Quite a series of fires occurred on Saturday and yesterday, some of them of a very extensive character, and that they were not more so is entirely due to the fact that they ...
Article : 238 wordsThe residents in the northern portion of the shire of B[?] are desirous of having an extra riding formed, as they complain that the riding, as at present constituted, is too large ...
Article : 511 wordsThere was a good attendance at the Operahouse on Saturday night, when the new Italian Opera Company under the manngement of Mr. Martin Simonsen produced, for ...
Article : 1,957 wordsSaturday afternoon's concert will long [?] memorable as living been the occasion of the first production in Australia of Schubert's immortal chif d'[?]—the sublime ...
Article : 1,525 wordsOn Saturday night, about 7 o'clock, an affray took place between a band of larrikins and some Chinamen in Market-lane, a narrow right-of-way connecting Little Bourke and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 478 wordsThe second fire, which was of a much more extensive nature, occurred in a cottage in Normanby-road, South Melbourne, owned and occupied by Mr. Wilson, of Messrs. ...
Article : 512 wordsThe revival of this excellent comedy, which, as was said of it when first produced a Loudon six years ago, "brought the acent of the hay over the [?] drew ...
Article : 1,199 wordsA young man named Charles Jones, a salesman employed by Messrs. Douglas and Sons, Collins-street, was arrested last night on a charge of stabbing another young man named ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsMr. E. James, senior partner in the firm of James and Piper, architects, died at his residence, Lyons-street, to-day, of a complication of disorders, aged 64 years. The ...
Article : 171 wordsThis was a rule [?] to review an order made by the justices at South Melbourne by which the defendant, Mr. James Wright, was fined for not complying with an order of the ...
Article : 1,423 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of the board of management of the Melbourne Typographical Society was held in the Tradeshall on Saturday, Mr. George Jordan ...
Article : 339 wordsA b[?] Thomas Crowley, aged nine years, a son of Mr. Crowley, of Crowley and Fi[?] sawmillers, was accidentaily shot in the shoulder yesterday by a companion ...
Article : 353 wordsThe next fire occurred about half past 9 on Saturday night, in three weatherboard places at the rearot This[?] waite-street, South Melbourne. It originated in a stable built of ...
Article : 289 wordsYesterday afternoon a boat accident happened on the Saltwater River, near the Yarraville sugar works, by which a man named Emmanuel [?] 27 years of age, a resident ...
Article : 228 wordsYesterday morning a notorious woman, Mrs. Burke, made an attempt to commit suicide in [?] Williamstown lock-up. She had been arrested on charges of insulting ...
Article : 110 wordsA largely-attended meeting of parishioners of Christ Church, Hawthorn, was held in the schoolaroom last Tuesday evening for the purpose of saying farewell to the Rev. ...
Article : 181 wordsSir,—Our attention has been directed to your issue of August 17, in which appeared two letters in reference to Mr. Holman Hunt's pictures, signed "Melton Prior" and ...
Article : 361 wordsNo sooner had the Insurance Brigad[?] returned from the last fire than they were summoned to another in a three-storied house in Spencer-street, near Latrobe street, owned by ...
Article : 111 wordsAt the South Melbourne Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. S[?] J.P., and a bench of justices, Leonard and George Strickland, brothers, aged about 24 and 26 years ...
Article : 124 wordsThen came a [?] till 3 a.m. yesterday, when the man on the lookout tower gave the alarm for a large fire at Brunswick. The brigade turned out, and found it to be a row of eight ...
Article : 336 wordsAt the Collingwood Court on Friday a young man, named Frederick Buck, was charged with unlawfully assaulting his mother, Jane Buck. The evidence of the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe council of the Old Colonists' Association held their monthly meeting at 59 Queenstreet on Friday last. Present—The vicepresident (Mr. R. Balderson), Messrs. J. K. ...
Article : 191 wordsSir,—I do not know whether it is yet too late to get the matter altered, but perhaps a little ventilation of the subject might effect a change. ...
Article : 354 wordsSir, All lovers of a Sunday morning walk along the Beaconsfield parade were pleased some few weeks since to find that the South Melbourne Council had erected a board ...
Article : 216 wordsSir,—At the quarterly meeting of the City Council the [?] day attention was drawn by Councillor Pairce to the practice at throwing orange p[?] on the pavement, and the ...
Article : 171 wordsSir, — Among several commemoration medals of different Exhibitions in my possession I find I have one of the Melbourne Exhibition of 185[?] On the one side ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsThere was a moderately good attendance in the evening, when a popular programme of no especial morit was provided. It was made up entirely of selections from the works of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 19 Nov 1888, Page 8
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