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  2. MINING INTELLIGENCE AND STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

    A quiet market in investment stocks. Lower prices ruled for debentures, but no business recorded. Bank deposit receipts scarcely so firm, and the same applies to ...

    Article : 3,537 words
  3. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    During the early hours of this morning the heavy clouds which overcast the sky on Thursday night cleared away, and the Englishmen went to rest expecting to wake ...

    Article : 999 words
  4. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 words
  5. THE INCOME TAX. MORE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

    Mr. T. Prout Webb has kindly furnished answers to the following queries by correspondents:— W. J. Whyte writes:—Say an agent or ...

    Article : 961 words
  6. ARREARS OF SELECTORS' RENTS. ANOTHER EXPLANATION BY MR. BEST.

    A few days ago the secretaries to the country party in the Legislative Assembly wrote to the Premier forwarding a resolution passed at a meeting of the party. The ...

    Article : 407 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT.

    Messrs. J. Cohn, Thompson, and Purdie, delegates from the Bendigo School of Mines, conferred to-day with representatives of the local institution in regard to the curriculum ...

    Article : 135 words
  8. MINING NOTES.

    The managers report:— BROKKN HILL PROPRIETARY, Broken Hill, March 28.—Ore treated, 8,572 tons; bullion obtained, 681 tons; silver contained, 17[?],319oz.; average—20-22oz. ...

    Article : 349 words
  9. BENDIGO.

    About 300 excursionists left by special train for Ballarat and Queenscliff to-day. An elderly man named James Quinn was crushed to death this afternoon at the ...

    Article : 228 words
  10. MR. ELLERY'S FORECAST.

    Friday (6 p.m.).—Moderately fine and coo[?] but cloudy and probably local showers; winds southerly, fresh or strong in the Straits, with rather rough sea. ...

    Article : 29 words
  11. SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER.

    RAINFALL AT OBSERVATORY previous 24 hours to 8 p.m. March 29, nil; since January 1, 4.35in. Average rainfall at Observatory for the first three months of the year, 5.52in. ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. METROPOLITAN BANK (IN LIQUIDATION).

    A meeting of members of the Metropolitan Bank Limited (in liquidation) was held yesterday at the Athenæum, Mr. Andrew King presiding. The report of the liquidators for ...

    Article : 516 words
  13. MELBOURNE OBSERVATORY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 words
  14. CASTLEMAINE.

    Two very narrow ecapes from fatal injuries were reported to-day. A slucier named Emanuel Cook had undermined a bank of earth at New Chum Gully, and ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. THE EXODUS.

    A batch of 23 Victorian farmers, with their families, arrived in Narandera to-day, having travelled 350 miles. They brought with them horses, waggons, drays, farming machinery. ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. ASTRONIMICAL MEMORANDA FOR MARCH 30.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 words
  17. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  18. THE MINISTER OF WATER SUPPLY AT STAWELL.

    Messrs. Foster (Minister of Mines and Water Supply), Howitt (secretary of Mines), and Meakin (secretary of Water Supply), accompanied by Mr. Burton (M.L.A. for ...

    Article : 216 words
  19. EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

    The Agricultural department will ship by the s.s. Aberdeen, which leaves for London to-day, 450 tons of poultry, rabbits, hares, pork, lamb, mutton, and beef, and 100 ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    News by the San Francisco mail states that Miss Jessie Ackerman, the missionary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union who recently left Australia for America, has ...

    Article : 248 words
  21. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    WILCANNIA, MARCH 29.—A good supply of arteslan water has just been struck in the Clifton bore on the Milparinka-Wanaaring road at a depth of 1,359ft. The supply is estimated at 10,000 gallons ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. THE ATTACK ON A POLICE CONSTABLE.

    The young man William Hedges, who savagely attacked Constable Campbell, dangerously wounding him with a stone when the latter went to arrest him yesterday ...

    Article : 235 words
  23. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Colonial Secretary, in answer to a question, said that immediately after the passage of the present Land Bill steps would be taken ...

    Article : 156 words
  24. THE LATE R. L. STEVENSON.

    Mr. Lloyd Osbourne has written such an affecting account of the death of Mr. R. L. Stevenson that there is no longer any occasion to ask for details. None the less, the ...

    Article : 338 words
  25. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

    NAVARRE, MARCH 28.—The farmers have not yet started the plough about here, as there has not been sufficient rain to soften the ground. The polsoning of rabbits is being carried on very effectively by many ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. TRADES-HALL COUNCIL.

    The ordinary meeting of the Trades-hall Council was held last night. Mr. C. Bishop presided. On the motion of Mr. E. Stanley, Seconded ...

    Article : 157 words
  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—The reply of the commissioner to R. H. Campbell, published in your issue of Thursday, calls for remark, as it involves an important principle, and appears to me quite ...

    Article : 211 words
  28. YIELDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 388 words
  29. ITALIAN SETTLEMENTS FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Eugenic Vanzetti, importer and agent, of Perth, has written to the Government stating that, being on the point of leaving for Italy, he desires to submit a proposal to ...

    Article : 120 words
  30. ACCIDENTS TO FARMERS.

    To-day a serious accident occurred to Councillor Thomas Lee, of the Newstead Shire Council. He was in the act of mounting a dray laden with wheat at M'Kenzie's ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Dalrymple was sworn in to-day as Minister of Education. Petitions have been filed for the liquidation of the estates of Michael Patterson, Roman ...

    Article : 140 words
  32. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT EAST GEELONG.

    This morning an inquest was commenced at the local hospital before the coroner (Mr. Patterson, P.M.), and a jury of five, touching the death of Mrs. Kate Ewart, wife of Mr. ...

    Article : 321 words
  33. CHARITY CARNIVAL DALE.

    The annual carnival in aid of the Bairnsdale District Hospital, held yesterday, was a complete success, the attendance being very large and the weather perfect. Over £200 ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  34. RAILWAY SERVICE MUTUAL ASSOCIATION.

    A conference of the members of the Victorian Railway Service Mutual Association was held on Wednesday, Mr. W. H. May, president, occupying the chair. ...

    Article : 174 words
  35. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—In letter in The Argus of yesterday, signed "G.F.," your correspondent makes a wrong deduction when he states that on effecting an additional insurance by paying ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. THE EIGHT HOURS ANNIVERSARY.

    The committee of the Eight Hours Demonstration desire it to be known that entries for the forthcoming foot races in connection with the demonstration are to be ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. A LIBEL ON MR. STEVENSON.

    News by the R.M.S. Mariposa, from Samoa, states that a Sumoan half-caste has been fined for slandering the late Robert L. Stevenson by asserting that he had acted as ...

    Article : 50 words
  38. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The South Australian Brewing Company held its half-yearly meeting to-day. The report was considered very satisfactory, and a dividend of 7 percent. was declared. ...

    Article : 28 words
  39. A SMART FEMALE PICKPOCKET.

    Mrs. A. Guthrie, licensee of the Kilkenny Inn, corner of Lonsdale and King streets, has reported to the police that she was robbed of her purse, which contained two ...

    Article : 152 words
  40. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—The commissioner's answer to the following letter of Mr. R. H. Campbell, which appeared in your issue of this date, fully exposes the paradoxical administration ...

    Article : 227 words
  41. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Three prospectors, named Cable, Pickering, and Jarrett, have been speared by blacks at Lake Darlot. With the exception of Cable, their injuries were not serious. ...

    Article : 29 words
  42. STONE-THROWING.

    At the St. Kilda Court yesterday a Mrs. Fairthorn was charged will throwing stones, to the danger of the public, at Balaclava. The stones, it would appear had been thrown ...

    Article : 122 words
  43. FIRES.

    An unoccupied shop and three-roomed dwelling at 50 Ross-street, Toorak, owned by Miss Start, were severely damaged by fire on Thursday evening. The cause of the fire is ...

    Article : 155 words
  44. TASMANIA.

    The Chief Justice has ruled that the Mount Lyell Mining Company is not entitled to exemption from the income tax, because the railway in which they have invested is ...

    Article : 88 words
  45. DIVIDENDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 words
  46. THE ALLEGED RECEIVERS.

    The investigation of the nineteen charges against the dealers Samuel Evered and Samuel Edwards, alleged to have received stolen property feloniously, was concluded at the ...

    Article : 106 words
  47. Advertising

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  48. INTERCOLONIAL STOCK EXCHANGES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  49. NEW ZEALAND.

    Lady Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Glasgow, who sustained an injury to her foot which it was feared would involve amputation, is progressing favourably. ...

    Article : 34 words
  50. Advertising

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