A question was asked in the Fitzroy Council last night by Councilor Deives as to the cost of obtaining sewerage connection plans from the Metropolitan Board of Works. He complained that a ...
Article : 166 wordsFrank Webster, a youth, 17 years of age, was arrested on Monday and charged with stealing a cheaue for £/10/9, drawn by Mr. James Reed. ...
Article : 88 wordsRepresentatives of the Municipal Conference and trades interested in the Meat Bill now before Parliament met the chairman of the Board of Public Health, Dr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 wordsThose interested in the fortunes of the Victorian Club will be pleased to know that the difficulty which arose in connection with the right exercised by the committee ...
Article : 357 wordsIt will be remembered that, consequent upon a statement made by Mr. E.V. Carey at a meeting of the Melbourne Bicycle Club on the 11th of July, concerning ...
Article : 1,048 wordsPEACE CONFERENCE CONCLUDED. The Hague Conference will conclude its labours this week. Your readers are familiar with most of its achievements by ...
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Article : 694 wordsMiss Murcutt, of the Young Wo [?] [?] Christian Association, addresed large audiences in the town-hall on Sunday and Monday nights on subjects pertaining to ...
Article : 42 wordsMessrs. Methven and Cook, M.L.A.'s, wrote to the Coburg Shirt Council last night in reference to the Special Government grant of £250 for maintenance purposes in lieu of rates on the Pentridge ...
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Article : 183 wordsMr. A. J. Bondurant, the Government tobacco expet, is now classing and packing in tierces the last of the three shipments of tobacco leaf for export to London. ...
Article : 110 wordsAt the General Sessions to-day, before Judge Molesworth, a labouring man named Gorge White was presented on a charge of compounding a felony in connection ...
Article : 1,492 wordsThe scheme of compromise relating to the Premier Permanent Building Society was yesterday further dealt with by the Full Court (consisting of the Chief ...
Article : 427 wordsCouncillor Arthur at the meeting of the Coburg Shire Council last night reported the result of the recent conference held to consider the question of selecting cemetery sites for the northern ...
Article : 143 wordsAt the meeting of the Prahran City Council last evening, a communication was received from the shire council of Caulfield suggesting that a conference of representatives of the councils of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 wordsA meeting of the council of the Chamber of Commerce was held on Friday, Mr. Charles King (vice-president) occupied the chair, in the absence of Mr. Robert Reid, ...
Article : 369 wordsThe following officials of the department of Agriculture and others have been selected to represent New South Wales at the intercolonial conference on phylloxera ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the meeting of the Prahran City Council last evening communications were received from Messrs. F. C. Gray and Joseph Harris, M.L.A.'s, in reference to the alleged stoppage of the Yarra ...
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Article : 559 wordsIn the course of the business at the Fitzroy Council last night Councillor M'Mahon said that the ratepayers only owed a sum of £800 to the city in rates. This was a porud position to be in. ...
Article : 83 wordsCharles Sykes, the well-known organist, appeared before Messrs. Hennessy and Shee[?]an, J.P.'s at the Carlton Court, on MOnday, on charges of being drunk and ...
Article : 84 wordsGrace Fla[?]ell, aservant girl, was charged at the Malvern Court yesterday, before Messrs. Wilton (chairman), Jackson, and Alway, J.P.'s with stealing from the ...
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Article : 176 wordsThe following interview with a Newcastle "Herald" reporter shows the value the Australian press places on this remedy:— "They would almost save you from your ...
Article : 577 wordsSir,—The proposed amendments to the Poisons Act are simply an attempt by the Chemists' Society (under the pretence of performing a public duty) to prevent the ...
Article : 257 wordsYesterday the third of the four perjury charges in connection with what is known as the Brunswick licensing prosecution was concluded in the Criminal Court, ...
Article : 268 wordsCouncillor Wheeler, the chairman of the library committee, announced at the meeting of the Fitzroy Council on Monday evening that he had "The Argus" edition ...
Article : 149 wordsSir,—I would like to say a few words about the proposed alterations in the railway freights of farm produce, and how it will affect grain buyers who are ...
Article : 386 wordsA Pl[?]y res[?]e from drowning was witnessed from the Kerferd-road Pier, Beaconsfield-parade, on Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. A boy named William ...
Article : 304 wordsAt a meeting of the Methodist Union consultative committee, held in Numurkah, a scheme was drawn up by which it is proposed that the Methodist churches of the ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—With reference to a paragraph in to-day's issue of "The Argus" entitled "An Impudent Impostor," I would beg to point out that your informant was in error in ...
Article : 174 wordsKARKAROOC,—South Riding—J. Fergason, W. Coast and C. F. Pyman, elected. NARRACAN (Shire),—North Riding—Mr. C. H. Williams. West Riding—Mr. John Campbell. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 29 Aug 1899, Page 6
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