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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. Charles Field, for 28 years connected with the Bullarat city post office, was on Friday entertained at a farewell social by his fellow officers prior to his removal to ...

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  3. SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE.

    At a specially summoned meeting of the council of the Waterside Workers' Federation yesterday, at which every State throughout the Federation was ...

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  4. SUBURBAN TRAINS.

    The Railway department has now arranged its summer time table for the suburban services, to take effect from 1st December. Many alterations and additions ...

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  5. WORK AND WAGES.

    The report in "The Age" to-day regarding the miners' scale of wages and comments thereon were freely discussed amongst the miners. There appeared to be ...

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  6. MOUNT LYELL STRIKE.

    Yesterday the Mount Lydell company received a telegram from Mr. J. Little, general secretary of the A.M.E.A., asking whether the company would meet three ...

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  7. WONTHAGGI AND SANITATION.

    Tire Stale Government through the Department of Public Health, is taking steps to place matters affecting the public health at Wonthaggi upon a sounder basis. The assistant engineer of ...

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  8. HOW THE MEN ARE LED.

    A letter has been received locally from a resident of Queenstown, in which reference is made to misrepresentations made by the leaders of the Tasmanian branches of ...

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  9. BUILDERS' LABORERS.

    At a largely attended meeting of the Builders' Laborers' Union to-night it was decided that those not getting 10 a day should cense work on Monday morning. ...

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  10. AMUSEMENTS.

    This evening The first production in Australia of The Swiss Express will take place at the Princess's Theatre. The Swiss Express has stood the test of thirty years, and while it embrace much ...

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  11. BUILDERS' LABORERS' WAGES.

    The builders laborers in Brisbane have demanded increased pay. This is likely to cause a good deal of trouble in the building trade, as the demands, if agreed to. ...

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  12. FEDERAL MINISTERS' ATTITUDE.

    Considerable prominence was given in the House of Representatives yesterday to the strike of the waterside workers in Sydney, and the statement thereon by the ...

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  13. UNIONIST "PERSECUTION."

    At the fortnightly meeting of the council of the chamber of mines on the 2nd inst. tho president, Mr. H. E. Rowe, in the chair, affairs in connection with the ...

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  14. STRIKE OF RAILWAY NAVVIES AT GERALDTON.

    Further labor troubles are reported at Geraldton, whore 25 men in the railway construction department have struck for an increase in wages to 10 day. ...

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  15. ARTIFICIAL MANURE TRADE.

    At a special meeting of the Artificial Manure Trade Union, held at Yarraville on Tuesday evening, the executive recommended that the agreement with tire employers, which had been under ...

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  16. BENDIGO.

    Mr. W. Abraham, who for some years past has fulfilled the position of mining inspector in Bendigo and other parts of the State, and who, prior to that, waa ...

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  17. LAW SET IN OPERATION.

    Matters generally in connection with the wharf laborers' strike were quiet ton lay, and all attention seems to be concentrated on the meeting of men to be held ...

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  18. FREMANTLE TRAM STRIKE.

    The Fremantle tramway industrial dispute was temporarily settled to-day, when, as the result of a deputation from the employes' union waiting on the board, the ...

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  19. CARTING AFTER HOURS.

    Under the new legislation that prohibits the carting of goods, or permitting the carting of goods after 7.30 p.m. on week nights other than Fridays, dames Johnson, a Williamstown carrier. ...

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  20. LIQUOR IN PARLIAMENT.

    The fact that the two branches of the Federal Parliament are in direct opposition on the question of banishing intoxicating liquor from the refreshment rooms, ...

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  21. WRECK OF THE ROSEDALE.

    An inquiry was hold this morning, before Judge Backhouse and Captains C. Spinks and C. W. Davidson, as assessors, into the circumstances respecting the loss of the ...

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  22. NEW WAGES BOARDS.

    The Executive Council yesterday parsed orders for the constitution for the tie makers', country flour makers' and cordage makers' boards. ...

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  23. W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

    The annual conference of the Women's Christian Temperance Union terminated yesterday. Mrs. Presley was re-eleeted president. ...

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  24. GEELONG.

    At Friday's meeting of the South Barwon shire council a loiter was read from Mr..J. F. Farrer, M.L.A., stating that the Acting Minister lot Public Works was ...

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  25. MILK BELOW STANDARD.

    At the Redfern court to-day the Sydney Milk and Ice Company Limited was fined, £75, with 6 costs, for selling milk deficient in butter fat do the extent of 78 ...

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  26. DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Bulloo River is lower in durts at present than in the tog drought. The stations west of the Cooper Diver are suffering severely, and large numbers of ...

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  27. WARRNAMBOOL.

    An accident, which occurred to a man named Alexander Hendry, at Winslow, on Tuesday last, has resulted fatally. The wheel of a waggon passed over his arm, ...

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  28. KALGOORLIE BANK ROBBERY.

    John Leahy, accountant in the Commercial Bank, was brought before the court this afternoon on a charge of breaking into and entering the bank. Several witnesses ...

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  29. POSITION IN MELBOURNE.

    Although the deep sea men have been involved to some extent in the Sydney trouble there have not been any new developments as far as the Melbourne ...

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  30. NEW ZEALAND COMPETITIONS.

    In the Now Zealand elocutionary competitions the musical monologue contest was Avon by Miss Lilian Pritchard, of Melbourne. Miss Thelma Brown, of ...

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  31. THE RAILWAYS.

    The Railway Commissioners on Thursday received a deputation from the chamber of mines, which urged that a reduction be made in the freight charges upon machin ...

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  32. WONTHAGGI.

    At a meeting of the Wonthaggi storekeepers on Thursday evening it was decided, by 19 votes to 7, that the weekly half-holiday be observed on the ...

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  33. MURRAY WATERS AGREEMENT.

    The Premier (Mr. Verran) stated recently that Mr. Glynn, M.P., legal adviser to South Australia, was arranging the Murray waters agreement, and would ...

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  34. THE FEDERAL SITE COMPETITION

    The hon, secretary of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Mr. John Little, yesterday received intimation that the Queensland Institute of Architects has ...

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  35. LATE MR. BATCHELOR'S SEAT.

    Nominations were received to-day for the Boothby scat in the House of Representatives, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. E. L. Batchelor. There were only two ...

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  36. LABOR IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Director of Labor and the Chief Inspector of Factories and Shops, in their annual report for 1910, state that the number of persons registered for employment ...

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  37. HAMILTON.

    A grant of £600 has been made by the Treasurer towards the construction of a septic tank, which is now being built in the Hamilton Hospital. ...

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  38. LOCAL NEWS.

    At Williamstown court yesterday, a young woman named Ellen Richards was fined 10, with 26 costs, for having travelled from Footscray to North Williamstown without a ticket. Defendant, ...

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  39. WEST AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS.

    The counting in the Metropolitan' and Suburban province election was completed this morning, Labor winning both seats by small majorities. Only 35 per cent of ...

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  40. WONTHAGGI LINE.

    The Railway Commissioners have decided to proceed with numerous works for the improvement of the Wonthaggi line. Under the Railway Loan Application Act ...

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  41. FIRE AT TOWNSVILLE.

    A disastrous fire occurred at Townsville this morning, the buildings occupied by Messrs. Smellie and Co. being completely gulped. The damage is estimated at about ...

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  42. A LABOR LEADER ON THE STRIKE.

    Mr. W. G. Spence, M.P., president of the Australian Workers' Union, yesterday expressed himself in an interview in emphatic terms with reward to the wharf ...

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  43. ECHUCA.

    Egg day was observed at the Echuca State schools on Friday. At the central school 124 dozen were brought by the scholars, and 7 12 dozen were accounted for ...

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  45. POLICE AND PUBLIC.

    At Fitzroy yesterday, Richard Horace Gay. laborer, 31, was charged with having behaved in an offensive manner and assented Plain Clothes Constable Mafferzond in the execution of his duty. ...

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  46. SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING.

    Shortly before 1 p.m. to-day the police aided premises in Pitt-street. This afternoon at the Water Police Court Victor Hugh M'Conville, 20; William Ainsley, 35; ...

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  47. BENALLA COUNTY COURT.

    At the County Court to-day before Judge Box and a jury, W. C. Williams, district forester and laud owner, sued Robert A. Henry to recover £300 damages for ...

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  48. FIRES.

    BENDIGO.--On Friday night a five- roomed house in Frederick-street, occupied by Mrs. Mitchell and family, was burnt down and the furniture destroyed. ...

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