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  2. LUNATIC CHARGED WITH LIGHTING A FIRE.

    At the Albury quarter sessions to-day Gustav Berg was charged with maliciously setting fire to the natural grass on Ma[?]onga Station on 19th January. The ...

    Article : 141 words
  3. THE PREMIER AT YARRAM.

    The Premier, attended by Mr. Livingston, M.L.A., and Mr. Langdon, M.L.A., visited Yarram to-day, with the primary object of opening the third annual musical ...

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  4. THE POLICE COMMISSION.

    The whole of yesterday was spent by the Police Commission in conference at the Law Courts upon the Premier's refusal to sanction any country and inter-State jaunts ...

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  5. SUPPORT LOCAL INDUSTRY.

    The effect of the tariff on the agricultural implement making industry and the necessity for legislation to prevent its further exploitation by the foreign trader were ...

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  6. COUNTRY NEWS.

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  7. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Arbitration Court delivered an important judgment to-day in the coal lumpers' dispute, which arose out of an attempt by the union to regulate the hours ...

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  9. FIRES.

    BENDIGO.--About 4 a.m. on Monday the smoke stack of the Blue battery, Golden-square, caught fire, and the falling sparks ignited the stacks of firewood piled near ...

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  10. MR. CHAPMAN'S DEPARTURE.

    Mr. Austin Chapman, Postmaster-General, who leaves Australia next week on his way to Rome as representative of the Commonwealth at the International Postal ...

    Article : 367 words
  11. THE VICTORIAN DROUGHT.

    If the dry season as now existing in Victoria should long continue there is every reason to fear a severe drought and water famine in the country districts. The ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. STRIKE AT A COAL MINE.

    The wheelers at the West Wallsend colliery, 22 in number, refused work this morning until a certain miner was removed from the mine. The pit was ...

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  13. TO-DAY'S FORECASTS.

    The following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (Tuesday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchr: Fine, gradually becoming warmer; S.E. and E. winds; sea moderate to slight. ...

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  14. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    Mr. Joseph Cook, M.P., in an address at Redfern to-night, criticised the Labor platform, and said Mr. Watson's feat in getting an alliance with Mr. Deakin through ...

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  15. A BOGUS HEIR.

    Ebn. Benjamin Bridge, 33 years of age, described as a laborer, was brought before the central court to-day on a charge of having by means of a valueless cheque ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. BENDIGO.

    Mr. D. O'Halloran, solicitor for Robert Foster, miner, of Baxter-street, has served a writ on Messrs. M'Coll and Rankin, legal managers of the Sea Company, claiming ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. THE TEACHERS ACT.

    The Registration of Teachers and Schools Act, which was passed last session, and which provides for the registration of teachers of secondary schools and of the schools ...

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  18. TELEGRAPH LINES INTERRUPTED.

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  19. RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

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  20. ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A BAR MAID.

    In the police court to-day, before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., Wm. Hall Birdseye, licensee of the Willyama Hotel, which was recently burned down, was charged with ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    An infant named Conrad Opper, aged five weeks, died in the Children's Hospital in peculiar circumstances. During the hearing of an application to have four children, ...

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  22. RAIN IN QUEENSLAND.

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  23. THE GREAT BERRY MINE.

    At a meeting at Ararat on Sunday last Mr. M'Grath, M.L.A., stated that the Minister of Mines had refused him information about the Great Berry mine, that the ...

    Article : 424 words
  24. OBSERVATORY REPORT.

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  25. GEELONG.

    The Geelong Harbor Trust has received 171 applications for the position of secretary and 98 for the combined offices of secretary and engineer. The applications ...

    Article : 326 words
  26. RIVERINA NEWS.

    At the Albury quarter sessions to-day, before Acting Judge Ralston, Henry Watkins, charged with stealing a letter sent by post, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve ...

    Article : 155 words
  27. SUPPOSED CASE OF SUICIDE.

    A Murray fisherman found a bottle floating in the river near Payne's Point this morning. It was corked up, and contained the following note:--"I have drowned ...

    Article : 130 words
  28. TRADES UNION CASES.

    A series of summonses which attracted interest amongst registered trade unions were dealt with in the District Court yesterday, when J. Dwyer, Thomas Bourke and F. Wheeler were ...

    Article : 457 words
  29. OLD AGE PENSIONER'S DEATH.

    Mr. George Bunney, employed at the Back Creek Cemetery, on going to work on Tuesday morning, found the dead body of an old age pensioner named Denis ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. QUEENSLAND.

    The Government Statistician has issued a report showing that the estimated population of Queensland on 31st December, 1905, was 528,048, being 290,206 males and ...

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  31. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  32. CASE OF W. N. WILLIS.

    The notification received by private cable last night that the appeal of W. N. Willis to the Supreme Court of Natal against his proposed extradition to this country was ...

    Article : 355 words
  33. RETIRED CIVIL SERVANT'S DEATH.

    Thomas Haskew was to-day round dead on the floor of his office in King William-street. It is believed that he took poison. Deceased was a civil servant until 1904, ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Government held a Cabinet meeting this afternoon, and came to a decision in reference to the outer harbor works. This has not been communicated to the press, ...

    Article : 224 words
  35. A JOCKEY INJURED.

    A jockey named James Sutherland, aged 28, while schooling the well-known racehorse My Mistake at Burrumbeet on Tuesday, fell from the saddle in taking a jump, ...

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  36. MR. BENT OPENS THE YARRAM COMPETITIONS.

    At the invitation of the Rev. W. H. Abbott, Methodist, minister, the Premier to-night opened the third annual musical and clocutionary ...

    Article : 450 words
  37. CASTLEMAINE.

    In connection with the Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria, a ladies' lodge has been formed at Castlemaine. At the local court on Tuesday, before ...

    Article : 166 words
  38. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Archibald Donnelly Michie, of 406 Collins-street, Melbourne, solicitor. Causes of insolvency: Heavy losses during the last five years and pressure of creditors. Liabilities (approximate), £500; ...

    Article : 184 words
  39. THROWN FROM A WAGGON.

    A man named M'Millan, driver of Mr. E. D. Williams's, delivery waggon, was driving near Yapeen when the horses shied, throwing him on to the road on his head. ...

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  40. PLAGUE AT FREMANTLE.

    Dr. Enderson, medical officer at Fremantle, stated to-day that the condition of Fiorio, one of the plague patients, was very critical, the journey to the quarantine ...

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  41. RUN OVER BY A DRAY.

    A fatal accident happened at Muskerry yesterday, the victim being a young man named Robert Roulston. He was riding on the top of a 200-gallon tank full of water, ...

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  42. MR. BENT AND THE BRIGHTON ELECTRIC TRAM LINE.

    Sir,--A short time ago Mr. Bent was pleased to pelt a few stones, or it might have been bricks, at certain tram company directors who, in their capacity as ...

    Article : 303 words
  43. WARRNAMBOOL.

    The matter of filling the vacancy caused by the appointment of the Rev. D. A. Cameron, M.A., to the position of director of home missions will be considered by the ...

    Article : 161 words
  44. RECLAIMING SWAMP LAND

    The Government has completed negotiations for the repurchase of 1100 acres of swamp, and 1000 acres of high, lands, about 6 miles from Murray-bridge. Surveyors are ...

    Article : 48 words
  45. LAW LIST.--(THIS DAY.)

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  46. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    Mr. A. D. Thomson, authorised surveyor, has completed the subdivisional survey of the Ouyen lands, comprising some 45,000 acres. Those applicants who intend to ...

    Article : 118 words
  47. CHEQUES AS WILLS.

    A curious probate suit occupied the attention of Mr. Justice Walker to-day, viz., the suit for the administration of the estate of the late Alexander Brown Portus, civil ...

    Article : 238 words
  48. A.N.A. COMPETITIONS.

    Another successful entertainment was held last evening in connection with the above, in the Athenaeum Hall. The following will show those selected for finals on the 17th, and those who ...

    Article : 273 words
  49. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    BRISBANE.--Arrived, February 13.--Buninyong and Hawke's Bay, from Sydney. Sailed, February 13.--Rippingham Grange, Moira and Gabo, for Sydney; Tay, for Maryborough; Buninyong, ...

    Article : 109 words
  50. SERIOUS CHARGES.

    Edward Ford, a swagman, aged 78 years, was charged at the local court to-day with indecently assaulting a girl seven years of age. Evidence ...

    Article : 233 words
  51. PORT MELBOURNE LAGOON.

    The Harbor Trust has informed the Port Melbourne council that the estimated annual cost of cleaning out tho Port Melbourne lagoon with a crab crane would be £75, and the council last ...

    Article : 56 words
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