A boy, eight years of age, named Martin Christian, was charged at the city court on Saturday with the larceny of a purse, containing £13 in cash and deposit receipts for £100, the property of ...
Article : 238 wordsTo-day.—Final payments due for Caulfield Futurity Stakes; settling over Aspendale-park races at Victorian Club; entries close for V.R.C. general events; entries close for Richmond races; ...
Article : 261 wordsThe first night of a pantomime seldom furnishes a speciemen peformance either as regards the completeness of the stage preparations or the smartness of the ...
Article : 731 wordsMr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, the chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works on Saturday entertained a large number of gentlemen in connection with the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 472 wordsThe Adelaide Racing Club's summer meeting was held at Victoria-park this afternoon. The weather was fine but warm, and the attendance only moderate. In the Licensed ...
Article : 756 wordsA fire occurred on Friday night at the residence of Mr. J. T. Philpot, of Yapeen. He was awakened by a strong smell of smoke, and traced the fire to a room occupied by his daughter and niece. ...
Article : 79 wordsAt a special meeting of the Winchelsea Shire Council on Friday, a final report was received from the auditors, mainly dealing with irregularities in the fox destruction account. The auditors were ...
Article : 159 wordsThe backing of Precaution for the Newmarket Handicap at the Victorian Club on Friday was the prelude to her running and winning at Rosehill on Saturday. She was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 318 wordsThe quality of the Geelong water has given rise to loud complaints on the part of the consumers, who are clamouring for action to be taken to secure a purer supply. The quantity is also ...
Article : 285 wordsWhen the tick pest broke out in Queensland a year or so ago, causing cattle to die by hundreds, a fear was expressed that the ticks might in time find their way to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsThis morning, Mr. H. Foster, Minister of Mines, who has been in Bendigo for the last day or two, paid a visit to Marong to note the development of that field since the Water Supply department ...
Article : 330 wordsThe February meeting at Rosehill was well attended to-day, in spite of the fact that the day was close and oppressive. In the Shorts Handicap Precaution led soon after the start into the straight, when she was overtaken, but coming ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 words"Infanticide," the title of a play produced for the first time at the Alexandra Theatre on Saturday evening, is suggestive of great possibilities, and the author or authors—it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsAfter a week of terrible heat, Saturday's change was very grateful, and as a consequence race-goers mustered in good force at Aspendale-park. The horse train met with ...
Article : 1,108 wordsThe recent meeting of the Bairnsdale Shire ratepayers, who unanimously opposed the proposed loan of £5,000, and the purchase of the Agricultural Society's Show-ground, appears to have made an ...
Article : 217 wordsPlatt-Betts left yesterday in the R.M.S. Oroya for Western Australia, en route for England. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe St. Kilda Club had a fine sailing breeze from the southward for their annual open race on Saturday. Of the 12 entries eight faced the starter, viz., Uira, Helen, Mystery, Ada, Zarita, Leisure ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Yarram annual races were held on Friday, at the Tooloonook course. The weather was fearfully hot, and owing to the bush fires there was only a fair attendance. Results:—Hurdle Race.—Ivanhoe. ...
Article : 113 wordsNominations for the Maryborough Mining Board closed this evening. In two of the divisiions the retiring members have been returned unopposed— Messrs. C. Sainsbury and Thomas Davey, for the ...
Article : 1,704 wordsA new series of open-air entertainments, entitled "Continental Concerts," was successfully inaugurated in the quadrangle of the Exhibition, under the direction of Mr. W. ...
Article : 352 wordsThe welcome change in the weather on Saturday morning, was duly appreciated. The wind blowing strongly from the south made the ordinary halfmile on the sand a bit slow, and there were no ...
Article : 939 wordsThe eleventh yacht race for Colonel Gascoigne's challenge cup, valued at £50, which has been competed for since 1887, was sailed yesterday in Sydney Harbour, and was won by Mr. W. M. ...
Article : 60 wordsVictorian Rowing Association.—Entries for the Victorian Rowing Association's annual regatta, to be held at Prince's-bridge on Saturday, February 19, close to-day, at Young and Jackson's Hotel, at ...
Article : 64 wordsAfter a week of excessively hot and oppressive weather, anything in the shape of aquatic sports or swimming matches is appreciated by the majority of the general public, and on Saturday an ...
Article : 449 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Victorian Milkmen's Association was held in Mr. Mauger's rooms, 66 Bourke-street, on Thursday; the president (Mr. J. Fogarty) in the chair. The following ...
Article : 132 wordsSir,—What the public can see in the Nelson, or what is left of her, to keep as a memento of the wooden walls of Old England, i fail to see. There is no history ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 7 Feb 1898, Page 7
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