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  2. FIRE AT TRAFALGAR.

    About 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the billiard-room of the Criterion Hotel, Trafalgar, owned by Mr. G. Hough, and spread with amazing rapidity. ...

    Article : 533 words
  3. COMPULSORY MILITARISM.

    The action of the Interstate Labour Con ference, held in Brisbane recently, in agreeing to a motion in favour of compulsory military training, was criticised at the ...

    Article : 690 words
  4. COOL STORES LEASE.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Swinburne) yesterday confirmed the announcement made in "The Argus" legarding the terms on which the Government is to ...

    Article : 432 words
  5. NATIONAL PARK.

    Some uncasiness is felt at the intention of the Minister for Forests (Mr. M'Leod) to excise a portion of the National Park on Wilson's Promontory for the purpose of ...

    Article : 308 words
  6. VICTORIAN LABOUR CONDITIONS.

    The state Premier (Sir Thomas Bent) yesterday morning received from Mr. Taverner, the Agent-General for Victoria in London, the following cable regarding ...

    Article : 413 words
  7. SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

    PERTH, Friday.—To-day the Retail Traders' Association presented another petition to the Colonial Secretary, signed by 70 per cent, of the shopkeepers in the ...

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  8. A.N.A. FETE.

    The principal business at the monthly meeting of the A.N.A. metropolitan committee, held at Rubira's Cafe last night, was the reception of a report from the ...

    Article : 423 words
  9. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    DONALD Friday. — At a local land board, before Mr. Long, the district surveyor, the following cases were dealt with: —Allot 10, sec. 16, 214a. 2r. 34p.; 30 ...

    Article : 368 words
  10. DRUNKENNESS AND CRIME.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—A deputation of temperance workers interviewed the Premier (Mr. Wade) to-day, and made the suggestion that the principle underlying the ...

    Article : 267 words
  11. THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS.

    Melbourne playgoers are showing their approval of the brief revival of "Peter Pan" at Her Majesty's Theatre by attending in large numbers. It is a play which appeals to the children, but ...

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  12. THE RAILWAYS.

    A point which will be of interest to enginemen is that the department have decided to fit no more locomotives with the balanced slide valves that were tried on ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. CHURCH UNION.

    Sir,—I do not wonder that the few persons who drew up the so-called "resolutions" and scheme of "union which Archbishop Clarke laid before the recent ...

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  14. RACECOURSE INCIDENT.

    At the Caulfield Court yesterday, before Messrs. Lloyd, German, and Wood, J.P.'s, William Henry Trengrove was charged with being a reputed thief and with having loltered on the Caulfield ...

    Article : 293 words
  15. DOOKIE-YARRAWONGA LINE.

    SHEPPARTON, Friday.—The Railways Standing Committee met this morning to take evidence regarding the proposed Dookie-Yarrawonga conncetion. ...

    Article : 280 words
  16. NAVAL AND MILITARY.

    MARYBOROUGH, Fruday.—A combined parade of the B Company (St. Arnaud and Donald) and F Company (Dunolly, Inglewood, and Maryborough). Victorian ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. SEPTIC TANK AT AUSTIN HOSPITAL.

    The septic tank at the Austin Hospital has for a long time been a source of complaint. The shire council at its last meeting resolved to proceed to ...

    Article : 67 words
  18. SALE OF WELL-KNOWN STATION.

    MORNINGTON Friday.—Mr. W. Lobb, stock and station agent, sold for Mr. Robert Anderson his Barragunda Station, at Cape Schanck, consisting of 7,000 acros. For ...

    Article : 41 words
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  20. COMMISSIONERS ON TOUR.

    TERANG, Friday.—A deputation of residents met the commissioners at the railway station on Wednesday last. A reqest for an extension of the goods platform was noted for favourable ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. CAMPERDOWN'S NEEDS.

    CAMPERDOWN, Friday. — The Railway Commissioners were interviewed at Camperdown this morning, by Councillor A. C. M'Qualter and Mr. J. B. Phillips, in reference to a number of ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. THE NORADJUHA EXTENSION.

    COLERAINE, Friday.—A movement is under way in the Wannon district, to have the southern railway extension from Noradjuha brought down to the existing line, either at Coleraine or Wannon. ...

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  23. PLATFORM DISTURBERS.

    Sir,—The attention of the Railway Commissioners is directed to a gang of youths who nightly visit the Gardenvale railway station. They sit near the ticket-box, and insult people who go on the station ...

    Article : 114 words
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  25. TYING HIS LEGS.

    Alfred Fry, of Camberwell, a middle-aged man, was yesterday brought before the Caulfield Court on two charges of having used obscene language, and of having resisted the police, on August S. ...

    Article : 174 words
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