At the inquest to-day concerning the death of William Tregaskis, in the Peak Hill district, the medical evidence showed that Tregask is had been shot in the right lung. Ah ...
Article : 223 wordsIn the laying out of a city or suburb the inventive genius of surveyors and municipal councillors is often sorely taxed to find names for all the streets. Chance or a ...
Article : 830 wordsThe charges against two Zionists arising out of the disturbance at the Rev. J. A. Dowie's meeting at the town-hall last night came before the Central Police Court this ...
Article : 923 wordsKyneton was one of the first inland centres opened up in Victoria. Mr. William Thompson, the well-known agriculturist, who is president of the Chamber of ...
Article : 1,545 wordsThe committee appointed by the Tradeshall Conciliation and Arbitration Conference last night submitted to that body its report on the Conciliation and Arbitration ...
Article : 626 wordsWith the apologetic label, "Just Received for Distribution," the report of the inspector-general of penal establishments and gaols for the year 1902 has been issued. ...
Article : 541 wordsIt is understood that the Minister of Defence will shortly advise the Cabinet to appoint Captain Cresswell, the naval commandant of Queensland, inspector-general ...
Article : 97 wordsEarly yesterday morning a seaman named Duncan M'Fadyen, aged 39 years, died suddenly at the Federation Hotel, in Flinders-street. He was sharing a room with a man ...
Article : 99 wordsThe regulations which were passed yesterday in regard to the Defence Act to not cover an entirely new proposal, which is slowly maturing in the Minister's brain. ...
Article : 316 wordsMr. James Moran, of Lewisham-road, Windsor, died very suddenly at his residence on Wednesday night. He went to his room at about half-past 7 o'clock, and ...
Article : 100 wordsIt was the intention of Mr. Taverner to have arrived in Sydney to-day for the purpose of attending a conference with Mr. Kidd, Minister of Agriculture of New South ...
Article : 162 wordsHarry Tyler, aged 16 years, whose home was in High-street, St. Kilda, was drowned in the Sorrento baths yesterday afternoon. With several companions he had gone to ...
Article : 189 wordsThe unrest in the Public Works department which was caused last week by a notice to 35 officers that they would be transferred to other departments at ...
Article : 92 wordsMrs. Catherine Townsend, of Cutter-street. Burnley, died yesterday evening in the Melbourne Hospital. The old lady, who was 93 years of age, fell downstairs ...
Article : 59 wordsThe ship Andreta which left Sydney on January 20, with a cargo of wheat, for Falmouth or Queenstown, returned to port to-night in a dismasted conditom. Fine ...
Article : 432 wordsMr. Peter Dunkley, of Centre-road, East Brighton, a market-gardener, who owns a nice herd of dairy cattle, was on Wednesday afternoon adjusting a chain on a bull's ...
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Article : 64 wordsOn Wednesday morning some [?]ay in the paddock of Mr. J. W. Doherty, off Black— shaw's-road, Wyndham, caught fire from some unknown cause, and about 50 tons ...
Article : 43 wordsThe sixty second ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Queensland National Bank was held to-day. The balance-sheet showed that the profit for the ...
Article : 343 wordsOUTTRIM, Thursday.—William C. Hoppner, an employe of the Outtrim-Howitt Colliery Company, experienced a fortunate escape from serious injury in the coal mine ...
Article : 66 wordsFurther reference was made at the executive meeting of the Victorian Employers' Federation to the interstate conference, which is to be held in Sydney on February ...
Article : 136 wordsFred Dixon, the bedroom steward at the Stock Exchange Club, who on January 24 last, after abstracting the keys from the manager's room, entered the bar and took from the till money ...
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Article : 72 wordsELMORE, Thursday.—Mr. P. Connelly, farmer, residing at Runnymede, was killed last evening when returning home from Elmore. It is not known how the accident ...
Article : 42 wordsChung Hin, a cabinetmaker, of George's lane, was charged in the District Court yesterday with having permitted men to work after 6 p.m. on January 27. Sergeant Canty heard the sound ...
Article : 117 wordsA conference of delegates of the Southern Workers' Union and the Queensland Amalgamated Workers' Union, held in Brisbane, has drafted a comprehensive scheme of ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" of the 17th inst. your correspondent asks who Elizabeth-street is named after. On the 4th March, 1837, Governor Bourke. Captain Lonsdale. ...
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Article : 140 wordsAn appeal by William Priest against a conviction at the Collingwood Court on December 18, when he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of larceny from a till, was ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—My late husband, Graham, as a very old colonist, told me, and I have read myself in an early history of Melbourne, that Sir Richard Bourke when he laid out ...
Article : 245 wordsMr. George Fairbairn, M.L.A. for Toorak, recently issued 10,800 invitations to the school children of his electorate and their "parents, guardians, and friends," to an ...
Article : 252 wordsThe two absconders from the barque Nellie Troopm who came under the Immigration Restriction Act, were captured late on Wednesday night on the road to Port ...
Article : 188 wordsEarly this morning, in Flinders-lane, Constable Akeroyd saw four men struggling, and several police interrupted the quarrel. One man was secured by Constable Skipper, ...
Article : 104 wordsAt half-past 3 o'clock this morning two men were disturbed in the act of breaking into the Magill Post office which was similarly visited three years ago last January. ...
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Article : 147 wordsWhen dealing with an application for an ejectment order yesterday, the attention of the justices, Messrs. Hester (mayour) and Cuscaden, on the bench at the Port Melbourne Court, was drawn to the ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—While bewailing, with other sportsmen the cruel slaughter of immature quail, I think there is a misunderstanding re some of the birds. There are an enormous ...
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Article : 62 wordsMrs. Sparrow, who was shot by her husband yesteday, is recovering. Sparrow is also progressing favourably. The Perth public hospital committee ...
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Article : 84 wordsMALDON, Thursday.—The Maldon races were held yesterday, but were not up to the usual standard. Although large entries had been received, the horses did not run, the event clashing ...
Article : 186 wordsDetectives Keily and Considine arrested yesterday a youth named Charles M'Kay, aged 18 years, on charges of stealing a pair of field glasses, a purse containing £1, and ...
Article : 90 wordsThe annual meeting of the Latrobe-street Ragged Boy's Home and Mission was held on February 16. Councillor Clement Davidson presided. The hon. superintendent (Mr. W. Minton) presented the ...
Article : 235 wordsDr. Clark, the founder of the Christian Endeavour organisation, arrived from Dunedin to-day, and remains until Sunday. The Drainage Board has arranged the ...
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Article : 189 wordsThe Scholarship Board has made the following election to close scholarships and exhibitions. The competition for these is confined to students going through the arts course in the University with the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 19 Feb 1904, Page 7
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