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  2. SENTENCED TO DEATH.

    Cecil Forbes, or McNeil, a Victorian criminal, was charged at the Central Criminal Court this morning with feloniously, wounding Senior-Constable (now sergeant) ...

    Article : 426 words
  3. THE OUTER HARBOR.

    From the recent discussion in the Senate in connection with the adoption of the new mail contract with the Orient Company it appeared that an impression was ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. RETIREMENT OF CANON NASH.

    Canon Nash, in leplying to le[?]ters from friends expressing taith in nim during proceedings which caused his retirement from the incumbency of Christ Church, Geelong, ...

    Article : 1,419 words
  5. BROKEN HILL WATER SUPPLY.

    The Mayor has received a telegram from Mr. Griffith. M.L.A., the member for Alma, stating that receiving tanks for use in the event of a water famine have been sent to ...

    Article : 166 words
  6. PREFERENCE.

    The Minister of Customs (Mr. Chapman) has had prepared a series'of regulations and importers' certificates of country of origin in connection with the new ...

    Article : 373 words
  7. THE FRENCH ARMY.

    General Piequart, the French Minister of War, is considering a proposal for the inclusion of the Arabs of Algeria in the conscription, with a view of adding 100,000 men to ...

    Article : 47 words
  8. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    The Legislative Council had another late sitting on Thursday night, but it was warranted, in consideration of the good work they got through. When the House met ...

    Article : 1,519 words
  9. GERMAN COLONIES.

    Herr Dernburg, the German Colonial Director, who recently madeja tour of the German possessions in Africa, proposes to develop the railways in East Africa at a cost ...

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  10. THE QUEENSLAND CRISIS.

    The Premier (Mr. Philp) has endorsed the candidature of Mr. E. J. Caine, solicitor, for the Bowen district. Sir A. Cowley, who received requests from three ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. TASMANIA.

    At a meeting of the Sandfly Colliery Company to-day the petitioning creditors agreed to give the shareholders three weeks in which ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. SHORTAGE OF PAPER.

    President Roosevelt has proposed the repeal of the duty on wood pulp used in paper making owing to the shortage of paper. For the same reason many of the halfpenny ...

    Article : 50 words
  13. THE CLARA BUTT BOOM.

    In the City Police Court to-day J. N. Tait was fined £40 with costs for having permitted the overcrowding of Queen's Hall on December 2, and His Majesty's ...

    Article : 244 words
  14. ALL-RED ROUTE.

    The scheme for an all-red route was discussed at the Liberal Colonial Club yesterday by Mr. C. Sifton, K.C., formerly a member of the ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. POISONOUS POTTED MEAT

    This afternoon John W. Stone, a laborer on the tramway line at Prahran, ate for his dinner some potted meat. Shortly afterwards he was seized with most violent ...

    Article : 87 words
  16. SPORTING NEWS.

    Orfano has been retried from the A.J.C. St. Leger. Ossian has gone into H. Rayner's stable at Randwick. ...

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  17. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    Mr. Frank Robertson, the manager of the British Imperial Oil Company, Melbourne, stated yesterday that the immediate [?]eet of the vote in the House of Representatives ...

    Article : 428 words
  18. OUTRAGE BY NATIVES.

    A public meeting held at Derby last night decided to telegraph to the Parliamentary representatives of the district as follows:— "We again direct attention to renewed ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Robert Saunders, proprietor of a boardinghouse, opposite. Central Park, attempted to commit suicide this morning by cutting his throat with a penknife. Saunders was ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. THE MELBOURNE FIRE.

    A full and frank enquiry should it is urged be made into the causes of the great Elizabeth street fire and into the [?]sons why no alarm reached the Fire Brigad[?] ...

    Article : 122 words
  21. THE LORDS VETO.

    Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, referring, to the reform of the House of Lords in a speech at Chelmsford yesterday, said it was ridiculous for ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. VICTORIA.

    J. Savage, employed in repairing the railway line at Alexandra, fell from a bridge to the water, a distance of about 20 ft. He died after crawling about 50 yards Seven ...

    Article : 335 words
  23. STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY

    According to the Inspector-General of Prisons the present is not the first occasion upon which Frederick William Hunt has been afflicted with loss of memory. From ...

    Article : 177 words
  24. EXPORT OF BUTTER.

    All the details of the new agreement for the carriage of butter by a combined service of eight shipping lines in the Australian trade have been arranged. The ...

    Article : 310 words
  25. W.C.T.U.

    Miss Anderson Hughes held a meeting in connection with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Hindmarsh Town Hall in Thursday evening. Mr. W. Senior, ...

    Article : 146 words
  26. DEATH FROM POISON.

    At the inquest held on the body of Osc[?]r Duggan, who committed suicide by taking poison, the jury adversely commented on the action of five doctors in refu[?]ing to ...

    Article : 47 words
  27. THE UNION LABLE.

    The case between certain breweries and the Brewery Employes' Union of New South Wales, in which the validity of the union label provisions of the Federal Trade ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. LAND VALUES ASSESSMENT.

    Sir—On Saturday next the ratepayers of The barton will again be asked if they are in favor of rating on the unimproved land values. I trust they will again carry the poll, only by a much ...

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  29. HUMAN REMAINS DISCOVERED.

    Whilst riding along the beach at a place known as Big Hill, between Crescent Head and Point Plummer, a man came across some human remains. The coroner held an ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. VICTORIAN LAND QUESTIONS.

    Great dissastisfaction is felt by member of the country party in the State Parliament at the neglect of the Minister of Lands (Mr. Mackey) to consider proposals ...

    Article : 117 words
  31. CHILD'S, DEATH INVESTIGATED.

    Startling evidence was given m the inquest to-day into the,death of Ellen Catherine Smith, aged 2½ years, who resided with her parents in a tent at Mount ...

    Article : 78 words
  32. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A man, supposed to be Andrew Daley, a resident of Wentworth, an old age pensioner, fell overboard from the steamer Bingara after that vessel had left Manly. ...

    Article : 199 words
  33. PATENT MEDICINES.

    A Carlton grocer was fined 40/ this morning by the District Court for having sold a composition, Bonnington's Carrageen, or Irish Moss, which contained morphia, ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Sir John Maddon, as president of the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographcal Society of Australasia, is making a public appeal for monetary assistance to ...

    Article : 46 words
  35. GOLD STEALING.

    Thp new, Gold-buyers Bill, which will probably be introduced in the Legislative Assembly by the Minister of Mines tomorrow, provides that the premises of ...

    Article : 164 words
  36. THE OVERLANDING MOTORISTS.

    Mr. Dutton and Mr. Murray Aunger, the overlanding motorists, arrived by train last night. It had been found necessary to truck the motor from Coward Springs, as ...

    Article : 352 words
  37. LOCAL OPTION.

    The Special Licensing Court, which is being held to give effect to the local option vote in favor of the reduction of the number of hotels at Broken Hill, resumed its ...

    Article : 200 words
  38. QUEENSLAND.

    Early this morning the mangled remains of J. Fielder, aged 10, were found on the railway-line near Pinkenba. The boy left home on Wednesday evening intent on ...

    Article : 56 words
  39. THE SYDNEY CHURCH OUTRAGE.

    The jury in the case against Thomas Mullane, who was charged with maliciously wounding Constable Michael William Howard at Rydalmere on September 8 last ...

    Article : 88 words
  40. ALLEGED MILLING COMBINE.

    Sir—In reference to "Working Man's" letter on the above subject, some one must have been playing a joke on him, or else he writes on a matter which he knows ...

    Article : 278 words
  41. VICTORIAN COAL.

    The special Parliamentary committees report on the condition of the Gippsland coal mines was made available to-day. The committee found that the allegations by the ...

    Article : 220 words
  42. Advertising

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  43. EXPLOSION IN A MINE.

    John Walker and Thomas Fowler were seriously injured by an explosion in the Viking No. 1 mine, at Norseman, yesterday. They were engaged in sinking a shaft, ...

    Article : 86 words
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