The following summary of New Zealand news for the week ending October 27, has been compiled by our Dunedin correspondent:— ...
Article : 884 wordsYesterday a deputation from the Borough Council of St. Kilda waited on the Chief Secretary for the purpose of asking that the Government should take over the present ...
Article : 384 wordsA large deputation of farmers connected with the various branches of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association, farmers' clubs and unions, and agricultural societies ...
Article : 2,288 wordsYesterday was the Oaks or Ladies' Day of the V.R.C. Spring Meeting at Flemington. This is the "off day" of the Spring Meeting, and yesterday it partook more than ever of the ...
Article : 4,663 wordsMr. Groom, M.L.A., yesterday waited on the Commissioner of Trade and Customs and urged that the sand bar at the entrance to Franklin River, Corner Inlet, should be ...
Article : 173 wordsPROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. Probate was granted to the wills of the following:—Henry Dillon Croker, £1,245, on the motion of Mr. Wasley; John Gant, £603, on ...
Article : 775 wordsOn Wednesday Mr. Zox, M.L.A., introduced to the Chief Secretary a deputation from the Victorian Association of Licensed Victuallers' brokers, who came to ask for an ...
Article : 348 wordsEntries for the Standish and Bagot Handicaps, to be run at the New Year's Day meeting of the Victoria Racing Club, will close at 4 p.m. to-day. ...
Article : 359 wordsThe town council of Hawthorn recently authorised the floating of a new municipal loan of £35,000, of which £18,350 is to be devoted to road works, £1,000 to pitched ...
Article : 322 wordsA deputation from the grocers of Melbourne was introduced to the Chief Secretary on Wednesday by Mr. Zox, M.L.A. They asked that a clause should be inserted in the ...
Article : 323 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held at St. Kilda, on Wednesday afternoon, touching the death of a lad named William Cooney, by Mr. Witt, J. P. It appeared from the evidence ...
Article : 194 wordsFrederick William Sanders was brought up at the Carlton Court yesterday charged with the murder of his wife under the circumstances narrated in The Argus of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsA deputation, consisting of the residents of Merrigum and Kyabram, accompanied by Mr. Winter, M.L.C., on Wednesday waited on the Railway Commissioners, to complain ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,—Will you kindly allow me to express my sympathy and a word of support re the suggestion to establish a Musicians' Provident Society. When in London I had an interview ...
Article : 666 wordsMr. Candler, district-coroner, held an inquest at the morgue on Thursday, on the body of Ann Elizabeth Atkins, 87 years of age, who was killed by a train at Windsor on ...
Article : 264 wordsAn exhibition match at billiards was finished last night in the rooms at Her Majesty's Hotel, between Evans, the champion of Australia, and Harry Gray, the latter receiving a handicap of 500 points in a game ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Outtrim, M.L.A., and Councillor Lowenstein, of the Maryborough Shire Council, on Wednesday urged the Railway Commissioners to run the goods train now sent, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe opening of the yachting season will take place on Wednesday, 9th inst., when the commodore requests that all yachts in commission may be assembled off Williamstown at 11 o'clock a.m. Signals will ...
Article : 119 wordsA friendly suit in reference to the construction of the will of John Tolmie, formerly of Traralgon, a farmer, was brought before Mr. Justice Webb, in the Equity Court ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. Graves, M.L.A., and residents from the Upper King district, on Wednesday applied to the Railway Commissioners to allow the preliminary exploring survey, which had ...
Article : 88 wordsShooting will commence to-day at half-past 10 o'clock, with a side match between six members of the New South Wales, Adelaide, and Melbourne Gun Clubs, to be followed by the competition for three ...
Article : 78 wordsAn inquest was conducted by Mr. Candler at the morgue on Thursday, on the body of an elderly woman named Margaret Eagor, who was found, by some boys, in the Yarra, near ...
Article : 139 wordsRichard Hall, Margaret Pierce, Harriett Fisher, and Margaret Brown were charged at the City Court on Thursday with stealing a watch and chain and £42 in cash from the ...
Article : 314 wordsThe Minister of Public Works received a deputation yesterday from the Strathfieldsaye Shire Council, with a request for a grant of £200 in aid of repairing damage to bridges by ...
Article : 218 wordsMr Candler held an inquest at Coburg on Thursday, on the body of a man, name unknown, who was found dead in a shed at Coburg on the 31st ult., by a lad named ...
Article : 160 wordsSir,—Having just returned from Port Darwin, and learning that the causes of the above wreck have been misrepresented, I beg leave to say that the reason of the ...
Article : 139 wordsMessrs. Lucas Brothers, wine and spirit merchants, 46 Pitt-street, write:—"With great pleasure we add our testimony to the merits and great superiority of Clausen's New York Champagne Lager Beer. It has ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Minister of Railways was waited upon yesterday by a deputation from the Swan-hill Shire, who desired Mr. Gillies to fix a time when he would decide the amount to be ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Minister of Lands received a deputation yesterday from a syndicate formed some time ago to acquire the lease of two blocks of mallee land near Warracknabeal, which ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 4 Nov 1887, Page 9
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