In the Assembly to-day, a bill was read a first time to enable the City Council to light the streets and public and private buildings in Sydney and the suburbs with electricity, ...
Article : 191 wordsA large and influential deputation directly and indirectly interested in the pastoral industry waited on the Piemier to day to bring under his notice the depressed state of ...
Article : 207 wordsThe annual meeting of the council of the Congregational Union Mission of Victoria was opened on Tuesday at the council-chamber, Bussell-street. Mr. W. H. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsAt the Supreme Court criminal sittings yesterday, before Mr. Justice Holroyd, Weymouth George Wash, labourer, was charged with the wilful murder of his wife, ...
Article : 579 wordsThe cause of the High Tariff party badly requires defending if one is to judge by a recent display in the press of what were termed "Trophies won by protection." It ...
Article : 1,234 wordsThe rumours which have been circulated for nearly two weeks of a very rich find came to a head to-day, when it was disclosed that a discovery had been made near Siberia ...
Article : 260 wordsThe ballot of the Bootmakers' Union resulted in 63 voting against and one voting for accepting wages in lieu of piecework as suggested by the manufacturers. This decision ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 631 wordsSeparate petitions against the Brewers' Monopoly Bill were presented in the Assembly to-day from the brewers, the wine merchants, the hotel brokers, and the holders ...
Article : 345 wordsCOBRAM, OCT. 15.—Stock Crossings.—To-day— 6[?] fat merino wethers from Barooga, Messrs. M'Farland Bros. owners, were trucked to Newmarket, consigned to Messrs. Powers, Rutherford, and Co. Very ...
Article : 329 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the Millers and Flour Merchants'Association to-day it was resolved that a deputation should draw the attention of the Treasurer to the ...
Article : 432 wordsCONDOBOLIN, OCT. 15.—Byjaloric and Mowabla finished shearing last week, and several other sheds would have finished but for the rain. Thirty points of rain fell yesterday. The weather is still close and ...
Article : 445 wordsAt the South Melbourne Court yesterday, before Messrs. T. Glover, C. F. Christmas, and Dr. Barker, J.P.'s, a well-known light-weight boxer named Thomas Duggan ...
Article : 233 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Special Retrenchment Bill and the Stamps Bill were passed. In the Assembly, a bill to amend the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Victorian Rangers, to the number of 405, mustered yesterday for the farewell inspection by Major-General Tulloch. So popular is the general amongst the ranks ...
Article : 615 wordsThe House of Representatives has refused to give the Government leave to introduce a bill authorising a bonus on exported coal by 31 votes to 20. This bonus was one of the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Mackay Sugar Journal attributes the cane disease in the Bundaberg district to the unfavourable weather acting in cane physically unsound. It states that the farmers ...
Article : 89 wordsBARCALDINE, OCT. 10.—The weather is delightful for grass-growing. The country is everywhere covered with nice green grass, whilst water is in abundance. The present season is one of the best experienced on ...
Article : 618 wordsLast night, as Miss Nannie Harding, the prima donna of the "Morocco Bound" Company, at present playing at the Princess's Theatre, was driving home after the ...
Article : 106 wordsAt the South Melbourne Council meeting last night the question of striking a rate to meet the requirements of the city for the current financial year ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. F. B. Suttor, Minister of Public Instruc tion, New South Wales, returned by the R.M.S. Austral to-day. He landed at Adelaide and took the afternoon train for the ...
Article : 295 wordsThe following are the wine awards made in connection with the Chiltren Agricultural and Horticultural Society's show to be hald to-morrow:— ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Panton, P. M., and a bench of justices, two joung men, Thomas Golding and John Driscoll, journeymen bootmakers, were ...
Article : 169 wordsShortly before 8 o'clock last night Thomas Dunn, who resides at 15 Groom-street, Clifton Hill, reported to Constable Martin, of Collingwood, that he had observed the body ...
Article : 90 wordsThe officers and crew of the wrecked steamer Rodondo arrived in Melbourne yesterday afternoon by the steamer Flinders, and were met upon arrival at the wharf by a ...
Article : 401 wordsThe first ball of the members of the Police and Warders' Social Club was held at the Hibernian-hall on Tuesday evening, and was attended by over one hundred ...
Article : 135 wordsSir,—Next year promises to be another year of confusion for merchants, as it is proposed to revise the tariff early in March. You have many times ably pointed out that ...
Article : 312 wordsSir,—Your contemporary of to-day publishes a statement advocating the substitution of horses for the locomotive on the nonpaying lines. ...
Article : 447 wordsGreat indignation is expressed by the shareholders in the West Volunteer company, and the Hobart Stock Exchange will hold a special meeting to-morrow to consider the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe ball which was held last evening in the Town-hall in aid of the funds of the Melbourne Hospital was a pronounced success, the attendance being fully up to the ...
Article : 364 wordsSir,—Having the misfortune of residing near a railway station (within 35 miles of Melbourne) attended to by a woman, no parcels sent from here can be prepaid for. ...
Article : 141 wordsBENELLA, OCT. 16.—Rather severe weather has been experienced during the last three days, rain having fallen almost incessantly since Saturday afternoon, when a heavy thunderstorm passed over ...
Article : 393 wordsThe Musical Society of Victoria, a professional body formed by the union of the Musical Association, the Musical Artists and Society of Organists, have submitted their scheme of the examinations to be ...
Article : 150 wordsCaptain Sutcliffe has been appointed nauticel adviser to the Government. 'The Union Steamship Company has char[?]ered the steamer Wodonga. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir,—In your notice of the late Earl Grey you do not mention that he was (as I believe) Colonial Secretary at the time our new Constitution Bill was passed by the British ...
Article : 159 wordsSir,—In your report in yesterday's issue of my remarks at the North Melbourne Conference I am made to say in regard to the introduction of the Irish National Scripture ...
Article : 116 wordsFrank Armstrong Power, one of the ratecollectors for the Caulfield Shire Council, was arrested on warrant yesterday afternoon, by Senior-constable Jordan, on a charge of ...
Article : 77 wordsA very sudden death occurred at the Lyceum Theatre to-night, when Alexander Brodie, who was engaged in beating a drum in the overture, fell forward across it dead. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 18 Oct 1894, Page 6
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