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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 words
  3. LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

    The annual general meeting of the shareholders of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company was held at Liverpool on April 24 last. Mr. George H. ...

    Article : 1,200 words
  4. PORT MAINTENANCE.

    Interesting information regarding the port and the cost of its maintenance is given in the annual report of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, to be submitted to the meeting ...

    Article : 829 words
  5. LAND TAXATION.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—For a time this afternoon the proceedings at a meeting in the School of Arts were of an uproarious nature. A number of property-owners met ...

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  6. THE REV. C. H. NASH.

    GEELONG, Tuesday. — A meeting of the Nash defence committee was held to-night, when a letter was received from the vicar-general, Archdeacon Hindley. ...

    Article : 310 words
  7. DEEP-SEA VESSELS. PILOTAGE EXEMPTIONS.

    The probability of Messrs. Burns. Philp, and Co. transferring their head office from Sydney to Melbourne was referred to in "The Argus" of Monday. This action was ...

    Article : 685 words
  8. ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND. ARRIVAL IN MELBOURNE.

    A public welcome was accorded the Royal Artillery Band yesterday afternoon on their arrival from Adelaide. Twenty metropolitan bands were represented in a mass ...

    Article : 637 words
  9. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    Good headway is being made by the town council contractors with the Caledonian and No. 3 storm-water channels, upon winch about £9,000 is being expended, ...

    Article : 415 words
  10. SPECIAL MUNICIPAL WORKS.

    MOE, Tuesday.—At the last meeting of the Narracan Shire Council the following motion (by Councillors Parkes and M'Gregor) was earied:—"that in the opinion of ...

    Article : 150 words
  11. THE WEATHER. OFFICIAL REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 617 words
  12. SLOW MOVING DEPARTMENT.

    BEAUFORT. Tuesday.—A striking example of the dilatoriness of the Lands department was shdown at yesterday's meeting of the Ripon Shire Council, when, in reply to ...

    Article : 78 words
  13. MILTON AND TENNIS.

    ARARAT, Tuesday.—Bishop Green, of Ballarat, paid a visit to the Ararat Church of England Grammar School, and opened the tennis-court. just constructed. He served ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. LAND ADMINISTRATION.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The executive council of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association in their annual report adversely criticise the administration of the Lands department. ...

    Article : 246 words
  15. VANDALISM IN A CEMETERY.

    GORDON, Tuesday.— The trustees of the Gorden Cemetery were indignant on discovering, through Mr.G.E.Watkinson, that one of the pine trees had been ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    An old man named John Wagner was arrested, on Tuesday afternoon, on a charge of having deliberately broken the large window in front of the office of Mr. Ni Gan, ...

    Article : 306 words
  17. POLLUTED WATER SUPPLY.

    SEYMOUR, Tuesday.—Serious allegations concerning the death of stock in the watershed of seymour's water supply were circulated in the town to-day. A local ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    ALBURY, Tuesday. — Mr. James Holbrook Wood, engineer, and surveyor, a colonist of 56 years, died to-day, aged 79. He arrived in Australia in 1852, and ...

    Article : 428 words
  19. THE REV. GEORGE GLADSTONE.

    NATHALIA, Tuesday.—The Rev. George Gladstone has stated that the decision of Mr. Justice A'Beckett, in connection with the recent law suit, was not in the least ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. RUN DOWN BY ENGINES.

    HOBART, Tuesday.—Early this morning Thomas Harrison, a farm labourer, aged 34, was found by the side of the railway line at Bridgewater Junction, 12 miles from ...

    Article : 170 words
  21. BURNS, PHILP; AND CO. LIMITED.

    The state Premier (Mr.Bent) has received from the Premier of New South Males (Mr. Wade) a communication regarding the positiou which has arisen over ...

    Article : 243 words
  22. ADULTERATED CHAFF.

    NATHLIA, Tuesday.—Serious complaints are being made in connection with the chaff which has been brought into this district It is stated that large ...

    Article : 381 words
  23. OPENING CONCERT.

    There was a good audience in the Townhall last night, when Mr. Robert Smith and the Newcastle-on-TYne Royal Artillery Band made their first appearance. The Premier ...

    Article : 743 words
  24. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    The horse stolen last week irom Mr. David Mitchell, at Cowie's Creek, and valued at £50 was subsequently sold to a farmer at Moolap, the vendor agreeing to call on ...

    Article : 352 words
  25. THE RAINFALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 words
  26. MURRURUNDI ACCIDENT.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—James Bede Dwyer, late night officer at Murrurundi, and William Gibson, shunter, are to be charged with having, by a negligent omission, caused ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. FATAL MISTAKE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—David Stewart Newell, a resident of Lismore, took a small quantity of muriate acid in mistake for rum, which he had obtained for a cold on ...

    Article : 84 words
  28. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—The Government Savings Bank returns for May show an increase of £20,539 to the credit of depositors, as compared with the figures for the ...

    Article : 42 words
  29. CABINET CONSIDERATION.

    Considcration was given to Mr. Wade's letter at a meeting of the state Cabinet held yesterday afternoon. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Swinburne) stated ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. COUNTRY RECORDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  31. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday. — Some complaint has been made that the Lands department has discontinued the issue of free passes to persons who desire to inspect the ...

    Article : 244 words
  32. PENSIONER BURNED TO DEATH.

    WANGARATTA, Tuesday.—A shocking death by burning occurred this morning to Mary Smith, aged 70 years, an old-age pensioner, who lived alone in a hut on the ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. COLLINGWOOD SANITATION.

    Sir,— I feel I cannot allow the statements of Councillor Wilkins, as published in your issue to-day, to pass unchallenged. In reply, permit me to say that it was ...

    Article : 684 words
  34. QUEENSLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  35. WARRNAMBOOL.

    At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Monday night it was decided to observe the is weekly hilf- holiday in future from noon on Thursdays, instead of 1 o'clock ...

    Article : 161 words
  36. QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Dugald Thomson (N.S.W.) directed the attention of the Trcasurer to the report in "The Argus" that, in consequence of the preferential treatment meted out to ...

    Article : 210 words
  37. PRIVATE ADVICES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  38. THE IONIC FIRE.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—The inquiry into the recent fire on the s.s. Ionic was resumed to-day. The evidence failed to throw much light on the cause of the outbreak. ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. ARM STRIPPED OF FLESH.

    OMEO, Tuesday.—A young man, named Alexander M'Coy, met with a serious accident while feeding a chaff-cutter on his father's farm at Ensay. In endeavouring ...

    Article : 84 words
  40. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 words
  41. THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS.

    The popularity of "The Merry Widow" in Melbourne is decidedly on the increase, if one may judge by the audiences which crowd Her Majesty's Theatre every night. This afternoon the usual ...

    Article : 557 words
  42. HAMILTON.

    At the inquest touching the death of a young man named Stanley Rigby, the deputy coroner, Mr. F. Uren, J.P., returned a verdict that death was due to ...

    Article : 154 words
  43. OTHER ACCIDENTS.

    OLUNES, Monday.—John Nelson, a farm labourer, fell off a roller, which passed over his right foot, causing severe injury. He was attended by Mr. Forster.— Peter Dowie, an ...

    Article : 249 words
  44. BRAIN FAG BANISHED.

    A Devonslire schoolmaster was greatly concerned about food, as nothing he ate seemed to agree. How, through the help of his wife he was able after much ...

    Article : 466 words
  45. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Tuesday.—The influence of the depression in the mineral industry, which has been accentuated of late by the trouble existing on the West Coast, is ...

    Article : 259 words
  46. THE PEOPLE'S FOOD.

    On April 10 Leopold C. Payne, dairyman, of Camberwell, was fined for selling milk below the standard. On appeal the decision was upset, on the ground that the ...

    Article : 267 words
  47. PLUCKY RESCUE.

    HOBART, Tuesday. — A little boy, about 3 years old, named King, was playing on the Ringarooma-bridge, when he fell through the railings into the river, a ...

    Article : 98 words
  48. BREWERY AND HOTELKEEPER.

    MAPYBOROUGH, Tuesday.—At the police court to-day the Maldon Brewing Company sued Eilen Mary Jackson, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Bowenvale for £26, ...

    Article : 242 words
  49. WOMEN AND TAXATION.

    Sir,—The best thanks of Australian women are due to Dr.Maloney, M.H.R., for his efforts to remove the 35 percent duty which the Federal Government have ...

    Article : 243 words
  50. PREPARE YOUR SKIN TO RESIST WINTER'S CHAPS, COLD SORES, CHILBLAINS, AND ROUGHNESS.

    The unavoidable exposure of the face and hands to winter's cold drying winds, damp frosty, atmospheres, and beating rain- storms has the effect of creating disigreeable, sore ...

    Article : 248 words
  51. THE RAILWAYS.

    Mr. James Oaten, oi Lonsdale-street, makes a complaint against the Railway department for serious delay in the deliver of goods. A parcel of two horse rugs ...

    Article : 169 words
  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—Richard Cornish on hotelkeeper at Stirling, Otago, has been committed for trial on a charge of the manslaughter of his wife, who was of ...

    Article : 147 words
  53. WORK AND WAGES.

    SYDNEY Tuesday.—The strike of youths at the Lambton "B" pit at Newcastle was not of long duration The miners held a meeting last night, and resolved that ...

    Article : 98 words
  54. GOLD BUYERS ACT.

    NEERIM SOUTH Tuesday.—Mr. M'Kenzie, mining lnspector, attended a meeting of the Progress Assoeiition on Monday night, and discussed the complaint ...

    Article : 157 words
  55. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    TALBOT.—A four-roomed dwelling situated on Talbot Flat was destroyed by fire, together with its contents, on Tuesday afternoon. No one was at home at the time, and the cause of the fire ...

    Article : 51 words
  56. TEN TIMES BETTER.

    It is not worth while drinking ordinary cocoa when Plasman Cocoa is ten times more nourishing. Besides, Plasmon Cocoa disests so easily. Very delicious, too. Of grocers, &c.—[Advt.] ...

    Article : 59 words
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