The weekly meeting of the managing committee of the Benevolent Asylum was held on Thursday at the institution. Mr. J. Garton presided, and there were also present Messrs. ...
Article : 358 wordsAt the Berwick Council meeting on Saturday a circular was received from the Municipal Association asking that a delegate be appointed to attend a conference in the ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Orient Co.'s R.M.S. Oruba, L. Hay commander, arrived from Colombo at a qrarter to 9 a.m. She brings the following saloon passengers:- ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. L. L. Smith has forwarded a progress report, dated March 22, on the affairs of the Victorian section of the Imperial Institute to the Victorian committee, from which the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsThe annual meeting of the shareholders of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. Limited was held on Saturday morning at Menzies Hotel. Mr. A. W. Robertson presided, and there was ...
Article : 1,645 wordsThe polling took place to-day for North Brisbane and l8 other constituencies. It was expected that Brisbane would present a scene of great excitement, ...
Article : 734 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Ballance (the Premier) took place at Wanganui this afternoon. The body was taken from the official residence of the Premier to the Wellington ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Seddon, the Minister of Works, Mines, and Defence, has received a message from the Governor, desiring his attendance at Government-house to-morrow. It is ...
Article : 77 wordsThe nomination paper of Mr. T. D. Wanliss for the Wellington Province was to-day lodged with the deputy returning officer, Mr. Henry Josephs. Mr. Wanliss has just ...
Article : 52 wordsAt half-past 3 this morning a fire broke out in a 10-roomed brick house situated in Arundel-street, the property of Mr. William Gordon, who carries on a house-furnishing ...
Article : 694 wordsThe Mayoress of Melbourne (Mrs. Snowden) desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following additional sums in response to the appeal made by the ladies' ...
Article : 81 wordsThe third half-yearly meeting of the Yea Dairy Company was held to-day in the shirehall, Mr. D. M'Leish, chairman of directors, presiding, and 40 shareholders being present. ...
Article : 437 wordsDetectives D. G. O'Donnell and C. Wardley arrested a man named William Robert Henry Harris, at Cremorne-street, South Richmond, on Saturday night, on a ...
Article : 98 wordsThe nomination for Central Cumberland, caused by the resignation of Mr. Nobbs, at Granville, took place yesterday. Only two candidates were nominated—Mr. John ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsChristopher Fanning, a travelling showman, was charged at the Richmond Court on Saturday with shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The alleged offence ...
Article : 189 wordsA building in Wilson's-lane, off Buncle-street, Hothem Hill, owned by Messrs. Wilson Bros., and occupied, as a tin-canister factory by Messrs. Parker and Heaps, was ...
Article : 181 wordsSir,—I enclose 1s., the price of one week's smoke. As a large majority of the male population smoke, if they all send in their smoke money the Women's Hospital will ...
Article : 79 wordsThe medical attendant of Archbishop Reynolds does not expect the patient to last many hours. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Prahran police had much difficulty on Saturday in restraining a half-witted woman named Elizabeth Whitcumbe, 49 years of age, who was exceedingly violent when brought to ...
Article : 203 wordsThe members of the Young Women's Christian Association of Melbourne held their annual business meeting on the 27th ul[?]. The chair was taken by the senior vice-president, ...
Article : 248 wordsA serious accident occurred yesterday to Mr. John Lyne, M.H.A. for Glamorgan, the father of Mr. Lyne, the New South Wales Minister of Public Works. Whilst driving in ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Eastern District Council of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows held their usual quarterly meeting on Wednesday evening last at the Royal Hotel, Gerturde-street, Fitzroy. ...
Article : 227 wordsIt has been repeatedly asserted, with the intention of misleading the public, that the Public Service Board, in making promotions, had regard only to the seniority of officers, ...
Article : 375 wordsDetective-Sergeant Griffin arrested a man named Moritz Polatschek on Saturday night, on the charge of having stolen a watch and chain, for which the detectives now require ...
Article : 325 wordsCaptain Crook died of small-pox yesterday. He held the position of accountant to Dalgety and Co., and was at one time in the Victorian militia. ...
Article : 63 wordsVery serious injuries were sustained this morning, by a young man named George Wilson, son of Mr. James Wilson, formerly the owner of the St. Albans stud and training ...
Article : 216 wordsAn elderly woman named Isabella Evans was found dead in an outhouse in Suffolklane, off Stanley-street, Collingwood, at half-past 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. There ...
Article : 146 wordsThe intercolonial wood chopping and sawing competitions were concluded to-day, with the following results:- Champion Underhand Competition, 6ft. logs.— ...
Article : 227 wordsThe unqualified success of the cheap excursion from Melbourne to the Ballarat Botanical-gardens to-day is expected to impress the Railway Commissioners with the ...
Article : 186 wordsAt an extraordinary general meeting of the Irrigation Company held to-night the nine gentlemen who had been previously nominated as directors—namely, Messrs. George ...
Article : 208 wordsA short time ago the manager of the New North mine, when starting the drive at the back of the 200ft. level near the British boundary, expressed an opinion that the ...
Article : 407 wordsAn election took place to-day for a member to serve in the Castlemaine division of the Mining Board, consequent upon the death of Mr. Thomas Morris, who died from injuries ...
Article : 134 wordsInformation reached the Albury police to-day that a Chinese miner, who has been following his vocation at Tumut, was violently assaulted and robbed of a few penny weights ...
Article : 117 wordsTINTALDRA, APRIL 27.—Stock crossings this day: To truck at Tallangatta for Newmarket—55 fat bullocks from Welaregang, Mr. Thos. Paton owner, consigned to Messrs. Dougharty and Parker; 9 prime ...
Article : 184 wordsYesterday the crane used for heavy-weight lifting at the Harcourt railway station collapsed whilst a huge block of granite was being hoisted on to a truck. Fortunately ...
Article : 166 wordsA letter has been received from the Deputy Postmaster-General relative to the Bendigo Traders' Association's proposal to lease the telephone system. The association thought ...
Article : 254 wordsSir,—The protectionist journal of this city to-day contains the usual caricature of free-trade arguments. Such distortions of history as that the advance of wages in ...
Article : 467 wordsSir,—Referring to your report of the adjourned meeting of this company called by the liquidator, at which, by the decision of the meeting, I was prevented from speaking, ...
Article : 280 wordsSir,—With reference to the list of percentage reductions in the salaries of the Government officials which appeared in The Argus this morning, while I agree thereto, ...
Article : 225 wordsMINYIP, APRIL 27.—A meeting of those interested in farmers grain sheds, was held in the Mechanics Institute, Sheep Hills, on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of farmers and delegates, and Mr. ...
Article : 297 wordsSir,—In your statement in to-day's issue of the retrenchment to be effected in the Education department under clause 9, your report states:—"The retirement of the temporary ...
Article : 218 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of management of the Children's Hospital was held on Wednesday, the 26th inst. The President, Mrs. Testar, occupied the chair and there were also present ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 1 May 1893, Page 7
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