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  2. MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES.

    Forty years ago yesterday the old council chamber at the town-hall was officially opened. It was therefore a coincidence that the first meeting of the City Council ...

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  3. SWOOP FROM THE CLOUDS.

    M. Chavez, a French airman, who has made several notable flights this year, and last week established a European altitude record of 5,850ft., performed a wonderful ...

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  4. ASSEMBLY NOTES.

    "He is not as fat as you, Jack." These were the first words heard by the new and honourable member for Walhalla, as he was being escorted by the hon. the Premier ...

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  5. PARLIAMENT IN PROFILE.

    It was thought that Mr. Fisher was closely guarding an extraordinarily fine speech on the Commonwealth note issue when he remained silent through weeks of ...

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  6. LONELY RANCH TRAGEDY.

    The discovery of a shocking murder on a lonely Californian ranch has been followed by a hue and cry after the supposed murderer, a Japanese youth named Yamagachi, ...

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  7. GILDED GAMBLING CLUB.

    The raid on a fashionable gambling club at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, in which 30 men well known society were arrested, was a sensational affair in more ...

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  8. CAMDEN-ROAD MURDER.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—According to London files to July 24, Scotland Yard's keenest detectives were actively searching for the murderer of the American music-hall artist, Cora ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    Our London correspondent cables that their Majesties the King and Queen have left London on a visit to Balmoral. His Excellency the Governor will preside ...

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  10. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. 60,000 CASES.

    It has been known for some time past that cholera has been raging in Russia, but the full extent of the epidemic has not been reported. ...

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  11. BOY BILLIARDIST.

    George Gray, the young Australian billiard-player who holds two world's records, has commenced preparations for his English tour. He is practising eight hours daily ...

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  12. IGNORANCE AND FILTH.

    The Government has taken tardy action at last, and has sent Professor Rain and a numerous staff of assistants into the cholera districts to arrest the spread of the disease. ...

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  13. MURDER TO ORDER.

    M. Rybak, an official of the Russian Education department, was assassinated yesterday in the street at Cracow, Poland. The murderer was arrested. He ...

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  14. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.

    The difficulty in the way of a visit to Australia by a South African cricket team appears to have been overcome in a most unexpected way. A telegram has been ...

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  15. WIRELESS ON STEAMERS

    In the middle of July Sir Edward Sassoon introduced a bill in the House of Commons proposing to render the installation of wireless telegraphy on seagoing passenger ...

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  16. HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT. SITE OF THE PIER.

    It is understood that the State Ministry has decided that the new pier at Port Melbourne shall not be crected in the position recommended by the Railway Commis ...

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  17. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A disastrous railway accident occurred yesterday at Ignacio, in California. A special locomotive collided with a passenger train from San Francisco. Thirteen ...

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  18. STRIKE IN NEW YORK.

    The strike of cloakworkers in New York has extended, and 70,000 employees are now out. The places of many of them have been filled by the importation of ...

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  19. HURRICANES.

    A hurricane in the Central American Republic of Costa Rica has uprooted 1,000,000 banana trees. Great hurricanes have also been ...

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  20. SHEDS AND WHARVES.

    Several matters of interest will be dealt with by the Harbour Trust commissioners at their meeting this afternoon. Recently tenders were invited for the crection of a ...

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  21. MEN FOR THE LAND.

    A small party of immigrants travelling on special concession tickets arrived in Melbourne yesterday by the steamer Narrung from Europe. It included five persons sent ...

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  22. TRAINING OF CADETS.

    A War Office memorandum has been issued to the Territorial Associations on the subject of the training of cadets. It approves of gymnastics, Swedish drill, and ...

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  23. PERILOUS SITUATIONS. FIVE MINERS ESCAPE.

    BROKEN HILL, Tuesday. — In the North mine shaft last night while a number of men were engaged in timbering the staging broke, and five men were thrown a ...

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  24. MURDERER HANGED.

    John Alexander Dickman, who was convicted of the murder of John Innes Nisbet, a colliery secretary, in a train, was executed at Newcastle-on-Tyne this morning. ...

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  25. LUNATIC IN GUARD'S VAN.

    GEELONG, Tuesday.—Alfred George Richardson, guard of a mixed train from Ballarat, which reached Geelong shortly before 10 o'clock this evening, had a ...

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  26. FARM STUDENTS IN DANGER.

    WAGGA, Tuesday.—A fire broke out in a large wooden building used as a dormitory by the students at the experimental farm at Bomen, four miles from Wagga, early ...

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  27. DOCK' AT YARRA MOUTH.

    At the ordinary meeting of the Williamstown Council on Tuesday Councillor Chandler moved that the Minister for Public Works should be asked to receive a depu ...

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  28. BENDIGO TRAGEDY.

    BENDIGO, Tuesday.—Numbers of people visited the scene of the tragedy in Don-street on Sunday, when Camelia M'Cluskey killed her three children. ...

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  29. AUSTRALIAN KILLED IN INDIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—The Criminal Investigation department have received a cable message stating that a West Australian woman has been murdered by an Afghan ...

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  30. SHIPBUILDING YARDS.

    The Williamstown Council have been advised by Mr. Lemmon, M.L.A., that the Government had decided to establish shipbuilding yards at the Alfred Graving ...

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  31. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Cuthbert Nutt, High-street, Golden-square, miner. Causes of insolvency—Want of employment, sickness in family, and pressure of creditors. Insolvent declares that ...

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  32. JUVENILE SMOKING.

    The evil of cigarette smoking by young lads is engaging the attention of the Social Reform Bureau. The superintendent (Mr. W. H. Judkins) has forwarded a letter to ...

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  33. CITY COUNCIL PROPERTIES.

    A statement submitted by the finance committee of the City Council to members of the council at the quarterly meeting yesterday showed that the full destructive ...

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  34. AMERICAN FINANCES.

    The United States revenue for the year ended June 30, 1910, amounted to £135,770,163, which constitutes a record, the expenditure to £131,727,385. ...

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  35. THE BENT MEMORIAL.

    A meeting of residents of Moorabbin was held last evening to consider the question of raising a memorial to perpetuate the memory of the late Sir Thomas Bent. The ...

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  36. LAW NOTICES.—(This Day.)

    At Half-past 10.—Geelong Harbour Trust Commissioners v. Maritime Insurance Company (part heard). Practice Court. ...

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  37. MAIL STEAMER IN STORM.

    PERTH, Tuesday.—The P. and O. R.M.S. Mongolia experienced a rough passage from Breaksea to Fremantle, where she arrived this morning eleven hours late. ...

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  38. CHARITABLE APPEALS.

    Towards the fund which is being raised to provide for the children of the late Jennings Carmichael we have received the following additional subscription:—N. Maine, £1/1/. ...

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  40. FITZROY STATE SCHOOL.

    The Minister for Public Works (Mr. Baillieu) has accepted the tender of Mr. D. Kinnaird, of Cardigan-street, Carlton, for the erection of a new State School in ...

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  41. R.M.S. ORVIETO AT FREMANTLE

    FREMANTLE, Tuesday.—The R.M.S. Orvieto arrived this morning from London. Following are saloon passengers:— For Adelaide—Mr. Monteflore. ...

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