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  2. A COOL CHANGE

    No wave that ever broke gave to the devotee of the surf such genuine pleasure as the collage of the heat wave did to the tired and exasperated citizens of ...

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  3. AMUSEMENTS.

    Driving a Girl to Destruction, the new melodrama presented by Mr. George Marlow's company at the Princess's Theatre on Saturday evening, is from the pen of ...

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  4. BUSH FIRES.

    Breaking out in the vicinity of the Carrum railway station on Saturday morning, a fiereely burning scrub fire did a considerable amount of damage in the district ...

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  5. COMPULSORY CONFERENCE REFUSED.

    There is no immediate prospect of the machinery of the Federal Arbitration and Conciliation Court being set in motion for the purpose of expediting a settlement of ...

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  6. DAILY WEATHER CHART.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. TREE FALLS ON FIRE FIGHTER.

    In the Stockdale district an extensive fire has been raging, and much damage has been done. A married man. named James Rook, was seriously injured on Saturday ...

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  8. FACTORY CLOSED DOWN.

    Owing to the excessive heat Mr. M'Paerson Robert-on the head of the firm of Mac. Robertson, [?] manufacturer, Fitzroy, decided to close his factory ...

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  9. OUTBREAK NEAR WALHALLA.

    [?] have been burning throughout the ranges during the past two days. The Long Tunnel electric pumping station, on the Thomson River, and ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. WATER SUPPLY.

    The steady drain on the metropolitan water supply continued during the whole of last week. It was indeed well that Yan Yean possessed a sufficient supply to meet ...

    Article : 275 words
  11. WEARING MEDALS.

    Mr. J. V. O'Connor, president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Tramway Employes' Association, who has just returned from Brisbane, gives an ...

    Article : 428 words
  12. AN INTER-STATE DISPUTE.

    The refusal of the application for a compalsory conference caused a large amount of apprehension in the minds of members of the Australian Tramway Employes' ...

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  13. GRASS FIRE AT PURDEET.

    An extensive grass fire occurred at Purdeet on Thursday afternoon, when about 500 acres of grass was destroyed. The principal losers were Messrs. John ...

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  14. MAIL COACH DESTROYED.

    Bush fires in this district are spreading in every, direction, and hundreds of acres of grass have been consumed, while miles of fencing have been destroyed. On ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS

    A serious accident happened to a little girl named Doris Bell-Cliamhers, aged 5, at Yarraville on Saturday night. She was swinging in a children's playground, and, ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. SATURDAY'S AND SUNDAY'S WEATHER.

    Saturday weather chart showed very little change from the previous day. A high pressure system was still centred between the eastern portion of Australia and New ...

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  17. FIRES IN VICTORIA AND SIERRA RANGES.

    During the last few days fires have been raging in the Victoria and Sierra ranges north of Victoria Valley. On Saturday a fire came out in the grass country with a ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. SHORTAGE OF WATER.

    The Narracan Creek is lower than it has been at any time during the summer. The Latrobe and the Tangil and the main drain are also very low. It is stated that there will ...

    Article : 73 words
  19. LOSS OF FOUR FINGERS.

    Mr. Geo. M'Donald, who is employed as a carpenter at Humble's foundry, met with a very serious accident on Saturday. While working at a planing machine he allowed ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. VICTIMS OF THE HEAT.

    The extremely hot weather was responsible for a large number of people being seriously affected on Friday and Saturday. One of these eases proved fatal. The ...

    Article : 250 words
  21. SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.

    Michael Fitzgerald, a worker in the Boyup timber district, committed suicide on Friday in a most sensational way. He stood on the railway bridge at Thompson's ...

    Article : 67 words
  22. INTER-STATE RAILWAY SERVICE.

    On Saturday the Victorian Railway department communicated by telegraph with the Queensland department, asking for information regarding the inter-State ...

    Article : 97 words
  23. FIRES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A bush fire swept through Kongorong destroying about 10,000 acres of grass, and a considerable amount of fencing, &c. At Wandilo a fire burnt out the crops and ...

    Article : 67 words
  24. NUMBER OF SHEEP PERISH.

    On Friday evening the bush fires which had been burning in the district for several days approached to within a short distance of the town. In fact the cottages in what ...

    Article : 242 words
  25. LYSOL POISONING CASE.

    The circumstances of the death of Edward Michael Ronayn, aged 50, were inquired into by the City Coroner at the Morgue on Saturday. The body of deceased ...

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  26. FORECASTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  27. FIRES IN TASMANIA.

    Bush fires have been raging all round. Three cottages and a box mill factory were destroyed at Gardner's Bay, and it is feared that further loss will occur. Sailors ...

    Article : 73 words
  28. HELP FOR THE STRIKERS.

    A meeting of the local branch of the Australian Tramway Employes' Association was held to-day, when it was decided that each member should contribute one ...

    Article : 83 words
  29. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 631 words
  30. KING'S THEATRE--THE SHAMROCK AND THE ROSE.

    There is no lack of incident in The Shamrock and The Rose, an Irish drama, which was presented by the William Anderson Dramatic Co. before a fairly large audience ...

    Article : 283 words
  31. ASTRONOMICAL MEMORANDA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 words
  32. A CONTRACTOR'S COLLAPSE.

    Thomas Rose, of Mary-street Richmond, contractor for erecting Messrs. Evans Bros. lime kiln at the copper mine, died from heat apoplexy on Friday night. He ...

    Article : 86 words
  33. FOUR HOUSES DESTROYED AT QUEENSTOWN.

    Severe bush fies raged in the Mt. Lyell Zeehan and Stralian districts on Saturday, burning in some places large areas of small timber and undergrowth. In Queenstown ...

    Article : 150 words
  34. OFFICIAL RAINFALL RECORDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 words
  35. £200 FROM ADELAIDE TRAM MEN.

    Outside the depot at Hackney, the secretary of the South Australian branch of the Tramway Employes' Association, Mr. I. L. Hill, and members stood in the sun ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. DEVASTATION IN BENDIGO DISTRICT.

    The bush fire outbreak in the Whipstick scrub is still raging, and although it is confined mainly to Grown lands, a large quantity of firewood, which had been cut by ...

    Article : 294 words
  37. GANGER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    J. Galvin, of Footseray, ganger on the irrigation water channel died of heat apoplexy on Friday. He became ill at 8 p.m., and died at 8.30 before medical aid ...

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  38. EXPLANATION BY ASSOCIATION SECRETARY.

    When asked if the trouble in Brisbane was likely to extend to the Adelaide tramway employes, the federal president. Mr. Prendergast, said:--"The fact that I am ...

    Article : 341 words
  39. ACTION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The metropolitan council of the Australian Labor Federation has sent circular to the unions throughout the State asking for financial assistance to the strikers at ...

    Article : 100 words
  40. OLD PEOPLE SUCCUMB.

    Several old people in this district have succumbed from the effects of the heat. ...

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  41. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 words
  42. MINDS OF TWO YOUNG GIRLS AFFECTED.

    Misses Margaret and Agnes Young who have a knitting business here, became suddenly insane yesterday, it is thought, owing to the intense heat. They behaved ...

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  43. WORK AND WAGES.

    AT the meeting of the committee of the Bendigo Agricultural Society on Saturday the Victorian Producers' Union wrote, requesting the society to take steps to form ...

    Article : 196 words
  44. MEETING IN SYDNEY DOMAIN.

    [?] people were present at a meeting in the international Socialists. Mesrs. J. H. Adamson and C. Collins, ...

    Article : 131 words
  45. TEMPERATURE IN ADELAIDE.

    Yesterday the temperature here reached over 110 deg. in the shade. ...

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  46. OPERA HOUSE--CLEVER BOY DANCERS.

    The last night of a heat wave is the last night dancers would choose for their first appearance in a city. That the smart London trio of boy dancers, the [?] ...

    Article : 349 words
  47. PIGS DIE FROM EXCESSIVE HEAT.

    Mr. George Farmer, bacon curer, of Ballarat Kast, purchased 100 pigs at the Camperdown sales, on Wednesday. The pigs were trucked the same evening, and on ...

    Article : 55 words
  48. CASES OF DROWNING.

    The formidable fist of recent fothing accidents was added to yesterday afternoon when a youth named John Cregan, aged 17, son of the Caretaker of Melbourne Town ...

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  49. TWO HOUSES BURNT NEAR DROMANA.

    A fire which had been burning for several days on Mount Arthur's Seat, swept down the mount with great rapidity towards the south channel light house. The cottage ...

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  50. A THOUGHTFUL DONATION.

    The secretary of the Alfred Hospital on Saturday received a cheque for £25 from Major, George Steward, C.M.G., as a contribution towards providing ice or cool ...

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  51. ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR BRUNSWICK.

    A special meeting of the [?] council was held on Friday night, to consider the two reports of F. M'Carry Co. and H. Asman on the electric lighting scheme for [?] as ...

    Article : 251 words
  52. FOOTSCRAY'S FRIDAY NIGHT.

    NEED FOR INCREASED POLICE PROTECTION. The population of [?] has [?] the fist three or four years grown to such an extent that the force of police stationed in that district has ...

    Article : 432 words
  53. GAS EMPLOYES' UNION.

    Some utterly unreliable statements regarding a probable strike of gas Workers are officially denied by the committee of management of the Gas Employes' ...

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  54. SMALL THEATRE AUDIENCES

    Comparatively poor business was executed at the theatres during the continuance of the heat wave. On Saturday evening there was room aud to spare, even by the ...

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  55. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST TRAMWAY COMPANY.

    When interviewed to-night Mr. G. A. Bundle, of the firm of Brennan and Bundle, solicitors to the Tramway Employes' Federation, said that the popular ...

    Article : 126 words
  56. DAMAGE NEAR HAMILTON.

    A large portion of the anallotted part of Morven Estate, purchased by the Government for closer settlement. was swept by file, nearly all the grass and fencing being ...

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  57. TIMBER MILLS DISPUTE SETTLED.

    To-morrow the 80 employes in the Globe Timber Mills, who went out on strike at midday on Thursday became of the dismidday on R. A. Malone, will resume work. ...

    Article : 83 words
  58. RAILWAY EMPLOYES.

    The work at the Newport workshops on Friday and Saturday was conducted with reduced staff's. During the week about 2500 men were engaged, but with the ...

    Article : 142 words
  59. SON EXPERIENCES FATHER'S FATE.

    A drowning [?] occurred on Friday evening, when Victor Maskell who had gone to the river with several companions to bathe, got out of his depth, and in spite ...

    Article : 75 words
  60. FIRES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The fires which have been devastating the Adelaide hills for days have at length been got under control. The damage is estimated at £100,000, and the loss of ...

    Article : 49 words
  61. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 words
  62. Advertising

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  63. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BUILDING TRADE.

    A fresh ballot on the 44 hours de in the building trade was taken on Saturday night. The result has been officially withheld, but private [?] ...

    Article : 59 words
  64. YOUNG SWIMMER OVERCOME.

    Thos. Levitt 14. whose parents reside in Shepparton, was drowned in the Goulburn River. close to the boat sheds, this morning. Deceased, who could swim a little, ...

    Article : 110 words
  65. QUEENSLAND CARGO REFUSED

    The steamer Wyreema, which left on Saturday for Sydney and Brisbane, did not take any cargo for the last named port. It has been decided, too, in the light of ...

    Article : 224 words
  66. TWO RACEHORSES PERISH.

    While the races in connection with the E[?] Racing Club were in full swing yesterday at B. Noak's farm, at Sutherlands a fire occurred at the homestead, ...

    Article : 66 words
  67. FIRES IN CENTRAL GIPPSLAND.

    All over this district bush fires are doing a considerable amount of damage. On the hills south of Trafalgar, and over near Dar [?] miles of forest burnt fiercely. ...

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  68. INADEQUATE TRAIN SERVICE.

    The overcrowding of railway carriages during the rush to the seaside, on each evening the heat wave pointed to the necessity for an extended service. The ...

    Article : 115 words
  69. Advertising

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  70. Advertising

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