The quarterly meeting of the Furnitur[?] Trade Society was h[?]ld at the Trade[?]-hall on Thur[?]d[?]y night. The president, Mr. H. A. Har[?]ood, occupied the chair. The election o[?] ...
Article : 392 wordsA banquet was given at Scott's Hotel la[?]t evening to Mr. H. C Mais, M.I.C.E., who for many years has been engineer-in-chief of the South Australian railways, and h[?]s ...
Article : 499 wordsIn political circles yesterday a strong feeling of uncertainty prevailed on account of the attitude assumed by the Government in regard to the border duties question. On ...
Article : 727 wordsThe Fall Court to-day fined J. A. B. Cahill, solicitor, £100 for having compiled briefs[?] merely for the purposes of taxation in a recent case in which a verdict was obtained ...
Article : 646 wordsA Wilcannia telegram states that reports from the district west of the Darling show that some squatters are unable to get their stock in for shearing, owing to the weakness ...
Article : 178 wordsThough the result of the conference yesterday was to a large extent anticipated, now that the people of Newcastle are actually face to [?]ace with the lact that there is no ...
Article : 2,091 wordsThe thirteenth annual show of merino and longwool sheep held by the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society in the Ballarat yards was open to the public to-day, ...
Article : 1,104 wordsThe admirers of the late Daniel Henry Deniehy, the well-known Australian literateur, recently decided to remove his remains from the paddock at Bathurst, where they ...
Article : 206 wordsThe committee o[?] management of the Melbourne Sailors' Home held their monthl[?] meeting at the institution, Spencer-street, on Thur[?]day. Present—Mr. H. R. Reid (in the ...
Article : 325 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Victorian Football Association was held last evening at Young and Jackson's Hotel, Swanston-street. There was a large attendance of ...
Article : 410 wordsGreat interest was excited in the sculling contest for £200 aside between Christian Nelson, of Sydney and H. Searle, of the Clarence River, which was rowed over the ...
Article : 259 wordsAnother attempt to commit suicide from the Victoria street bridge was made yesterday by a woman named Mary Morris, who, while under the influence of liquor, tried to throw ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo miners, named respectively John Martin and John Smith, employed at the Madame Bent mine, to-day narrowly escaped one of the worst fates miners are liable to. ...
Article : 162 wordsAt St. Kilda Court [?]n Friday James Carson, a bill-poster, was prosecuted under section 5 of the Police Offences Statute, for having posted auction bills on a private fence ...
Article : 80 wordsThe weather for the second day of the Ballarat annual sheep show was fine, but a trille warm. There was a fairly good attend ance, and the general opinion of the visitors ...
Article : 1,632 wordsThe Brisbane Gas Company has decided to call up the remainder of the capital of 50s. per share on the second issue of shares, 8,000 in number. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe German Commissioners of the Centennial Exhibition are to visit Sandhurst on Tuesday next as the guests of the German citizens of Sandhurst. The mayor of the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe following are the correct figures compiled from the telegraphic returns received by the returning officer:—J. S. Butters, 1,143 votes; J. H. Knipe, 1,139 vote[?]; John ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—I notice by The Argus of this morni[?]g that it has been resolved by the meteorological conference here that it is inadvisable to publish in one colony any forecast of the weather ...
Article : 471 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Trades-hall Council wins held last evening, Mr. J. E. Barrett, the president, occupying the chair. A donation of £30 to a[?]ist the miners on strike ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Cintra, which was lately stranded at Double Cone Island, arrived at Townsville yesterday morning, having apparently sustained no serious damage. She was making ...
Article : 241 wordsThe first meeting of the shareholders of the Mountjoy Lorne Estate Company Limited wa[?] held to-day. The shares represented numbered 32,750. Mr. [?]. M. Hitchcock was ...
Article : 244 wordsThe following ii a list of passengers to and from Sydney passing through Albury as for[?] warded by our correspondent:- ALBURY, Friday. ...
Article : 725 wordsThe Commissioner of Crown Lands [?]o-day received a telegram from Mr. Dow, the Victorian Minister of Lands, with reference to the inspection of the Victorian ...
Article : 232 wordsThe following additional returns have been received:—Wood'[?] Point—Davis, 12; Sargeant, 8. Tangil—Davis, 2; Sargeant, 3. Yannathan—Davis, 3; Sargeant, 4. ...
Article : 78 wordsA very successful parade of the 9th battalion of cadets was held here to-day, 172 of all ranks being present, under the command of Lieutenant Fatroll, with ...
Article : 430 wordsThe final returns for the Northern Province give Mr. Simpson a majority of 1,304 votes. The totals are—Simps[?]n, 2,692; Halfey, 1,388; Mackintosh, 1,318. This account[?] ...
Article : 51 wordsSome excitement was caused in the town this morning, when a report was received that a shooting affray lind taken place within a couple of miles of the town. Two ...
Article : 271 wordsLast night Detectives Whitney and D[?]acon arrested a Swiss named James Stewart on a char[?]e of embezzling £81 5s. 6d. and other sums, the money of Mr. James Gillespie, the ...
Article : 73 wordsSir—In your Centennial Exhibition supplement of the 11th inst. you call attention to the fact that, following the example of the metropolis, Ballarat and Sandhurst have ...
Article : 297 wordsAn extraordinary shooting case occurred at Footscray last night. A lad named John Peach went out with two friends to have some shooting with a cadet rifle. Later on ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day adjourned until Thursday next without doing any business. It was proposed to suspend the se[?]sional order [?]o that the resolution of ...
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Advertising : 288 wordsA general meeting of the shareholders in the Broken hill Proprietary Block 10 Company Limited was held at Scott'[?] Hotel on Friday afternoon Mr. D. E. M'Bride (chairman of di[?]ectors) presided. ...
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Advertising : 105 wordsThe following passengers left Melbourne for Adelaide by the express yesterday:- Mr. Fi[?]t[?]y[?]on, Ballar[?]; Messr[?], Moulden, Handyside, Adelaide; Messer[?]. molyn[?]eux, Beaumont, [?]d, ...
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Advertising : 63 words[?] sold during th[?] week, at the Corporation-market, 17 dairy cows and springer[?] for various owner[?], [?] cows at Irom 6 to 8 10s., springers to 5 2s 6d. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 15 Sep 1888, Page 14
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