A meeting of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was held yesterday. Mr. FitzGibbon occupied the chair. The sewerage committee submitted a ...
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Article : 461 wordsThe new rooms of the South Melbourne Cycling Club, in Ferrars-street, were opened last night by a "smoke-night." Councillor A. G. Major (president) occupied the chair, and there was a ...
Article : 159 wordsR. Lewis was riding work urlFat Jnlemiugton yesterday. He rode Fleet Admiral a couple of miles on the tan. Fleet Admiral will not go to Sydney, but Hickenbotham ...
Article : 582 wordsAn inquest was held oh Thursday by Mr. W. Webb, J.P., touching the death of Alexander Charles M'Donald, who was killed by a fall of earth at Ellesmere on ...
Article : 214 wordsMetropolitan Junior Football Association.—Um pires for Saturday's matches:—Collegians v. Parkville (ground to be fixed), F. C. Smith; Leopold v. Brighton, at Caulfield C. Ground, ...
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Article : 393 wordsTrial Handicap. Six furlongs.—Reflector, 9.7; Merriwee, 9.1; Standish, 8.10; Erroneous, 8.8; Grandee, 8.7; Kilkenny, 8.3; Adjuster, 8.1; Gardiner, 7.11; F.minenee, 7.10: Cowgrass, 7.5; ...
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Article : 129 wordsOn Thursday afternoon John Edwin Skepper, shopman for Mathews Brothers, the principal butchers of the town, was arrested for the larceny of 5/6. The firm ...
Article : 238 wordsThe football match Sale against Bairnsdale was played at Sale to-day. The weather was fine, and great interest was taken in the game, a special train running from Bairnsdale. Crapp, the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe three year's and more that have elapsed since Mdlle. Trebelli first delighted Melbourne concert-goers by her singing havae not suf[?]iced to dim the recollection ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe final round for the championship of the Australian Golf Club was played to-day over the Botany links, and resulted in an easy win for E. P. Simpson, who defeated J. O. Fairfax by 7 up ...
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Article : 429 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Murtoa Farmers' Association there was a large attendance of members from all parts of the district. ...
Article : 438 wordsThe exhuming of the human remains from the ancient burying-ground at Point Gellibrand, Williamstown, by order of the Railway department, yesterday received ...
Article : 168 wordsA two-days' meeting was commenced at Moonee Valley yesterday. The weather was quite piile springlike, and the attendance fair. Owing to the recent hot weather ...
Article : 360 words12.3 and 13.0 Handicap, £10, 3½furlongs, 13.2 and 13.3 Handicap, £10, 4 furlongs. 14.0 and 14.1 Handicap, £furlongs, 14.2 and 14.3 Handicap, £10, 5½ furlongs. Hurdle Race (Horses), ...
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Article : 133 wordsG. H. Hobson and Co. (Andrew Morrison and M. J. Hobson) report as follows for dairy produce at their sale by [?]ction:— "Butter, fresh (good to prime), 7½d. to 9d. per 1b.; do. (Inferior to ...
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Article : 204 wordsThis morning Mr. T. J. Deakin, J.P., was found dead in his bed. It was only last Thursday that he ho successfully con- i tested a seat at the Daylesford Borough ...
Article : 188 wordsAn elderly married women, name [?] Margaret Clayton, fell down stairs at her residence, 227 William-street, on Wednesday night, sustaining injuries which resulted in ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Richmond Racing club iid Itaclnir Olulieentertained a largo number of their patrons yesterday. The traaswiih in first-class order, and the competing fields hr llelds numerous. Proceedings opened with a trotting ...
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Advertising : 188 wordsThe coursing will start to-day at 2 o'clock. The Valley Cup and LavertonL Stakes will be finished, and a supplementary event, the FootserayFotitstake«, for eight ...
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Advertising : 123 wordsMelbourne Gun Club.—The weekly gathering of members and visitors to this resort will take place to-day, at 1 o'clock, at the club's enclosure, North Brighton. The principal event to be competed for ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 1 Sep 1899, Page 6
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