There was a good muster of the third battalion of the infantry brigade on Saturday, when the annual inspection was held by Colonel Robertson, accompanied by ...
Article : 192 wordsCycling in Australia centres around the Austral Wheel Race, and no other wheeling event in the world is so rich in traditions. It is an oft-told tale now, this of the Austral, as it has been ...
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Article : 1,114 wordsMr. Taverner, the Minister of Agriculture, is anxious to point out that most of those engaged in the butter export trade, who are urging ...
Article : 717 wordsMr. Sweet, F.G S., of Melbourne, and the remaining members of the coral-boring scientific expedition to Fanafuti, returned to Sydney to-day by the steamer Areher. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe war-ship Penguin arrived from New Zealand this morning, having left Auckland on the 2nd inst., taking a few soundings en route. She remains here until the end of ...
Article : 46 wordsMiss Maggie Moore and her company were accorded a hearty reception on Saturday evening, when they made their appearance in a revival of the still popular drama ...
Article : 310 wordsThe meeting of the Federal Convention in Melbourne will be preceded by a conference of Premiers, at which Mr. Reid will invite expressions of opinion upon the ...
Article : 70 wordsRainfall at Observatory from 3 p.m. 10th to noo[?] December. 11, nil; since January 1, 24.Hin. Average rainfall at Observatory for the year, 25.65in. ...
Article : 74 wordsOn Saturday Mr. W. H. Rigby, managing clerk for Mr. G. D. Watson, solicitor, died after an illness of seven months. The deceased gentleman, who was in his [?]8th year, ...
Article : 266 wordsIn the "Government Gazette" yesterday is a notification that the Governor has accepied the resignation of Sir Thomas M'Hwraith as a member of the Executive. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsOwing to the great dificulty for the southwest of the [?]y in getting" wool to the Queen and railways, consequent of the drought closing several of the routes the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsThe Assembly sat until 6 o'clock yesterday morning, during which time the loan estimates, amounting to £552,000, were agreed to. ...
Article : 274 wordsThe reception accorded Mr. Austin Rudd, the English star comic, at the Opera-house on Saturday evening, showed that Mr. Harry Rickards had seemed another ...
Article : 304 wordsA serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon to Mrs. Pritchard, wife of Councillor Pritchard, of the Metcalfe Shire Council. With three of her children she ...
Article : 142 wordsA serious fireu which occurred this afternoon at the Bueakwater about[?]two miles and a half from Goelong resulted in the complete destruction of a tannery carried ...
Article : 208 wordsRain fell during Friday night and Saturday morning, light to heavy on the coast and high lands. The records for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. on Saturday were:—Armidale, 64 points; ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the opening race of the Royal Yacht Club on Saturday the contestants were divided into two classes—racers and cruisers. The course was from the breakwater pier, Williamstown, to ...
Article : 735 words"The French Maid" entered upon the last six nights of her season at the Princess's Theatre on Saturday night, and a large audience assembled to pay her homage. ...
Article : 511 wordsDUNOLLY, Sunday.—Good gold was struck yesterday afternoon in the north drive of the Windmill Company at 130ft. A number of specimens, impregnated with gold, were brought in last, ...
Article : 358 wordsThe following private advice has been received:— By Messrs. John Sanderson and Co.—From Dundoo Station, Eulo, Queensland, 7th inst.:—"70 ...
Article : 36 wordsSir,—It seems a pity that Mr. Cook, M.L.A., by unskilful handling, should have wrecked for a long period such an important measure as the Indecent Publications ...
Article : 194 wordsThe important question of commumcation with Wood's Point was definitely settled on Saturday by a plebiscite of Upper Yarra shire ratepayers.For ...
Article : 164 wordsThe eighth annual meeting of Hawthorn College took place on Friday last in the College-hall. Sir Arthur Snowden, M.L.C., presided, and distributed the class prizes. ...
Article : 436 wordsAn important development has occurred at the South Lycll Tharsis. After driving through 10ft of low-grade Ore, a vein of solid copper pyrites and bornite ore was cut, about sin, wide, ...
Article : 186 wordsThe third round of pennant matches was continued on Saturday, and, except in the Carlton and East Melbourne match, the games were finished. There will be no more pennant matches ...
Article : 83 wordsA widow named Jane Tate, aged 74, who occupied a house, 25 Thistlethwaite-street. South Melbourne, was found dead on Saturday, between 12 and 1 o'clock. She had been residing alone for ...
Article : 360 wordsOn Sunday the town was enveloped in the smoke of a bush fire which has been burning in the direction of Macarthur for 24 hours. It is now said to have ...
Article : 210 wordsTo-day, at South Melbourne Cricket-ground, the Eastern and Western Balliwicks of Victoria play; while at Fitzroy the Southern and Midland meet. The Victorian Cricket Association has inaugurated ...
Article : 304 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.— The inquiry for silver stocks yesterday was very dull., Fair business was done in W.A. shares, but the prices of the leading ventures were rather weaker, the principal ...
Article : 572 wordsMyoora, the fine suburban residence of Mr. Robert Harper, was the centre of a merry scene on Saturday afternoon, when a young people's garden fete was held there, ...
Article : 367 wordsDetective Sexton has for some weeks past been investigating the death of Robert Nichol Wright, a wine and spirit merchant, of Fenwick-street, Portarlington, whose body was found floating in ...
Article : 157 wordsSir,—In your issue of Monday, 6th inst., is a report from Maryborough which states:—"At the annual banquet of the Victorian Railways Service Association on ...
Article : 126 wordsA mass meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the Mechanics' Reserve, Footscray, to assist the English engineers' strike, the mayor (Councillor Gallant) presiding. There was a large ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Queensland Yncht Club reces were sailed yesterday. The 22-footer event was won by the Oancebie from the Victoria, with the Bulletin third, after a close contest. ...
Article : 37 wordsAn apparently inexplicable suicide occurred on Saturday morning, at 110 Gatehouse-street, Parkville, when a young man of 25, named James Bolton, shot himself. Bolton was a clerk employed ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Q.T.C. summer meeting was concluded yesterday, when £3,720 passed through the totalisator. The attendance was again good, but the course was heavy owing to the rain during the ...
Article : 204 wordsYesterday afternoon a fire of unknown origin occurred at 21, 23, and 25 Khartoum-street, Richmond, four-roomed brick and Iron dwellings, and, before the brigade extinguished it, the wooden ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 13 Dec 1897, Page 6
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