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  2. BALLARAT TRAGEDY.

    BALLARAT, Tuesday.--A further remand was applied for by Senior Constable Elliott in the city court to-day, when Patrick Sheedy, 49 years, appeared on ...

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  3. TOWN HOUSES OF THE FORTIES.

    For the first four years of Melbourne's existence her population could be measured in hundreds. From about 100 in 1836 the numbers of her citizens increased ...

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  4. HOLIDAY ROBBERIES.

    The holiday season was spoilt for some suburban residents when they returned yesterday to find that in their absence thieves had broken into their homes. ...

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  5. LABOR UNITY.

    The urgent need of establishing unity of purpose in the Labor movement, and of sweeping out of existence the sources of the disorganisation which had utterly ...

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  6. PORT MELBOURNE BEACHES.

    Port Melbourne council recently decided to make improvements on its comparatively neglected seafront with a view to winning popularity for the local beaches ...

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  7. M.C.C. and Disabled Soldiers.

    Patients at Caulfield Military Repatriation Hospital resent the statement in a letter published in "The Age" yesterday that the M.C.C. would not allow ...

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  8. MAROONED IN DESERT.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--At dawn to-morrow three planes will leave Forrest to feature in a desert drama unparalleled in the history of Australian aviation. Unless ...

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  9. MELBOURNE MYSTERIES.

    Detective fiction, with its exasperating and baffling plots, thrives only because all its writers (and probably most of its readers) know that the most innocent ...

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  10. HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS.

    MORWELL, Tuesday.--Timothy Daniel Kennedy, twelve years, a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kennedy, of Morwell, was accidentally killed last evening. ...

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  11. ANZAC HOSTEL PASSES.

    Sir,--In reply to your correspondent "Interested, St. Kilda," in your columns of even date the patients of the Anzac Hostel, Brighton, wish to dissociate ...

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  12. Chelsea Foreshore Improvements

    Possessing one of the finest stretches of beach along the eastern shores of the Bay, Chelsea council has spent a large amount of money in improvement of the ...

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  13. A CAR COLLISION.

    Last night a motor car driven by Mr. Norman Moffat, of Webb-street, Middle Park, and in which his wife, Jean, and her mother, Mrs. T. Aitken, aged 93 ...

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  14. THE TESTS AND THE CRITICS.

    Sir,--Mr. Jardine deserves the thanks of all decently-inclined people for so gracefully referring to the only sane comment of the Test matches. The man in ...

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  15. SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT.

    Hearing a slight noise at the front door early yesterday morning as though somebody was trying to manipulate the catch, Mrs. A. W. James, Barkly-street, St ...

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  16. AUSTRALIAN FILMS IN ENGLAND.

    Following the London trade showing and the provincial trade screening of On Our Selection, with minor alterations, Mr. F. Ditcham, managing director of ...

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  17. CAR OVERTURNS NEAR BACCHUS MARSH.

    BALLARAT, Tuesday.--Through one of the front tyres bursting, a motor car overturned about a mile and a half on the Melbourne side of Bacchus Marsh ...

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  18. SHIELD MATCH.

    {No abstract available}

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  19. LABOR IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--On arrival at Auckland to-day, Mr. J. F. Coates, M.L.C., expressed the opinion that at the next Easter conference of the Australian ...

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  20. STREET SINGING NO CRIME IN BRISBANE.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--George Ford, 18 years, who came to Brisbane from Melbourne, was charged, on remand, in the city court to-day with having begged alms ...

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  21. ESTATES SEQUESTRATED.

    Before Judge Lukin in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday a petition was made on behalf of Gippsland Woollen Mills, McPhee-street, Sale, for the sequestration ...

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  22. PILOT'S DARING VENTURE.

    FORREST, Tuesday.--Feverish activity marked the eve of Pilot Harry Baker's flight into the desert to rescue the stranded prospector, Patrick Whelan. The hangar ...

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  23. A FARM FATALITY.

    Austin Stanford Brown, 11 years, a son of Mr. D. A. Brown, 69 Bellett-street, Camberwell, was accidentally killed on his father's farm on Heatherton-road, ...

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  24. WILLIAMSON MATINEES.

    In addition to matinees to-day, there will be matinees to-morrow (Thursday) of Waltzes from Vienna at the Theatre Royal, and Treasure Island at the King's ...

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  25. Victorian Girls in Sydney.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A few hours after they reached Sydney to-day on their Christmas vacation tour, 37 Victorian school girls were exploring the Harbor ...

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  26. AMERICAN FILMS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--It is expected that a conference will be held during the week, at which the distributors of American films in Sydney will attempt to ...

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  27. NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--It is expected that within the next few months heavy retrenchments will be made in the railway service. The reduction of the surplus ...

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  28. STRUCK BY CAR.

    BENDIGO, Tuesday.--A man and a youth had a fortunate escape from serious injury at Kangaroo Flat when they were struck by a motor car, which ran ...

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  29. BACK TO THE HORSE.

    BALLARAT, Tuesday.--A pronounced feature of the holiday traffic was the extraordinary increase in horse-drawn vehicles, especially jinkers and buggies. ...

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  30. CONSCIENCE MONEY.

    The collector of Customs for Victoria desire to acknowledge the receipt from an anonymous source of the sum of £10, for warded as conscience money. ...

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  31. MARRIED BY PROXY.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A tragic story lies behind the death by shooting of Marcia Guttera, 19 years, who with Oreste de Martin was found dead at the latter's hut ...

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  32. LATE COUNTRY NEWS.

    Fruitgrowers at Elphinstone are expecting a profitable season from a good crop. Early varieties of plums are already being picked, and good prices are ...

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  33. QUEENSLAND'S FINANCES.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Compared with the previous year's figures, there has been an improvement in the financial position of the State for the past six months. ...

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  34. BRITISH MEAT TRADE.

    The intimation was conveyed in a cable message published yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture is hearing an application by the National Farmers' Union ...

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  35. PUSH CYCLIST INJURED.

    As Alexander Gasson 21 years, of Park-street, Abbotsford, was riding a push bicycle along Lennox-street, Richmond, yesterday of afternoon he was struck by a ...

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  36. VICTORIA V. TASMANIA.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 355 words
  37. RAILWAY FATALITY.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--When an excursion train crashed into a railway trolley several miles north of Gosford late yesterday afternoon, Edward Powell, of Wyong, ...

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  38. GEELONG-MELBOURNE TRAIN.

    WERRIBEE, Tuesday.--When the engine of the 7.15 p.m. Melbourne-Geelong goods train stalled on the line about 2½ miles on the Melbourne side of Werribee ...

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  39. TRAM CONDUCTOR ATTACKED.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A report that he had been assaulted by an armed man was made by Edgar Collins, a tram conductor, to the police late last night. He ...

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  40. MISSING GIRLS.

    CASTLEMAINE, Tuesday.--Following an announcement in "The Age" this morning that two girls, Beryl Seagrin, 13 years, and Daphne Edmunds, 17 years, ...

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  41. MOTOR TRUCK OVERTURNS.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Eight persons were injured when a motor utility truck overturned on Yeppoon-road, eight miles from Rockhampton, about 2 o'clock this ...

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  42. TOURISTS RETURN FROM NOUMEA.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The liner Oronsay, which has been on a cruise to Noumea with nearly 600 passengers aboard, returned to Sydney to-day. ...

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  43. INFANT DROWNED IN BATH.

    SHEPPARTON, Tuesday.--Prior to going to the clothes line, Mrs. Isobel Jean Geraghty placed two children in a partially filled bath. On her return she ...

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  44. MARITIME SERVICES.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--With a view to arranging the co-ordination of the harbor trust, the Navigation department, the Fisheries department and the dredge ...

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  45. THE MENACE OF "FLATS."

    Sir,--As certain people have been misinformed by certain architects on the question of flats generally, I trust you will allow me to place before property ...

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  46. PERMISSION FOR FLIGHT.

    A message was received from West Australian Airways yesterday by the Civil Aviation department asking for permission to fly the DH50 plane, in order to ...

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  47. DROWNED IN A LAKE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--When he collapsed on a motor launch that was travelling from Swansea to Coal Point, on Lake Macquarie, to-day, William Crookes, 39 ...

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  48. MAHOMETAN'S DEATH.

    Evidence given at the inquest yesterday concerning the death of Fazal W[?]hid, 45 years, grazier, of Barrabee (N.S.W.), a passenger from Sydney to ...

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  49. SHEOAK BEER.

    Sir,--When Captain Pearse was told that sheoak beer was made from the sheoak tree, he got his information from someone who knew nothing of the facts ...

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  50. ALLEGED DEFAMATION.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A writ has been issued by William Doherty, general secretary of the Queensland Cane Growers' Council, claiming £5000 damages for ...

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  51. Lorry Runs into Channel.

    NYAH WEST, Tuesday.--A serious accident was narrowly averted at a spot on Nyah-road where a youth named McDonald was crushed to death on the ...

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  52. FIJIAN BANANAS.

    With the exception of about 30 cases, the consignment of Fijian bananas landed from the steamer Katoomba yesterday was sold. There were 675 cases ...

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  53. CYCLIST'S FALL.

    FERN TREE GULLY, Tuesday.--Seven riders were injured in the cycling sports at Lower Fern Tree Gully reserve yesterday. ...

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  54. BOYS FOR FARMS.

    Rev. W. Thomson, organiser of the Presbyterian Church and boy employment schemes for placing on farms boys between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, ...

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  55. N.S.W. MINERS' FEDERATION OFFICIALS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--With a majority of 370 votes, Mr. Thomas Hoare has been re-elected president of the northern district of the Miners' Federation. The ...

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  56. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  57. Cycle and Car Collide.

    SHEPPARTON, Tuesday.--As the result of a collision between a cycle and a motor car, a Norwegian named Bert Olsen has been admitted to Mooroopua ...

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  58. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In your issue of 24th inst., Mr. O'Donnell asks what brewery it was that made sheoak beer. He might as well ask what brewery it was that made horchound ...

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  59. Soda Water Bottle Bursts.

    When a bottle burst at the works of Rowlands Pty. Ltd., mineral water manufacturers, King-street, city, yesterday ...

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  60. LINESMAN TOUCHES LIVE WIRE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Oliviera Walter, 40 years, a linesman, of Leichhardt, accidentally touched an electric wire carrying 1500 volts at Hurstville railway station ...

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  61. SYDNEY STUDENTS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday--With the object of obtaining first-hand knowledge on the geographical aspects of New Zealand, a party of students and staff of ...

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  62. Girl Rescued From Creek.

    TRARALGON, Tuesday.--Ruby Shields, thirteen years of age, had a narrow escape from drowning whilst bathing in Traralgon Creek. She got into difficulties, and ...

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