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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsOur London correspondent, writing on August 26, says:— Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove being in some difficulty about a prima donna for ...
Article : 272 wordsAt the Flemington Council last night, speaking of the unifications of the metropolis, Councillor T. Millar said the great stumbling-block in past times to unification ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsSir John Lackey, the President of the Legislative Council was to-day appointed Lieutenant-Governor during the absence of Viscount Hampden. ...
Article : 329 wordsAt a meeting of the city council this afternoon tenders were opened for the £80,000 loan at 4 per cent. The tenders aggregated £47,000. Of this amount ...
Article : 164 wordsA youth named George Darley was fined 10/, with £1/3/ costs, at the City Police Court on Tuesday, for removing, with intent to steal, a certain newspaper from the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Commercial Permanent Land and Building Society has declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending August 8. ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Barton desired to know what procedure was to be adopted by Mr. Justice Owen, the Royal commissioner appointed ...
Article : 408 wordsMrs. M. Prior, a resident of Chewton for 40 years, during which time she has conducted the Wattle Gully Hotel and store, died on Monday, aged 73. Her husband ...
Article : 55 wordsTuesday (6 p.m.).—Fine generally, with seattered clouds and light west to north winds; slight or moderate sea in straits. ...
Article : 27 wordsA peculiar natural phenomenon has been observed at New Plymouth. After a sharp shower the ground was covered with a gelatinous substance, having the appearance ...
Article : 79 wordsA boy named Robert M'Dowall, 10 years old, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday evening, suffering from an injury to his leg, which he alleges was caused by a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsThe following new music has been forwarded:— "Australians All," words by Williams Carrington, music by Arthur Chanter, Mus. Bac., is entitled a "national song and anthem," and ...
Article : 387 wordsIn his report on the defences, Colonel Penton, the commandant of the local military forces, states that there are insufficient officers in the permanent force to ...
Article : 104 wordsThe discovery made this morning, just before the mail train was due, that the railway line near Junee had been tampered with, probably averted a serious railway ...
Article : 63 wordsDreadful injuries by burning were sustained yesterday morning by a young woman named Ethel Armstrong, a domestic servant in the employ of Mr. A. N. Vines, ...
Article : 189 wordsIn the course of only a few days a young man possessed of a large stock of audacity and a very small one of honesty has succeeded in robbing stationers of the city of ...
Article : 599 wordsJohn Henry King was to-day charged at the Goulburn Circuit Court with having "held up," on August 9, the Captain's Flat to Bungendore mail coach. The evidence ...
Article : 159 wordsAn employe of the Lady Mary Company named Walter Kenworthy on Saturday morning was engaged with a mate in sinking a shaft for water purposes at the lake ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsFrank Laird, a young man, who was arrested at Charlton last week, and remanded here on a charge of imposing on business people, was to-day sentenced at the local ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 261 wordsBREWARRINA, Oct. 7.—The drought continues with unabated rigour, and to-day a dry parching wind is blowing, enveloping the whole place in clouds of dust, the effect of which must be very ...
Article : 475 wordsIt now appears that there were three victims to the drowning accident at Towong, viz., James O'Donohue, for many years a resident of the Upper Murray; his son, aged ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the bill to establish a criminal code was read a first time. The British Probate Bill was read a ...
Article : 216 wordsA second accident happened at the Princess Royal mine yesterday afternoon, the victim being Alexander M'Kenzie, a youth 18 years of age, employed as a battery [?]and. ...
Article : 194 wordsJudge Molesworth presided at the General Sessions to-day. A young man named Robert Kennedy, a miner, was charged with feloniously wounding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsThe Public Service Board has recommended Mr. Pinnock, the police magistrate at Brisbane, for the position of sheriff of Queensland. ...
Article : 124 wordsSome weeks ago public attention was called to the fact that insufficient trucks were provided by the South Australian Railway department to cope with the ...
Article : 330 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day, A petition was presented from the council of the Adelaide University against the provisions of the Law Reform Bill, which is ...
Article : 374 wordsCOBRAM, Oct. 11.—Rain is badly wanted. The crops and grass are dying, and the water supply is becoming short. HORSHAM, Oct. 11.—The frosts experienced a ...
Article : 864 wordsAt a public meeting held in the shirehall, Malvern, on Friday, after an address on woman's franchise by Mrs. Nicholls, Australasian president of the Woman's ...
Article : 107 wordsIn connection with the re-arrangement of Ministerial port folios rendered necessary by the death of the late Premier (Mr. T. [?]. Byrnes), Mr. Foxton, Minister of Lands, ...
Article : 50 wordsA lengthy despatch by Sir Wm. M'Gregor concerning New Guinen has been received by the Premier (Mr. Dickson) through His Excellency the Governor. Copies will be ...
Article : 44 wordsA horse attached to a waggon belonging to the Concentrated Milk Co. holted in Clarendon-street, South Melbourne, on Monday night, and careered down Clarendon-street until it came in ...
Article : 728 wordsAt a meeting held in the Prahran Independent Church on Thursday, under the auspices of the Prahran Women's Christian Temperance Union, presided over by the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Customs receipts from July 1 to October 8 amounted to £156,967, representing an increase of £206 compared with the corresponding period of last year. The ...
Article : 59 wordsThe examination into the insolvent estate of Messrs. Harrold Bros. was continued this morning, when Mr. Kingston made a further application for a maintenance order, ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the annual demonstration of the Women's Christian Temperance Union it was resolved, on the motion of Mesdames Dawson and Harper— ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Minister for Public Works proposes to ask the Assembly to approve of the purchase by the Government of the Tarrawingee Flux and Tramway Company's tram ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act Amendment Bill has now passed both Houses. It provides for the abolition of the office of president, and gives the ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the Flemington Council last night, the action of the public works committee was con[?]med in drawing the attention of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works to the nuisance ...
Article : 111 wordsAmongst the passengers by the Lund liner Warrnambool is M. Ivan Kologrivoff, president of the Council of Ministers of Ways of Communication in Russia, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe race for the Hawke's Bay Guineas took place to-day, and resulted as follows:— HAWKE'S BAY GUINEAS, Of £300, and a sweepstake of £10; second horse ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the Northeote Town Council meeting on Monday evening the results of the Preston conference on direct railway communication with the city were reported. It was proposed that the ...
Article : 190 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Captain Parker versus The Queen, for damages for his alleged unlawful dismissal from the Tasmanian Defence Force, ...
Article : 153 wordsIn response to the urgent appeal on behalf of the Children's Hospital which has been made by the committee, and warmly seconded by Lady Madden, we have ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—It is some years now since Christmas Day fell on a Sunday, as will be the case this year. Surely we will be allowed the first trains to and from the country that ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the Carlton Court on Monday (Mr. D. V. H[?]nnessy, J.P., in the chair) several licensing cases were heard. James A. Young, licensee of the Royal Artillery Hotel, Elizabeth and ...
Article : 177 wordsAt a special meeting meeting of the Boroondara Shire Council on Monday evening, the report for the financial year ending 30th September was presented, from which it appeared that the year closed with ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Ascotvale Masonic-hall was well filled on October 4, when the North Suburban Choral Union gave its 32nd concert. As a change from the so[?]ld works given at the last four concerts, the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday, at the office, 325 Collins-street, Mr. J. W. Siddall in the chair. The report stated that patent rights for the new mill had been ...
Article : 257 wordsThe full programme is published this morning in connection with the matinee to be given at the Princess's Theatre to-morrow afternoon in aid of the Hospital for ...
Article : 67 wordsThe annual general meeting of the Government Municipal Auditors' Association was held on October 7. The report and financial statement for the past year were received and adopted, and the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 12 Oct 1898, Page 6
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