Lieutenant-General Douglas Grant has forwarded to The Times the following further letter from Major Grant, V.C., to his mother, dated Manipur Fort, April 28:— ...
Article : 1,185 wordsThis morning the representative of the Underwriters' Association, Captain Robinson, proceeded to Bream Creek to the scene of the stranded steamer Bancoora, taking ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Presbyterian Federal Assembly met again to-day and decided that the next meeting should take place in Adelaide next July. ...
Article : 311 wordsThe recent tempestuous weather in the Straits has been severely felt by small vessels as well as those of large tonnage, and instances in point have been furnished ...
Article : 895 wordsThe great baccarat case has been the absorbing topic of the week. From another pen you will have the details of the hearing at the Law Courts, and the scene ...
Article : 1,011 wordsThe County Court was opened yesterday before Acting Judge Walsh, and was continued to-day. The principal action on the list was one which the daughter-in ...
Article : 809 wordsThe jury retired at half-past 3, and were absent from court seven minutes. On returning they were asked the usual question, "Gentlemen, are you agreed on ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is fortunate (says the Birmingham Post's London correspondent) that the Heir-Apparent was at Ascot on Tuesday instead of being seated on the bench next the presiding ...
Article : 144 wordsA benefit entertainment in aid of the Taramung Relief Fund, for the purpose of assisting 11 widows and 22 orphans, whose breadwinners perished in that unfortunate ...
Article : 555 wordsA mass meeting was held in the Centennial-hall to-night, about 1,500 persons being present, when the following resolutions were passed:—"1. That this meeting regards ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Times says the case has ended in the only way which impartial observers from the outset had believed possible. It then expresses its profound regret that the Prince ...
Article : 1,170 wordsThe opportunity to raise funds presented by the distress following on the recent floods proved irresistible to a young Jew, a recent arrival from London, named Adolphe Swael, ...
Article : 291 wordsThe judging in the sheep classes at the annual show of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was done to-day. The following prizes were awarded:— ...
Article : 735 wordsA quarterly meeting of the Albury Vine and Fruitgrowers' Association was held here yesterday afternoon. A letter was received from the Minster of Agriculture in response ...
Article : 220 wordsThe third meeting of shareholders in the Northern District Starr-Bowkett Building Society was held in the Royal-hall, Footscray, on Tuesday evening last. Five hundred ...
Article : 106 wordsA meeting of representatives of the temperance organisations and branches of the Victorian Alliance in the North Yarra Province was heldat the boardroom of the ...
Article : 113 wordsA meeting of the executive council of the No. 1 (Victorian) Colonial District of the Amalgamated Miners' Association will be held at the Trades-hall, Ballarat, on ...
Article : 310 wordsMr. R. G. Gibson, manager of the Bank of Australasia in Bendigo, has received instructions to proceed to Wellington, New Zealand, to take charge of the bank there/ Mr. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe curator of the estates of deceased persons has obtained rules to administer the estates of the following deceased persons, under the Act No. 1,060:— ...
Article : 124 wordsThe marriage of Sir William Gordon-Cumming within a few hours of the verdict, which is supposed to have sentenced him to social extinction, has naturally pro ...
Article : 231 wordsAn instructive lecture on the characteristics, physical properties, and conditions of soils was delivered by Mr. R. Hedger Wallace, of the department of Agriculture, in the School ...
Article : 127 wordsBRIDGEWATER, JULY 16.—Stock Movements.— 2,700 merino store wethers passed through here yesterday from [?]aywood travelling to Watgania, near Ararat, C. L. Perry in charge. ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the Collingwood Court on Tuesday, before Mr. O'Meara, P.M., and a bench of justices, a Chinese market-gardener, named Ah Pow, was proceeded against under the ...
Article : 112 wordsTo-day magisterial inquiries were conducted here regarding recent mysterious deaths. The inquiry on the body of the man found on the beach near Barwon Heads elicited the fact ...
Article : 190 wordsSir,—As an interesting contribution to the literature of the present disastrous flood I forward you the enclosed amusing notice, which I have received from the inspector at ...
Article : 194 wordsBREWARRINA, JULY 14.—In consequence of the bad state of the roads there have been no stock items to report. The weather, although very variable, held up sufficiently fine for the Pastoral Show ...
Article : 277 wordsFor the last two weeks a gang of poultry-stealers have been committing a large number of thefts in the Coburg and Brunswick districts. Nearly 100 ducks were ...
Article : 135 wordsFrom the London papers we take the following:— On Tuesday, June 9, the Lord Chief Justice summed up in the case. He said he was not ...
Article : 2,430 wordsSir William Gordon-Cumming on June 10 informed a representative of the St. James's Gazette that he had received by the first post some 70 letters of sympathy, many ...
Article : 132 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the South Melbourne City Council a letter was read from the acting town clerk of Melbourne, asking that the mayor of South Melbourne should ...
Article : 192 wordsSir,—In a telegram from your correspondent at Adelaide in this morning's paper, he states that amongst the passengers per Ormuz is "Mr. Rochussen, senior partner in ...
Article : 147 wordsCUNNAMULLA, JULY [?].—Unsettled weather has prevailed since last report. During the week over [?] of rain has fallen here. The country is boggy, and the mails are delayed. The Paroo is again high. ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—I see by your issue of yesterday that a revised suburban time-table will probably be issued next month. Kindly allow me a few lines in which to urge the commissioners to ...
Article : 148 words"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."—Shakspeare. The word is "Waterbury," the action comprises the insertion of the digits into that receptacle of your ...
Article : 210 wordsTruth says that a pr[?]cis of the proceedings in the baccarat case was tehgraphed to Balmoral every evening for the information of the Queen, who has expressed her dis ...
Article : 248 wordsPENOLA, JULY 15.—1,450 sheep (weaners), from Mount Graham to near Caste[?], crossed at Lindsay yesterday, Elder, Smith, and Co. agents, F. Sutton owner. The new fruit colony is looking well. About ...
Article : 47 wordsFurniture Renovated, Removed, Stored; Carpets, Beds, Cleaned, Dried; General Repairs, Chimneys Swept, &c. Universal Help Co., 342 Little Collins-street.—[ADVT.] ...
Article : 25 wordsAt clearing rates, this week. Special. Crawford. King, and Co.—[ADVT.] ...
Article : 16 words"A perfect Food."—Health.—[ADVT.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 Jul 1891, Page 7
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