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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 words
  3. THE WEATHER.

    Forecast by the acting Commonwealth meteorolegist (Mr. Grif[?]iths), 9 p.m. Friday:— Still generally fine and warm to hot throughout, with E. to N. winds, but ...

    Article : 890 words
  4. TASMANIAN APPLES.

    HOBART, Friday. — Arrangements for the shipment of apples to the United Kingdom and Germany have now been completed. The programme provides for only ...

    Article : 443 words
  5. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    It was decided by the water commissioners on Friday to restrict the use of water for gardening purposes to two days a week. The quantity now stored in the ...

    Article : 266 words
  6. SPRING GULLY TRAGEDY.

    CASTLEMAINE, Friday. — The inquiry into the death of Dagmar Louisa Scott, the victim of the tragedy at Spring Gully on December 14, was resumed, before the ...

    Article : 523 words
  7. SHIPPING FREIGHT WAR.

    HOBART, Friday.—Something like a freight war is being indulged in by the shipping lines diong trade with the Commonwealth, and there is keen competition for ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. UNION DISCORD.

    Oppositiion by the Tobacco Workers' Union to the admission of delegates of the Cigaratte-makers' Union to the Trades-hall Council was considered at a meeting of the ...

    Article : 786 words
  9. CIRCUS GIRL'S SUICIDE.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—An inquest concerning the death of May Hall, a trapeze artist, known professionally as St. Leon, formerly employed in Wirth's Circus, was held ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. EASTERN GIPPSLAND SCHEME.

    Arrangements were made some time ago by the Closer Settlement Board to visit Eastern Gippsland next week for the purpose of selecting an area of about 40,000 ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. BILLIARDS.

    SYDNEY, Friday. — George Gray, playing in the four-banded billiard match, Smiths v. Grays, this afternoon carried his unfinished break of 430 (423 off red) of 545. Included in the break were 145 ...

    Article : 59 words
  12. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    The chemistry branch of the Agricultural department has been asked to send an officer to take samples of the water in the mains. ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYNEY, Friday.—Joseph Godfrey and James Jones were before the Bathurst Police Court to-day, charged with having left an unextinguished fire in the open air. ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. BURNT BANK NOTES.

    BENDIGO, Friday.—In the fire which occurred at the residence of Mr. H. Baker, Sheepwash-road, £75 in bank notes were destroyed. During the previous week Mr. ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. PROPERTIES UNDER OFFER.

    The Board has had a number of properties offered to it of late by private owners, and these are under consideration. Several have already been declined, on the ground ...

    Article : 58 words
  16. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    The South Barwon Shire Council on Friday struck a rate of 1/6 in the £1, which is an increase of 3d. on that of the previous year. ...

    Article : 37 words
  17. RIVERINA.

    WAGGA, Thursday.—Despite the adverse weather conditions, some phenomenal yields of wheat have been recorded around the Marrar closer settlement area this season, ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. THE HEART ESTATE.

    Since the Land Board sat to deal with applications for the Heart Estate, near Sale, the Closer Settlement Board has sold eight additional farming blocks on the ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. AGED WOMAN'S SAD END.

    KYNETON, Friday. — On Sunday, 3rd inst., Mary MacDonald, of Barfold aged 70, disappeared from her hut. She was reputed to be eccentric. On the morning of the ...

    Article : 191 words
  20. CASTLEMAINE.

    At the police court on Friday morning, before Mr. Goldsmith, P.M., T. N. Mewburn, tailor, ws charged under the Factories and Shops Act with not providing ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. COUNTRY STOCK MARKETS.

    KYNETON (Jan. 7).—Messrs. W. H. Fyst and Co. report:—"Total yarding 152 cattle and 1,910 sheep. Competition for rat cattle brisk at decidedly advanced rates. Forward conditioned ...

    Article : 358 words
  22. GENERAL NEWS.

    Serious cracks have appeared in the walls in various portions of the Thompson street Courthouse, Williamstown, during the last few weeks, and these have gradually become ...

    Article : 786 words
  23. CHURCH BELLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I sympathise with your several correspondents in the matter of ringing of church bells. But I would not advocate its abolition but its reform. The ...

    Article : 203 words
  24. ALLEGED SHEEP-STEALING.

    HAMILTON, Friday.—At the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. E. E. Williams P.M., a young man named Charles William Pike, of Glenthompson, farmer, ...

    Article : 325 words
  25. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.—The approximate estimate of the export of butter last year is: — Oversea, 9,200,6691b., valued at £403,407; interstate, value £595,482; total ...

    Article : 383 words
  26. JOCKEY'S ELECTRIC BATTERY.

    PERTH, Friday.—The inquest on the body of Leslie M'Dougall, jockey, who was killed through falling from a horse during the running of a race at the Perth course ...

    Article : 183 words
  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Why this peaceful neighbourhood should suffer this infliction is beyond my comprehension. Just fancy this bell starting at 4 o'clock on New Year's morning, ...

    Article : 263 words
  28. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

    DANDENONG, Jan. 8.—Harvesting operations are now completed, and large, neatly-built stacks of sheaf hay are to be seen dotted all over the homesteads, from Ferntree Gully to the Heads, and ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE.

    CASTLEMAINE, Friday.—A well-known farmer at Sutton Grange named J. Howarth was shooting birds with a pea-rifle in his fruit garden on Friday morning, not ...

    Article : 103 words
  30. SCRIPTURE REFERENDUM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—If we want young Victorians to have a soul above a prize-fight, for heaven's sake let us try the Bible on them. The Bible is never on the side of selfishness. ...

    Article : 177 words
  31. Advertising

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    Advertising : 419 words
  32. HOSPITAL AND DOCTOR'S PRACTICE.

    CAMPERDOWN, Thursday.—At a meeting of the hospital committee yesterday the hon. secretary (Mr. J. C. Manifold) stated that the three local doctors had intimated ...

    Article : 185 words
  33. NEW ZEALAND MINERS. MEDICAL INSPECTION TROUBLE.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—The trouble concerning the mining industry, arising throngh the demand for a medical inspection to discover what miners are affected ...

    Article : 69 words
  34. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I never felt more thankful that I am a Jew, than I did when I read the letters of "Churchman" and "A.D." If their Christianity can be taken as a type, ...

    Article : 370 words
  35. BAY EXCURSIONS.

    Huddart Parker, and Co. Propy. Limited notify that passengers leaving Queen's Wharf by the Excelsior at 2.30 p.m. to-day may return from Portarlington by the Courier. To-morrow the Courier ...

    Article : 280 words
  36. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Friday. — The inquest on the body of J. B. Wright, the fireman who Was drowned when the launch Susan went down in Fremantle harbour, through ...

    Article : 61 words
  37. THREATS AT WAIHI.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—The miners at Waihi threaten to come out on strike on Monday unless certain men who failed to pass the medical examination required by ...

    Article : 44 words
  38. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Mr. J. G. Latham points that the majority of 16 in favour of a referendum on the religious instruction question in the last Parliament has been reduced to "a ...

    Article : 154 words
  39. FINED FOR ROAD-RACING.

    DONALD, Friday.—At the local police court, before Messrs. Greene, P.M., A. Hepworth, and T. W. Cantwell, J.P.'s, James Stephens was fined £2/12/, with ...

    Article : 843 words
  40. HEAD FOUND IN GRATE.

    GEELONG, Friday. — Mr. C. P. Lavender, of Candover-street, found the head of a newly-born child in the copper grate at his residence this morning. In the ...

    Article : 178 words
  41. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Thursday.—To-night the Premier (Captain Evans) met the Government supporters representing the northern constituencies, and discussed with them the ...

    Article : 141 words
  42. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Mr. Nicholson asks me to "try and realise the standpoint of supporters of Scripture education." I have endeavoured to do as he wishes, and their final ...

    Article : 352 words
  43. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    WANGARATTA. — A four-roomed cottage owned and occupied by Mr. Wm. Steel on the outskirts of the town was destroyed by fire on Friday. The whole of the contents were also consumed. Mrs. ...

    Article : 94 words
  44. DOAN'S REPORTS INVESTIGATED.

    We are answering a very important question to-day, viz., Do the people who say they have been cured by Doan's Backache Kidney Pills stay cured? A medicine which ...

    Article : 409 words
  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Friday. — At a representative gathering of sawmillers it was decided to close the mills down indefinitely. A hundred mills were represented, ...

    Article : 187 words
  46. WORK AND WAGES.

    BALLARAT Friday.—The Trades and Labour Council has decided to ask the Ballarat East Council to increase the rate of wages for employees in connection with ...

    Article : 61 words
  47. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—It is refreshing to read that some do not object to the pious signal of the church bells. Surely they remind us that worship is not a diversion for Sundays, but ...

    Article : 146 words
  48. NICK-NAMED, But Doesn't Object in the Least.

    A young lady from Troy was nick-named "Grape-Nuts," but she has been so greatly benefited by this world-famed food that she did not object to the sobriquet given ...

    Article : 261 words
  49. THE RAILWAYS. TIME-EXPIRED TICKET.

    At Box Hill on Friday a girl named Ellen Tyndale was charged by Detective Borsum with travelling on the railway between Tunstall and Box Hill on an expired ticket, on October 10. A ...

    Article : 48 words
  50. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir, — "Churchman" and "A.D." have surely made a very weak defence for the continuance of ringing the bell at East St. Kilda. It seems strange to me that one ...

    Article : 242 words
  51. IMPATIENT BUSINESS MAN.

    W. Banford, a business man in Box Hill, was charged at the local court with trespassing on the railway at Box Hill station. Tired of waiting for the wicket-gates to open, he jumped over ...

    Article : 157 words
  52. BARRIER WATER SUPPLY.

    BROKEN HILL, Friday. — Notice was given to-day that the Water Supply Co. is reducing the price of water from 5/ to 4/2 per 2,000 gallons. The water ...

    Article : 95 words
  53. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    The Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company Limited, at No. 412 Collins-street, is applying for probate of the will of the late Henry Wicks, of NO. 17 Grandview-street, Moonce Ponds, formerly ...

    Article : 155 words
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