The great spring show of this society opened at the Alfred Hall on the 18th inst. It is without doubt the finest in point of merit and beauty which the society has over held, and the ...
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Article : 319 wordsAn important deputation from the shire councils of Swan Hill, Echuca, Waranga and Goulburn, which was accompanied by several members of parliament, waited on the ...
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Article : 70 wordsAt a meeting of the Decentralisation League held to-night a letter was received from about forty municipalities throughout the colony, promising support. The mayor of Sandhurst ...
Article : 141 wordsThe aboriginal, Charley, who murdered Duncan Campbell three years ago, has been shot by a police tracker near Chambers's Creek. He nearly speared Palmer, of Elsey station ...
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Article : 148 wordsAnother open air demonstration of the unemployed was preceded to-day by a deputation to the Commissioner of Lands, who stated that 100 men might immediately find work on the ...
Article : 211 wordsThis morning an inquiry was commenced at the morgue by the police magistrate, on the body of a male child, found on the western beach on Tuesday afternoon. The body had ...
Article : 100 wordsThe first session of the twelfth Parliament Commenced to-day. In the Council the President, Sir J. Hay, took the chair at noon, and the clerk read the proclamation conventing ...
Article : 1,351 wordsA little girl, 2 years of ago, the daughter of a farmer named Wm. Billman, was drowned in the Sheepwash Creek, near Sandhurst, on Sunday. ...
Article : 429 wordsAn accident occurred to a young miner named James Harvey, working in the Chiltern Valley mine, this afternoon. He fell down the shoot, about 40 feet, and on being brought to the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe board appointed to inquire into the matter of the use of explosives in mines and the noxious fumes proceeding therefrom, sat in Stawell to-day, to hear evidence. The ...
Article : 366 wordsMr. Dickson submitted at auction this morning the Australasian Steam Navigation Company's promises, having frontages to Felix and Mary streets. The highest offer was £25,000 ...
Article : 176 wordsA picnic to the Grampians, in connection with the Stawell and Grampians Freestone Quarry Co., took place to-day, and was attended by about 1500 people. The weather ...
Article : 228 wordsTelegraphic advices from the Peake report the arrival there of Mr. David Lindsay's exploring party, who will leave to-morrow for the interior. ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 21 Nov 1885, Page 22
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