The fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon, the Mayor (Councillor Fenwick) in the chair. Present—Aldermen J. T. Smith, Storey, ...
Article : 1,786 wordsA number of the members of the Foot-and--Month Disease Commission yesterday visited Duck Island, near Queenscliff, in order to see whether it would be suitable for a quarantine ...
Article : 1,292 wordsThe winter of 1872 will long be remembered on the west coast of Australia. We have had a remarkable succession of severe gales. On the 10th March the church at Guildford was blown ...
Article : 1,831 wordsThe rejection by the Council of the Border Customs Bill has at present created more excitement on the Murray than it has in Sydney. The Government and its partisans ...
Article : 1,586 wordsSir,—Owing to not having daily communication with a post-office, the leader in Tuesday's Argus, on a tax upon imported stock from the neighbouring colonies, I did not read ...
Article : 1,467 wordsSir,—I suppose we must make up our minds to be sat on by Messrs. Wragge, Fitzgibbon, and Co. There is nothing dignified in the position, particularly if you are underneath. ...
Article : 666 wordsThe following is the bill to amend the law relating to trustees introduced by Mr. W. A. C. A'Beckett:- Whereas it is desirable to amend the law ...
Article : 1,084 wordsSir,—Will you kindly afford me sufficient space in the columns of The Argus to briefly offer a suggestion, which I hone will be received by the professional and amateur ...
Article : 507 wordsSir,—Your correspondent "Layman" seems to have nothing to say. I asked him two questions, he has answered neither. In the case of poetry I readily admit my incapacity, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 6 Aug 1872, Page 6
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