Issued by the Weather Bureau, Sunday, 9 p.m.:— "Smooth to moderate seas along southern coast line." On Saturday morning the sea was rough ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 510 wordsThe official forecast for to-day is:— "Cloudy in southern districts, with one or two showers along the coast. Fine ...
Article : 322 wordsFrederick Henry Seddon, an insurance agent, of Tollington-park, and his wife, have been committed for trial in connection with the death of a well-to-do spinster ...
Article : 137 wordsBALLARAT, Saturday.—What may be regarded as the last act in connection with the memorial erected in Ballarat to the men who died in the South African war was ...
Article : 1,466 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The temperature in Hobart on Saturday rose to 101deg., which is the greatest heat experienced since 1905. Several cases of sunstroke are reported from ...
Article : 196 wordsThe great heat of last week produced a record demand for water through the State, both for domestic and stock purposes and for irrigation. The calls upon ...
Article : 61 wordsOn one of her annual visits from Japan and China the E. and A. liner Empire should reach Melbourne this forenoon. She will berth up the river. ...
Article : 458 wordsA more or less dense smoke haze, extending from Wilson's Promontory, on the eastward, to Cape Bans, South Australia, and covering practically the whole of Bass ...
Article : 897 wordsThis city's unenviable reputation for crime is being added to daily, and the police are becoming more bafiled. They admit that they are powerless to trace the perpetrator ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsZEEHAN, Sunday.—Two middle-aged ladies, Margaret and Agnes Young, became demented yesterday afternoon, presumably through the excessive heat, and had to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsThe Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Gore) denounced what he called the "churchmen's traditional indifference to their social obligations" when addressing the Christian ...
Article : 103 wordsImportance is attached to a statement made at a meeting in the city on Friday by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Board of Trade (Mr. J. M. Robertson). ...
Article : 143 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.—The Australian mail line steamer Croydon is now 41 days out on her voyage from San Francisco to Auckland. ...
Article : 23 wordsMany thousands of people made St. Kilda their objective on Saturday. They began to arrive early in the afternoon, every train and tram being crowded. The stream ...
Article : 283 wordsA life-buoy which was thrown from the A.U.S.N. Co. liner Wyreema on February 11 last year, to a man who had fallen overboard between Green Cape and Gabo Island, was recently picked up near ...
Article : 99 wordsFour hundred Bedouin Arabs made a night attack on a small outer fort at Benghazi, in Tripoli, during the week. They were driven back by the Ralian forces. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsAlthough there was such a remarkable demonstration by Presbyterians against Home Rule at the Belfast gathering on Thursday, the same unanimity cannot be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsAn attempt was made on Thursday by suffragettes to make a public demonstration on the return of the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) to London from his holiday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 278 wordsThe Brighton St. Kilda electric tram service, as it was conducted on Saturday night, was unable to cope with the homeward rush of people from the beaches. The ordinary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsThe terms have been published of the cable-message sent to Dublin to the leader of the Ulster opponents of Home Rule (Sir Edward Carson, M.P.), by Mr. O. R. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcase, of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...
Article : 716 wordsThe Governor-General (Duke of Connaught), replying to a deputation from the Canadian Defence League, said that he approved of its aims, which include the ...
Article : 76 wordsBert Cain, aged 21 years, was overcome by the heat at Lincoln-place, Carlton, on Saturday, and fell to the ground. He was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital for ...
Article : 422 wordsMOUTAJUP, Saturday.—A number of fires have been raging in the Victoria and Sierra ranges north of Victoria Valley. To-day the fire fire reached the grass country ...
Article : 167 wordsMr. G. M. Bosworth (vice-president of the Canadian Pacific railway) announces that the new Pacific steamers, which are being built for the Oriental trade, will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. L. P. Pelletier) intends to press the Imperial Government to make further reductions in the cable tolls throughout the empire, and ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,—After reading the statement by Mrs. Hughes, president of the A.W.N.L., Victoria, in "The Argus" of the 1st inst, we desire to point out several ...
Article : 568 wordsMALDON, Saturday.—During a thunderstorm last night a fire occurred on the farm of Mr. John Somer, between Joyce's Creek and Moolert. One hundred acres of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,014 wordsThe Governor-General, Lord Denman, attended by Captain Stewart-Richardson, A.D.C., Colonel Wallack (State Commandant), and the Lord Mayor (Councillor ...
Article : 301 wordsAn extensive scrub fire raged just beyond Carrum township, nearly the whole of Saturday. Residents, in large numbers, endeavoured to put out the fire, but were ...
Article : 138 wordsThe secretary of the Alfred Hospital received a cheque for £25 on Saturday from Major George Steward, C.M.G., as a contribution towards providing ice or cool ...
Article : 85 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Sunday.—The threatened strike of local preachers in the Methodist circuit, owing to a dispute with the superintendent minister, took place to-day. ...
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Article : 197 wordsThe depth of the Yan Yean reservoir was 24ft. 1½in. on Saturday. In spite of the unprecedented water consumption of the last week, the level of the Yan Yean fell only ...
Article : 267 wordsJohn Cregan, aged 17 years, son of the caretaker of the Melbourne Town-hall, was drowned in the Saltwater River, beyond Mariby[?]ing, yesterday afternoon. John ...
Article : 138 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—At cockatoo Island, on Saturday afternoon, a steel bucket dredge, constructed under contract for the Melbourne Harbour Trust at the new ...
Article : 113 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.—For assaulting a girl nine years of age, Albert Hughes, 26 years of age, has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Judge ...
Article : 128 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—On Friday evening, Maurice Fitzgerald, aged 30 years, threw himself in front of a passenger train on the bridge over Thomson's Creek, near ...
Article : 52 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The bush fires in the south continued with unabated fierceness on Saturday. Practically the whole of the rich stretch of wattle country between ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 5 Feb 1912, Page 8
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