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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 words
  3. COAL MINERS' DISPUTE.

    The dispute between the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation and the colliery prorietors of New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria was recently the subject of ...

    Article : 248 words
  4. HAWTHORN TRAMWAY.

    The new electric tramway from Prince's Bridge to Power street, Hawthorn (it will run to Burwood when finished), was opened yesterday afternoon by the Lord Mayor ...

    Article : 690 words
  5. LINER OBRA OVERDUE.

    The passage of the British India liner Obra from Adelaide has been so prolonged as to form a topic of comment in shipping circles. Having left the South Australian port in ...

    Article : 319 words
  6. RAILWAYS UNION.

    The annual conference of the Victorian Railways Union will open in Melbourne this evening, and will be continued on Saturday. In his report, the secretary (Mr. F. ...

    Article : 891 words
  7. FEDERAL FINANCE

    Although the financial year has only three months to run, not only is no financial statement, properly speaking, yet available, but, more than that, Parliament was allowed ...

    Article : 655 words
  8. AN APPLE POOL.

    Important recommendations were made yesterday by the special committee appointed by the Fruit Conference to consider variaus schemes submitted to the conference for ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  9. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    By a proclamation which was gazetted yesterday the State Parliament, which stands prorogued until April 11, was further prorogued until May 9. It is not expected ...

    Article : 1,691 words
  10. WORK FOR SOLDIERS.

    About 30 representative men attended a meeting, which was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, to push on the scheme initiated by Mr. Hannah, M.L.A., for the ...

    Article : 1,642 words
  11. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The acceptance by the Alfred Hall committee of a tender for a five years lease of the hall has occasioned a good deal of criticism, it being contended that both the city and the town councils ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  12. SPORTING ITEMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,143 words
  13. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    SWAN HILL, Thursday.—The Royal commission which is inquiring into closer settlement conditions under irrigation motored from Swan Hill to Nyah this ...

    Article : 414 words
  14. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES

    An unconscious man was found clinging to a wire cable in Orr's dry dock yesterday morning. There was about two feet of water in the dock, and the belief is held by those ...

    Article : 736 words
  15. RAILWAY MISHAP.

    BALLARAT, Thursday.—Two tracks loaded with coal in some unexplained manner got away on the coal siding at Ballarat East to-day, and, dashing down the incline, ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. LABOUR MEMBER CRITICISED.

    BALLARAT, Thursday.—Speaking at the Trades and Labour Council on Thursday night, Mr. J. A. Rowe said that it was fully expected that Labour members would ...

    Article : 242 words
  17. LUCERNE POOL.

    ROCHESTER, Thursday.—Messrs. Dowrick and Kreutzer, of the Water Commission, in company with the advisory committees of Bamawin, Nanneella, and ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. ALLEGED TICKET FRAUDS.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Considerable public interest was taken in a case which came before the Adelaide Police Court to-day, in which George Matthew Fawkner, ...

    Article : 449 words
  19. CONTROL OF MOTOR TRAFFIC.

    At the Prahran court yesterday, before Mr. E. Notley Moore, P.M., Captain Russell, and Messrs. Curwen-Walker, Flintoft, and Lavery, J.P.'s, John Livingstone, motor driver, in the employ of the ...

    Article : 509 words
  20. NEW QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—Authority has been given to the Commissioner for Railways for building the Goondoon-Kalliva railway line, branching from the Mount ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. STATE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS.

    The following tenders for improvements to State schools and erection of teachers' residences have been recommended to the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Adamson) ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. TROUBLE ON A SCHOONER.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The three-masted schooner, J. M. Weatherwax, which left British Columbia on May 31, with a cargo of timber for the New South Wales ...

    Article : 129 words
  23. DEPARTMENTAL CALLOUSNESS.

    Mr. Hick, J.P., continued at Williamstown yesterday the inquiry into the death of an aged man. Daniel Jacob Seeger, who on March 17, according to medical ...

    Article : 193 words
  24. HOUSES AND LAND.

    BALLARAT, Thursday.—The prices realised at the subdivisional sale by auction of 3,616 acres of the late Mr. George Russell's Langi. Willi Estate, held yesterday at Skipton by Messrs. ...

    Article : 163 words
  25. ANZAC DAY.

    SYDNEY, Thursday,—In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Premier (Mr. Holman) said that at present there was no intention of declaring "Anzac Day" a public ...

    Article : 33 words
  26. TOWN PLANNING.

    Sir,—I enclose extract from letter from Dr. [?] W. Rarrett, dated London, February 20, 1916, as follows:—"Town-planning has gone ahead amazingly. The most remark ...

    Article : 121 words
  27. WALSH ISLAND ENGINEERS IDLE.

    NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.), Thursday.— Two hundred engineers employed at the Walsh Island Government engineering works, and a large number of other workers, ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. DIVORCE DECREE.

    Sitting in divorce jurisdiction in the Practice Court yesterday, Mr. Justice A'Beckett dealt with a petition of George Allan Van Prooyen, or Seymour Military Camp, 40 years of age, from ...

    Article : 134 words
  29. LICENSING PROSECUTIONS.

    At the Williamstown Court yesterday, before Mr. V. Tanner, P.M., and Mr. R. Stone, J.P., T. Sccombe, licensee of the Oriental Hotel, Nelson place, pleaded guilty to gaving trafflicked in liquor ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. CLAIM ON APPLES.

    A dispute which arose in pespect to the sale of 300 cases of Jonathan apples was before Judge Wasley in the County Court yesterday. In August last it was stated, the sale of apples was effect[?] ...

    Article : 157 words
  31. GEELONG ABANDONS FOOTBALL.

    GEELONG, Thursday.—The Geelong and District Football Association, at its annual meeting tonight, decided to abandon football matchen during the approaching season. The association has ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 270 words
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