The bazaar in aid of the Children's Hospital was continued at the Exhibition yesterday. The day was a day of quiet, steady work, after the excitment and the great ...
Article : 826 wordsPreparations for the annual free-trade dinner to be held at the Freemasons'-hall this evening are now complete, and as the occasion is expected to mark the opening ...
Article : 366 wordsA man named Warren, a butcher, at Berinda Station, Gilgandra district, was rounding up some horses yesterday, when he was thrown from his horse, and, ...
Article : 1,979 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the conduct of matrimonial agencies in Sydney and suburbs was discussed, on the motion for the adjournment of the House. Mr. ...
Article : 710 wordsMr. Stuart Murray, cheif engineer of Water Supply, was further examined yesterday by the Forests Commission regarding an application made by the ...
Article : 605 wordsAt the meeting of the Presbytery of Ballarat, held on Wednesday, the following resolution was carried unanimously, on the motion of the Rev. Elder Gray, seconded by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsAt the General Sessions to-day, before Judge Chomley, the trial of John M'Donald, charged with stealing a cow at Kallara, near Casterton, was concluded. The jury found ...
Article : 2,172 wordsWednesday (6 p.m.).—Generally fine, with northeast and northerly winds; frosty during night; misty along coast; coudy and unsettled weather gradually approaching from the westward. Sea ...
Article : 791 wordsThe question of propotional representation was discussed at last night's meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture, on a motion submitted asking for the appointment of a ...
Article : 818 wordsOn Wednesday afternoon Constable Sheehan arrested a man named Joseph Grinnill, 25 years of age, who is alleged to be a deserter from H.M.S. Mildura. He ...
Article : 101 wordsYesterday Councillors Shillabeer, Toohey, and Gallant advised the Footscray Council that they has successfully negotiated for the release of £5,2[?] from the Commercial Bank at 19/8 for each ...
Article : 1,452 wordsA movement is being made on behalf of the Government to acquire the land for the outfall of the water from Lake Gillera, which it is proposed to drain with a view ...
Article : 54 wordsThe severe winter experienced has made the road from Jamieson to Wood's Point almost impassable. For weeks past teams have been blocked at intervals by snow and ...
Article : 168 wordsA well-armed party of civilians surprised the Breelong blacks to-day while they were at lunch, but apparently they made no effort to capture them. The blacks came ...
Article : 326 wordsUp to the present 120,000 sheep have been returned from the coastal districts, to which they were taken on account of the drought, to the western country, in the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe annual session of the Waterworks and Irritation Trusts Association was held at the offices of the association, 369 Collins-street, yesterday. About forty delegates ...
Article : 591 wordsThe report of the Forest Commission was further considered at a meeting of wood-cutters and others here on Monday. Mr. Z. Lane presided, and reported that ...
Article : 158 wordsThe railway revenue for the week ended September 1 amounted to £22,193, as against £24,087 for the same period last year, showing a decrease of £1,894. ...
Article : 111 wordsAn extraordinary state of affaris exists in the Alberton Shire Council. A few weeks ago, when the president was to have been elected, a councillor resigned at the ...
Article : 300 wordsThe peculiar conduct of an eccentric visitor caused an unw[?]nted disturbance at the Victoria Coffee Palace last evening. A man, who was apparently a stranger to the ...
Article : 212 wordsIn connection with the recent wholesale dismissal of telegraph operators at Kalgoorlie, the outcome of certain alleged leakages, a deputation will to-day wait on the ...
Article : 250 wordsOn Saturday last the house of Mr. Hugh M'Clelland, farmer, of Berrriwillock West, was burned to the ground, and everything that Mr. M'Clelland and family possessed, ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the South Melbourne Court yesterday, before Messrs. Glover abd Christmas, J. P.'s. Chas, Henry John Morris, [?] bootmaker, was charged with wife desertion. Mr. Nolan prosecuted and Mr. Rogers ...
Article : 718 wordsDirectly the Assembly met to-day the Premier rose, and moved that the House adjourn until Tuesday next out of respect for the memory of the late Mr. W. ...
Article : 196 wordsKALGOORLIE, Wednesday.—A bore is being put down from the surface of the TRUE BLUE lease at Brown Hill, with the object of prospecting the property at a depth. The air-compressor and ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Mines department has cabled to the Agent-General that the Black Ball C[?]l Compary had made an offer to supply the whole 7,500 tons of coal asked for by the ...
Article : 47 wordsA heavy shock of earthquake occurred here at 10 minutes past 7 this eveninig lasting about 10 seconds. It travelled from north-west to south-east. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe great amount of risk with which the handling of gelignite is attended was illustrated here yesterday, when a miner named M. O' Meara had a very narrow escape. A ...
Article : 141 wordsThe monthly meeting of the council of the Victorian Silk and Rural industries Association was held on Tuesday evening, at Cromwell-buildings. Bourke-street, the vice-president (Mr. W. T. C. ...
Article : 501 wordsAn intercolonial conference of workers in connection with the Young Women's Christian Associations met yesterday in the Y.W.C.A.-hall, Spring-street. Delegrates were present from New ...
Article : 292 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the debate on the Address in Reply was concluded, and the address was adopted. The Premier laid on the table a ...
Article : 69 wordsAVON(Shire).—Councillor G. J. Crockett elected president, with £10 allowance. CARISBROOK (Borough).—Councillor W. R. Smith: allowance, £10. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsThe young man, John Patrick Heaney, who was extradited from South Africa rerently on the charge of embezzling moneys from the Chiltern Savings Bank between ...
Article : 222 wordsThe total number of plague cases in Queensland to date is 117. Of these 50 died, 47 were discharged recovered, and 20 remain under treatment. ...
Article : 87 wordsHOPETOUN, Sept. 4.—The local rainfail for August was 2.05in., the greatest for that month since 1892. The record for the first eight months of the year is 10.85in.—better than any year since ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 6 Sep 1900, Page 6
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