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  2. THE HIGH COURT.

    The fourth term of the High Court will open next Monday at Darlinghurst, and will extend to the Christmas vacation, with the exception that there will be a short adjournment to ...

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  3. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a painter, named James Liddell, employed at Farmer and Co.'s new building in George-street, had his neck broken by falling more than 50 ...

    Article : 135 words
  4. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    The Explosives Bill was read a third time, and was sent to the Legislative Council. In the Legislative Council. The amendments made in the Coal Mines ...

    Article : 58 words
  5. THE CLOSURE DEBATE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the House of Representatives this afternoon. Mr. FULLER resumed the debate on the closure motion, and quoted from the speeches ...

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  6. VICTORIA.

    During the past week more than £200,000 of Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works maturing 4½ per cent. debentures were lodged for transfer into new 4 per cents. The total ...

    Article : 230 words
  7. THE LAST GOVERNMENT'S LEGACY.

    Mr. CARRUTHERS, the State Treasurer, moved in Committee the expediency of bringing in a bill to authorise the issue of Treasury Bills to cover the deficiency on the consolidated ...

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  8. REPLIES TO QUESTIONS.

    Mr. Scobie asked if any action had been taken by the present Government to complete the arrangements entered into by the Minister for Works in the See Government with the Premier ...

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  9. THE ESTIMATES.

    Consideration in Committee of Supply of the Estimates was resumed. The Colonial Secretary's Estimates were postponed, and the discussion taken up on the Treasurer's Estimates, ...

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  10. CRUSHED BY A LIFT.

    Yesterday afternoon an employee of the water and Sewerage Board named Andrew Moanson (56) was engaged in looking for a leak in the lift- well of the Oxford-street grocery ...

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  11. CAUGHT IN THE BELTING.

    "While working in a factory connected with the establishment of D. Mitchell and Co., merchants and importers, of Clarence-street, a lad named Horace Everett (14) became caught in ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. SWEATED SOVEREIGNS.

    For some months past a great number of sweated sovereigns have been circulated in the city and suburbs. One gentleman, who has branch establishments in various suburbs, stated ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. PHOSPHORUS POISONING.

    At about 8 o'clock last night a married woman named Mayer Clark (19), who was suffering from the effects of phosphorus poisoning, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital. ...

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  14. SHIPPING FACILITIES.

    It is now officially suggested that the work of constructing a straight cut to the Yarra, in order to afford proper facilities to shipping business in the port of Melbourne, should be ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. THE BONDI SUICIDE.

    At the inquest on the body of Frank Chaplin Scott, who was found on the rocks at Ben Buckler Point, Bondi, with a bullet wound in his head, a verdict of suicide was returned. Scott ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. SETTLEMENT ON FOREST RESERVES.

    Mr. Bent made an important statement tonight with regard to the making of certain forest reserves available for selection. There are in the State large areas of land reserved as ...

    Article : 139 words
  17. SEIZED WITH A PARALYTIC STROKE.

    MURRUMBURRAH, Wednesday.--A man named John O'Mara, an employee of Mr. Ben Osborne's Redbank Station, met with a serious accident yesterday. The unfortunate fellow, ...

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  18. SUDDEN DEATH.

    WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--A man named W. M. Scott, residing at 137 Macquarie-street Sydney, who was under treatment for some time at the Maitland Hospital, took ...

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  19. AN INSURANCE CASE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Another decision of the Victorian Full Court was overruled today by the High Court. For some time past a case has been before the Courts to determine ...

    Article : 298 words
  20. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Party to-day, Mr. T. Bath was elected leader. The Arbitration Court concluded the hearing of the dispute between the Railway ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. IN OTHER STATES.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In the Assembly, the Treasurer introduced the estimates of works to be carried out by loan money during the current year, amounting to £887,209, ...

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  22. FALL INTO A CYANIDE TANK.

    KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--Michael Darven was killed to-day on the Golden Horseshoe mine. He was a mason's laborer, and whilst repairing a concrete tank, the wall gave way, and he ...

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  23. THE PLAGUE OUTBREAK.

    Matte, a Corsican sailor who was removed from the Ville de la Clotat to the Quarantine Station, suffering from plague, died last night. The body was cremated this morning. There is ...

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  24. FISHERMAN MISSING.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--A man named John Grundy has been missing for three weeks. He went out alone on a fishing trip, and has not been seen since, but a water cask and rudder, ...

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  25. NEW ZEALAND.

    At a luncheon given on board the steamer Maheno to-day, Mr. James Mills said he expected that with ordinary loading and fine weather the steamer would make a passage between ...

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  26. BODY WASHED ASHORE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The body of one of the victims of the La Bella wreck, at Warrnambool, has been washed up on the beach. The body is very much mutilated, and the head ...

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  27. WHARF LABORERS' TROUBLE.

    The secretary (Mr. F. Wegg Horne) in his report to the executive committee of the Employers' Federation yesterday, drew attention to the refusal of the members of the Wharf ...

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  28. VICTORIAN COAL INDUSTRY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. Frederick Mackay, managing director of the Coal Creek Proprietary Company, told the Coal Mines Commission to- day that he had been approached by ...

    Article : 380 words
  29. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Bent moved that the question of the desirableness of constructing a line of railway from Ultima to a point on the ...

    Article : 118 words
  30. NATIONAL LIBRARY BILL.

    The National Library Bill was discussed in the Legislative Council. Mr. HUGHES explained the object of the bill. So far the treatment Mr. Mitchell had ...

    Article : 408 words
  31. CLAIMS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS.

    The Public Service Board, after an inquiry made at the direction of Mr. Carruthers into claims of public servants retired in 1896 to compensation in lieu of extended leave of absence, ...

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  32. THE FAMINE IN JAPAN.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- The steams, Evandale, from Japan, which arrived off the port of Newcastle late on Tuesday night, entered the harbor this morning. Captain Beyers stated ...

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  33. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--In the Assembly today a bill was introduced to provide means for assisting certain persons to settle on the land, and Mr. Leona said large numbers at German ...

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  34. NEWCASTLE.

    At a meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board, held yesterday, a report was received from the board's engineer showing that the service reservoirs in the Newcastle district were slowly ...

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  35. THE WAUCHOPE MAIL ROBBERY.

    PORT MACQUARIE, Wednesday.--At the Police Court to-day, before Mr. Fletcher, P.M., the men, Crane and Jordaunt, were charged with sticking up a coach at Spencer's Cutting, ...

    Article : 135 words
  36. NEWCASTLE CLEARANCES.

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  37. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The contests for [?] singles and doubles tennis championships of Australia and the five championships of Victoria were continued at the Warehousemen's Cricket Ground to-day, in the ...

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  38. AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL LEAGUE.

    A public meeting was held at the Town-hall, Parramatta, last night, in connection with the local branch of the Australian Liberal League. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. P. Noller, ...

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  39. WEST WALLSEND 'BUS FATALITY.

    A fresh development has taken place in connection with the recent coach breakdown at West Wallsend, by which two men, Philip Carter and David Frew, lost their lives. It will be remembered that on the 3rd inst. two ...

    Article : 150 words
  40. THE CLEMENT MOTOR-CYCLES.

    The Australian Tyre Company are the agents for the Clement motor-cycles. As most motorists are aware, a characteristic of the Clement motors is their lightness of weight compared ...

    Article : 99 words
  41. CONTROL OF THE ABATTOIRS.

    At a meeting of the health committee of the City Council yesterday, the Lord Mayor reported the result of an interview he had had with the Premier respecting a proposal to the ...

    Article : 229 words
  42. SHIRES BILL.

    In the Legislative Council, The Shires Bill was recommitted to consider clause 32. Mr. PILCHER moved an amendment giving the ...

    Article : 123 words
  43. SALE OF WORK.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 words
  44. THE WYNNE ART PRIZE.

    In connection with the Wynne art prize for the best landscape painting of Australian scenery, in oils or water-colors, or the best example of figure sculpture, by Australian ...

    Article : 96 words
  45. GOWING BROS.' PICNIC.

    Yesterday, Mr. J. Ellis Gowing, senior partner and head of the firm of Gowing Bros., gave a picnic to the employees, in commemoration of the thirty-eighth anniversary of the founding of the ...

    Article : 143 words
  46. ALLOWED TO LAND.

    The Assyrian girl who was detained on the R.M.S. Orontes by the Customs Department under the Alien Restriction Act. was allowed to land yesterday. The relatives of the girl have ...

    Article : 73 words
  47. EXTRA-TERRITORIAL RAILWAYS.

    In the Legislative Council, Mr. BRUNKER moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable Victorian and Queensland bylaws to be applied to Victorian and ...

    Article : 113 words
  48. Advertising

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  49. Advertising

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