Ah Hung, a Chinese gardener, reported to the Carlton police on Saturday that as he was driving into Melbourne from Coburg in his cart, he met about 10 larrikins, at 4 o'clock, ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Victorian Chess and Draughts Club have chosen the following to compete for Victoria in the Intercolonial Draught Match to be held on New Year's Day:—Messrs. H. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe number of pictures, drawings, and models of steamers, ships and boats is very considerable. Some of the exhibits are of special inter[?]. A fine model shows how ...
Article : 1,872 wordsNews was received yesterday that a young man, aged 21, named Edward Fietcher, a son of Mr. Fietcher, miller had attempted to commit a capital offence on a little girl ...
Article : 921 wordsThe week has been one of comparative quiescence in the political world. The Premier's speech at the Guildhall banquet added little to our previous kuowledge, and was ...
Article : 1,022 wordsAt the City Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. Call, P.M., and a bench ot mugistrates, John Brun was charged with insulting behaviour. Mr. Springfield, living in ...
Article : 309 wordsThree stacks of hay (in all about 230 tons) were burned down at Blackshaw's farm, Brooklyn, four miles from Footscray, by a fire which was first observed at half-past 5 ...
Article : 1,111 wordsA very compact and solid nugget of gold, weighing 48oz. 16dwt., was picked up this morning on the mullock heap of the Mount Rowan Company, and was forked out of the ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the paragraph in The Argus of Saturday with regard to the series of forgeries perpetrated by the man who gave his name as Mawson, an error occurred in connexion with ...
Article : 358 wordsIt was reported to the Williamstown water police on Saturday afternoon that a dead body, thought to be that of Knowles, the fireman, who has been missing for the past ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsHerr Stocker, the well-known chaplain of the Court of Berlin, spoke at one of the London meetings. His presence here has been the cause of some excitement. He had ...
Article : 203 wordsAt the Sandridge Police Court on Saturday, Andrew Stonehouse, master of the steamer Westmeath, was summoned, before Messrs. Quinn and Seismann, J.P.'s, for alleged ...
Article : 1,048 wordsThe Melbourne and Suburban News Agents' Association meeting was held on Thursday, the 13th inst., at the Athenæum. Mr. Hogg, vice-president, was in the chair. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe surreptitious visitor to the Unicorn Tribute and Phœnix Company's mine, whose escapade on Christmas night has been already reported, did not long enjoy his escape from ...
Article : 113 wordsThe theor— of Socialism were this week discussed under somewhat novel circumstance in the "west end at the lecture-hall connected with St. John's Church, ...
Article : 1,440 wordsThe dead body of a man named Austin, a bricklayer by trade, was this morning found on the western bank of the Campaspe River, near the bridge in ...
Article : 189 wordsA special meeting of the Operative Bakers' Society was held in the Trades-hall on Saturday. Mr. J. M'Conebie occupied the chair. The election of office-bearers for the ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Chamberlain was present on this last occasion, and referring to the extraordinary development of the carrying trade of the country, he said that there was one aspect ...
Article : 255 wordsStock passing—3,000 sheep travelling in charge of Henry Trethowan, from Ballarat for Durham Ox, will reach here to-morrow. Yesterday the thermometer registered ...
Article : 192 wordsSir,—Referring to the complaints which have been made in your columns regarding the trip of the s.s. Buninyong to Portarlington on Boxing Day, being a passenger on that ...
Article : 245 wordsDr. Youl held an inquest in the Melbourne Gaol on the 29th inst. on the body of Patrick Carson, aged 65 years, who was sent there for three months for vagrancy. Dr. Shields ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Strathloddon post-office, together with the publichouse and store, was totally destroyed by fire late on Friday night. Some persons had been drinking in the place, and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe city coroner held an inquest at the morgue on Saturday on the body of Daniel Mathieson, a lamplighter, aged 53 years, who was found in the Yarra on the 27th ...
Article : 164 wordsAmongst political speeches may be mentioned one by Lord Northbrook, at the annual soiree of the British Operatives' Liberal Association, which, while raising few new ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—I notice in your issue of the 25th inst. an extract from the Mount Alexander Mail re Kimberley country in Western Australia, which, I think, in the interests of the ...
Article : 391 wordsSir,—It is at this moment—half-past 2 p.m., Saturday—blowing half a gale of wind from the north, and I have just travelled the St. Kilda road in a dust storm, the like I have ...
Article : 268 wordsThe weather to-day has been sultry, with a hot wind and much dust. It is cooler this evening, but no rain has fallen. Yesterday a man named William Murdoch, of Macedon, ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Candler, the district coroner, held an inquest at Richmond on Saturday on the body of Robert Coghlan, labourer, aged 40 years, who died at Yarraberg on the 27th inst. ...
Article : 180 wordsThe 400th anniversary of Luther's birthday has been very widely celebrated. In Germany the festival had a national character. Flags floated every where in Berlin; the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 31 Dec 1883, Page 3
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