There was a large business done to-day in a variety of stocks, and the market generally showed a larger number of buyers. Hepburn stocks were, perhaps, those that had the ...
Article : 1,989 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held on Wednesday afternoon lost, in the office, 55 Bonrke-street east, ...
Article : 634 wordsA meeting for the purpose of considering the alterations in the freight of grain as proposed by the Minister of Railways was held at Mack's Hotel this afternoon Mr. W. Reid ...
Article : 270 wordsIhe Hon G. D. Langridge, M. L. A., addressed a meeting of his constituents last night in the Foresters'-hall, Smith street. The hall waa filled, but not crowded. Mr. W. ...
Article : 1,036 wordsMr. A. T. Clark, M.L. A., addressed a meeting of his constituents in the Williamstown Mechanics' Institute last evening. Mr. E. G. Figg presided, and about 500 electors were ...
Article : 913 wordsTwo men suffering from small-pox were removed by the ambulance corps from Glebe Point to the quarantine station this morning. One of the patients is a blackfellow named ...
Article : 183 wordsA telegram from the Mount M' Donald goldfield at Milburn Creek states that a company of Melbourne capitalists have purchased Oliver's 100-acre selection for £13,000 cash. ...
Article : 1,041 wordsMr. Candler held an inquest at the Melbourne Morgue on Monday on the body of a newly born female child, which was found in a paddock at the Avenue, High-street, ...
Article : 272 wordsThrough the disastrous fire which occarred at Townsville on Friday last the insurance companies are affected as follows:—The Lion office, about £600; the South British, £1,625 ...
Article : 126 wordsSir Henry Parkes this morning received the following letter from Mr. J. R. Skuthorpe, the alleged discoverer of certain relics of Leichhardt, the explorer:— ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,—It is generally admitted that your exposure and denunciation of the job in connexion with the proposed appointment of Mr. J. Sergeant to the Bell-street state ...
Article : 722 wordsThe annual meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association was held at the Albion Hotel last night Mr. A. L Clarke, of the East Melbourne Club, occupying the chair. ...
Article : 391 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, the Native Minister (Mr. W. Rolleston) stated that the condition of native affairs on the West Coast was such as to cause the ...
Article : 127 wordsSir,—My attention was drawn this day to a letter which appeared in The Argus issue of the 17th inst, dated 16th September, 1881, in reference to above subject. ...
Article : 485 wordsSir,—Now that the public have been cruelly made alive to the direful consequences of negligence of the means of safety and protection in railway travelling, and as important ...
Article : 608 wordsMr. John Tebbutt, of the private observatory at Windsor, discovered another comet on Saturday evening in the constellation Libra. ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—It is a matter of deep regret that the recent controversy in your columns on the respective merits of Victorian and Tasmanian freestone has brought with it no satisfactory ...
Article : 582 wordsA sculling match for £100 a-side was rowed over the champion course, on the Parramatta, to-day, between H. Pearce, of Sydney, and M. Rush, of the Clarence River. ...
Article : 257 wordsSir,-—Whilst the subject ot railway tickets is on the tapis there is one point which I do not recollect having seen named in the letters of your various correspondents, and to ...
Article : 257 wordsSir,—In last Tuesday's Argus I saw a telegram from Alexandra condemning the action of a deputation then on their way to interview the Minister of Railways, to try and get ...
Article : 248 wordsThe second divisions of yachts entered to compete for the Edwards trophy took up their positions for starting opposite the boathouse at Albert-park on saturday afternoon, in the following order:—Mr. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe sum of £100, 000 was subscribed in London in 24 hours for investment in the Northern Territory gold mines. Mr. J. G. Pitcher, acting on behalf of an ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 20 Sep 1881, Page 6
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