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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. Albert Dunstan, of Western Australia, is still in Ballarat engaging unemployed miners for the Phillips River Gold and Copper Company, Albany. On Tuesday last ...

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  3. ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

    The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science meets in conference in Sydney on Monday next. The president elect of the association is Professor D. O. ...

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  4. DAILY WEATHER CHART.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. WORK AND WAGES.

    The strike of plasterers has now entered upon its eleventh week, and there is still no sign of settlement. An official of the Operative Plasterers' Union said yesterday ...

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  6. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

    Important questions connected with the training of young Australians for positions in the Australian Naval Unit have been settled by two progress reports which ...

    Article : 294 words
  7. LABOR INCONSISTENCIES.

    The particulars published in "The Age" regarding the letting by the Postal department of contract for underground pipes to an Australian firm are were referred ...

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  8. ASHBY (GEELONG) STATE SCHOOL.

    A tender has been accepted by the Public Works department for the complete remodelling of the Ashby State school at Geelong. The policy of the Education department now with ...

    Article : 141 words
  9. DRIVERS AND SUNDAY WORK.

    Before the mayor (Cr. Murphy) and Mr. T. Craine, J.P., at South Melbourne yesterday, Ernest Bain proceeded against Frederick Skinner, a carrier, for the recovery of ...

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  10. BENDIGO.

    The quantity of gold purchased by the banks in Bendigo and Eaglehawk during the past month, according to returns prepared by the mining registrar (Mr. H. S. ...

    Article : 93 words
  11. A RIVERINA RAILWAY.

    The Public Works Committee met this afternoon, to consider the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Finley to Tocumwal, on the Victorian border. ...

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  12. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

    As far as the south-eastern quarter of the continent is concerned, the most prominent feature of Thursday's weather chart was the advance shown in the small ...

    Article : 290 words
  13. GEELONG.

    For the half year ended 31st December the imports entered at Geelong aggregated £228,782, as compared with £185,784 for the six months ended 31st December, 1909. ...

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  14. ASTRONOMICAL MEMORANDA.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 words
  15. REGISTERING SENIOR CADETS.

    In connection with the registration of young Australians between the ages of 14 and 17 for training in the new senior cadets, now proceeding all over the ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. RAINFALL COMPARISON FOR MELBOURNE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 words
  17. NEW SOUTH WALES STATION REPORT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 words
  18. POWLETT.

    A dispute has occurred between a shift of men employed at the No. 5 shaft of the State mine and the management. There were three parties employed on each shift ...

    Article : 469 words
  19. A DRAMATIC SUICIDE.

    James Robertson, 43, married, but who lived at the house of his mother in Good-street, Yarraville, yesterday committed suicide by firing two revolver bullets into ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. STATE SERVANTS AND WAGES BOARDS.

    The nominations submitted by the employes for the engineers' and boiler makers' wages boards, five in each case, contained the names of four persons who are in the ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE.

    In its bearing on the future progress of the citizens of this State, the new Education Act, which has just received the Royal assent, is the most important measure ...

    Article : 514 words
  22. A BOOKMAKING VENTURE.

    An application was made to the Chief Justice in the Practice Court yesterday by Mr. Rogan for leave to defend an action relating to an alleged bookmaking partnership. ...

    Article : 358 words
  23. FORECASTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 words
  24. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    An employe at the goods sheds at the Western railway station, named John O'Neil, aged 45, fell from some staging at the sheds this evening and sustained ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. IRON WORKERS' ASSISTANTS' WAGES.

    Owing to the failure of the iron worker' assistants to obtain a wages board of their own, a proposal that the engineers and boiler makers' subsection of the chamber ...

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  26. AN ILL-STARRED IMMIGRANT.

    An immigrant named Albert Edward Goddard, who arrived live weeks ago with his wife, and who was employed by Mr. Charles Gellion, Woodlands Estate, ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. A BOY DROWNED.

    At the inquest at West Maitland regarding the death of a boy named Patrick Fitzpatrick, twelve years, who was drowned at Wallis Creek on 27th ...

    Article : 99 words
  28. CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Dr. Anthony Colling Brownless was to-day commited for trial by the city coroner on a charge of feloniously and maliciously murdering Annie Theresa King, aged 38, ...

    Article : 142 words
  29. UNION BAKERS.

    The local branch of the miners' association is continuing its efforts to induce local bakers to employ union labor. One baker, in a letter to the association, said ...

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  30. RIVER GAUGINGS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 417 words
  31. FALSE PRETENCES.

    At the local court to-day a man named George William Lincoln Mackay was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having obtained £15 by false pretences ...

    Article : 100 words
  32. UPHOLDING THE GAME LAWS.

    Although supplied by a cheeseparing Government with funds for only three in specters, the Fisheries and Game department is laying a heavy hand on some of ...

    Article : 364 words
  33. STREET BETTING CASES.

    Further cases under the Street Betting Suppression Act were heard before Mr. Morrison, P.M., and Mr. D. Buchanan, J.P., at South Melbourne on Wednesday. ...

    Article : 432 words
  34. A DANGEROUS RIVER.

    During the recent holidays there have been no fewer than six cases of drowning in the Torrens River. The vicinity in which the fatalities have occurred is ...

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  35. WAGES AT BROKEN HILL.

    The calm which surrounded the settlement of the labor conditions between the unions and the mining and treatment companies threatens to be disturbed through ...

    Article : 436 words
  36. DISAPPOINTED GIPSIES.

    A travelling band of gipsies, about 14 in number, drove into Bunyip yesterday, and immediately started to canvass the business people to have their fortunes told. ...

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  37. FOUND DEAD IN A WELL.

    Arthur Rodda, a well sinking contractor at Mannup, was found dead at the bottom of a well 31 feet deep, where he had been overpowered by marsh gas, which was ...

    Article : 66 words
  38. BOY SCOUTS.

    In accordance with the desire of a large number of scout masters, representatives of district councils and citizens interested in the scout movement, a meeting was held last night at the ...

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  39. PROGRESS OF MORTLAKE.

    The town of Mortlake, which was practically at a standstill for a number of years, is now booming. Land values have risen, the dairying industry is prospering, ...

    Article : 237 words
  40. BENDIGO MINERS.

    The 56th half yearly report of the local branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Employes' Association, which has just been issued, shows that during the term 22 ...

    Article : 232 words
  41. BATMAN BY-ELECTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 words
  42. OFFICIAL RAINFALL RECORDS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 510 words
  43. THE TOMATO SEASON.

    The tomato growers in this district have suffered loss this season in consequence of the continued cool weather, which prevented the fruit from maturing as early as ...

    Article : 103 words
  44. TEST CRICKET—TEAM SELECTION.

    Sir,—I think the selection made for the third test will come as a surprise to all cricket enthusiasts. Is there a monopoly in cricket as well as other spheres? It ...

    Article : 372 words
  45. AN AGITATED LAKE.

    The natives at Rotorua are greatly excited over a phenomenal rise and fall of the water level of Lake Rotoiti. The water subsided, and rose alternately every five ...

    Article : 52 words
  46. BEALIBA'S REQUIREMENTS.

    In reply to a deputation from the progress association, which waited on the Minister of Mines (Mr. M'Bride) at Bealiba, the Minister said he would obtain ...

    Article : 115 words
  47. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Assembly met yesterday after the Christmas adjournment, with 36 bills on the notice paper. The estimates are only partially dealt with, and the ...

    Article : 211 words
  48. THE KILLING OF CONSTABLE JONES.

    James M'Cormack, who was arrested at Bacchus Marsh on a charge of having murdered Constable Jones at that place on New Year's eve by striking him on the head with a bottle of beer, was ...

    Article : 118 words
  49. TIMBER ON WHARFS.

    At Wednesday's meeting of the Harbor Trust a complaint was made that consignees[?] timber was removed from the wharf by the Harbor Trust after having ...

    Article : 168 words
  50. DISEASE IN POTATOES.

    With the object of preventing the Irish blight from spreading in the Bungaree district, a field trial of potato sprayers was held at Bungaree to-day in the presence ...

    Article : 113 words
  51. THE BULLFINCH FIELD.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  52. CARRIAGE OF SUGAR IN DIRTY TRUCKS.

    Despite the publicity recently given to the carriage of sugar in dirty trucks, a further consignment reached Charlton on Tuesday in a coal truck. Over one ton ...

    Article : 49 words
  53. Advertising

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    Advertising : 192 words
  54. FIRES.

    BALLARAT. A six-roomed house in Yarrowee-street, Sebastopol, which was owned and occupied by Mrs. Shannon, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday ...

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  55. FIRE AT BROKEN HILL.

    A fire occurred in Wilson-street, South Broken Hill, early this morning, resulting in the destruction of a house and furniture belonging to Andrew Colliss. The origin ...

    Article : 84 words
  56. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Government street tramways established a record for the Christmas holidays' season. For the ten days ended 2nd January the passengers carried totalled 89,919, ...

    Article : 44 words
  57. AMUSEMENTS.

    To-night, in the Alfresco Theatre, St. Kilda Esplanade, the Messrs. and N. Tait will present an almost new company of Follies, this being in accordance with their promise to ...

    Article : 76 words
  58. ALLEGED CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

    Florence Deniehy, 18 years, whose home is at Launceston, but who is staying at Newmarket, where she has a room, last night complained to the police that a man had yesterday morning ...

    Article : 82 words
  59. FIRE AT MALVERN.

    At about 1 a.m. yesterday flames were observed bursting from a shed at Malvern corporation yards. The local fire brigade was called out, and soon extinguished the flames. The shed was damaged ...

    Article : 55 words
  60. BAIRNSDALE STATE SCHOOL.

    Negotiations have been proceeding for some time between the education department and Mr. M'Lachlan. M.L.A., on behalf of the inhabitants of Bairnsdate, with reference to the establishment ...

    Article : 103 words
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