During the past week there has been incessant rain, and all the low-lying land is inundated. The rainfall at Port Fairy in July was 4m. 75 points, and since the 1st January ...
Article : 516 wordsThe Chinese Jubilee Carnival, in aid of the medical charities of Melbourne, was opened yesterday at the Exhibition-building in the presence of His Excelleney the Governor, ...
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Article : 74 wordsTo-day the Supreme Court in Banco dealt with an application calling upon Michael Kerrigan, a solicitor practising at Kempsey, to deliver to Cornelius Gralton a certain deed, ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe naval manœuvres were continued to-day, when Admiral Fremantic, eluding the vigilance of the defending squadron under Admiral Hewett, succeeded in ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Railway Commissioners arrived here this morning, and were interveiwed by the mayor, and the president of the Kara Kara Shire Council, by whom several requests ...
Article : 551 wordsThe libel action Hassell v. Hoare, in which the plaintiff sought to recover —99 damages for alleged libel in the journal edited by the defendant, which was commenced on ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. W. G. Grace has declined to join the team which Messrs. Vernon and Rend are taking out to Australia to play a series of matches under the auspices of ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the County Court to-day the case of Harriet Mary Friend v. H. Davis and Others was an action to recover £250 damages for injuries sustained through the plaintiff being ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. J. Longstaff, the eldest son of Mr. Ralph Longstaff, J.P., of Shepparton, the engraving of whose oil-painting, "Breaking the News," caused such a demand for the ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a motion was proposed to reduce the amount of the retired pay to be granted to Sir John Adye of the Royal Artillery, ...
Article : 65 wordsARARAT(Shire).—Councillor Wilfred Austin, of Greenvale, was unanimously elected president, with an allowance of £100. BELFAST (Shire).—Councillor John Gibson, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Italian Government have signified their intention of being reprosented at the international conference proposed by the British Government to consider the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe August sittings of the Sandhurst Court of Assize took place to-day, before Mr. Justice Kerferd. Only two cases were set down for hearing. John Kyle, an elderly ...
Article : 97 wordsBREWARRINA. AUG. [?].—The weather is cold, fine, and clear. The river is 17ft. 9in. and stationary. The following stock crossed the river here to-day:— 240 fat bullocks from Woodstock station, Winton, ...
Article : 710 wordsA strike of the onghiedrivers and firemen of goods trains on the Midland Railway was commenced at 12 o'clock last night, the trains being left standing ...
Article : 41 wordsMessrs. Templeton and Couchman, Public Service Commissioners, sat this morning at the Town Police Court, aud considered the ease of Mr. Hogg, clerk of petty sessions, ...
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Article : 200 wordsFrom Lytte[?]on.—Cassandra, bq., sailed March 28. The Loch N[?]ss, sh., 1,190 tons, loading at Glasgow for Melbourne, caught ...
Article : 57 wordsDr. Youl, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Melbourne Hospital on Friday, on the body of a lad named Richard Purcell, who died at that institution on the 3rd inst. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsSir,—Kindly permit me to reply to Mr. Wheeler (the Creswick member) as to the statements he made in the House on Thursday, as he has evidently been misinformed. ...
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Article : 137 wordsWilliam Henry Brain, of Lygon-street, Carlton, monumental mason. Causes of insolvency—Illness and death in family, and loss of business through inability to look ...
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Article : 153 wordsA deputation from the Agricultural Society to-day requeued the Government to remove the prohibition against the importation of stock into the colony. The Commissioner of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 6 Aug 1887, Page 10
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