A discussion on the question of the disposal of nightsoil took place at the monthly meeting of the Elsternwick Improvement Committee last night. Mr. Dane, a resident ...
Article : 459 wordsThe board of arbitration on the matters in dispute, between Messrs. Whitten and Cairns and their employes concluded its labours to-day, and arrived at an adjustment ...
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Article : 852 wordsThe following circular was yesterday forwarded to each of the returning officers throughout the colony by direction of the Chief Secretary:— ...
Article : 4,876 wordsWilliam Cazaly, late teller at the Ballarat branch of the Colonial Bank, was brought up at the Assizes to-day, before Mr. Justice Williams, on the specfic charge of ...
Article : 1,493 wordsWilliam Fox, a seaman on board the s.s. Elingamite, met with a serious accident yesterday evening. He was in the engine-room, when some portion of the travelling gear ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following notices were posted on the University notice-board yesterday:— THE W. T. MOLLISON SCHOLARSHIP FOR FRENCH. ...
Article : 311 wordsThe annual meeting in connection with the Brighton Library took place in the reading-room of the institution on Wednesday evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. ...
Article : 269 wordsA shipment of live stock, compelling a bull and two cows of the Ayrshire breed, arrived from London yesterday in the steamship Damaseus. They have been ...
Article : 151 wordsSir,—I should be glad if you would allow me to say a few words through your columns to the members of the senate of the Melbourne University with respect to the ...
Article : 825 wordsThe weekly meeting of the executive committee of the Charity Organisation Society was held at the society's office, 58 Russellstreet, on Wednesday afternoon. Present— ...
Article : 140 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of this society was held in the Richmond Town-hall on Tuesday evening last, the vice-president (Mr. J. F. Jones) in the chair. After the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Board of Land and Works accepted the following tenders yesterday:—Fencing, gates, stockyard and bridge, police paddocks, Gooramadda. E. Clarkson, Ascotvale ...
Article : 149 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of Francis White, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Davies, Price, and Wighton, solicitors, on a charge of embezzling £130, the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe forty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Manufacturing Company Limited was held this evening in the town-hall. Mr. ...
Article : 359 wordsHis Honour Mr. Justice Williams passed sentences at the assizes to-day. Thomas Brooks, aged 18, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, was sentenced to six months' ...
Article : 190 wordsThe ordinary weekly meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Asylum was held yesterday at the institution. Mr. C. Cock occupied the chair, and there were also ...
Article : 136 wordsThe members of the Ballarat Licensed Victuallers' Association and friends were conveyed by special train from Ballarat this morning, and embarked on board the ...
Article : 292 wordsSir,—In connection with the telegram in your yesterday's issue, announcing the expulsion of Mwanga, ruler of Uganda, the following extract from the appendix to the volume ...
Article : 478 wordsA death took place yesterday at Prahran under very painful circumstances. A young man, named Robert Hopton, about 26 years of age, who was suffering from ...
Article : 98 wordsA youth named John J. Miller was charged at the Prahran Court on Thursday with stealing a bay pony mare, valued at £20, about the 11th ult., from Toorak. The pony, ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,—I see a letter in The Argus of to-day signed "J.S.," who mentions a Mr. Johnston, a commissioner in 1855. I would like, with your permission, to recount an episode I had ...
Article : 308 wordsSir,—After enduring the hot wind all day long, what is more refresning than to sit and welcome the delicious southerly breeze that comes to cool the pulses and invigorate the ...
Article : 234 wordsSir,—The position of a solicitor who has qualified in Victoria, and who desires to live in England, is not to be envied. Assuming he wishes to follow his protession in the old. ...
Article : 202 wordsSir,—I trust you will not allow the matter of neglect on the part of the examiners to drop without insisting upon an improvement in the present state of affairs. ...
Article : 213 wordsA very old resident, in the person of Mr. James Chapman, died yesterday afternoon, after a few months' illness. He arrived in Victoria in 1853, and shortly afterwards came to ...
Article : 213 wordsSir,—At the sale of the late Mr. Fallon's library I purchased a book containing autograph letters by Mr. Disrael, Lord North, the Earl of Chesterfield, Mr. H. Pelham, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 15 Feb 1889, Page 6
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