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Article : 2,090 wordsThe Postmaster-General has decided that the ordinary rates for press telegrams between New South Wale and Victoria shall be charged for New Zealand cable messages ...
Article : 536 wordsEncouraged by the extraordinary success of "The Private Secretary," which has yielded its translator a far greater amount of money than Moli[?]re received for the whole of his ...
Article : 1,381 wordsThe Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday morning paid a visit to Ormond College and to the Theological-hall of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, which forms an important ...
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Article : 368 wordsThe inquest on the Bulli disaster was continued yesterday, and further adjourned, Alex[?] Ross, the manager of the Bulli mine, was subjected to a lengthy ...
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Article : 138 words[?] few days ago it was discovered that a number of the steel sleepers laid down on the Sandgate line five years ago were in a dangerous condition, many of them being ...
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Article : 749 wordsThe Borough Council have appointed Mr. W. S. Goodall, of Melbourne, clerk of the works for the erection of the new Town-hall on the recommendation of Mr. Johnson, the ...
Article : 559 wordsSir,—The local committee in Kew have requested me to inform the residents in Kew that efforts are being made in our district to raise funds towards the relief of the widows, ...
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Article : 94 wordsSir,—I fear we shall seem a very discontented body, we medical students of Melbourne, for our complaints on this subject are long and loud; but for all that, until it ...
Article : 495 wordsMr. J. T. C[?]ell, the newly appointed American consul at Auckland, arrived to-day. Mrs. J. C. Williamson is a passenger by ...
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Article : 94 wordsOn Friday night the shop of Mr. Arthur Pretty, confectioner, 5 Collins-street east, was broken open, and the sum of £6 5s. stolen from a drawer. Access was gained to the ...
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Article : 118 wordsThe elections of members of the Assembly for the districts of Sturt and West Torrents were held yesterday. For Sturt Mr. J. G. Jenkins and Mr. W. F. Stock were returned; ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 4 Apr 1887, Page 6
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