A conference of members of the Victorian Alliance was held last night in the Temperance-hall, for the purpose of making arrangements for a lecturing campaign by the Rev. ...
Article : 1,302 wordsThe London Chamber of Commerce has adandoned its demand that an Imperial institute should be erected in the city distinct from the institution which is to ...
Article : 44 wordsThe principal contest to-day was in the electorate of Camden, where the Minister of Lands, Mr. T. [?]arrett, and another free trade candidate, were opposed by Mr. Kidd, one of ...
Article : 387 wordsWe have New Caledonian papers from the 17th of January to the 2nd of February. They teem with complaints of the violent and disorderly conduct of the imported ...
Article : 658 wordsSir Patrick Jennings and Mr. Wisdom, who were appointed to represent the colony at the Imperial Conference, will proceed to England in the R.M.S Chimborazo, which leaves ...
Article : 81 wordsA serious fire occurred soon after half-past 7 o'clock last night at the premises of Messrs. Rocke, Tompsitt, and Co., wholesale chemists and druggists, Flinders-street west. ...
Article : 897 wordsA shooting affray, arising out of jealousy, which resulted in the death of a young man, named John King, occurred at East Melbourne late last night. A few days ago King, ...
Article : 583 wordsThe weather yesterday was almost the same as on Thursday, but with the addition that the thermometer rose to over 98deg. From the Observatory it is reported that in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe surviors of the ship Kapunda, which was sunk through collision with the barque Ada Molmore off the coast of Brazil on the 20th January, will arrive at ...
Article : 43 wordsAt a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day the following motion was carried:—"That, in the opinion of the chamber, the changing station on the ...
Article : 225 wordsThe intense heat which has prevailed during the past week has so dried up the grass and other vegetable products in the plains that bush fires have been very prevalent ...
Article : 574 wordsThe French Government have withdrawn their objection to the abolition of the corv[?], or system of forced labour, in Egypt. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe death is announced of Charles William Fitzgerald, fourth Duke of Leinster in the Irish peerage, and Viscount Leinster in the peerage of Great ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is expected that a Sydney municipal loan will shortly be placed upon the market. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Rev. Richard Young (Church of England), of Sydney, is dead. ...
Article : 21 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 11,600 bales were offered, making a total of 177,800 bales during the series. The tone of the market is quieter. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chief Justice and the Mayor of Adelaide are still engaged in perfecting plan for decorating the Victorian court at the Jubilee Exhibition. ...
Article : 555 wordsA distressing case of drowning occurred here yesterday evening. Two girls and a boy, the children of a farmer named Harrison, were engaged, in the absence of their ...
Article : 250 wordsFour per cent. New Zealand inscribed stock, 1929, £1 higher, £95. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Bank of England returns for the past week show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 50 per cent. as compared with 48 per cent, last week. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe steamship Beeswing, a well-known trader between Melbourne and Newcastle, had a narrow escape from being wrecked yesterday morning. She was travelling ...
Article : 251 wordsThe mails per the Union Steam Ship Company's R.M.S. Mariposa, from Sydney December 29, were delivered in London to-day, via San Francisco. ...
Article : 28 wordsAlexander Robinson, an architect, was charged on remand at the City Court, at which Mr. J. Wilton, J.P., and several other justices presided, yesterday, with having ...
Article : 889 wordsAttention has been called in the press to the incompleteness of the arrangements for the defence of New South Wales, and the utter inadequacy of the supply of ammunition ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsA disastrous fire broke out in the Chinese camp, at Dimboola, shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, and in less than an hour the entire camp, with the exception of five houses, was ...
Article : 163 wordsThe British India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Sirsa arrived to-day, having left Calcutta on January 15. She brings the following passengers:—For Melbourne— ...
Article : 70 wordsAmelia Hogan, aged 23, who lives in Station-street, Carlton, was taken to the Melbourne Hospital on Friday night by Mr. F. Oddell, who lives in Victoria-parade, and ...
Article : 180 wordsWhen the special train for Adelaide last night arrived at the Beaufort railway station it was reported that after pausing Burrumbeet screams were heard from the ladies' ...
Article : 212 wordsAt 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the woolshed on Trawalla station, owned by Mr. John Wilson and leased to his nephew, Mr. Norman Wilson, was entirely gutted by a fire ...
Article : 169 wordsOn Thursday evening the steamer Edina met with a very unfortunate misadventure. She was proceeding on her journey from Geelong to Melbourne, when on nearing the ...
Article : 189 wordsSir,—The hospitals for some time past, even when no epidemic existed, have been taxed for room. Thus, it will be necessary—until there is increased hospital accommodation— ...
Article : 366 wordsJohn Dove, of William-street, North Brighton, plasterer. Causes of Insolvency— Illness of self and family, and want of employment. Liabilities, £46 18s. 6d.; assets, ...
Article : 93 wordsParliament has been prorogued until the 16th March. The charge against Dr. Connolly, of Wanganui, of attempting to commit a criminal ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following is a list of passengers to and from Sydney passing through Albury, as telegraphed by our correspondent:— ALBURY, FRIDAY. ...
Article : 262 wordsA number of the unemployed waited on the Acting Premier and some influential citizens to-day to discuss their grievances. Mr. Bray promised to try and get the deep drainage ...
Article : 106 wordsSir,—I quite agree in opinion with Dr. Youl that mischief is caused by the publication of the returns of typhoid fever cases in the daily newspapers. It is not alleged that ...
Article : 183 wordsECHUCA, FEB. 11.—stock movements:—8 horses from A. stoddart, Bundylumbiah, consigned to Campbell, Pratt, and Co., Melbourne; 32 pigs from G.G. Claughton, Riverina, consigned to Strettle and Co., ...
Article : 109 wordsSir,—Whilst sympathising with, and admiring the spirit and manifest good intentions of, your correspondent "Paterfamilias," in drawing the attention of the public, and ...
Article : 390 wordsAdmiral Tyron, in reply to the Premier's telegram regarding the despatch of a warship to Tonga, states that he will send a vessel when the cyclone season is over. In an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsThe following passengers to and from Adelaide passed through Serviceton yesterday:— SERVICETON, FRIDAY. ...
Article : 100 wordsSir,—Referring to Mr. Vincent Smith's letter, the paragraph he alludes to appeared in The Argus on the 22nd November, 1886, in a report of a lecture on "Healthful ...
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Advertising : 51 wordsSir,—At the present season when there is so much sickness in our midst, and skilled nursing is so essential, I would enjoin the community at large to assist the medical ...
Article : 151 wordsECHUCA, FEB. 11.—There was a very large supply of wheat brought forward to-day, some of it being of very fine quality. The ruling rate is unchanged, viz., 3s. 6d. for prime malting, but farmers are holding ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Feb 1887, Page 10
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