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  2. AT LAST.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--By a substantial majority, a resolution was carried at a meeting of the Port Phillip Stevedores' Association to-night, that overtime work should be resumed on ...

    Article : 179 words
  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    A question asked by Mr. Cohen in the Legislative Assembly yesterday respecting the identity of the holder of the office which has now come to be known as the "independent ...

    Article : 73 words
  4. NEW HEBRIDES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons, Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke asked Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if he would inquire whether Australia would ...

    Article : 69 words
  5. IN REPLY.

    The debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. James (Goulburn), who had the call overnight declared that the present strikes were the ...

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  6. AUSTRALIA'S WILLINGNESS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Financial considerations will apparently not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement acceptable to the Commonwealth of the present ...

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  7. INCREASED TRAM PARES.

    "Is it a fact," asked Mr. Cohen, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, "that the Government intends to increase the tram fares, and that the intended increase in to apply to second ...

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  8. CHEAPER RENTS.

    The question of the re-introductlon of the Fair Rents Bill again came up for discussion at the meeting of the Labor Caucus yesterday. A section of members clamored for the ...

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  9. REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO NEW ZEALAND.

    Representations have been made by die Presbyterian Foreign Missions Board of Australia to Mr. Massey, Primo Minister of New Zealand, asking that the Dominion will use its influence ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. THE PROPOSED PARTITION.

    A gentleman who lived for many years in the New Hebrides, and has had plenty of experience of their life and conditions, and the troubles of the Condominium, was moved yesterday by ...

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  11. DAY OF THE FEMALE TYPIST.

    At a meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board yesterday, the secretary forwarded a minute recommending the appointment six female typists. Some years ago the bulk of the ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. THE STATE BAKERY.

    The purchase of a bakery at Stanmore by the Minister for Justice, on behalf of the Government, was severely condemned in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Cohen last evening ...

    Article : 248 words
  13. WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

    LIHGOW, Wednesday.--Mr. Holye, Minister for Railways, accompanied by Mrs. Hoyle, arrived in Lithgow this afternoon to open Trades-hall bazaar. ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, Mr. Boston, the member for Wagga, gave notice of his intention to move that Mr. T. H. Thrower be appointed Chairman of ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. LATE SPORTING.

    {No abstract available}

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  16. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

    The American Trade Commissioners, who arrived in Sydney on Monday, have perfected a system of industrial ideals. These include industrial betterment arrangements and the ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. KILLED BY AVALANCHE.

    WELLINGTON, N.Z., February 27.--The recovery of the body of Guide "Jock" Richmond places it beyond doubt that he and his two comrades--Mr. S. L. King (a Londoner, who ...

    Article : 800 words
  18. MINISTERS AND UNDER-SECRETARIES.

    The language employed in certain written documents which have recently gained publicity over the signatures of Ministers of the Crown drew a sharp rebuke from Mr. Cohen in the ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. CRUDE OIL.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Evidence was taken by the Inter-State Commission to-day in regard by the Inter-State Commission to-day in regard to an application for a bounty for the production of crude oil. ...

    Article : 681 words
  20. "THE SPANISH SWINDLE."

    There has been a keen revival lately in different parts of the world, of "the Spanish swindle." The following letter for publication from the British Ambassador at Madrid has ...

    Article : 261 words
  21. V.R.C. SCRATCHINGS.

    {No abstract available}

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  22. SWIMMING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 445 words
  23. STATE INSURANCE FOR VICTORIA.

    Mr. A. M'Laughton, Victorian Statist, is to leave immediately for New Zealand to examine the Dominions insurance scheme. He is afterwards to prepare a report on the ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. CHURCH AND PEOPLE.

    "I believe the great need of tile Church is to get into closer touch with the great mass of the people," said the Minister for Education (Mr. Carmichael), speaking at a Presbyterian ...

    Article : 131 words
  25. "ABSOLUTE LAWLESSNESS."

    In a question asked in the legislative Assembly by Mr. Fitzpatrick, it was suggested that, officers of the A.W.U. in the Coolamon district had practically taken up the position of ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. A CRIME PRICE LIST.

    It may be news to many readers that in New York City there is a well-established schedule of prices for almost any crime. For example, it is possible to get a building set on fire in ...

    Article : 141 words
  27. LAWN TENNIS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 278 words
  28. HOW SOULS ARE SAVED IN THE STATES.

    According to the Rev. Harry Owen, the hustle of American Methodists for souls is of such intensity that at times it arouses the jealous enmity of rival denominations, who however, ...

    Article : 158 words
  29. PATCHWORK PAVEMENTS.

    Ald. Evan Jones declared at yesterday's meeting of the works committee of the City Council that in [?] other city in the world could there be found such a patchy lot of ...

    Article : 161 words
  30. ALEXANDRA RATING.

    It was decided at the lust meeting of the Alexandria Council that the general rate be 5d in the £ on unimproved capital value; that the permanent improvement loan rule be ½d in the ...

    Article : 82 words
  31. PAROO RIVER IN FLOOD.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Deputy-Postmater-General is in receipt of an urgent telefram from the Post master at Eulo to the effect that the Paroo River is in flood, being higher ...

    Article : 57 words
  32. THE ENGLISH PRAYER-BOOK.

    Lecturing at Bathurst on the "Making of the English Prayer-book," Bishop Long said that no other community of Christians had a prayer-book just like theirs. It ...

    Article : 179 words
  33. FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association and the Commonwealth Post maters' Association are meeting in conference in Melbourne during ...

    Article : 111 words
  34. A MOTHER'S DEATH.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--Alexander Thompson has been committed for trial at Chirstchurch on a charge of manslaughter of his mother. ...

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  35. ANKLE-CUFF TROUSERS CONDEMNED.

    The feelings [?]sculline worshippers at the shrine of Fashion will doubtless receive [?]vere shock by the report that the British Medical Association has condemned ankle-cuffed ...

    Article : 141 words
  36. CRICKET.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  37. A NORTHERN COAST INDUSTRY.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Captain Colboun and Roy Service, master and engineer respectively on the steamer Waihal, are going south in the Taiyuan. They recently made a trip ...

    Article : 188 words
  38. GOING TO EXTREMES.

    During the hearing of the evidence for the employees in connection with the plaint of the Australian Telegraph and Telephone Construction and Maintenance Union, before Mr. ...

    Article : 176 words
  39. BOWLS.

    {No abstract available}

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  40. IMPROVING MARRICKVILLE.

    At the Marrickville Council meeting, Ald. B. Richards the newly elected Mayor, said he proposed to endeavor to obtain loan money for the purpose of carrying out permanent works, including kerbing and guttering, and ...

    Article : 152 words
  41. SAN FRANCISCO TO MELBOURNE DIRECT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The State Government ban been notified that direct freight steamship service is to be inaugurated between San Francisco and Melbourne by the Union ...

    Article : 97 words
  42. BOXING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 words
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