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  2. AFFRAY BETWEEN CABMEN.

    At the Prahran Court yesterday, before Mr. Phipps (chairman), and Messrs. Mr. Kinnon and Curwen-Walker, J.P.'s Frederick Scholes, cabman, summoned Edward ...

    Article : 362 words
  3. CORONATION YEAR EXHIBITIONS.

    LONDON, Dec. 9.—The exhibitions of 1011 are making a last effort to interested likely exhibitors before the New Year. Among the rest the Australian ...

    Article : 1,244 words
  4. MOTOR PROSECUTIONS. CASE DISMISSED.

    At the District Court yesterday Henry Crook was charged with having driven a motor-car down the hill in Wellingtonparade, between Clarendon and ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. GRANTS TO MUNICIPALITIES.

    A sum of £30,102 has been allocated to the shires and other municipal districts of the State by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Baillien), and is now available for the ...

    Article : 2,981 words
  6. NOTES FOR BOYS. THE CHIEF SCOUT.

    The possibility of Major-General Baden-Powell visiting Australia next year is indicated in a letter to a Melbourne boy scout. Is there any use suggesting that the scouts ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. HOME-MADE RAIN GAUGE.

    Mr. Crane further explains, in connection with his plan for making a rain guage mentioned last week. "The measuring glass is not intended to measure an inch at one ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. COUNTRY SCOUTS.

    One cannot help noting that while in Melbourne there is continual wrangling about authority and control, the country scouts appear to be going on very will under ...

    Article : 105 words
  9. QUALITY OF MERCY.

    There is now in force a new law, the Crimes Act 1910, under which elemency in the form remission of sentences can be extended on terms of probation to persons ...

    Article : 400 words
  10. VALUE OF SPEEDOMETERS.

    At the Prahran Court yesterday, before Messrs. Phipps (chairman), M'Kinnon, and Curwen-Walker, J.P.'s, William Clark, of Orrong-road. Toorak, was ...

    Article : 448 words
  11. HISTORIC WORDS.

    Mr. H. Wilson Dobbs, in a letter to "The Argus," throws doubt upon the authenticity of the historic resolve attributed to Napoleon's Young Guard at ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. CONTROL OF WESTERN PACIFIC.

    Sir,—In reference to the contemplated movement for proceeding the removed from Fiji to Australain of the office of High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, I would ...

    Article : 585 words
  13. TENCH FOR PONDS.

    Referring to a previous note on this subject, Mr. C. Beaumont, vice-president of the Ararat Anglers' Club, writes:—"In reply to your inquiry for information ...

    Article : 267 words
  14. TRACKLESS ELECTIRC CAR.

    Sir,—Respecting the interesting article and illustraton in "The Argus" of Saturday, descriptive of the trackless electric car. it seems to me that a wide field of enterprises ...

    Article : 238 words
  15. BAG SNATCHED IN STREET.

    Bagespatching has become a common practice in Melbourne of late. Miss. Vera Kennedy has reported to the police that while she and a friend, Miss Bradley, were ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. "A MESSAGE TO GARCIA."

    Mr. Sydney J. Endacott, of Cole's, has published a sixpenny pamphlet. "A Message to Garcia," not merely an interesting little story by Elbert Hubbard, but a very ...

    Article : 163 words
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  18. THE WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE.

    There is a remarkable world in which boys and girls alone live, and which is known to their elders as "the world of make-believe." I sometimes think that ...

    Article : 179 words
  19. HOW THEY LIVE IN IT.

    I have some young friends who live very much in that world of "Make Believe." Three of then are little girls at Brighton, and they made a formal call on their mother ...

    Article : 171 words
  20. SCHOOL SPEECH DAYS.

    The annual speech day of Queen's College, Maryborough, was presided over by Councillor E. F. Pollard. The report of the principle (Mr. J. M'Cay) showed that during ...

    Article : 468 words
  21. IN THE OPEN AIR.

    Douglas Harris (Booligal, N.S.W.) sends some queries:—"Where do these birds build, and what is the colour of their eggs:—(1) The Dollar bird: (2) the Crested Shrike Tit; 69 the Twelve ...

    Article : 440 words
  22. PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS.

    References was made in "The Argus" yesterday to the destruction caused in country districts by hordes of caterpillars. Mr. C. French jan., assistant Government into ...

    Article : 360 words
  23. WATER IN STORAGE RESERVOIRS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  24. QUESTION BOX.

    BOYS' ACRO CLUB.—Charles F. Reeve, of Brighton-road, St. Kilda, is strongly in favour of the idea suggested by J. Taggart to form a boys' acro club. He has been studying acromanties for the last ...

    Article : 1,996 words
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