The usual weekly wool saleswere held at Mack's Hotel, Geelong, yesterday afternoon, before a good attendance of buyers. The catalogues—amounting in all to nearly 6,000 ...
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Article : 587 wordsThe field competition for the prizes offered at the last National Show in Geelong for reapers and binders took place on the farm of Mr. William Walker, at Point Henry, near ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the Assembly this evening, Mr. Combes, on a motion for adjournment, directed attention to a paragraph in the Sydney Morning Herald, stating that a more practicable route ...
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Article : 520 wordsLloyd's agents refuse to accept the abandonment of the Triumph, not knowing the amount of the insurance. The position of the vessel is unaltered. Several proposals ...
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Article : 519 wordsA special general meeting of the Emeraldhill Artillery was held last night, Captain Twycross presiding. It was agreed that, in view of the early disbandment of the battery, ...
Article : 125 wordsIn my telegraphic report last night of the settling in connexion with the recent B.J.C. meeting, two errors occurred in transmission. Mr. Evans' "Actress" should have been ...
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Article : 412 wordsThe two men John M. Cregan and Robert Plunket White, who were arrested on Monday afternoon by Detective Nixon, on a charge of having sold a lottery ticket, ...
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Article : 103 wordsSir,—The Bishop of Ballarat instructs me to request that you will be good enough to find space for the following correction as to a matter of fact of a statement quoted in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 5 Dec 1883, Page 8
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