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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsNominations 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsIn 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, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 753 wordsA 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 wordsPart 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 wordsAn 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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 wordsOn 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 wordsIn 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsAt 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 wordsLetters patent were granted by the Attorney-General on Tuesday last to the following applicants, viz.:— Mr. G. W. Blackwell, of Trentham, farmer, ...
Article : 567 wordsSir,—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 wordsSir,—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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 30 Jan 1889, Page 8
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