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  2. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The bidding at the wool sales to-day was spirited, but prices remained unchanged. The following prices were realised for the fleece portion of the clip named:—Mardie, ...

    Article : 177 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 words
  4. MAJOR-GENERAL HOAD.

    LONDON, Dec. 24.—In addition to his frequent conferences at the War Office with the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Haldane; General Sir William Nicholson, the ...

    Article : 543 words
  5. THE WEATHER. OFFICIAL REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 618 words
  6. TELEGRAPHIC TROUBLES.

    Commenting on the statement of the Adelaide telegraph operatives published in "The Argus" on Saturday, the secretary, to the Central Postal Administration (Mr. ...

    Article : 307 words
  7. ORANGE DEMONSTRATION. CLERICALISM CONDEMNED.

    SDNEY, Sunday. — At Clifton-gardens yesterday a gathering of the Orange body was held to welcome the Rev. Dill Mucky. Interest was centred in the appearance of ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    Elizabeth Freer, aged 70 aged 70 years, a nurse, was arrested on Saturday by Sergeant Britt and Plain-clothes Constable Montague on a charge of having committed an illegal ...

    Article : 380 words
  9. A.N.A. EXHIBITION.

    In connection with the A.N.A. Exhibition and fete, to open on Monday next, special efforts are being made to cater for the comfort and amusement of families. In the ...

    Article : 113 words
  10. PRTVATE ADVICES.

    The following private advices have been received:— By Messrs. John Sanderson and Co., from their London firm, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray, and Co., ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. THE PROPOSED PLATFORM.

    The principles laid down in the proposed "Orange" political platform are— 1. So far, and just so far, as Continental socialism denies religion and works for ...

    Article : 104 words
  12. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 words
  13. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    A fire occurred at Ryan's refrigerating works, Hyden's Hill, on Saturday night, and before it was extinguished £300 damage was done. The place was insured for ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES. BARRIER WATER SUPPLY

    BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—The Water League is reviving the agitation for a Government water supply, preferably at the Umberumberka. The Stephens Creek ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. A RESTLESS CHINESE.

    BENDIGO, Sunday.—The aged Chinese Lee Gooly Suey is again in trouble. Some time ago he walked from Deniliq[?]in (N.S.W.) to Bendigo, for the most part ...

    Article : 334 words
  16. A FATAL SUGGESTION.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The city coroner (Mr. Stephen Murphy) conducted an inquiry yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of William John Parker, ...

    Article : 347 words
  17. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS FROZEN MEAT.

    The following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...

    Article : 526 words
  18. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    During the past fortnight Geelong traders and farmers have sent very heavy consignments of chaff to the Sydney market, the rates offering there being in advance of ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. RIVERINA.

    ALBURY Sunday.—Applications for the Walla Walla lands, resumed by Government for closer settlement, closed yesterday. The number of applicants did not come ...

    Article : 245 words
  20. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. BURNED TO DEATH.

    A finding of "accidentally burned to death" was recorded by the coroner (Dr. R.H. Cole), at the inquest held by him on Suturday morning in the case of Mrs. Annie ...

    Article : 145 words
  21. THE RAINFALL,

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 823 words
  22. CASTLEMAINE.

    A lodger it the Metropolitan Hotel was reading in bed on Friday night, and fell asleep without extinguishing the candle. The bed curtain ignited as wall as the ...

    Article : 163 words
  23. WORK AND WAGES.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday. — The trouble at Huntly between the Tuufiri Coal Company and its employees remains unsettled. A conference between the Minister for Mines ...

    Article : 67 words
  24. WEST RICHMOND RAILWAY TRAGEDY.

    On the night of January 21, George Sydney Owers, aged 58 years, salesman, residing it Preston with his wife and family, was run over and killed at the West ...

    Article : 213 words
  25. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday. — When the steamer Wotan arrived at Port Pirie from Western Australia a fortnight age there was a fire in her bunker coal. After the ...

    Article : 116 words
  26. COMMONWEALTH TRAWLER.

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — The official trial trip of the Commonwealth Fisheries Investigation vessel, the Endeavour, took place yesterday afternoon. Mr. Tudor ...

    Article : 364 words
  27. WARRNAMBOOL.

    The death occurred on Friday of Mrs. John M'Grath, of Purnim, as the result of injuries sustained in a buggy accident recently, when the horse bloted, and she was ...

    Article : 151 words
  28. TROUBLE AT BLAYNEY.

    BENDIGO, Sunday. — It is understood that the industrial trouble at Blayney (N.S.W.) has occurred at the Last Chance mine, which is a Bendigo company. The ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Sunday.—The agreement between the railway employees and the Railway Commissioner was signed yesterday. It embraces the terms arrived at by the ...

    Article : 54 words
  30. TIMBER DISPUTE.

    SIDNEY, Sunday.—A disagreement has arisen at the timber yard of H. M'Kenzie Limited, between the management and the casual labourers. Eighty of the casual ...

    Article : 69 words
  31. CONSTABLE'S DEATH.

    Constable Ralston, who was found near the railway line, between Sunbury and Digger's Rest, on Thursday, died early on Saturday morning, at the police depot ...

    Article : 77 words
  32. HAMILTON.

    The question of taking steps to have an agricultural high school established here is engaging the attention of the borough council and progress association. Definite action ...

    Article : 110 words
  33. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Sunday. — Mr. Morris Fox, the Government life insurance actuary, represents New Zealand at the international conference of actuaries in in Vienna ...

    Article : 123 words
  34. SHILLING A DAY EXTRA DEMANDED.

    PERTH, Sunday.—Between 20 and 30 men employed on the Pingarrah-Marradong railway line, taken from the Government Labour Bureau, are on strike. They ...

    Article : 43 words
  35. AFTER THE OPERATION.

    James Dott, a packer, aged 56, residing with his wife at 76 Dryburgh-street, West Melbourne, was admitted yesterday morning to the Melbourne Hospital suffering ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. CONDEMNED FISH.

    PORTARLINGON, Sunday.—the published return of the sales in the Melbourne Corporation Fish Market during 1908 proved of more than ordinary interest to fishermen. ...

    Article : 120 words
  37. PRIVATE ADVICES.

    The following private advices have been recevied:— By Dalgety and Co., Lted. dated 22nd inst.:— "Frozen meat.—Beef.—The market is weak, but ...

    Article : 141 words
  38. COMPLAINT AGAINST RATES.

    TOORA, Saturday.—A largely-attended meeting of ratepayers was held on Friday to protest against the action of the shire council in levying a special rate of 1/ in ...

    Article : 192 words
  39. YACHTING. INTERSTATE DINGHY CONTLSTS.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A squally west and southwesterly blow which swept the harbour yesterday afternoon played havoc with the boats which took part in the interstate dinghy contest. In the ...

    Article : 182 words
  40. THROWN AGAINST TREE.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Mr. Robert Woodrow, a well-known resident of Crow's Nest, met with a tragic death on Saturday last. Accompanied by his wife, he was driving ...

    Article : 81 words
  41. LODGER SHOOTS LANDLADY.

    PERTH, Sunday. — Between midnight and 1 o'clock this morning a shooting affair occurred at the house of a family named Edwards, in Norfolk-street, Fremantle. ...

    Article : 222 words
  42. LINDRUM IN FORM. SCORES CONSISTENTLY AGAINST GRAY.

    A showery afternoon enhanced the attraction of the billiard match at Alcock's rooms, Elizabethstreet, in the first session on Saturday. The second sessioin was well attended, as a matter of ...

    Article : 593 words
  43. MISSING WOMAN.

    MARYBOROUGH, Sunday. — The dead body of Mrs.Henderson, the old lady, who had been missing from her home in Derbyroad since January 6, was found in an ...

    Article : 199 words
  44. CHINESE STOWAWAYS.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—While the German steamer Prinz Waldemar was at Simpson's Hafen, New Britain, a thorough search was made for stowaways, and seven ...

    Article : 59 words
  45. FLOODS AND CYCLONE.

    PERTH, Sunday.—Telegrams from Onslow concerning the cyclone there state that the lighter Flat and the cutter May are high and dry in the mangrove. The local ...

    Article : 226 words
  46. A MYSTERIOUS FIRE.

    TALBOT, Sunday.—A fire was discovered at the ironmongery and grocery establishment of Mr.G. Robinson, in the Crescent, about half-past 6 o'clock on Saturday ...

    Article : 138 words
  47. WEST AUSRALIAN TRIAL.

    PERTH, Sunday.—A trial of three test races to decide which boats shall meet the Australian on Saturday next for the 18-footer championship of Australasa, was sailed on the Swan yesterday. ...

    Article : 81 words
  48. IN THE POLICE COURTS.

    When, on the arrivl of the s.s. Loongana from Launceston, on Friday morning Latimer Thomas, a licensed carrier, was putting a passenger's portmantcan into a cab, not into his own cart, he was ...

    Article : 388 words
  49. PRIVATE ADVICES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 words
  50. CONSTIPATION.

    A constipated condition of the bowers is the commonest cause of ill-health. If the waste matter, which the bowels should regularly remove is retained for an unusual ...

    Article : 222 words
  51. LONGERENONG WHEAT YIELDS.

    HORSHAM, Friday.—The yields of the Longerenong Agricultural College experimental plots were:—Federation, 24.2 bushels per acre; Dart's Imperial, 23.10 ...

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  52. CRUSHED BETWEEN TRUCKS.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—At the railway wharf, Rockhampton, yesterday, Charles Riley, chief engineer of the s.s. Queensland, was crushed between the buffers of two ...

    Article : 31 words
  53. RIVER GAUGINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 words
  54. HEAVY WHEAT TRAFFIC.

    HORSHAM, Saturday.—For some time past the wheat traffic from the south has been so great that fears were entertained for the security of the bridge over the ...

    Article : 197 words
  55. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

    In referring yesterday evening, in the course of his sermon a St. Paul's Cathedral, to the eighteenth anniversary of the dedication of the building, Archbishop ...

    Article : 199 words
  56. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    KATAMATITE, Sunday.—A wooden building occupied by Mr. J. Wilkinson was destroyed by fire yesterday. A strong wind was blowing but the fire was not allowed to spread. ...

    Article : 224 words
  57. BEAUTIFYING THE YARRA.

    The proposal to beautify the River Yarra between Melbourne and Templestowe, and to form a national park, will be discussed at a meeting of the residents of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  58. WEISS V. LINDRUM.

    It was announced on Saturday night that Wei[?] who is returning from England, in to play F. Lindrum in Western Australia in March. The two will subsequently be matched against each other ...

    Article : 41 words
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