After deliberating for about half an hour, the jury yesterday returned a verdiet in favour of Victor E. Cheshire, of Holbrook, New South Wales drover in ...
Article : 337 wordsMr. R. W. Heath (left), the Melbourne tennis player, sailed by the Mooltan yesterday on a business trip to Europe. He will compete in the South of France tennis championships. His young brother, Mr. Gowfrey Heath (right) bade him farewell. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsAnimated scenes on Princes Pier yesterday marked the departure for Colombo, Egypt, Marseilles, and London of the P. and O. liner Mooltan (20.847 tons). She sailed with every available berth booked (allowing for reservations for passengers joining at Colombo and Aden), and her departure marks the opening of the tourist season for the company this year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsMr. J. W. H. T. Douglas, vice-captain of the English cricket team, was a witness at the morgue on Tuesday, when the coroner (Mr. D. Berriman, P.M.) ...
Article : 886 wordsArising out of a municipal prosecution, a special case stated by Judge Dethridge for the opinion of the Supreme Court, in relation to the weight of Vienna loaves, ...
Article : 470 wordsMR. COLIN TEMPLETON, MRS. FELIX W. LLOYD, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 54 wordsVersions given for the prosecution and for the defence in a case at the city Court on Tuesday differed widely in every material respect. Beryl Findley, of Scotchmer street. North Fitrzoy, was ...
Article : 419 wordsWith a view to improving the original design by Mr. W. Butterfield, the St. Paul's Cathedral Erection Board, with the co-operation of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects arranged a competition, of which the assessors selected the design of Mr. John Barr, of Sydney (reproduced on the left), to win the first prize of £400. This design, with the other premiated and the unsuccessful designs, are now on exhibition in the Chapter House, Cathedral Buildings, but the exhibition does not Include the original design of Mr. Butterfield (reproduced on the right). These illustrations offer an interesting comparison of what the first architect Intended and what the cathedral authorities propose to add to the existing structure. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 122 wordsA sensation was caused on a tramcar bound for Keilor road on Thursday evening, when passengers, seeing a man brandishing a beer bottle above his head on the tram, scattered in all directions ...
Article : 552 wordsAt the Carlton Court on Tuesday. Mollie Ellrington Mollie McCarty, and Lily Stevenson, three middle-aged women were charged with having behaved in a riotous manner. Mr. D. ...
Article : 144 wordsArrangements have been made by the police for the hearing of the charge against William Marshall, of Heyfield, of having caused poison to be administered to his ...
Article : 84 wordsReference to sailing the South Seas and drawing the cutlass was made at the Flemington Court on Tuesday when Frederick Clayton, aged 29 years, fireman, of Finsbury street, ...
Article : 402 wordsWhether the alleged high speed of an Essex motor-car, driven by W. A. Terdich, manufacturer, of Gipps street, Abbotsford, and the application of his brakes when he saw that he 'could ...
Article : 479 wordsSix charges arising out of a series of robberies from Messrs. Galliers and Klaerr's engineering work,s Inkerman street, St. Kilda, and the shop of Busst and Bills Brothers Pty. Ltd., Mattress and ...
Article : 368 wordsMr. W. O. Strangward, secretary and former general manager of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Strangward, left Melbourne yesterday by the Mooltan for a six months tour of Europe and America. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsOn the Sorrento Portes road is a gateway made of the jawbones of a stranded whale. That leviathan, however could not compare in size with the 60-ton monster, 63ft. in length, which was recently washed ashore in a high tide off the lettles near Sabine, Texas. This extraordinary photograph (by "Wide World") shows the whale's mouth open and the remarkable fringe of whalsbone through which it strains its food. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 81 wordsAlfred Frederick Pearson was tried before Judge Woinarski, In General Sessions yesterday, on a charge of having, in company with other persons to the Attorney-General unknown, robbed George ...
Article : 189 wordsMerwin George McLellan aged 22 years, and John O'Brien aged 23 years, appeared at the City Court on Tuesday to answer a charge of having, as suspected persons, loitered in a public ...
Article : 221 wordsIn response to a telephone message yesterday from a pawnbroker in Elizabeth street near Latrobe street. Detective Webster and Plain-clothes Constables Dunn ...
Article : 147 words(M.E. Andrews, Portland photo.) The first steamer to load wheat at Portland this season was the Cornish City, which on February 8 began to take on board a ca[?] of 90,000 bags for the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation Ltd. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsAbout half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morning a fire completely destroyed a four-roomed house and its contents at Stuart road. Clarinda. The cause of the fire is not known. In response to ...
Article : 115 wordsRoy McLeod, a young man, pleaded guilty in General sessions yesterday, to charges of having forged and uttered an order for £4, and of having obtained £1 by false pretences. ...
Article : 187 wordsRichard Rowe, butcher, of Glenlyon road, Brunswick appeared at the North Melbourne Court on Monday before Mr. D. Grant P.M. and Messrs. D.G. Carter and W. Hewitt, J.P.'s [?] ...
Article : 110 wordsInquiries are being made by senior-detective R. P. Brennan into the destruction by fire of a haystack on the property of Mr. E. Fritsch, orchardist, at Red Hill. On Saturday morning ...
Article : 74 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 18 Feb 1925, Page 17
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: