Major-General Edwarde left for Auckland to-day, having previously handed in a report on the organisation of the defence forces of the colony to the Governor. The contents of ...
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Article : 173 wordsA conference upon the subjects of ensilage and dairying was commenced yesterday in the board-room of the Lands department, Mr. J. L. Dow, the Minister of Agriculture, ...
Article : 2,364 wordsThe Town-hall having been otherwise disposed of by the civic authorities, who have apparently but small sympathy with the cause of musical education, the Victorian ...
Article : 531 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day the trial of the brothers Shaw for the alleged murder of a native on the Murchison was concluded. The Attorney-General withdrew the case, in ...
Article : 179 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of the Board of Viticulture was held yesterday at the Government offices. M[?]. J. M. Highett, ...
Article : 347 wordsEncouraged no doubt by the success which attended Farrell and Clarke in their escape from the Geelong Gaol, some prisoners in the Melbourne Gaol on Wednesday night made ...
Article : 640 wordsBy an explosion in a blacksmith's shop near Invercargill a man named James Mackenzie was killed, the left side ot his body being cut clean away. Another man named ...
Article : 55 wordsParliament was prorogued at noon to-day. The Governor in his speech referred in terms of satisfaction to the work of the session. He said that the principal measure that was ...
Article : 393 wordsThe monthly meeting of the council of the Public Service Association was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. R. L. J. Ellery, president of the association, being in the chair. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 490 wordsUnder the title of "The Congress of Wonders," a variety entertainment composed of equestrains feats, gymnastics, aerobatic performances, balancing fents and juggling ...
Article : 400 wordsAn artful young swinaler named William Hunter, alias William Suater, was charged with vagrancy at the Carlton Court yesterday. Evidence was given to the effect that ...
Article : 282 wordsI With reference to the recent cable report of the sale of a million worth of Mount Morgan shares in London which was received with some unbelief, inquiries just made show ...
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Article : 134 wordsThe young jockey, Otto Lang, who was struck by lightning on friday night when in the company of the girl Annie Wise, who was at the same time killed, is becoming worse, ...
Article : 235 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the plans, &c., of the fourth section of the North Coast railway and branch line from Dalby towards the Bunya Mountains, were approved. ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day a summons was heard before Mr. Justice Boucaut in chambers in connection with the auction brought by the liqidntors of the Commercial Bank of South Australia ...
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Article : 70 wordsIn the Council to-day Mr. Coote moved a resolution that in future the Agent-General's term of office should cease when the Ministry goes out, instancing the Queensland practice. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 11 Oct 1889, Page 6
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