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  2. THE WEATHER.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 words
  3. NEWCASTLE.

    The members or the local Marine Board, an institution the existence of which was terminated by the new Navigation Act, are indignant at the manner in which they have been treated by the ...

    Article : 372 words
  4. VICTORIA.

    Gold shipments by the R.M.S. India to-day were very light, comprising only 10,000 sovereigns, on account of the company, to London, and £2580 for Hongkong in sovereigns, on Chinese account. ...

    Article : 428 words
  5. THE TRAMWAYS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 867 words
  6. OUR PRISON SYSTEM.

    The brilliant historian of the Spanish conquests in Peru, remarking upon the stately isolation of the Incas, observes that solitude is fatal to all but the most robust morality. It will at once be ...

    Article : 1,888 words
  7. MILLIONAIRES IN COURT.

    SAN FRANCISCO, February 21. -- There has been a falling out between Andrew Carnegie, the great steel monarch, and Henry C. Frick, his manager, which has been brought into ...

    Article : 998 words
  8. PROGRESS OF SCIENCE IN THE PAST YEAR.

    Few discoveries or theories of a sensational character marked tho year 1899, yet (says the London "Standard") it was one of steady, and, in some respects, important progress, especially in ...

    Article : 1,255 words
  9. PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE EARLY CLOSING ACT.

    The first prosecutions in Newcastle under the Early Closing Act came on for hearing at the police court yesterday, when Mr. Burkitt, the local inspector, proceeded against a couple of ...

    Article : 313 words
  10. ANXIETY ABOUT A LARGE STEAMER.

    Fears are entertained as to the safety of the large cargo steamer Tropea, which left New York on January 21st. She was expected to touch at Adelaide a week ago. In Victorian shipping ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    A deputation to-day asked for a special grant for the Bendigo School of Mines, the Minister for instruction refusing the request. After visiting all the principal technical schools in the other ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. QUEENSLAND WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS.

    The Queensland Weather Bureau makes the following forecasts, under date March 27: -- New South Wales. -- Occasional showers in the northeast, and near the Victorian border; otherwise generally ...

    Article : 243 words
  13. AN EXPLOSION OF POWDER.

    Jasper Simpkins, 49, a ganger on the railway, in course of construction, from Lilydale to Warburton, was brought to the Melbourne Hospital to-night. He was badly injured by the ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    For some years members of the Newcastle School of Arts have suffered inconvenience and discomfort owing to the cramped condition their lending library. Several movements to ...

    Article : 201 words
  15. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    PENRITH, Friday. -- Private Arthur Gates, who accompanied the first Now South Wales Contingent to South Africa, has written another letter to Mr. Alfred Colless, proprietor of the "Nepean ...

    Article : 574 words
  16. RELIGIOUS.

    In remarking on what he calls the self-importance of organ-blowers, Mr. Hadden, in "Longman's Magazine," instances one who said to the late Dr. Spark, of Leeds, "It's all right, Doctor, ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  17. INTERCOLONIAL ROWING.

    The crow to represent Victoria in the next intercolonial eight-oar contest is made up of J. Donald (Albert Park), stroke; A. G. Hamley (Albert Park), 7; A. B. Sloane (Mercantile), 6; M. ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. IN THE COUNTRY.

    COOLAMON, Tuesday. -- On Saturday last a most extraordinary change look place in the weather. The morning broke dull and cloudy, rain threatening. This condition was maintained till about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, ...

    Article : 230 words
  19. PERSUADING SEAMEN TO DESERT.

    Senior-sergt. M'Vane succeeded at the police Court yesterday in having Henry Mulholland, a runner for a hotel at Carrington, convicted on three charges of attempting to induce seamen to ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. AN OVERDUE STEAMER.

    Anxiety is felt in shipping circles for the safety of the coasting steamer Glenelg, trading between Melbourne and Gippsland Lakes. She left Cunninghame on Saturday, and should have ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. STATION REPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 words
  22. LASTING PEACE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    At the meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works to-day house connections and sewerage bungles were laid aside for the time. The board unanimously carried the following resolution, ...

    Article : 99 words
  23. SUBURBAN NEWS.

    At Monday night's meeting of the Annandale Council, the assessors, Messrs. Palmer and Son, presented a report, in which they stated that they had completed their work, and after the Appeal Court decisions, the revenue would ...

    Article : 190 words
  24. EXTENDING THE ELECTRIC TRAMS.

    A letter was received from Mr. Mahony, M.P., at Monday night's meeting of the Annandale Council, in which he stated that the Railway Commissioners had declined to substitute iron centre posts along the ...

    Article : 232 words
  25. CHURCH MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

    The annual meeting of the New South Wales Church Missionary Association was held last night in the Y.M.C.A. hall, Pitt-street. There was an overflowing attendance, the hall was ...

    Article : 337 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Government Meteorologist predicts general rain. The Treasurer reports that the stamp duties for the present financial year, up to Saturday last, ...

    Article : 175 words
  27. POLICEMEN IN THE QUARANTINE AREA.

    Sir, -- I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the large number of policemen at present on duty in Sussex-street and thereabouts, among whom are many married men, go straight ...

    Article : 120 words
  28. BAD FOOD FOR THE TROOPS.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- Trooper Searle, one of the bushmen who left in the Maplemore, in a letter to his sister, states that the food supplied to the troops is so had that the doctor condemned ...

    Article : 46 words
  29. BOILING-DOWN NUISANCE.

    For some time but few complaints have been heard of the boiling-down nuisance at Erskineville and surrounding boroughs. As a result of certain prosecutions soma time back, it was understood that the proprietors of such ...

    Article : 138 words
  30. A TRANSPORT DIFFICULTY.

    AUCKLAND, Tuesday. -- There has been some unfortunate bungling in connection with the dispatch of the troopship Gymerle, which left Dunedin on Sunday last with part of the Roughriders' ...

    Article : 113 words
  31. EXPECTORATIONS IN STREETS AND TRAMS.

    Sir, -- At such a time as this when the bubonic plague is spreading far and wide from the infected area, and there is a necessity for great cleanliness on the part of citizens, I desire to point out that a marked ...

    Article : 238 words
  32. A STRANGE STORY.

    Captain Knacke, of the American barque Empire, which arrived to-day from San Francisco, supplies a romantic story. His vessel on February 7 called at Palmerston Island, a small ...

    Article : 209 words
  33. DREDGING AT ROZELLE BAY.

    Having interviewed the Minister for Public Works as to the reason for the removal of the dredge Charon from Rozelle Bay, Mr. Law, M.P., has been informed by the department that Mr. Fuller's jetty had been deepened ...

    Article : 138 words
  34. LETTERS PATENT.

    Applications, March 19 to 24. -- Henry Herbert Henning, 14 Q.D. Bank-chambers, Adelaide-street, Brisbane, Queensland, a new or improved automatic pump for phe[?]matictired wheels; Albert Earnest Mills, Branxholme, Victoria, ...

    Article : 289 words
  35. HOW CAPE DUTCH JOIN THE BOERS.

    Not two hours by rall from Capetown is the beautiful valley of the Paarl. Opposite the town of Paarl is Fransche Hoek, one of the oldest Huguenot settlements. Both places together ...

    Article : 179 words
  36. OUR HARBOR AND SEA FISH.

    Sir, -- What on earth is the matter with our Fisheries Commissioners? Why have they not drawn a line from Dawes Point direct westward to Balmain, and thus ...

    Article : 186 words
  37. 'BUS CUSHIONS.

    Sir, -- Having in view the importance of preventing the plague from spreading, many precautions are advisable. Many have been suggested, and no doubt acted upon by the majority of ...

    Article : 197 words
  38. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner for Railways says that during the post few weeks the cost of supplying water for the goldfields railways has been about, £1000 per day. The welcome rains which fell on ...

    Article : 66 words
  39. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    MILTON, Tuesday. -- The postponed rifle meeting was completed on Saturday, 42 shooters caking part, The chief prize winners were Lieutenant J. T. Hackett, Corporal P. Conolly, Sergeant J. Latta, and Private W. H. ...

    Article : 82 words
  40. GIVING US NOTICE.

    The longer the war lasts the worse it will be for Great Britain. If the British continue to lose, the consequence in Asia and in Egypt, not to speak of Europe, are obvious. If the British ...

    Article : 75 words
  41. TASMANIA.

    There are no signs of the steamer Whakatane, which was due front the Cape yesterday. ...

    Article : 21 words
  42. Advertising

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    Advertising : 29 words
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