Replying to a deputation that waited upon him to-day, Mr. Gladstone announced that it was the intention of the Government on the reassembling of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Christmas holidays have come, and with them a host of attractions, inviting pleasure-seekers to take their enjoyment in various parts of the metropolis and its ...
Article : 663 wordsThe farmers are holding back their wheat for higher prices, as well as for the opening of another section of the Kerang railway. The department proposes to open it to within ...
Article : 253 wordsMoira takes rank as the principal wheatproducing country in Victoria. It has not the largest area under crop, but owing to its high average yield per acre, it has for the last ...
Article : 1,736 wordsDr. Youl held an inquest at the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday on the body of a man named Henry Wilson, who died on the 19th inst. J. R. Woods, an agent, residing at ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Hons. Chas. Mann, Q.C., the Crown Solicitor, and David Murray, M.L.C., were passengers per R.M.S. Rome to-day. The former goes to Calcutta on six months' leave, ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is announced that the Indian Government has agreed to a compromise with regard to the Ilbert Bill, which provides that Europeans may, in some cases, ...
Article : 78 wordsThe inquiry into the loss of the s.s. Triumph was continued to-day. A passenger deposed that the captain was perfectly sober at the time of the accident. The captain said ...
Article : 92 wordsThe resources of the Railway service are invariably tested more crucially during the Christmas holidays than at any other season of the year, and the present occasion is not likely ...
Article : 1,224 wordsAn accident occurred to-day to His Imperial Highness the Czar of Russia while out hunting. His Majesty fell from his horse and sustained an injury to his ...
Article : 53 wordsWilliam C. Hawkins, the late town clerk for the borough of Flemington, was brought up at the City Court on Saturday, before Mr. Call, P.M., and a bench of magistrates, on a ...
Article : 110 wordsThe trial of harvesters held at Campania yesterday was a great success. The attendance of farmers was numerous, but there was not a large number of the general public ...
Article : 162 wordsThe trial of the 10 prisoners who were arrested by the Glasgow police in September last, charged with being concerned, in the dynamite explosion at the ...
Article : 71 wordsSir,—On last Thursday evening I attended, am[?]ngst many other parents, at the Brunswick town-hall to see the prizes distributed to the scholars of the local state school, and ...
Article : 712 wordsThe steam fleet of Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons in its northern or Queensland system is about to receive another addition. The new boat—named the Balmain, after a well-known Sydney suburb—is ...
Article : 597 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Ballarat, which left Melbourne on November 22, arrived here on 10th inst. with the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe next series of colonial wool auctions is announced to open on the 12th February. Thirty thousand bales have arrived up ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Bray, the Chief Secretary, returned today by the R.M.S.S. Rome. While at Sydney he had an interview with Messrs. Stuart and Dibbs regarding the ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Stock Exchange is closed until Thursday, the 27th, on account of the Christmas holidays. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsIn the city itself the places of amusement are bristling with novelties, but mainly for Boxing Day. Those on Christmas Day are necessarily limited, in order to preserve ...
Article : 424 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery paid a visit of inspection to the Sydney Morning Herald office to-night. His lordship will visit the Riverina district on his way back to Melbourne. ...
Article : 720 wordsThe Tiverton is the latest of the Anglo-Australian Company's fleet of steamships coming here. She is from London, via the Cape of Good Hope, and considering the long stretch of steaming a very good ...
Article : 1,230 wordsThis steamship, which made her first acquaintance with this port on Saturday, is from London, with passengers and cargo. She has come via the Suez Canal and Adelaide, and in point of time and the weather ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 668 wordsBoxing night will see the theatrical managers bring forth their strongest companies and pieces. Pantomine will be supreme at the Theatre Royal and the ...
Article : 816 wordsThe libel action Cook v. Lurnach was concluded in the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Justice. The libel was contained in a letter ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 24 Dec 1883, Page 6
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