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  2. POLICE NEWS.

    Clgarettes, tobacco, wine, and billiard and snooker balls. valued at £50, were stolen from the Toorak Bowling Club, Mandertile cresent, Toorak, early on the morning of February 26. The clubhouse was ...

    Article : 1,460 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 words
  4. NOTES FOR BOYS.

    Lying up is a bad habit in a ferret, and I can recommend T. Hawson no particular plan for breaking them off it. One which was given to me as a boy by an old English gamekeeper was to open ...

    Article : 1,012 words
  5. MORWELL BROWN COAL.

    Considerable interest was created among members of the State Parliament and espe cially among Ministers, by the statement of Professor Bone in London concerning ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. UNIVERSITY LECTURES.

    BALLARAT, Sunday.—Recently the Ballarat branch of the Teachers' Association passed a resolution protesting against a suggestion that attendance at University ...

    Article : 218 words
  7. SLASHED WITH RAZOR.

    Sergeant Thomas Kay, who, with Captain G. C. Matthews, took part in the aeroplane flight competition from England to Australia, was the central figure in a ...

    Article : 281 words
  8. WORK AND WAGES.

    In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday the president (Mr. Justice Powers) refused an application made on behalf of the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining ...

    Article : 218 words
  9. SLOW WHEAT LOADING.

    Owing to the small quantities of wheat available for shipment loading operations were practically suspended at Williamstown from noon yesterday. and steamers which ...

    Article : 553 words
  10. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    The State Cabinet decided yesterday to include a clause in the Juries Bill prohibiting the publication of the names and addresses of juries and the announcement of ...

    Article : 1,568 words
  11. TO-DAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
  12. CORNER INLET 50 YEARS HENCE.

    Referring to the cable message stating that Professor Bone, of the Imperial College of Science, had, in a lecture in London, spoken in glowing terms of the ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. INDENT AGENT DIVORCED.

    In the Practice Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Cussen, Elsie Evelyn Lewis, aged 38 years, of Avoca street, Camberwell, sought a dissolution of her marriage with ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.

    Charged with having assulted Lola Cristic, of Alexandra parade, Fitzroy, Ernest McDermott, aged 34 years. labourer, appeared at the Fitzroy Court on Monday. ...

    Article : 173 words
  15. RAILWAY CLASSIFICATION.

    When the Railways Classification Board resumed its sittings yesterday under the chairmanship of Judge Winneke, after an adjournment of over two months, it had ...

    Article : 307 words
  16. SHIPPING COMPANY FAILS.

    After an existence of about three years, the Victorian Shipping Company Proprietary Limited, which owned the cargo steamer Palmer, has gone into voluntary ...

    Article : 386 words
  17. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 558 words
  18. QUEENSLAND MEAT INDUSTRY.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.—A deputation of representatives of the meat companies and cattle growers waited upon the Premier (Mr. Theodore) yesterday regarding the ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. METHODIST CONFERENCE.

    The ministerial committee of the Methodist Conference met yesterday at Wesley Church. The Rev. Percy Bladen was in the chair. Most of the day was taten up ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. CONDENSED MILK GLUT.

    WARRNAMBOOL, Monday.—Instructions have been received by the manager of Nestle's Condensery at Dennington that the output of the factory must be reduced by ...

    Article : 300 words
  21. ACQUITTED OF STEALING SUIT.

    George Charles Laurence Watson, labourer, aged 24 years, of Brighton, was charged before Mr. Justice Schutt and a jury in the Criminal Court, yesterday, with having stolen a suit of clothes ...

    Article : 313 words
  22. SEAMEN'S PAY.

    Officers of the Royal Dutch Packet Navigation Company's steamer Houtman, now berthed at Victoria Dock, said yesterday that advice had been received of an ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. INFANT'S THROAT CUT.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Mrs. Edith McKay last week was found in a distracted state on the road six miles from Mossvale. She was carrying her dead baby, which had its ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. GENERAL TOPICS.

    Lila Arthur has been told of an old weather indicator in the form of a house in which the figure of an old woman foretells dry weather and an old man wet weather. She wishes to Know how it ...

    Article : 838 words
  25. QUEENSLAND'S. GOLD REVIVAL.

    BRISBANE, Monday.—Although Queensland's output of gold reached practically bedrock levels in recent months, March is opening in circumstances which give reason ...

    Article : 139 words
  26. New Award for Plasterers.

    On March 3 a new award of the Fibrous Plasterers' Wages Board will come into force. An alteration in the award provides that the class "all others" shall now ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. TRADE COMMISSIONER.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Referring to the criti[?]sm of the appointment of Mr. Sheuf as trade commissioner for China, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said to-night that ...

    Article : 81 words
  28. TREE STUMP SAVES MOTOR-BUS.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—The stump of a tree prevented on Saturday a crowded motorbus from plunging over a steep embankment near Churlestown, Newcastle. The ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Sir.—There are one or two statements in Mr. Picken's letter under this heading appearing to-day which cannot be allowed to pass. ...

    Article : 370 words
  30. LOST COUNTRY POPULATION.

    KALGOORLIE '(W.A.), Saturday.—The leader of the Federal Country party (Dr. Earle Page) reached Kalgoorlie on Thursday, and was entertained at the council ...

    Article : 82 words
  31. HONG KONG STRIKE.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Monday.—Hong Kong newspapers just to hand give a full account of the seamen's strike, which began on January 13, and was in full progress ...

    Article : 85 words
  32. DUCK SHOOTING FOR THE MARKET.

    Sir,—As a sportsman who has followed duck shooting in the Northern districts around Kerang, Swan Hill, Echnca, and other places there, and also in Gippsland, ...

    Article : 175 words
  33. THE MARIBYRNONG RIVER.

    Sir,—Last Saturday afternoon 1 formed one of a party which hired a boat at the Maribyrnong Bridge for a picnic up the river. About half-way up to the ten ...

    Article : 290 words
  34. Display Advertising

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    Advertising : 220 words
  35. GIPPSLAND ROADS.

    Sir,—South Gippslanders appreciate the abandonment of the tour of inspection begun by the Treasurer, Minister for Works, and members of the Country Roads Board, ...

    Article : 374 words
  36. MONT ALBERT ELECTRIC TRAINS.

    Sir,—"Balwyn Resident" appeals to the Tramway Board for reasonable service to get to Saturday evening amusements by Mont Albert electric trams. May I ...

    Article : 131 words
  37. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—The commendable action of the chief inspector of game to suggest that wild duck should again be allowed to be sold in the open market under license and limit as to ...

    Article : 247 words
  38. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES

    DAYLESFORD, Monday.—Mr. A. Hepburn, mechanic, of Mckinnon's Garage, while riding a motor cycle near Smeaton was caught in a thunderstorm. The machine was struck by lightning, and ...

    Article : 324 words
  39. TRUCK DERAILED.

    UPPER FERNTREE GULLY, Monday.—During shunting operations at the local railway station to-day a 1[?]-ton truck loaded with [?]l jumped the rails at the points and was derailed. This delayed ...

    Article : 33 words
  40. SHIP'S OFFICER MISSING.

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Monday.—When the s.s. Taiyuan, which arrived from Hong Kong on Sunday, was about to resume her voyage south this morning, the second officer, Mr. Bamber, could not ...

    Article : 73 words
  41. EASILY PURGED CONTEMPT.

    BROKEN HILL (N.S.W), Monday.— The case was continued in the Small Debts Court to-day in which George Kerr claimed £10 damages from the "Barrier Miner" ...

    Article : 272 words
  42. SUBURBAN, COUNCILS.

    Speaking at a meeting of the Fitzroy Council last night on his motion that daily paid labourers of the Fitzroy municipality be paid the rutting rate of 14/6 a day, Councillor Bockett, M. L. C., said ...

    Article : 213 words
  43. IN THE OPEN AIR.

    The small crab which Norman Sincox (Wonthaggi) and his sister found when playing amongst the rocks at the seaside was the Abacus crab. It may be described as resembling a small crayfish, ...

    Article : 366 words
  44. CHURCH NEWS.

    Last year a social study class was formed by the Catholic Young Mens Society, and the Rev. Father M. Egan, S. J., save a course of lectures He will not as lecturer again during the coming ...

    Article : 363 words
  45. LICENSES TRANSFERRED.

    Approval was given by the Licensing Court yesterday to the following transfers of victuallers' licenses:—London Tarern Hotel, Elizabeth street. Melbourne, David Walshe to Denis J. Canny: ...

    Article : 217 words
  46. YOUTH AND WAYWARD GIRL.

    Before Mr. Justice Schutt, in the Criminal Court yesterday, Stephen Hilary Curnow, a Youth, was charged with having committed an offence against a girl above the age of 10 years and under the age ...

    Article : 277 words
  47. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 98 words
  48. RAGGED BOYS' BAY PICNIC.

    Through the kindness of Huddart, Parker, and Company, 400 of the poor children of the metropolis were conveyed In the s.s, Courier to Portarlington yesterday. On arrival of the picnickers ...

    Article : 70 words
  49. KIMBERLEY OIL PROSPECTS.

    PERTH, Monday.—At the half-yearly meeting of the Frency Kimberley Oil Co. to-day, the chairman announced that the State Government had extended the tenure of the company's prospecting ...

    Article : 75 words
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