John Anderson, 42, quartermaster on board the s.s. Alameda, was killed to-day through falling down the forehold of the vessel, a distance of 22ft. When picked ...
Article : 340 wordsMrs. Ahearn, the principal of Girton College, died on Tuesday, after a fortnight's illness. At a race meeting held on the South ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the case of James C. Dalton, charged with insulting behaviour, Mr. T. M'Inerney, who appeared for the defence, made an eloquent appeal for leniency. His ...
Article : 91 wordsA conference of vine-growers, called with the object of considering a series of proposals for the advancement of the industry, was held at the Vignerons' Club, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsThe Jubilee celebrations at Corryong on Wednesday took the form of a coursing match in the day, with fireworks, bonfires, and a bull at night. A salute of seven ...
Article : 57 wordsPerhaps nothing has been more characteristic of the loyal feeling created by Her Majesty's Jubilee than the children's fete at the Exhibition-building yesterday, ...
Article : 1,016 wordsAbout 400 children from all parts of the district assembled at the state school, and after an address by Mr. Downward, M.L.A., and the singing of the National Anthem ...
Article : 224 wordsMr. E. L. Zox has received the following additional gifts towards the fund for entertaining the poor of Melbourne:—Councillor Arthur Tuckett, £2/2/; Messrs. ...
Article : 226 wordsOn the Caulfield racecourse to-day the children attending the Caulfield and Rosstown state schools will be entertained. A programme of sports will be gone through, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Hardware Association, following the example of the Softgoods' Association, has decided to close all shops in the trade on Saturday. As the grocers have also decided ...
Article : 52 wordsThe proceedings included a fire brigade demonstration, and the unfurling of a new flag by Miss Ida Cooper, daughter of the mayor, who is also captain of the brigade. ...
Article : 109 wordsOn Tuesday evening a dinner was given by Mr. Geo. Lansell, at his residence, Fortuna-villa, to about 100 old bendigonians. The host was supported on his right by Mr. ...
Article : 345 wordsThe picnic tendered to the school children of Brunswick, which was held in the local Recreation-reserve yesterday in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, was highly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsA large procession of the school children marched through the town, with banners flying after winch a luncheon was given in the schoolroom. The poor of the district ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Jubilee was celebrated on Tuesday night, prominent buildings being illuminated in honour of the occasion. Special festivities are to be held on Friday next. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 246 wordsThe following is the text of the address forwarded by the State School Teachers' Union of Victoria to Her Majesty:— "To Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Jubilee demonstrations were held here on Tuesday night, when a brilliant fireworks display was given in the Botanical-reserve, followed by a very large public ...
Article : 168 wordsRain has fallen in the previous 24 hours in New South Wales as follows:—Sydney, 16 points; Newcastle, 15 points; Macquarie, 39 points; Stephens, 78; Mount ...
Article : 36 wordsThe American ship Tillie E. Starbuck arrived from New York early this morning. The captain reports that he had a most tempestuous voyage. On June 1 a boy ...
Article : 90 wordsA fete, to which all the children in the district were invited, was held to-day, and was a great success. At night a ball was held in the Mechanics' Institute. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe children of the Moorabbin district will meet in the township of Cheltenham this morning. About 10 o'clock they will be formed into procession, and after singing ...
Article : 71 wordsSome time ago Dr. Robinson, for about eight years medical officer of the Hamilton Hospital, brought a libel action against Mr. S. H. Palmer, member of the hospital ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsA schools picnic was held on Wednesday, and was largely attended. Some very good prizes were offered, and the arrangements were perfect. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Zox in a serious mood would appear to be somewhat of a contradiction in terms, especially when it is added that the seriousness occurred outside the precincts of the ...
Article : 513 wordsA shockingly sudden death occurs last evening on the platform of Prince's-bridge railway station, the victim being Mr. Alfred Gates, senior clerk in the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Jubilee sports were the great success known in the district. The bicycle and other races were well contested, and there was an attendance of about 1,000. The ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Hospital Queen's Jubilee Fair has closed, the net proceeds exceeding £150. This will be used to reduce the debt upon the hospital-buildings. To-night the ...
Article : 49 wordsA display of fireworks was made on board the Cerberus, in Hobson's Bay, last night, under the direction of Lieutenant Colquhoun. The display consisted of ...
Article : 80 wordsA committee, consisting of Councillors Pickering (shire president), Thiele (chairman of the board of advice), Zerle, Stutt, Finger, and Crouch, and Messrs. G. H. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Jubilee celebration proved in immense success. Nothing like it had ever been witnessed in the town or district. Special references were made to the event ...
Article : 237 wordsCertain disabilities under which the local boards of advice, appointed to administer the Vegetation diseases Act, labour, and by which their work is seriously hampered, ...
Article : 524 wordsA schools festival, in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee, will be held at the Heidelberg-park to-day. One thousand children are expected to take part in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsThe official ball, in connection with the Jubilee celebrations will be held in the Town-hall, Melbourne, this evening, commencing at half-past 8 o'clock. His ...
Article : 107 wordsThe local committee of the Queen's Jubilee commemoration on Wednesday presented each of the children attending the state school with a medal as a memento of ...
Article : 147 wordsEdward Wood and about half-a-dozen other young men took advantage of the holiday on Tuesday afternoon to create a great disturbance in Port Melbourne. They ...
Article : 165 wordsArrangements have been made for the illuminations at the Town-hall, Parliament[?] house, and the Treasury-buildings to be continued every night this week, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsThe Queen's Jubilee was celebrated in Avoca on Tuesday by the holding of various picnics in connection with the churches. The grounds were nicely decorated with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsOn Sunday night the Presbyterians, Wesleyans, and Anglicans held a service in the shire-hall, when the clergymen of each denomination gave addresses, dealing with ...
Article : 87 wordsA procession of close upon 500 children, headed by the borough band, marched through the streets, and the children, after parading the streets, were entertained at ...
Article : 134 wordsThe festivities were continued to-day, the chief attraction being the united Sunday-schools' demonstration in the Royal Princess Theatre. At half-past 2 the children ...
Article : 157 wordsOn Tuesday a concert was held among the inmates of the Benevolent Asylum, numbers of the old people giving songs and instrumental selections. Mr. A. E. Laver, the ...
Article : 70 wordsA young woman named Helen Parry pleaded guilty at the Criminal Court yesterday to a charge of wilfully making a false statement to the registrar of births ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day Mr. Isaacs, S.M., said he felt constrained to remark publicly upon the excellent order maintained during the holidays, only one ...
Article : 84 wordsThe most loyal person in Melbourne did not welcome the arrival of the Jubilee celebrations more fervently than Charles St. Clair and Edward Thompson, whose ...
Article : 233 wordsPrahran is the enterprising suburb. Not only did it determine to have illuminations and a procession of its own, but it held them twice over. On Saturday night it ...
Article : 842 wordsThe Jubilee festivities took place here on Wednesday. Four hundred state school children assembled in Mrs. Mitchell's paddock near the town, where all sorts of games ...
Article : 73 wordsGlorious weather prevailed to-day, when the principal holiday celebration was s[?]m fight in the Queen's Domain, which passed off exceptionally well, especially ...
Article : 283 wordsNot a fortnight has passed since John O'Keefe was before the City Court for threatening the life of his father, and it is only a few months since he created quite a ...
Article : 155 wordsAt Brighton to-day all the children of the district will be entertained on the local drill ground. At half-past 10 o'clock they will be formed into a square outside the ...
Article : 121 wordsCOBRAM, June 23.—Ploughing operations are again in full swing, and the outlook for the wheat crop is more promising. CHILDERS, June 21. — Large quantities of ...
Article : 206 wordsA picnic was given to the state school children, by private subscription, and medals were distributed. An entertainment was given to the Sunday-school ...
Article : 75 wordsARAMAC, June 15.—The weather, I regret, has taken a change. Days and nights are bitterly cold, and all present hopes of rain have fled. No losses of stock are yet reported of any moment, but in the ...
Article : 677 wordsA picnic, sports, fireworks, and a huge bonfire were held with great success. All present joined in singing "God Save the Queen" around the bonfire. ...
Article : 28 wordsA picnic and sports were held for all the school children throughout the shire. Nearly 1,000 marched through the principal streets of the town to the show grounds, ...
Article : 44 wordsMedals were distributed to all school children. There was a picnic and sports at the cricket-ground, with a display of fireworks in the evening. A concert and dance ...
Article : 113 wordsA mysterious robbery of a cash-book containing two deposit receipts for £70 in the Bank of Australasia, the title-deed of a property value not stated, and a gold Geneva ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. G. W. F. Patterson, P.M., of Geelong, was robbed of a gold watch and chain, valued at £40, while standing in a crowd at the corner of Flinders and ...
Article : 255 wordsOn Tuesday there were two picnics, one at the Granite Ranges, the other at Mount Koring. Both were largely attended. In the evening the town was illuminated, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe legislative committee of the South Melbourne Council last night informed the council that the health officer stated that the health of the city was good; and that the late visit of the ...
Article : 77 wordsA patriotic concert was held in the local Mechanics' Institute, at which a few minutes after 10 o'clock the large assemblage rose and sang the Hymn of Praise, and at ...
Article : 126 wordsThe hoisting of a Union Jack at the Shirehall in the morning was made quite a ceremony. The National Anthem was sung, and cheers given. At the invitation of the ...
Article : 184 wordsTo-night bonfires are blazing on all the volcanic peaks around Auckland. The Queen's message to the Governor occupied 15 minutes in transmission. The ...
Article : 124 wordsA letter was read at the meeting of the South Melbourne Council last night from the Town Clerk of Melbourne, stating that the appeals which the Tramway Company had lodged against the ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Henry Dobson, late of Burrambeet, farmer, who died on the 8th of February last, left a will, dated April 22, 1896, bequeathing an annuity of £52 to his widow ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Diamond Jubilee was celebrated here with great eclat. A picnic was held in the Marram-reserve, over 200 being present. The medals given by Mr. Armytage, president ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the meeting of the Flemington Council last night, a letter was received from the V.R.C. committee, stating that they would be glad to meet the council on the 2nd July on the disputed ...
Article : 70 wordsThe rating appeal of the South Melbourne Cricket Club against the assessment of their ground and buildings by the local council, which was to have been further heard in ...
Article : 207 wordsA picnic was given to the children of Beeac, Cress[?], Weering, Ondit. Warrion, Cundare, and Alvi[?]. A short address was given by Mr. T. Baker, M.L.A., who ...
Article : 67 wordsWet weather interfered with the festivities to-day, and the pyrotechnic display and the torchlight procession were postponed until Saturday. ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—While great credit is being given to all who have taken part in the Jubilee celebrations—the police, mounted and foot, the men of the Metropolitan Fire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsNext to the illuminations and the singing of the hymn of praise. Patrick Stanley was the principal attraction to the crowd in Bourke-street. Though having but one ...
Article : 257 wordsTree-planting was carried on in the main street by the Arbor Day committee. The opening ceremony was performed by Councillor W. H. Smith (President of the shire), ...
Article : 84 wordsThe principal demonstration was a big bonfire on one of the highest peaks. The local brass band was in attendance, together with a large member of the residents. ...
Article : 55 wordsA procession, headed by the Mansfield Brass Band, opened the proceedings, about 1,000 persons being in attendance. Sports were subsequently held, and the children ...
Article : 121 wordsThe amusements took the form of a large procession of the children in the morning, who marched from the main street to the picnic-ground, several times being called ...
Article : 68 wordsThe retail, wholesale, half-price, and secondhand departments of Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne, contain the largest and most varied assortment of books, we believe, in any trading ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 24 Jun 1897, Page 6
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