The Council further considered the State Advances Bill, the most important decision arrived at being the defeat of the proposal to restore the measure to its original form, ...
Article : 409 wordsThere was a large attendance of the rate payers of the Victoria Ward of the City Corporation at the North Star Hotel, Nicholson-street, North Carlton, last night, to hear the ...
Article : 957 wordsA novel departure has been made this year by the management of the Princess's Theatre in the production of the cuatomary Christmas pantomime. Deserting the old and ...
Article : 1,257 wordsThe large and appreciative audience in the Town-hall yesterday evening may be taken as clearly indicating that the impending departure of Madame Anna Steinhauer and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsAt the Licensing Court to-day no fewer than 290 licenses were applied for, including about 230 hotel licenses. Mr. E. Brady, grocer, applied for a wine license for his store ...
Article : 428 wordsThe danger of bathing immediately after dinner was painfully shown yesterday by the tragically sudden death of Mr. Walter Nation, of Messrs. Walker and Nation, soap ...
Article : 470 wordsThe board appointed to consider the charges made by Mr. W. J. Lormer against the honorary magistrates of the City Court Bench held its first meeting yesterday at the ...
Article : 332 wordsIn the Counts Court to-day, before Judge Casey, John Murphy, a miner, sued the Sulieman Pasha Gold minnie, Company for £500 damages on account of injuries ...
Article : 140 wordsForecast, Thursday (6 p.m.).—Fine, with light westerly winds; very warm and sultry weather expected shortly; sea moderate. BRISBANE, Thursday.—Mr. Clement Wragge has ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Sale Supreme Court was continued to day. Edward Crombie Chambers, a lawyer's clerk, charged with perjury at Bairnsdale, was found not guilty. T. G. Armstrong, who ...
Article : 1,318 wordsBOORT, THURSDAY.—This week a break in the. weather occurred. There has been thunder and halistorms and 72 points of rain since Monday. Several vineyards are seriously injured, and crops have also ...
Article : 963 wordsAt 3 o'clock to-morrow Lady Brassey is to open the Cottage by the Sea at Queenscliff. This cottage has lately been built by the members of the Ministering Children's ...
Article : 678 wordsA man named Leonard Thompson, residing at Tarilta, has lost the sight of one eye through a piece of wood he was chopping rebounding and striking him. ...
Article : 141 wordsGeorge Haynes was brought before the police court this morning charged with shooting at his wife Agnes with intent to murder her. The evidence with intent to ...
Article : 146 wordsIn the Council the Municipalities Act Amendment Bill conferring the municipal franchise on tenants was rejected. The third readings of the Tand Tax Bill, ...
Article : 435 words" General" Booth arrived here this afternoon from Melbourne, and was welcomed to Geelong by the major of Geelong, the Rev. A. W Webb, and the officers and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe improvement in the market recently reported was maintained, competition being very strong and vigorous and prices firm for all descriptions. ...
Article : 893 wordsThe residence of Mr. A. J. Murray, at Spring Flat, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. There was a total insurance on the buildings and furniture of £225 in the Royal ...
Article : 38 wordsMajor-General Sir Charles Holleed Smith and Major Revnolds arrived here yesterday by the excursion steamer Hygeia, and put up at the Queensehff Hotel. The half-yearlly ...
Article : 193 wordsThe annual conference of the Amalgamated Enginedrivers' Association of Victoria was held here to-day, the chair being occupied by Mr. John Tregear (Bendigo), the president. ...
Article : 826 wordsAn important commercial experiment was inaugurated yesterday, when the first direct shipment of live stock from this colony to South Africa was ...
Article : 614 wordsTwo serions accidents happened in this district to day. John Hambling, a farm labourer, was engaged in carting hay when the horses bolted. The front portion of the ...
Article : 106 wordsAccounts have been received of the damage done by the storm last Monday, and it is estimated that in the aggregate the district has lost several thousands of pounds' worth of ...
Article : 275 wordsAt the City Council meeting to-day the mayoral salary for the ensuing year was fixed at £1,000. Alderman Burdekin sought to have the amount fixed at £1,500, and ...
Article : 191 wordsThe revenue returns for the past month give an indication of the advance of the colony. Compared with the returns of November, 1894, the increases are most ...
Article : 131 wordsTo-day Mr. W. Hall, secretary and managing director of the Goorambat Butter and Cheese Factory Company Limited, swore three informations against Robert A. ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, THURSDAY.—The extremely oppressive weather of the past few days continued until to-day when a southerly wind sprang up, bringing with it cool weather and lights rains. The whole of the colony, ...
Article : 211 wordsThe French Consul-General, Mons. Biard Daunet, to-day visited the ship Aristides and thanked Captain Poppy, Chief-officer Wilson, and the crew of the Aristides for their ...
Article : 190 wordsThis afternoon a meeting of the manufactures committee of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures was held for the purpose of considering the Factories and ...
Article : 98 wordsAt the last meeting of the Brunswick Council it was recommended by the public works committee that the power of inflicting penalties specified in a certain maintenance metal contract should be ...
Article : 374 wordsSir,—At the request of my co-delegates, Messrs. Laverand Tolley, I write to express the regret with which we have read in your issue of this morning the somewhat discourteous ...
Article : 339 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 8,885 bales were catalogued, and 8,808 sold. There was a full attendance of buyers, including a number of Melbourne operators. The competition was brisk, the tendency ...
Article : 71 wordsThe annual meeting of the Warrnambool District M.U.I.O.O.F.was held last evening. Deputy Prov. G. M. Brother R. A. Philp, reported that the total membership of the ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—In the Argus of this morning, under the heading of "Wills and Estates," is a short paragraph, which states—as the fact is—that the will of Thomas Samuel ...
Article : 135 wordsTHARGOMINDAH, THURSDAY.—Thunderstorms have fallen in all parts of the district, but the rainfall is very variable. Light steady rain is now falling, with indications of continuing. ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,—In a recent report that appeared in your columns upon experiments that had been made in call-feeding it was casually mentioned that pollard would probably ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Ballarat Sparrow Club held a successful pigeon-shooting match in their grounds to-day, although some of the birds were very patchy. The following are the prizetakers:—"Patron" and J. Fraser, £17 ...
Article : 64 wordsThe district annual meeting of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellowe was held to-day in the lodge-room of the Cumberland Hotel. Delegates were ...
Article : 244 wordsThe monthly meeting was held on the 4th inst. Mr. Harlin in the chair, when the following cases were reported:—Granted help, 15; declined, 2; postponed, 2; total, 19. The hon. sec. (Mr. Steel Shaw) ...
Article : 135 wordsThe following tenders were accepted by the Board of Land and Works yesterday:—Supply of 6,000ft. of cube bluestone to the penal establishment, Pentri[?] W. Flanagan, £218 [?]s. 4d.; [?] bridge (No. 1) ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 6 Dec 1895, Page 6
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