The weather to-day was beautifully fine, and the attendance of visitors was the largest that has been seen for some years. The splendid show of agricultural ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsBoyd Station, near Forbes, owned by Messrs. Suttor and Bowler, has been bought by Mr. C. N. Haley, of Melbourne. Thomas M'Rac, battery hand at the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe committee of management of the Ballarat District Hospital have for some time been exercised in mind as to the legality of trenching on the reserve or ...
Article : 195 wordsOn behalf of the Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Box, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, moved in the County Court yesterday for a new trial in a case in which ...
Article : 981 words"Manners makeyth man" is an old English school motto. "The discussion of them entertaineth women" may be a modern-day saying deduced from the discussion last ...
Article : 2,008 wordsBefore the breaking up of the immense gathering held by the Christian Endeavour Union in the Exhibition building last evening, Mr. Justice Hodges, who was in the ...
Article : 664 wordsA public meeting was hold in the Bijou Theatre last night for the purpose of taking steps to urge on Parliament the necessity for immediately proceeding with the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsIt is probable that a conference of the Bendigo and Ballrat Railway Leagues will be called to take steps to urge on Parliament the necessity for railway extension ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 321 wordsThe report of the Government Labour Bureau shows that 5,855 persons have been registered as unemployed, being an increase of 200 over the previous year. Employment ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the annual meeting of the South Melbourne Cricket Club last evening a discussion took place on the present dispute over the control of Australian cricket. The ...
Article : 658 wordsThe proposal to establish a winery in this district was farmly taken up at a public meeting held on Wednesday afternoon, and which was attended by representative ...
Article : 251 wordsIn connection with the recent raid on betting men the police have decided to proceed on a charge of perjury aganist Boardman, who was fined £5 on August 21 for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 wordsA sudden death occurred last night about 7 o'clock, at 131 Cihden-street, South Melbourne, the victim being a woman named Ada Louisa Steel, 35 years of age, wife of ...
Article : 229 wordsThe health officer (Dr. G. T. Woolley) states in his annual report to the borough council that there were 170 births and 155 deaths during 1897, as aganist 183 births ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsKALGURLIE, Sept. 15.—A man about 45 years of age, who is supposed to have come from Melbourne, committed suicide in a restaurant in Hannan-street this morning ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsThe chapter of the Sandhurst Rural Deanery met yesterday at Christ Church parsonage, and the rural dean (Rev. E. A. Crawford) presided. The question of the ...
Article : 1,925 wordsThe second meeting in connection with the second triennial intercolonial conference of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows was held yesterday at the offices of the ...
Article : 392 wordsMrs. Bessie Boyd, the licensee of the Latrobe Hotel, Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy, will in future regard as literal truth the statements of visitors who announce themselves as ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Van Diemen's Land Company have cabled from London their approval, subject to certain conditions, of the rights of the leases held by the Emu Bay Railway ...
Article : 41 wordsAt a meeting of the Waitchie Progress Committee, the following resolution was carried unanimously:— "That, in the interests of Mallec ...
Article : 310 wordsThe Premier, replying to an anti-totalisator street-betting deputation to-day said he was bound to confess that gambling was on the increase, but it was impossible to stop ...
Article : 100 wordsAn illustrated lecture on "Commercial Fruit-growing in Victoria" was given in the Prahran New Town-hall last evening by Mr. C. B. Luffmann, principal of the School ...
Article : 308 wordsThe following letter from the Minister of Railways was read at wednesday's meeting of the South Melbourne Council:—"Regarding the proposed subway at the York-street crossing, the Commissioner of ...
Article : 190 wordsSir,—Mr. Rudduck's letter to-day on the doubt about the name of the street his business is situated in reminded me of a constant source of trouble those who have ...
Article : 237 wordsThe show to-day was favoured with beautiful weather, and there was a large attendance. All the classes in the horse section were well filled, and in draught entires ...
Article : 459 wordsThe trial of Dr. Orpen, who was brought from America on an extradition warrant on a charge of murder by an illegal operation, was concluded to-day, when the jury ...
Article : 48 wordsLast Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock Constable Barber arrested a woman named Edith M'Pherson in Bourke-street for insulting behaviour. From the evidence ...
Article : 250 wordsAt the meeting of the Broadmeadows Shire on Thursday, ex-Councillor James Robertson, who retired from membership of the Camphelltield Riding owing to ill-health, was the receipt of a ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Richmond Council were yesterday asked by the Fitzroy Council to join in a deputation to the Postmaster-General to ask for an improved postal service, or the ...
Article : 98 wordsWhen the Criminal Court opened for its September sittings yesterday Mr. R. Walsh, Q.C., intimated to Mr. Justice A' Beckett that he would enter a nolle prosequi in the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe broadmeadows Shire Council, at its last meeting, decided to support the Narracan Shire in its opposition to the one man one vote and woman's surfrage proposals before Parliament, the first on ...
Article : 73 wordsOn September 12 a man named John Leary was arrested by Constable Lonsdale for assualting another man named James Delaney. Leary was brought before the ...
Article : 127 wordsJudge Molesworth and Messrs. Robbin and Keogh, P.M.'s, sat as a Licensing Court in the Insolvency Court on Wednesday. The following transfers were granted:— ...
Article : 243 wordsSir,—A year has all but passed since a public appeal was made through your columns for donations to aid in the carrying cut of the dying wish of Victoria's ...
Article : 355 wordsThe Heidelberg Council on Wednesday adopted plans and specifications, and determined to invite tenders for the constructions of main sewer drain through the township, the estimated cost of ...
Article : 57 wordsFat Cattle.—225 head, including a number of trucks from South Australia, came to hand for to-day's sale, the greater proportion consisting of useful to good quality beef, a few pens being ...
Article : 475 wordsAt the Heidelberg Council meeting on Wednesday, estimates of receipts and expenditure for the ensuing year were adopted, and it was decided to strike a general rate of 1/7 in the £1 in the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe love of a mother for her children has often been enlarged upon by novelists, but never was it more evidenced than in the City Court yesterday, when Margaret ...
Article : 305 wordsThe criminal sittings for September were begun in the Criminal Court on Thursday, before Mr. Justice A'Beckett. Sydney Douglas Young pleaded guilty to a ...
Article : 306 wordsA communication was received at the Richmond Council on Thursday from the Metropolitan Board of Works relative to a complaint respecting the alleged employment of boys on sewerage ...
Article : 231 words"This man, your worships, is William Hoskins, who is charged with vagrancy. He is one of the dirtiest specimens of that unclean class that I have ever seen," said Sergeant Callender to Messrs. ...
Article : 272 wordsMr. Charles Miller, of the Electric Telegraph office, is well known as an owner and exhibitor of valuable dogs, and last Wednesday he had the misfortune to lose one of ...
Article : 194 wordsA resolution was carried at the Richmond Council on Thursday, on the motion of Councillors Carter and Billson, rescinding the motion fixing 2 p.m. as the time for holding meetings of the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 16 Sep 1898, Page 6
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