At the meeting of the Fitzroy Council last evening it was openly asserted that the roughs had possession of the principal streets of Fitzroy. A letter was received from Mr. Thomas Smith, who complained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsA man has been arrested at Mungindi on suspicion of being the perpetrator of a murder committed at Collarendabri in June, 1894. This is the fourth arrest made on ...
Article : 322 wordsAn notion, in which Joseph Riley and Edward Ralph claimed £423 and £220 respectively from the Bungaree Shire Council for damages alleged to have been caused to land ...
Article : 256 wordsthe rains of last week have proved of great benefit to the country in general, but in Victoria the downpour was quite inadequate to replenish tanks and dams, which ...
Article : 1,475 wordsShortly after 6 o'clock on Saturday evening last the dwelling attached to the building owned and occupied by Messrs. W. H. Curtis and Co., general storekeepers and merchants, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsThe annual return of valuations of properties in the shire of Moorabbin was presented by the valuer at the meeting of the local council last evening. The total valuation amounted to £60,311, and the ...
Article : 99 wordsFears are expressed by vignerons and others that phylloxera still exists in some of the vineyards about Strathfieldsaye. It is suggested that the local phylloxera board ...
Article : 170 wordsA special meeting of the Essendon Council was held last night for the purpose of adopting the estimates for the year and striking a half-crown rate. In receipts the treasurer expected to receive £30.348 ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Customs collections at the port of Townsville for the 15 days ending Saturday last show an increase over the corresponding period of last year of £3,183. ...
Article : 72 wordsDetective-sergeant Whitney was yesterday instructed to make inquiries concerning the human skull found last week at the factory of Messrs. Kitchen and Sons, Port Melbourne. ...
Article : 288 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Castlemaine Woollen Mill Company was held tonight, Mr. E. D. Williams, M.L.A., presiding. The directors reported that the mill ...
Article : 152 wordsInformation has been received that an accident has taken place at the Barrabool mine at Forty-two Mile, and that a man was killed. Captain Fowler, inspector of mines, ...
Article : 515 wordsThomas Bingham, a young man, was excavating a well at a tannery at Hindmarsh to-day when he wwas overcome by foul air and sank unconscious. Another man descended ...
Article : 143 wordsAt the Collingwood Court yesterday, before Messrs[?] Tait, Eady, and Aumont, J.P.'s, four youths, named Louis Mischialli, Arnold Dunkelly, Edward Prescott, and Louis Cossen, ...
Article : 249 wordsMention was made in the Prahran Council yesterday that during the warm evenings the [?] of [?] on the Chapel-street, line were wuite [?] quate for the [?] of the Esplande line. ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the Prahran Council meeting yesterday Councillor Forbes referred to the discussion that had taken place in the Legislative Council in regard to the Federation Enabling Bill in regard to voting by ...
Article : 149 wordsA slight accident occurred yesterday to a small steamboat known as the Lady Loch[?] which runs excursions on the Hopkins River when returning with about 40 ...
Article : 78 wordsThe French cruiser Scorff lett port this morning for Preservation Inlet. An important discovery of a rich tin lode has been made by Gough and party in the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Mercadool inquiry was resumed to-day in the Court-house at Darlinghurst. William Alfred Cottee, manager of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Prahran City Council were yesterday notified that Councillor Fuller's term of office as one of the council's representatives on the board had expired by [?] of time. Councillor Fuller was [?] ...
Article : 40 wordsA case of considerable interest to municipal councils was tried at the County Court today, when the Arapiles Shire Council sought to recover from Mr. Donald M'Donald, ...
Article : 175 wordsIn reply to a request from the Prahran City Council for two whole holidays on account of the South Yarra Trades Club excursion to Beaumaris on the 10th inst, and the Prahran Trades Club's [?] ...
Article : 240 wordsAt the Carlton Court yesterday George Howes was charged with wilful murder, and Thomas Kneale with behaving in an insulting manner, and John Noonan with ...
Article : 179 wordsA larrikin, with a long list of previous convictions, named Thomas Reynolds, was charged at the Carlton court yesterday with the following offences—vagrancy, wilfully ...
Article : 204 wordsA communication was received by the Prahran City Council yesterday from the Postal [?] stating that the application of the council to have three postal deliveries [?] day [?] at [?] ...
Article : 79 wordsAbout a month ago an estimate was published in The Argus giving the probable [?] yield throughout the local distric[?] at about 25 bushels to the acre, an average which ...
Article : 250 wordsSANDFORD, FEB. 17.—A special train with fat stock left here to-day for [?]. SWAN HILL, FEB. 17.—Stock [?] [?] [?] sheep, the property of Mr. A. T. Creswick, of ...
Article : 831 wordsOn the 10th inst Mr. Hugh R. Reid, of the Shipping Exchange, 25 King-street, gave a gold hunting watch, worth £27, to a watchmaker named William MacDonald Anderson, ...
Article : 181 wordsAt the meeting of the Prahran City Council yesterday a letter was received from the town clerk of Melhourne stating that in view of a letter that had been received from the Minister of Public Works ...
Article : 158 wordsGeneral meetings were held and closed before the chief clerk in insolvency yesterday in the following estates:—Patrick Kelly, of Hawthron, retired civil servant; John ...
Article : 107 wordsAn elderly man whose name is unknown was found on the railway line near the Middle Park station late last night. His head was badly cut and he was unconscious, and the ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the meeting of the Boroomdara Council last night Councillor [?] moved that a loan of £22,000 be [?], £21,000 of which would be devoted to the [?] of the residue of a former loan of ...
Article : 136 wordsA case of sunstroke occurred at North Melbourne yesterday owing to the extreme heat. Mr. W. Beaumont, butcher, of Queensberrystreet, was walking across the pavement ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Campaspe Irrigation Trust to-day complaints were sent in by the inspector and the ex[?]tors of the estate of the late Jos. Bell of the prevalence ...
Article : 152 wordsWith regard to the strike in the [?] trade, a conference for the revision of the "statement" has been agreed upon, and delegates to it from the employers have been ...
Article : 64 wordsA disorderly seene took place in the Fitzroy Council last evening over the question whether the permission given by the council to Councillor [?] to carry [?] should be rescinded. ...
Article : 598 wordsThe destruction of orchards in the [?] and neighbouring shires by [?] pests and [?] depre[?]tors has reached such a stage that the orchardists are face to face with the [?] of ...
Article : 199 wordsA little boy named Robert Davis, dressed in [?], appeared in the dock at the Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Hodges, yesterday on a charge of having ...
Article : 91 wordsA serious outrage is reported from Corinna. Constable Pemberton, while attempting to [?] one of two theves, was struck on the head by the other with a piece of wood. ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the meeting of the Broondara Council last night (Monday) the following contracts for public works in the shire were accepted:—For the ou[?]ting of Norwood-road, the tender of A. C. Hurry, £72 10s.; ...
Article : 58 wordsThe half-yearly report of the Yambuk Butter Factory Co., which has been prepared, disc[?]oses a satisfactory state of affairs, the sum of £140 15s. 1d. being set down as profit ...
Article : 2,754 wordsSir—The operations of the Melbourne Harbour Trust so closely affect the interests of merchants and traders that I submit the Chamber of Commerce, should call a meeting ...
Article : 153 wordsThe subject of the insanitary state of the Merri Creek again gave rise to a very warm discussion in the Fitzroy Council last night. Councillor Denton reported that he had attended a meeting of ...
Article : 264 wordsThe [?]osition of the strikers is practically unchanged. A rumour was current that a portion of Fulton and Co.'s works at Kilkenny had been closed on account of ...
Article : 60 wordsAn [?]derly man named Martin Samuel Mayer was charged at the Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Hodges, yesterday with having attempted to commit suicide by ...
Article : 84 wordsBERRIWILLOCK, FEB. 15.—The weather is still day, with high winds and sultry [?], with no signs of rain. Stock are falling away on account of scarcity of feed and water. [?] is going on ...
Article : 121 wordsThe special course in natural philosophy for this examination will be "radiation," not "electrolysis" as mentioned in our columns yesterday. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 18 Feb 1896, Page 6
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