On account of the heavy and continuous rain that fell, yesterday proved one of the most dismal and disappointing public holidays observed in Melbourne for a long tillie. ...
Article : 672 wordsSerious disturbances have taken place in Ireland between the partisans of Mr. Parnell and those of Mr. Justin M'Carthy. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe National Convention re-assembles today and enters upon its final stage. The preliminary discussion on principles has taken place, the committees have ...
Article : 1,019 wordsThe lamentable accident at the Queenscliff fort was the first matter brought to the minds of the townspeople here this morning, as at about half-past 6 a.m. the ...
Article : 1,134 wordsIspector Douglas and a party of armed [?]oopers started before daylight this morning to sccour the country in search of Risely, the member of the strike committee for whom a ...
Article : 7,331 wordsColonel Dean Pittis equally unable to offer any explanation of the accident. It was, he states, certainly not due to any carelessness in loading, for the two men killed were amongst ...
Article : 183 wordsAlthough yesterday was hardly the kind of day to be selected for enjoying a marine excursion, a very much larger number of persons electted to take advantage of tthe ...
Article : 241 wordsThe remains of Corporal Brearley and Gunner Donaldson were interred to-day at the Eastern Cemetery. The bodies were sent up from Queenscliff by the first train ...
Article : 234 wordsThe drama " Moths," which was played at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening for the first time, with Miss Olga Nethersole and Mr. Charles Cartwright in the leading parts, ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Bulgarian Government are making great efforts to discover the murderer of M. Beltchiff, the Minister of Finance, who was assassinated at Sofia when ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. J. M. Macrossan, the Minister of Mines in the last Queensland Government and one of the delegates to the Federation Convention, died this afternoon at the ...
Article : 521 wordsThe first of a number of public meetings proposed to be held in this colony under the auspices of the labour unions and at which the Queensland labour delegates were ...
Article : 294 wordsThe term of office of Senor Balmaceda, the President of the Republic of Chili, who was elected for a term of five years on September l8, 1886, expires on ...
Article : 85 wordsThe opening of the Easter Fair, the great annual carnival in aid of the charities, has had to be postponed till to-morrow, owing to the inclemency of the weather. After a ...
Article : 321 wordsMatters in Hawaii, where a serious crisis,occurred recently in consequence of the Queen wishing to appoint a personal friend of hers Premier, are still ...
Article : 61 wordsOwing to several men in the Darling Downs district having expressed their willingness to accept work under the terms offered by the Queensland Pastoralists' Union, it will ...
Article : 231 wordsThe steamer Chingtu sailed westward this evening. The police have arrested Edward Bogg, late accountant of the Melbourne Storage Company, who is charged with ...
Article : 78 wordsThe twenty-second annual gala of the United Ancient Order of Druids was held yesterday at the Friendly Societies' Gardens, but owing to the wretched weather was not ...
Article : 760 wordsThe annual encampment of the permanent and volunteer forces of the colony was commenced at Campbelltown to-day, when the parade state showed that close upon 4,000 ...
Article : 454 wordsMr. F. B. Freehill, the president of the Sydney branch of the Irish National League, has received the following letter:—"House of Commons, London, 20th February, 1891.— ...
Article : 269 wordsA few minutes after 5 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was noticed in a truck lying at one of the sidings of the Burnley railway station. An alarm was immediately raised, ...
Article : 196 wordsOur Augathella correspondent writing on Murch 20 gives the following particulars concerning events of which we have had brief intimation:— ...
Article : 530 wordsThe Western Meat-preserving Company's factory at Camperdown was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. It was a very large wooden building, or group of buildings, about ...
Article : 423 wordsThe steamer Rose of Sharon went aground last night at 6 o'clock, and sank this morning at 2 a.m. at the mouth of the channel of the Franklin River. All hands were saved. ...
Article : 40 wordsMajor-General Tulloch, like the other members of the military stuff, can offer no definite opinion as to the cause of the accident, though, like them, he inclines to the belief ...
Article : 275 wordsA meeting of about 400 unionists was held four miles outsldeof Winton yesterday, about 150 being mounted. It wus resolved to send mounted men round to the stations to compel ...
Article : 628 wordsThe steamer Tanais, which returned from New Caledonia yesterday, reports that she met with a severe storm on her passage to Noumea, and sustained some damage to the ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. E. C. Connor, superintendent of the Ballarat Reformatory, has received notice of his appointment to the position of chief clerk to the Penal department. ...
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Advertising : 42 wordsThe Easter Monday meeting of the Williamstown Racing Club was attended by a larger crowd of visitors than could have been expected on a day so entirely unpromising ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 31 Mar 1891, Page 5
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