At the meeting of the committee of the Victorion Shipwreck Relief Society, held at the Sailors' Home on Thursday, a letter from Mrs. G. P. Stevens, the widow of Captain ...
Article : 269 wordsBy the arrival of the Orient s.s. Liguria we are in receipt of Cape files to the 18th September. SMALL-POX AT CAPE TOWN. ...
Article : 517 wordsWe understand that yesterday the Police Commission sent in an ad interim report, stating that in the course of their investigations into the organisation of the police force, ...
Article : 1,065 wordsPresent—Messrs. Macgregor (chairman), Archer, Henty, Love. Templeton, Keogh, and Loughnan, and Dr. Cutts. G. W. Brown, secretary for education, who ...
Article : 1,440 wordsYesterday's sitting of this commission was attended by Mr. M'Intyre, M.L.A., in the chair, Mr. Lo[?]mer, M.L.C., Messrs. Cook, James, Gibb, Bosisto, Walker, and Tucker, ...
Article : 702 wordsA meeting of the friends and supporters favourable to the re-election of Councillor Gunn at the forthcoming election for Victoria Ward was held in the Carlton-hall, ...
Article : 187 wordsDr. Quick and Messrs. R. Clark, Fincham, Jomes, and Williams yesterday waited upon the Minister of Mines with reference to the proposal of the Engine Drivers' Associations ...
Article : 268 wordsSir,—I have been favoured with some advance sheets ("Forestry Bulletins," 1 to 16) of the United States census report, which it is expected will be ready for publication early ...
Article : 691 wordsDisquieting reports continue to arrive from Zululand. Most of the chiefs are alarmed at the action of the Imperial Government in regard to the return of Cetewayo. Johns ...
Article : 301 wordsSir,—The publication of Mr. Castieau's annual report has brought under discussion in your columns the pressing need for reform in various departments of our prison ...
Article : 1,074 wordsThe Royal Commission on the Tariff inspected the extensive coach-making establishment of Mr. Daniel White, in Swanstonstreet, yesterday morning. The chairman ...
Article : 882 wordsSecocoeni, the native chief in the Transvaal who was attached and defeated by Sir Garnet Wolseley, and subsequently allowed to return to his district, has been killed by ...
Article : 133 wordsSir,—Much has been written and spoken during the last lew weeks about tramways, and I hope you will allow me, too, some space in your columns for a proposal ...
Article : 678 wordsThe Public Works department yesterday accepted the following tenders:—For altering and repairing officers' quarters, Military Barracks, St. Kilda road, Wm. Scobie and Co., ...
Article : 304 wordsSir,—As a regular traveller on the Brighton line I have heard it remarked more than once, althonch scarcely ten days have elapsed since the double line was opened, ...
Article : 368 wordsSir,—In Harper's Handbook for Travellers in Europe is the following:—"The Omnibus Company of Paris is generally considered one of the best organised companies in existence; ...
Article : 185 wordsSir,—Is it not time the authorities put a stop to the indecency occurring every fine Saturday afternoon on the Yarra? Juat above Richmond a number of youths may invariably ...
Article : 121 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 73 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 13 Oct 1882, Page 10
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: