In February 1896, Parliament passed an act at the instance of the Government authorising the Lands department to make advances up to £15,000 to farmers who had ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, honorary treasurer, acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt of the following additional subscriptions to the above fund:— ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsIt will be learned generally with deep regret that Mr. Robert Gundemann, of Tennyson-street, St. Kilda, was found dead yesterday afternoon in a stable at his residence ...
Article : 374 wordsWe have received the following additional subscriptions in response to the appeal by the Nhill Disaster Relief Fund committee:— ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsAn important action, in which issues of fraud were involved, was concluded yesterday before Mr. Justice Hodges in the Second Civil Court, after a three days' ...
Article : 1,323 wordsIn the Assembly last night the Treasurer moved the second reading of the Salaries Reduction Bill, which is ostensibly framed to prevent any extravaganees from the ...
Article : 130 wordsThomas Grant M'Kenzie, of Victoriastreet, North Melbourne, clerk, Causes of insolvency—Reduction of salary, having become surety for other persons, and being ...
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Advertising : 75 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Hotel Limited washeld at the hotel yesterday. There were about thirty shareholders present. ...
Article : 1,063 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Essendon Land and Finance Association v. Kilgour (part heard), Beare v. Wallace. Second Civil Court. ...
Article : 340 wordsThe dispute between the Union Trustees Company and the Warrnambool Shire Council, in reference to roads on the Tooram Estate, has been arranged, and a transfer ...
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Advertising : 19 wordsThomas Price, 71 years of age, was found drowned in a dam at Strathfieldsaye on Tuesday. ...
Article : 25 wordsLord Rosebery's speech—criticising the Imperial Zollverein scheme—at the celebration of the centenary of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was ...
Article : 7,069 wordsThe remarkable circumstances connected with the Butler conspiracy case, which occupied the attention of the law courts two years ago, were revived to-day in the No. ...
Article : 631 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday the Chillagoe Railway Bill was read a third time, and the Townsville and Rockhampton Harbour Board bills were passed. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. Peter M'Arthur, of Meningoort, near Cumperdown, grazier, paid the sum of £11,122/5/ in probate duty yesterday. The gross ...
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Advertising : 121 wordsProfessor David to-night delivered an address, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, upon the results of the recent coral boring expedition ...
Article : 208 wordsAlthough thereappeared to be a possibility this forenoon of the weather being fine enough to commence the first test match as arranged on Friday, it began to rain again ...
Article : 465 wordsIt transpired to-night that a conflict liad arisen between Major Wardill, as representing the Melbourne Cricket Club, and Mr. Stoddart, on the one side, and the ...
Article : 642 wordsRanjitsinhji was sufficiently recovered to leave for Sydney to-night with Mr. Phil. Sheridan. ...
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Advertising : 14 wordsMr. Clement Wragge telegraphed from Jindabyne to-night that he has seccussfully established the Koseiusko Observatory. Alderman Matthew Harris was to-day ...
Article : 119 wordsCommunication on the overland telegraph line, between Adelaide and Port Darwin, was interrupted yesterday afternoon by a heavy flood at Katharine, and we ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsThe adjourned conference between the local agents of the ocean steamship companies and the representatives of the meat exporting and freezing companies and the ...
Article : 388 wordsThe exercises for the degree fo Bachelor of Music, composed by Florence Way Campbell and William M. Hole, have been approved by Sir Herbert Oakley, Sir J. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Gear Meat Company's dividend is 10 per cent., not 8 per cent., as telegraphed yesterday. Philpott, the accused man in connection ...
Article : 96 wordsA fire at Zeehan this morning destroyed the store occupied by Mr. William Jones, merchant, of Emu Bay. All the contents were destroyed. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe United States deficit for the year amounts to 18,000,000 dollars. [This message, though it comes in the above form, is plainly wrong. IN the first ...
Article : 117 wordsThe National Liberal Federation has put forward a programme in which it demands manhood suffrage, payment of members, women's Parliamentary franchise, the ...
Article : 119 wordsTallow.—At to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 1,550 casks were offered, of which 775 were solf. Prices obtained were as follows:—Fine mutton, 21/9; medium ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Premier stated to-night, subsequent to the rejection of the Probate Duties Bill by the Legislative Council, that the personal tone imported into the proceedings by ...
Article : 221 wordsIn the Legislative Council Mr. Want moved the second reading of the probate Duties Bill. In doing so, he said he knew he was asking members to do what they ...
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Advertising : 25 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and Mr. Sellicks, chairman of the executive of the society, are arranging for the holding of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe railway employes have abandoned united action, and are adopting a suggestion that they should approach the railway companies separately. It is unlikely that ...
Article : 48 wordsAn inquiry which has been held into the great fire in London on November 19, shows that the engines were without coal, and that the residents supplied 21 of them with ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, in answer to questions, Ministers said it was impossible to say at that stage whether the federation question would be referred to the people ...
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Advertising : 99 wordsThe "St. James's Gazette" publishes a statement this afternoon that Great Britain and France have settled the difficulty which has existed for some time past with ...
Article : 59 wordsIt was announced two days ago that the 27th regiment of Bombay Infantry had sailed for Mombassa, the principal port of British East Africa, the suppostion being ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is reported from Brussels that most of the members of a French expedition to the Nile have been massacred on the Ba[?]el Ghazel, and theat the remant have ...
Article : 61 wordsThe political situation in Austria continues in a greatly disturbed condition. Baron Gautsch, the New Premier, is at present engaged in negotiations with the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe references to Cuba in President M'Kinley's message to Congress have given satisfaction at Madrid. [Published in yesterday's second edition.] ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. W. Saville Kent read an interesting paper on Australian natural history at the Royal Colonial Institute last night. Lord Loch, formerly Governor of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Mount Kimo Gold Mines Limited has been registered with a capital of £160,000, of which £50,000 is being issued. ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Assembly the Premier announced that the Northern Territory Pastoral Bill, the Household Suffrage Bill, the Phylloxera Bill, and the Law Reform Bill are to be ...
Article : 425 wordsThe death penalty passed on Frank Smith for criminal assault has been commuted to 21 years' penal servitude. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 10 Dec 1897, Page 5
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