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  2. THE SLEEPER WAKES.

    What promised to become one of Melbourne's most interesting medical mysteries was reduced to the commonplace at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, when the ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. MELBOURNE MARKETS.

    Market lightly supplied; only 13,500 yarded, At the opening of the market the demand was not so active, when prices ruled slightly casier, but as sale progressed receered to fully last week's ...

    Article : 2,289 words
  4. A COMEDY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.

    "You can be close enough when it suits you, Jo. I've got something for you to hear—foro you and nobody else," said Daniel Grubb, looking round. ...

    Article : 2,658 words
  5. SOLDIERS ON STILTS.

    Improbable as it may seem, the French Army has lately been making experiments with the view of testing the value of stilt-walking for military purposes. Stilts are ...

    Article : 353 words
  6. THE GLENELG DISASTER.

    The Court of Marine Inquiry resumed the investigation yesterday into the foundering of the s.s. Glenelg, which occurred near the Lakes Entrance on the 25th March last. ...

    Article : 2,016 words
  7. BRITISH LOSSES IN THE WAR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 396 words
  8. HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE.

    For the past eight or ten years newspaper readers have from time the time noticed accounts of the outbreak of bubonic plague in different parts of the world. ...

    Article : 1,601 words
  9. A DISPUTED LIBRARY.

    Yesterday in the Country Court, before Judge Gaunt, Cheok Hong Cheong, of Montgomeric-villa, Gore-street, Fitzroy, sued Archdeacon Langley, of 13 ...

    Article : 733 words
  10. HOW BULLETS ARE MADE.

    You do not cast bullets in moulds. You run the gleaming molten lead into a receiver a foot across and several feet high, and, while it is warm, bring down upon it ...

    Article : 272 words
  11. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

    The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works met yesterday, Mr. E. G. Fitz-Gibbon presiding. The finance committee reported that ...

    Article : 249 words
  12. SOME AMERICAN COLLO-QUIALISMS.

    A very interesting and suggestive paper on what he calls "The American Language" is communicated by Mr. William Archer to the October number of the "Pall ...

    Article : 450 words
  13. THE ELEPHANT SENSATION.

    The "Daily News," in its account of the fatal outbreak ofo the elephant Charlic at the Crystal Palace, says:- The cause of the animals' outbreak seems ...

    Article : 736 words
  14. FLYING MACHINES.

    It is my firm belief that very early in the new century the world will witness the realisation of its dreams of a practieal airship, says Professor Langley, director of ...

    Article : 680 words
  15. BUILDING SOCIETY FRAUDS.

    Edward H. G. T. Smith, accountant, of Bay-street, Port Melbourne, was charged at the City Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. S. Laneashire (chairman) and T. ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. FACTORIES AND SHOPS ACT.

    A meeting of master grocers was held at the St. Kilda Town-hall on Monday evening foro the purpose of considering the Amended Shops and Factories Act. Mr. ...

    Article : 139 words
  17. ANTI-SWEATING LEAGUE.

    A meeting of the Nalionnl Anti-Sweating Lenone was held on Monday at 66 Bourke-street, the Rev. Professor A. Gosman occupying the chair. ...

    Article : 376 words
  18. THE AFTERPIECE.

    At breakfast when we lend in our morning paper of yesterday's fight the whole scene is before us; the stony kopie, the climbing dots of khaki in amongst the ...

    Article : 308 words
  19. LAW REFORM A SOLICITORS STATEMENT.

    Sir,—I am thoroughly in accord with the Public demand for simplification of legal procedure. As a result of over 20 years' experience as a practitioner, I am convineed ...

    Article : 703 words
  20. THE SONG OF THE CRIMEAN WAR.

    "Anniec Laurie" was the song in vogue during the Crimean war, and the cireum-stance is recalled by the following verses which are published in the London ...

    Article : 305 words
  21. THE MAYOR OF ST. KILDA.

    A meeting of magistrates was held yesterday morning for the purpose of electing a chairman of the St. Kilda Court Bench on Fridays, vice Mr. F. R. Godfrey, ...

    Article : 233 words
  22. NOTABLE SALVAGE OPEKATIONS.

    Probably the most remarkable achievement in the line of wrecking and rebuilding to be found in maritime history is represented by the reconstructed Steamer ...

    Article : 395 words
  23. SOME FAMOUS ALIENS.

    French history and experience of Freuch life show me that aliens, when admitted to a nationality, are a serious disturbing cause. See how deeply two Medicis ...

    Article : 322 words
  24. MELBA AND THE EMPEROR.

    Here is a little fact which will give some idea of the mental and bodily vigour of the Emperor of Austria, to say nothing of its pleasant results for the greatest of English ...

    Article : 211 words
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