The executive committee of the Gordon Memorial Fund met yesterday afternoon at the Town-hall. The members present were Mr. R. G. Benson (chairman), Mr. J. S. ...
Article : 623 wordsOur Home by the Adriatic, by the Hon. Margaret Collier (R. Bentley and Son), is a clever, but not too good-natured, sketch of village life in Italy, by an Engligh lady, ...
Article : 2,381 wordsThe establishment of state control over the entire length of railway line between Melbouren and Adelaide was yesterday inaugurated by the despatch of the first ...
Article : 1,318 wordsA fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning on board the barque George R. Crowe, which was lying in the river opposite to M'Ghie, Luya, and Co.s' sawmill. The captain was ...
Article : 234 wordsThe strike at the Prospect Waterworks is now at an end, the contractors having agreed to the demands of the men that the minimum wages shall be 7s. per day. The men ...
Article : 645 wordsThe efforts which the Legislature made a few months ago to compel a man to absord as much intoxicating drink on Saturday as would last him over Sunday have only met ...
Article : 1,719 wordsA man employed at the Esplanade Hotel as "boots," named Hugh M'Cabe, apparently about 45 years of age, was observed to-day by a gentleman to jump off the new pier into ...
Article : 169 wordsALBURY, JAN. 19.—Stock Movements.—65 fat cattle from Nangus for Melbourne, R. Jenkins owner; 7,800 merino sheep from Springvale, for Cuddell, Rowe Bros, owners; 6.450 merino sheep from Kelangie, ...
Article : 932 wordsA mail contractor named Maurice Stainer was charged at the Richmond Court Yesterday with cruelty to a horse. A lad in his employ, named Ernest Wilson, was similarly ...
Article : 159 wordsThe annual meeting of the parishioners and seat-holders of St. Jude's Anglican Church, Carlton, was held in the schoolroom on Tuesday evening. The Rev. C. Stuart ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. Fitzgerald Molloy sends us the following communication from Algiers:—Last night an extraordinary religious ceremony was celebrated here by the A[?]senoui, a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThe banquet to the Premier at Rockhampton last night was most successful, about 240 gentlemen being present. Sir Samuel Griffith, in responding to the ...
Article : 174 wordsThe first general conference of delegates of the shearers' unions of Australasia was held at the Alfred-hall to-day. Mr. W. G. Spence, the president, occupied the chair, ...
Article : 562 wordsCUNNAMULLA, JAN. 19.—The weather still continues excessively hot, the glass going up to 115dog. on Thursday and Friday last. Feed and water are abundant everywhere. The river is down to the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe patients here are all improving Miss Wheeler and Mr. Haynes who were both in an extremely critical condition, are now doing as well as can be expected. All the ...
Article : 169 wordsA meeting of the Tanners' Union took place at the Trades-hall last night. It was reported that the employes at Messrs. Humble and Nicholson's foundry, Geelong, had levied ...
Article : 118 wordsInformation has been received in town to-day that the bow board of a vessel, with the word "Thyatira" upon it, was found on the coast near the Anglesea River yesterday or ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following is a list of passengers to and from Sydney, passing through Albury, as telegraphed by our correspondent:— ALBURY, WEDNESDAY. ...
Article : 563 wordsAt the South Melbourne Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Nicolson, P.M., and a full bench of magistrates, a young man named George Seymour (with several aliases) ...
Article : 159 wordsThe following order has been issued:— "Head Quarters, Victorian Mounted Rifles, Melbourne, Jan. 18.—Infantry parades of companies for instruciton in battalion drill will be held in the ...
Article : 160 wordsSir,—In reference to the letter in to-day's issue from the Anglo Australian Society of Artists, I beg to draw attention to the fact that Australian artists were not allowed to ...
Article : 119 wordsAt the Northcote Court on Wednesday, Michael Fitzgerald was charged with stealing a watch and chain, of the value ot £4, from the person of a coach driver named Barnes, ...
Article : 113 wordsJoseph Myers, the young man who was arrested at Queenscliff recently on a charge of having obtained a gold watch from Messrs. Ungerer and Co., importers, of Melbourne, ...
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Advertising : 97 wordsSir,—In a paragraph in The Argus of to-day you speak of my "scathing denunciation of temperance." Heaven forfend that I should denounce temperance! What I ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—I can also bear testimony to the discomforts attending the Sunday return trip by the Ozone, and should be most happy to pay a double fare for the Monday mornirg boat. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 20 Jan 1887, Page 6
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