The sculling match for £500 a side and the championship of the world, between William Beach, of New South Wales (the champion), and Wallace Ross, of New ...
Article : 323 wordsAt the Criminal Sittings yesterday Robert Scott Gregory, formerly bank clerk, Melbourne, whose sudden disappearance caused some sensation about three years ago, his ...
Article : 342 wordsTheir Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince George of Wales left to-day to rejoin the Mediterranean squadron. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe last day's racing of the A.J.C. Spring Meeting was well atteuded, and the weather was everything that could be desired. Veronique and Caloola were about equal favourites for ...
Article : 2,255 wordsOur chief occupation in Derby lately has been sitting news from the goldfields, and we have had plenty to choose from—good, bad, and indifferent. Men of experience ...
Article : 1,715 wordsA meeting of exhibitors in favour of re-opening the Colonial and Indian Exhibition next year has been arranged to take place at an early date. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe s.s. Hohenzollern, the second vessel of the new North German Lloyd's line, arrived here to-day, having left Bremen August 11, and Southampton August 15. The ...
Article : 137 wordsThree per cent, consols are ¼ higher— 101?. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe annual picnic of the Mutual Benefit Society of the Victorian Railways was held here yesterday. Six large trains, carrying 5,000 people, arrived from Melbourne, ...
Article : 238 wordsThree and a half per cent. New South Wales inscribed stock, 1924, 5s. higher, £94; four per cent do., 1933, £1 higher, £108 10s.: four per cent. Victorian ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Peter Campbell, "bush missionary," who has for many years been known as of somewhat eccentric character, was accidentally killed on the St. Kilda railway line on ...
Article : 354 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 12,000 bales were offered, making a total of 206,500 bales during the series. The tone of the market is weaker. ...
Article : 53 wordsA public meeting of ratepayers was held at the new hall, Newmarket, on Saturday evening, for the purpose of considering the proposed extension of the cattle yards at the city ...
Article : 548 wordsTin continues to rise steadily, the current quotation for best Straits and Australian boing £103 10s. per ton. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe reply of the Government to the deputation which waited on the Colonial Secretary on Friday afternoon to protest against the choice made in the appointment of delegates ...
Article : 445 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat for the United1 Kingdom is 1,670,000 quarters, being an increase of 20,000 quarters during the week. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe annual parade of stud horses was held to-day under the auspices of the Ballan Agricultural and Pastoral Society. The horses, both in number and quality, were ...
Article : 395 wordsChilian bar copper is quoted at £41. ...
Article : 13 wordsSilver is selling at 3s. 8?d. per oz. ...
Article : 15 wordsSomi, a Japanese seaman belonging to the barque Rachel, was performing acrobatic feats in the rigging of the vessel on Sunday, for the amusement of persons on the wharf, ...
Article : 494 words"The average prices of beef and mutton tallow are for beef 23s., mutton 25s. 6d. ...
Article : 21 wordsWallace Ross, of New Brunswick, Beach's opponent in Saturday's race, was born at Dorchester, Westmoreland, New Brunswick, on the 20th of February, 1857, and is a ...
Article : 999 wordsThe mails per the Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Austral, from Melbourne 20th August, were delivered in London to-day, v[?] Naples. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe ninth concert given in Melbourne by the Sisters Joran took place on Saturday night, in the Town-hall, in the presence of a large audience. The entertainment began ...
Article : 456 wordsOn the 6th inst., a grocer named W. H. Solomon was admitted into the Ballarat Hospital suffering from blood-poisoning, occasioned, as he believed, by a severe ...
Article : 189 wordsA contest under the Queensberry rules took place last night between T. Lees, of Victoria, and Professor Jackson, of Sydney, for £200 a-side and a silver belt presented by L. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians have decided to recognise certificates of attendance at the lectures on anatomy, physiology, and chemistry delivered at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 447 wordsAt the meeting of the Victorian Football Association on Friday evening the Footscray club wrote, asking that the match between that club and South Williamstown, wihch ...
Article : 152 wordsBOURKE, SEPT. 25.—Stock Movements—200 fat cattle for Dynevor Downs, B. Richards; 180 from Da from Abbotsford to Sydney, Rouse and Co. owners; ...
Article : 262 wordsA deputation of merchants and residents of Port Darwin waited on the Government Resident yesterday to ask him to provide Government work for the unemployed who throng ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,—I have only just returned to Australia after a lengthened absence in Europe, and in the first copy of The Argus that I take up I notice that an attack has been ...
Article : 362 wordsCLONCURRY, SEPT. 25.—There is plenty of grass and water every where, and stock are in splendid condition. They are mustering at Coolalah 500 builocks, and are about mustering at Fort Constantine 1,000 ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—As my experience in reference to the customs duties may be of interest to others who contemplate having their lares et penates sent out from home, may I ask you to ...
Article : 225 wordsSir,—I learn by a paragraph in The Argus of 22nd inst. that amongst the thousand ladies and gentlemen who are to be invited to be the guests of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsSir Julius Vogel his abandoned his application for a new trial in the libel action against the Wellington Evening Press. The Postmaster-General is in ...
Article : 103 wordsMason v. O'Flaberty, Reason v. Knight, Bank of Australasia v. Herric, Sterry v. Trestrail. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before His Honour Mr. Justice Holroyd.) ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—The educational value of such an entertainment as Mr. Locke Richardson is now presenting cannot well be overestimated, and I should like to see it made worth ...
Article : 98 wordsThe residents of Torquay and Formby yesterday presented Captain Tindall, of the steamer Moreton, with a valedictory address. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 27 Sep 1886, Page 6
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