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  2. THE MISSING MRS SCHOLZ.

    A solution of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mrs. Scholz, the wife of an ironmonger at North Carlton, which occurred some months ago, was proflered ...

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  3. INTERNATIONAL CABLES. (REUTER'S AGENCY.) THE PARIS RAILWAYS.

    Paris is in a state of great disquiet owing to the report of further fires of a like character which have closely followed the awful occurrence, by which 84 lives were lost on an ...

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  4. MELBOURNE Saturday, 15th August. THE PRAHRAN SUICIDE.

    The city coroner to-day investigated the circumstances surrounding the death of Alfred Kingston Roberts, a Prahran letter-carrier, whose body was found in the kitehen ...

    Article : 117 words
  5. FATAL TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. A MAN THROWN FROM A CAR.

    Since the inauguration of the electric tramway system in Bendigo, some four months ago, there has fortunately, been an immunity from serious accidents. This was ...

    Article : 627 words
  6. INTERNATIONAL CABLES. THE NAVAL MANCEUVRES.

    The British naval manoeuvres off the West African, coast liave resulted in a victory for the B fleets, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. THE RAILWAYS. PROPOSED EMPLOYES INSURANCE SCHEME.

    A meeting was convened by the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association at 11 o'clock yesterday to listen to an address by Mr. Geo. W. Knight upon an original ...

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  8. INTERSTATE-TELEGRAMS. PROTEST AGAINST A LADY DOCTOR.

    At a meeting of the Perth Hospital Board to-day, a protest was received from the honorary medical staff against the appointment of the lady doctor Ambrose from ...

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  9. BROKEN HILL WATER FAMINE.

    The Mayor of Broken Hill telegraphed to the Promier to-day that Mr. Clement Wragge had offered to come to the Barrier and make rain experiments with guns of the ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. WHARF ACCIDENT.

    While, assisting to load the s.s. Moorabool at the Australian wharf this morning, James Ford, aged 59, a resident of South Melbourne, was struck with a sling ...

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  11. MARINE DISASTER.

    A dreadful accident has taken place on the River Dnieper, near the important town of Kieff, in Central Russia. A river steamer collided with a passenger ...

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  12. ADELAIDE'S CORONER SUSPENDED.

    In regare to the suspension of Dr. Kamsay Smith, city coroner, from all his positions under the Government, the Attorney-General (Mr. Gordon) this afternoon, said ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. INSOLVENCY OF A MINING ENGINEER.

    To-day Thomas Lees Field, of Queerstreet, mining engineer, filed his schedule. The debts in the estate are set down at £16,408/8/9, and the assets at nil. The ...

    Article : 207 words
  14. CARDINAL VAUGHAN'S WILL.

    The estate of the late Cardinal Vaughan has been valued for probate purposes. The gross amount is declared at only £743. ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. LORD SALISBURY'S ILLNESS.

    The Marquis of Salisbury continues in a very feeble state of health. Lord Robert Cecil, who was his father's private secretary during his term of office as ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. THE ROCHESTER SERVICE.

    There was a general expression of indignation this morning when it became known through the medium of the "Advertiser" that several residents had written to the ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. THE SERVIAN THRONE.

    A sensational report has gained currency in Vienna to the effect that King Peter of Servia, who succeeded the murdered King Alxeander, has threatened to abdicate the ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. KING EDWARD.

    King Edward began taking saline baths at Marienbad, in Bohemia, to-day. His Majesty has suffered considerable annoyance from the curiosity of the residents, ...

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  19. HIGH JUMPING CONTEST.

    At the National Association's, show to-day the high-jumping contest was won by Napoleon, who cleared 6ft. 9in. Newhaven was second, with 6ft. 6in. Desmond and ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. KILLED BY A FALLING TREE.

    Fred. Hutchins, aged 40, a teamster, on the Collieburn mine, was killed to-day by a limb of a tree while he was felling another tree. ...

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  21. A WOMANS RASH ACT.

    The sensational incident which occurred on board the steamer Edina yesterday during the passage of that vessel from Melbourne to Geelong, in which a woman threw ...

    Article : 191 words
  22. ALl-ENGLAND ELEVEN

    C. B. Fry, the well-known Susses amateur, has declined the invitation extended to him by the M.C.C. to accompany Mr. P. F. Warner's team to Australia. ...

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  23. ALPINE ACCIDENT.

    A thrilling and sensational mountaineering accident has occurred on the Monte Rosa Alps, on the borders of the Swiss canton of Valais. ...

    Article : 205 words
  24. COMMISSIONERS' TOUR.

    Next week the Railway Commissioners, accompanied by the head of branches, will leave on a tour of inspection. On Tuesday they will go to Maryborough, via ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. THE ETHEL HERRINGE CASE.

    The Attorney-General has declined to remit a portion of the sentence passed on the girl Ethel Herringe for shooting a Cowra hotelkeeper. ...

    Article : 32 words
  26. GENERAL NEWS.

    A plot to murder General Wosgiel, the president of the negro Republic of San Domingo, in the West Indies, has been discovered. Risings in the island have been ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. CARDINAL MORAN SUED.

    An execution order was granted by Judge Backhouse to-day against Cardinal Moran in connection with a ciaim by the Water and Sewerage Board in regard to sewerage rates ...

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  28. THE COMMONWEALTH. Melbourne, 15th August. PUBLIC BUSINESS.

    Very little actual progress has been made with the work of the session during the week, but it will be a mistake to suppose that the time has been wasted. Two or three ...

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  29. SMALL POX IN TASMANIA.

    Florence Jackson died at 2 o'clock this morning in the Isolation Hospital. The youth, E. Bird, is worse, but all the other patients are progressing satisfactorily. Dr. ...

    Article : 114 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

    Italian advices state that the agreement with the shipping companies to land the Australian mails at Naples will not be renewed. after 1904. The Orient-Pacific ...

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  31. ANOTHER ACCIDENT AVERTED

    Later in the evening what might have easily been another fatality was averted by the prompt action of the same driver, Closie. When near the Fifeshire Arms hotel, coming ...

    Article : 105 words
  32. RESISTING THE POLICE.

    Wm. Cashin, an old offender, was locked up in the city watchhouse to-night, charged with msulting behavior and resisting the police. Constable Olhalm was removing a ...

    Article : 118 words
  33. THE BUTTER TRADE.

    Messrs. W. Weddel and Co. have issued their annual review of the dairy produce trade. The outlook in Australasia, they state, points to a probable all-round ...

    Article : 51 words
  34. THE EABLEHAWK TELEPHONE SERVICE.

    Recently Messrs. Jenvey and Hesketh, electrical engineers of the Postal and Telegraph department, visited Bendigo, and made a careful examination of the telephone ...

    Article : 121 words
  35. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The imperial Parliament was prorogued by commission to-day. In the House of Commons, the closing hours of the session were marked by much ...

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  36. SERIOUS QUARRET.

    Two rabbiters in the Murrumburrah quarrelled on Saturday night, and one of them, named A. Study, was shot in the chest during the scuffle. His stepson, Herbert ...

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  37. JUMP FROM A TRAIN.

    A girl named Kate Corbett, ager 13 years, residing at Camberwell-road, Camberwell, met with a painful accident on Saturday afternoon. She entered a railway carriage at ...

    Article : 108 words
  38. STEAMER AGROUND.

    It is reported from Neweastle that the steamer Durnburg went aground at 1.30 this morning when proceeding to sea. ...

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  39. MURDER ON BOARD SHIP.

    The English sailing ship Samanca arrived here last night from Mauritius. The captain reported that on 21st July one of the sailors, a man named W. J. Moore, murdered ...

    Article : 171 words
  40. EAGLEHAWK.

    The young woman, Dolly Simpson, who was responsible, for a disturbance in Highstreet on Friday night, was brought before Mr. R. B. Thom, J.P., at the Police Court ...

    Article : 282 words
  41. BRUTAL ASSAULT.

    Shortly before 8 o'clock this evening a report reached Russell-street police station that a robbery had just been committed in Williams-lane, off Lonsdale-street. Constable ...

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  42. THE CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL.

    It is very evident, however, that there will be a long debate on this bill, which is, perhaps, the most important of the session, Already 12 members have spoken, and the ...

    Article : 271 words
  43. THE RECENT RAILWAY FATALITY INQUEST ADJOURNED.

    At the Bendigo Hospital, on Saturday afternoon, Mr. E. N. Moore, P.M., opened an inquest touching the death of Harvey Craddock, who died as a result of injuries ...

    Article : 162 words
  44. THE JAMAICA CYCLONE.

    The latest reports state that the recent crrific cyclone in the West Indies, during which the wind attained a velocity of 120 miles per hour, was even more fatal and ...

    Article : 78 words
  45. THE WEATHER.

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  46. THE FISCAL ISSUE. CHALLENGE BY MR. REID.

    Speaking at an A.N.A. gathering at Heidelberg an Thursday, the leader of the Opposition, Mr. G. H. Reid, threw out a challengo to the Ministry on the fiscal issue. He ...

    Article : 275 words
  47. WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.

    A meeting of the Women's Political Association was held on Friday evening in the Assembly Hall, Melbourne, Miss Weekes in the chair. About 50 members were present. ...

    Article : 186 words
  48. CANADIAN RAILWAYS.

    The debate was commeneed yesterday in the Canadian House of Commons on the Government proposal to construct another grand trunk line from Moncton, New ...

    Article : 253 words
  49. RAIN IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Owing to very heavy rains, about threequarters of a chain of the Great Southern railway has been washed away below Katanning. ...

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  50. PULPIT REFERENCES.

    Yesterday regretful reference was made in various Methodist Churches, of which denomination deceased was a member to his sudden demise. The late Mr. Craddock, it ...

    Article : 193 words
  51. THE ELECTORAL DIVISIONS.

    So far, the only electoral divisions actually adopted are those for South Australia, which are new, and those for Victoria, which will be the old ones on which the last election ...

    Article : 277 words
  52. DELUGE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Six, inches of rain have fallen during the last 36 hours. Considerable damage was done by overflowing streams in the channels of the, city and suburbs. and the railway ...

    Article : 49 words
  53. THE HOSPITAL REFUSE.

    Sir,—Re the above, the residents of White Hills are thankful to you for the paragraph in your journal of Saturday last. Some weeks ago a load of exereta from the hospital was ...

    Article : 316 words
  54. MAIL COACH WASHED AWAY.

    Very rough and stormy weather has been experienced in all parts of the country during the last few days. The mail coach at Taranaki was washed ...

    Article : 44 words
  55. Advertising

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  56. BALLARAT. Sunday, 16th August. ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.

    When laying the foundation stone of the new Presbytery to-day in St. Patrick's Cathedral grounds, Bishop Moore stated that £43,100 had been expended on Catholic ...

    Article : 60 words
  57. SIR E. BARTON ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE.

    The challenge laid down in the above observations was on Friday brouglit under the notice of the Prime Minister, and promptly, accepted. Sir Edmund Barton ...

    Article : 173 words
  58. EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

    Dr. A. A. Brown has prepared a statement showing the exports of produce from Victoria during the month of July, there being a large increase in most lines as compared with, ...

    Article : 134 words
  59. Advertising

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    Advertising : 128 words
  60. THE MINERS REST MURDER.

    The is nothing new in connection with the Miners' Rest murder. The detectives have returned to Melbourne. ...

    Article : 25 words
  61. FOOTBALL ACCIDENT.

    A lad named William Minster ha his shoulder blade broken on Saturday through colliding with another youth whilst playing football. ...

    Article : 25 words
  62. Advertising

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    Advertising : 28 words
  63. MASTER BAKERS' ASSOCIATION.

    Mr. E. C. Chamberlain was elected, sceretary of the Ballarat Master Bakers' Association on Saturday. ...

    Article : 25 words
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