The ordinary meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria was held on Thursday evening, Professor Kernot in the chair. NOMINATION OF OFFICE-BEARERS. ...
Article : 1,222 wordsThe Government have been urged on several occasions to increase the duty levied on imported timber. The timber merchants and sawmill proprietors of Melbourne and the ...
Article : 362 wordsParliament has ended after a rather longer sestion than usual; longer, that is, in the number of actual sitting days. The Amending Land Bill has passed into law, somewhat ...
Article : 2,723 wordsThe cricket match between the English Eleven and Twenty-two of the Hartley district, at Lithgow, was resumed to-day. With 14 wickets down for 9 runs, the local men ...
Article : 123 wordsThe PRESIDENT took the chair and read the prayer at 25 minutes to 5 o'clock. STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL. Mr. CUTHBERT moved the second ...
Article : 17,078 wordsA man named Samuel B. Moysey was accidentally killed whilst working at Messrs. Forbes and Lewin's sawmill, Mount Cole, on Tuesday alternoon. He was dressing a log for sawing ...
Article : 85 wordsThe following are the candidates who passed at the quarterly examinations of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria:— Preliminary Examination, 1st December. ...
Article : 226 wordsA meeting was held on Thursday at Scott's Hotel, Mr. Bruce Smith in the chair, for the purpose of forming a Customs Agents' Assotion. ...
Article : 380 wordsThe following cases were admitted into the Alfred Hospital yesterday:—William Wicks, aged 23 years, a labourer, living at Garton-street, Port Melbourne, suffering from a ...
Article : 162 wordsThe feelinc against Mr. Bailes has not yet abated, and many person consider that he should be called on to resign his seat in the House. ...
Article : 524 wordsWalter Cyril Holland, aged 21, who for several years was clerk on the steamer Gem, swallowed a dose of chlorodyne at the Apollo Inn on Thursday night, intending, he said, ...
Article : 173 wordsThe annual festival of this old lodge was held this evening at the Masonic-hall, Malop-street, and was attended by a large assemblage of members and visitors, including amongst ...
Article : 281 wordsSir,—One very generally pervading defect in all Victorian statutes is that they are based upon English machinery in respect to details, and as these latter are adapted to a ...
Article : 423 wordsMajor Snee arrived here last night, and early this morning inspected the cadet corps of the Walhalla State School, recently eatablished under the command of Mr. Marshall, ...
Article : 239 wordsAt the Fitzroy Courton Thursday David Ross. styling himselt the "American Auctioneer," was prosecuted by Mr. D. J. C. Goodsir, chief inspector under the Factories Act, for selling ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Public Works department accepted the following tenders yesterday:—New brick building for state school, Mills-street, Albert-park, R. Young, North Carlton, £4,433; ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—With reference to the correspondence which has appeared in the press relative to the purchase of the Telephone Exchange by the Post-office department, we have noticed ...
Article : 330 wordsSir,—It is hard to the average man to understand why the Tramways Bill was made on such contrary lines to the Irrigation Bill. The Irrigation Bill provides that where ...
Article : 353 wordsAt the City Court on Thursday Leslie Gardner and Daniel Keilley, two larrikins well known to the police, were charged with having illegally used a horse and cab ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. STAUGHTON.—To ask the Commissioner of Public Works when he will be in a position to lay water pipes in the streets of Essendon, where they have been so long promised and so urgently ...
Article : 259 wordsSir,—After a successful run for the last five months these services are in urgent need of funds. There is a present deficiency of £80, and the expenses are from £12 to £14 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 10 Dec 1886, Page 5
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