A lengthy discussion took place at the ordinary meeting of the Brunswick Council on Monday on the advisability of amending the Local Government Act so ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsThe executive committee of the League of Wheelmen met last evening. There was a full attendance, and the chairman, Mr. J. X. Wood, presided. ...
Article : 698 wordsMessrs. Fisher and Macansh, Mr. T. M. Slattery, and Mr. T. MacDonald Paterson, solicitors for the proposed administrators in the colonies of New South Wales and ...
Article : 293 wordsThe mayor (Councillor A. Harkness) held his usual civic reception on Wednesday afternoon. There was a large attendance of citizens. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture has appointed a committee, consisting of Mr. Guthrie, the agricultural chemist; Mr. Wildridge, the refrigerating engineer; Mr. ...
Article : 216 wordsIn the Supreme Court Charles Rose was granted a decree nisi for the dissolution of his marriage with Eliza Rose. The respondent was unrepresented. In the ...
Article : 87 wordsYesterday the Government decided what should be done with regard to the tenders sent in for supplying the Railway department with coal for 1899. ...
Article : 176 wordsAt the inquest on the victims of the Wellington fire the licensee and the servants said that there was ample time for everybody to escape after the fire had been ...
Article : 58 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon a house at Guildford, belonging to Mr. Cheel, was totally destroyed by fire. The furniture was also burnt, and the origin of the fire is a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsFrom Mr. M. L. Hutchinson, of Little Collins-street, we have received specimens of the books, calendars, and Christmas cards which the firm is offering to the ...
Article : 346 wordsIn the Legislative Council, a motion by Mr. Charleston seeking to amend the electoral laws so as to provide for the adoption of a system of single transferable ...
Article : 528 wordsThe report of Mr. Justice Owen on his investigation of the charges brought against the Minister of works in connection with the Hastings and Macleay ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 374 wordsThe claims for compensation in connection with lands required for the narrow-guage line from Wangaratta to Whitfield have been considerably reduced since they ...
Article : 272 wordsThe R.M.S. Aorangi, which arrived from Vancouver to-day, brought back to Australia a party of Klondike prospectors. The men give a most doleful account of their ...
Article : 310 wordsThe annual general meeting of the members of the Victorian Poultry and Kennel Club was held at the club-rooms last evening, the president, Mr. F. W. Haddon, ...
Article : 295 wordsA very destructive fire occurred in the Black Dog Creek district on Sunday and Monday, and between 3,000 and 5,000 acres of grass were destroyed. The principal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria was held on Tuesday, at the Equitable-buildings, Mr. T. Skene, president, in the chair. ...
Article : 228 wordsBenjamin Clavoren, the youth who was convicted last week at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of placing obstructions on the railway line near Sutherland, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsAn important decision as affecting the manner in which compensation is to be paid to Crown tenants for improvements on land withdrawn from their possession ...
Article : 151 wordsThe criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day, before Mr. Justice Williams, and no fewer than 15 cases are listed for hearing. William Daly, aged 23, ...
Article : 2,881 wordsIn the Legislative Assemmbly this afternoon the Premier, in reply to Mr. Thomas, said that the decision of the Supreme Court allowing the Broken Hill Proprietary ...
Article : 249 wordsA cyclist coming home from Narracoorte one evening last week in the dark felt an obstruction in his back wheel, and something [?]apping against his legs. On ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the City Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Panton, P.M. (chairman), Messrs. S. Lancashire, R. Power, and W. Bell, J. P.'s, three men, James Wilson, John Harden, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsSir,—Referring to the remarks made by Mr. Taylor, president of the Working Jewellers' Society, and the charges he makes against the jewellery sold by some ...
Article : 323 wordsFredk. Wall, a boy 13 years of age, was struck on the head by a ball when playing cricket yesterday, and killed almost instantaneously. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe visiting magistrates at Pentridge will, to-morrow afternoon, investigate a charge of pilfering, to be preferred against William Phillips, who, about two years ...
Article : 238 wordsJudge Casey concluded the hearing of cases in the Melbourne General Sessions, in the Second Civil Court, on Tuesday. Mr. Finlayson prosecuted for the Crown. ...
Article : 271 wordsRobert Byrne died in the Corowa Hospital this morning from septic pneumonia and blood-poisoning. He worked out in the country, and was bitten on the lip by ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the Brunswick Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. Stranger (chairman), Fleming, Rose, and Trenoweth, J.P.'s, a neatly-dressed young woman named Ethel ...
Article : 235 wordsThe body of the man Austin, who was drowned in the Murray on Saturday, was recovered on Tuesday. A magisterial inquiry was held to-day by Mr. H. ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Customs Duties Bill eas read a third time. Mr. Hughes moved the second reading ...
Article : 555 wordsAPSLEY, Dec. 10. Grass and crops have been well served by the cool weather, and the district looks better than for many years past. Hay crops are turning out very well, and some small wheat ...
Article : 854 wordsProbably 5,000 bales will be catalogued for the wool sale on Saturday. A communication has been received from the New South Wales Department of ...
Article : 198 wordsAPSLEY, Dec. 10.—The shearing campaign is just about closed now; Elders[?]e, the last station to finish, will do so, weater permitting, on Monday. The cool and rainy weather during ...
Article : 782 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria Hospital was held on Wednesday. Present—Janet Lady Clarke (president, in the chair), Mesdames Fox, Harlin, Murphy, ...
Article : 154 wordsSir,—As a life governor and one who feels a considerable interest in the welfare of the Melbourne Hospital, may I venture to suggest that some people seem to have a ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—The article under the above heading in "The Argus" of Monday, amply bears out the contention of the Society of Health Officers, that the water supply to our state ...
Article : 206 wordsSir,—Will you allow me, a little late in the day, to make a few remarks on a letter on Woman Suffrage by Mr. Murray Smith in your issue of December 3? ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Criminological Society has presented to the Chief Secretary a series of recommendations concerning the reformation of the prison system. The principal ...
Article : 306 wordsSir,—I should like to draw attention to the doubtful pleasure of going for a trip to Healesville for the day at the present arrangement of the trains, most of which ...
Article : 208 wordsThe December Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court were continued in the Criminal court, before the Chief Justice, on Wednesday. Mr. Walsh, Q.C., prosecuted for the Crown. ...
Article : 238 wordsSir,—I wish to bring under your notice the letter-box at the Lilydale railway station. For the last two months it has been without a lock; the consequence is that ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Assembly sat continuously from half-past 3 yesterday until 20 minutes to 11 to-night. The Elections Bill went through committee, and progress was made with ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 15 Dec 1898, Page 6
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