A deputation from the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce interviewed the Railway Commissioners to-day with reference to the recent rearrangement of railway freights. ...
Article : 1,670 wordsA conference of representatives of shire councils and a agricultural societies, presided over by Councillor T. F. Scale, of the Yea Shire Council, by whom the meeting ...
Article : 219 wordsA deputation from the Ballarat branch of the British Medical Association has complained to the city council that Lake Wendource is being polluted by drainage from ...
Article : 497 wordsThe steps to be taken with regard to filling the chair of Hebrew and Exegesis at the Theological-hall, Ormond College, rendered vacant by the retirement of Professor ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words"Why decide on Thursday what you will do on the following Wednesday," the Postmaster General remarked recently when asked what action he would take in ...
Article : 586 wordsA murderous assault was is committed last night upon a young man named George Hill, in North Melbourne The circumstances of the affair have not yet been ...
Article : 673 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held this afternoon on the remains of the late Harrie Thomas Dicker, a well-known bookmaker, particulars of whose death appeared in ...
Article : 130 wordsTuesday (6 p.m.).—Moderately fine generally, but cloudy in southern districts, with occasional coastal showers, clearing up at occasional intervals, cold westerly and south-westerty winds, still ...
Article : 904 wordsA fire occurred at the Duke United Mines Limited on Sunday afternoon, and but for the prompt action of the engine-driver serious damage would have resulted. ...
Article : 55 wordsRobert Griffiths, jun., blacksmith, met with a strange accident on Monday afternoon. He was Striking a piece of heated iron on the anvil when a small portion of ...
Article : 102 wordsWAHGUNYAH, Sept. 3.—Stock Crossings.—811 fat merino wethers and rams, travelling from Burrongong, N.S.W., to Wahgunyah, trucked there for Newmarket consigned to Messrs. Adamson, ...
Article : 423 wordsThe committee of municipal representatives that has in hand the proposal to abolish the Western Wimmera Water Supply and Irrigation Trust, and transfer its ...
Article : 2,811 wordsAt the city police court on Tuesday Stanley, Roy, and Oswald Payne, the three children of James Payne, who was recently convicted of being found illegally on ...
Article : 286 wordsCONDOBOLIN, Aug. 31.—After a disturbed period lasting for a fortnight, during which 345 points of rain fell, the weather has cleared again, and the outlook for all classes of landholders is very ...
Article : 181 wordsThe barque Loch Lomond had an exciting passage from Glasgow, which she left on June 8. On August 1, after crossing the meridian of the Cape, a heavy ...
Article : 108 wordsA man named Ambrosa was prosecuted at Thursday Island for working five aboriginals without then having been signed on. He was fined £25 in each case. A ...
Article : 115 wordsLONGREACH, Sept. 3—Congenial weather prevails, with seasonable warm days and mild nights. Relief country is hardly required so much, consequent upon the [?] rains in the Peak Downs ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. T. A. M'Lean, of the Melbourne Hospital, has been appointed junior resident surgeon to the Geelong Hospital. The manual fire-engine in care of the ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the legislative Assembly the Premier informed Mr. Daley that the valuations of properties in the "Rocks" resumed areas were based on fair market values ...
Article : 474 wordsWhen the Minister of Education visited the School of Mines here some weeks ago he was struck with the lack of public interest in the institution and said he would ...
Article : 185 wordsMessrs Thomas, Batchelor and Poynton, M.H.R.'s, waited on the Railway Commissioner to-day, and urged that the express between Adelaide and Melbourne ...
Article : 160 wordsHOPETOUN, Sept. 2.—The preseat season has been altogether unlike any other since cultivation on the Mallce began. Most of the crops in these districts are sown very early and in previous ...
Article : 430 wordsMr. and Mrs. Lindsay Whitehead were entertained at the golf liaks on Saturday and presentations were made to them by the president (Mr James Dickson) on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsThe Customs revenue for August established a record in the colony, being £227,000, as compared with £220,000 for the corresponding month of last year. ...
Article : 120 wordsMr Justice Hood opened the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Gurner acting as Crown prosecutor. John Kelly, who pleaded guilty to two charges of horse stealing, ...
Article : 433 wordsAccording to news received from New Caledonia to-day a volcanic cruption has occurred in the new Hebrides, the shocks being so severe that the white inhabitants ...
Article : 83 wordsThe adjouned hearing of the charges of rough football in the Seymour-Broadford match were considered last night by the North-Eastern Football Association. Mr. M'Whinney, who umpired the ...
Article : 267 wordsThere are now 70 shearers camped on the opposite side of the river. The men state that they will not sign the Pastoralists' agreement to shear on Yanga Station, ...
Article : 227 wordsIn the Council to-day the Chief Justice's Salary Bill was read a third time. Several measures received from the Assembly were read a first time. ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—I am directed by His Excellency Sir John Madden to ask you to allow me on his behalf, to correct your report of what he said at the meeting held on ...
Article : 329 wordsOnly the House of Assembly sat to-day. Mr. Wood gave notice of a bill to make clergymen eligible to sit in Parliament. Mr. Von Doussa intimated his intention ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company Limited, of 412 Collins-street, is applying for probate of the will of the late Joseph Grifliths, of 291 Church-street, ...
Article : 264 wordsThe lawn tennis competitions between New South Wales and Queensland were continued to-day. In the singles Queensland secured 19 sets and New South Wales 17, but in the doubles the visitors ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 4 Sep 1901, Page 8
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