The Attorney-General granted letters patent on Tuesday to the following applicants:— Mr. A. S. Tomkins, of 61 Mark-lane, London, for a combined tent and waggon, ...
Article : 637 wordsThe weather for the, second day of the Hamilton Pastoral and Agricultural Show was beautifully fine, and the result was a very large attendance of visitors at the ...
Article : 1,254 wordsThe attendance at Mr. Richardson's third recitation last evening was so numerous that its commencement had to be delayed while a fresh relay of chairs was being procured for ...
Article : 460 wordsIn the Assembly to day, Sir S. Griffith presented a petition, signed by 4,809 male residents of Brisbane, praying for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. ...
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Article : 1,434 wordsThere was no quorum present when the Speaker took the chair in the Assembly to-day, and the sitting therefore lapsed. The Orient Company's chartered steamer ...
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Article : 150 wordsStrong efforts are being made by the newlyformed Commercial and Pastoral Association to secure an amendment of the Land Act in the direction of liberalising the condition ...
Article : 220 words"The Prevalence of Consumption in Large Towns and How to Diminish It" was the title of a lecture delivered under the auspices of the Australian Health Society by Dr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsAlthough the Government have repeatedly declared that they have no intention of introducing fresh railway proposals during the present session, a large deputation asked the ...
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Article : 324 wordsA meeting was held on Monday night in the schoolroom attached to the Presbyterian Church, Elsternwick. The meeting was called with a view to the appointment of a ...
Article : 570 wordsIn the matter of the proceedings for the liquidation of the estate of Mr. L. Cusack in Chambers yesterday afternoon, the Chief Justice made un order restraining the ...
Article : 581 wordsA deputation of residents at Baldwinsville, on the Tatura line, yesterday waited upon the Railway Commissioners to ask that the site fixed by the department for a station at the ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day Leslie Douglas, John Fuller, Michael Donnellan, William Hill, George Duffy, Michael Mangan, Wm. Newman, Hugh Miller, George Keegan, ...
Article : 86 wordsAn accident happened on the railway line to-day, by which the wife of Mr. S. Bennett, of Broadford, lost her life in a very dreadful way. She was in the act of crossing the railway ...
Article : 178 wordsThe body of John B. Holmes, supposed to have been recently drowned off the St. Kilda pier, was the subject of an inquest by Dr. Youl, the city coroner, at the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe annual show of the Echuca Agricultural and Pastoral Society was continued under very favourable circumstances yesterday. The weather was rather warm, but the ...
Article : 1,689 wordsThe Sydney Morning Herald's corresdent at Cossack, Western Australia, telegraphs that a number of men from the goldfields, who have come in for provisions, ...
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Article : 166 wordsDr. Youl, the city coroner, concluded the inquest on Adolph Boldt, a young German carpenter, on Thursday. The deceased was left dressing on Wednesday morning by Claus ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsCompensation was allowed at the court to-day as follows for the surrender of licences:—Rachael Tower, Bay Horse Hotel, £60 to the licensee, and £29 to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe committee of management of the Alfred Hospital held their ordinary weekly meeting on Friday afternoon, when there were present—Messrs. R. L. J. Ellery (president), ...
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Article : 203 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of management of the Immigrants' Aid Society was held on Friday. The superintendent reported the state of the house to be as ...
Article : 135 wordsAt the police court to-day James Craw[?]ord, a groom employed by Mr. Eaton, livery stable keeper, preferred a charge of assault against Mr. William Wilson, of St. Albans, under ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 18 Sep 1886, Page 10
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