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  2. ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA.

    The ordinary meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria was held on Thursday evening, Professor Kernot in the chair. NOMINATION OF OFFICE-BEARERS. ...

    Article : 1,222 words
  3. THE DUTY ON IMPORTED TIMBER.

    The Government have been urged on several occasions to increase the duty levied on imported timber. The timber merchants and sawmill proprietors of Melbourne and the ...

    Article : 362 words
  4. QUEENSLAND.

    Parliament has ended after a rather longer sestion than usual; longer, that is, in the number of actual sitting days. The Amending Land Bill has passed into law, somewhat ...

    Article : 2,723 words
  5. THE ENGLISH CRICKETING TEAM.

    The cricket match between the English Eleven and Twenty-two of the Hartley district, at Lithgow, was resumed to-day. With 14 wickets down for 9 runs, the local men ...

    Article : 123 words
  6. PARLIAMENT.

    The PRESIDENT took the chair and read the prayer at 25 minutes to 5 o'clock. STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL. Mr. CUTHBERT moved the second ...

    Article : 17,078 words
  7. CRUSHED TO DEATH.

    A man named Samuel B. Moysey was accidentally killed whilst working at Messrs. Forbes and Lewin's sawmill, Mount Cole, on Tuesday alternoon. He was dressing a log for sawing ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. PHARMACY BOARD EXAMINATIONS.

    The following are the candidates who passed at the quarterly examinations of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria:— Preliminary Examination, 1st December. ...

    Article : 226 words
  9. CUSTOMS AGENTS' ASSOCIATION.

    A meeting was held on Thursday at Scott's Hotel, Mr. Bruce Smith in the chair, for the purpose of forming a Customs Agents' Assotion. ...

    Article : 380 words
  10. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    The following cases were admitted into the Alfred Hospital yesterday:—William Wicks, aged 23 years, a labourer, living at Garton-street, Port Melbourne, suffering from a ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. MR. BAILES AND THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    The feelinc against Mr. Bailes has not yet abated, and many person consider that he should be called on to resign his seat in the House. ...

    Article : 524 words
  12. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Walter Cyril Holland, aged 21, who for several years was clerk on the steamer Gem, swallowed a dose of chlorodyne at the Apollo Inn on Thursday night, intending, he said, ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. FREEMASONRY.

    The annual festival of this old lodge was held this evening at the Masonic-hall, Malop-street, and was attended by a large assemblage of members and visitors, including amongst ...

    Article : 281 words
  14. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    Sir,—One very generally pervading defect in all Victorian statutes is that they are based upon English machinery in respect to details, and as these latter are adapted to a ...

    Article : 423 words
  15. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Major Snee arrived here last night, and early this morning inspected the cadet corps of the Walhalla State School, recently eatablished under the command of Mr. Marshall, ...

    Article : 239 words
  16. PECULIAR EVASION OF THE EARLY-CLOSING LAW.

    At the Fitzroy Courton Thursday David Ross. styling himselt the "American Auctioneer," was prosecuted by Mr. D. J. C. Goodsir, chief inspector under the Factories Act, for selling ...

    Article : 224 words
  17. PUBLIC TENDERS.

    The Public Works department accepted the following tenders yesterday:—New brick building for state school, Mills-street, Albert-park, R. Young, North Carlton, £4,433; ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.

    Sir,—With reference to the correspondence which has appeared in the press relative to the purchase of the Telephone Exchange by the Post-office department, we have noticed ...

    Article : 330 words
  19. THE TRAMWAYS BILL AND THE IRRIGATION BILL.

    Sir,—It is hard to the average man to understand why the Tramways Bill was made on such contrary lines to the Irrigation Bill. The Irrigation Bill provides that where ...

    Article : 353 words
  20. RUNNING AWAY WITH A CAB.

    At the City Court on Thursday Leslie Gardner and Daniel Keilley, two larrikins well known to the police, were charged with having illegally used a horse and cab ...

    Article : 173 words
  21. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.

    Mr. STAUGHTON.—To ask the Commissioner of Public Works when he will be in a position to lay water pipes in the streets of Essendon, where they have been so long promised and so urgently ...

    Article : 259 words
  22. Y.M.C.A. SUNDAY SERVICES IN THE THEATRE ROYAL.

    Sir,—After a successful run for the last five months these services are in urgent need of funds. There is a present deficiency of £80, and the expenses are from £12 to £14 ...

    Article : 76 words
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  24. GEELONG.

    Messrs. Dennys, Lascelles, Austin, and Co., in conjunction with Messrs. W. F. Ducker and Co., offered for sale to-day the Highton Estate, Barrabool, under ...

    Article : 115 words
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