The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company a R.M.S. Valetta arrived here at 2 p.m. to-day from London. The following is her saloon passenger ...
Article : 972 wordsA glance at the Victorian chart shows that the coast of this colony is fairly well studded with warning bencons for the guidance of mariners, and the system will be regarded ...
Article : 403 wordsThe members of the Melbourne Liedertafel gave their 170th concert last night in the Melbourne Town-hall. A great audience waa present, which filled the hall and ...
Article : 945 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Brunswick Borough Council was held on November 26, there being present the mayor (Councillor George), and Couneillors Strickland, Fleming, ...
Article : 1,457 wordsA meeting of boot manufacturers was held at the Bourke-street Coffee Palace yesterday evening, for the purpose of considering one or two matters connected with the present ...
Article : 2,680 wordsMr. J. S. Cooper, deputy-coroner for the district, held an inquiry to-day into the circumstances attending the death of the engine-driver, Gilbert Steel, who was killed ...
Article : 180 wordsThe match between the English Eleven and 22 of the Clarence River district commenced to-day on the Grafton racecourse. The Englishmen were most hospitably entertained ...
Article : 235 wordsA serious accident occurred on Messrs. Landale Brothers' station on Saturday. A man named Bannerman, who was employed on the station shooting kangaroos, was ...
Article : 118 wordsAt a meeting of the Bendigo Jockey Club to-night, the prizes won at the late meeting amounting to £1,085, were paid over as follow:—G. Davis, first Hurdle Race, first ...
Article : 199 wordsA breakdown occurred on the Hamilton line this afternoon. The train from Portland had reached Glenthomson, when the steam valve blew out. The engine was disabled, ...
Article : 281 wordsA young woman named Christina Orme, a passenger for Sydney by the John Elder, has reported to the police at Williamstown that on Sunday, whilst on the deck of that vessel, ...
Article : 711 wordsYesterday was the last day for issuing new and renewed electors' rights, preparatory to the compilation of the next rolls. In Melbourne and the suburbs the number of rights ...
Article : 750 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning the young man Stephen H. Andrews, whose arrest for embezzling money from the Sandhurst Pioneer Company's store has been ...
Article : 321 wordsSir,—At the meeting of the Melbourne Typographical Society, as reported in your columns, it was resolved, re bootmakers' lock-out—"To procure, if possible, a list of ...
Article : 248 wordsA special meeting of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures was held at the board room, Exchange, Collins-street, last evening, Mr. J. M'Guigan, vice-president, in the chair, to ...
Article : 444 wordsThe stewards of the Geelong Racing Club met yesterday and adopted the programme for the annual races, to be held on Thusday the 29th, and Saturday, the 31st January, ...
Article : 259 wordsThe monthly meeting of the City of Melbourne Building Society was held at the offices, 57 Elizabeth-street, on Monday, the president, Mr. M. H. Davies, M.L.A., ...
Article : 127 wordsSir,—In your report ot the Legislative Council's proceedings last Friday, the Hon. Mr. Sterry is reported to have stated— "The Swan-hill line, above all others, should be ...
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Advertising : 277 wordsThe Queen v. Birkett and others, nisi prohibition; re Thomas F. Fuggle, an insolvent exparte Chambers, insolvency appeal; Mutual Trust and Investment Socicty Limited v. Registrar of Title, appeal ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Maggie steamer, with 212 bales of Darling River wool; the Riverina, with 159 bales of wool from Murrumbidgee River stations; the Kelpie, with 500 bales of Edwards River ...
Article : 270 wordsSir,—On Friday last Colonel Sargood, while receiving a deputation as Minster of Water Supply, asserted that "an outrageous waste" of water had taken place in Geelong, ...
Article : 277 wordsEngine-driver Robert Askcworth, who was injured a few months since by the bursting of a locomotive boiler, hauling a train up the Warrenheip incline, died last evening. He ...
Article : 271 wordsSir,—In your leader in this day's paper on the locusts, you say, in reference to garden pests. "Everybody who cares for flowers in his garden is crying out because of the house ...
Article : 178 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Farriers' Society took place at the Trades-hall on Monday evening, Mr. H. Le Seur presiding. A motion was carried expressing sympathy ...
Article : 149 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Amateur Photographic Association of Victoria was held on Monday evening, at the Royal Society's Hall. Mr. J. M'Ewan occupied the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 2 Dec 1884, Page 6
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