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  2. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. VICTORIA.

    The Cabinet has decided to announce beforehand the leadiug details of its retrenchment proposals, so that individuals and bodies affected may have timely warning of the change. The ...

    Article : 167 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    What is believed to be a case of smallpox has developed itself at tho Colonial Hospital, Perth, in the person of a Cingalese. The surgeon of the hospital considers it to be a case of measles, ...

    Article : 52 words
  4. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    In connection with the case of Amy Elliott, a charge under the Crimea Act, was last week preferred against Alex. Caton, son of the clergyman by whom the girl was employed. ...

    Article : 264 words
  5. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A cablegram from London on March 24 states that informal overtures had been made to the Agent-General for South Australia, suggesting that 93 would be obtainable if a loan for that ...

    Article : 110 words
  6. A NEW CHURCH BUILDING.

    The memorial stones of the new Trinity Congregational Church at Perth were laid by Sir William Robinson and Mr. G. Randell on March 22 in presence of a very large assemblage. When ...

    Article : 49 words
  7. THE LAND TAX.

    The Commissioner for Taxes, at Adelaide, has received to date from the land tax £272,240, being £5000 in advance of his estimate for this year. Last year £65,000 was received from the ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. FOUND DEAD.

    The dead body of Captain Charles Thomas has been found at the bottom of a shaft in the Central Mine, Southorn Cross, with which he was connected. Deceased's skull was fractured, and the ...

    Article : 54 words
  9. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    The continued drought in Adelaide is causing anxioty aa regards the water supply of the city. A man named John Lightbody was killed last week by being caught in the cogs of a ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. THE ALBERT PARK MYSTERY.

    The inquest into the death of Clara Manton, who was drowned in the Albert Park Lake by the upsetting of a boat, was concluded on March 22. John Manton, the husband, was examined at ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    Mr. Lawrence, part owner of the Orient and other rich claims on the Murchison Goldfields, died recently. An inquest was hold on the body of the ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. Bankruptcy Court.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 341 words
  13. QUEENSLAND. THE NEW MINISTRY.

    The new Ministry was sworn in at Government House on Monday morning as follows: Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith, Premier, Minister for Railways and vice-President of ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. A LOAN SUCCESSFULLY FLOATED.

    The Melbourne Tramway Trust on Saturday last received a cablegram from London announcing that the loan of £20,000 at 4½ per cent, had been successfully floated, the price ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. TASMANIA. BURNED TO DEATH.

    At Westbury on March 25 a fire, which completely destroyed a three-roomed cottage, and resulted in tho death of Mrs. Caroline Knight, the owner and occupier of the building, occurred. ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS.

    The railway inquiry sitting in Melbourne has brought out more extraordinary evidence of waste and destruction of property. The alterations in plans ordered by Mr. Allison Smith to ...

    Article : 150 words
  17. RESTORATION OF VICTORIA BRIDGE.

    Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith on March 24 disapproved the proposal to erect a temporary bridge over the gap between Queen-street and the existing portion of Victoria Bridge, and favored ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    An unemployed deputation waited on Mr. Hartnoll, Minister for Works, on Wednesday, March 22. The Minister stated that the Government could not at present provide relief works in ...

    Article : 35 words
  19. PROPOSED REDUCTION OF WAGES.

    In consequence of the proposal of the Government to reduce the wages of railway employees, a petition, signed hy several members of Parliament, protesting against the reduction, is to be forwarded ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. INSOLVENCY BUSINESS.

    Petitions have been filed for the liquidation of the estates of the following: John Farish, of Petrie Terrace, Brisbane, grocer liabilities £989 17s 7d; D'Arcy Sugden, medical practitioner, of ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. HOUSE TEAMS v. RAILWAYS.

    A Bendigo merchant is advertising in a Melbourne paper for tenders for carting sugar and groceries from Melbourne to Bendigo. Some little time ago horse teams were ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    A cablegram from London on March 25 announced that the Tasmanian 3½ per cent, loan of £800,000, which has been placed upon the market, is attracting but little attention. ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. SILVER AND BRONZE COINAGE.

    As the result of some recent communications which have passed between the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria with reference to the local coinage of silver and bronze, the ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. MR. HUME BLACK'S MISSION.

    Mr. Hume Black, the special agent to Great Britain for the Queensland Government, left Townsville last week by the steamer Tara for Loudon. His mission has been extended, as he ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. NEW ZEALAND. A TERRIBLE FALL.

    A seaman named Alexander M'Nab, of the steamer Miowera, then at Auckland," while hoisted aloft for the purpose of oiling part of the haulage gear fell, to the bottom of the hold, a ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. THE MURRAY BRIDGE DIFFICULTY.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—As a result of a report by Mr. Wollaston, the permanent head of the Customs Department, who has just returned from a visit to Wahgunyah, the Premier has addressed ...

    Article : 94 words
  27. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    Au inquest was held last week on the body of Mr. George Wallace, who shot himself in Victoria Park, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide. On St. Patrick's Day the Southport Rifle Club ...

    Article : 215 words
  28. A MAIDEN'S AMBITION.

    An eccentric maiden lady, named Spilsbury, best known as a breeder of St. Bernard dogs, is a candidate for a vacancy in the Auckland City Council. The circumstance is creating much ...

    Article : 37 words
  29. A Balloon Takes Fire.

    ORANGE, Tuesday.—Miss Lillian Adair, a parachutist, made a balloon ascent from the Association Ground with the intention of descending by a parachute. The lower part of the balloon, ...

    Article : 97 words
  30. STRANGE SUICIDE CASE.

    Margaret Reece, a domestic servant, 16 years of age, and residing at Onehunga, has committed suicide by dissolving the heads of matches and drinking the solution. Prior to her death the ...

    Article : 70 words
  31. THE MISSING MACE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The board which, inquired into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the mace from Parliament House sent in its report to the Premier ...

    Article : 180 words
  32. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    A deputation from the American Oddfellows has waited upon the Minister for Education, and pointed but that a number or friendly societies in the different provinces wore practically insolvent. ...

    Article : 52 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 139 words
  34. Advertising

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    Advertising : 36 words
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