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Article : 233 wordsA young man named Charles Anderson was charged before the Prahran Police Court yesterday with indecent behaviour in Fawkner-street, South Yarra, on the previous day. Two ...
Article : 108 wordsThe members of the "Gaiety Girl" Company, who are under engagement to Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove, arrived in Melbourne by the Sydney express train yesterday ...
Article : 262 wordsIn connection with the proposed conference of the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, Mr. Smith, the chairman of the South ...
Article : 93 wordsIt will be remembered that some few weeks ago Messrs. Reginald Kelly, Thomas Price, and Herbert Credgington were charged with conspiring to defraud, the case arising out ...
Article : 162 wordsThe trial of George Dean on the charge of administering arsenic to his wife, Mary Dean, at North Shore was begun in the Criminal Court to-day. Mrs. Dean's evidence ...
Article : 77 wordsA married woman named Adelaide Hunting, 48 years of age, who resided with her husband, a dairyman, at No. 104 Gladstone-street, Montague, committed suicide at her ...
Article : 153 wordsBARCALDINE, MARCH 27.—The weather has been fine with occasional clouds and some heat. Signs of approaching rain have been frequent, but the w[?] season continues to hold off. The country is ...
Article : 464 wordsThe circuit court has been occupied for the post three days with the will case Gibbs v. Powell, in which the question of the legality of the will of Oliver Webb was involved. ...
Article : 208 wordsA child, two years and nine months old, named Lily Hutchson, met with a shocking death yesterday, through her clothes catching fire, at the residence of Mrs. E. Clarke, 273 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 5 Apr 1895, Page 6
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