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  2. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

    The races held on the Elsternwick-park course under the management of the Victorian Trotting Club on Saturday afternoon passed off very successfully. The weather was very ...

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  3. CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

    The Australians, after their disastrous defeat at the hands of the M.C.C. at Lords on Friday, on Saturday journeyed to Birmingham, arriving in that well-known ...

    Article : 1,779 words
  4. THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

    The fact that an old English comedy, enacted by a good working company, with a comewhat weak leading lady, and without a single star, has been been played for a ...

    Article : 800 words
  5. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SMALLPOX AND CHOLERA.

    In consequence of the existence in Melbourne of what is believed to be small-pox, Mr. Dibbs, the Colonial Treasurer, has consuited Dr. Mackellar, the Government health ...

    Article : 560 words
  6. THE FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The recent heavy rains have caused serious floods in the northern districts. At Murrurundi the River Hunter is higher than it has been known for years past. At Maitland it ...

    Article : 122 words
  7. THE EXPLORATION OF NEW GUINEA.

    The Geographical Society of Australasia has sent a letter to General M'Iver, stating that in the event of his assuming the leadership of a scientific expedition to New Guinea ...

    Article : 84 words
  8. A NEW LIFE BOAT.

    A trial of a life boat, built according to a new design, was made yesterday at the Heads. The boat is supposed to differ in construction from all other life boats, inasmuch as it has ...

    Article : 227 words
  9. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE KYNETON RAILWAY STATION.

    A serious accident happened at the Kyneton railway station this morning, by which a young man named James Sheridan will probably lose his life. Sheridan was the guard ...

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  10. THE UNKNOWN CONTAGION—IS IT DENGUE FEVER?

    Sir,—In The Argus of 1st July, under the heading "An Unknown Contagion," a description is given of a disease which has broken out in Melbourne, and which is ...

    Article : 227 words
  11. INQUESTS.

    Dr. Youl held an inquest at the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday, on the body of Richard Mangin, aged about 45 years, a labourer, who died in the institution on the previous day ...

    Article : 414 words
  12. A NOVEL LAND SALE.

    Fifty-years' leaseholds of 80 acres of land, known as the Grace Park Estate, situated on the north side of Burwood-road, Hawthorn, subdivided into 309 building allotments were ...

    Article : 514 words
  13. THE BLUE RIBBON MOVEMENT.

    About 40 of the committee and members of the Blue Ribbon Mission Choir met at Spencer-street railway station early yesterday morning, to welcome and pay their respects to Mrs. R. ...

    Article : 407 words
  14. A SHIP IN PERIL.

    The Callirrhoe, which entered the Heads on Friday last in a leaky state, is from South Australia bound to Falmouth for orders with a cargo of wheat. She is an iron vessel of ...

    Article : 353 words
  15. EAGLEHAWK.

    At the police court this morning, before Mr. G. Webster, P.M., James Wild, the mining manager of the Rose of Denmark Company, California Gully, was charged with ...

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  16. THE SOUTH MELBOURNE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.

    The general committee of the above institute held their monthly meeting on Thursday evening last, July 3. Dr. Haig, J.P., occupied the chair, and the following ...

    Article : 153 words
  17. FIRES.

    A small fire broke out shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning in some wooden stabling at the rear of 181 Swan-street, Richmond, by which an adjoining eight-roomed ...

    Article : 290 words
  18. THE BRUNET INSOLVENCY CASE.

    Sir,—In his examination in the Insolvent Court, Brunet stated that he disputed certain large items in our account as creditors, implying thereby that our claim was a ...

    Article : 347 words
  19. EAST ST. KILDA CONGREGATION AND THE SUSTENTATION FUND.

    Sir,—"One Who Knows," if he does know, must know that Mr. Rentoul's statement did not refer to last year's contributions, which were made under his own ministry, but to ...

    Article : 324 words
  20. SANDHURST.

    At the monthly meeting of the administrative council of the School of Design last night, the following report relative to the proposal to open up new auriferous areas was read ...

    Article : 297 words
  21. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    A child named Jane Lane, aged 9 years, living at South Melbourne, was admitted at the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday, suffering from injury to the knee, caused by a fall ...

    Article : 99 words
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