Though the race will not be run until Saturday week, final forfeits for the Eleventh Caulfield Futurity Stakes had to be declared yesterday. After the expiration ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsAs Mr. Kent, sen., and family were returning from chruch at Templestowe on Sunday afternoon their buggy was run into by the motor-car of Mr. Donald ...
Article : 69 wordsThere is room for increased attention to the production of malting barley. In 1897 there were 53,000 acres of malting barley cultivated in Victoria. Last year there were ...
Article : 802 wordsThis afternoon the Melbourne and Geelong polo clubs will again try conclusions of strength and skill on the Kooyong grounds. Play will commence at 3 o'clock sharp. This will be the third ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsJoseph Austin, aged 10 years, was playing cricket with a number of other boys in Harper-street, Northcote South, on Saturday afternoon, when he was ...
Article : 94 wordsThis afternoon there will be racing at Sandown-park. The entries were very good, and the sport promises to be interesting. Several Newmarket Handicap candidates, ...
Article : 760 wordsThe death of Sister Bridget Slattery, 30 years of age, a nun, has been reported to the coroner. It appears that deceased had suffered from a pain in the right knee, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsA man named Cornelius Price died very suddenly at the Sir Robert Peel Hotel on Monday night. Price had been in the company of a man named James Hunter, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe first round for the champion rink tournament for the "Punch" medals will be played, this afternoon. The six clubs in the competition have to meet each other once on neutral greens, the club ...
Article : 93 wordsCharles Stewart, a wharf labourer, aged 33 years, who lives at 36 Lawrence-street, South Melbourne, was assisting the discharge of coal from the s.s. Lady Mildred ...
Article : 134 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday.—C. E. Fisher, of Wellington, the 220-yards champion of New Zealand, goes to Hobart for the athletic meeting. ...
Article : 22 wordsSeveral interesting public questions will be debated at the annual conference of the A.N.A., which will be opened in the townhall, Maryborough, on Tuesday, March 24. ...
Article : 837 wordsFollowers of wrestling will have another opportunity of seeing the English crack, Peter Bannon, at work at the Melbourne Athletic Club on Friday evening, when he wrestles Bert Woods in a match ...
Article : 47 wordsThe main event arranged for decision at the weekly meeting of the Flemington grounds on Friday evening next will be a divided handicap of £10, run over 120 yards. Entries close to-day, ...
Article : 36 wordsConsiderable interest is being taken in the return fight between Peter Felix (of New South Wales) and Bill Lang (of this state), for the boxing championship of Australia, which takes place at the ...
Article : 68 wordsARARAT, Tuesday.—On the arrival last night of the express train, the carriages of which are higher than the old ones, a traveller, Mr. Wishardt, fell heavily in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 477 wordsBROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—A full of ground with serious results occurred on the South Blocks mine to-night. While Ernest Caudrey, 27, and Henry Crowder ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 4,134 wordsCHARLEVILLE (Q.), Tuesday.—George Howlett an old resident, carrying on business as a storekeeper here, committed suicide to-day in the office attached to his ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A fatal case of ptomaine-poisoning took place on Sunday at Gympic. The four children of Walter Wood, a carpenter, developed symptoms of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsWith a view to prosecuting further inquires into the progress made by the different states in the creation of new varieties of wheat, the Agicultural superintendent ...
Article : 340 wordsWith this afternoon's matinee of "Humpty-Dumpty" at Her Majesty's Theatre, that Christmas pantomune reaches its sixtieth consecutive performance in Melbourne, and, judging by the crowded ...
Article : 549 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bella Home, a daughter of Alfred Horne, of Roseberry, in the Taralga district, had a marvellous escape from death on Saturday last. She ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsHAY, Tuesday.—Thomas Smith was admitted to the hospital, suffering from serious injuries to the ribs and chest, due to being thrown from a waggonette while ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsWEDDERBURN, Monday.—Ernest Legg, son of the foreman of works at the new school-building, fell 30ft. from the fire brigade tower on Saturday night, and escaped ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 679 wordsSUNBURY, Tuesday.—Whilst riding along the "Rupertswood" drive yesterday a young man named E. Valanance, an employe of Sir Rupert Clarke, was thrown ...
Article : 121 wordsIn addition to the scratchings recorded foe the Eleventh Caulfield Futurity Stakes, the following for other events to be run at the V.A.T.C Autumn Meeting were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsThe destructive weed St. John's wort has found its way to the Box Hill district, where during the week about 40 or 50 healthy specimens of the plant were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsThe annual business meeting, of the Old Scotch Collegians' Club was held yesterday evening at the club-rooms, Queen's-walk. Mr. Robert Morrison, M. A., the president, ...
Article : 484 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—A sad shooting fatality occurred at Moolarben, in the Mudgee district, yesterday, when Edward Charles Roberts, aged three years and five months, ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. W. P. Crick's colt Collarit, who is now trained by H. Rayner, has arrived at Caulfield from Sydney. Collarit is engaged in the Caulfield Futurity Stakes and ...
Article : 37 wordsSir,—In regard to the discussion as to who is the oldest colonist, I might mention that I landed in Sydney in 1829 from the barque Pluto (79 years ago). I am 88 years of age, ...
Article : 88 wordsMOUNTAIN KING AND TARTAN IN FORM. FLEMINGTON, Tuesday.—Fine and cool was the weather this mroning. The sand track was in capital condition, as some of the gallops prove. ...
Article : 459 wordsARARAT, Monday.—The Rev. P. O'Hare was on Saturday evening driving from a funeral at Mayston, when his horse shied, and the buggy was overturned. He escaped with a few bruises, but his ...
Article : 434 wordsSir,—Can my twin sister Mrs. Niel Jamieson, of Albury, and myself claim the title of old colonists? My father Mr. Duncan Brown, his wife, and three of a family, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsOn February 3 Constable Tully, of the Footseray police, arrested in Moreland-street, a young woman named Myrtle Mabel Henderson on a charge of having stolen, on the 30th ult., a metal watch ...
Article : 159 wordsSir,—My parents arrived in Melbourne in 1841, and I was born in 1843, in Richmond, Melbourne, and I have lived in Victoria ...
Article : 38 wordsChildren and adults enjoy and praise it for its delicious flavour. The "Lancet" describes it as "really wholesome confectionery." Only genuine if "Thistle" trade-mark is on the packet.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 40 wordsCAULFIELD, Tuesday.—The weather was coll and dull this morning, when some very interesting ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 12 Feb 1908, Page 4
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