A serious accident occurred yesterday morning on the railway line between the Montague and Port Melbourne stations. A child of 12 years, named Mary Cummings, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsAs the result of representations made to him by Captain Asa Whitney, on behalf of a committee of Auckland yachtsmen, the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) has indicated ...
Article : 800 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The High Court gave judgment to-day in the wire-netting seizure case. The questions the Court was asked to decide were—(1) Whether a state ...
Article : 2,095 wordsBrother M. C. Thornton, of the Orion Lodge, has been appointed Senior Grand Deacon of the Masonic Order, by the Grnad Master, Brother G. E. Emery. ...
Article : 693 wordsAdvices from all portions of the British Empire throughout the world show that the celebration of Empire Day will be universal.? ...
Article : 2,255 wordsThe wool sales to-day were marked by animated competition, with prices for all sorts reaching the highest rates of the series. American buyers are operating for the best ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd.:—Wool Sales.—The sales progress firmly. ...
Article : 146 wordsEarly yesterday morning the body of a man unknown was discovered on the railway line between Heyington station and the river bridge. The body was found by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 618 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £27,710,000, against £27,027,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilites being 51.77 per cent., against 51.12 per cent. ...
Article : 140 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Friday. — Mr. John Donnan died in the train this morning whilst being conveyed from Terang to the Colae Hospital. He was under the care ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. Bowden (N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives yesterday, directed the Prime Minister's notice to the report in "The Argus," in which it was alleged that ...
Article : 259 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Joseph Williamson, a jockey, belonging to Cowra, was riding the mare Miss Iolanthus at the Grenfell races, when he was thrown, and sustained ...
Article : 33 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bills in London is 2 per cent., or 1 per cent. below the Bank rate of 3 per cent. Short loans are quoted at ...
Article : 59 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Mrs. Ella Smith, of Attfield-street, Fremantle, whose clothes were ignited through the bursting of a kerosene lamp on Sunday morning and was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—The Government has appointed a staff to conduct the survey of the route of the proposed railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie. Altogether 40 ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The German war-ship Condor, which left Sydney for New Britain five days ago, unexpectedly put into Newcastle this evening to renew her coal supply. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Eaglehawk Bench on Friday granted Frank Hayman a license to buy gold at his premises. Victoria-street, Eaglehawk, principally for the convenience of fossickers ...
Article : 691 wordsA resident of Albert-street, East Brunswick, has wife, and his family have been disturbed at night for weeks past by mysterious noises, resembling muffled ...
Article : 174 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 24 11-16d. per ounce standard, being a rise of 3-16d. per ounce since yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsBROKEN HILL, Friday.—George Yates, of the firm of Yates and Quindlen, agents, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of fraudulent misappropriation of £15, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—Captain Noel, of the wreeked barque President Felix Faure, is reticent in regard to the condition of the food depot on Antipodes Island, ...
Article : 313 wordsThe prices stated below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—The Bradford market is strong, with a good inquiry. Tops are quoted at ...
Article : 294 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—Charles Henry Deutschmann, who has been committed for trial on a charge of having murdered his wife at Dobie, near Ararat, was to have ...
Article : 106 wordsAUCKLAND, Friday.—The tramway strike continues, and no cars ran to-day. The general manager of the company has agreed to meet the men to-morrow, when ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 257 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—An appeal to the Full Court which promises extensive litigation was to-day the subject of an application by Mr. Ralston, K.C. The motion is one on ...
Article : 192 wordsThe reason that many of the bank drafts and account sales for British and foreign exhibitors, and a considerable amount of general correspondence in connection with ...
Article : 192 wordsSir.—Your subleader in "The Argus" of to-day opens up serious food for reflection. It is true that, of late years, the main class of steamers that eater for passenger trade ...
Article : 244 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Those engaged in the attempt to refloat the steamer Mildura, which has been aground on the Nor-West Cape since March last year are sanguine that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Dalgety and Company Limited, dated May 21:—"Frozen Meat.—Frozen Lamb—There is a good ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals. — Oberhausen, s.s., from Melbourne March 28; Australind, s.s., from ...
Article : 73 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The eighth wool sales of the present series were held to-day. There was a large and representative attendance. In all 9,932 bales were catalogued. Compared with last ...
Article : 505 wordsSir,—Will you kindly allow me, through your columns, to appeal to the public on behalf of the above society, with which I have been connected since its inception, and ...
Article : 140 wordsIn this case, heard in Adelaide, and concluded on Wednesday, judgment was entered by Mr. Justice Gordon in terms of an agreement arrived at between the ...
Article : 256 wordsThe worst case of Chronic Indigestion yields to the right food. Leave off for a time all foods that disagree, and feed regularly on Grape-Nuts, and a cure is ...
Article : 368 wordsNorman Bruhn, aged 14 years, was on Friday working at one of the woollen mills when his arm was drawn into a loom, the lower portion of the limb being fractured. ...
Article : 78 wordsAs the term of office for the leather goods trade wages board has expired, the Minister for Labour (Sir Alexander Peacock) will be glad to receive the names of three ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Donald Stewart Black, a well-known resident of Muckleford, was found dead in his bed on Friday morning. It is thought that death took place over a fortnight ago, ...
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Advertising : 213 wordsSTAWELL, Friday.—A five-roomed weatherboard house owned and occupied by Miss Abrahams, situated in Skene-street, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening. It is presumed that the fire ...
Article : 179 wordsYARRAWONGA, Friday. — The movement organised by some of the local compositors, for the purpose of having the Shops and Factories Act so amended as ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Seymour, Government potato expert, is making arrangements to establish an experimental plot on the farm of Mr. Davidson, of Cassady's-bridge. ...
Article : 113 wordsWELLINGTON.—Arrived.—May 22—Otterburn, from Newcastle. Sailed.—May 22—Maitai, for Sydney. ...
Article : 17 wordsBooks, new and secondhad; Music, new and secondhand; Stationery and Artist Materials, entrance Bourke-street. Books, wholesale—immense variety, 3 flats, enter ...
Article : 140 wordsJust published, new edition of "Apples versus Tobacco," containing 48 fresh pages about apples; price as before, 1/. Every lover of apples and health should read this book. Cole's Book ...
Article : 84 wordsThree artistic Post Cards, being high-class reproductions in colours of famous paintings of Australian life, will be sent free of cost to anyone who has ever used Dr. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 23 May 1908, Page 20
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