheviot, Limestone and Murrindindi districts during the post few days. The Newry Park fire, previously reported, which had ...

    Article : 648 words
  20. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    About 4 p.m. on Sunday Mr. David Mailer, of Coburg West, found the body of a man, name unknown, lying in shallow quarry land in a paddock in Moreland-road ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. RIVER GAUGINGS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 words
  22. THE BEULAH WEIR.

    The reports from Hopetoun appearing in the Melbourne newspapers of 11th inst., accusing the Beulah people of putting stops in the local weir, thus preventing the flow ...

    Article : 189 words
  23. BENDIGO.

    Mr. Garson, engineer of the Winter Supply department, on Saturday made personal inquiries with reference to the numerous complaints lately made regarding the ...

    Article : 578 words
  24. FIRE CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS. A WOOLSHED BURNED.

    A fire, which originated through' some men in charge of a travelling merry-go round not exercising proper care while cooking their midday meal on a' vacant plot of News was brought into Learmonth that the Kal Kal run, was on fire, and the wool shed has been destroyed. The fire travelled past the south side of Lake ...

    Article : 203 words
  25. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Board of Health was advised yesterday that of fifty-one rats captured at one place at Ulmarra, forty were infected with plague. ...

    Article : 35 words
  26. ACCIDENT TO A FIREMAN

    Robert Knevitt a fireman attached to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, had a narrow escape from death on Saturday evening while trying to get a lift to work. The lifts ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. SIXTY MILES OF COUNTRY SWEPT.

    A very destructive grass fire occurred here on Friday. The fire started near the Salt Creek, about eight miles west of the twon, and, fanned by a north wind ...

    Article : 315 words
  28. PASSING A VALUELESS CHEQUE.

    At the local court of petty sessions a man named Martin Hardiman was charged by Senior Constable Luke with being a rogue and vagabond, and with having tried to ...

    Article : 2,056 words
  29. QUEENSLAND.

    The inquiry in connection with the suggestion of foul play in regard to the death of John M'Crae, whose dead body was found in the bush near Charters ...

    Article : 81 words
  30. CAB AND MOTOR CAR COLLISION.

    At a late hour on Saturday night a cab driven, by W. T. Potter, and containing Airs. Lewis, of California Gully, and her three children, and Miss Maidment, of ...

    Article : 189 words
  31. PRECAUTIONS AT HEALESVILLE.

    The bush fires sprang up again more fiercely than ever on Saturday. At Toolangi Peacock's and Mrs. Clow's houses were burned out, practically everything ...

    Article : 351 words
  32. THE WAIWERA WRECK.

    The Government steamer Albatross, which was despatched to search for the missing boat's crew from the wrecked schooner Waiwera, returned to Brisbane ...

    Article : 51 words
  33. EFFECTS AT SEA.

    Captain Prestvold, master of the Norwegian barque Grande, which arrived here on Saturday evening from Capetown, reports that on Friday when about fourteen miles ...

    Article : 831 words
  34. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY

    A fire broke out on Friday evening in the large wood stack of the Forest Creek (Victoria) Gold Reefs Co. All hands turned out with buckets to try and subdue the ...

    Article : 259 words
  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A South Australian Parliamentary party, including Sir. Jenkins (the Premier), Messrs. T. Price, A. Kirkpatrick, S. Newland, about 30 other members, and Mr. ...

    Article : 273 words
  36. RUN DOWN BY AN ENGINE.

    John Stanley, railway permanent way man, met with an accident early, on Sunday morning at Harcourt. He had been all Saturday night working to fix up the burnt ...

    Article : 187 words
  37. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AT LINTON.

    A severe grass fire broke out in this district on Friday, commencing at Kal Kal, and sweeping through Trawalla and Carngham Stations, thence through Black Hill ...

    Article : 299 words
  38. ENGINE DRIVER KILLED.

    An inquiry held on Saturday morning concerning the death of William Bradbury, railway engine driver, went to show that deceased was standing on a passenger ...

    Article : 111 words
  39. DAMAGE AT VIOLET TOWN

    The first bush fire of this season in this district broke out in Mr. Hockett's paddocks, Tamleugh, on Thursday, night, about six miles from Violet Town. An easterly ...

    Article : 315 words
  40. CONSTABLE ATTACKED BY A PUSH.

    At South Melbourne shortly after 8 o'clock on Sunday night Constable Giles, when on duty near the Imperial Hotel, in Moray-street, arrested a young man named Denis Tobin for offensive ...

    Article : 216 words
  41. IN GIPPSLAND.

    Fires are still burning in some localities, but two or three thunder storms of restricted area, but considerable vigor, that have occurred during the past few days have ...

    Article : 75 words
  42. GEELONG.

    The young man Jas. Lonergan, who was struck by lightning at East Geelong on Friday evening, had throuoghly recovered on Saturday morning, when he was ...

    Article : 127 words
  43. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Local commercial men are greatly dissatisfied with the announcement by the Agent-General that ocean freights are from February next to be 16 per ton weight ...

    Article : 63 words
  44. PLAYING WITH MATCHES.

    On Friday evening the three-year-old son of Mr. Purcell, of the Healesville Coffee Palace, found his way into a boarder's room and obtained a box of matches, which ...

    Article : 89 words
  45. BEAUFORT CONFLAGRATIONS.

    The devastating bush fires which raged in this district on Friday and Saturday, were the cause of miles of fencing, thousands of acres of grass and a large quantity ...

    Article : 293 words
  46. STARTING A BUSH FIRE.

    A case of importance to country districts generally was tried on Friday at the Yarragon court, before Mr. Creswell, P.M., and local justices, when a farmer named Geo. ...

    Article : 686 words
  47. TASMANIA.

    The pigeons sent with the Seabird, which is searching for wreckage off the southwest coast, are doing valuable work. Daily. : communication is kept up between the ...

    Article : 120 words
  48. CASTLEMAINE.

    Mr. W. Ottey, for 47 years dispenser and secretary of the Castlemaine Hospital, died on Sunday evening, aged 75 years. ...

    Article : 22 words
  49. A VENOMOUS SPIDER.

    Sydney Thomas, a lad of sixteen years, living at Timor, has been admitted to the hospital. He states that a large spider bit him on the shoulder. When attended to by ...

    Article : 149 words
  50. DOMAIN LODGE BURNED DOWN.

    The old lodge in the Government Domain at the entrance from Domain-road was totally destroy by fire on Saturday night. The building, a rambling old place, built of weatherboard, lined with ...

    Article : 172 words
  51. WARRNAMBOOL.

    On the occasion of the arrival, of the 'Governor-General, Lady Northcote and suite at the local railway station on Monday afternoon a procession will be formed ...

    Article : 153 words
  52. IN BENDIGO DISTRICT.

    On Saturday dense clouds of smoke were carried over the city by a south wind, indicating clearly that there had been a fresh outbreak of the bush fires which earlier ...

    Article : 153 words
  53. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    [?]--Sailed, January 14.--Cape Bre[?] January 15.--Sultan, from Sin[?] ...

    Article : 28 words
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