A quiet market in investment stocks. Lower prices ruled for debentures, but no business recorded. Bank deposit receipts scarcely so firm, and the same applies to ...
Article : 3,537 wordsDuring the early hours of this morning the heavy clouds which overcast the sky on Thursday night cleared away, and the Englishmen went to rest expecting to wake ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsMr. T. Prout Webb has kindly furnished answers to the following queries by correspondents:— W. J. Whyte writes:—Say an agent or ...
Article : 961 wordsA few days ago the secretaries to the country party in the Legislative Assembly wrote to the Premier forwarding a resolution passed at a meeting of the party. The ...
Article : 407 wordsMessrs. J. Cohn, Thompson, and Purdie, delegates from the Bendigo School of Mines, conferred to-day with representatives of the local institution in regard to the curriculum ...
Article : 135 wordsThe managers report:— BROKKN HILL PROPRIETARY, Broken Hill, March 28.—Ore treated, 8,572 tons; bullion obtained, 681 tons; silver contained, 17[?],319oz.; average—20-22oz. ...
Article : 349 wordsAbout 300 excursionists left by special train for Ballarat and Queenscliff to-day. An elderly man named James Quinn was crushed to death this afternoon at the ...
Article : 228 wordsFriday (6 p.m.).—Moderately fine and coo[?] but cloudy and probably local showers; winds southerly, fresh or strong in the Straits, with rather rough sea. ...
Article : 29 wordsRAINFALL AT OBSERVATORY previous 24 hours to 8 p.m. March 29, nil; since January 1, 4.35in. Average rainfall at Observatory for the first three months of the year, 5.52in. ...
Article : 86 wordsA meeting of members of the Metropolitan Bank Limited (in liquidation) was held yesterday at the Athenæum, Mr. Andrew King presiding. The report of the liquidators for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsTwo very narrow ecapes from fatal injuries were reported to-day. A slucier named Emanuel Cook had undermined a bank of earth at New Chum Gully, and ...
Article : 92 wordsA batch of 23 Victorian farmers, with their families, arrived in Narandera to-day, having travelled 350 miles. They brought with them horses, waggons, drays, farming machinery. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsMessrs. Foster (Minister of Mines and Water Supply), Howitt (secretary of Mines), and Meakin (secretary of Water Supply), accompanied by Mr. Burton (M.L.A. for ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Agricultural department will ship by the s.s. Aberdeen, which leaves for London to-day, 450 tons of poultry, rabbits, hares, pork, lamb, mutton, and beef, and 100 ...
Article : 102 wordsNews by the San Francisco mail states that Miss Jessie Ackerman, the missionary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union who recently left Australia for America, has ...
Article : 248 wordsWILCANNIA, MARCH 29.—A good supply of arteslan water has just been struck in the Clifton bore on the Milparinka-Wanaaring road at a depth of 1,359ft. The supply is estimated at 10,000 gallons ...
Article : 80 wordsThe young man William Hedges, who savagely attacked Constable Campbell, dangerously wounding him with a stone when the latter went to arrest him yesterday ...
Article : 235 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Colonial Secretary, in answer to a question, said that immediately after the passage of the present Land Bill steps would be taken ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. Lloyd Osbourne has written such an affecting account of the death of Mr. R. L. Stevenson that there is no longer any occasion to ask for details. None the less, the ...
Article : 338 wordsNAVARRE, MARCH 28.—The farmers have not yet started the plough about here, as there has not been sufficient rain to soften the ground. The polsoning of rabbits is being carried on very effectively by many ...
Article : 122 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Trades-hall Council was held last night. Mr. C. Bishop presided. On the motion of Mr. E. Stanley, Seconded ...
Article : 157 wordsSir,—The reply of the commissioner to R. H. Campbell, published in your issue of Thursday, calls for remark, as it involves an important principle, and appears to me quite ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 388 wordsMr. Eugenic Vanzetti, importer and agent, of Perth, has written to the Government stating that, being on the point of leaving for Italy, he desires to submit a proposal to ...
Article : 120 wordsTo-day a serious accident occurred to Councillor Thomas Lee, of the Newstead Shire Council. He was in the act of mounting a dray laden with wheat at M'Kenzie's ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. Dalrymple was sworn in to-day as Minister of Education. Petitions have been filed for the liquidation of the estates of Michael Patterson, Roman ...
Article : 140 wordsThis morning an inquest was commenced at the local hospital before the coroner (Mr. Patterson, P.M.), and a jury of five, touching the death of Mrs. Kate Ewart, wife of Mr. ...
Article : 321 wordsThe annual carnival in aid of the Bairnsdale District Hospital, held yesterday, was a complete success, the attendance being very large and the weather perfect. Over £200 ...
Article : 1,167 wordsA conference of the members of the Victorian Railway Service Mutual Association was held on Wednesday, Mr. W. H. May, president, occupying the chair. ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,—In letter in The Argus of yesterday, signed "G.F.," your correspondent makes a wrong deduction when he states that on effecting an additional insurance by paying ...
Article : 134 wordsThe committee of the Eight Hours Demonstration desire it to be known that entries for the forthcoming foot races in connection with the demonstration are to be ...
Article : 178 wordsNews by the R.M.S. Mariposa, from Samoa, states that a Sumoan half-caste has been fined for slandering the late Robert L. Stevenson by asserting that he had acted as ...
Article : 50 wordsThe South Australian Brewing Company held its half-yearly meeting to-day. The report was considered very satisfactory, and a dividend of 7 percent. was declared. ...
Article : 28 wordsMrs. A. Guthrie, licensee of the Kilkenny Inn, corner of Lonsdale and King streets, has reported to the police that she was robbed of her purse, which contained two ...
Article : 152 wordsSir,—The commissioner's answer to the following letter of Mr. R. H. Campbell, which appeared in your issue of this date, fully exposes the paradoxical administration ...
Article : 227 wordsThree prospectors, named Cable, Pickering, and Jarrett, have been speared by blacks at Lake Darlot. With the exception of Cable, their injuries were not serious. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the St. Kilda Court yesterday a Mrs. Fairthorn was charged will throwing stones, to the danger of the public, at Balaclava. The stones, it would appear had been thrown ...
Article : 122 wordsAn unoccupied shop and three-roomed dwelling at 50 Ross-street, Toorak, owned by Miss Start, were severely damaged by fire on Thursday evening. The cause of the fire is ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Chief Justice has ruled that the Mount Lyell Mining Company is not entitled to exemption from the income tax, because the railway in which they have invested is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsThe investigation of the nineteen charges against the dealers Samuel Evered and Samuel Edwards, alleged to have received stolen property feloniously, was concluded at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsLady Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Glasgow, who sustained an injury to her foot which it was feared would involve amputation, is progressing favourably. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 30 Mar 1895, Page 8
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