The Opern-house was crowded yesterday evening, when "Jack" Johnson, the boxing champion, made his first appearance in Melbourne as a showman. The posting of ...
Article : 315 wordsThe chairman of the Postal Commission (Mr. Hume Cook, M.H.R.) last evening waited upon the Governor-General, and tendered a copy of a draft report upon ...
Article : 1,053 words"It is a little more disappointing than I anticipated," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) yesterday, when announcing the returns of revenue from Customs und excise ...
Article : 592 wordsA King or a President is assasinated on the other side of the wprid, and for days the newspapers are filled with accounts of the tragedy, its causes, and its ...
Article : 1,359 wordsHigh Water This Day, 12.54 a.m., 1.32 p.m. Jan. 4.—9 a.m: Wind S., light; weather dull, showery; barometer, 29.70. 1 p.m.: Wind S., light; weather dull, showery; barometer 29.75. 4 p.m.: ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 668 wordsJohnson, after lunch, proceeded to "do" Melbourne in a motor-car. After driving through the principal streets the car stopped in Swanston-street, near Little ...
Article : 143 wordsArrived.—Jan. 4—5.10 p.m.: Yacht, painted white. Sailed.—Jan. 4—Perisc and Kyarra, for Sydney; Casino, for Port Fairy, Loongana for ...
Article : 382 wordsADELAIDE, Monduy.—Mr. Wade, the Premier of New South Wales, who arrived to-day from the West by the R.M.S. Ormuz, speaking concerning boxing, said:—"No ...
Article : 125 wordsInquines are being made by officers of the Railway department into the statement that the railway pier at Port Melnourne is unsound. As stated yesterday. the ...
Article : 274 wordsSir,—I beg emphatically to differ from Mr. Richard Hughes, of East Prahran, in his Statement that mine out of every ten men in the community are in favour of ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Salamis, of the "Aberdeen" line, is announced to leave Port Melbourne at noon to-morlow, for London via Cape Town. An anchor and 15 fathoms of cable were lost off ...
Article : 420 wordsSir,—Those of your readers who like boxing found in "The Argus" of to-day much to puzzle them in the report of a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Bevan, who gave ...
Article : 240 wordsYesterday afternoon, Mr. M'Shane, curator of the Williamstown Cricket-ground, reported to the local police that he had recovered a yacht's dinghy off the ...
Article : 109 wordsDuring the violent windstorm on Sunday morning the wife and two children of Mr. Robert Chalmers, railway porter, of Goulburn-street. Yarraville, had a narrow ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,—Mr. Richard Hughes hits the light nail on the head in maintaining that the majority must rule in a demoeratic community. The opponents of glove contests ...
Article : 193 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—The management of the North Woah Hawp mine were astounded to-day at the allegations made that a large number of men had been ...
Article : 670 wordsAn unexpected visitor in the shape of the "tramp" steamer Blytheswood made her appearance off Williamstown yesterday morning, the object of her call being to replenish bunker ...
Article : 116 wordsDuring the storm the roof of a stable in the yard of Mr. E. Rider, carrier, corner of Williams-road and Mackay-street, Prahran, was lifted bodily and hurled on to the ...
Article : 47 wordsNo progress was made yesterday with the interstate cricket match between Victoria and South Australia. The M.C.C. wicket was thoroughly saturated with rain. The ...
Article : 35 wordsBUNINYONG, Monday. — The cyclone which passed over Mount Buninyong on Sunday morning swept stooks of hay in all directions. The pulled crops of peas were driven up against stone walls ...
Article : 137 wordsThe India, of the P. and O. line, will take her departure from Port Melbourne, homeward bound, at 1 o'clock this afternoon. She arrived from Sydney yesterday morning, having experienced a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsSir,—You are to be thanked for publishing part of Dr. Bevan's sermon of yesterday, in which he gives the grain of comfort that even prize-gights, like wars, are ...
Article : 210 wordsMoldavia (P. and O. line) arrived at Plymouth January 1. Delphic (White Star line) sailed from Liverpool December 31. ...
Article : 21 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The storms at Blayney and Crookwell yesterday did considerable damage, many buildings being unroofed or losing their verandahs. ...
Article : 27 wordsEvery letter must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarautee of good faith. Correspondents are requested to inform the editor if ...
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Advertising : 725 wordsA private message, received from Sydney yesterday, from a gentleman who is usually well-informed, said:— "There will be no meeting of the Board ...
Article : 65 wordsFrom Mrs. George Gillesp[?], of Hawthorn, we have received a Christmas charity donation of £10, for distribution as under:—Central Mission (Rev. A. R. Edgar), £[?] Queen Victoria Hospital ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—John Kasser, in the employ of the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd Company, and Ah Too, a cook on board the steamship Manila, were before the ...
Article : 180 wordsHUddart, Parker, and Co. Proprietory Limited and the Bay Excursion Company notify that the Hygeia and Ozone leave Port Melbourne Railway Pier to-day, at half-past 10 a.m., the Hygeia for a ...
Article : 95 wordsTwenty-one "independent" members of the Legislative Assembly decided last night to act together, and, though they are in general agreement with, ...
Article : 3,616 wordsAt Two Hospitals for Over a Year, but Baby Girl Grew Worse—Mother Followed Friday Advice and Used Cuticura—No Return of Disease for "When my little girl was a few months old her ...
Article : 221 wordsThe whole of the barley used in Begg's whisky is grown and malted on the spot—in the immediate neighbourhood of the Distillery, and it is ...
Article : 59 wordsThe second match between the visiting Queensland church team and the South Suburban Churches' Association will be palyed to-day, at Toorak-park paly starting at 10 a.m. Luncheou ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 5 Jan 1909, Page 4
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