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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  3. VICTORIA'S BILL FOR "MATCHES."

    The people of Victoria are troubled so much with direct taxation at present that they are apt to forget the indirect taxes which press upon them much more heavily. If the ...

    Article : 2,131 words
  4. A NIGHT WITH THE NATIVES.

    The metropolitan committee of the A.N.A. have offered a prize for a species of debating tournament, and the various metropolitan branches of the A.N.A. are now busily ...

    Article : 660 words
  5. ASSISTANCE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

    For a year or so the unemployed who desired work and were willing to go prospecting in the country have been supplied with miners' rights and railway passes free of ...

    Article : 399 words
  6. PRIVATE ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

    In yesterday's issue we published the text of a petition to the City Council in which the three electric-lighting companies of Melbourne protest against the proposal of the ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT.

    The committee of the Ballarat Gun Club met to-day with a view to taking some action in regard to the alleged ansportsmanlike action of two Melbourne military men in ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. BENDIGO.

    Mr. James Argall, of Sailor's Gully, well known as a mining speculutor, has had a partial stroke of paralysis. Alfred Cook, a miner, recently convicted of ...

    Article : 453 words
  9. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At the East Maitland Circuit Court to-day, Matthew James Dawson, late manager for Howard Smith and Sons Limited, Newcastle, was charged with making false entries in a ...

    Article : 426 words
  10. MR. ELLERY'S FORECAST.

    Thursday (6 p.m.).—Fresh or strong and squally, with rough sea in Straits. Cloudy, and near coast and ranges showery; winds westerly. ...

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  11. SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER.

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  12. MELBOURNE OBSERVATORY.

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  13. THE BANKING COMMISSION.

    The Banking Commission took evidence in the shire-ball here to-night, the members present being Messrs. J. Winter (chairman), Kennedy, and Cook, M.L.A.'s. ...

    Article : 637 words
  14. ASTRONOMICAL MEMORANDA FOR APRIL 5. 1895.

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  15. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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  16. QUEENSLAND.

    Petitions were filed to-day for the sequestration of the estates of Charles Higfield, of Brisbane, liabilities £6,987, and Thomas A. Ryan, of Clifton, farmer and grazier, ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. CASTLEMAINE.

    At a meeting of the borough council tonight Councillor Elliott referred to the silted condition of Forest Crick, and upon his resolution it was agreed to communicate with ...

    Article : 296 words
  18. EXPORT OF PRODUCE. SHIPMENT OF TIMBER.

    The ship Crown of German is now loading a consignment of redgum and stringybark for the London market, where it is hoped the wood will realise better prices ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A man named Wylie Cook, on Mutooroo Station, has been committed for trial for pointing a revolver at a travelling jeweller during an altercation. ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. THE EXODUS OF FARMERS.

    This afternoon Constable Graham arrested two young men named William and James M'Ewan, brothers, and their father, William M'Ewan, sen., on their farm at Culcairn on ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. CRIMINAL COURT.

    Alexander Fallis and Elizabeth Bell were tried at the Melbourne General Sessions Court yesterday, before Judge Chomley, on a charge of shopbreaking and stealing. Mr. ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. H.M.V.S. NELSON.

    The Footscray Council, in committee of the whole, last night passed a resolution strongly condemnatory of the proposal to utilise the Nelson as a freezing depot for produce for ...

    Article : 96 words
  23. NEW ZEALAND.

    Dr. Fitchett has been appointed Parliamentary draughtsman and assistant law officer. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has ...

    Article : 167 words
  24. GEELONG.

    This forenoon at the monthly meeting of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society it was decided to reply to a letter from the Department of ...

    Article : 162 words
  25. THE RAND ROMANCE.

    The man William Robert Rand, who claimed to be a son of the recently deceased wealthy squatter of that name, and whose proceedings in connection therewith have ...

    Article : 233 words
  26. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.

    A young man named Charles Anderson was charged before the Prahran Police Court yesterday with indecent behaviour in Fawkner-street, South Yarra, on the previous day. Two ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. ARRIVAL OF THE "GAIETY GIRL" COMPANY.

    The members of the "Gaiety Girl" Company, who are under engagement to Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove, arrived in Melbourne by the Sydney express train yesterday ...

    Article : 262 words
  28. CONFERENCE OF RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS.

    In connection with the proposed conference of the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, Mr. Smith, the chairman of the South ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. THE STORY OF A PRESENTATION.

    It will be remembered that some few weeks ago Messrs. Reginald Kelly, Thomas Price, and Herbert Credgington were charged with conspiring to defraud, the case arising out ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. THE SYDNEY POISONING CASE.

    The trial of George Dean on the charge of administering arsenic to his wife, Mary Dean, at North Shore was begun in the Criminal Court to-day. Mrs. Dean's evidence ...

    Article : 77 words
  31. SUICIDE AT MONTAGUE.

    A married woman named Adelaide Hunting, 48 years of age, who resided with her husband, a dairyman, at No. 104 Gladstone-street, Montague, committed suicide at her ...

    Article : 153 words
  32. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    BARCALDINE, MARCH 27.—The weather has been fine with occasional clouds and some heat. Signs of approaching rain have been frequent, but the w[?] season continues to hold off. The country is ...

    Article : 464 words
  33. SINGULAR WILL CASE.

    The circuit court has been occupied for the post three days with the will case Gibbs v. Powell, in which the question of the legality of the will of Oliver Webb was involved. ...

    Article : 208 words
  34. A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.

    A child, two years and nine months old, named Lily Hutchson, met with a shocking death yesterday, through her clothes catching fire, at the residence of Mrs. E. Clarke, 273 ...

    Article : 215 words
  35. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A GANGER.

    The man Thomas Gill, 30 years of age, a ganger on the Bacchus Marsh railway line, who sustained a fracture of the skull by being thrown from his horse at Deer-park on the ...

    Article : 190 words
  36. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    The Pyramid Hill and District Dairy Company has been successfully floated. It is intended to mnnufacture butter only at first, but it may extend its operations to cheese ...

    Article : 243 words
  37. A BIMETALLIC DISCUSSION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I cannot help thinking that the studiously offensive style of Mr. Moreton Frewen's challenge to me—to which your leader of to-day refers—was adopted for the ...

    Article : 201 words
  38. A NEW WAY OF PAYING RATES.

    At the Richmond Council yesterday Councillor Bray inquired whether more stonebreakers could not be employed. Could not more metal be procured, and the poorer ...

    Article : 161 words
  39. THE FLOODS ON THE HUNTER.

    The question of the great damage done year after year by floods on the Hunter River was brought under the notice of the Minister of Works to-day by a deputation ...

    Article : 183 words
  40. THE DISCONTINUANCE OF THE LETTER CARD.

    Sir,—Allow me a small space through the medium of your columns to say a few words re the abolition of the three-halfpenny lettercard. ...

    Article : 123 words
  41. PLAYING WITH MATCHES.

    A young son of a fishmonger named R. Broderick, of Sydney-road, Brunswick, yesterday got hold of a box of matches, and was amusing himself by setting light to a ...

    Article : 146 words
  42. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

    BROADFORD, APRIL 4.—A large quantity of rain fell during yesterday afternoon and last night, which after the long spell of dry weather will considerably freshen all herbage. Ploughing in this ...

    Article : 169 words
  43. A PATHETIC SUICIDE.

    Sir,—With refercnce to your report of the death of my father in your issue of 29th ult., I beg to state that my father was never in a state of poverty or need; but that the want ...

    Article : 120 words
  44. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Mr. Moreton Frewen will not have long to wait for the acceptance of his challenge by the "vagabond freetrader," whom he appears rather injudiciously to decry. It ...

    Article : 112 words
  45. LAND SALE AT NEERIM.

    An important land sale was held at Neerim yesterday, when Mr. A. C. Groom, of Wm. Hamilton and Co., offered at public auction a portion of the estate of 1,200 acres of ...

    Article : 884 words
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