The Town-hall was largely attended on Saturday night, when a complimentary farewell concert was given in favour of Mr. David Lee, the city organist, who ...
Article : 749 wordsThe recent discussions by the members of the Harbour Trust on the policy to be pursued to meet the shipping requirements of Melbourne have directed attention to the ...
Article : 849 wordsMr. George Knox, M.A., was elected yesterday to fill the seat in the University Senate vacated by Canon Allwood. The Colonial Secretary has received a ...
Article : 388 wordsOnce in a while the news of the day becomes vividly or shockingly interesting. Record is made of things which ought not to be Such, surely, was that habitation ...
Article : 1,693 wordsThe death is announced of Sir George Strahan, late Governor of Tasmania. (BY CABLE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, FEB. 19. ...
Article : 913 wordsPolling took place in eight electorates yesterday, but no special interest attached to any of the contests except that for Queanbeyan, where it was thought that Mr. ...
Article : 317 wordsThe quarantining of the passengers by the German steamer Preussen is drawing rapidly to a termination. Yesterday 23 of the passengers who had been released on probation ...
Article : 329 wordsDr. Thomas Scott claims to have invented a new and effectual method of destroying rabbits by means of steel wire tubing. He inserts a hollow ball of glass or papier ...
Article : 133 wordsAt the South Melbourne Police Court on Saturday, before Messrs. T. V. Foote and F. Mackay, J.P.'s, and a large bench of magistrates, a member of the local police force, ...
Article : 402 wordsA memorial stone in connection with the improvements and additions to the Mount Gambier Institute was laid yesterday afternoon by Mr. John Riddoch. In the evening ...
Article : 273 wordsMr. Moulton, the Wesleyan missionary, writing from Tonga, says that beyond a general feeling that Mr. Baker's intolerable tyranny could not go on without a catastrophe, be ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Warden Uhr visited the locality of the alleged gold discovery at Samford yesterday, in company with the prospector. It is understood that he failed to find even the colour ...
Article : 202 wordsAn infant died yesterday at Yarraville under peculiar circumstances. About eight months ago a Mrs. Lawrence called on Mrs. Maher, of Yarraville, and requested her to ...
Article : 325 wordsOn Sunday morning Wm. M'Kenna, residing in Lang's-lane oil Bourke-street west, reported to the police that at 7 a.m., when his wife woke, she found that her infant ...
Article : 314 wordsFour years ago, to the very day, this piece was first produced at the Theatre Royal, and its reproduction at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday evening had the effect of attracting ...
Article : 344 wordsThe annual assembly of the Primitive Methodist Churches of Victoria and Tasmania commenced its sittings at the Union. street Primitive Methodist Church, ...
Article : 624 wordsAt the Murray-bridge Police Court, on Friday, W. Gerloff, the keeper of the railway station refreshment rooms, was charged with a breach of the Licensed Victuallers' Act, ...
Article : 251 wordsThere is a general feeling of indignation throughout the London district below the Serpentine at what is contended to be the unfair concession made to the Tragowel ...
Article : 310 wordsThe men at work in the Boolara coal mine have reached a distance of 293ft. from the mouth of the pit, and found a seam of coal 3ft. thick. To-day they commenced to "dip" at ...
Article : 83 wordsThe annual meeting of the Victorian Tonic Sol-fa Association was held on Saturday evening. Mr. S. Lamble occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance of members. ...
Article : 243 wordsMr. Tolhurst, city surveyor and building inspector ot Collingwood, prosecuted three persons at the local court on Friday, for breaches of the building regulations. Mr. ...
Article : 306 wordsOn Saturday afternoon, about half-past 5 o'clock, a fire broke out on board the schooner Caroline, lying near Williamstown, which, but for the prompt and energetic action of ...
Article : 333 wordsA married woman named Tucker, while bathing in the public baths, sank in deep water, and was drowned before assistance arrived. ...
Article : 29 wordsThomas Britton, whilst marking at the rifle butts to-day, received an injury to the left hand from a bullet going obliquely through the side of the mantlet. The ...
Article : 129 wordsBOURKE, FEB. 19—During the last fortnight the Railway department received over £3,600 for sheep and cattle trucking here. Heavy rain has fallen higher up the river again. This will insure ...
Article : 247 wordsNews has been received of the wreck of the steamer Palmerston on the Secret Rock, about 20 miles north-east of Port Lincoln. The Palmerston belongs to Messrs. Darling ...
Article : 223 wordsThe following is a list of passengers to and from Sydney passing through Albury, as telegraphed by our correspondent:— ALBURY, SUNDAY. ...
Article : 266 wordsMessrs. A.M. GREENFIELD and Co. report:—"The market has been heavily supplied with all kinds of produce, and prices are a shade easier. Wheat sells well at 3s. 7d. to 3s. 8d. Oats are not so saleable—2s. ...
Article : 363 wordsAt about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening a fire broke out in the drapery establishment of Mr. A. G. Hartley, Chapel-street, Prahran. Some inflammable material in the ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. R. K. Serjeant has promised to place in the City of Melbourne Bank £256, which he offers as a premium for the best system of treating auriferous ores, other than smelting. ...
Article : 195 wordsSWAN-HILL, FEB. 18.—The total rainfall for the last two days was 131 points and there is every prospect of more. ...
Article : 31 wordsA joint committee meeting of shopkeepers and employes was held in the Trades-hall on Friday evening. Mr. R. Hemmings was in the chair. The secretaries reported ...
Article : 132 words'Arthur William Pomerade Moon, of Clarke-street, Northcote, bookkeeper Causes of insolvency—Long-continued illness in family, and having to borrow money at exorbitant ...
Article : 135 wordsInformation was conveyed to the Russell-street barracks yesterday morning that a child two years of age had been lost in the bush at Beenak, 15 miles beyond Pakenham, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following passengers to Adelaide passed through Serviceton on the day specified:— SERVICETON, SATURDAY. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 21 Feb 1887, Page 6
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