The floating of the million and a half 3 per cent loan at such a satisfactory figure has naturally been the theme of a good deal of gratification in the colony. As the ...
Article : 1,088 wordsA largely attended meeting of wine importers and their representatives was held at Scott's Hotel yesterday atternoon to protest against the action of the Government in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsWith the approaching session, the air, as usual, is alive with rumours. Sir Oracle walks abroad with his mouth full of political prophecy. Needless to say the wise ...
Article : 765 wordsThe attitude of the High Church party towards the divorce laws has this week found expression in a remarkable outburst of fanaticism at St. Mark's Church, North ...
Article : 512 wordsThe city bench committed George Seymour for trial to-day on charge of stealing £3 from Joseph Underwood whilst the latter was under the influence of drink. ...
Article : 259 wordsMonday (6 p.m.).—Cloudy, squally, and showery, with W. and S.W. winds. Rough sea. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsMrs. Hannah Clancy, a resident of this district for 45 years, has died at the age of 75. Mrs. Berry, another very old resident, succumbed on Saturday after a painful ...
Article : 137 wordsThe circumstances of the O'Grady case, recently ventilated in the City Court, are engaging the attention of the Crown law officers. The extraordinary particulars of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsYesterday afternoon an old-colonist, Mr. John Orr, of Elizabeth-street, Geelong West, died suddenly at his residence. He had attended service at the United Methodist ...
Article : 123 wordsAt the meeting of the Prahran City Council yesterday afternoon it was decided that a letter of condolence should be forwarded to the relatives of the late Dr. Dobson, M.L.C. ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the District Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Nicolson, P.M., and a bench of justices, John Smerdon, licensee of the Earl of Zetland Hotel, Swanston-street, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsA large meeting of farmers was held at Purnim on Thursday evening to consider the desirability of forming a branch of the Victorian. Potato growers' Union in that ...
Article : 200 wordsSergeant Flannagan and Constable Meagher, of East Melbourne, continuing their inquiries concerning the robbery of £150 worth of silk dresses from Mrs. Dunn, of Lyndon, ...
Article : 122 wordsOn the casting-vote of the mayor (Councillor Luxton), the Prahran City Council yesterday agreed to join the Richmond council in establishing a ferry on the Yarra ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the Fitzroy Court yesterday Thomas H. Bourke pleaded guilty to having appropriated to his own use the sum of £6 belonging to his employer, John D. M'Guiggan, produce ...
Article : 126 wordsECHUCA, JUNE 10.—Stormy and unsettled weather set in yesterday, but only eight points of rain have so far been recorded. The extreme dryness of the season is having a serious effect upon feed supply for ...
Article : 188 wordsSome seventy farmers in the district have agreed to cultivate each one acre of beetroot, under skilled instructions. Mr. Edwards, of Bushy-park, intends growing five acres, so as ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,—Knowing the interest taken by you in any movement which will add to the welfare and prosperity of the farmer in this colony, I venture to encroach upon your valuuble ...
Article : 759 wordsSir,—In Mr. F. Jowett's letter concerning the outbreak of anthrax at Caulfield he lays great stress upon the already admitted mistake as to the name of place in which the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsOwing to retrenchment in the Railway department, the services of the porter at Alexandra station have been dispensed with. The result is that the stationmaster leaves at ...
Article : 109 wordsBRIGHT, MONDAY.—After a spell of unusually severe frosts heavy rain started to fall yesterday and is still continuing. There is a fall of deep snow on the hills. ...
Article : 445 wordsSir,—It is much to be deplored that under the circumstances the secretary of the Korong Shire Council, Mr. Rinder, should see fit to write in the strain he did in your issue ...
Article : 538 wordsSir,—I have been noting with great pleasure your valuable articles devoted to the exposure of the short-sighted and ruinous policy of the Government re their coal ...
Article : 438 wordsSir,—I notice, so far that all the gentlemen who are giving evidence before the Railway inquiry Board are from the city, and as question of freights more directly affects those ...
Article : 134 wordsGreat indignation is felt here at the treatment accorded to the Alexandra State School. There is a daily attendance of from 120 to 140 pupils, formed into eight classes, with only ...
Article : 99 wordsSir,—For 121b. of pollard dissolve 1½ sticks of phosphorus in, say, a tablespoonful of carbon sufficient to cover it. Mix four pintpannikins of molasses with three pints of ...
Article : 136 wordsA wooden building, known as Oscar-house, situuted in Molesworth-street, and conducted by the owner, Mr. J. Gravatt, as a restaurant and boarding-house, was, with the whole of ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—I would like to draw the attention of your readers to a paragraph from your Warragul correspondent of the 8th inst., and headed "A Military Invention," which, I ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting, convened by the Victorian Artists' Society, to arrange for a large carnival, bazaar, and art union was held in the Town-hall, Melbourne, on Friday ...
Article : 191 wordsSir,—While attention is being directed to the coal industry in Victoria there are several matters in connection with it that require looking into. One is, that a man can peg out ...
Article : 224 wordsDr. Angwin has successfully treated two very bad cases, one of diphtheria and the other of diphtheretic croup, with anti-toxin. The patients were a girl of seven, a daughter ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—I shall be obliged if you will allow me through your columns to make known a small want of this institution in the hope that some kind friend will supply it. We ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—In Mr. H. O. Tabner's letter respecting Newcastle coal in your issue of to-day, he states that George and George Limited "are losing money on every ton they send out." I ...
Article : 102 wordsTo-day three residents of the district named Denis Lane, Archibald Achison, and John Ryan were arrested on a charge of stealing gold-bearing quartz, the property of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 11 Jun 1895, Page 6
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