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  2. REPERTORY SOCIETY.

    Great enthusiasm was shown by members of the Melbourne Repertory Theatre Society at a special general meeting held at the Lyceum Club on Wednesday, when ...

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  3. RAILWAYS OFFICERS.

    In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday an announcement was made by Deputy-president Sir John Quick concerning the progress of the hearing of claims of ...

    Article : 686 words
  4. HISTORIC AUSTRALIAN TREE.

    Not far from Innamincka (S.A.), on Cooper's Creek, near the Queensland border, stands this historic tree bea[?] a carved record of the great exploratory journey of Burke and Wills in 1860. It is slowly breaking up, and it has now been proposed to take steps to preserve it as a relic. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. SKILFUL TREE CLIMBER.

    A task which would be impassible to any but the most skllful and experienced tree-climber was performed by Mr. J. Donald, who went up a giant gum tree to lap off the top. Note the axe hanging by a rope from the belt of the climber, who progresses by means of a loop round the bole of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. LIKE A GIGANTIC DAHLIA.

    —(Wide World, Photo.) A remarkable picture of an explosion in California. What appears at first glance to be a huge floral bloom 15 in reality the result of an upheaval of hundreds of tons of earth and rock caused by an explosion in connection with the preliminary work for a bridge to span San Francisco Bay. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. NOISE AND VIBRATION.

    David Armstrong Moran, of 71 Roden street. West Melbourne, wharf labourer, has brought an action against the Oxygen Service and Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd., ...

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  8. LEASE OF CITY HOTEL.

    Claiming that the had been induced by misrepresentation to purchase a sub-lease of the Victorian Hotel, Elizabeth street, and that the business did not enable her ...

    Article : 735 words
  9. PROPPING DANGEROUS WALL.

    The front wall of Ball and Welch's store in Faraday street, Carlton, which canted forward dangerously during the Are on Tuesday, was shored up with timber yesterday, so that the street could again be used in safety. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. ROUND THE WORLD IN 40 DAYS.

    In an attempt to outdo the great romancer Jules Verne, and to celebrate the centenary of the man who wrote "Round the World in Eighty Days," a Danish magazine" is sending Palle Hold, aged 15 years (shown in the photograph), on a journey round the world to be accomplished in 40 days. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. EXPEDITION ROUND AUSTRALIA.

    With the object of travelling round Australia, keeping as near as possible to the coastline, two six-wheeled lorries and a car owned by Mr. MacRobertson, left Melbourne yesterday aftornoon. A scene just before the departare. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. TWO GREAT HORSES RACE

    Two of the most renowned horses in Australia finished first and second in the All-aged Stakes at Randwick (N.S.W.) on Wednesday. Limerick is shown winning from Gothic by a length after a brilliant race. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. CAR-PARKING PESTS AGAIN.

    Sir,—It is high time either the police or the City Council, or preferably both, awakened to the outrageous methods of theatre parking pests. These so-called ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. MEMORIAL TO MR. SYDNEY STOTT.

    To raise funds to establish and equip a playground as a memorial to the late Mr. Sydney Stott the Rotary Club will hold a dance in the st. Kilda Town Hall ...

    Article : 61 words
  15. "BURKE'S TREE."

    Sir,—Mr. Davy, in advocating the removal of the Burke and Wills tree to the Miscum in Melbourne is, in the first place, wrong. The tree is situated on Mu[?] ...

    Article : 138 words
  16. ACQUITTED BY DIRECTION.

    Norman Scott, painter, of Port Melbourne, was charged before Judge Foster in General Sessions yesterday, with having committed an offence against a girl aged about six and a half years ...

    Article : 83 words
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