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  2. THE WEATHER. OFFICIAL REPORT.

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  3. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    Information having been received in Ballarat that a man whose name was believed to be Herbert Lewis had been killed at Sea Lake, the relatives of a man of that name, ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. AFTER THE STORM.

    Reports of damage to property during Monday night's rain storm continue to come in. The wind diagrams on the record papers of the an[?]nometer at the ...

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  5. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  6. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 24 11-16d. per ounce standard, a fall of 1-16d. since 22nd inst. ...

    Article : 26 words
  7. MADAME CALVE'S CONCERT.

    There was a larger audience last night to hear Mme. Calve than at any previous concert, and every number on the programme was indiscriminately encored, the ...

    Article : 595 words
  8. CITY BUILDING RULES. A DRAFT PREPARED.

    At the meeting of the City Council yesterday a report was presented from the public works committee submitting for the council's approval the draft of the proposed ...

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  9. MARINE DISASTERS. WRECK OFF YORKE PENINSULA.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—News reacged Adelaide this afternoon of the loss of a vessel off the west coast of Yorke Peninsula, about 14 miles west of Point Turton. ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. A MOTHER'S ACT.

    SHEPPARION, Tuesday. — The Cosgrove tragedy of Christmas week was revived in the Shepparton Supreme Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Hood and a ...

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  11. MINING SHARES.

    The range of prices on the Stock Exchange yesterday for the stocks mentioned below was as follows, and the middle prices may be computed from the quotations ...

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  12. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS

    Wheat and Flour Afloat.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 4,380,000 quarters, against 4,295,000 quarters a week ago and ...

    Article : 349 words
  13. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    Miss Stillwell has decided to continue to act as secretary of the Bendigo Y.W.C.A. She had been offered the position of associate secretary to the association at ...

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  14. RECENT FATAL COLLISION.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The inquest on the body of Hans Neilson, drowned at the time of the Wyreema-Currajong collision on March 8, was concluded to-day. Witnesses ...

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  15. THE WOOL TRADE.

    With most of the trade attending the Sydney sales, which opened there on Monday last, little or no business has been put through in the local market during the ...

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  16. SATARA'S LASCARS.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The lascars of the crew of the s.S. Satara, which was wrecked on Seal Rocks last week, were transhipped to-day from the Airlie to the Euryalus to ...

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  17. DREDGE REFLOATED.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The dredge Ulysses, which went ashore on the North Coast during a storm, about March 16, has been refloated and found to be little injured. ...

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  18. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    The town council has decided to erect pig markets in the hay market reserve in My the offer of Messrs. Toyne Bros. and Walsh ...

    Article : 115 words
  19. MALEKULA WRECK.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The officers of the wrecked schooner Malekula arrived in Brisbane to-day by the steamer Cooma. Arrangements have been made to hold an ...

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  20. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES. TOLL OF INFANT LIVES.

    "I am always warning parents of the risks they run of losing their children by overlaying them," said the coroner (Dr. Cole) yesterday, as the result of an inquiry ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. POWERS OF A COUNCIL.

    CHARLTON, Tuesday.—The health officer of the shire recently recommended the council to destroy a small dwelling which was in the occupation of a Chinese till his ...

    Article : 101 words
  22. SHIPPING NEWS.

    The following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Carnarvon Bay, sh., from Adelaide January 7; Rostock, s.s., from Sydney ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. STAIRCASES IN FACTORIES.

    "It is high time," said Councillor Apps, at the meeting of the Fitzroy Council on Monday evening, "that we took steps to revise our building regulations. A numer ...

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  24. MUNICIPAL AMALGAMATION. DISCUSSED BY COUNCILS.

    At the meeting of the Prahran Council on Tuesday evening, Councillor Densham moved— 'That in the opinion of this council it is ...

    Article : 443 words
  25. SHEPPARTON SUPREME COURT.

    SHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—In the Shepparton Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Hood and a jury of twelve, a middleaged man named Michael Cush pleaded not ...

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  26. WOMAN SCALDED.

    Florence Monger, 34 years of age, living at 14 Khartoum-street, Burnley, was taken yesterday by the St. John Ambulance to the Melbourne Hospital, suffering from ...

    Article : 69 words
  27. SMALL-POX.

    Favourable reports continue to come to hand from Dr. Robertson in regard to the remainder of the quarantined passengers The five patients are all expected to ...

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  28. DANDENONG RANGES ABLAZE. STORM ENDS DESTRUCTION.

    SASSAFRAS GULLY, Tuesday.—The rain-storm on Monday night completed the work of the men who had fought hard for hours to prevent the bush fires in the ...

    Article : 301 words
  29. DECENTRALISATION.

    DONALD, Tuesday.—The Donald Shire Council has decided to support the Bendigo decentralisation movement. Councillor J. L. Pearse (the president) was appointed to ...

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  30. FATAL FALL.

    Thomas Wharton, 20 years of age, a yardsman employed by the Australian Club, was standing on a ladder cleaning the top of a door in the porch of the club ...

    Article : 112 words
  31. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A postal official named Alfred Joseph Garner Woolley has been fined £10, in default three months' imprisonment, for having stolen £10, the ...

    Article : 59 words
  32. THE BARRIER.

    BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—A second ballot for the appointment of a check mining inspector on behalf of the A.M.A. resulted in Mr. John Long, ex-mayor, ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. A SMASHED JAW.

    COLERAINE,, Tuesday.—While working at a steam saw-bench to-day Mr. John W. Brown's jaw was broken, and some of his teeth were knocked out. A piece of firewood ...

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  34. WORDS AND WATER.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—To-night some animation was introduced into the proceedings of the Woolahra Council. After a brisk exchange Alderman Lock remarked ...

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  35. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday. — A settler at Bringabilly Creek, in the Inglewood district, recently wrote to the Minister for Lands, stating that a disease was spreading amongst ...

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  36. CHILD TERRIBLY BURNT.

    MILDURA, Tuesday.—Last evening the little son of Mr. Alfred Donelly, of Williamstown, Mildura, went near a fire burning in the yard at his parents' residence, when ...

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  37. STUDDED WITH GOLD.

    BALLARAT, Tuesday.—The fifth patch of rich auriferous stone discovered within five days in the North Woah Hawp mine was disclosed this evening by operations ...

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  38. WASHED FROM BREAKWATER.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—Another sightseer has fallen a victim to the high seas at Napier. Harry Holland, aged 19, was washed off the Napier Breakwater this ...

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  39. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—The Board of Health has decided to urge the Colonial Secretary to take steps to prevent persons suffering from tuberculosis landing in the State. ...

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  40. SPEAKERSHIP NOMINATION.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—It is understood that Sir Jenkin Coles intends to offer himself for re election as Speaker of the House of Assembly. Sir Jenkin was not present ...

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  41. PRIVATE ADVICES.

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  42. SIXTY ACRES SWEPT.

    A large fire occurred in the scrub, adjacent to the golf links, at Moorabbin, and after burning furiously for hours was subsequently got under by the Mentone and ...

    Article : 63 words
  43. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DETECTIVE.

    In consequence of allegations against one of the members of the detective police, the detective has been suspended from duty. The papers connected with the case have ...

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  44. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—Mr. T. W. Rapley has been appointed organiser for the Liberal party throughout New Zealand. ...

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  45. DIFFERING COUNCILORS.

    A proposal for the amalgamation of the Fitzroy, Collingwood, and Elthan councils was brought under the notice of the Fitzroy Council on Tuesday evening by Councillor Wheeler, who expressed ...

    Article : 172 words
  46. OTHER OUTBREAKS.

    TOORA, Tuesday.—During the heat of yesterday fires broke out in the bush surrounding the township. Mr. E. P. Marrett, with the help of neighbours, fought against ...

    Article : 337 words
  47. THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS.

    "The Dollar Princess," with its many delightful features, continues to attract large audiences to Her Majesty's Theatre, and on all sides playgoers are speaking enthusiastically of its charm. There ...

    Article : 488 words
  48. GENERAL NEWS.

    A beautiful display of autumn rose blooms was on view yesterday in the window of the Pianola building, Collins-street. They were grown and staged by Mr. B. ...

    Article : 475 words
  49. SUBURBAN FIRES.

    Shortly after midday yesterday some of the employees of Mephan Ferguson, engineer, of Footscray, noticed that a number of vats of tar were on fire. The Footscray ...

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  50. WATER FOR SALE.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A serious water famine exists at Junee. Most of the private tanks are dry, and there is no public supply of water for human consumption. One ...

    Article : 53 words
  51. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    At a meeting of delegates from the Carlton, Melbourne, and East Melbourne branches of the Political Labour Council which was held for the purpose of ...

    Article : 88 words
  52. SYDNEY.

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  53. RESCUED ONLY TO DIE.

    KALGOORLIE. Tuesday.—Yesterday's fall of earth at the Great Boulder mine added two more to the list of those who have lost their lives while working in the ...

    Article : 94 words
  54. BOOT FACTORY BURNT.

    Early yesterday morning an outbreak of fire occurred nt 82 Bell-street, Fitzroy, in the premises occupied by Messrs. Heyden Bros., boot manufacturers. Chief Officer ...

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  55. Advertising

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  56. FEDERAL LAND TAXATION.

    Sir,—I happened to be in Adelaide when the Federal Consention was sitting, and I well remember the debates on taxation powers. Direct taxation, the States were ...

    Article : 291 words
  57. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

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  58. SKELETON IN THE BUSH.

    BENDIGO, Tuesday.—The skeleton found in the thick scrub at Whirrakee on Saturday has been identified as that of Jacob Schimpf, and aged German Digger who, with ...

    Article : 188 words
  59. MR. PRENDERGASTS ADVICE.

    Sir,—In your leading article this morning you say:— "He (Mr. Fisher is undoubtedly one of the Moderates in the Labour ranks, and will probably ...

    Article : 192 words
  60. Advertising

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  61. ATTEMPTED SMUGGLING.

    GEELONG, Tuesday.—A well-known boat builder, named Robert Tait, was charged at the Town Police Court to-day with having attempted, on the night of April 6, to ...

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  62. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    PORT DARWIN, Tuesday.—The steamer Empire arrived from southern ports yesterday, and resumed the voyage to Hong Kong this morning. She landed 17 ...

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