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  2. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Premier stated to-day that immediate steps are to be taken to call tenders for the establishment of a steam service with the eastern ports, in the ...

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  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 words
  4. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. FATAL FALL.

    The death of John Wilson, aged about 70 years, which occured on Monday, at his residence, No. 11 Lygon-street, Carlgon, was the subject of an inquiry, conducted by the ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. THE MISSING ORION.

    HOBART, Tuesday.—The Premier (Captain Evans) forwarded the following telegram to Messrs. Holyman and Sons, of Launceston, owners of the missing steamer ...

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  6. ASSURANCE AMALGAMATION. MUTUAL AND CITIZENS' LIFE.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday. — In the Supreme Court to-day further hearing was given to the petition for the sanction of the amalgamation of the Mutual Life Assurance ...

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  7. A.N.A. SITS LATE.

    QUEENSCLIFF, Tuesday. — The local branch of the A.N.A. held its annual installation dinner at Baar's Osprey-house, on Monday night. The function did not ...

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  8. PUBLIC SERVICE ALLOWANCE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The High Court delivered judgment to-day in the action in which the state of New South Wales sought to recover from the Commonwealth £264 ...

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  9. WEST MELBOURNE SWAMP.

    A visit was paid by the Premier (Mr. Bent) yesterday to the West Melbourne Swamp, where the reclamation works are now well advanced. Mr. Bent desired to ...

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  10. TELEPHONE TO SYDNEY.

    Yesterday a series of questions and answers in the House of Representatives disclosed the good-natured and easy way in which the Treasurer (Sir William Lyne) ...

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  11. RIVERINA.

    ALBURY, Tuesday. — A four-roomed cottage and its contents were totally destroyed by fire at Bowna. The occupants, Mr. and Mrs. M'Brien, lost all their ...

    Article : 247 words
  12. DIES ON RAILWAY PLATFORM.

    A resident of Edgevale-road, Kew, viz., Mr. Robert William Lenton, died suddenly yesterday whilst waiting for a train on the Glenferrie railway station. Dr. Brake, on ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. GIRL BADLY BURNED.

    Grace Nixon, 20 years of age, who lives at 48 Napier-street, Fitzroy, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon for treatment of severe burns on the ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. THE WEATHER. OFFICIAL REPORT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 540 words
  15. WORK AND WAGES. TIMBER WORKERS.

    A report of the business done at the conference of representatives of the federal council of the Timber-yard, Sawmill, and General Woodworkers' Association, which ...

    Article : 378 words
  16. CAUGHT BY CLOTHES-LINE.

    BERRINGA, Tuesday. — While Henry Hogg, 19 years of age, was riding his pony from the blacksmith's he essayed a short cut home, and came in contact with a ...

    Article : 47 words
  17. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday. — Three men named respectively Egan, Keegan, and Bolton, charged with highway robbery at Christchurch, were brought before the ...

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  18. A FREEZING NIGHT.

    GRANYA, Monday.—While Mr. R. Willett, barber, of Granya, was coming across the bridle-track from Tallangatta, his horse stumbled, and threw him among a heap of ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. SCARLET TROUBADOURS.

    Mr. Edward Branscombe's name is familiar in Melbourne, and after the success of the choir boys he brought out a few years ago, there was little doubt that this new ...

    Article : 678 words
  20. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The Camberwell Town Council on Monday night elected the mayor (Councillor Beckett) and Councillor Read to represent it on the council of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College, to be ...

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  21. THROWN FROM A PONY.

    BEAUFORT, Monday.—A youth named William Gurdiner, employed by Mr. Thomas A. Oddie as a boundary-rider at Pretty Tower, was on ...

    Article : 150 words
  22. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. NEW PROPERTIES DECLINED.

    Yesterday the Closer Settlement Board declined offers of four properties, giving as its reason for doing so the high prices now ruling for land. ...

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  23. WYUNA ESTATE.

    Yesterday the Closer Settlement Board decided to extend the Goulburn levee on the west side of the Wyuna Estate. ...

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  24. STRATHKELLAR HOMESTEAD LOTES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 words
  25. DIVORCE COURT.

    Florence Turpie, of Canterbury, dressmaker, sought a dissolution of her marriage with Alexander Thomas Gibson Turpie, on the ground of desertion. Mr. Farlow appeared for the petitioner. The ...

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  26. DREDGE EMPLOYEE'S DEATH.

    BEECHWORTH, Tuesday.—An inquiry was held at Poyntz's Hotel, Wooragee, to-day, before Mr. Rowan, P.M., touching the death of Thomas Jones, the young man who ...

    Article : 96 words
  27. BREAD-BAKING.

    A special meeting of the committee of the Operative Baker's Society was held at the Trades-hall yesterday, at which a subcommittee was appointed to go into the ...

    Article : 89 words
  28. COUNCILLOR'S SEVERE INJURY.

    GEELONG, Tuesday.—Subsequent to the Barrabool shire Council meeting to-day, Councillor J. S. Hunt, after returning home, was dismounting from his horse, ...

    Article : 85 words
  29. REV. J. B. RONALD'S CASE.

    Yesterday the Rev. J. B. Ronald, ex-M.H.R., of Middle-park, presented the following petition to the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria:— ...

    Article : 261 words
  30. THE CHOPS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 words
  31. THE LABOURERS' HIRE.

    At a special meeting of the Camberwell Council on Monday night it was decided by a unanimous vote that in future the dailypaid employees of the council be paid ...

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  32. STAWELL LAND BOARD.

    STAWELL, Tuesday.—At a land board, held by the land officer Mr. E. Giblett) on Friday morning, the following applications were considered:—Samuel Barber, 3 acres, ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. KILLED BY TRAINS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Robert Craig, employee as the Macdonaldtown railway station, was killed this evening. No one saw the accident which resulted in his death, ...

    Article : 171 words
  34. COLD KILLS STOCK.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 words
  35. THE AIRLY TROUBLE.

    The award arrived at, as between the Airly (N.S.W.) Miners' Association and the Commonwealth Oil Corporation, to which reference was made in "The Argus" of ...

    Article : 116 words
  36. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 words
  37. INDEPENDENT ODDFELLOWS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The triennial session of the Grand Lodge of Australasia of the Independent Order of Oddfellows was opened to-day, representatives being present ...

    Article : 101 words
  38. COAL MINERS' FEARS RELIEVED.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday. — The recent trouble at Christie Brothers' coal mine, Green Island, has been settled, the proprietors agreeing to draw off the water in the ...

    Article : 42 words
  39. SERIOUS BLASTING ACCIDENT.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Two men were seriously injured by a blasting accident at the Coombing Ironstone Quarry, at Carcoar, this afternoon. One of them ...

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  40. REV. MR. WORRALL AND THE STAGE.

    Sir,—I perused with surprise and pain your Bendigo correspondent's report of the remarks alleged to have been made by the Rev. H. Worrall anent the stage and the ...

    Article : 271 words
  41. INSANITARY HOUSES.

    Sir,—Is it not time the municipal authorities took some steps to find out the conditions of the shockingly insanitary homes of the poor in their respective districts? Why ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 355 words
  43. THE COAL COURT.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Now that Judge Heydon has resigned the presidency of the special Coal Court, it is considered that there is very little chance of the Court ...

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  44. "I AM DYING—GOOD-BYE."

    WARRNAMBOOL, Tuesday. — An Allansford resident, named William King, met with a painfully sudden death on sunday night. He had atendend St. Joseph's ...

    Article : 145 words
  45. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—The alterations secured by me in the scheme for amalgamation between the Mutual Life Association of Australasia and the Citizens' Life Company will have so ...

    Article : 319 words
  46. BAPTIST UNION.

    GEELONG, Tuesday. — The inaugural meeting in connection with the autumn session of the Baptist Union was held at the Aberdeen-street Baptist Church to-night. ...

    Article : 73 words
  47. BRITISH OR ENGLISH?

    Sir,—I am surprised that Mr. Walter Murdoch, in "The Argus" of last Saturday, should even attempt to justify the conventional use of English and British or ...

    Article : 285 words
  48. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    BOORT, May 19.—The Boort Co-operative Butter and Ice Company has finished its third half-year's operations, the net profits for the past year being £273, from which a dividend of 3 per cent. was ...

    Article : 149 words
  49. OTHER ACCIDENTS.

    BOORT, Tuesday.— A boy named Rolliason yesterday had his foot badly crushed in the cogs of a horseworks at his father's farm, near Mysia. BEAUFORT, Tuesday. — Richard Anderson, a ...

    Article : 253 words
  50. CRIMINAL COURT.

    Julia M'Carthy was presented on a charge of the Larceny from the person of Fredrick Charter, painter, of Warracknabeal, of a purse, containing four sovereigns, a railway ticket to Warracknabeal, ...

    Article : 399 words
  51. PRIVATE ADVICES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 words
  52. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 words
  53. BACK ONE MASS OF SORES.

    The following case sheets home the folly of neglecting small injuries, and illustrates what dire effects may be the outcome of such neglect. Mr. Charles Ward. of 66 ...

    Article : 314 words
  54. ALWAYS HUNGRY.

    A young lady in Minnesota writes of her experience:— After a disheartening struggle for five years aginst the ills attendant on ...

    Article : 297 words
  55. A.N.A. ELECTIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 320 words
  56. THE RAILWAYS.

    The secretary of the Workers' Co-operative Clubs (Mr c. Barrett), waited on the chairman of the Railway Commissioners (Mr. Tait) yesterday, and made inquiries ...

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  57. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—In the use of the term "English" as against "British," Mr. Walter Murdoch puts up a good fight in a losing cause. His main contention, however, is that he has ...

    Article : 253 words
  58. SUBURBAN SHOP BREAKING.

    Though there has been some alarm in the Elsternwick district at a series of shopbreakings on Sunday night and Monday morning, the thieves have not been highly ...

    Article : 186 words
  59. BILLIARDS.

    The professionals tournament was advanced another stage last evening at Alock's-hall, when a very interesting game was played between H. Smith (brother to the New South Wales ...

    Article : 231 words
  60. TASMANIA.

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday. — Mr. A. D. Sligo, of Zeehan, has despatched a telegram to the Premier, contending that Mr. Twelvetrees and Mr. Waard, the Government ...

    Article : 66 words
  61. TRUCKS DERAILED.

    LUBECK, Monday.—During shunting operations in the railway yards this afternoon two loaded trucks ran off the rails while crossing the points, and tore up a portion of the permanent-way. While ...

    Article : 63 words
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