An application was made to Mr. Justice Webb in the Supreme Court on Friday that probate of the will of George Palfrey, late of Prabran, builder, should be granted to Mrs. ...
Article : 1,823 wordsThe steamers Helen Nicoll and Australian arrived shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, and were met by an enormous crowd at the wharf of Messrs. John See and Co. The ...
Article : 6,441 wordsThe following telegram dated yesterday has been received from the warden of the goldfields at Teetulpa by the Commissioner of Lands:—"It is reported that a nugget of 20oz. ...
Article : 149 wordsGreat indignation is expressed amongst the residents of this district at the unexpected opposition displayed by certain obstructionists in the Assembly to the agreement ...
Article : 199 wordsVere Hunt and Wilby Morton Ollivier, charged in connection with the Land Office frauds, were this morning found guilty, notwithstanding Ollivier's attempt to exculpate ...
Article : 276 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Central Board of Health was held yesterday. Prersent.— Mr. A. P. Akehurst, P.M. (president), Messrs. Coppin and Dr. Rose, M.L.A.'s, Messrs. ...
Article : 1,345 wordsOn the arrival of the 1.30 train to-day a novel sight was witnessed, the engine front being thickly coated with mangled grasshoppers. The driver states that he met with clouds ...
Article : 97 wordsThe holiday sports and amusements to-day were very successful, and were largely attended. Over 4,000 persons attended Tattersall's races. The Eagle Farm Friendly ...
Article : 131 wordsA shocking tragedy is reported from Taralga, near Goulburn. A farmer named Spicer left his home for a few hours yesterday. When he returned he found his child, which ...
Article : 85 wordsA telegrom from Jervis Bay this afternoon states that the constable who left for the scene of the stranding of the Corangamite, at 8 o'clock this morning, reports that the steamer ...
Article : 79 wordsA correspondent at Margaret Store, Goldfield road, Kimberley district, telegraphs via Cossack on the 30th November:— A shocking murder was committed on the ...
Article : 271 wordsThe directors of the Sydney Hospital represented to the Colonial Secretary this morning the utter inadequacy of the present building to the requirements ...
Article : 195 wordsAbout 100 electors assembled in the Burra Institute last night, to give a complimentary banquet to Mr. W B. Rounsevell, M.H.A., the Treasurer in the Colton Ministry, in ...
Article : 229 wordsMr. D. J. Turnbull, the mining manager of the Hepburn Rocky Lead Mine, met with what it is feared will prove a fatal accident last night. Owing to some dispute with the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe results of the polling for the municipal elections were declared this afternoon. Two of the retiring aldermen were rejected, the aldermen elected being Messrs. Reynolds, ...
Article : 162 wordsShortly after half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morning, a sad tragedy occurred at South Melbourne, in a house in Coventry-place, occupied by a man named Dempster. Dempster ...
Article : 345 wordsECHUCA, DEC. 10.—Stock Movements.—480 sheep from Isaac Collins, Dramore, Jerilderle, consigned to George Howat, Newmarket. ...
Article : 25 wordsDENILIQUIN, DEC. 10.—Stock (Movements.—8th inst.—400 fat sheep from Wensley Chase, trucked by James Mann and Co.to Ettershank, Eaglestone, and Mann. 9th inst.—500 store cattle, O'Donnell and ...
Article : 397 wordsParliament has been further prorogued until February 16. ...
Article : 15 wordsAt the meeting of the Exhibition committee to-night it was decided to open the Exhibition on Christmas Day, and have a sacred concert at night. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe friends of Henry Logan, landlord of the British Queen Hotel, Nicholson-street, Fitzroy, have become very anxious concerning him, and have requested the police to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 239 wordsCHARLTON, DEC. 9.—Rain has been failing intermittently for the last four day's, about 1in. altogether. It will be beneficial to the late crops, which are not very numorous, and will delay the stripping, but it ...
Article : 223 wordsWilliam Mitchell, of Felicia-street, Richmond, labourer. Causes if insolvency— Having been lately induced to purchase a house throught a building society, and through ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 11 Dec 1886, Page 12
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