A deputation from Devenish, on the James line, interviewed the Railway C[?] missioners yesterday to ask for increa[?] passenger and goods accommodation, ...
Article : 305 wordsNews has been received from Burmah that a large portion of Mandalay, the capital, has been burned by meendiaries. ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsA deputation of the unemployed waited on the Colonial Secretary, and afterwards the Premier, to-day. Mr. Dibbs promised to visit Rookwood, and ascertain by personal ...
Article : 814 wordsMr. C. E. Deeley, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, who is stationed at the latter place, gives the following interesting particulars ...
Article : 633 wordsHerr Heinrich Köhler made his first public appearance in pianoforte recital in Melbourne last night, in the Athenræum-hall. The audience was more numerous than was ...
Article : 550 wordsThe following is a statement of the objections to the tariff proposals of the Government by the members of the deputation from the Free Trade Association of New South ...
Article : 429 wordsThe work on the railway to the South Australian border is proceeding rapidly. Next week a train will run every evening carrying passengers and mails from Dimboola to ...
Article : 681 wordsThe tenders for the South Australian four per cent. loan of £1,332,400, the minimum for which had been fixed at £99, were opened to-day. ...
Article : 136 wordsAll the arrangements in connexion with the South Australian Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition are now complete. The New Zealand Court is in ...
Article : 83 wordsA number of ladies, including Mrs. F. W. Stacey, of Barker's Creek, Mrs. Grant, of Kyneton, and several members of Mrs. Stacey's family, met with a serious accident ...
Article : 278 wordsThe preliminary dealings in the scrip of the South Australian loan, the tenders for which are to be opened to-morrow, show weakness. ...
Article : 88 wordsColonel Mavromichalis, the Greek Minister of War, has resigned. The office will be held temporarily by M. Delyannis, the Premier and Minister ...
Article : 154 wordsErnest William Minchin, late chief teller in the National Bank, was charged at the police court to-day with embezzling £1,000, the property of the bank. Mr. William ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Australian Eleven will commence practice on Monday on the ground of the Chiswick-park Cricket Club. THE MARKET RATE OF ...
Article : 161 wordsMessrs. Derry, Grayland, and Shakspears, engineers in connexion with the Water Supply department, who arrived in Geelong to-day, intend proceeding to the ...
Article : 222 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Trades-hall Council was held last night, the vice-president (Mr. P. Johnstone) occupying the chair. ...
Article : 397 wordsThe members of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Lithgow Colliery disaster, with the exception of Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, arrived at Lithgow ...
Article : 655 wordsThe long-continued drought is telling with great effect in this district. Farming operations are almost at a stand-still. Some few are turning over old ground, but it is terribly ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Government are in constant communication with the agent-general with regard to the New Hebrides question. It is understood that the correspondence on the subject ...
Article : 46 wordsTo-morrow is the last day for receiving tenders for the Australian mail service on the basis proposed by Mr. R. C. Baker, of South Australia, and sanctioned by ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister and the Secretary of Mines were waited upon to-day by a deputation appointed at last night's meeting to bring certain matters under their ...
Article : 215 wordsHenry Kastier, alian Adolph Rudolph, was charged on remand before Mr. Panton, P.M., and a bench of justices, at the City Court, on Friday, with having been found by night, ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Echuca Borough Water Trust made an official inspection of the new weir erected in the Campaspe this afternoon. The contractor, Mr. Hughes, completed the work ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, after some preliminary business, Mr. Reid moved the second reading of the Defamation Act Amendment Bill, the object of which is to ...
Article : 248 wordsThe twenty-third half-yearly meeting of the Premier Permanent Building Association was held at the office, 7 Collins-street west, last night. The chair waa taken hy Mr. John ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Australian Eleven have accepted the offer of the Chiswick-park Cricket Club to allow the eleven the use of their ground to practise on. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe distribution of the prizes for 1885 took place at this establishment on Saturday, April 17. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Deakin) was to have presided, but was prevented by illness ...
Article : 377 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Victorian Football Association was held last evening. Mr. G. F. Major was elected chairman. ...
Article : 299 wordsAn agreeable afternoon's enjoyment is provided for to-day if the weather does not prove unpropitions. A programme of five races, necessitating 12 heats, is to be gone through over the Upper Yarra conrse, up ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 314 wordsAn inquest was held at the Melbourne Hospital on Friday by Dr. Youl (the city coroner) on the body of Michael Fitzgerald, aged 67, a pensioner of the Imperial ...
Article : 396 wordsDENILIQUIN, APRIL 30.—Stock Movements, 26th inst.—3,000 store sheep (Clarke's) travelling to Echuca; 28th inst.—100 high-class single stud rams (Walsh and Son's) purchased from Wanga[?]ila ...
Article : 344 wordsIn connexion with the insolvency examination of Wilson, late accountant of the Commercial Bank of South Australia, what is believed to be a forgery committed by a bank ...
Article : 217 wordsSir,—The sad accident to Mrs. Randall at the Essendon railway station imperiously demands the instant attention of the commissioners to the unsatisfactory character ...
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Advertising : 133 wordsAllbrecht v. Patterson. IN CHAMBERS. His Honour Mr. Justice Cope will take chamber business at 10 o'clock. ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Collingwood Police Court on Friday, John Thomas Stevens, a milk carter, was summoned for refusing to supply Mr. Peacock, the sanitary inspector, with samples ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsDIMBOOLA, APRIL 30.—The weather continues very dry and unfavourable for farming operations, ploughing having been completely [?]topped on most farms. Large areas have been sown, and operation ...
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Advertising : 158 wordsA juvenile industrial exhibition has been mooted by the Bendigo Miners' Association, but further consideration of the matter has been deferred till their next meeting. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 1 May 1886, Page 10
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