The following is a copy of a letter addressed by the secretary of the Wimmera Shira Council to the Minister of Public Works, in reply to the auditors' roport on the shire ...
Article : 901 wordsThe annual meeting of this association was held on Thursday afternoon, at the office, 48 Queen-street, Mr. James Huddart in the chair. ...
Article : 1,807 wordsCopies of further correspondence relative to the recommondation of the Police Commission were laid on the table of the Assembly yesterday afternoon. The correspondence ...
Article : 871 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock lost night a most determined attempt to shoot Mr. Charle Chapman, jun., music warehouseman, 91 Swanston-street, was made by a girl giving ...
Article : 1,415 wordsA requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the late Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick was celebrated at St. Thomas's Church, Petersham, this morning, by the Rev. Dr. Coletti, in the ...
Article : 540 wordsNothing definite has yet been done in regard to the appointment of a Minister to perform the duties of the Colonial Secretary during the absence of Sir Henry Parkes. ...
Article : 471 wordsThe P. and C. Company's R.M.S. Surat arrived here this morning. The following is her list of passengers:— For Albany.—Mr. L. J. Bayley, Mr, J. E. ...
Article : 205 wordsSpeaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall, Mr. Gladstone, when referring to the Transvaal Convention, paid a strange compliment to the Boers in speaking of them ...
Article : 712 wordsThe Eleven of England, on their arrival at Adelaide to-day, were driven to the Townhall, where they were welcomed by the Mayor of Adelaide, and their healths drunk in ...
Article : 268 wordsThe new immigration regulations, which were approved of by the Executive Council this afternoon, were gazetted to-night. The selection of immigrants will be limited to ...
Article : 303 words" Sir,—I have the honour, under direction of the Wimmera Shire Council, to express to you their dissatisfaction at the unwarrantable manner in which you disfigured the account-books of this corporation ...
Article : 105 words"Sir,—I have been directed by the Wimmera Shire Council to convey to you their regret at your having permitted the local auditor, Mr. John Smith, to disfigure the account books of this corporation in the ...
Article : 147 wordsIt was understood that Parliament should this session be prorogued by proclamation, as was done in 1880, when the Service Government appealed to the country, but, on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsMr. Jonbert invited the officers and men of H.M.S. Nelson to visit the Exhibition free of cost. The Nelson will leave for Sydney via Albany on Saturday. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the committee of management of the Benevolent Asylum was held on Thursday, 22nd inst. Present—Mr. H. J. Farmer (in the chair), Messrs. W. ...
Article : 562 wordsExamined and found correct. ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—About four years ago I wrote an article, which you were good enough to find space for in your columns, giving an account of the natural history of the phylloxera ...
Article : 403 wordsMrs. Anthony was killed to-day, through the explosion of some chemicals which her husband, a chemist, was making into fireworks. ...
Article : 30 wordsA special meeting of this society was held on Thuraday afternoon. Mr. John Wilks, the president, occupied the chair. He explained that there was a desiro in Auckland, ...
Article : 353 wordsA man named Michael Toohey, whilst driving a horse and cart across the tram line at the intersection of Market and Elizabethstreets this morning, came into collision with ...
Article : 292 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Sandridge Mechanics' Institute and Free Reading Room was held on Wednesday last in the local courthouse. It was resolved that as ...
Article : 146 wordsA fatal accident occurred at Footscray last evening, the victim being a man named named Robert Keddie. A passenger by the quarter-past 8 train from town, Keddie, who ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Minister of Lands received a deputaion of gentlemen interested in the establish ment of the abovenamed institution yesterday. Mr. Zox, in introducing the gentlemen ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 23 Dec 1881, Page 6
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