The outcome of the recent conference, of municipalities with respect to the Merri Creek was that the Board of Public Health be requested to send an officer to report as to the condition of the creek as ...
Article : 129 wordsProbably the most eventful of the many voyages that the barque Oimara has made during her career of twenty years has just ended. Her appearance as she lay at anchor out in the ...
Article : 512 wordsIn reviewing the aggregates of the banking returns of the seven colonies for the quarter ended 30th September last we directed attention to the great transformation Australasian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsAscotraces; Maldon races; Corowa R.C. entries; Richmond R.C. entries: Albury R.C. entries. ...
Article : 23 wordsPrices in the local sheep and cattle market Show an all-round increase this week, owing to the shortness of supplie[?] The Eaglehawk Council has received ninety ...
Article : 69 wordsLord Richmond will not be debarred from running in the Australian Cup, a fact which those who have coupled him in doubles with Newmarket Handicap horses will be pleased ...
Article : 927 wordsAt Monday's meeting of the Preston Shire Conncil, Councillors Howden and Bond were appointed to attend the deputation to the Minister of Health to-day, for the purpose of urging, on behalf of the ...
Article : 370 wordsSPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the police court this morning a resident of this district named Eliza Edlin, who was recently married a second time, was committed for trial on a charge of perjury. The ...
Article : 116 wordsForecast (Tuesday, 6 p.m.).—Generally cool and cloudy, showery in south; freah 8, winds; weather becoming finer; rough sea in Straits. ...
Article : 29 wordsRainfall at Observatory previous 24 hours to 3 p.m. February 25, 6.49in. Since January 1, 5.64in. Average rainfall at Observatory for the first two months of the year, 3.16in. ...
Article : 241 wordsMr. George Thom, a local auctioneer, recently sent a consignment of 240 dozen eggs to England, and the returns to hand show that the net amount received by him was not ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the meeting of the St. Kilda City Council on Monday evening Councillor Moore refuted some statements published by some Melbourne newspapers respecting alleged extravagance at the ...
Article : 519 wordsTHE MERRI CREEK. ...
Article : 392 wordsThe Great Intercolonial Free-for-all Trot. (Closed with five entries.) 14 a.[?] Pony Handicap Trot, 10 sovs. One mile. Nomination, 10s. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 wordsThe fourth annual conference of delegates in connection with the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria was opened here to-day. ...
Article : 609 wordsAt the meeting of the Port Melbourne Town Council last night a letter was received from the town clerk of the council of the city of Ballarat stating that the subject of insurances being ...
Article : 300 wordsFurther reports of the rainfall in the country continue to arrive. As will be seen from the following messages of yesterdays date, exceptionally heavy falls have been experienced in some parts of the ...
Article : 264 wordsA young man named William Robertson was charged at the Criminal Court, before Mr Justice Hodges yesterday, with having committed a criminal assault on a girl 10 ...
Article : 151 wordsThe weather was simply [?]minable this morning. Al 6 o'clock it was only drizzling but at half-past the rain came down in torrents, and the only track that was fit to go on was the sand on the inside of the course ...
Article : 937 wordsTHE GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER'S REPORT. ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,—A person is engaged in business, unfortunately a losing concern, but be must live, and for the sake of the business keep up a certain amount of style. The money so ...
Article : 557 wordsThe public works committee of the Port Melbourne Town Council, at the meeting of the council last night, recommended that a letter should be sent to the Metropolitan Board of Works re the arrears of ...
Article : 105 wordsThere was a fair amount of business over the Newmarket Handicap at the Victorian Club yesterday. Courallie continued favourite at 100 to 8, which price was accepted for a ...
Article : 285 wordsAlburv, 1½in. within seven hours; best rain for some time. Broken Hill, 1.64in. at Stephen Creek; very heavy about Round Hill; 45 points locally. ...
Article : 291 wordsAt Monday night's meeting of the Collingwood Council a letter was read from the South Melbourne Council stating that it was proposed to hold a conference to take into consideration the de[?]rability of ...
Article : 103 wordsTHE RAINFALL. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Crown Law department wrote to the Brunswick Council on Monday night notifying that a letter signed by over sixty ratepayers had been received by that body complaining, in support of the action recently taken ...
Article : 106 wordsThe sixteenth annual meeting of the United Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Company Limited was held yesterday at its office, 405 Collins-street, Mr. R. J. Harvey ...
Article : 402 wordsAt vyesterday meeting of the Williamstown Council the mayor reported that, in accordance with a resolution adopted at a public meeting a committee recently met to consider the question of establishing ...
Article : 87 wordsSir,—At Maf[?]ra great efforts are now being made to float a company under the provisions of the new act of Parliament, which, unless a serious rise takes place in the price ...
Article : 496 wordsA shocking misadventure with a pea-rifle, resulting in the death of a boy, the son of a farmer named John Nolan, occurred at Carboor this morning. The boy and a girl, ...
Article : 101 wordsThe rainfall last night was the heaviest yet recorded in Wangaratta. At 11 o'clock rain commenced, and fell heavily and without cessation for several hours. At 8 a.m., when the weather cleared, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsThe Williamstown Council recently submitted to the Port Melbourne Council a scheme for the reconstruction of the Williamstown Short-roa[?] and offered to subscribe £750 towards the work and pay half the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Calyx drill has gone through some very good seams of coal. It is now being shifted a few miles further south, when, if it strikes the seams again, which is almost a ...
Article : 1,061 wordsAt a meeting of the Nunawading Shire Conncil recently it was resolved that the booth at Sarrey Hills for municipal elections, instituted for the convenience of voters for the Blackburn and Mitcham ...
Article : 215 wordsSir,—In the report given in Tuesday's issue of the lantern lecture on "The Golden West" given by me on Monday evening, in Wesley Church, there are several inaccuracies ...
Article : 235 wordsThe following are the results of the above races, held at Redesdale on Monday last:— HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. One mile and a half.— ...
Article : 706 wordsMessrs. MATHESON and DAVIS report:—"Fat Cattle.—The supply was lighter than usual, and the demand limited. Prices were rather easier, except for prime light weights. We sold fat heifers £2 10s. ...
Article : 178 wordsAt the meeting of the Nunawading Council on Monday night the necessary motion for an increase of the rate to 1s. 4d. in the £1 was passed. Councillor Hanby moved for a return of all arrears of rates over a ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 26 Feb 1896, Page 6
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