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Article : 798 wordsThe importance of immediately taking steps to construct a railway through the city from the Redfern station, the present metropolitan terminus, to Circular Quay was ...
Article : 425 wordsThe hopes of a peaceful solution of the differences which exist between the coal proprietors and the miners, which this morning had sunk to a very low ebb, have been ...
Article : 1,157 wordsThe police have not received any further communication from Brookong station to-day, and the inference is that the shearers who made matters so unpleasant for the ...
Article : 357 wordsA meeting of the Strath bogie, Tarcome, and Avenel Railway League was held here on Thursday. The advantages to be attained by effecting a junction with the North-Eastern ...
Article : 324 wordsThe following are the recommendations of the Gippsland prospecting board:- F. Holloway, for coongulmerang Prospecting Company. £300: Bruthen Prospecting Committee, £100; ...
Article : 380 wordsThe English football players arrived to-day overland from Sydney. Their first match against Queensland will be played to-morrow afternoon. ...
Article : 304 wordsA disastrous fire occurred last night on Mr. F. S. Falkiner's Boonoke station, about 20 miles from Deniliquin, which totally consumed the homestead. From the few ...
Article : 141 wordsA working trial of the Schanschieff electric mining lamps was made at the Band and Albion Consols mine to-day Mr D. M. Davies, M.L.A., Mr. Langtree, secretary for ...
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Article : 226 wordsThe contract under which the San Francisco mail service is conducted expires in November next, but the Government, in response to a proposal by New Zealand in April last, ...
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Article : 56 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of the Women's Hospital was held at the institution yesterday Mrs. Gue, the newly-elected president, occupying the chair. The state ...
Article : 191 wordsThere are time three close rooms in the Stock Exchange, the membership of each being about the same—namely, about 80. Lately a proposal has been made for amalgamating ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 18 Aug 1888, Page 12
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