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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    In the County Court action, Edward Vince v. Messrs. Robertson and Moffat of Melbourne, in which plaintiff claimed commission for the furnishing of the George ...

    Article : 254 words
  3. THE FIRST TEST MATCH.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,317 words
  4. AMERICAN NEWS.

    Quite a crop of big strikes have materialised during the last few weeks. In many States labor and capital are at each other's throats. The coal miners' strike, which ...

    Article : 631 words
  5. THE HIGH COURT.

    A sitting of the High Court of Australia was held in Melbourne yesterday, the bench being composed of the Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Griffith) and Sir Edmund Barton. ...

    Article : 1,032 words
  6. STATE POLITICAL NOTES.

    The action of the Government in throwing open large areas of forest reserves for settlement purposes was warmly criticised in the Legislative Assembly yesterday ...

    Article : 2,317 words
  7. EXPORT OF BUTTER.

    The seriousness of the statements extracted from Messrs. Mills and Sparrow's London butter market report, dated 16th October last, respecting the extremely bad ...

    Article : 755 words
  8. "ELIJAH" DOWIE.

    Dowie, who promises to revisit Australia early next year, bulldoses his followers with "big" talk. He is very fond of announcing that he has received the offer of ...

    Article : 258 words
  9. BENDIGO.

    At the meeting of the Strathfieldsay, shire council on Thursday a communication was received from the Mines department stating that two dredging leases within the ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. GEELONG.

    On Thursday afternoon the remains of the late Duncan M'Intyre, who recently retired from the service of Messrs. Strachan; Shannon, Murray and Co., by whom he ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. A BLACKMAILING WALKING DELEGATE.

    Not until Samuel Parks, the Now York walking delegate of the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union, had been twice convicted of the crime of extortion was he ...

    Article : 618 words
  12. CASTLEMAINE.

    The late Mr. Stephen Cooke, chemist, whose body was found in a water hole near: Rushworth, was for several years a valued member of the Castlemaine Orchestra, ...

    Article : 91 words
  13. AMERICAN TARIFF RECIPROCITY.

    While the question of preferential trade with the colonies is just now the question of the hour in the British Empire, America is about to embark on the same scheme in a small way. A session of Congress called ...

    Article : 453 words
  14. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    The Local Government Bill was recommitted in the Council yesterday, for the purpose of making several verbal and consequential amendments. Sir Arthur ...

    Article : 704 words
  15. APOLLO BAY MAIN ROAD.

    A deputation waited on the Colac shire council to-day with reference to the main road from Beech Forest to Apollo Bay, Mr. J. Finlayson said he had a scheme ...

    Article : 210 words
  16. CHRISTMAS APPEALS.

    Central Methodist Mission, Lonsdale-street.--The Rev. A. R. Edgar makes an appeal in which he says--"The charitable activities of this mission are wholly unsectarian. The mission is conducted ...

    Article : 603 words
  17. BURGLARS AT RUSHWORTH.

    A bold attempt was made to break into Messrs. Miller and Co.'s store last night, but the effort was frustrated by means of the steel plates with which the door is ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. MANY THOUSANDS OF STRIKERS.

    Two of the biggest strikes in the history of America's industrial struggles are imminent. In fact, one of them, that of the coal miners of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico ...

    Article : 606 words
  19. CUSTOMS INQUIRIES.

    Inquiries in public regarding seven disputes were held at the Custom House yesterday by Mr. A. W. Smart, Collector of Customs. The result of the investigations ...

    Article : 455 words
  20. CORRUPTION IN OFFICIAL LIFE.

    "I have the right," said President Roosevelt, in a speech last week, "to challenge the best effort of every American worthy of the name to put down by every means ...

    Article : 321 words
  21. INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF STOCK.

    At the Colac council meeting yesterday Cr. Hancock moved that in view of the unsatisfactory state of the law relating to infectious diseases of stock, as evidenced ...

    Article : 539 words
  22. CRIMINAL COURT.

    Mr. Justice Hodges yesterday passed sentence upon the following persons who had either plended guilty or been convicted at the current sittings of the Criminal Court:-- ...

    Article : 365 words
  23. THE UMPIRE INCIDENT.

    On the conclusion of the match the teams were invited to meet the State Governor, Sir. Harry Rawson. Mr. G. H. Reid proposed the only two toasts The King and ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. THE RONBURGHE--GOELET WEDDING.

    Ten thousand people, most of them women wearing expensive clothing, swarmed round St. Thomas's Church, in New York, on 10th November, the day that ...

    Article : 437 words
  25. AN ELECTION DAY QUARREL

    Last night John Stephenson, a resident of Nowra, after returning home from the polling booth, quarrelled with his wife. After some words, it is alleged, he ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. BOY DROWNED WHILE BIRDNESTING.

    While birdnesting at Burnley on Wednesday afternoon, a little boy 8 years of age, named John Talbot, fell from a tree that overhung the river and was drowned. The boy, who was unable to swim, ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. THE GATE RECEIPTS.--A WORLD'S RECORD.

    The takings for the match totalled £4272, which is a world's record, the previous best being at the fifth test match in Melbourne, in the season 1894-95. ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    At a meeting of the Richmond council last evening it was decided to levy a general rate of 19 in the po[?]d, and to make an annual charge of. 12 per pan. ...

    Article : 38 words
  29. INTER-STATE CRICKET.

    [?]. Gregory, M'Beth, Farquhar and M'Kay, members of the New South Wales cricket team, arrived to-day. The other members, who are engaged in the test ...

    Article : 37 words
  30. SOUTH MELBOURNE MARKET.

    At last night's meeting of the South Melbourne council, Messrs. Mitchell and Son's tender of £2825 for the lease of the local market for the ensuing nine months was accepted. ...

    Article : 35 words
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