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  2. THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The Building Committee of the Melbourne International Exhibition met on April 20, the following members being in attendance :—Messrs. A. K. Smith (chairman). G. D. Lunpridge, M..L.A.; J. Story, M.L.A. ; W. E. Murphy, T. O'Grady, 11. Bowen, and R. ...

    Article : 634 words
  3. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

    The Adelaide correspondent of The Argus writing on April 19 stated :—Parliament is to be summoned for the despatch of business on Thursday, May 27, but up to the present moment we have had no indication as to what subjects are likely to engross attention during the approaching session. This ...

    Article : 863 words
  4. VICTORIAN ROYAL SOCIETY.

    A MEETING of sections B C and D was held at the Royal Society's Hall on April 26. Mr. Blackett read a short paper on " A Method of Purifying Water for Domestic and Manufacturing Purposes." The method is due to Mr. Birkmyre, of South Yarra ...

    Article : 234 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

    THE annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held at Sydney on April 21. The annual report submitted was adopted. Mr. J. H. Goodlet, the Hon. A. Campbell, and Mr. S. A." Joseph were nominated for the two vacancies for ...

    Article : 272 words
  6. AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN CRIME.

    What is known as the Farrell mystery appears to have quite baffled the Victorian police, who have been unable to trace the missing woman, Mrs. Farrell. During the past 12 months every possible search has been made for her, both in this and the adjoining colonies, without success, and the ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. A CLEVER DETECTION.

    DURING the past few months Bad tales have reached the Post-office authorities from selectors working on their land in Gipps Land, to the effect that their hard-earned savings in transit by post were pilfered, and consequently never reached their friends. ...

    Article : 249 words
  8. THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

    The trial of Robert Butler for the murder of James M. Dewar, one of the victims of the Canterbury-street murders at Dunedin, was concluded at' Dunedin, on the 17th April, shortly after 9 p.m., when a verdict of "not guilty" was returned. The ...

    Article : 699 words
  9. SAMOA.

    WE are in possession of reliable intelligence as to the matters in Samoa, so far as the natives are concerned, be recently as the l6th inst. affairs were far from being in an enviable position. The chiefs of Atua had repudiated the treatey lately ...

    Article : 319 words
  10. ENCOUNTER WITH BLACKS IN NORTHERN QUEENSLAND.

    The Brisbane Courier of April 19 wrote :—Mr. R. L. Jack, the Government geologist of Queensland, gives the following account of the narrow escape he and his party experienced early in March of being killed by a number of natives who attacked their camp ...

    Article : 1,058 words
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