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  2. SPEECH BY THE PREMIER OF NEW ZEALAND.

    The Premier (Sir Harry Atkinson), addressing his constituents to-day, said he regarded the appointment of a railway board merely as an experiment. Two of his colleagues (Mr. ...

    Article : 199 words
  3. MUSIC AT THE EXHIBITION.

    The last special orchestral concerts took place in the concert-hall yesterday afternoon and evening. Lady Loch was present in the afternoon, and the hall was crowded in all ...

    Article : 834 words
  4. SANITARY REQUIREMENTS AT KEW.

    The consideration of the disposal of night-soil was brought up at the fortnightly meeting of the Kew council last night. The mayor (Councillor Kellett) considered it ...

    Article : 150 words
  5. SERIOUS CASE OF FISH POISONING.

    A little grocery store situated at the corner of Lulie and Abbott streets, Collingwood, was the scene yesterday afternoon of a singular occurrence. The store is kept by a man ...

    Article : 506 words
  6. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

    Nominations were received in three more electorates to-day, and another Minister has been returned unopposed. In the Burrowa district Mr. T. M. Slattery, the Minister of Justice, ...

    Article : 287 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. James Gordon, an old colonist, who was clerk of petty sessions in 1852, and has since had a very chequered life, died yesterday evening, after a short illness, aged 62. ...

    Article : 1,205 words
  8. THE WOOL SHOW AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

    In The Argus of yesterday morning we were able to announce, the winner of the International Grand Champion Prize for six fleeces of fine wool, either washed or greasy, ...

    Article : 628 words
  9. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S PAPER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 753 words
  10. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    A fish hawker named Edward Wall was charged before a bench of magistrates on Wednesday at Fitzroy with assaulting Catherine Stafford. The accused had offered Mrs. ...

    Article : 271 words
  11. THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALIA.

    Part 35 of this work is devoted to the Otago division of New Zealand, a section which includes some of the grandest of the island scenery. Dunedin is handsomely ...

    Article : 325 words
  12. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    An order was granted by the Supreme Court to-day for the winding up of the Atlas Engineering Company, which for some years past has conducted an extensive ...

    Article : 718 words
  13. A STRANGERS' EXPERIENCE OF THE TRAMWAY TRANSFER SYSTEM.

    Sir,—I am a guileless stranger in your great city. At present I reside in South Yarra. Yesterday my evil genius inspired me with a desire to see the Exhibition. To ...

    Article : 388 words
  14. CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The following are the awards of the jury on the exhibits of flour meal, &c., at the last special grain show, viz.:— FLOUR MEAL. ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. THE MURDER OF AH GAY ONG.

    On the 17th of November, 1888, a Chinaman named Ah Gay Ong was murdered by larrikins in Market-lane, off Little Bourke-street. A young man named Stephen Cutler was ...

    Article : 278 words
  16. FORGERY AND UTTERING.

    In the City Court yesterday Emil Denis appeared on remand charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £67. Mr. R. Walsh prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended by ...

    Article : 180 words
  17. THE TASMANIAN RACING CLUB.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 words
  18. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    The following casualties were admitted to the Alfred Hospital yesterday:—Alexander Brown, agn 17 years, living at Ferntree Gully, with a gunshot wound in his right hand, ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. THE GIANT TREES OF VICTORIA.

    Sir,—A week or two since some splitters were criticising the photographs of the supposed largest trees of Victoria which the Vegetable Products Commission have lately ...

    Article : 998 words
  20. CHURCH MEETINGS.

    The annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Paul's, Melbourne, was held in the church porch on Monday, the 21st inst. In the absence of the incumbent through illness, ...

    Article : 471 words
  21. THE NEW DEPARTURE IN EXPLO RATION.

    Sir,—The article on the above subject in yesterday's issue of The Argus might lead your readers to suppose that all the early pioneers to the untrodden portions of ...

    Article : 210 words
  22. CRUELTY TO A DOG.

    At the Flemington Court yesterday J. E. Winser was charged with cruelly, illusing a sheep dog at Kensington. Proceedings were taken by the Society for the Protection of ...

    Article : 65 words
  23. NEW PATENTS.

    Letters patent were granted by the Attorney-General on Tuesday last to the following applicants, viz.:— Mr. G. W. Blackwell, of Trentham, farmer, ...

    Article : 567 words
  24. THE AUSTRALASIAN FEDERAL COUNCIL.

    Sir,—It may not be amiss to remark, for the benefit of whoever may choose to assimilate the information, that it will be as great a mistake at this stage of Australasian ...

    Article : 727 words
  25. TAPPING THE YARRA FOR PURE WATER.

    Sir,—In reference to the suggestion contained in The Argus of to-day as to the advisability of tapping the Yarra above Dight's Falls for the supply of pure water to the ...

    Article : 699 words
  26. A FEDERAL ARTILLERY REGIMENT.

    Sir,—There are two great Imperial questions apparently occupying the minds of all statesmen throughout the Empire, if one can judge by the speeches, articles, and letters ...

    Article : 557 words
  27. BALLARAT.

    The half-yearly balance sheet of the Ballarat Banking Company, for the period ending the 31st ult., shows a very satisfactory state of affairs. The usual 10 per cent. dividend is ...

    Article : 357 words
  28. THE TOBACCO JURY AWARDS.

    Sir,—The jurors appointed to judge the tobacco shown at the Centennial International Exhibition, 1888, have at last published their report, after months of arduous ...

    Article : 329 words
  29. PAINTING FOR THE SANDHURST ART GALLERY.

    The committee of management of the Sandhurst Fine Arts Gallery has decided to make an offer of 700 guineas for the picture "Too Late," which formed one of the ...

    Article : 82 words
  30. THE EIGHTH CITY OF THE WORLD.

    Sir,—The progress of the colony and its capital in the past is indeed a subject for congratualation; but surely such tables as that "Melbourne is the eighth largest city in ...

    Article : 93 words
  31. Advertising

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