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  2. INTER-STATE NEWS BY SUBMARINE CABLE COPYRIGHT FROM OUR SPECIAL. VICTORIA.

    Driver Sheehan and Fireman McKeown, and Guard Blinkorn, of the Gembrook train, which was derailed on Sunday, have been suspended pending ...

    Article : 45 words
  3. A WHIRLWIND OF FIRE.

    A remarkable incident is reported from Avondale. The fire brigade, with two water carts, was advancing toward the fire, when a phenomenal whirlwind, ...

    Article : 257 words
  4. TAX ON DIVIDENDS.

    At a meeting of the Miners' Association, a discussion took place regarding the tax on dividends. The President (Mr. P. Bawden) said it ...

    Article : 131 words
  5. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The Minister of Lands has sanctioned the use of the Springs cricket ground, Queenscliff, by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company for a series of trials ...

    Article : 36 words
  6. BUSH FIRE SUFFERERS.

    A meeting of citizens convened by the Lord Mayor to institute a fund for the relief of bush fire sufferers was held this afternoon in the Town-hall. There ...

    Article : 153 words
  7. SAILORS' FAREWELL.

    Three seamen who signed articles on the Port Crawford on Thursday were on Friday night arrested on a charge of having disobeyed the lawful commands of ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. QUEENSLAND.

    The Deputy Postmaster General to-night received the following advice from Cairns:—"A hurricane commenced here at half-past 2 p.m. yesterday, and ...

    Article : 215 words
  9. ATHLETIC CHAMPIONS.

    The Victorian Amateur Athletic Association are making strenuous efforts to raise funds to send G. A. Wheatley, the champion for a mile and half-mile ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. BURNT WITH SULPHURIC ACID.

    James D'Orsa, in the employ of T. Calder, was delivering a jar of sulphuric acid, and accidentally spilled some of the acid on his foot. As he did so his ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. A JUDGESHIP REFUSED BY MR. IRVINE.

    Mr. Irvine, M.L.A., has been offered the Supreme Court judgeship, and declined. It is generally understood that Mr. Irvine-intends to contest a federal ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. A RUSH FOR BAGPIPES.

    Great excitement has been occasioned by the decision of the local Caledonian Society to organise a pipers' band. The moment the scheme was suggested there ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. INSTRUCTION IN SHEARING.

    The Pastoralists' Association has adopted a scheme for teaching about 200 youths yearly the art of machine-shearing. The plant of Messrs. Baynes Bros. is available ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    George Storey, teacher at the Public School, Central, McDonald and Victor Douglas and his nephew were drowned whilst bathing in the ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. PATHETIC TRAGEDY.

    A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Deep Creek, near Gympie. William Mitchell was felling a tree situated on the slope of a hill. His wife and two ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Attorney-General, referring to the new Liquor Act, said there was no doubt the new legislation had been beneficial to the community at large, and had been ...

    Article : 196 words
  17. TERRIBLE FATALITY.

    At Mingelo, Peak Hill, this morning the residence of Henry Stanford was burnt to the ground, and two young children perished. Stanford went to ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. THE WALSH FAMILY CATASTROPHE.

    At the inquest on the bodies of the children Walsh, who died in the bush at Warren on Wednesday last from excessive heat and thirst, Mrs. Walsh ...

    Article : 264 words
  19. PEARL-SHELLING INDUSTRY.

    A meeting of the local Pearlshellers' Association on Thursday evening decided to act in conjunction with the shellers of Western Australia and Aru Islands to ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE.

    Speaking at the A.N.A. luncheon, Sir John See, referring to the federal capital question, said he considered that the people of New South Wales should never ...

    Article : 247 words
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  22. QUEENSLAND.

    Losses from the hurricane in North Queensland are: — Nelson, £5,000; Atherton, £3,000; Cairns, £4,000. There were very few accidents, and ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. ROBBERIES ON A MAIL STEAMER.

    Several thefts occurred on the American mail steamer Ventura on the run between Auckland and Sydney. Mrs. M. E. Paulson, a second saloon passenger, was ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    A strike occurred among the wharf labourers in the casual employ of the railway at Geraldton. The department reduced the pay of the men from 8s. ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. PAY OF THE CONTINGENTS.

    Sir William Lyne, who was Premier when the contingents left for South Africa, referring to Judge Murray's report, states that unquestionably the agreement ...

    Article : 195 words
  26. (From Melbourne Papers.) VICTORIA.

    On Saturday about 200 of the employees at the Sunshine Harvester Works of Mr. H. V. McKay held a meeting in the machinery shed for the purpose of ...

    Article : 183 words
  27. THEFT OF 100 SOVEREIGNS.

    A young man named Cyrus Walpole, who occupied a room in Kent-street, near Argyll Cut, had a hundred sovereigns in a tin box concealed in his apartment. On ...

    Article : 68 words
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