A five-roomed weatherboard house in Strickland-road, owned and occupied by Mrs. Doyle, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The building was insured ...
Article : 280 wordsOwing to the absence of Archbishop Carr, the Lenten pastoral which is usually read in the Catholic churches of the archdiocese on the Sunday preceding the ...
Article : 48 wordsKew, like every other suburb, has had its periodical irruption of larcenists and burglars, but that portion of Kew which lies to the north of A'Beckett-street and west of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsOn Saturday the annual picnic in connection with the Post and Telegraph department was held at Sorrento. The busy hive in the big building in Bourke-street was ...
Article : 1,802 wordsThe starving stock traffic over the railways has largely decreased. The week before Christmas 1,100 truck-loads were conveyed by the Railway department, but ...
Article : 47 wordsOn his return to Brisbane, Mr. Dickson said he hoped the amended bill would be accepted by New South Wales. Should the hope is realised, he will lose no time ...
Article : 500 wordsA teamster named Tomabure, while driving a loaded waggon from Conoble station to Ivanhoe yesterday, fell under the wheels, which passed over one leg, smashing the ...
Article : 406 wordsAt St. Patrick's Cathedral to-day, at all the Masses, the Lenten pastoral of Dr. Moore, the Bishop of Ballarat, was read. After dealing with the necessity of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsA parade of the 4th Battalion was held on Saturday, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Templeton. Lieut.-Colonel Hoad, A.D.G., was also present, and during the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsA suicide under circumstances more than ordinarily sad occurred at South Melbourne early on Saturday morning, when a woman of 23, named Esther Ann Fowler, ...
Article : 536 wordsThe adjourned inquest concerning the death of the illegitimate child which had been boarded out to Mrs. Bosewell, a registered nurse, was held on Saturday by Mr. ...
Article : 246 wordsAnother deadlock has occurred in the election of mayor of North Brisbane, owing to four aldermen supporting each of the two candidates, Alderman Raymond and ...
Article : 149 wordsSir John and Lady Forrest landed at Albany from Adelaide to-day. Questioned regarding federation, the Premier replied that he could not say anything till he had ...
Article : 110 wordsThe pastoral letter of Dr. Crane, the Roman Catholic bishop of Sandhurst, which was read at St. Kilian's Pro-cathedral to-day, dealt principally with the ...
Article : 326 wordsKOONDROOK, Feb. 11.—Stock passings, Feb. 8: —2,160 crossbred ewes, in lamb, from Nunnagoyt, Mr. Frantz owner, travelling to his selections. Feb. 11:—2,180 crossbred ewes, fat, from Mr. A. ...
Article : 194 wordsAt the Clunes Police Court to-day Messrs. L. M'Lennan and George Chapman, J.P.'s, dealt with a case of a painful character, when a man named Joseph Taaffe was ...
Article : 360 wordsAt the Government quarry at Willowtree this morning two tons of powder and one ton of dynamite displaced 70,000 tons of basalt, for railway ballast. The blasting ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the Malvern branch of the Australian Natives' Association the president (Mr. Arthur Robinson) moved, and the vice-president (Mr. G. C. Arcus) seconded, a ...
Article : 69 wordsThe dead body of a man named Albert Scott Robin was found in the Waterfall Gully Reservoir yesterday, with a rope round the nneck and a large stone attached, ...
Article : 90 wordsSir,—I think all who have observed the development of federal affairs since the sitting of the federal convention will be sensible of the influence which Mr. G. H. Reid ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 360 wordsSir,—Surely it is rather antiquated to go 13,000 miles away for a name for our new home. I would respectfully propose the name of "Southern Cross" City as a fit ...
Article : 72 wordsCharles Hersehall, who on Tuesday last, while under the influence of drink stated that he was the man who had stolen £900 from the Perth Post-office, but afterwards ...
Article : 104 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at Lexton last night, when the Lexton Hotel, Theatre, stables, and coachhouses were burned to the ground. The property was owned by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 262 wordsSir,—The capital should have a name indicative of its destiny, and the one which federation itself suggests, Austrapol (Australpolis, the city of the south, or southern ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. A. Rogers, mining manager for the Wallace Chiltern Valley Consols Company, met with a painful accident on Thursday. His leg was caught in a rope, with the ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Friday night a fire broke out on the Paddington Consols mine, resulting in the total demolition of the battery and house. The damage is estimated at £5,000. The ...
Article : 79 wordsSir,—We are fast approaching (however much we may regret it) the end of a reign that, under the blessing of God, has been remarkable for growth in the internal ...
Article : 160 wordsA sad fatality occurred here this afternoon. A young woman named Alice Fox, a housemaid at the Flinders Hotel, was bathing the sea on the Ocean Beach, just after ...
Article : 183 wordsThe forms in which dangerous companions are to be met with are various. Everybody has heard of the smooth-tongued gentleman who has been entrusted by a ...
Article : 640 wordsFor the Hobart bye-election, Messrs. Patton, Patterson, Prospsting, Rattle, and St. Hill were yesterday nominated. The seat is rendered vacant by the resignation ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—I would suggest the place be called and known by its right name, and by what it will exactly be, "Federal City." Native names may be euphonious, but, ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Permit me to suggest "Atlantis" or "Atlantice" as appropriate names. They are cuphonious, dignified, mystical.— Malvern, Feb. 10. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsA disaster occurred on the main railway line this afternoon. The ashes from a locomotive, falling upon the Horseshoe-bridge, set fire to the timbers, and, with ...
Article : 141 wordsThe sittings of the Geelong Supreme Court, before his Honour Mr. Justice Hodges, concluded this morning, with the passing of sentences on the prisoners ...
Article : 856 wordsSir, — From my reading of Mrs. Campbell Praed's article. I cannot but think that that lady's study of "The Australian Girl" must be either limited to a very ...
Article : 273 wordsYesterday was the second and concluding day of the Albany Turf Club annual meeting. Results:— Denmark Handicap, Five furlongs.—Thistle, 1; ...
Article : 145 wordsThe outcome of the shooting affray in City-road, South Melbourne, on Friday night, is that on Saturday morning Joseph Lapish obtained a warrant for the arrest ...
Article : 139 wordsIn the District Court on Friday, before Messrs. C. J. Cook (chairman) and W. H. Edwards, J.P.'s, Antonio Nessi, keeper of a wine-shop at 127 Little Collins-street, was charged with having ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsNatives of Australasia v. Elsewhere Born.—This match will be played this evening, at the Melbourne Chess Club, Athenarum, Collins-street. Play begins at a quarter 10 8 p.m. ...
Article : 137 wordsBERWICK, Feb. 11.—The suitability of the soil in this district fgor the growth of onions is just beginning to be realised, and many inquiries are being made for land for that purpose. A trial of ...
Article : 131 wordsNo better Christmas Present can be made than a Book. It does the receiver good, and it lasts. There is an enormous variety to choose from, retail and wholesale, at Cole's Book Arcade, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 13 Feb 1899, Page 6
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