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  2. MINERAL INDUSTRY OF THE STATE.

    The Under-Secretary for Mines has supplied advance particulars allowing the progress of the mineral industry during the year 1904. Mr. Pittman states that the aggregate value ...

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  3. THE PARKINA-FOLDESY CONCERTS.

    To the artistic enterprise of Mr. J. C. Williamson, concert-goers have owed no small debt in the past. His motlo, happily, is not "stand still," for in addition to the fine English ...

    Article : 1,087 words
  4. THE WATSON-ISAACS ALLIANCE.

    Mr. J. C. Watson, leader of the Federal Labor party, and the Federal Opposition, who has been spending a week at the Hlawkesbury River, returned to Sydney yesterday. ...

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  5. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    Naturally, the selection of the Australian Eleven created keen interest in cricket circles in England, and the mall which arrived yesterday brought much in the way of comment. ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  6. MAKING FARMERS.

    I rose with the inexorable bell at 6, and half-an-hour later was sitting down to breakfast with some one hundred and thirty or so sun-browned, vigorous-looking fellows, in the big dining-hall, ...

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  7. THE COUNTRY.

    BETHUNGRA, Tuesday.--At a well-attended public meeting on Saturday night it was unanimously decided to found a branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association. Mr. F. A. Smith ...

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  8. STATE BRICKWORKS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The State Government has purchased 30½ acres of land near Northcote as a site for State brickworks. The purchase was completed before Mr. Dent left ...

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  9. NEWCASTLE MINING PROSECUTIONS.

    NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The Quarter Sessions were re-opened at 9 o'clock this morning. The jury in the case against William Evans, who had been locked up all night, was brought into ...

    Article : 407 words
  10. GAMBLING PROSECUTIONS AT BROKEN-HILL.

    BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--Seventeen men were charged at the police court to-day with being found in a common gaming house. Sub-inspector Sawtell said that about 2 o'clock on ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

    INVERELL, Tuesday.--Mr. G. A. Jones, member for the Gwydir, made a request of the Lands Department a short while back that the Wallangra surrender lands should be made available for ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Police Court to-day, James Luke Butter, an officer of the Parcels Post Department, was charged with stealing £8 14s, the property of the Postmaster-General. He was found ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. FIRE AT ENNGONIA.

    BOURKE, Tuesday.--A big fire took place at Emgonia early this morning. Warmoll's Hotel raid stables, and Hyman's private residence, were totally destroyed, and Hyman's store ...

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  14. CHILD KILLED BY A TRAIN.

    WERRIS CREEK, Tuesday.--This morning, as the passenger train moved off for the south a two-year-old child of Mr. George Jarman, a boiler- maker's assistant, was run over, and ...

    Article : 507 words
  15. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Fresh fires started to-day on the Warkalup estate, five miles east of Kojunop. The town is now between two extensive bush fires. The residents are strenuously fighting the flames. Thos. Kennedy was shot through both thighs ...

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  16. VICTORIAN CRICKET ASSOCIATION.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association to-night the proposal to in future have one selector instead of five for inter-State teams was negatived on the ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. MR. BENT RETICENT.

    HOBART, Tuesday.--Mr. Bent, interviewed in reference to the Northcote Brickworks to-day, declined to make any statement till to-morrow. Asked if it could be said that he was in ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. VICTORIAN EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The council of the Victorian Employers' Federation on Monday decided to support the Central Council in its request that no employers should register under ...

    Article : 254 words
  19. TAXING A SPRIG OF HEATHER.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Some time ago a Scotchman, a resident of Mudgee, N.S.W., wrote an Indignant letter to the Minister for Customs relating how some unsentimental official had ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. COLLIE COAL V. NEWCASTLE COAL.

    Giving evidence before Dr. Jack, who is vested with the powers of a Royal commission to inquire into the Collie coal industry, the Commissioner for Railways said he calculated the ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. THE ROUS ELECTION.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Mr. R. D. Meagher, who unsuccessfully contested the Rous electorate against Mr. Hindmarsh, arrived in Brisbane last night from the Northern Rivers, and left by the ...

    Article : 147 words
  22. VICTORIA.

    The shipments of gold per the Ormuz to-day were limited to £4250 on private account. In reference to shipments of gold, butter, apples, and other cargo per the Ormuz, it should be ...

    Article : 113 words
  23. ALLEGED LIBEL.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--In a letter to the "Argus" on the North Melbourne hotels which are to be closed under the Licensing Act, Mr. J. W. Hunt, president of the Victorian Alliance, ...

    Article : 91 words
  24. NEWCASTLE.

    At the Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday, before Judge Fitzhardinge, Jas. Ralston, owner of the South Greta Colliery at Maitland, appealed against his conviction before Mr. E. A. ...

    Article : 216 words
  25. LYCEUM THEATRE.

    It was reported at a meeting of the works committee of the City Council yesterday that the alterations to the Lyceum Theatre would be commenced immediately approval was given ...

    Article : 393 words
  26. INTER-STATE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Last month a recommendation in favor of annual inter-State exhibitions of natural products was rejected by the council of the Royal Agricultural Society. ...

    Article : 369 words
  27. THURSDAY ISLAND.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Tuesday.--After coming off the middle reef in Bertie Bay, H.M.S. Pylades was thoroughly overhauled, and it was found no damage had been sustained. She coaled ...

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  28. WRECK OF THE MAYFIELD.

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.--The inquiry into the wreck of the barque Mayfield concluded to-day. The decision was that the vessel struck a rock, but that there was no evidence to show ...

    Article : 73 words
  29. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--The following January crushings were announced to-day:-- Great Boulder Proprietary: 9494 tons, yielding by amalgamation 3702oz., by cyanidation 6803oz., ...

    Article : 111 words
  30. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD CARGO BOATS.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--Particulars were received to-day of proposed new cargo service of the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd Company. The service will be monthly, and will, with the present ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. NEWCASTLE'S NEW MAYOR.

    Alderman Michael Joseph Moroney was last night elected unanimously as Mayor of Newcastle for the current year. He has been in the council for 16 years, and was just recently ...

    Article : 209 words
  32. REBATES ON BUTTER FREIGHT.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The executive committee which was appointed in March last by a conference of representatives of butter factories and butter shippers met to-day to ...

    Article : 229 words
  33. SLY-GROG PROSECUTION.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Two revenue detective officers had a severe handling to-day in an appeal by Madame Otto against a conviction for sly- grog selling. It was denied that any ...

    Article : 215 words
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  35. TARIFF COMMISSION.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The first meeting of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the effect upon Australian industries of the Customs tariff will be held at Parliament House ...

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  36. BURGLAR V. POLICEMAN.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Early this morning Constable Martin, stationed at Norwood, reported to Sergeant Bennett that whilst on duty on the Parade he tried the door of a shop ...

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