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  2. TELEGRAMS.

    Sir Harry Rawson to-day received a cablegram from the Imperial authorities to the effect that Mr. J. H. Carruthers has been created a Knight Commander of St. ...

    Article : 96 words
  3. CABLE NEWS.

    Cossacks forming the Shah's Guard captured 25 Persian Nationalists. Two were hanged in the Royal camp and the Shah promised to spare the lives of the ...

    Article : 112 words
  4. CIRCUMNAVIGATION.

    There's an oldish way of doing sums By casting out the nines; While Cook worked the oracle by rhumbs, Chords, co-secants, and sines. ...

    Article : 85 words
  5. ENTERTAINMENT.

    The entertainment in aid of the funds for the West Goulburn Japanese Village Fair passed off most successfully in the Mechanics' Mall on Thursday evening, when there was a very fair attendance ...

    Article : 510 words
  6. MUSINGS.

    In the "Siftings" of this paper it was sifted out that the press in their honest endeavours to please the public were publishing some most impossible, outrageous ...

    Article : 669 words
  7. EXPERIMENTAL FARM FOR GOULBURN.

    Mr. A. James, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following:— "Department of Agriculture, "Sydney, 24th June, 1908. ...

    Article : 503 words
  8. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    The Council met on Thursday evening. Present—the Mayor and Aldermen Ashley, Rogers, Williamson, Betts, L[?]is, Turner, O'Brien, Mc Laughlin, and Beegling. ...

    Article : 1,065 words
  9. Commercial Intelligence.

    A fair amount of business was transacted during the week. One or two changes in the quotations are worth noting. Potatoes are some-what firmer, prime, tubers being worth from £3 ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. A MOTOR SONG.

    Twomilesaminute, Geehowwefly! Swiftasameteor Streakingthesky. ...

    Article : 28 words
  11. PAN-ANCLICAN CONGRESS.

    The closing service in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday was stately and impressive though of studied simplicity. The Lord Mayor, Sir John Bell, the sheriffs, and ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. Weather.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 words
  13. GOULBURN PRICES CURRENT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 words
  14. DALTON.

    The friends of Constable Overton will be pleased to hear that he has so far recovered from the effects of his accidents to be able to resume his duties. ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

    Rowland, of New Zealand, has won se[?]tral walking races. He covered two miles the Stadium in 14 minutes 14 seconds. Effects of an Explosion. ...

    Article : 325 words
  16. BRITISH OLD AGE PENSIONS.

    The House of Commons again considered in committee yesterday the Old Age Pensions Bill. Lord Robert Cecil (Conservative) moved an amendment raising the issue of a contributory ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. GUNNING.

    Football.—A match was played here on Wednesday between the Our Boys Club from Yass and a team representing the local boys. The visitors put up a good game, but the locals were ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. PETTY THIEVING.

    " For some time past the vegetable garden of the Goulburn Hospital has been visited by a thief, who has succeeded in carrying off three or four of the best specimens of cabbages on several occasions. ...

    Article : 62 words
  19. DISTRICT PROSPECTS.

    The rainfall has not been sufficient in the immediate vicinity of Goulburn, but outside a radius of twelve or fourteen miles it was much better, and has put the ground in good order, for ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. SYDNEY MARKETS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 371 words
  21. CONCERT.

    A concert was given in the Bovs' School-room, Bourke-street, on Thursday evening in aid of the Bishop's Residence Fund. The attendance was very fair. The following programme was given, and was ...

    Article : 213 words
  22. A PATHETIC SCENE.

    Hobart, Thursday.—The Criminal Court was crowded this morning, when the little boy, Robert John Davis, was placed in the dock on a charge of murdering his ...

    Article : 388 words
  23. JERRARA.

    A football match was played on Jerrara ground on Saturday last, which resulted in an easy win for the home team by 17 to three. Unfortunately, some of the beet players belonging ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. THE LOSS OF THE BELMORE.

    Theo tug Belmore foundered after shipping a heavy sea, 20 miles from Ras Gharib, in the Gulf of Suez. The crew numbered 11, and of these only the four mentioned yesterday ...

    Article : 55 words
  25. MELBA IN GRAND OPERA.

    The matinee performance given by Madame Melba at the Opera House was a brilliant society function. The King and Queen were present. So great was the demand for seats that 100 ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. A HORSE ON THE RAILWAY PLATFORM.

    An unusual visitor appeared on the Goulburn railway station on Tuesday in the person of Mr. R. Magee's (Mandelson's Hotel) runaway horse. It appears that Mr. ...

    Article : 230 words
  27. DEATH OF A LAKE BATHURST CENTENARIAN.

    Mrs. Alice Coppick, a very old resident of Lake Bathurst, died at her home there on Thursday. Her age was registered as 104, but documents state she was born in 1819 or 1821. Deceased was boin ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. GARDEN AND FIELD CALENDAR FOR JUNE.

    The soil is still in splendid order for cropping, and no time should be lost in getting seeds in. See that the land is well and deeply worked and properly manured. There must be ...

    Article : 386 words
  29. WHY FISH IS DEAR.

    "The report of the Sydney Town Clerk (Mr. Nesbitt) has been printed and circulated. At the inquiry 77 witnesses were examined, and some rather startling state ...

    Article : 326 words
  30. "GRAFT" IN SAN FRANCISCO.

    President Roosevelt has written to Mr. Spreckles not to flinch, but to keep up, the fight against the grafters at San Francisco, no matter what the biggest business men, the mob, or the ...

    Article : 58 words
  31. DEATH OF A CABDRIVER.

    A cabdriver named Anthony Curtin, 50, recently residing at 18 Reddy-street, Paddington, was found lying under his [?] b apparently dead at 12.20 a m. on Thursday in Park-road, Sydney Ho was taken ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. RABBITSKINS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 words
  33. CABINET CHANGES RUMOURED.

    The political correspondent of the Times writes that it is rumoured in the lobby of the House of Commons that Lord Loreburn is about to resign the Lord Chancellorship, and that he ...

    Article : 65 words
  34. HOMEBUSH FAT STOCK SALES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 413 words
  35. UNITED STATES STANDING ARMY.

    The American War Department proposes to amalgamate the Federal regular troops and the State troops, called the National Guard, into a standing army of 250,000 men. ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. WEDDING.

    A very pretty wedding was celebrated at St. John's Church, Balmain. Sydney. by the Rev. W. J. Cakebread, the contracting parties being Mr. Arthur Charles Frost, ...

    Article : 145 words
  37. MIXED MARRIAGES.

    Melbourne, Thursday.—The question of mixed marriages was the subject of some consideration at to-day's meeting of the Council of Churches, and the following ...

    Article : 145 words
  38. LABOUR ON THE RAND.

    Mr. A. Lyttelton (Conservative) inquired in the House of Commons last night if his Majesty's Government proposed to take action owning to the percentage of deaths amongst Portuguese ...

    Article : 102 words
  39. A THICK-HEADED NEW ZEALANDER.

    Despite the determined manner in which she education of the youth is pushed, despite the high intelligence, which it has been our joy to believe we possessed in ...

    Article : 214 words
  40. NEW GOLD FIND.

    Perth (W.A.) Thursday.—A new geld find is reported between Mcckatharra [?] Abbots, on the Murchison fields The discovery is regarded as the best surface st[?] ...

    Article : 379 words
  41. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    The Legislative Assembly of the Orange River Colony has adopted unanimously the resolutions min favour of the union of the South African Colonies. ...

    Article : 316 words
  42. DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT.

    The return visit to Goulburn of J. W. Beeman, of Gibb and Beeman, Ltd. Consulting Optician of [?] Hu[?]er-street, Sydney. late sight tests expert and manager for ...

    Article : 111 words
  43. CORKSCREW EVIDENCE.

    The possibilities of evasion held within the precincts of the English language are well demonstrated in the report of an accident case printed in a Philadelphia paper. ...

    Article : 241 words
  44. SALTED CHAFF.

    Melbourne Thursday.—The Government is contemplating criminal proceedings against those who have been guilty of adulterating chaff by the admixture of large ...

    Article : 95 words
  45. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,649 words
  46. NEW SHORTENED RIFLES.

    Thursday.—With the arrival in Australia of batches of the new shortened magazine rifle has come the discovery by Victorian officers of a serious defect. In ...

    Article : 123 words
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