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  2. KILMORE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. AN INQUIRY DESIRED.

    An official statement was yesterday issued from the Railway department, stating that the coroner's inquest as to the cause of the death of Driver Duke and Fireman ...

    Article : 82 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 words
  4. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

    Excitement was caused at the Australian Wharf yesterday afternoon when the body of an elderly man was seen floating down the Yarra. Two railway employes, named ...

    Article : 196 words
  5. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    Not a vote was taken on any question on the tariff as a result of yesterday's debate. The proceedings showed a Launcatable reversal of form as compared with the ...

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  6. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    Councillor Brokenshire, of the city council, who is a candidate for the Board of Health, has been promised support from the municipalities of Bunninyong, Horsham, ...

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  7. HARVESTER EXCISE.

    Mr. Justice Higgins, president of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, yesterday continued the hearing of the application of Hugh Victor ...

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  8. AUSTRALIA'S PROSPERITY.

    The annual meeting of the Bankers' Institute of Australasia was held at the rooms of the institute, 70 Elizabeth-street yesterday afternoon, when the president (Mr. O. ...

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  9. THE INVINCIBLE "DEAD-HEAD."

    CHARLTON, Wednesday.—Agricultural societies are troubled with "dead-heads" at their shows. In order to obtain advice as to how the difficulty could be overcome, ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. REFERENCES IN PARLIAMENT.

    It was suggested by Mr. Prendergast, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, that an independent board of inquiry should be appointed, and on the motion for ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. BITTEN BY A SNAKE.

    BAIRNSDALE, Thursday.—Whilst Mr. James Worsley was getting some recentlycut lucerne out of a bag at Lindenow, a snake bit the little finger of his right hand. ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. THE WEATHER. RAINFALL RECORDS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 words
  13. A FATAL FALL.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Batten, the woman who was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Wednesday suffering from a fractured skull, died yesterday evening. Mrs. ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. BIG LOAD OF HAY.

    ECHUCA, Thursday.—Michael Allan, a well-known local teamster, left the Echuea railway station on Wednesday with a load of 430 bundles of hay, weighning over 16 tons ...

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  15. WEATHER AND CROPS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 words
  16. CONTRACTOR'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    KILMORE, Thursday.—Last night the police were informed of a sudden death that occurred at Kenyon's Kilmore Hotel. Joseph Canty, a native of Gordon, about ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. REMOVAL OF WRECKAGE SUSPENDED.

    KILMORE, Thursday.—To remove the wrecked engine and tender from the bed of the Kurkurrue Creek, the scene of the recent disaster, it was found necessary to ...

    Article : 164 words
  18. NEW SOUTH WALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  19. MINE PITMAN KILLED.

    DUNOLLY, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred to-day at the Duke Consols mine, Middlebridge. A pitman, named Francis Johnson, was engaged at the lifts, and put ...

    Article : 86 words
  20. QUEENSLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  21. GRAND OPERA SEASON.

    Mr. Musgrove's grand opera company completes its New Zealand tour to-night at Invercargill, and leaves for Hobart en route to Melbourne on Monday. A limited season ...

    Article : 470 words
  22. CHILD DROWNED.

    BEAUFORT, Wednesday. — Herbert Boyd, three years of age, son of Mr. William Boyd, of Chute, near Beaufort, was accidentally drowned in a dam this ...

    Article : 126 words
  23. OBSERVATORY REPORT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 470 words
  24. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    The young man Charles Hayes, charged with having assaulted his mother, an elderly woman, was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. It was stated that ...

    Article : 537 words
  25. SPLINTER IN THE EYE.

    MOE, Thursday.—A youth named Mitchell, son of Mr. W. Mitchell, of Fumina, storekeeper, met with a painful accident on Tuesday. The lad was breaking a stick ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Thursday.—The Legislative Assembly has decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal commission to inquire into the circumstances concerning the ...

    Article : 135 words
  27. INCITING TO STEAL.

    BENDIGO, Thursday.—At the Criminal Sittings to-day, before Mr. Justice A'Beckett, Louis Joseph Wilks, goldbuyer, of Bendigo, was charged with ...

    Article : 239 words
  28. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 words
  29. WORK AND WAGES. CARTER'S AND DRIVERS' UNION.

    A meeting of the Brunswick branch of the Carters' and Drivers' Union was held in the local Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening. Mr. H. Wilmott presided. ...

    Article : 204 words
  30. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.—The ship Gallilee, which is assisting in the magnetic survey of the world, undertaken by the Carnegie Magnetic Institute of Washington, ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. THE PEOPLES FOOD. ADULTERATED JAM.

    BALLARAT, Thursday.—In the Sebastopol Court to-day Andrew Austin, jam manufacturer, was charged, under the Pure Foods Act, with having sold jam containing ...

    Article : 161 words
  32. FIRE AT EAST PRAHRAN.

    Mr. L. G. Armstrong's bootmaker's shop and dwelling, in High-street east, Prahran, was severely damaged by fire yesterday evening. The building, which is the ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOURERS.

    The Christian Endeavourers of Australasia, released from the labours of their ninth biennial conference, spent yesterday at Ferntree Gully, where a picnic, or rather ...

    Article : 165 words
  34. INTERSTATE PARLIAMENTS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The debate on the want of confidence motion was resumed in the Legislative Assembly this evening. Mr. Storey said the country wanted to ...

    Article : 362 words
  35. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    Four young men, named Frank Fechan, William Ellis, George Jarvis, and Albert Palmer, were charged at the police court on Thursday by Mounted-constable Battye ...

    Article : 257 words
  36. HEAVY SEA KILLS SHEEP.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday. — The s.s. Wimmera arrived from Sydney to-day, after an extremely rough passage. Since Sunday evening a strong gale prevailed, and the ...

    Article : 78 words
  37. PRICE OF BREAD.

    NATHALIA, Thursday. — The local bakers have raised the price of bread to 7d. the 4lb. loaf. ...

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  38. BENDIGO MINERS' DEMANDS.

    BENDIGO, Thursday.—Both the Bendigo Mine-owners' Association and the Bendigo branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association have agreed to the conference in ...

    Article : 160 words
  39. WATER FOR FARMERS.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—In the House of Assembly to-day a long discussion occurred on a motion with the object of urging that the Government should do all in its power ...

    Article : 285 words
  40. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. LAND AT MORRISON.

    MEREDITH, Thursday.—For the past six years some of the residents of Morrison have been agitating for the subdivision of portion of the Morrison's common for ...

    Article : 186 words
  41. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—As a sequel to the motor car fatality on Friday evening. October 4, in which Miss Amelia Down was killed through a collision with a motor ...

    Article : 384 words
  42. CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

    Charles Henry Manning, for whom Mr. J. L. Clarke appeated. stood charged with larceny as a hailee of a quantity of furniture. For the prosecution evidence was called to show ...

    Article : 540 words
  43. BAIRNSDALE LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    BAIRNSDALE, Thursday. — Nearly all the Bairnsdale wharf lumpers are still on strike for extra payment of 3d. per hour. The steamer Despatch was to-day unloaded ...

    Article : 73 words
  44. HEWING RATE INCREASED.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The strike of miners in the Western coal district has been averted. The Lithgow Coal Association and the representatives of the miners have ...

    Article : 94 words
  45. HAMILTON.

    It is proposed to replace the old fence round the public-gardens with iron pickets. Mr. T. H. Laidlaw has promised to present entrance gates for one portion, and ...

    Article : 92 words
  46. PIRRON YALLOAK ESTATE.

    COLAC, Wednesday. — A land board under the Closer Settlement Act sat at Colac to-day and till half-past 10 to-night, dealing with applications for allotments in ...

    Article : 77 words
  47. GIRL POISONED.

    At 11 o'clock last night a young woman of about 22 years of ago was found in an insensible condition in Clarendon-street, South Melbourne. She ...

    Article : 211 words
  48. ALLEGED POCKET-PICKING.

    At the City Court yesterday, before Mr. Cohen, P.M., and collegues, Beside Hamilton was charged with the theft of one [?]ign, ten shillings in silver, and three coupon tickets from the person ...

    Article : 201 words
  49. NORTHERN COAL VEND.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—A meeting of colliery proprietors and representatives forming, the Northern Coal Vend was held to-day, the business having reference chiefly ...

    Article : 150 words
  50. A COMMITTEE RESIGNS.

    THORPDALE, Wendesday.—Owing to a deadlock in finance, over an attempt to increase the overdraft at the bank, the whole of the committee of the Thorpdale ...

    Article : 66 words
  51. YARIMA ESTATE.

    BEEAC, Wednesday.—Messrs. Dalgety and Co., in conjunction with Messrs. Charles Walker and Co., yesterday offered, on behalf of Mr. Thomas Russell, about ...

    Article : 76 words
  52. RACING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 words
  53. TRUANTS' EXCURSION.

    SORRENTO, Tuesday. — Three boys, whose ages range from 11 to 13 years, ran[?] away from their homes at Richmond last Tuesday, and went to Geelong. Quickly ...

    Article : 144 words
  54. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    PORT CHALMERS.—Arrived.—Oct. 17—Kamona, from Hobart. WELLINGTON.—Arrived.—Oct. 17.—St. Quentin, from Newcastle; Wimmers, from Sydney. ...

    Article : 21 words
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