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  2. TERRIBLE TRIALS.

    In connection with the wreck of the steamer Moresby inside the Barrier Reef, the foHowing additional particulars are to hand from Cooktown.:- ...

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  3. DEAR MONEY.

    The British Treasury paid an averse of lf£2 2/6 per cent, for £4,000,000 worth of Treasury bills, which were told on Wednesday, although the market rate for March. ...

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  4. FEDERAL CAMPAIGN.

    Up. Fisher, in the course of his speech at Olympic, referred to the payment u[ 25/ to the States and the amendment of the Constitution, which. ...

    Article : 539 words
  5. THE COUNTRY.

    BURRA, February 24.—Yesterday was a gala day at Alount Bryan on the occasion of the official opening of the new public hall created by the district council at a cost of ...

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  6. THE CHARLESWORTHS

    Violet Charlesworth and her mother, the notorious couple who have been indicted on wholesale charges of fraud (rendered possible chiefly through the personal charm of the ...

    Article : 176 words
  7. CLEVER SWINDLE.

    A leading Sydney auctioneer was the other day the victim of a clever swindle. lie had a valuable property at Watson's Hay for sale, and on Tuesday a young man ...

    Article : 248 words
  8. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    From the Rev. Johm Macpherson, Morphett Vale:-"Mr. B. Benny's letter in The Register is sufficient evidence that he believes in, and is only too ready to act ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. H.M.S. INVINCIBLE.

    In an address at Dartford on January 25 Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who has since been elected as member for Portsmouth in the House of Commons, said ...

    Article : 218 words
  10. A DRFECTIVE TIMETABLE.

    From "Traveller"':-"Through an error in the coach and steamer trathe timetable, incorporated in the current South Australian railways timetable book, five persons ...

    Article : 297 words
  11. AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    me Ottawa correspondent of The Standard says that Canada has sanctioned the payment of a substantial subsidy for a regular steamship service between Atlantic I ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. VICTORIA.

    An animated discussion on a scheme for the federation of all the miners unions, except coal unions, in the Commonwealth had been entered upon at a conference of ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. LIVERY STABLES BURNED.

    A destructive fire occurred at midnight on Wednesday at the Yarragon Livery Stables, owned by George Boiland. The whole of the contents consisting of a ...

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  14. DANISH BUTTER.

    The Danish Government has introduced a Bill into tits Legislature to prohibit the export of butter containing more than 16 per cent, of moisture. ...

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  15. NOW THE LIFEBOAT OCCUPANTS FARED.

    The missing lifeboat with 20 persons from the steamer Moresby was picked up on No. Island of the Howick Group at 11.40 yesterday morning by the Government steamer ...

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  16. PAGEANT OF EMPIRE.

    In connection with the promotion of the festival of Umpire, 200 gentlemen held a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel on Wednesday. The Earl of Plymouth presided, and I ...

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  17. NEW GUINEA DEVELOPMENT.

    From "Critical":—The prospectus of the British New Guinea Development Company is being issued simultaneously in Great Britain, on the continent. and in ...

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  18. PROSTITUTION.

    From R. C. Mitton. Evamlale:—"A writer in The Register, in referring to prostitution, says"—It is, as every man of sense knows a necessary evil. and therefore ...

    Article : 371 words
  19. IMPERIAL FOOTBALL.

    The British Northern .Rugby Union has accepted the list of fixtures submitted for its team's forthcoming tour by the Australian and New Zealand Rugby Leagues. ...

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  20. THE BARRIER.

    The Salvation Army has formed a branch of the Anti-Smoking and Anti-Gambing League, which is specially directed against cigarette smoking and gambling. ...

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  21. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The Federal Public Service Commissioner has received 10 applications for the position of Collector of Customs for Victoria. The salary ranges from £700 to £850 a ...

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  22. BURNED RECHEPT BOOK.

    At a meeting of the West Broken Hill Football Club (nne of the senior clubs) on Wednesday night, the Secretary (Mr. H. Morris) reported thai one night last week. ...

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  23. JOHNSON v. JEFFRIES.

    A Reuter message from San Francisco announces that the Johnson-Jeffries fight for the championship of the world has been definitely fixed to take place at San ...

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  24. POSTAL ASSISTANTS.

    The Federal Public Service Commissioner has had under consideration the position of assistants in the Postal Department. It is proposed to effect an alteration in the ...

    Article : 186 words
  25. SWINBURNE V. THE AGE.

    The High Court today began the hearing of an appeal by David Syme & Co., proprietors of The Age, against the judgment of the Victorian Full Court refusing a new ...

    Article : 239 words
  26. LABOUR EXCHANGES.

    Mr. Sydney Boston (President of the Board of Trade) informed the House of Commons on Wednesday that the Government Labour Exchanges of the United ...

    Article : 50 words
  27. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    Play in .the return cricket match Transvaalers v. Marylebone Cricket Club has been delayed by rain. Census of ...

    Article : 139 words
  28. NEW TELEPHONES.

    Subscribers to the telephone who feel that they are not being attended to as speedily as they would like would never complain it they went through the exchange and ...

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  29. PARIS ANARCHIST.

    A Paris telegram states that Gustavo Hervc, a journalist, lias been sentenced to four years imprisonment for having published an article in La Guerre Sociale, an ...

    Article : 45 words
  30. INDIGNANT MINERS.

    The A.M.A. has carried a resolution instructing its Secretary to write to the State Attorney-General asking that Judge Rogers should be removed from the judicial Bench. ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. MILITARY OFFICERS ABROAD.

    New regulations hive been adopted by the Federal Executive Council relating to the training and payment of officers who go abroad for instruction. It is provided that ...

    Article : 106 words
  32. AVALANCHE IN ICELAND.

    An avalanche has swapt down from the stormwrspt heights above the village of Hnifsdal, in Tceland. Twenty-Three people have been killed in the course of its ...

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  33. PERJURY ALLEGED.

    At the Criminal Court today Arthur Henry Gaudin, motor garage proprietor, of Little Collins street, wu& charged with having committed perjury on October 15 ...

    Article : 162 words
  34. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  35. QUEENSLAND.

    In connection with the flection of eight members to the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board the first count was completed today. and gives the position of the ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. TREE SHATTERED.

    A large ironbark tree about 15 ft. in circumference at Golden Bar was struck by lightning last night and shattered to atoms. Mr. Nunn, who was repairing a fence 20 ...

    Article : 124 words
  37. LONDON AND THE LIQUOR TRADE.

    Under we licensing legislation passed by Mr. Balfour's Government 91 public houses have been extinguished at the London Licensing sessions. ...

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  38. THE OUTER HARBOUR.

    From Chars. M. Muirhead:—As one who has for 30 years advocated through The Register the absolute necessity of this truly national work, which has earned ...

    Article : 239 words
  39. AMUSEMENTS.

    At the Theatre Royal tonight William Anderson's highly entertaining pa[?]tomime "Babes in the Wood" will be produced for the last time prior to the departure of the ...

    Article : 105 words
  40. THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE.

    The Methodist Conference had before it today the question of establishing a theological and affiliated college to appropriate £25,000 as the first charge upon the ...

    Article : 57 words
  41. CZAR NICHOLAS.

    The Russian secret police are keenly apprehensive of disaster to the Czar, owing to his having recently refused the precsutions with which his life has been almost ...

    Article : 54 words
  42. CONSTABLES CHARGED.

    The charge of being unlawfully on licensed hotel premises after hours, preferred against Police Constables Egan, Quigly, and Underwood, was again before the ...

    Article : 113 words
  43. COOPERS WAGES.

    The Coopers Wages Board award fixes the lowest rate of wage* to be paid for journeymen on daywork at 1/4 an hour. ...

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  44. THE CHEAT.

    Miss Emma Temple, Miss Mand Wingfield. Miss Majorie Murray. and Mr. Redge Casey. of "The Cheat" Company, arrived in Adelaide by Thursday's express from ...

    Article : 42 words
  45. Advertising

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    Advertising : 347 words
  46. BAND CONCERT.

    The fourteenth of a series of band concerts. under agreement with the City Council and the South Australian Band Association was given in the Elder Park ...

    Article : 78 words
  47. CHINESE AT DARWIN.

    Figures received by the Minister for Customs (Sir Robert Best) from Mr. W. J. Stretton (Sub-Collector at Port Darwin) show a steady diminution for the punt year ...

    Article : 103 words
  48. STUDY OF THE ORGAN.

    From "Diapason":—In The Register of February 22 appeared an advertisement calling attention to scholarships to be competed for in the following subjects:— ...

    Article : 160 words
  49. DOCTOR AND PATIENT.

    The hearing was concluded today by the High Court of the appeal in the case of Godrich v. the National Life Association of Australasia. Limited This is a case in ...

    Article : 118 words
  50. IN AID OF NURSING.

    The annual continental in connection with the Hindmarsh branch of the District Trained Nursing Society was held on the Lindsay Cireus Oval on Thursday evening. ...

    Article : 90 words
  51. A FARMER'S FAMILY.

    At the Goombungec Show yesterday mention was made of the fact that & prize was offered for the largest family in the district. The Minister for Apiculture ...

    Article : 87 words
  52. JUSTICES OK THE PEACE.

    From "Karnac":—I noted at the time Mr. Homburg's complaint about justices resigning. and also 'H. T. Styles's' comments thereon. The present ...

    Article : 356 words
  53. TASMANIAN CARNIVAL.

    The carnival was continued today. The croquet singles final was played between Master Payne, aged 14 years, of Hobart. and Miss Peacock (South Australia). Payne ...

    Article : 45 words
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