In order to strengthen the hands of the wages board in the clothing trade, which recently fixed the prices to be paid for piece-work and week-work in the trade, a public ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Bishop of Melbourne, Dr. Goe, opened a bazaar in aid of the building fund at St. Paul's school-room on Wednesday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsThe second day of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club Grand National Meeting was associated with delightful weather, for although the morning was dull and ...
Article : 2,018 wordsIt has frequently been pointed out in our columns that the gold resources of Victoria are so great that there is plenty of room for the investment of not only local capital, ...
Article : 1,509 wordsYesterday, at the close of the routine business of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, The Chairman (Mr. John Blyth) desired to introduce the matter of the freezing ...
Article : 474 wordsThe first shipment of Queensland surplus sugar is to be made in the Miowera this week, 750 tons for Vancouver being shipped by the Colonial Sugar Company. This is ...
Article : 471 words"The whole thing is as clear as mud," said Mr. Albert Harris, M.L.A., after the Railways Standing Committee had spent about an hour yesterday morning in trying ...
Article : 1,201 wordsMessrs. M'Cay and Williams, M.L.A.'s, having observed the by-wash of the Malmsbury reservoir overflowing, communicated with the Water Supply department, urging that a winter reduction to ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. John Kelly, a very old and highly respected resident of Rutherglen, was the victim of a cowardly assault yesterday evening. A travelling tinsmith called at the house, and when informed ...
Article : 184 wordsWednesday (6 p.m.).—Fine generally with seattered clouds, and light northerly winds; frosts inland; moderate sea. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the Essendon Council meeting on Monday evening a clause from the report of the public works committee was adopted, confirming the committee's action in allowing a firm of contractors an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsThis morning at the Hospital for the Insane Mr. W. Stredwick, J.P., held inquiries into the circumstances attending the death of two patients. The one case presented no unusual features, and the ...
Article : 161 wordsAt the meeting of the Port Melbourne Council held on Tuesday, a sum of money was passed for the removal and maintenance of a weighbridge from the town pier to the town-hall. In former ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Public Works department informed the Port Melbourne Council by letter at its meeting on Tuesday that the sum of £650 had been placed on the Estimates for the planting of marram grass on ...
Article : 90 wordsA fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary, occurred at the farm of Messrs. Dickson Bros., Murrindale, on Sunday morning, at 1 o'clock, when a big barn and stables were burnt down and a ...
Article : 104 wordsThe remains of the late Mr. Justice Manning were interred to-day at the Anglican Churchyard, Ryde, in the presence of an exceedingly large assemblage of public ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsAt the meeting of the Caulfield Council last night Councillor Riddell drew the council's attention to a circular received from the Rating Reform League. He thought that if the municipal ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,—While so much is being said about providing work for the unemployed during the winter months, it is very strange that no attention has hitherto been paid to the ...
Article : 250 wordsAn important case affecting the rights of shire water trusts to recover arrears of rates came before Mr. C. L. Dobbin, P.M., at the local police court to-day. The Tungamah Shire Waterworks ...
Article : 281 wordsAs a result of the recent conference in Brisbane between the local representatives of the fire insurance companies trading in Queensland, assisted by a number of chief ...
Article : 156 wordsCouncillor Adams, representing the health committee, reported to the Hawthorn Council last night having made a special inspection of all the Hawthorn dairies on the previous Friday, in ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the meeting of the Caulfield Council last night Councillors Phillips and Kirkham moved that the president's allowance be the same as in the previous year (£60), and the motion was carried. ...
Article : 68 wordsECHUCA, Aug. 9.—The following stock entered Victoria from New South Wales, via Echuca, on the 6th and 8th inst.:—8[?] stud sheep, F. Sargood, Deniliquin, owner, consigned to self, Raywood; 1 ...
Article : 707 wordsMr. E. T. Hancock, the Queensland tick expert, who was engaged by the Government, and has for some time past been in[?]ing into the tick pest in the Kimberley ...
Article : 172 wordsA storekeeper's cart on Monday came into collision with a horse ridden by a man who was leading another horse. A shaft of the vehicle went right through the body of the animal, which had ...
Article : 161 wordsKALGOORLIE, Wednesday.—The manager of the Golden Horseshoe mine reports that the drive north on the eastern 200ft. level is in 30ft. in very rich ore, sulphide and oxidised being mixed in the ...
Article : 803 wordsSir,—The reference in your to-day's issue to the objects of the Rating Reform League, concludes with the following statement:— "When money has to be raised by direct ...
Article : 428 wordsThe six youths, Edgar Thomas, John Barney, John Millard, Roderick Merritt, Thomas O'Connell, and Ernest James, who were arrested on a capital charge at the instance of a married woman ...
Article : 142 wordsAt Fremantle last night a stabbing affray occurred, a man named Thomas Law receiving severe wounds in the head and left arm. He was removed to the hospital. ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Cronin, an inspector under the department of Agriculture, appointed to administer the Vegetation Discases Act, has paid an extended official visit to Horsham. He finds the Riverside ...
Article : 117 wordsThe case against Clara Potter, Hubert Ross, and Henry Duvalli, for using an illegal instrument on Dorn Bromley, adjourned until to-day at the South Melbourne Court, will again be postponed until ...
Article : 677 wordsMr. R. A. Robinson, timber merchant, of South Africa, is now in Hobart inquiring as to the prospects of regular trade in Tasmanian hardwood for Cape Colony. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe state school has been closed, owing to the prevalence of measles. ALEXANDRA.—Mr. W. [?]nox, a candidate for the vacancy in the Legislative Council created by ...
Article : 2,372 wordsThe forty-fifth annual meeting of the Immigrants' Aid Society was held at the Town-hall on August 4, when the Mayor of Melbourne (Councillor M'Eacharn) presided. The report and ...
Article : 506 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of the executive council was held on the 8th inst., the chief business being the making of the necessary arrangements for the half-yearly meeting on September ...
Article : 522 wordsSir,—In your issue of to-day appears a eable re Australian leather. Being a tanner of long experience, both in England and Australia, I have tanned leather both with ...
Article : 70 wordsThe monthly meeting of the British Astronomical Association, Victoria branch, was held at 31 Queen-street, on Thursday evening, August 4, Mr. Baracchi, F.R.A.S., one of the vice-presidents, in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe eighth anniversary of the local branch of the A.N.A. was celebrated on August 4. There was a large attendance. The president, Mr. W. M'Neilly, in the course of his address, alluded to ...
Article : 90 wordsLANCEFIELD, Aug. 10.—The weather is now warm and gen[?]al, and grass and all other vegetation show unmistakable signs of spring, the growth being daily visible. Wattle trees in the ...
Article : 378 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the union was held at the Friends'-hall[?] Russell-street, on the 8th inst. Mr. W. Wishart, vice-president, occupied the chair, and a fair number of delegates were present. After ...
Article : 368 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Convalescent Home for Women at Clayton was held in the Melbourne Town-hall on August 2, Lady Sargood in the chair. The hon. treasurer reported as ...
Article : 172 wordsThe usual fortnightly meeting of this branch took place in the local town-hall on Tuesday evening, when Mr. C. H. Rayley delivered an interesting reading upon "Rambles in Word Lore." Mr. ...
Article : 93 wordsA meeting was held on August 10, in connection with the Australian Natives' Association, to consider the question of forming a branch in Dandenong and district. Mr. E. E. Roberts, ...
Article : 153 wordsSir,—In the interest of excursionists, who may find themselves greatly inconvenienced, I venture to record that on Saturday last the tram timed to leave the Blackrock ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 11 Aug 1898, Page 6
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