A coroner's inquiry was held on Friday night on the body of Thomas O'Brien, who was killed in Bridge-street on Thursday. In consequence of Mr. M'Cormick, P. M., being ...
Article : 535 wordsThe assault arising out of the strike at Messrs. J. and R. Mair's boot factory, Shelley-street, Richmond, came before the notice of the local bench on Saturday, when ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Orient, from London October 28, arrived this morning, with 643 passengers, all well. ...
Article : 163 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has accepted as a present some fine specimens of Queensland opals. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. T. Sexton, M.P., Parnellite member of Parliament for the Western district of Belfast, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year. ...
Article : 51 wordsCaptain Evans, the inspector of charitabls institutions, in his report for the year ended June 30, 1887, which was presented to Parliament on Tuesday evening, makes several ...
Article : 507 wordsThe members of the Phylloxera Board, Messrs. Bosisto, Smith, Hardy, Moore, Woods, Craike, Harris, and D. E. Martin (secretary), continued their visits of inspection to some ...
Article : 687 wordsSir Henry Parkes is framing a reply to the protest of the other colonies against the adoption of the name "Australia" by New South Wales, and will post it to Mr. Gillies ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Admiralty authorities state that they are willing to contribute towards the proposed Australian expedition to the Antarctic regions on condition that it is ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., Lord Mayor of Dublin for the past year, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having published in the Nation ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General for New South Wales, who has been granted six months' leave of absence, will probably sail for Sydney at the end of ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Edward Harrington, M.P. for Kerry, has been arrested for publishing in the Kerry Sentinel reports of meetings held under the auspices of the National ...
Article : 92 wordsThe match between the Melbourne Cricket Club's English Team and eighteen of Parramatta was continued yesterday, and resulted in a draw in favour of the local men. The ...
Article : 157 wordsNews has been received of a collision between the Catherine, bound for Sydney, and the P. and O. Company's steamer Clyde, from Australia, which occurred off ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Marquis of Normanby, late Governor of Victoria, arrived here by the R.M.S. Orient to-day. He will stay at Goverment-house for a few days. ...
Article : 39 wordsShortly after 2 o'clock on Sunday morning a man broke into the residence of the Rev. Canon Chase, M.A., inc[?]mbent of St. John's Church. The house is situated at the corner ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Spectator, commenting on the proposal of M. Pasteur, the eminent French scientist, for exterminating rabbits in Australia by inoculating them with the ...
Article : 58 wordsA reef showing nice gold was struck in the South New Chum mine last night. Most of the shares are held in Melbourne. The reef was met in the shaft, and is believed to be an ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Charles Dilke, speaking at Paddington, yesterday, said that a closer military union between England and the Colonies would enable the Empire to ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Lee Mullins has been appointed to succeed Mr. R. D. Buchanan as London manager of the Queensland National Bank. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe cricket match between Shaw's Eleven and Eighteen of Queensland was continued yesterday. There was a large attendance of spectators, including the Governor. The ...
Article : 144 wordsWhile a number of young men were bathing off the steamer wharf at Ryde, on the Parramatta river, to-day, a very large shark, 12 or 14 feet long, suddenly darted alongside the jetty ...
Article : 131 wordsA man named William O'Shea, of Lyell-street, South Melbourne, 36 years of age, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday, with a fracture said to have been ...
Article : 84 wordsLetters patent were granted by the Attorney-General on Thursday to the following:— Mr. H. W. Treloar, of Tarnagulla, for a ...
Article : 350 wordsAn open-air service was held under the auspices of the Old Colonists' Association to-day in aid of Charity Sunday. The collections realised over £76. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe German import duty on wheat is to be raised to 13s., and that on flour to 17s. 9d. The question of the duties has been ...
Article : 44 wordsSeveral new appointments are to be made to the Legislative Council, which has recently been considerably reduced in number by deaths and resignations. ...
Article : 319 wordsA meeting of the Victorian Branch of the British Medical Association was held in the hall of the Royal Society on Wednesday evening last. The president, Dr. Willmott, and ...
Article : 308 wordsThe wheat market is quiet, and prices are stable. In America the rates are relatively dearer; the visible supply has been augmented by 2,000,000 bushels, ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. W. Pitt, architect, of Collins-street, has been awarded the first prize for his design bearng the motto, "Aura Favente Feror," for the new St. Kilda Town-hall, which is to ...
Article : 335 wordsAt the City Court on Thursday, before Mr. J. Wilton, J.P., and other magistrates, Henry Herman, a young man recently arrested in Sydney on a warrant charging ...
Article : 387 wordsThe monthly meeting was held on Monday last, when there were present—Mesdames J. M. Templeton, Webb, Chamberlin, Syme, Miller, J. C. Campbell, A. H. Young, and ...
Article : 249 wordsA fatal boating accident occurred at Hexham at noon yesterday. A man named Wm. Cahill was rowing a little girl named Cheeseman across the Hunter, when the punt was ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is understood that Sir Charles Mitchell, who will shortly be replaced by Sir John Thurston as Governor of Fiji, will on his return to England be ...
Article : 45 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the old military barracks at Perth, now used as police barracks. The fire started in one of the upper rooms, and ...
Article : 343 wordsA meeting of the trustees of the Friendly Societies' Gardens was held at the Temperance-hall, Russell-street, on the 1st inst. There were present—Mr. R. B. Patey (in the chair), ...
Article : 245 wordsThe total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom at this date amounts to 1,460,000 quarters, being a decrease of 30,000 quarters during the ...
Article : 51 wordsAt a special meeting of the executive of the Victorian Alliance held on Friday evenign, Mr. John Bellin presiding, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:— ...
Article : 219 wordsTin has declined £2, the price of Australian to-day being £165. Copper continues very firm. Chilian bars are worth £67 5s., being a rise of £9 ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Assize Court sat to-day, Mr. Justice Holroyd presiding. An aboriginal, named Bradshaw, was found guilty of criminally assaulting a girl 10 years old at Gunbower, and ...
Article : 212 wordsA meeting was held in the Kew Town-hall on Thursday evening for the purpose of forming a choral society. The chair was occupied by Mr. Oxenbould. The ladies and ...
Article : 131 wordsThe British-India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Bulimba left here to-day en route for Queensland ports. LONDON, DEC. 2. ...
Article : 54 wordsA Treasury return has been issued showing that the revenue for November was £226,292, as compared with £193,983 for the corresponding period last year. The revenue ...
Article : 462 wordsA clerk in the employ of Messrs. White and Alford, shipping agents, Queen-street, Melbourne, has been missing from the office since the 26th ult. An investigation of his ...
Article : 461 wordsA man named William Greene, 52 years of age, was found by a constable in Carlton at half-past 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, in a very weak conditions, having evidently ...
Article : 227 wordsSir,—Some while ago I brought under your notice the case of Mrs. E. Smith. Allow me to recall the circumstances. Mrs. Smith was a nurse, and she followed that occupation ...
Article : 463 wordsSir,—It seems to me to be now high time that the local option system, as proposed by our Legislative Assembly, should be clearly understood before it becomes law. I do not ...
Article : 310 wordsAt daybreak to-day the body of a man was found washed ashore at the place known as the Ocean Amphitheatre, on the back beach. The police on receiving information at once ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The misapprehension about "drawing from the flat" is so widespread, and in this 19th century the public papers are so essentially the popular educators, that I am ...
Article : 471 wordsCOROWA, DEC. 3.—The weather is fine after the late heavy rains. The grasshoppers are very destructive to the grass crops and vines. ...
Article : 34 wordsWINTON, DEC. 3.—Thirty-one points of rain has fallen since the last report. Good accounts have been received from the neighbouring stations. At the Vindex head station four inches fell, and on the ...
Article : 161 wordsSir,—As a passing stranger I feel some di[?]dence in venturing to comment on your laws or customs; but I notice you have just passed a bill through one branch of your ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 348 wordsSir,—There is one matter which I hope the Legislative Council will take into their consideration before passing the new Licensing Bill. ...
Article : 234 wordsA man named James Barrett was found by Constable Freebairn in Flinders-street, at about 5 o'clock yesterday evening. He was taken to the Melbourne Hospital in an ...
Article : 172 wordsA man named Charles W. S[?]lter, 28 years of age, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital at 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, suffering from the effects of poison, which he ...
Article : 145 wordsThe catalogues for Messrs. Gem[?], Tuckett, and Co.'s sales of Messrs. George and George's Furniture and Glass Stocks can be had this morning. The goods are ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 5 Dec 1887, Page 8
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