If ever a worse ten days comes round than the first ten days of December, 1886, it will be a period of extreme horror. Accidents, disasters, murders, and suicide have been ...
Article : 1,066 wordsA telegram received from Mr. Huddart, who is at the spot where the steamer Corangamite lies stranded, states that better hopes are entertained of getting the vessel off, ...
Article : 283 wordsThe steamer Lawrence, which was sent to the scene of the collision between the Keilawarra and the Helen Nicoll, arrived off The Solitaries on Friday night, and soon picked ...
Article : 398 wordsA petition in favour of a mitigation of the death sentence passed on the prisoners in the Mount Rennie case is now awaiting signature. The petition sets forth the following ...
Article : 190 wordsTrue to the general promise of the scheme first laid before his subscribers, and largely exceeding it in the means he has imported for the production of first class operatic ...
Article : 1,344 wordsA "flare-up" at the end of the session is by no means unusual and there has been a "rare flare-up" this time. When the House is near the finish, a dozen men or so ...
Article : 2,443 wordsThe match between Shaw's Eleven and New South Wales was continued on the Association-ground on Saturday in the presence of 10,000 spectators, including His ...
Article : 804 wordsThe Attorney-General, Minister of Mines, and other members of Parliament visited Gundugai on Saturday, where a deputation laid before Ministers the resolutions recently ...
Article : 334 wordsMessrs. Walter H. Vivian and Richard Stevenson have been nominated for the vacancy in the representation of Wollombi, caused by the resignation of Mr. Lyell ...
Article : 441 wordsAt St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral yesterday morning, the Rev. Dr. Bromby made the following reference in his sermon to the Keilawarra disaster:— ...
Article : 521 wordsThe yacht Ada capsized off South Arm to-day, and three young men, named Pybus, Barrett, and White, were drowned. A fourth, who was on board, named Evans, was saved. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Field Company Corps of Engineers held their competition for Sir William J. Clarke's prize at their depot in Jolimont on Saturday, the 4th inst., in accordance with a ...
Article : 632 wordsA fatal accident occurred at Johnson's farm, Longwarry, yesterday. A man named Matthew Copeland was engaged grubbing a tree, when it fell on him, killing him ...
Article : 57 wordsThe feeling against Mr. Bailes has not subsided yet, and last night's proceedings appear to have added disgust to the disapprobation previously existing. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe fourth of the sleeping cars for the overland railway line has been completed. None of the cars will be used until the railway is taken over by the Governments. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt a meeting of the Rutherglen and Murray District Vinegrowers' Association, held to-day, Mr. M'Arthur, of Sydney, read an interesting paper on the exportation of wines ...
Article : 159 wordsThe locust or grasshopper plague has reached here, the air all day having been thick with countless myriads travelling north to south. Towards the evening they cleared ...
Article : 83 wordsAlderman Harbottle was elected mayor of Hobart on Saturday, and Mr. Carter mayor of Launceston. Some of the Mount Nicholas Coal-mining ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 279 wordsThe town of Colac was lit with gas last night for the first time. Our Daylesford correspondent writes:— "The lads Lewis, Westacott, and Wood, ...
Article : 76 wordsBy way of acknowledgment of the impetus given to mining throughout the colony by the proprietors of The Argus in publishing sketches of the underground workings of the ...
Article : 380 wordsSir F. Dillon Bell, the agent-general, has telegraphed, in reply to tbe Government, that there is no foundation whatever for tho statement which was made by the London ...
Article : 55 wordsThe field trial of reapers and binders, under the auspices of the Koroit Agricultural Association, was held yesterday, in a barley crop of Mr. E. White's. There were four ...
Article : 89 wordsA bitch has occurred in the negotiations for the Parade Company's ground for the erection of railway workshops in Ballarat East. The company sold the ground to the ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Commissioner of Lands has received the following message from Warden Hack:— "The washings at Tonkin's Well are in many instances very good. One load gave 7oz. ...
Article : 210 wordsSir,—Notwithstanding the fact that numerous appeals have already been made to the benevolent and charitably disposed for gifts and donations at the approaching festive ...
Article : 222 wordsAn extraordinary vacany having occurred through the death of Mr. W. H. Cook, member for the Eastern Ward, Hotham, a number of gentlemen met on Saturday night, and ...
Article : 118 wordsConstable Gabel charged Charles H. Ehlers, a market gardener, at the City Court on Saturday with cruelty to his horse. The officer stated that he found the prisoners ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 13 Dec 1886, Page 6
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