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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mortimer Franklin, aged 34, manager of the Davies-Franklin Cycle Company, was arrested by Detective Armstrong and Plainclothes Constable Montague, on Tuesday ...

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  4. INCOME TAX.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday evening, sitting in Committee of Ways and Means, the Premier (Sir Thomas Bent) brought forward the income tax rates for ...

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  5. GENERAL NEWS.

    Lady Gibson-Carmichael paid a visit to the Carlton Refuge yesterday. Owing to the unavoidable absence of the president (Mrs. Sugden), her ladyship was received by ...

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  6. THE WORLD'S FOOD.

    Thirty Governments have sent representatives to the international congress on refrigeration, which was opened in Paris yesterday. In all there are 6,000 members of ...

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  7. MISSING GIRL.

    No trace has yet been discovered by the police of the missing girl Adeline Maude Lyons, who is believed to be masquerading about the city in male attire. The girl's ...

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  8. FEDERAL OPPOSITION PARTIES

    Sir John Forrest, at the request of the members of the House of Representatives who sat in the Oppositton corner, has called a meeting of the party for to-day. The ...

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  9. HYDERABAD FLOODS.

    A correspondent at Hyderabad, in India, in a message published yesterday, estimated that the death-roll from the floods of last week would exceed 50,000. ...

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  10. HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT.

    Sir Thomas Bent stated yesterday that the work of constructing the new pier, which would be the first step in the proposed improvement of the port of Melbourne, would ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. UNEMPLOYED.

    The Government are impressed with the seriousness of the unemployed evil. Some time ago the Admiralty gave advance orders in Newcastle-on-Tyne for a number of ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM.

    DAYLESFORD, Tuesday.—Senior-constable Faulkner, with the black trackers Colin and Norman and accompanied by Senior-constable Wheatley Smith and ...

    Article : 329 words
  13. THE WEATHER

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  14. AMERICAN FLEET.

    Admiral Sperry's fleet has undergone an uncomfortable experience in Manila Harbour. A hurricane of great violence took place, during, which the wind blew at the ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. HARBOUR COLLISION.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Another collision took place in Sydney Harbour to-night, when the Adelaide Steamship Company's cargo steamer Mintaro came into contact ...

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  16. OLYMPIC GAMES.

    The committee of the English Amateur Athletic Association, after considering the report of the judges in the 400-metres race at the Olympic games, have suspended ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. ARCTIC EXPLORER

    Fears are entertained for the safety of Dr. Cook, an American explorer, who, with his party, was attempting to reach the North Pole. The latest news from the ...

    Article : 178 words
  18. PIPE-SMOKING CONTEST.

    SYDNEY Tuesday.—How long can I keep my pipe alight? This was the question nearly 400 smokers set themselves to solve to-night. The result was something ...

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  19. STATION GOSSIP.

    WAGGA, Tuesday.—A peculiar case has occupied the Wagga Circuit Court for two days. Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury, Alfred James Massey, John Bartholomew ...

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  20. CHARGES AGAINST CAPTAIN.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Following on Captain Burns's denial of the charges preferred by Pilot Heaney, regarding the navigation of the steamer Ben Nevis, when that ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An arrest was made late last night of a couple of unusually youthful burglars. A constable in going his rounds noticed two lads striking matches ...

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  22. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Prices were very firm at the wool sales to-day. A hardening tendency Mas shown. The following prices were realised for the fleece portions of the clip named:— ...

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  23. STATE LEGISLATION.

    The Government printer yesterday issued for circulation among members of Parliament copies of the new state Stamp Bill, which has already been introduced into the ...

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  24. MURRAY WATERS.

    The three states concerned in the disposal of the River Murray waters are still negotiating regarding the holding of another conference. The New South ...

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  25. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Another application for an order on behalf of Howard Freeman to stay execution on the judgment in the case of Grimson v. Freeman and Wallace ...

    Article : 368 words
  26. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    To-day's quotation for bar silver is 23 15-16d. per oz. standard, an advance of [?]d. since the 3rd inst. MINING SHARES. ...

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  27. SHEARERS' METHODS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An amusing shearing incident is reported from the Werris Creek district. A couple of points of rain fell on the Escott-park Estate, and the ...

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  28. THE RAILWAYS.

    The report of the Railways Standing Committee on the question of connecting Doncaster and Kew and the Kew Asylum and Yarra Bend Asylum lands by means of ...

    Article : 493 words
  29. WORK AND WAGES.

    Several orders regarding the administrative business of the Factories department were passed at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday. On the nomination of the ...

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  30. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS

    Wheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,885,000 quarters, against 1,915,000 quarters a week ago, and ...

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  31. EAGLES DRIVE SHEEP.

    COLERAINE, Tuesday.—As some Coleraine residents were walking on Hilgay yesterday afternoon the movements of a flock of sheep without any person in charge ...

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  32. THE CARLTON VACANCY.

    On Friday, October 9, the Speaker of the Legislitive Assembly (Mr. Frank Madden) will issue a writ for the election of a member to fill the vacancy in the Legislative ...

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  33. MISS KATHARINE GOODSON.

    Yesterday afternoon Mrs. C. H. Campbell, of "Shanghai," St. Kilda road, entertained a large number of guests in honour of Miss Katharine Goodson, the ...

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  34. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

    The sixth annual congress of the National Council of Women was inaugurated yesterday evening with a reception at the Austral Salon. Lady Gibson-Carmichael, who is ...

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  35. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Tinana, which went aground off White Cliffs on Sunday, was reported to be still aground at 3 o'clock this ...

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  36. DEFENCE BILL.

    An effort is to bo made, when the House of Representatives meets to-day, to secure the postponement of the second reading of the Defence Bill until the naval policy of the ...

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  37. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE Tuesday.—Mrs. Newbury, who was placed in quarantine at Torrens Island on the arrival of the French mail steamer Oceanien on Thursday, was ...

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  38. SHIPPING NEWS.

    The following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Taunton, s.s., from Port Pirie July 23; Cape Finisterre, s.s., from Ocean ...

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  39. AFRA[?] OF THE SUMMER.

    BALL[?]AT, Tuesday.—This morning it was repor[?] to the police that William J. Hawkins, [?]ed 69, residing at Golden Point, was miss[?] from his home. Two hours ...

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  40. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—The R.M.S. Victoria, which sailed from Fremantle to-day, took three boxes of bar gold for Bombay, valued at £15,038/15/, and two boxes of bar gold ...

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  41. SMALL HOLDINGS.

    It was announced by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Mackey) last night that the Government had recently purchased about £35, 000 worth of land, to be used in ...

    Article : 244 words
  42. KEROSENE-SOAKED BUILDING

    DANDENONG, Tuesday.—A single woman named Jane Brady, residing alone in a small wooden tenement in M'Craestreet, has reported to the police that at ...

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  43. SHOT IN HIS HOME.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—At Millicent last night Jeremiah Mahoney an old resident, was shot. About 10 o'clock Mrs. Mahoney went to the house of Mr. Costello, a ...

    Article : 159 words
  44. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—In the Legislative Council to-day, the Chief Secretary made a long speech in reply to Sir John Downer's motion in opposition to the ...

    Article : 233 words
  45. Advertising

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  46. MISS BEATRICE HIGGINSON'S RECITAL.

    Miss Beatrice Higginson, a pupil of Madame Palmer's gave a recital in Glen'shall last night, before a crowded audience. She proved herself the possessor of a clear, ...

    Article : 197 words
  47. DENTIST'S TRAGIC DEATH.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—On Saturday last a young man named Leslie H. Capper, a dentist, was reported as missing, and this morning his body was found lying at the ...

    Article : 155 words
  48. ALL[?]GED IMPOSITION.

    Yesterd[?] Detective Tognini arrested Irwin Whit[?] a hairdresser, 27 years of age, who is all[?]ed to have imposed upon Robert Taylor, a [?]bourer, and obtained from him ...

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  49. Advertising

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  50. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    ST. ARNAUD, Tuesday.—A subdivisional sale of 9,239 acres of the Swanwater Estate will be held on November 10. The area will be sold in lots, ranging from 100 acres to ...

    Article : 48 words
  51. Advertising

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