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  2. POTATO INDUSTRY. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

    Important action is being taken by Mr. Keast, M.L.A., with the object of improving the conditions of the potato industry. Uneasiness has been caused among growers ...

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  3. CHARGES OF PERJURY.

    Before Judge Chomley, in the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Gustave Bartling, aged 48, a smalldogs man, was placed in the dock, ...

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  4. LABOUR NEWS. GROCERS' WORKING CONDITIONS.

    A deputation from the Grocers' Association and the Grocers' Employees' Association waited on the Minister for Labour (Mr. Murray) yesterday, and asked that ...

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  5. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. LANDS REPURCHASED.

    At the request of Mr. Fairbairn, M.H.R., the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday a return showing particulars of land alienated ...

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  6. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. THE SENATE.

    Amongst the questions asked at the beginning of yesterday's sitting of the Senate was one by Senator Henderson (W.A.), regarding ex-senators who had failed to ...

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  7. SIZE OF CORNSACKS.

    A deputation of wharf labourers was introduced to the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) yesterday evening by Mr. Mathews, Dr. Maloney, and Mr. Archibald, ...

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  8. INSPECTION SYSTEM.

    Representatives of the farmers of Bungaree, Wallace, Dunstown, Clarke's Hill, Millbrook, and Leigh Creek, accompanied by Messrs. Holden and Keast, M.L.A.'s, ...

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  9. SPEECH BY MR. HUGHES.

    Mr. Hughes congratulated Mr. Cook upon having survived the severe shock of the political contest, not only with a constitution unchanged, but with a vigour ...

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  10. BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

    The Closer Settlement Board yesterday laid before the Acting Minister for Lands (Mr. Watt) recommendations for the purchase by the State of two more private ...

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  11. LOYALTY TO LABOUR.

    The differences which exist between the central executive of the Political Labour Council and Mr. Hannah, M.L.A., a member of the State Parliamentary Labour ...

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  12. BUTCHERS' HOURS.

    A suggestion was made by a representative of the Butchers' Employees Union at a recent gathering of the Master Butchers' and Live Stock Buyers' Association, that if ...

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  13. THE RAILWAYS. MORNING SERVICE.

    A deputation from Mornington, introduced by Mr. Adamson, M.L.C., and Mr. Downward, M.L.A., asked the Railway Commissioners yesterday to improve the ...

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  14. THE LAND TAX.

    Mr. W. J. Johnson (N.S.W.) said that he hoped that better wages would be paid to postal and other Commonwealth employees in outlying districts. It had been said that ...

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  15. INJURED IN A MINE.

    The hearing was concluded in the County Court yesterday before Judge Eagleson and a jury of six, of the action in which John Armstrong, miner, of Rutherglen, sought to ...

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  16. THE EFFECT OF CHANGE.

    Mr. Ozanne had said "our party is not afraid of change." The change would come about in good time. The Ministry had already made considerably more than ...

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  17. RIVERINA ESTATE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Portion of the Tuppal Estate, in Riverina, is to be purchased by Government for the purposes of closer settlement. Tuppal embraces an area ...

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  18. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE.

    PAKENHAM, Wednesday.—At the meeting of the Pakenham branch of the A.N.A. last night, the following resolution was carried:— ...

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  19. ECHUCA DISTRICT.

    ECHUCA, Wednesday.—The Marathon Estate, with an area of 5,500 acres, owned by Mr. Thomas G. White, has been purchased by the Closer Settlement Board, through ...

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  20. JEPARIT TO LORQUON.

    Mr. Stanley, M.L.A., introduced a deputation representing the Lorquon Vigilance Committee to the Minister for Railways (Mr. Billson) yesterday. They sought ...

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  21. LAND AND PROPERTY SALES. METROPOLITAN.

    Messrs. Yeo, Crosthwaite, and Co. report the following sales:—Post-office place west, close to Elizabeth-street, land 31ft. frontage by depth 140ft. along right-of-way, with old buildings ...

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  22. STATE-CLEARED LAND.

    WAGGA, Wednesday.—Speaking at a meeting of the Wagga branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, Mr. J. G. Fletcher the selected Liberal candidate ...

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  23. WINTER WORK.

    Attention was directed by the secretary of the Builders' Labourers' Society (Mr. H. Hannah), at the last meeting of members, to the alleged scarcity of workmen. He said ...

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  24. VALUE OF VACCINATION.

    "The position seems to me this, that any man—any sensible and educated man—who says that vaccination does not protect against small-pox is a fool, and an absolute ...

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  25. CONSTRUCTION WORK.

    Mr. Kernot, chief engineer for railway construction, stated yesterday that work had commenced on the Bairnsdale-Orbost line, and in a week or so 100 men would be ...

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  26. BOOK-KEEPING ADJUSTMENTS.

    With regard to the charge of misappropiration of trust funds, one appropriation was a mere bookkeeping adjustment, and in the other case the money ...

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  27. TRADE WITH CANADA.

    There was tabled in the Senate yesterday a brief precis of the interviews in Queensland last month between the Postmaster-General (Mr. Thomas) and representatives ...

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  28. CONCENTRATION URGED.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Speaking on the land question, the Attorney-General (Dr. Findly) contended that the claim for freehold was merely a political cry, and that ...

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  29. RESERVE FUNDS.

    In explanation of the Minister's statement on Tuesday that there was to be no general reduction of freights and fares until the railway reserve funds were in ...

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  30. DISMISSED UNIONISTS.

    A little difficulty recently occurred between the firm of Messrs. Lewis and Whitty and the Candle, Starch, Soap, and Soda Employees' Union over the dismissal of ...

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  31. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Speaker (Mr. M'Donald) yesterday took the chair at half-past 2 o'clock, and read the prayer. Mr. Bruce Smith (N.S.W.) asked if the ...

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  32. SALE OF BULGROO STATION.

    Dalgety and Co. Ltd. (in conjunction with Mr. Ernest Raleigh, Sydney), will offer by auction, at Scott's Hotel, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the Bulgroo Station, consisting of 1,100 square miles ...

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  33. WOMEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE.

    The annual meeting of the Hawthorn branch of the Australian Women's National League was held on Tuesday afternoon at Glenferrie house, Hawthorn. The president ...

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  34. KNOCKED OFF A LADDER.

    The extraordinary case of the foreman punter in the employ of the Railway department, who was knocked off a ladder by a passing train while painting the South ...

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  35. HAWKESVIEW ESTATE, ALBURY.

    ALBURY, Wednesday.—Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have effected the sale, at a highly satisfactory price, of Mr. Thomas Hogan's well-known "Hawkesview Estate," for delivery on August 1. The ...

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  36. DANDENONG WATER SUPPLY.

    A deputation from the Dandenong Waterworks Trust waited on the Minister of Water Supply (Mr. Graham) yesterday, and asked for further control over lands ...

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  37. "POLITICAL PHARISEES."

    Mr. Cook.—But these men is were not as other men were. (Laughter.) They were the political Pharisees. They declared that a new page had been turned over, ...

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  38. SHUNTING MISHAP.

    CHARLTON, Wednesday.—The engine of the up train was derailed at mid-day, when shunting at the trucking-yard, while the main part of the train was left on the main road. The wheels cut ...

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  39. BILL POSTERS.

    Messrs Morgan and Ridgley, president and secretary respectively of the Billposters' Union, accompanied of Messrs. G. Dupree (vice-president) and J. Munn ...

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  40. COUNTRY.

    W. P. Smith, Nicholson, and Co. Pty. Ltd., Bourke-street, report having sold, on behalf of Mr. W. V. Railey, of Clyde, 80 acres of his onion land at Dalmore, to Mr. Hartley, of Brunswick, for just ...

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  41. DENTIST AND PATIENT.

    In the District Court yesterday, J. T. Tunnock, dentist, of Bourke-street, Melbourne, was sued by Nellie Campbell, of Rokeby-street, Collingwood, for the ...

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  42. PEOPLE FROM "PICKWICK."

    A large audience in the Athenaæum-hall list night shared with Mr. Pickwick and his friends the wonderful experiences which Dickens has so graphically related in ...

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  43. PERTH TRAMWAY TROUBLE.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—Industrial trouble seems imminent on the Perth tramways. The manager of the tramways (Mr. Somerset), as the outcome of a conference ...

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  45. SIXTEEN MILES A DAY.

    KILMORE, Wednesday.—The Abbotsford cadets reached Kilmore at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock this evening from Pyalong, on their return march from Bendigo to ...

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  46. A LABOUR PROTECTIONIST.

    Mr. Higgs (Q.) said that he was quite convinced that the caucus as they now had it was an improvement on the system of Government supported by the Opposition. He ...

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  47. TOWN-HALLS AS DRILL-HALLS.

    The request of the Prime Minister to municipalities for the utilisation of town-halls for drilling purposes was discussed by the Hawthorn Council on Wednesday night, ...

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  48. ADDRESS IN REPLY.

    The debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the Governor-General's Speech was resumed. Mr. J. Cook (N.S.W.) congratulated the ...

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  49. MINERS' ASSOCIATION.

    BALLARAT, Wednesday.—The half-yearly report of the Ballarat branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association states that the new tribute agreement is now ...

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  50. FOSTERING INDUSTRIES.

    PERTH, Wednesday.—The Executive Council yesterday appointed the Minister of Agriculture as Minister for Industry, to control the new department for making ...

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