The Federal commissioner of land tax (Mr. G. A. M'Kay) has supplied the following memorandum:— "The Federal Land Tax Act renders a ...
Article : 527 wordsBEEAC, Monday.—A meeting of farmers assembled at the Public-hall on Saturday to discuss a uniform valuation of land of a uniform class. It was decided to adopt the ...
Article : 363 words"Treble Tax" has written to "The Argus" as follows:— "I have land in a dry district, for which £1 an acre was paid to the Crown. This would still be its ...
Article : 164 wordsSir,—I would like to ask in connection with the Staet land tax object in demending, at any rate from city and suburban land holders, the value of their ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—The case stated by "Puzzled" in "The Argus" to-day as to the difficulty of ascertaining the unimproved value of his land is for all practical purposes that of ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsA conference between representatives of the timber merchants and importers and delegates from the Timber Sorters' and Stackers' Union was held yesterday, at the ...
Article : 391 wordsAbout 150 workers for gas companies attended an organising meeting held at the Trades-hall last night. Speeches were delivered by the president of the Firewood. ...
Article : 115 wordsA communication was read from the chief inspector of factories (Mr. Murphy) at the meeting of the Shop Assistants' and Warehouse Employees' Federation last night ...
Article : 357 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday,—It is understood that, in view of the approaching termination of the agreement between the Union Company and the deck officers, a ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. G. Dupree, secretary of the Tanners' and Leather Dressers' Union, received a telegram from the Sydney union yesterday intimating that a strike of tanners and ...
Article : 54 wordsApplication was lodged with the industrial registrar yesterday for the registration under the Commonwealth Arbitration Act of the Federal Pastryvcooks', Biscuit-makers, ...
Article : 48 wordsA cordial welcome was given the visiting delegates to the Australian Tramway Employees' Association conference by the members in Victoria at the meeting held in the ...
Article : 624 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Trouble is expected at the Hetton Colliery, Newcastle, owing to the determination of the manager to give the men two skips to fill in a working-place ...
Article : 57 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday.—The New Zewland conference of the executive of the Railway Servants' Association has resolved to get in touch with the Labour ...
Article : 81 wordsKYNETON, Tuesday.—At the January meeting of the Kyneton Shire Council the rate of payment of day labourers was increased from 6/8 to 7/, and the wages for ...
Article : 122 wordsAt the Hawthorn Court on Tuesday, George Carter, grocer, of Glenferrie-road, was charged with having sold coffee, which had been adulterated. Inspector Sexton stated that he visited Carter's ...
Article : 267 wordsAt the Footscray Court on Thursday, before Messrs. W. and D. Mitchell, J. Cinning. I. Collins, the mayor (Councillor Hills), and Councillors Fielding and Gallantt, J.P.'s, Mary La Franchi, ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsSir,—In the Labour News column of your issue of to-day's date appears the report of a meeting of tea and coffee packers, held at the Trades-hall on Saturday night, under ...
Article : 282 wordsGeorge Carter, of Glenferrie-road, was charged at the Hawthron Court on Tuesday, with having sold adulterated cream of tartar. Frederic Dunn, analyst to the city of Hawthorn, stated that he ...
Article : 107 wordsFREMANTLE, Tuesday.—The number of cases of typhoid which have been reported of late, in Fremantle, has caused the civic authorities to consider the ...
Article : 149 wordsSir,—I have read with great interest your leader in Saturday's issue on the subject of aerial navigation, and notice that the general trend of the article is to show ...
Article : 512 wordsThe State Cabinet yesterday evening decided to authorise the Attorney-General (Mr. Drysdale Brown) to carry out his proposals for increasing the staff of draftsmen ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Drysdale Brown (the Attorney-General) said yesterday that he had that day had a visit from Colonel Watson, the architect of the Pulic Works department, ...
Article : 426 wordsA meeting of Prahran citizens, convened by the mayor (Councillor Rupert Nicolson). was held in the municipal buildings last evening to take steps to raise funds to ...
Article : 540 wordsThe manager of the State coal mine at Powlett (Mr. Broome) yesterday expressed the opinion that the recent criticism of the Powlett slack coal by the State geologist ...
Article : 331 wordsA meeting of the par[?]oners of Holy Trinity Church, Coburg, was held in the school-hall on February 2. The Rev. Canon Tucker, who has had charge of the parish during the illness of the ...
Article : 220 wordsSHAKESPEARE SCHOLARSHIP, 1910. The Shakespeare scholarship is awarded to Hermiens Frederic[?] Ulrich and Murray Gladstone Patten, equal. ...
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Advertising : 45 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday.—The Minister of Marine says that satisfactory tenders have been received from England for the lease of the Campbell, Auckland, ...
Article : 58 wordsDONALD, Tuesday.—The branch of the Farmers' League has decided to amalgamate with the People's Party. POOWONG, Tuesday.—The branch of ...
Article : 291 wordsIt has been discovered that the derailment of two of the wheels of the engine of the Oakleigh train at Wattletree-road crossing on Monday afternoon was due to ...
Article : 114 wordsAn announcement was made on Friday that the Railway department would not receive consignments of grain or produce for that station until the then congested stocks ...
Article : 445 wordsDONALD, Tuesday.—At the railway station there are now 60,000 bags of wheat stakced in the yard and the grain shed. Transportation has been held up owing to the scarcity of trucks. ...
Article : 41 wordsWARRANGUI, Tuesday.—At the Warragul Police Court to-day, before Messrs, G. W. Anderson and E.J. Hunter. J.P.'s Norman Richmond was fined £2 with 12/6, costs, in default 14 days' ...
Article : 50 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Tuesday.—The committee of the Hampden and Heytesbury Pastoral and Agricultural Society have decided to support the movement originated by the Bunyip Society for better ...
Article : 71 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The goods train which left Toowoomba for Brisbane at 10.45 last night met with an accident at Murphy's Creek, a sheep waggon and a covered goods waggon being ...
Article : 59 wordsCommissioner Gahan had a notice of motion on the business paper of the Metropolitan Board of Works yesterday, providing "that a special committee be appointed to ...
Article : 237 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—Ame[?] Batten, licensee of the refreshment-rooms, Shepparton railway station, was proceeded against at the police court to-day, before ...
Article : 305 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—Tom Ying was fined £50 at the Northam Police Court for having had 5oz. of opium in his possession. ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsWith the approaching early issue of the new regulation 51 dealing with wages and conditions of employees, members of railway associations are making representations to ...
Article : 91 wordsSamuel James Reed, aged 40 years, was found hanging by a strap from a hat-rack in the corner of his bedroom at the Imperial Restaurant, Franklin-street, ...
Article : 231 wordsAn inquiry was held at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of William Jones. a thatcher. which occured at the Melbourne Hospital on February 3. ...
Article : 134 wordsAn inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of Bernard Bowes, an infant, which occured at North Richmond on February 5. ...
Article : 116 wordsAn inquiry was held at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of James Walsh. a dairyman, whose body was recovered from the river Yarra on February ...
Article : 129 wordsSenior-constalbe Stallard found an old man lying helpless in a lane off Lonsdalestreet, yesterday afternoon. He took him to the Melbourne Hospital, where he was ...
Article : 86 wordsFrederick Hulls, a labourer, aged 59 yeats, was found yesterday in his bedroom at the Cross Keys Hotel, South Melbourne, where he was staving, with his throat cut. ...
Article : 76 wordsWhile crossing the intersection of Swanston and Flinders street yesterday afternoon. Miss Ada Davidson, aged 22 years, of 169 Williams-road. Hawksburn, was ...
Article : 72 wordsTRARALGON, Tuesday.—Mr. T. A. Pettit, J.P., held an inquest in connection with the bathing accident at Tyers on Friday. On the afternoon of that day ...
Article : 189 wordsTALBOT, Tuesday.—Ah Cooey, a Chinese, about 80 years of age, was burnt to death last evening through his hut catching fire. How the fire criginated is not known. ...
Article : 64 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Peter Olson, who was injured on the schooner Beatrice on Monday night, died in the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday morning. ...
Article : 36 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A double fatality occurred about one mile from Byrnestown, near Gayndah, on Saturday. Tincknell, the mailman from Gooroolba to Byrnestown, ...
Article : 75 wordsSALE, Tuesday. Several months ago a man named Guy had his back broken, near Grant, through the fall of a tree. He was carried 40 miles to the Gippsland Hospital. ...
Article : 80 wordsBefore Messrs. Williamson (chairman), Allen, and Smith[?] J.P.'s, at the St. Kilda Court yesterday, William R. Kenner, of 100 High-street, was charged with having driven a motor-cycle at a ...
Article : 222 wordsMessrs. Sydney C. Arnold and Co., acutioneers, of Queen-street, have completed negotiations for the sale of large property in Collins-street, near Spencer-street, known as the Australian Stores, ...
Article : 132 wordsDONALD, Monday.—W. H. Gray reports having sold and leased the following land:—Account of Mr. John Leahy, of Litchfield.—210 acres, at Witchlpool, at £6/14/ per acre. to Mr. James Cannard, of ...
Article : 149 wordsThe strugle to apply to Geelong the Local Government Act. in licu of the Corporation Act. will be renewed this month. A subcommittee of the City Council has prepared ...
Article : 293 wordsAt a meeting of the charities carnival committee on Monday evening, the profit on the New Year's Day sports was reported as £72/15 8. The sum of £30 was ...
Article : 123 wordsECHUCA, Tuesday.—Five young men arrived in Echuca yesterday afternoon, and behaved in such a riotous manner that the police intervened. A senffie ensued, and ...
Article : 252 wordsCHARLTON, Tuesday.—The Charlton Water Trust has adopted an amended scheme, submitted by the Water Commission. for a new supply for the town. The ...
Article : 1,208 wordsIt has been the custom for the Ballarat Fire Brigade Clue to vote a small sum,rangnig from £1 to £2 a man, to the firemen who attended the annual demonstration held ...
Article : 279 wordsCharles Johnston and Co., furniture warehousemen, of Gertrude-street, Fitzroy, proceeded against Sarah Ann Coral Rose, married woman, of 124 Claredon-street, at the South Melbourne Court on ...
Article : 184 wordsRepresentatives of the St. Arnuad Hospital committee, who were accompanied by Mr. M'Bride, M.L.A., Minister for Mines and Forests, waited on the State Treasurer ...
Article : 130 wordsA claim for the maintenance of a child in circumstances of an unusual kind came before Messrs. Denton, White, and Beckett, J.P.'s at the Fitzroy Court on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Sarah I. ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Baillie[?] (Minister for Public Works) has given his devision in the matter of the drainage dispute between the city of Prahran and the town of Malvern. ...
Article : 620 wordsDONALD, Friday.—The wheat traffic shows no signs of [?] and there are now over 60,000 [?] st[?]cked at the Donald railway station and 40,000 at Lit[?] A serious difficulty is being ...
Article : 518 wordsMILDURA, Monday.—After 10 days of extremely unseasonable weather a welcome change occurred yesterday. Growers are making the most of the opportunity to get injured fruit dried and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 8 Feb 1911, Page 4
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