On Thursday next those of the associated trades which enjoy the privilege of the eight hours system will celebrate the 31st anniversary of its introduction by the ...
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Article : 2,684 wordsThe particulars telegraphed respecting the proceedings at the meeting of the Australian delegates at the official residence of Sir Saul Samuel on Friday with ...
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Article : 159 wordsIt is with regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. S. W. M'Gowan, deputy postmaster-general, which occurred at the George Hotel, St. Kilda, early yesterday ...
Article : 1,447 wordsThe public buildings of Melbourne are to be profusely illuminated on the night of the 21st June in celebration of Her Majesty's jubilee. Messrs. Brock and Co. have ...
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Article : 27 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day the case against Robert Wilson, late director of the Queensland Mercantile and Agency Company, for the misappropriation of a sum of £3,069 8s., ...
Article : 337 wordsIt has been discovered that a conspiracy exists in Bulgaria, the object of which is to assassinate the prefects and military commanders at Shumla, Varna, ...
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Article : 76 wordsM. Waddington, the French ambassador in London, had an interview to-day with M. Flourens, the French Foreign Minister, on the subject of the occupation ...
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Article : 377 wordsA French Government Resident has been installed at Comoro, the principal island in the group of that name, situated between the northern point of ...
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Article : 170 wordsAdvices from Honolulu state that the proposed political federation has been ratified betweed Somoa and the Kingdom of Hawaii. ...
Article : 30 wordsA special meeting of the Eight Hours Anniversary Committee was held at the Trades[?]hall last night, when Mr. Robert Miller was in the chair. ...
Article : 238 wordsThe struggle which has taken place in the Swedish Diet his resulted in a complete victory for the freetrade party. ...
Article : 37 wordsYesterday Plain-clothes Constables Coakley and Gleeson, of Collingwood, assisted by the police at North Fitzroy, discovered a h[?]unt of ruffians and thieves at North ...
Article : 545 wordsBaron Nordenskiold, the eminent Arctic explorer, who has projected an expediton for the exploration of the Antarctic regions, hopes to start on the ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—Will you kindly insert this letter in your paper as soon as convenient, and you will have the thanks and blessings of over 300 poor old men? We, the poor old men, ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. W. H. Smith, the First Lord of the Treasury, has stated in the House of Commons that the report that Her Majesty's Government intended to ask ...
Article : 49 wordsPeter Macnamara, of Victoria-street, Brunswick, late of Ballarat, commission agent. Causes of insolvency—Bad debts, becoming security for others, and adverse judgments. ...
Article : 42 wordsLast evening Constable O'connell was shot in Fremantle by a man named Hughes, whom he was endeavouring to arrest. O'connell is in a critical condition. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 485 wordsThe guns and other implements of war sent from Woolwich to the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition were shipped by the R.M.S. Austral on Thursday, the 14th ...
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Article : 52 wordsAt the Port Melbourne Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. H. Alley, P.M., and Quinn, Gardner, and Dr. Cheerham, J.P.'s, George Wheeler, a young man, was charged, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Spectator, in an article on colonial loans, expresses an opinion that if the leading Australian colonies raise loans not redeemable under 30 years their ...
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Article : 363 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes s.s. Caledonien, from Marseilles 6th inst., passed here to-day outward bound for Australian ports. ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the Port Melbourne Court on Monday, Sergeant M'Adam, inspector of nuisances, summoned Robert Clarkberry for having his premises in an unclean state. Mr. Emerson ...
Article : 178 wordsFour boys, named respectively Laughlan Golding, Arthur Pratt, Frederick Currie, and Harrison Currie, were charged at the Prahran Court on Monday by Mr. W. H. Philips, ...
Article : 160 wordsWINTON, APRIL 18.—The weather is fine; a strong south-east wind blowing; 33 points of rain were registered this morning. The country is looking splendid. ...
Article : 83 wordsA Mrs. Allen reported to the Brunswick police yesterday that while passing along Albert-street on the previous Saturday night, she was knocked down by a man, who stole ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 19 Apr 1887, Page 6
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