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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Service was resumed on Sunday at the Dawson-street Baptist Church, which was recently improved and renovated at a cost of about £250. There is £180 in hand ...

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  3. AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

    The conference of Misters controlling the Departments of Agriculture of the various States was brought to a conclusion on Saturday The following Ministers of ...

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  4. THE IRRIGATION QUESTION.

    Irrigation and water conservation from the national point of view was the subject of a lecture delivered by Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the State Rivers and Water ...

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  5. LETTER CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION.

    The twelfth annual celebration in connection with the Victorian Letter Carriers' Association was held at Rubira's Cafe, Bourke-street, on Saturday evening, and ...

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  6. AMUSEMENTS.

    Of all the Shakspearian tragedies Othello is the most sombre. It is also, in many respects, the most impressive. It shows the greatest concentration of purpose, the ...

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  7. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    An interesting case concerning a patient's liability to pay hospital fees came before Judge Rogers at the district court. The treasurer of the Wagga Hospital sued Mr. ...

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  8. LAUNCESTON, Sunday.

    The death is announced of James Francis Rigney, a well-known pastoralist, of Bona Vista, Avoca, at the age of 71. Mr. Rigney arrived in Tasmania in 1843. ...

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  9. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mrs. Colburne, who died at Outram yesterday, was 100 years of age. The new steamer Ruahine, for the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been ...

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  10. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    About 10.15 p.m. on Friday Mrs. Vance, who is in a delicate state of health, was walking along an asphalt footpath towards her home in Beach-road, Sandringham, ...

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  11. BENDIGO.

    It is understood that Cr. D. Andrews will be the next mayor of Bendigo. Cr. F. Osborne is the president elect of the Strathfieldsaye shire council. ...

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  12. QUEENSLAND.

    The Commissioner of Railways in March last met the Chief Commissioner of New South Wales, when an agreement was arrived at regarding the border rates. It ...

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  13. GEELONG.

    His Excellency the Stale Governor and the Premier have intimated their intention of being present at the Haggis supper of the Geelong Common na Fienne. ...

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  14. QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK.

    At the half yearly meeting of shareholders of the Queensland National Bank on Thursday, the chairman stated that during the half year ...

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  15. SUDDEN DEATH AT BRUNSWICK.

    Mr. John Henderson, a well-known resident of Brunswick, died very suddenly last night Mr. Henderson, while at service at the Baptist Church, felt ill, and rising from ...

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  16. A BOY SHOT

    A shooting accident occurred about midday yesterday at the Havelock State forest. John Seymour and William Fergus, Maryborough youths, were shooting ...

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  17. JUBILEE CHORAL CONTEST.

    In connection with the musical competition at the exhibition on Thursday, the big event, the grand open choral contest, for choirs of not less than 60 or more than 80 ...

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  18. WARRNAMBOOL.

    The committee has appointed out of numerous applicants from this and other States Herr Carl Saner (dip. of Leipzie), of Melbourne, judge of the musical events ...

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  19. MAN'S SKULL FRACTURED.

    A man named John Rodgers was killed on Friday by falling into an open cutting at Ironbark, about half a mile from Tarnagulla. As he did not return to his tent a ...

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  20. SCHOOL BUILDING CONDEMNED.

    At the last meeting of the Broadford shire council a report was received from the health officer of the shire resecting the new State school building recently ...

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  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The balance sheet of Messrs Elder Smith and Co. shows that after adding £20,000 to the reserve, the amount carried forward is £57,151 or £6265 in excess ...

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  22. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    The Labor party appears dissatisfied with proposals for the readjustment of the Federal electorates put forward by Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Registrar-General. The ...

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  23. FOUND DROWNED.

    A man wan yesterday found drowned in a billabong at the foot of Hume-street, Gloucester. The body had evidently been in the water for several days, being much ...

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  24. MEDICAL OFFICER APPOINTED.

    Great satisfaction is expressed here at the determination of the Government to appoint a medical officer for the country districts. This appointment, although a ...

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  25. GLENELG SHIRE ROADS.

    At the council meeting on Friday Cr. Cameron moved for an estimate of the cost of putting in of the all main roads leading out from Casterton for a distance of five ...

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  26. THREE NATIVES DROWNED.

    Messrs Burns, Philp and Co. have received advice by the steamer Makamba that a whaleboat belonging to a trader named Hudson capsized in the Solomon ...

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  27. RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

    The body of a man whose name is believed to be H. Lees was found yesterday morning underneath the Liverpool road railway bridge, near Ashfield. Lees, who ...

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  28. GAIETY THEATRE.

    "The Manikins," starred on the programme of the Gaiety Theatre, is certainly one of the cleverest "doll" shows yet exhibited in Melbourne. The stage is fixed ...

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  29. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

    An election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cr. Cook, one of the representatives of Victoria ward in the City Council, will be held to-day. The candidates are Messrs. W. D. ...

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  30. WORKING A CLAY DEPOSIT.

    The valuable deposit of pigment clay which was some time ago discovered on Brewery Hill is to be experimented on by the Brunswick Kaolin Co., which has ...

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  31. WHARF LABORER KILLED.

    A fatal wharf accident occurred at Fremantle on Friday. While the crew of the Kanowna was at boat drill the lifeboat on the port side, on being swung out, ...

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  32. THE OUTPUT OF TIN.

    The output of tin from Umbra warm is being steadily maintained, and represents about 10 tons (value £850) for July. As the prospector is abroad, other discoveries ...

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  33. INCOME TAX PROSECUTION.

    At the local court on Friday Jas. T. Scott was fined £2, with 25 coats, for failing to furnish full particular regarding his income tax for the year ended 31st ...

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  34. SENATE LABOR REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Labor ballot for Senate candidates is to be reopened to admit the votes from Murchison, which came to band too late to be counted. It means that Mr. Holman, ...

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  35. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    At a mass meeting of civil servants on Friday night it was resolved to elect an emergency committee to represent to the Government the grievances of the service, ...

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  36. WEST'S PICTURES.

    Some exceptionally fine turns are now being exhibited at Olympia, and the crowds that gather there to witness them, particularly on a Saturday night, attest their popularity. The Management ...

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  37. BOY'S DREADFUL EXPERIENCE.

    John Archibald, aged 16, was caught in the belt of the main shaft at Millars' workshop, Yarloop yesterday, and whirled up against the ceiling, He fell 14 feet, ...

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  38. LABOR CANDIDATE FOR KOOYONG.

    A meeting of delegates from the various branches of the Political Labor League in the Kooyong electorate was held in the Workingmen's Club, Hawthorn, on Friday ...

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  39. SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    A tragedy presumably the outcome of domestic unhappiness, but for which no precise motive can be assigned, occurred on Friday at 21 Goold-street, ...

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  40. WHITE CLIFFS IRRIGATION AREA.

    In regard to the projected visit of Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the Water Commission, and Mr. Reid in connection with making available the remainder of the ...

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  41. MINING ACCIDENT.

    At the Golden Horseshoe mine on Thursday morning an accident occurred at the 1300 feet level. After blasting two miners proceeded with their work. One of them, ...

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  42. THE BOY SCOUTS.

    A parade of the boy scouts took place at Royal Park under Chief Scout Master E. G. Lister on Saturday afternoon, when over 400 took ...

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  43. RAILWAY CONTRACT LET.

    The tender of Messrs. Teesdale, Smith and Timms, for the construction of the Port Hedland-Marble Bar railway, in the Pilbarra has district accepted. The ...

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  44. SOUTH MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL.

    Mr. Peter Grut, who is oppo[?]ing Cr. J. S. White, ex-M.L.A., in the Canterbury ward of the South Melbourne city council, addressed a well attended meeting of ratepayers in Honeybone's ...

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  45. HOMING PIGEONS.

    Sir,--I notice in this morning's issue of Jour valuable paper an article on the shooting of homing pigeons, signed "A loving Homer's Friend" and I should like ...

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  46. GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.

    Some interesting geological facts have been discovered by the boring work on the Adelaide plains lately. The strata at varying depths proves beyond doubt that in ...

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  47. ESCAPE FROM A HOSPITAL.

    A well-known farmer named John M'Donald, single, aged about 35, escaped from a private hospital at Yea about 10 p.m. in his night clothes and bare feet, ...

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  48. A MANAGER ROBBED.

    A remarkable robbery at Victoria Park, a suburb of Perth, has been reported. On Saturday night Mr. G. Troubridge, manager of Holmes Bros., butchers, ...

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  49. FIRES.

    SALE.--At 10.30 on Saturday a fire broke out in a storeroom at the back of the printing office of Mr. J. L. Recce, Foster-street. The fire brigade arrived ...

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  50. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY

    KORUMBURRA,--The eighteenth half yearly meeting of the shareholders of the korumburra and District Co-operative Butter Factory Co. Ltd. was held on Saturday ...

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  51. LEPROSY IN THE ISLANDS.

    Captain Steele, of the mission steamer John Williams, which returned to Sydney from the islands, states that one unsatisfactory feature regarding the Northern ...

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  52. MARSHALL-HALL ORCHESTRA.

    Saturday's orchestral concert derived exceptional interest by the inclusion in the programme of Strause's tone poem, Death and Transfiguration, not altogether a new ...

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  53. COMMONWEALTH RIFLE.

    Sir,--Referring to Mr. G. Wallace Crabbe's letter in your issue of to-day, will be tell us if there is really an invention of a rifle by Australian which is not ...

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  54. IMPORTATION OF TIMBER.

    The South Australian branch of the Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employes' Union has appealed to the Victorian branch of the federation for its ...

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  55. A DESERTED INFANT.

    On Friday night Mr. Charles Maplestone, of 21 Royal-parade, Royal park, found a male child aged about four months, on the verandah of his house and took it to the local police station. ...

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  56. JEWELLERY ROBBERY AT NORTHCOTE.

    A daring robbery was committed at Northcote on Saturday night, when the shop of Messrs. Angove and Felthing, jewellers, was broken into by someone, who ...

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  57. TASMANIA.

    The employes of the Northern Territory mines of Australia and of the Adelaide mine, Dundas, have forwarded to the mayor of Bendigo a handsome and valuable ...

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