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  2. PAYMENT OF CLERKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I would like to contradict a statement made by a bank manager that salaries are not lower than what they were twenty years ago. I have been in one of the largest ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. GEELONG WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,995 words
  4. DO SNAKES SWALLOW THEIR YOUNG. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I have been following with surprise and delight the different yarns, quite as good as angling ones, concerning the manners and customs of the Australian snake, ...

    Article : 312 words
  5. WOOL SALES. GEELONG.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,047 words
  6. DEATH OF A CHINESE.

    An inquest was held yesterday at the morgue by Mr. Candler, city coroner, regarding the death of Yee Moon, a Chinese gardener, from injuries received in a street ...

    Article : 843 words
  7. THE COMMONWEALTH. WRITTEN MATTER IN NEWSPAPERS.

    People who are in the habit of trying to save a penny by enclosing written communications in newspapers and parcels will very likely find for the future that their ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. SUMMER SCHOOL.

    In the work that is being done at the summer school no idea is brought before the minds of the teachers more persistently and clearly than the demand of latter-day ...

    Article : 767 words
  9. A NEEDY SHEEPOWNER.

    Thomas Fowler, who is a wool-classer at present out of work, was reclining against a window-sill in Latrobe-street yesterday afternoon, when he was accosted by a ...

    Article : 524 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—There is a phase to the above matter which I have not seen touched upon. I refer to the question of family or social influence in appointments to the higher ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. MARKING OFF SEATS.

    Some additional new members of the Federal Parliament have marked off the seats which they intend to occupy in the two Houses. Senator Guthrie, of South ...

    Article : 176 words
  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—In my former letter I pointed out that the oviduct in the coclum, where the young ones are kept before birth, is not connected in any way with the mouth. Some ...

    Article : 253 words
  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—One can hardly believe that the statements contained in a "Dissatisfied Clerk's" account are the words of any sane clerk employed in these hard-up times. He ...

    Article : 183 words
  14. THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    With reference to the memorial addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which was handed to the Prime Minister by a deputation of representatives of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—For years I have given this subject a good deal of attention, my experience having been both that of employe and employer. I feel certain that to attempt to ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. MR. KINGSTON IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Kingston, late Minister of Customs, arrived from Sydney by the steamer Ventura to-day. He is on a holiday trip to New Zealand. He was met on the wharf ...

    Article : 245 words
  17. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—With reference to the correspondence on the subject. "Do Snakes Swallow Their Young, or Do They Lay Eggs?" I say "No." I gave an exhibition four years ago ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. THE COST OF LIVING, TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—"Householder" and "Make Both Ends Meet" show extraordinary ignorance of trade book-keeping when they allude to the difference in price of what an article is ...

    Article : 322 words
  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I would suggest to some of those who have written on this subject a perusal of an article on snakes in the "Windsor Magazine" of December, 1903. The writer, ...

    Article : 223 words
  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—As one connected with clerical work for the past 11 years, I think the consensus of opinion is that the bad state of clerks' salaries arises, in at least 75 per cent, of ...

    Article : 326 words
  21. THE YEAR'S INSOLVENCIES.

    The annual returns of the work done in the insolvency Court, compiled by Mr. L. Hambleton, show that while there was a slight increase in the number of persons ...

    Article : 587 words
  22. CHARGE OF LUNACY.

    The man George Bremner, who on Thursday of last week called at Governmenthouse and peremptorily demanded to see the Gavernor-General, in order to obtain a ...

    Article : 279 words
  23. MINING FATALITY.

    WALHALLA, Friday.—The inquest touching the death of Soren Martin Abrahamson who was killed in the Long Tunnel mine on Wednesday, was resumed this ...

    Article : 566 words
  24. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Why, may I ask, should some of your correspondence deny the possibility of snakes swallowing their young, when other of your correspondents apparently swallow ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Being out of town, and unable to reply to "Householder" of the 13th, I ask your favour to explain, in justice to myself as a buyer, and to the firm that supplied ...

    Article : 198 words
  26. MELBOURNE.

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  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I have read with much interest all the letters you have of late published under the above heading, and agree in every particular in the one written to-day by Mr. Le ...

    Article : 179 words
  28. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I am a capable accountant, correspondent, and shorthand writer, was for some years a bank manager, and relinquished that position to practise as an ...

    Article : 269 words
  29. THE RAILWAYS.

    WYCHEPROOF, Thursday.—In connection with the traffic on the Sea Lake line by a travelling stationmaster, with women-in-charge at the several stations, Councillor J. Bridge voiced the ...

    Article : 313 words
  30. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I think evety fair-minded person will agree with "Householder" when he says that he has not the ability to show that the Shops and Factories Act has lowered ...

    Article : 215 words
  31. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—A great many years of my life has been spent in different country parts in the state. I have killed a great many snakes of every ...

    Article : 233 words
  32. SYDNEY DISPUTE SETTLED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The dispute in the wool trade between Dalgety annd Co. Limited and the Woolbuyers' Association was settled to-day. That firm agreed in the interests of their constituents to ...

    Article : 183 words
  33. FIRE AT NORTH MELBOURNE

    At half-past 9 last night, two men who were passing the hide and skin stores of Mr. Thomas Blades, at the corner of Mark-street and Boundary-road, North ...

    Article : 319 words
  34. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—"Once a Clerk" states that he attributes having become a member of the firm to the fact that he, when a clerk, was, by being always a little in advance of his work, ...

    Article : 220 words
  35. MELBOURNE WOOL. STATION PRODUCE, AND GRAIN MARKET.

    The MELBOURNE WOOLBROUGHS' ASSOCIATION (Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. Limited, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited. ...

    Article : 282 words
  36. Advertising

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  37. RAILWAY DELAYS.

    Sir,—My husband, through the loss of nearly the whole of 300 acres of crop by a terrific hailstorm, has been forced to do his own stripping and winnowing as he cannot ...

    Article : 421 words
  38. MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.

    Sir,—In the report on the French paper at the recent matriculation examination the following paragraph occurs:—"In accordance with the notice given some six months ...

    Article : 183 words
  39. DELAYS IN THE TITLES OFFICE.

    Sir,—On behalf of a client I lodged an application to bring land under the Transfer of Land Act in the early part of September, 1903. It was a very simple case, but up to ...

    Article : 95 words
  40. AN UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION.

    At the City Court yesterday a man named Irwin White was charged, before Messrs. Panton, P.M., Cherry, Lanceshire, and Captain Garside, J.P'.s with having been ...

    Article : 138 words
  41. CHARGE OF FORGERY.

    At the Collingwood Court on Friday, before Messrs. Kimberley, Hanslow, and Tait, J.P.'s, a young man named William Francis Menalack was presented on two charges of forgery and uttering. ...

    Article : 319 words
  42. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—At the request of a number of unemployed clerks and others who have approached the Victoria Clerk's Union in the matter, my executive has undertaken to ...

    Article : 175 words
  43. STAND-UP' EIGHT.

    Two men named James Causland and Thomas Carroll were charged at the South Melbourne Court yesterday with behaving in an offecsive manner. The evidences of Constables Mooney and [?] ...

    Article : 180 words
  44. A SERIOUS CHARGE.

    A girl named [?]ene Wilson, about nine years of age, on alighting from a train at the Burnley station yesterday, informed a porter that whilst travelling in the train she was interfered with by ...

    Article : 96 words
  45. ALBERT PARK LAKE.

    Sir,—In reading "The Argus" of yesterday I saw a paraghraph in which the committee of the Albert-park reserve had under consideration the desirability of building a ...

    Article : 138 words
  46. FRUITGROWERS' WOES.

    Sir,—Your article on "The Fruitgrowers' Woes" is highly instructive to growers, and should be a means of stimulating the Government into assisting rural producers, ...

    Article : 122 words
  47. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—We believe that the clerks who complain of receiving low pay have only themselves to blame. We know something of the requirements of employers, and we know ...

    Article : 217 words
  48. Advertising

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