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  2. NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES.

    Mr. N. E. Dancocks, of Casterton, se[?]s a specimen of the caterpillar fungus found growing, as is often the case, under wattle trees. The belief, thereabout as to its ...

    Article : 1,669 words
  3. NEW BOOKS, &c. GENERAL LITERATURE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 words
  4. MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

    A meeting of the executive committee of the Municipal Association of Victoria was held at the Exchange, Collins-street, on Wednesday. The president of the ...

    Article : 863 words
  5. QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR. A POPULAR SYMPOSIUM

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 words
  6. THE RAILWAYS. JEPARIT-LORQUON LINE.

    A report of the Railways Standing Committee was submitted to the Legislative Assembly yesterday in favour of building a railway from Jeparit to Lorquon, at a cost ...

    Article : 278 words
  7. UNDER WHICH FLAG?

    Sir,—Under the above heading I was pleased to note the sentiments expressed by your correspondents, "Union Jack" and "Edgeroi" with reference to the play now ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. NEGLECTED PAINTING SCHOOLS.

    Sir.—Much satisfaction must be left at the success of the Felton Bequest in obtaining good examples of Constable and Pinwell for our National Gallery at very ...

    Article : 302 words
  9. MOE-WALHALLA LINE.

    Mr. Kernot, engineer-in-chief of railway construction, returned on Wednesday from a visit of inspection to the Moe-Walhalla line. Good progress is being made with the ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. HALF-HOLIDAY AND ITS RESULT.

    Sir,—Tennyson has truly said that "not only me, who prate of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well." and the discussion as to the Saturday half-holiday has ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. RANCHING IN TEXAS.

    The title of Mr. Peter Wright's book, "A Three-foot Stool" (London: Smith, Elder, and Co.; Melbourne: Melville and Mullen), is derived from the phrase in ...

    Article : 2,376 words
  12. ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS.

    The Australian Church Congress for 1909 will be held in Perth (W.A.) from October 25 to October 30, and will be attended by the leading Anglican dignitaries of ...

    Article : 378 words
  13. UNPUNCTUAL TRAIN.

    BERWICK, Wednesday.—Considerable dissatisfaction exists among the travelling public on the Warragul line at the late arrival of the 6.35 p.m. train from Flinders-street to Warragul. On an ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. RA[?]S AND TIME-TABLES.

    Sir,—I can heartily cadorse C. H. Nelson's comments on the railway authorities starting the train from Dandenong to Melbourne at 4.28 instead of the usual time—4.48—this on account a minor ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

    Sir,—Not being satisfied wiith victoria anb its laws, especially those dealing with land, agriculture, dairying, &c., I determined to take muself and family away from ...

    Article : 290 words
  16. MR. BERNARD HALL'S ART.

    Sir,—The bald statement that "truth is beauty," without the qualification "sometimes" is, to my humble intelligence, opposed to reason and experience. ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. VEGETABLES FOR EXPORT.

    Sir,—During the winter the tables of even well-to-do Englishmen are, or were when I lived in England, but indifferently supplied with vegetables. It was but seldom that ...

    Article : 220 words
  18. CUSTOMS INQUIRY.

    An inquiry was conducted yesterday, before Mr. A. W. Smart, collector of Customs, into charges against W. M. Bartlett, of Messrs. Isherwood and Bartlett, 193 ...

    Article : 420 words
  19. FICTION OF THE DAY.

    A curious study of domestic relations is Mathilde Serao's "After the Pardon." (London: Eveleigh Nash; Melbourne: Melville and Mullen.) The daring of the theme ...

    Article : 1,514 words
  20. LODGES AND DOCTORS.

    Sir,—During the last few weeks there has been some discussion in "The Argus" about the position of doctors in regard to lodges. The lodges seem to resent the attitude of ...

    Article : 295 words
  21. MAIN ROADS BOARD.

    The executive committee of the Municipal Association, at the meeting held on Wednesday last, had under consideration the important question of the construction and ...

    Article : 277 words
  22. Advertising

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  23. A FLINDERS STATUE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Permit me to endorse the remarks of "Pericles" in "The Argus" of Friday. A Statue of Matthew Flinders, the navigator and explorer, would be a graceful tribute ...

    Article : 194 words
  24. DEFECTIVE LIFT.

    The hearing was concluded in the County Court yesterday, before Judge Chomley and a jury of six, of the action in which Mr. Edward William Linnell Frencg, of ...

    Article : 363 words
  25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—I read in the columns of "The Argus," 9th inst., the proposal of "Pericles" that a statue of the great navigator Captain Flinders should be placed at the ...

    Article : 281 words
  26. SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

    Senior Division.—Leslie Cowling, Bendigo Congregational Sunday-school, 1; Marjoric Lister, Kew Presbyterian Sunday-school, 2; Shiela Cameron. Auburn Presbyterian Sunday-school. 3; Emily ...

    Article : 492 words
  27. METROPOLITAN BAND ASSOCIATION.

    The annual meeting of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Band Association was held at the LordMayor's room at the Melbourne Town-hall, and was attended by representatives of some 20 metropolitan ...

    Article : 262 words
  28. FUTURE OF PAPUA.

    Sir,—As one having interests both in Australia and Papua, may I be permitted to emphasise the urgent necessity for some broader treatment of the products of our ...

    Article : 469 words
  29. Advertising

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