Mr. Percival Ball, sculptor, of Melbourne, has been entrusted with the execution of the statue of Sir William Wallace for the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. The warrior is to appeal ...
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Article : 338 wordsThe annual meeting of members of the Victoria Racing Club was held at Menzies' Hotel yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, when there was an attendance of about 100 gentlemen, Mr. ...
Article : 2,258 wordsThe eighteenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Coffee Taverns Company Limited was held at the Coffee Palace, Bourke-street [?]ast, yesterday, when there was a fair attendance ...
Article : 161 wordsThe River Campaspe commenced to rise rapidly this morning, and had risen about 10 inches up to 5 o'clock this afternoon and the water has encroached into the yards and ...
Article : 479 wordsThe Council of the Chamber of Manufactures held a meeting in the Melbourne Exchange last night ; Mr. E. Steinfeld in the chair. A NATIONAL LABOR BUREAU. ...
Article : 567 wordsOur Clunes correspondent, writing yesterday, says:- Mr. James Pitcher's promising 2-year-old colt by Rapidity, dam Monsoon, had to be destroyed on Sunday last, having broken ...
Article : 76 wordsYesterday was the last day upon which nominators of horses for the Melbourne Cup could declare the first forfeit of £5, and, in consequence, a number of withdrawals from the race ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Roma arrived from Normanton this morning and left again for the south. The Changsha arrived from Sydney, and remains here pending the arrival of the Chinese ...
Article : 100 wordsA sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court was hold at the Old Supreme Court yesterday, when there were present Mr. Justice Chomley (in the chair), Mr. A. F. Mollison, and ...
Article : 1,129 wordsThe following are the scratchings to date from the Caulfield Cup :- Rhetorician, Lord Wilton, Enfield, Abuse, St. Leonards, Grace Darling, Empress. ...
Article : 26 wordsDuring the season over 300,000 young trees have been distributed to farmers and others in the colony by the Conservator of Forests department ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsA special sitting of the Richmond city council was held yesterday morning to finally decide upon the suggestions made by Tramway Company for insertion in the proposed new ...
Article : 370 wordsThe annual parade of horses held by Messrs. Campbell, Pratt and Co. was opened yesterday at half-past 12 o'clock, at the grounds, Sydney-road, opposite the University, by his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsThe Ministerial party left Silverton for Broken Hill this morning. Before starting champagne was brought out, and Success to Silverton proposed by Mr. Abigail. At the ...
Article : 276 wordsA meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures was held after the council meeting; Mr. E. Steinfeld (president) in the chair, and about 40 members present. ...
Article : 362 wordsThe forty-fifth annual meeting of members of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society was held in the Temperance Hall last night, when there was a moderate ...
Article : 536 wordsMrs. Porteous entertained her pupils and their friends on Friday evening last, in honor of the opening of the new building of the Armadale Ladies' College. The guests ...
Article : 173 wordsThe annual general meeting of the shareholders of the West End Brewery Company Limited was held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Scott's Hotel ; Mr. G. D. Carter, ...
Article : 595 wordsA private letter from Point Moresby, under date 16th July, advises that an expedition, fitted out by Mr. Douglass, and consisting of Messrs. George Hunter and Hartman, ...
Article : 117 wordsSome anxiety was caused in the city yesterday forenoon when it was announced by telegram from Wilson's Promontory that the United Queensland Company's steamship City ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsThe annual meeting of the Auctioneers and Estate Agents' Association of Victoria was held yesterday at Planet-chambers ; Mr. C. J. Ham, M.L.C., presiding. The annual report, ...
Article : 210 wordsFears are entertained as to the safety of Mr. Geo. Walker, an old resident of Gisborne and for many years rabbit inspector for that district. It appears that Mr. Walker left the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsAt the ordinary meeting of the Coburg shire council held last evening, a communication was read from Messrs. Gillott, Croker and Snowden, enclosing the opinion of Mr. Gregory ...
Article : 160 wordsThe prospecting board met to-day, and decided to recommend alterations to the regulations to the effect that recipients of assistance should forward monthly reports of work done, ...
Article : 94 wordsA general meeting was held and closed in re Thomas Walter Rowe and William Henry John Willson, trading as Rowe and Willson, of Richmond, commission agents. No creditors were ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Victorian Cyclists' Union has been requested by the New South Wales Union to bring under the notice of local cyclists the fact that members of the Victorian Wheelmen's Association will not be allowed to compete ...
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Advertising : 131 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following additional donations in aid of the above fund :- The Worshipful the Mayor of Collingwood, amount ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 2 Aug 1887, Page 6
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