On Saturday last a boundary-rider's hut on Thuralgoona Station was burned under suspicious circumstances. The strike committee's outer of a six months' bill for rations ...
Article : 652 wordsMadame Bernhardt repeated her magnificent impersonation of Cleopatra yesterday evening to a crowded and enthusiastic house. It svould be hard to say that a performance, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 399 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court to-day Patrick John O'Grady was charged with having on the night of April 27, at Newcastle, murdered Robert Campbell. On the night ...
Article : 395 wordsThe R.M.S.S. Lusitania, of the Orient line, arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon, with passengers for Melbourne, and passengers and cargo in transit for London. The ...
Article : 755 wordsThe lottery case in which Herbert Florance is suing William Hutchinson for £3,300 odd was continued before his Honour Mr. Justice A'Beckett in the second Civil Court ...
Article : 1,035 wordsA lecture was delivered at the meeting of the Bankers' Institute last evening by Mr. A. C. Macdonald on the discosvery of Australia, Mr. H. G. Turner occupied the chair. ...
Article : 863 wordsIn the District Court to-day, before Judge Murray, Alice Jane Kelly, a milliner, sought to recover £200 from one Frederick Davis, a butcher, for alleged breach of promise of ...
Article : 166 wordsA case of welching was heard at the Central Police Court to-day, when a man named Harry Levy was charged with having fraudulently appropriated to his own use ...
Article : 162 wordsThe programme for this evening's Hallé concert in the Town-hall will include:— Pianoforte Solos—"Waldstein" sonata (Beethoven), elude in A [?]at, and scherzo in ...
Article : 733 wordsDetectives Considine and Burvett have not made any discoveries of moment in connection with the alleged attempt to accomplish the murder of Sergeants Sommerville and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe report of the Shops and Factories Commission will probably be ready for presentation to the Colonial Secretary on Saturday. It is understood that there has been ...
Article : 270 wordsA meeting of the members of the Victorian Bootmakers' Union was held at the Trades hall last night. The rules of the society, as drawn up by a special committee, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsThe commercial traveller, James Littler, who was arrested last night for accosting women in Pall Mall, was to-day fined £[?] for insulting behaviour. He urged in defence ...
Article : 375 wordsThere is a very general desire on the part of Balarat people to hear the celebrated tragedienne, Madame Sarah Bernhardat, and it has been suggested that a special train ...
Article : 149 wordsA deputation to the Prime Minister, Mr. Playford, to-day requested that £13,000 should be expended in Harbour Trust improvements at Port Pirie. Mr. Playford ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the meeting of the Victorian Operative Bootmakers' Union, held at the Tradeshall last night, a resolution was adopted condemning the action of the Queensland ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe eight hours system is gradually extending in Perth, Fremantle, and the other towns of the colony. The arrangements are conducted in the most amicable manner, the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Hawthorn Council last night adopted the draft conditions on which the Alcock Electric Light Company are to be allowed to erect poles and supply the electric light to ...
Article : 166 wordsThe directors of the Broken Hill Junction North Silver mining Company Limited are naturally extremely reticent on the subject of the forged scrip certificates which are ...
Article : 163 wordsThe sequel to the discovery of the fragments of valuable bank notes in the pocket of a youth in Little Bourke-street on Tuesday by Senior-constable Dowling has yet to ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,—Is it possible to induce the authorities to permit the Lady Loch or the Sydney steamer Captain Cook to continue her search a day or so longer, and still further out to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsA meeting of subscribers to the Servants' Training Institute was held at the Town-hall yesterday for the purpose of considering a proposed made by the Government to ...
Article : 353 wordsThe first cut through the Mersey bar was accomplished to-day by the dredge Davenport, giving 12ft. at low water. The channel is 150ft. wide and 1,300ft. long. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsAPSLEY, June 8.—The country about here is in a terrible state from want of rain, as since the beginning of this year we have not had much over 2in. All the old inhabitants in this district state that they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 340 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the commisBioners of the Rodney Irrigation and Water Supply Trust to-day Commissioner William Brah was unanimously elected chairman for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsA young woman named Caroline Harvey was arrested last night on a charge of the attempted murder of her illegitimate child. Harvey, who is about 22 years of ageo, was ...
Article : 220 wordsSir,—Noticing a paragraph in The Argus of this day headed as above, it occurred to me that it might only be another instance of "history repeating itself," as some 15 years ...
Article : 645 wordsThe mayor, borough councillors, and town clerk made an excursion to the islands in Tower-hill Lake yesterday, and spent the day in exploring them to discover how they ...
Article : 539 wordsALBURY, JUNE 10.—The following stock movements are reported:—173 head of fat cattle from Walla Walla to Albury, Mr. W. Calvert owner; 1,000 wethers from Bungowannah to the Albury market, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsThe finances of the Hawthorn Council like those of most of the suburb municipalities, are in a condition that will require the strictest economy to be exercised if the ...
Article : 263 wordsA very successful sale of the first subdivision of the North Brighton Estate, situated between Horsham and Doo[?]n, and owned by Messrs. Young Bros., ssns held to-day by ...
Article : 172 wordsCUNNAMULLA, JUNE 10.—Heavy general rain has fallen throughout the district, registering over 2in., and rendering the country very boggy. Warrego is still flooded, and crossings are not possible. The me ...
Article : 208 wordsYesterday afternoon Senior-constable Blade arrested a young woman namd Julia Crenny at the residence of her mother, a widow, at Murrumbeena on the charge of child ...
Article : 302 wordsSir,—Having read your able article of June 5 on the above subject 1 must say that in my opinion you have sounded the key-note of the reform which is urgently required in this ...
Article : 302 wordsSir,—Alow me to give a caution to you Deniliquin correspondent repecting the in fectious nature of consumption. It is communicable in many ways besides close ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,—Permit me to rejoin to the courteous letter of Mr. Pinschof and our anonymous contributor, who signs himself, somewhat unnecessarily, "Indignant." Since ...
Article : 144 wordsHARROW, JUNE 10.—Owing to the late dry summer and the almost absence of grass since the annihilation of everything green by the locusts, and the losses of sheep caused thereby, the splendid ...
Article : 158 wordsAt George and George Ltd.'s Great alteration Sale. The whole building crowded with buyers.—[ADVT. A new form of wheat-blight has made its ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 11 Jun 1891, Page 6
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