The monthly meeting of the council of the Victorian Railways Association was held last evening, when there was a large attendance of members. Attention was drawn ...
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Article : 414 wordsIn this case Grace Florence Gillibrand petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage with Philip Ernest Gillibrand on the grounds of adultery and cruelty, adultery ...
Article : 859 wordsThe old town-hall, Prahran, was crowded last night, when Mr. G. Maxwell, a candidate for election, expressed his views. Mr. T. Arkle presided, but his remarks in ...
Article : 930 wordsIn the Divorce Court yesterday, before the Chie Justice, Jonadab Townsend petitioned for a dissolution of his marriage with Matilda Townsend on the ground of ...
Article : 763 wordsAt the Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Hodges, on Tuesday, Thomas Price, legal manager of the Bruce's No. 1 North Mining Company, Daylesford, came up for ...
Article : 242 wordsA week ago considerable time was occupied at the City Court by the investigation of a charge of embezzlement against a man named George B. Robinson, formerly a ...
Article : 353 wordsForecast, Tuesday (6 p.m.).—Fine, with light variable winds, chiefly from east and north; frosty or foggy during night and morning; smooth sea. ...
Article : 176 wordsBERWICK (Shire). — Nominations:—Berwick Riding, Francis Barr and Willoughby Curtois; Beaconsfield Riding, Henry James and Jessey Sykes; Pakenham Riding, Arthur H. A'Beckett ...
Article : 728 wordsThe recent drought has resulted in the price of fat stock increasing materially in this district. On Monday a flock of [?]erino[?]s realised 20/ per head, and at ...
Article : 58 wordsShortly after 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning a six-roomed house in O'Connell-street, Geelong West, owned by Mrs. Marshall, but unoccupied, was almost destroyed by ...
Article : 301 wordsRainfall at Observatory previous 24 hours to 3 p.m. 10th August, nil; since January 1, 10.87in. Average rainfall at Observatory for the first eight months of the year, 15.82in. ...
Article : 200 wordsOur article of August 6 on this subject is commended by a number of correspondents, who thank us for directing attention to it. The Rev. Joseph Nicholson, of ...
Article : 382 wordsThe acting city coroner (Mr. Candler) will commence an investigation this morning, at half-past 9 o'clock, concerning the circumstances and origin of the fire in the ...
Article : 694 wordsA painful instance of juvenile depravity came under the notice of Mr. Justice Hodges in the Supreme Court to-day, when an old man named Richard Edwards was ...
Article : 315 wordsMr. Wragge has issued the following forecast:— New South Wales.—More or less cloudy to raining along the coast and over the highlands, under strong southerly to easterly currents, with rough ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Bishop of Melbourne held a confirmation service at St. John's Church, Chewton, on Tuesday afternoon, when 12 candidates were confirmed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsMr. John E. Edmondson, hon. secretary Free Trade Democratic Association of Victoria, writes, in reply to Dr. Barrett:— "In courtesy to Dr. Barrett, I pointed out ...
Article : 271 wordsThe charge of murder preferred against Ernest[?]Dow, alias William Commodore, in connection with the death of the Chinese K[?] Wang at Stawell in April last, was heard ...
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Article : 444 wordsThe universal adoption of the bicycle during the last few years has been so generally recognised that to confess oneself an opponent of the exercise is to be classed ...
Article : 210 wordsAt their meeting on Monday evening, the Preston Shire Council decided to take no action in regard to the proposed legislation for regulating traction engines, nor in regard to the proposals ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsAt the Hawthorn Court yesterday, before Messrs. Dalley, Edgerton, Kosky, Cherry, Norton, and Philpott, J.P.'s, a respectable looking man named William Bl[?]d was ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. Williams announced himself as a freetrader pure and simple, and said that, as the interests of the district could only be adequately served by a free-trade ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsAt the Preston Shire Council on Monday evening, a telegram was received from the secretary of the board of Public Health, as follows:—"Gross unwholesomeness at —'s farm and adjoining ...
Article : 280 wordsThe grocers of Malvern, under the guidance of their fellow-tradesman, Councillor J. H. Mason[?] have now obtained the necessary number of signatures (240), one-fifth ...
Article : 114 wordsA young quarryman named John M'Caulay, employed by the Metropolitan Board of Works at Spottiswoode, had a day of enforced idleness on the 10th of July last ...
Article : 360 wordsA youth, 17 years of age, named Norman Warren, who resided at 109 Edward-street, Brunswick, met with a terrible death yesterday at the Gold Ore Treatment Works, ...
Article : 174 wordsThe council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria met yesterday, Mr. T. Skene occupying the chair. It was decided that the society's next ...
Article : 432 wordsAn elderly woman named Williams, residing at Moonee-street, Ascotvale, bled to death yesterday afternoon at her residence through the bursting of a varicose vein. Dr. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Essendon Town Council meeting a motion by Councillor B[?]e, tabled at last meeting. "That the plantations and reserves be charged pro [?]ata, according to the valuation of each ward"—was the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsSir,—It is just two years since the Christian world was horrified by the news that 10 missionaries had been massacred near Ku-Cheng, in South China, the sad ...
Article : 490 wordsMr. Edward Grose, late of Ballarat, newspaper proprietor, who died on the 1st of July last, left a will dated February 27, 1893, and a cod[?]il dated the 26th of June last, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe cool wanted the soap to boil, whilst the butler wanted some hot water for afternoon tea. There was the difference, and as neither would give way a fight caused, and ...
Article : 147 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Aug. 10.—Despite an extremely unfavourable season the excellent average of [?] per cent. of l[?]bs has been obtained from the L[?] M[?]nor flocks. The great care and attentio[?] ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—About a month ago a paragraph appeared in your paper, which commented very severely on the conduct of the Collingwood football team (while returning from ...
Article : 304 wordsAt the Brighton Council meeting on Monday, a letter was received from the Railway Commissioner, intimating his willingness to have a subway constructed at the Middle Brighton station, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Oakleigh Shire Council recently wrote to the Port Melbourne Council asking whether they would assist them in the matter of costs in testing, in the Supreme Court, the question of whether a ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—My attention has been drawn to a paragraph which appeared in last Saturday's " Age," and which would lend anyone to suppose that the Western District Butter ...
Article : 336 wordsHOPETO[?]N, Aug. 8.—Agricultural matters were somewhat improved by the fall of 20 points of rain on Sunday last. The crops seem to be coming on well, although we have not had a heavy rain this ...
Article : 254 wordsSir,—A favourite bogey of our local protectionists is the competition of Japan in our home market. It is alleged that if we adopt a liberal trade policy we shall have ...
Article : 185 wordsPermission was granted by the Port Melbourne Council last night to Mrs. Opitz, licensee of the Freemasons' Hotel, Be[?]ch-street, to [?] a band stand on the south side of that street, close to the ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the meeting of the Brighton Council on Monday night it was decided, at the suggestion of the City Council, to open a register, at the town clerk's office, for men out of work in the district. ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—Referring to Mr. Sadleir's letter in your issue of to-day, I would like to state that one institution, viz., the Victorian Infant As[?]lum, is doing a great deal to ...
Article : 186 words"It was August the 3rd, and quite soft in the ski[?]s," when John Walters coolly battered in the plate-glass window of Messrs. Abrahams' gun-shop in ...
Article : 172 wordsSir,—I noticed in your report of the Collingwood Council meeting on Monday evening a mistake (for which, perhaps, I was responsible). In speaking of the sewerage ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe first series of Pleasant-Learning-Land is now out; being a Home Lesson Book for Children, and making learning to read an ent[?]ing amusement instead of a repelling task. It contains [?] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 11 Aug 1897, Page 6
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