Several hundred persons assembled at the Exhibition building on Saturday afternoon to hear the trial concert which was given there with the view of testing the acoustic ...
Article : 595 wordsA few weeks since a house in Little Lonsdale-street, occupied by several Indian hawkers, was broken into during their absence, and goods to the value of £100 stolen. ...
Article : 577 wordsThe mining market yesterday was dull and silver shares were slightly weaker on the whole. The following sales are reported:— ...
Article : 158 wordsWe regret to have to announce the death of Dr. W. H. Campbell, the oldest medical practitioner of the city, who died at his residence, Hotham-street, East ...
Article : 402 wordsThe thirty second anniversary of the introduction of the eight hours system in this colony was celebrated on Saturday by the customary procession of the members of the ...
Article : 3,360 wordsMr. Boucicault's lively comedy, "Old Heads and Young Hearts," which has now kept the stage for 44 years, and is as fresh as ever, was produced at this house on ...
Article : 726 wordsBy the arrival of the R.M.S. Oroya at Albany we have received the following message from our London correspondent:- LONDON, MARCH 23. ...
Article : 698 wordsThe following sales are reported to-day:— Broken-hill, £270, £275 10s.; Broken-hill Block 14, £9 7s., £9, £8 7s. 6d.; Brokenhill South (paid), £7 15s., £7; Round-hill, ...
Article : 127 wordsAt the meeting at the Northcote Borough Council held on Friday evening, the representatives of the Clifton-hill to Northcote and Preston tramway syndicate, Messrs. ...
Article : 334 wordsPickpockets were busy amongst the crowd which lined the route of the trades' procession on Saturday last, but their operations do not appear to have been attended with great ...
Article : 423 wordsOn Saturday morning a prize fight took place in the neighbourhood of Dandenong between Peter Boland, of Melbourne, and Patrick Carroll, of South Australia, for a ...
Article : 281 wordsThe convent chapel of the Nuns of the Good Shepherd at Abbotstord was crowded on Friday morning, when solemn office and requiem high mass for the repose of the soul ...
Article : 470 wordsOn Thursday last an elderly man was knocked down by a tram at the corner of Gertrude and Smith streets, Fitzroy, and conveyed to the Melbourne Hospital in an ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a meeting of the hospital committee held last night a long discussion ensued on the action of the Central Hoard of Health respecting the Koroit tuphoid fever cases. ...
Article : 773 wordsA board of examiners of enginedrivers, consisting of Messrs. E. R. Meekison and John Coats, and Mr. P. Cahen, secretary, sat in Maryborough during the week, and ...
Article : 446 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of management of the Immigrants' Aid Society was held on Friday Present—Messrs. J. London, W. [?]evers sen., and G.T. Johnson ...
Article : 138 wordsA competition in connection with the club was held on Saturday last at the butts, Williamstown, the rannes being 400,500, and 600 yards, seven rounds at each, in addition to the ordinary money prizes ...
Article : 330 wordsAt the St. Kilda Police Court on Friday, before Dr R. Robertson and Mr. Noonan, J. P.'s, Hubert Tope, described as a monumental mason, was charged with assaulting ...
Article : 487 wordsSir,—Some years ago I joined a Browning society, "not for the doctrine, but the music there," also because I feared that, without some special stimulus, I should ...
Article : 593 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the Melbourne District Ancient Order of Foresters was held on Friday, 20th inst., at the Trades-hill. All the district officers were in attendance, and a ...
Article : 538 wordsA meeting of the residents of Cranbourne, Langwarrin, Somerville, and those interested in the construction of a railway to connect the Great Southern with the Hastings line, ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Nimme, Commissioner of Public Works, und Mr. Le Cren visited Maryborough on Friday evening, and early this morning commenced a tour of inspection, ...
Article : 276 wordsNo eight hours demonstration took place in Sandhurst, most of the members of the association having proceeded to Ballarat by speical train this morning. ...
Article : 134 wordsA man named Robert Ennis, said to be a tailor, was, at the St. Kilda court on Friday, charged with threatening the life of his wife, Belinda Ennis, on the 19th inst. He was ...
Article : 99 wordsD. Jewell, the bicyclist, met with a severe fall at the bicycle races on the Eastern-oval yesterday. The medical men, however, believe that his injuries are not serious. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 23 Apr 1888, Page 8
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