On Tuesday last, at the midnight hour, a comedy was enacted at Schwetasch's supper-rooms, at the top of Bourke-street in which the principal actor was Thome Francis, first violin of the ...
Article : 397 wordsNo fewer than two hundred and fifty of the stale school teachers of Victoria are in quarantine. Not for isolation, because some of them have had more than enough of that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Interesting anthropometric facts are set forth in the report upon the physical condition of the children in the public schools of New South ...
Article : 369 wordsThe formal opening of the new Parliament took place yesterday, when the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Hood, the commissioners appointed for the purpose, attended, ...
Article : 86 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—Everything was quiet last night. After midnight numbers of people waited about, expecting the arrival of the special train ...
Article : 3,720 wordsSix minutes was the duration of the initial proceedings in the Legislative Council Chamber, where at 25 minutes to 4 o'clock the members of the Council seated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 829 wordsWilliam Rohen, said to be 19 years of age, but looking no more than 16, was charged at the City Court yesterday with having broken into the store of the M'Culloch Carrying Company, Collins-street ...
Article : 350 wordsJane Benussi, 29 years of age, a domestic servant, was last night admitted to the Melbourne Hospital with a pea-rifle bullet in the brain. She had been staying with ...
Article : 101 wordsCLUNES, Thursday.—A young man, named Robert Gallaway, whilst riding a young horse along Smeaton-road yesterday was thrown off, and sustained a fracture ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. R. Cole, P.M., with Messrs. J. C. Cook and L. Greenwood, J.P.'s, as visiting justices, held a court at the Pentridge ponal establishment yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 266 wordsThere was an unexpected hitch in the opening of Parliament that was not without its humorous side. The initial ceremony on these occasions takes place in the ...
Article : 379 wordsKERANG, Thursday.— John William Cullen, a Mallee farmer, single, aged 43, was found dead outside his residence, 10 miles from Kerang, on Wednesday morning. The ...
Article : 96 wordsAfter an unhappy married life of 18 months Elsie Newbury proceeded against her husband, Cecil W. J. Newbury, for the maintenance of their child at the Fitzroy Court on Tuesday. Mr. ...
Article : 268 wordsWAGGA, Thursday. — A young man, named J. H. Plant, a resident of North Wagga, who has been employed as a labourer in the Lockhart district, was ...
Article : 135 wordsAt the Richmond Court on Wednesday, Albert Panth[?]net, a marine dealer, was charged on warrant with having left his wife, Edith Pauthenet, and two children without means of support. Mr. ...
Article : 182 wordsThe following is the text of the report of the state Auditor-General (Mr. F. H. Bruford) against the Government expenditure of sums of money without the sanction of ...
Article : 349 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—George Seagrim, the 3-year-old son of Mr. A. W. Seagrim, a carpenter, was playing in the workshop where a circular saw was in motion. When ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—There was much excitement at Armidale to-day when a report was circulated that a man had confessed to the murder of Hannah Kelly at ...
Article : 159 wordsBefore Messrs. Hooper and Yager, J.P.'s, at the Fitzroy Court on Wednesday, J. A. Brennan, dairy produce dealer, Gertrude-street pleaded guilty to not having closed his shop on Wednesday afternoon, ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Some boys, while hunting for foxes at Canowindra, found the body of a swagman. It was greatly decomposed, and much eaten by insects. The ...
Article : 100 wordsPunctually at 3 o'clock members of the Legislative Assembly attended in the Assembly chamber. Every member of the new House was present. After members had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsAt the Collingwood Court on Thursday, May Adams proceeded against her husband, Edward Adams, for the maintenance of three of their children, whoso ages ranged from 3 to 11 years. Mr. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe financial position of the two leading hospitals—the Sydney Hospital and the Prince Alfred Hospital—is causing considerable anxiety to the authorities of these two ...
Article : 133 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday. — A curious shooting fatality occuried at the Bluff. William Wilson, with two younger brothers, was shooting with a Remington rifle. ...
Article : 75 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER Thursday. — A fatal gun accident, occurred at Mount M'Intyre, near Millicent, at the residence of Mr. J. A. Walker, through which his son ...
Article : 96 wordsBRISBANE Thursday.—The HowardSmith Company, purchased 500 acres, part of the old Swanbank dairy estate property, at Ipswich. Satisfactory tests have been ...
Article : 423 wordsAt the Prahran Court yesterday, before Mr. Keogh. P.M., and Messrs. Phipps and Hyslop, J.P.'s, the Chinese laundrymen were charged, on the information of Frederick J. Austin, inspector ...
Article : 118 wordsThe results of the senior, junior, and commercial examinations, which were held at the University from November 30 to December 7, will be posted at the University ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Under Secretary (Mr. Callaway) yesterday received from Mr. Lumsden, who opposed Mr. Frank Madden for the Boroondara seat in the Legislative Assembly, a ...
Article : 153 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday. — David Thomas, aged 53, a fitter on the Central mine, died suddenly to-day of heart failure while waiting for a tram to take him to ...
Article : 55 wordsOn Thursday at the Collingwood Court, before the mayor (Councillor Evans), and Messrs. Rain and Aumont, J.P.'s George Williams and Andrew Brennan were charged with having been found in ...
Article : 187 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The charred remains of Donald Morrison were found among the burned debris of his tent at Burrawong to-day. He went into ...
Article : 74 wordsBile Beans are Invaluable in the Trying Summer Season. Summer heat induces languor and lassitude where the vital functions are not up ...
Article : 308 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—Dunedin advices state that the Fijian fruitgrowers' boycott of Dunedin fruiterers has practically ended. A thousand cases of bananas came ...
Article : 221 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — What has the appearance of a case of suicide has occurred at Kurri Kurri. James Knights, aged 73 years, was found unconscious on a ...
Article : 60 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—At the meeting of the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A. this evening, Mr. W. Hayhow moved:— "That the state Labour party be ...
Article : 244 wordsBefore Messrs. Showers and Tait, J.P.'s, at the Fitzroy Court on Thursday, Thomas Corrigan was charged with having assaulted his wife. Amelis Corrigan said that her husband came home drunk ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — A lad named Coleman, while on a visit to Blackheath, met his death yesterday. He was standing at a railway crossing, when a runaway ...
Article : 143 wordsAt the Footscray Court on Thursday a youth named John Osborne was charged with driving a horse and vehicle across a footpath in Simpson-street. Osborne said that he crossed the footpath ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsThe largest collection of beautiful Glass and China Ornaments, suitable for presents, is shown in the Collins-street room, 125ft. long, and the Bourke-street room, 150ft. long, Book Arcade. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 8 Jan 1909, Page 6
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