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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsSince the closing weeks of the old year there have been some signs of improvement in the condition of business. The prevailing impression non is that the decline of share ...
Article : 1,322 wordsPoliticians are very much on the stump. True, their speeches have contained but little that is new; it has not been easy, even for so dexterous a debater as Mr. ...
Article : 1,885 wordsA New Zealand convict named Thomas Ramsay has been giving Lyttelton gaol authorities some trouble. He came originally from Australia. His latest crime was ...
Article : 432 wordsThe Zante grape gives the dired currant of commerce. From time immemorial Greece supplied the world with currants, and that country is still the chief source of ...
Article : 1,177 wordsA large deputation representing the municipal council and residents of Kew yesterday waited upon the Railway Commissioners with a request for an improved ...
Article : 214 wordsTowards the end of January Mr. Deakin received a cable message from Johannesburg protesting against his message of sympathy with the agitation against the admission of ...
Article : 449 wordsA suit to recover £10,000 damages for breach of promise was commenced in the County Court yesterday, before Judge Chomley and a jury of six. The parties ...
Article : 1,702 wordsDuring the past few days the Arbitration Court has dealt with informations against employers for breaches of awards, and in the majority of cases small fines have been ...
Article : 131 wordsA labour member and one of his constituentscame into wordy conflict yesterday, and the latter appeared at the Central Police Court to-day charged with having used ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 410 wordsKILMORE, Wednesday.—Yesterday two horse-owners ordered a box to convey four horses to the Yea races to be held to-day. The department arranged that the box ...
Article : 222 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—The passenger train, owing to a serious washaway on the line between Winninnie and Paratoo, only arrived at Broken Hill this evening ...
Article : 96 wordsA case of some interest to public servants of the state in receipt of allowances for fuel, light, and water is shortly to be heard in the courts. These allowances have been ...
Article : 171 wordsSir Arthur Rutledge, ex-Attorney-General and now a member of the Opposition, addressed a meeting of his constituents at Roma last night. He characterised a ...
Article : 162 wordsRenewed complaint is made by junior officers and members of the daily-paid staff of the railways that increments, which were due in some instances at the opening of the ...
Article : 80 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the St. Kilda brunch of the National Citizens' Reform League, held on Tuesday, it was decided to convene a meeting of the members ...
Article : 65 wordsECHUCA, Wednesday.—Dissatisfaction exists locally at the late arrival of the Melbourne train, and consequent late delivery of mails. Private box holders are almost ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsSir—Previous to federation a certain number of officers in the general division qualified for transfer to clerical positions by passing the state public ...
Article : 279 wordsA meeting of electors was held in the Methodist schoolroom, Alphington, on Monday evening, to form a branch of the Jika Jika Anti-socialistic Association. Mr. J. ...
Article : 187 wordsSir,—You would be conferring a great favour on the public in general if you would use your influence through your valuable paper to abolish the vexations system and ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the Adelaide Police Court this morning Patrick M'Cabe, who was arrested on Monday in connection with the sensational shooting affray in the park lands, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 523 wordsSir,—I think I am voicing a considerable part of the community when I say that I think the r[?]alcitrant engine-drivers, &c., have been more than sufficiently punished, ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. J. L. Dow announces that he will contest the Donald and Swan Hill seat, rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr. Taverner. Mr. John Gray, president of the Swan ...
Article : 65 wordsSir—A correspondent in your issue of the 17th inst. brings to notice the way children "instructed by older heads" are sent out collecting money for charitable purposes. ...
Article : 133 wordsOUTTRIM, Wednesday.—In answer to the invitation of the Outtrim branch of the Political Labour League, two aspirants for selection as the labour candidate for the ...
Article : 98 wordsSir—It is certainly gratifying to all naturalists, as sportsmen, to read your remarks in "The Argus" of Friday on the acclimatisation of animals. The great, and ...
Article : 485 wordsThe committee of the Melbourne Hospital met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of considering a legal opinion from Mr. Isaacs, K.C., on various points connected with the ...
Article : 570 wordsSir,—All practical orchardists will be glad to see attention being drawn to the codlin moth question. I can endorse every word of the letter of "Twenty-five Acres." ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Railway Commissioner received telegrams this morning which stated that the heavy rain in the north had caused considerable damage to the lines. Nineteen ...
Article : 81 wordsSir,—I would like to direct attention to the danger referred to recently in your columns, through motorists, who apparently have full sway, travelling through ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the Richmond Court yesterday Miss C. Elliott sued Mrs. Georgie Ann Powell for the sum of £5 7/6, money alleged to have been borrowed from plaintiff in December, 1902. ...
Article : 298 wordsThe centenary celebrations were continued to-day in fine weather. The mayor gave a garden party in the Botanical-gardens, and in the evening Vice-Admiral ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsBefore Messrs. Edwards and Clyne, J.P.'s, at the Carlton Court, on Wednesday, Patrick Scanlan, a young man, was charged with stealing a shilling's worth of grapes. Constable Barry stated ...
Article : 619 wordsAn entertainment inaugurated by the mayor (Councillor Densham) was held in the Victoria-gardens, Prahran, last evening, in aid of the local Ladies' Benevolent Society. There was a good ...
Article : 150 wordsSir—Canada has set us an example by its methods of [?]ring immigration and settlement. Here we have endeavoured, by establishing village settlements, to utilise ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. Candler, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of William Kitto, a draughtsman in the employ of the Metropolitan Board of Works, aged 39 years, ...
Article : 185 wordsThe matter of clearing the weeds from the Albert-park Lake came before the South Melbourne Council again last night. Councillor Sloss stated that the Albert-park Rowing Club members ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsA[?]T, Feb. 20.—At Mr. D. Canty's, at Langi Ghiran, thrashing has just been completed, and 28 acres have given an average of 18 bags to the acre. ...
Article : 388 wordsThe annual meeting of the Victorian Rifle Association will be held on Friday next at Scourfield's chambers, Collins-street, at 8 p.m. The only notice of motion is by Mr. G. Williams, of Ferntree Gully, ...
Article : 160 wordsAn inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday regarding the death of Joseph James Ashworth, a bootmaker, of North Carlton, who cut his throat at his house on Monday morning, and died at the ...
Article : 153 wordsAn old man named John Marshall was presented at the City Court yesterday on a charge of obtaining goods and money by means of a valueless cheque. Accused agreed to plead guilty if the ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—Mr. Bent is wrong in his crusade against 1/ rates in shires as compared with 2/ rates in suburban municipalities. There is no comparison between the benefits ...
Article : 119 wordsAt the Flemington Court on Tuesday, James Ro[?] was charged with insulting Henry Glasser on the 13th inst. Glasser said he and defendant were employed as jockeys at a local stable, and occupied ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 25 Feb 1904, Page 6
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