The unemployed, to the number of between 200 and 300, assembled yesterday at the corner of Spring-gardens, opposite the old Treasury-buildings, and held an open-air ...
Article : 752 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Trades-hall Council was held last night. There were about 80 members present, and the president (Mr. W. Trenwith) occupied the chair. ...
Article : 805 wordsA married woman named Elizabeth Blanche Kent died last week under peculiar circamstances. It transpired at the inquest to-day that traces of laudanum were found in the ...
Article : 190 wordsThere is no new development in the crisis in connexion with the iron trade. It was expected that the question would have been discussed at the meeting of the Trades-hall ...
Article : 715 wordsYesterday Mr. W. Trenwith and Mr. W. E. Murphy, the president and secretary of the Trades-hall Council, had a conference with the representatives of the different ...
Article : 501 wordsA deputation from the Shopkeepers' Union waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday with respect to the recent early-closing disturbances, which they said were assuming a ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the Assembly to-day a bill for the construction and maintenance of a tramway from the terminus, on the western boundary of New South Wales, of the South Australian ...
Article : 886 wordsA deputation from the Standing Committee appointed by the recent Rabbit Conference urged the Minister of Mines to-day to carry out the recommendations of the conference ...
Article : 345 wordsFrank Stone, the secretary of the Richmond Demonstration League, who had been arrested in Bourke-street on Thursday night on a charge of insulting behaviour, was ...
Article : 400 wordsA miner, who has been on the Kimberley goldfield for three weeks, and who has arrived at Townsville by the s.s. Hero, states that he walked from Derby to tbe goldfield. There ...
Article : 119 wordsThe ninth annual ploughing match of the Bung Bong and Wareek Farmers' Club took place to-day, under the auspices of the Clunes and Talbot United Agricultural Society. The ...
Article : 355 wordsA deputation, representing the ironmasters and ironworkers, waited on the Chief Secretary this morning to urge the desirableness of having the iron work required by the ...
Article : 218 wordsA mass meeting of the members of the various maritime labour organisations, convened by the New South Wales Seamen's Union, was held in the Protestant-hall ...
Article : 480 wordsA large attendance of persons interested in the dispute in the iron trade assembled in the strangers' gallery at the meeting of the Trades-hall Council last night, evidently in ...
Article : 485 wordsAt the Williamstown Police Court yesterday (before Messrs. Perry and Morgan, J.P.'s), James Adams, boot dealer, was charged with assaulting Charles Harvey, with ...
Article : 336 wordsAt the meeting of the Trades-hall Council last night a letter was read from C. Willams, stating that he had been asked by the men who were at present unemployed in ...
Article : 327 wordsThe annual meeting of the Bookbinders and Paper Rulers' Society was held at the Trades-hall on Thursday evening. The election of officers resulted as follows:— ...
Article : 391 wordsThe inquest on the body of the late Mr. E. M. Bagot was concluded to-day. The jury found that the deceased's death was caused by his accidentally falling into a quarry at Dry ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Daylesford ploughing match took place to-day in Bowker's paddock, close to the town. The weather was splendid, and the ground in excellent condition after the late ...
Article : 381 wordsThe s.s. Chollerton has arrived from London, 54 days out, with eight saloon passengers for Australian ports. She has brought a quantity of war material for the Victorian ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following information is taken from last night's issue of the Government Gazette:— Appointments.—To be Judge of the Courts ...
Article : 614 wordsThe Loan Bill is still before the Legislative Council, which is not willing to pass it. It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued next week if the business can be got ...
Article : 42 wordsAt a meeting of the Wharf Labourers and Lumpers' Union held in Townsville to-day, a resolution was unanimously carried approving of the stand made against the steamship ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—The account in your issue of the 4th inst. of a visit made to the temporary home for friendless and fallen women in Islington-street, Collingwood—no doubt furnished by ...
Article : 649 wordsThe quarterly return of the estimated population of Victoria published in yesterday's Government Gazette by the Government statist, shows that on June 30 the total ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 wordsCharles Eldred, house steward of the Colac Hospital, was found dead on his bed this morning. A subsequent inquiry proved that he had committed suicide by taking a large ...
Article : 187 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of shareholders in The Australasian Building and Investment Society Limited was held yesterday. The report showed that the transactions for the ...
Article : 264 wordsThe sixteenth half-yearly meeting of the Coffee Taverns Company Limited was held yesterday at the Coffee Palace, Bourke-street Mr. J. A. Kitchen, acting chairman of ...
Article : 290 wordsThe installation meeting of the Hotham and Kensington Lodge No. 2, V.C., was held on Thursday evening, of the new hall, Newmarket. Brother T. L. Robb was installed as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of management of the Immigrants' Aid Society was held on Friday at the classroom of the Collins-street Baptist Church. Present— ...
Article : 220 wordsThe ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Brunswick Borough Council was held on Wednesday, there being present the mayor (Councillor Crook), and Councillors Methven, ...
Article : 289 wordsDr. Youl, the city coroner held an inquest at the morgue on Friday on the body of John Dickson, aged about 60. Deceased had lived for the past four months at the Devon and ...
Article : 147 wordsKING EXTENDED Majorca.—The first general meeting was held at Fera's Hotel on the 4th inst, at which there was a large attendance. Mr. E. O Witherden in the chair. The acting manager reported ...
Article : 197 wordsDr. James Teague, while visiting his patients in Kew yesterday, was violently assaulted without any warning by a drunken man, who rushed out of a publichouse and ...
Article : 155 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Odontological Society was held on thursday, Mr. Cumming (president) being in the chair. Messrs. L. A. Curter, D.D.S., and F. E. Holloway were ...
Article : 111 wordsThe committee of management of the Alfred Hospital held their ordinary weekly meeting on Friday afternoon, when there were present—Messrs. R. L. J. Ellery (in the ...
Article : 136 wordsAn inquest was held at the morgue on Friday by Dr. Youl on the body of a female infant which was found near the gasometer on the St. Kilda-riad by a mail contractor ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 7 Aug 1886, Page 10
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