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  2. FOUND IN A TRAIN.

    When the 8.30 p.m. train from Flinders-street arrived at Mordialloc on Thursday the staff discovered a young man lying prostrate in one of the carriages in an ...

    Article : 168 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT.

    Martin James Coy, aged 23 years, a labourer, was arrested on Friday night by Senior-Constable Wallis and Plain-clothes Constable Montague on a charge of having ...

    Article : 467 words
  4. STIMULANTS AND SEDATIVES.

    It is difficult to name a subject into which more passion is thrown than that of the use or abuse of stimulants. This is true, above all, of alcohol, and, in a less ...

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  5. POLICE NEWS. HONEYMOON BLACK EYE.

    According to the evidence of Mrs. May Lewis, who proceeded against her husband, Thomas Lewis, for maintenance, at the Collingwood Court on Thursday, their honeymoon was of short duration, ...

    Article : 202 words
  6. TWO MINERS KILLED.

    BENDIGO, Friday.—An accident, tragic in its effect and remarkable in its nature, occurred at the Central Red, White, and Blue mine of Friday, resulting in the deaths ...

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  7. SAVINGS BANKS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. M'Gowen) stated to-day that he did not know where the news came from that the State had refused to supply forms and other ...

    Article : 319 words
  8. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.

    CASTLEMAINE, Friday.—A sensational attempt at burglary was reported to the police this morning. Mr. H. Skipper, is a traveller for Messrs. Macrow and Co., ...

    Article : 199 words
  9. THE TROUBLES OF AN UMPIRE.

    "I didn't call him a 'cow,' or tell anybody to give him a crack. I called him a 'rotter.' I didn't use the other words." So said Charles Henry King, in the St. Kilda Police Court on ...

    Article : 231 words
  10. SYMPATHETIC JURYMAN.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The prosecution of two men for conspiracy at Blenheim took a curious turn this morning. The Crown prosecutor informed the Court ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. NEW ANGLICAN CHURCH.

    LISMORE, Fridny.—The Rev. E. H. Davis, rural dean and vicar of Colac, performed the ceremony of placing the foundation tablet of St. Augustine's Church of ...

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  12. ENTERTAINMENTS.

    At the Theatre Royal to-night Materlinck's "dream-poem" "The Blue Bird" will be staged for the first time here by Frederick Harrison's company, from the Haymarket Theatre, London, with ...

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  13. CATERER ANTD CLUB OFFICIALS.

    On Thursday, for the third time, at the Prahran Court, before Mr. Morrison, P.M., Captain Russell, and Messrs. Wallis and Flintoft, J.P.'s, a case was heard in which Herbert H. Coles, caterer, of South ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. SCRIPTURE COUNCIL AND CATHOLIC FEDERATION.

    Sir.—It is encouraging to be assured by the secretary of the Catholic Federation that we are "progressing satisfactorily" towards clear ideas. The subject we are discussing ...

    Article : 487 words
  15. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    The Bendigo City Council on Friday voted £467 to the charities, as against £500 last year. The council decided to ask the Minister of Public Works for further ...

    Article : 180 words
  16. OFFENDING CYCLISTS.

    Messrs. German, Long, M'Gann, and Segrave adjudicated at the Caulfield Court yesterday. Two men, James Livingston and J. Meany, were each charged with riding bicycles on the footpaths; and ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. STOLEN ACCOUNTS.

    John Logan, aged 19 years, was charged at the Camberwell Court on Friday with having stolen sums of money, amounting to £1/9/7, from George Glanfield, butcher, of Canterbury. ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. MARINE BOARD.

    The monthly meeting of the Marine Board was held yesterday, Mr. C. W. Maclean (vice-president) presiding. The judgment of the Court on the recent charge ...

    Article : 150 words
  19. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    At a cost of over £1,000 the Education department remodelled the State school at East Geelong. The building was handed over on Thursday, and on Friday it was ...

    Article : 119 words
  20. WORKING AFTER HOURS.

    On Friday, at the Carlton Court, Messrs. Hayes and Foley, J.P.'s, imposed a fine of 10/, with 21/ costs, on Sam Yack, the keeper of a Chinese laundry, at Queensberry-street, for working after [?] ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. WARRNAMBOOL.

    James Blanck was carting fish garbage along the Merri River bank, near, the water's edge, about 150 yards north of the suspension-bridge, on Friday morning, when ...

    Article : 163 words
  22. ENGAGEMENT AND LOAN.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Martin James Cavanagh appeared at the Water Police Court to-day charged with obtaining £50 from Mary Row by false pretences, and by ...

    Article : 178 words
  23. FALSE PRETENCES.

    At the Criminal Court yesterday, Joseph Albury Caldwell, 19 years of age, pleaded guilty to two charges of having obtained goods at Newport by false pretences. Mr. Winneke pleaded for leniency ...

    Article : 62 words
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  25. UNDER PURE FOODS ACT.

    At the Carlton Court on Friday, before Messrs. Hayes and Foley, J.P.'s. Adolph Simons and Nathan Mo[?] buthcers, [?]gon-street, trading as Simons and Mo[?], were prosecuted, under the Pure Foods Act, ...

    Article : 163 words
  26. METHODIST UNION.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The New Zealand representative on the Primitive Methodist Church Union Conference now sitting at Norwich, England, has cabled ...

    Article : 69 words
  27. PROTECTION FROM FLIES.

    At the same court, John Charles Smith, butcher, Faraday-street, pleaded guilty, under the Pure Foods Act, to having neglected to take reasonable precautions to protect the meat in his shop from ...

    Article : 131 words
  28. UNWHOLESOME MILK-CAN.

    Before Messrs. Hayes and Foley, J.P.'s, at the Carlton Court on Friday, Wundham Baker, dairyman, Elgin-street, was proceeded against, under the Pure Foods Act, for having unclean and ...

    Article : 183 words
  29. ELECTRIC CURRENT FAILS.

    Considerable inconvenience was occasioned to passengers in the Prahran and Malvern districts on Thursday evening by the cessation of trams, owing to a fault ...

    Article : 96 words
  30. THEFT FROM A PURSE.

    CAMPERDOWN, Friday.—When William Carman, temporarily employed at the Commercial Hotel, reported to the police that he had been robbed of a £1-note suspicion fell upon a young ...

    Article : 488 words
  31. FREMANTLE DOCK.

    PERTH, Friday.—A serious engineering difficulty has presented itself at the Fremantle Graving Dock, now in course of construction. Some days ago a cave was ...

    Article : 212 words
  32. "A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE."

    The Plimmer-Denni[?]on Company will commence their Melbourne season (aftr an absence of 12 months), at the Princess's Theatre on Saturday next, when O[?]ar Wilde's brilliant play. "A ...

    Article : 130 words
  33. BRITANNIA THEATRE.

    Considerable interest is being displayed in connection with the opening on Friday of the new Britann[?] T[?]re, under the direction of Mr. J. [?] Williams. Everything [?] [?] in ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. CROWDED SYDNEY FERRIES.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The Lord Mayor (Alerman Clarke) proposes to call a conference of various municipalities in the northern suburbs with a view to ...

    Article : 139 words
  35. A.N.A. ELECTIONS.

    Caulifield and Elsternwick.—President, Mr. J. T. M[?]cy, re-elected unopposed; vice-president, Mr. A. App[?] secretary, Mr. W. F. Parker, unopposed; treasurer, M. H. J. Rees, unopposed; assistant ...

    Article : 156 words
  36. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    PORT FAIRY, Friday, Nearly 100 acres of good agricultural and grazing land, within half a mile of the town boundary, has been offered to the State Government for ...

    Article : 69 words
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