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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 251 words
  3. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    This afternoon there will be a sculling race on the Nepean River, near Sydney, for £1,000 and the championship of the world, between George Towns, of Gladesville, ...

    Article : 659 words
  4. SUNDAY TELEPHONING. EXEMPT STAFF ROVIDED.

    Arrangements are being made for the provision of what is known as the exempt staff to work the telephone service on Sundays. The secretary of the department said ...

    Article : 146 words
  5. THE PLAGUE.

    Recent returns from plague-infected centres were read at the meeting of the Board of Public Health yesterday. From India it was reported that out of 19,400 cases ...

    Article : 415 words
  6. EJECTED FROM THE TOTE.

    A charge of unlawful assault, arising out of the ejectment of two men from the place known as Wren's Tote, came before Mr. Keogh, P.M., and Messrs. Cornfoot, Rain, ...

    Article : 1,331 words
  7. IN HOSPITAL.

    Among the hospitals with which, as Dr. Barrett has told us, Melbourne is so plentifully supplied there is only one whose deathrate is nil. It is a surgical hospital, and ...

    Article : 991 words
  8. FAREWELL TO MR. DEAKIN.

    BALLARAT, Friday.—At a social gathering in the gardens pavilion to-night the supporters of the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) met to wish him England to attend ...

    Article : 936 words
  9. THE CASE FOR MOTOR-CARS.

    "This community is suffering from motor-phobia," a leading motorist said yesterday. "Only the other day a Victorian public man said, Motor-cars ought, to be ...

    Article : 1,594 words
  10. RAILWAY INNOVATION.

    Many changes of a necessary and beneficial character have been introduced since the present Railway Commissioners came into office, but their latest departure from ...

    Article : 635 words
  11. SABBATARIAN PROTEST.

    At the general meeting of members of the Sunday-school Union of Victoria a resolution was passed protecting against the employment of telephone operators on ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. THE WEATHER. OBSERVATORY REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 395 words
  13. SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—Regarding the strike, the Minister of Labour (Mr. Millar) said that as head of the department directly affected by the strike, he intended to have ...

    Article : 159 words
  14. COMMONWEALTH REVENUE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 words
  15. CITIZENS' LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

    The report of this progressive life office for the year 1906 shows that continued prosperity has attended its affairs during the past twelve months. ...

    Article : 925 words
  16. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 words
  17. TAXIMETERS IN CABS.

    An argument used by many of the cabdrivers who oppose the adoption of the use of taximeters in Melbourne cabs is that the machines only register the distance travelled ...

    Article : 832 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,190 words
  19. REVENUE RETURNS. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.—The revenue of Queensland for February was £275,560, an increase of £38,884 as compared with the same month last year. The principal ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. ROAD TO FLINDERS.

    Sir,—One of the most delightful places on our coast for a summer holiday is Flinderbut there is one great drawback. The road from Bittern to Flinders is not what it ...

    Article : 217 words
  21. A THE SPILLANE CASE.

    At the St. Kilda Court yesterday, before Messrs. Stedeford (chairman). O'Donnell, Morrah, and Alston, J.P.'s, a youth, 17 years of age, named William Spillane, was ...

    Article : 423 words
  22. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN MOTORING.

    Sir,—The proposal, vide "The Argus" of yesterday, to institute an overland automobile service between Oodnadatta and Pine Creek is one of considerable interest. ...

    Article : 676 words
  23. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Friday.—The revenue for February of this year was £261,688, as against £278,323 for February last year, the expenditure being £268,686, as against ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. POSTAL FACILITIES AT EAST MALVERN.

    Sir,—Will you allow me very briefly to express the thanks of many of the adjoining residents at the erection of a post-office receiving-box in the Grange, East Malvern. ...

    Article : 196 words
  25. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.—South Australia is enjoying a period of great prosperity. One great index of the condition of the state is the railway receipts, and the cash ...

    Article : 305 words
  26. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The suit brought by the executors of the will of the late George Dorward, of Moama, for probate was before Mr. Justice Street to-day. George Roy ...

    Article : 357 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 459 words
  28. ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 words
  29. SUPREME COURT BUSINESS.

    The [?] of Supreme Court business for the month of March are as follows:— The Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hood, and ...

    Article : 386 words
  30. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Friday.—The consolidated revenue of Tasmania for February was £68,016 3/6, as compared with £63,378/15/2 for February, 1906. The revenue for the eight ...

    Article : 380 words
  31. RIVERINA.

    ALBURY, Friday.—At the meeting of the Hume Shire Council yesterday arrangements were made for a loan from the bank of £1,250. An application for an increased ...

    Article : 259 words
  32. THE CLOTHES FITTED.

    SHEPPARTON, Friday.—At the local police court yesterday a village settler of Wyun[?], named William Gibbs, was charged with the thief of a dress basket, containing ...

    Article : 174 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 195 words
  34. WAGES AT KALGOORLIE.

    KALGOORLIE, Friday.—The Industrial agreement entered into by the mining companies and employes on this field some 18 months ago has expired. A conference of ...

    Article : 109 words
  35. "SENSATIONAL [?]OLT."

    Sir,—Under the above heading in this morning's issue of "The Argus" the cause of the accident is stated to be through the horse taking the bit in his teeth. Such a ...

    Article : 115 words
  36. THE RAILWAYS

    GEELONG, Friday.—To-night the Port [?]iry express was half an hour late [?] to the [?]down of the Bee[?] train at [?]. The 5.[?]3 p.m. train to Melbourne was delayed to minutes ...

    Article : 50 words
  37. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

    Sir,—We think it only fair to ask you to record a piece of very smart work by the St. John Ambulance in connection with a fatal accident which took place yesterday ...

    Article : 100 words
  38. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Friday.—The gold yield for February was 134,103 fine ounces as against 16[?]oz, for January and 142,42[?]oz, for February, 1[?]06. ...

    Article : 37 words
  39. Advertising

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    Advertising : 42 words
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