Just before 2 o'clock this morning Mr. J. Hammill, night watchman, employed by business firms in the city, was walking along Currie street, when his attention was ...
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Article : 289 wordsThe forest fires raging in the United States and Canada have attained the proportions of a national calamity, and from all sides come thrilling accounts of their ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in a letter to a correspondent, deals at some length with the objections raised against his fiscal proposals. He admits that a statement which he made ...
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Article : 175 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-morrow the Attorney-General is to move the second reading of the High Court Bill. The Government are expecting an easy passage ...
Article : 199 wordsOur Green's Plains correspondent writes: —"A slight scare was created the other day when the news reached here that the long-lost Tantanoola tiger had been seen near ...
Article : 133 wordsBetween Saturday night and Monday Mr. W. P. Hoppo, chemist, of Flinders-street, had his shop window broken and a mock bank note taken from the window. The ...
Article : 89 wordsThe ketch Eliza, which eight or nine days ago went ashore at Point Riley, five or six miles north-west of Wallaroo, has become a total wreck. ...
Article : 162 wordsAny misgivings which may be felt by travellers on the Hills railway, as to the safety of the journey, are, as a rule, connected with the viaducts between Mitcham ...
Article : 349 wordsLord Cromer reports that as the result of the opening of the Assouan reservoir last year the summer supply of Nile water, on which the cotton and sugar-cane crops ...
Article : 44 wordsIn connection with the recent examination for telephone attendants the figures of results disclose that the average number of marks obtained bv male competitors was ...
Article : 43 wordsIn 1891 Mr. W. H. Willshire, who was the officer in charge of the police patrol party in the interior, published a booklet on "The Aborigines ...
Article : 1,024 wordsThe division and redivision ot the federal electorates for the House of Representatives has in some States introduced an alteration in the names of eleqtorates. In ...
Article : 137 wordsRain spoilt the festivities arranged for to-day's holiday in Melbourne. Although the attendances were interfered with, all the sporting fixtures were carried out. Flags ...
Article : 163 wordsThe selection of the evening of the Prince of Wales' birthday by the South Australian Caledonian Society for a Scottish national concert, which in future is to be held ...
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Article : 407 wordsThe Bill embodying the terms of the Orange River Colony's entry into the South African Customs Union has been unanimously adopted by the local ...
Article : 122 wordsThe holiday was generally observed, and despite the somewhat bleak weather the various harbor excursions were well patronised, while large numbers journeyed to ...
Article : 344 wordsUnder the contract entered into between the Federal Treasurer and the Linotype Company, 16 machines are to be installed at the Government Planting Office by July ...
Article : 58 wordsThe latest intelligence with regard to the forest fires in the United States shows that their progress has been checked by heavy rains. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe negotiations for carrying on a tramway post system on the Melbourne and suburban lines appear likely to collapse. The company is demanding £2 10/ a year ...
Article : 56 wordsGeorge Tymms, woodcutter, of Emu, who had been missing for several days, was found in an empty hut, near Bealiba, on Friday, with his skull fractured. Mr. J. ...
Article : 74 words"A reel within a bottle is a mystery, all wondering how the devil it got there," writes Lord Byron, Something quite as marvellous, however, was witnessed in ...
Article : 446 wordsPower is given in the new Defence Bill to the Exeeutive to constitute a council of defence should one at any time be necessary. ...
Article : 31 wordsA sad drowning fatality occurred at Camden on Friday afternoon. Two children or Mr. A. McDonald, about 2 and 4 years old, fell into the creek near the residence of ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Watson (leader of the Labor Party in the Commonwealth Parliament) addressed a large meeting to-night upon the aims and ideals of the Federal Labor ...
Article : 170 wordsAccording to the Daily Mail the War Office authorities are arranging for the presentation to the headquarters of each colonial contingent of a flag whereon the ...
Article : 84 wordsAn exhibition lacrosse match between the team chosen to represent Victoria in Adelaide on June 27 and another chosen from players who are not for business reasons ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Prime Minister circulated to-day an elaborate report compiled by Sir George Turner, explaining the policy followed by the Federal Government in dealing with ...
Article : 594 wordsThe Yorketown Pioneer writes:—Probably the first young man on this end of the Peninsida to join the Royal Navy is Mr. George Miller, second son of Mr. A. ...
Article : 219 wordsAt the instance of the Russian Government Hilna Pasha, who is superintending the execution of the reforms in Macedonia, has modified the severity of the martial law ...
Article : 75 wordsA man named Maloney, after drinking at a wine shop near Leongatha, proceeded to walk along the railway line. He fell down, and went to sleep on the railway track, and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Federal departments promise to expand at a somewhat alarming rate if the Ministry's legislative programme is carried out, says the Melbourne Argus. A Crown ...
Article : 192 wordsThe funeral of Mr. John T. Toohey, M.L.C., who died in Chicago in May, took place to-day. The remains, which arrived by the steamer Sonoma, were interred at ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Tom Mann declared at Warrnambool to-night that he was an out-and-out Socialist. Hes said that every employer under the competitive system must obtain ...
Article : 95 wordsThe general committee of the Chamber of Commerce met on June 5, when the president (Mr. W. Herbert Phillipps) occupied the chair, and there were also present the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne Age, in referring to the advantages which accrue from a policy even of moderate protection, writes, under date of ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Coal Creek Company to-day sent a number, of non-union men to its mine at Korumbunna. This action means that all the Gippsland coal companies have finally ...
Article : 74 wordsOn the corner of Albemarle-street and the Port-road, Hindmarsh West is a building comprising a shop aiid dwelling, occupied by Mr. F. J. Mann, grocer, Who resides on ...
Article : 290 wordsBoisterous conditions prevailed in the city to-day. A bleak westerly wind was blowing, attended at times with fierce squalls. On the coast the wind reached the ...
Article : 77 wordsFederal Ministers have promised to order a survey of the route of the proposed transcontinental railway to West Australia, if the inter-State railway experts report ...
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Advertising : 281 wordsThe stormy weather which commenced on Friday night continues, with almost incessant rainfall. Creeks and culverts are flooded, and the land has not had such a ...
Article : 108 wordsA serious accident occurred at Burragorang, near Camden, at noon to-day. The son of Mr. J. B. Carlon, of Burragorang, was felling a tree, when the butt kicked ...
Article : 92 wordsIn November, 1900, the sailing ship Glenpark left England on a three years' trading voyage, and on February 1, 1901, she was wrecked in Spencer's, Gulf. The crew ...
Article : 478 wordsAn Indian hawker named Booty was killed at Cox's River yesterday, through his buggy upsetting on him while he was driving. Death was instantaneous. A lad, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Naturalisation Bill, of twenty clauses, framed by Minister, will probably excite a great deal of discussion, as the subject is one that has not only a State and ...
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