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  2. THE APPOINTMENT TO ALL SAINTS.

    The following letters have been forwarded to the Biahop of Melbourne and the Rev. Canon Potter in connection with the appointment of the latter to the incumbency of A[?] ...

    Article : 474 words
  3. NEW TAXATION.

    A public meeting was held at the town-hall, Brighton, last evening, called in response to a requisition, by Councillor Gair, the mayor of Brighton, who occupied the ...

    Article : 1,394 words
  4. MELBOURNE LIEDERTAFEL.

    The Melbourne Liedertafel gave its 227th concert yesterday evening in the Town-hall, which, as usual on these occasions, contained a large and fashionable audience. His ...

    Article : 942 words
  5. THE UNITED CHARITIES APPEAL.

    The cry that special efforts are needed on behalf of the Melbourne charities has been repeated during the last few months with what may seem like wearisome iteration. To ...

    Article : 1,829 words
  6. THE NEW RULES OF RACING.

    An adjourned meeting of the members of the Victoria Racing Club was held yesterday at Menzies' Hotel for the purpose of considering the amended rules of racing which ...

    Article : 2,208 words
  7. IMPORTANT LIBEL ACTION.

    In the First Civil Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Hodges find a special jury, the hearing was resumed in the action brought by Mr. Richard Speight, late chairman of the ...

    Article : 557 words
  8. THE INCOME TAX.

    Sir,—The Premier and the Treasurer both apparently ignore the fact that there are times when an income is not an income in its ordinary sense. Your various correspondents ...

    Article : 1,451 words
  9. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Last Friday evening about £3 was raised at a concert got up by the railway extension employes in aid of the distress in Melbourne. ...

    Article : 894 words
  10. CHURCH APPOINTMENTS.

    Sir,—In reading the life of Lady Rachel Russell, which recently appeared in a volume entitled Leading Women of the Restoration, the following paragraph in page 78 attracted ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. THE ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM PENTRIDGE.

    The prisoner Ballard, who attempted to escape from Pentridge on Saturday, has had a long experience of the gaols of the colony, and has always been considered a daring, ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  12. PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

    The bill to amend and consolidate the law concerning letters patent for inventions, which hass been introduced into the Legislative Council by Mr. Sachse, is designed to ...

    Article : 689 words
  13. DIOCESAN DEACONESSES' HOME.

    The annual meeting of the friends of the Deaconesses' Home and Mission to the streets and lanes of the city was held at the Cathedral-buildings yesterday. The Bishop ...

    Article : 199 words
  14. THE SINGLE TAX AND DODGE TAX.

    Sir,—I have read Mr. Higgins's modest disclaimer in this morning's issue, and regret that he considers my remarks upon the Athenæum meeting personal. Personal ...

    Article : 353 words
  15. TAX ON UNIMPROVED LAND VALUES.

    Sir,—Dr. Barrett asks me in The Argus of this morning for evidence in support of my statement that a tax on land as unimproved tends to bring land into profitable use and to ...

    Article : 373 words
  16. INFANTICIDE.

    The body of a newly-born female child was found near the railway line at Mitcham yesterday. It was wrapped in a linen cloth and a brown paper bag, and had probably ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. THE BOORT-QUAMBATOOK RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    Satisfaction is expressed at the action of the railway authorities in reducing the fare from Melbourne to workmen on the Boort to Quambatook railway extension from ordinary ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. A NORTHERN SUBURBS RAILWAY.

    Sir,—Yet another deputation to the Government begging for the direct line, and yet the same reply—"You make out a good case, but we cannot make two lines. Some of you ...

    Article : 293 words
  19. THE BUCHAN MURDER.

    John Conder, the man who was sentenced to death at the Sale Assizes for the murder of Kaiza Singh, a Hindoo hawker at W Tree, near Buchan, in January last, was brought ...

    Article : 85 words
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