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  2. THE MARKETS—LATEST VALUES

    Produce deliveries to-day comprised 4719 bags potatoes. 2705 bags oats, 561 bags peas, 257 bags chaff, and 199 bales straw. Business was quiet. Redskins and ...

    Article : 454 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A ball was held lit the Town flail on Friday in aid of the funds of the Avoca Cycling Club. Mr. J. S. Good-all, assisted by a, ladies' committee, ...

    Article : 177 words
  4. IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

    Mr. Reginald Goss Custard has resigned the post of organist and choirmaster at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Mr. Goss Custard has played at the marriages of ...

    Article : 193 words
  5. NATURE NOTES.

    Bamboo plants are said to have the peculiarity of blooming at exactly the ounce time, whether in Europe or Africa, the difference in climate and surround. ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. EARLY BIRDS.

    During March the rooks gather in numbers in old trees whore they have for years established their colonies. In winter they pass their nights in the ...

    Article : 115 words
  7. PEERAGE FOR DISTINGUISHED LAWYER.

    Sir Charles Alfred Cripps, one of the barons, is Unionist member for the Wycombe Division of Bucks, for which he has sat since 1910. His experience ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  8. A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER.

    One of the most remarkable of plants is the South American aristolochia. which produces huge flowers mostly coloured in brown and white. The form of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
  9. EARTHQUAKES AT WELLINGTON

    From the New Zealand papers which arrived at Melbourne by the last mail are gathered some graphic details of the severe earthquake which was experienced ...

    Article : 428 words
  10. NEW CENSOR OF PLAYS.

    Mr. Geo. S. Street, who has been appointed an examiner of plays in succession to the late Mr. Chas. Brookfield, is a well-known literary mas. He is now ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 146 words
  11. Bracknell.

    The harvest festival services in the, Baptist. Church were held on Sunday. The church was tastefully decorated with grain, fruits, etc. Pastor G. Philp ...

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  12. SOUTHERN PRODUCE SALES.

    W. T. Thorpe reports having sold on trucks at the railway, Hobart, on Tuesday —Wood at 10s per ton; chaff, at £3 12s; peas, 4s 4½d per bushel. ...

    Article : 31 words
  13. STOCK SALES.

    The Woolgrowers' Agency Company held their fortnightly sale at Coo-ce Creek this afternoon. There was a fair yarding of fat cattle, which sold at the rate of ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. THE TRADE OF THE EMPIRE.

    The success of every business venture is due in a large measure to the forethought and enterprise of its organisers. The able business man, to ...

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  15. Don.

    Harvest thanksgiving services were held in the Don Congregational Church on Sunday. The church was nicely decorated with various products of the ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. Mathinna.

    The Talbot Arms Hotel has been in the Maher family for nearly 30 years, but they are leaving at the end of the mouth. The hew proprietor is Mr. ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. WOOL SALES.

    The wool sales were resumed to-day, when 7700 bales were submitted. The selection was of a miscellaneous character. Scoureds sold irregularly, and withdrawals ...

    Article : 149 words
  18. ANTS FORETELL EARTHQUAKE.

    A very remarkable natural phenomenon was recently witnessed near Jerusalem. A swarm of flying ants filled the air from sunrise till o'clock in the ...

    Article : 90 words
  19. Nabowla.

    The state school is again closed, owing to the teacher (Mr. R. J. Thompson) being laid aside in the Launceston General Hospital with an attack of typhoid fever, ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. LAST OF THE BARONS.

    Lord Chief Baron Palles, the Irish judge, who has celebrated his eighty- second birthday, has nearly completed 40 years on the bench. Called to the bar ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. ELEPHANT-CATCHING.

    The African elephant has, been generally considered as quite intractable; but it seems that much may be done with him if caught young. The catching takes ...

    Article : 226 words
  22. Priory.

    The Sunday school picnic was held on Saturday under very favourable circumstances. The day was very hot; nevertheless those present spent a very ...

    Article : 161 words
  23. FRUIT MARKET.

    In the Western market to-day apples, eating, sold at 2s to 7s 6d per case; cooking, 2s to 4s. Peaches—Dessert, 3s 6d to 10s; canning, 3s to 5s. Pears, 3s to 7s ...

    Article : 38 words
  24. INTERSTATE QUOTATIONS.

    The wheat market was firm to-day. Parcels were quoted at 3s 9d to 3s 9½d, alongside. Farmers' lots were worth 3s 4d to 3s 4½d at country stations. New laid ...

    Article : 288 words
  25. BISHOP OF ZANZIBAR.

    Dr. Frank Weston, the Bishop of Zanzibar, whose letter to the Bishop of St. Albans started the Kikuyu controversy, is described by the "Treasury" as among ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 110 words
  26. A GOVERNOR'S ARRIVAL.

    There was something a little Gilbertian in the arrangements for the welcoming of Sir Arthur and Lady Stanley in the bay (says the "Argus"). The Osterley, ...

    Article : 599 words
  27. Sisters' Creek.

    A most successful mission has been held at Sisters Creek by Mr. George Beckett, of Victoria, who is employed as an evangelist in connection with the ...

    Article : 128 words
  28. A NEW USE FOR ELECTRICITY.

    One of the greatest enemies of wooden chips, and of all timber submerged in salt water, is the teredo, the so-called ship-worm. In the worm-like shape of ...

    Article : 149 words
  29. WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL HONOURED.

    Colonel Sir Edward Willis Duncan Ward, K.C.V.O., one of the new baronets, entered the army in 1874, and became a major in the Army Service ...

    Article : 124 words
  30. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Messrs. Ronald Gunn and Co. report In reference to the London wool sales that Sanderson, Murray cable under date 24th inst., that the third series of sales, which ...

    Article : 43 words
  31. ELIMINATING TYPHOID.

    More than one medical expert hap said that the discovery of the serum for protection against typhoid fever was the mots important thing done in the last ...

    Article : 446 words
  32. HOW A FLY WALKS.

    For long it was a mystery how the fly, "turning gravity to jest," walks and runs so easily along a ceiling or up and down a perpendicular piece of glass. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 164 words
  33. WHEAT MARKET.

    Wheat is firm, and there is a fair enquiry at full prices. The cargoes ex Loch Torridon and Songdale said at 36s 3d; that ex Artensis at 36s 4½d; and those ...

    Article : 72 words
  34. LEARNING FRENCH.

    Travellers to France who complain that he people there do not understand their own language have just received some valuable hints from Dr. D. Jones, the ...

    Article : 352 words
  35. A NEW VISCOUNT.

    The Right Hon. James Bryee, O.M., who has been made a viscount, was born at Belfast 7th years ago. Educated at Glasgow and Oxford, le was called ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 128 words
  36. THE CORRECTIVE PROPERTIES OF DR MORSE'S INDIAN ROOT PILLS.

    Many people have no hesitation in taking a dozen bottles of medicine in liquid form prescribed by a doctor, but view with alarm the suggestion to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 268 words
  37. BLUE OR GREEN?

    What are the real colours of sea and sky? Starting from the consideration of colour as a shadow. Lord Rayleigh showed at the Royal Institution that to ...

    Article : 202 words
  38. AN EMINENT GEOLOGIST.

    Sir Archibald Geikie, upon whom has been conferred the Order of Merit, is the eminent geologist, and has been President of the Royal Society since 190s ...

    Article : 145 words
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