The Commercial Hotel at Elmore was on Saturday sold for the executors of the estate of the late R. Dick by Messrs. G. H. Hobson and Co., of Bendigo, the purchaser ...
Article : 128 wordsAfter much clashing of shields and many other scenic effects, the American Congress has brought the country to the brink of a war with Spain. The best that can be said ...
Article : 1,285 words"I advise the adoption of this constitution in the belief that it is the most liberal and advanced democratic constitution in the world." (BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.) ...
Article : 2,875 wordsCouncillor H. J. Richardson, of the South Barwon shire, has been nominated by that body for election as the representative of the Western Shire Group upon the Public ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Brighton Congregational Church yesterday morning the pastor, Rev. J. Rickard, preached from the text:—"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for ...
Article : 416 wordsTwo residents of this district (Messrs. D. O. Brown, of Castlemaine, and Fritz Beck, of Chewton), have each received a letter by the English mail, bearing the Spanish ...
Article : 271 wordsSir,—Some people object to federation under the Commonwealth Bill on the ground of the expense. Now, if it could be shown that the cost, say, £125,000, would be ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. John Lusby, a very well-known resident, died this morning of typhoid fever, at the age of 41. ...
Article : 1,327 wordsYesterday having been proclaimed "Federation Sunday" in the Council of Churches, special sermons on Australian unity were preached in most of the churches of the ...
Article : 370 wordsSir,—In reply to the letter from "Agricula" in your issue of Thursday, I am directed to inform you that circulars were not only sent to the mayors and municipal councils, ...
Article : 270 wordsFederation Sunday was observed in most of the churches, and sermons were preached to-night dealing with the question in its moral and religions aspect. Speaking at St. ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the Collins-street Independent Church last evening the Rev. Dr. Bevan occupied the pulpit, and took federation as the subject of a very interesting discourse. When ...
Article : 276 wordsOn Saturday the Officials of the Williamstown Racing Club, while inspecting the interior of the grand-stand for certain reasons, came across the decomposed body of an ...
Article : 103 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" of to-day Mr. Stephen Barker incidentally, by the phrase it "is not embodied in any other Constitution except the American," reiterates the ...
Article : 265 wordsMr. J. Saban, poulterer and produce dealer, of Crewe-street, Oakleigh, was robbed of his horse and cart on Saturday. Whilst delivering some produce at a hense in Hothan-street, East ...
Article : 105 wordsArchdeacon Langley preached at St. Paul's Cathedral at the morning service yesterday, when he discoursed on missions to the heathen. In the course of his ...
Article : 263 wordsThe following letter has been sent to Sir George Turner:— Sir,—We have been requested by the Surrey Hills federation committee to submit ...
Article : 200 wordsAt the Collins-street Baptist Church yesterday the Rev. W. H. Holdsworth, M.A., spoke at the morning service, taking as his text Genesis xiii., 8, "And Abraham said ...
Article : 364 wordsA poorly-attired middle-aged man was found at 8 o'clock yesterday morning lying in an unconscious conditions on a vacant allotment in Beaconsfieldparade, Northcote. The man was picked up by ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,—On behalf of several master mariners and seafaring men generally. I have been asked to appeal to you, in the interests of the great issue of June 3—federation—that ...
Article : 153 wordsConstable Sedden, of Brunswick, was responsible early on Saturday morning for the smart capture of an alleged fowl thief, a Chinese named Ah Lin. Sedden was on his way to the police station at ...
Article : 197 wordsA resolution has been passed by the council of the Victorian Woman's Franchise League deciding to preserve a neutral position with regard to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 37 wordsHymns, lessons, prayers, and sermon at the Scots Church yesterday forenoon were keyed to the spirit and purpose of the day. The text of the sermon was called ...
Article : 1,399 wordsThere was a small attendance at the Presbyterian-hall, Jackson-street, Toorak, where a meeting was held on Friday night to hear addresses on the ...
Article : 133 wordsSir,—Being a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which is federated throughout Australia, I have, at the call of the church, resided for many years in South ...
Article : 243 wordsAt the Richmond Court on Saturday, before Messrs. Lee and Beissel, J.P.'s, the local health inspector (Mr. T. Smith) proceeded against Thomas M. Bennett, dairyman, of [?]-street, South ...
Article : 227 wordsYesterday morning the Rev. Professor Gosman delivered an address on "The Moral Aspects of Federation," in the Congregational Church, Lennox-street. Richmond. ...
Article : 356 wordsMr. O'Sullivan, M.L.A., a leading member of the Protectionist (Opposition) party, speaking last night at Bungendore, said that in view of the ominous signs of war and ...
Article : 155 wordsAn old man named Richard Landscrown died suddenly yesterday. Landscrown was 63 years of age, and was employed as "boots" at the Railway Hotel, at the ...
Article : 68 wordsA public meeting in support of the Commonwealth Bill was held at the Athenæum-hall, Doncaster, on Saturday evening. There was a large audience, Councillor Ferdinand Finger, president ...
Article : 88 wordsSir,—At the seventh quarterly dinner of the Royal Agricultural Societies' Club (Victoria), Mr. R. Clarke, of Bolindavale read a paper, in which he states re ...
Article : 176 wordsSir,—The following extract from the pamphlet on the "Vatican Decrees" (page 17), issued in 1875, gives, as I think, the keynote to the life of "The Grand Old Man" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsMessrs. Mulcahy and Smith, M.H.A.'s, addressed a meeting of about 600 miners to-day on federation. They were accorded an enthusiastic reception, and the bill was ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—In deriding the deadlock provisions in the Constitution Bill the anti-billites aver that, in the event of a conflict between the states, at least 57 out of the 59 ...
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Article : 811 wordsThe Rev. J. H. Pryce, at the close of a powerful sermon on federation at the South Yarra Baptist Church yesterday, during which he made an earnest appeal to the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 23 May 1898, Page 7
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