CASTLEMAINE, Monday.—A peculiar accident and miraculous escape from death occurred on Saturday in the office of Mr. P. C. Baker. Mr. Baker is the legal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,291 wordsInquiries are being made as to how the Scripture referendum vote is to be taken in electorates where there are no contests. The chief electoral inspector (Mr. Macdowell) ...
Article : 87 wordsThe City Bench on Monday fined William Byrnes £3, in default three weeks' imprisonment, for using obscene language. For a similar offence John Johnson was fined £2 ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the Central Police Court to-day William Brown was proceeded against for having used a room in Pitt-street fir the purposes of betting. He was fined £100, in ...
Article : 314 wordsA public meeting under the auspices of the Scripture Instruction Campaign League was held last night in the shire-hall, Camberwell. There was a good attendance, a ...
Article : 1,103 wordsAn unusual difficulty arose on Saturday with regard to the disposal of the body of a labourer named James Halliday, aged 62 years, who died suddenly at his home in ...
Article : 445 wordsThe School of Mines Council has appointed Miss M. Maegillivray librarian and canvasser for the library, which has been taken over by the council from the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 422 wordsAnother appeal from a decision of the Arbitration Court came before the Full Court to-day. The matter referred to was one in which William George Magrath, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsA draft agreement has been drawn up by the representatives of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Colliery Employes' Federation, which, if ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is expected that for the season over 40 vessels, will leave Geelong with wheat for the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Already 31 sailing ships have left, and there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsSome comment has been made on the fact that an assessment of a penny per ton has been struck under the Sugar Works Guarantee Act. It is explained that under ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsIn a recent article Dr. Lloyd Tuckey quotes statistics from various sources showing the success of hypnotism in the treatment of chronic alcoholism. His own ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsURANA, May 16.—Lambing is now in full swing in tne Urana district, with every appearance of big averages. There are more twin lambs this season than have been noticed for some seasons past. All ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Kenna, member for Bowen, who returned to Brisbane after a three-weeks' tour in the Bowen, Burdekin, and Mackay districts, states that there is no anxiety among ...
Article : 257 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—Owing to the fact that the Royal Princess's Theatre has been condemned, the Austral Society's eighth annual competitions, which opened this ...
Article : 199 wordsCASTLEMAINE.—A fire broke out at the residence of Mr. D. Riley, North Castlemaine, on Monday, and the kitchen, diningroom, and a quantity of furniture were destroyed. The cause of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe secretary for Railways (Mr. L. M'Lelland) has received from an anonymous correspondent three postal notes of the value of £1 each, the remittance being ...
Article : 38 wordsHerbert Y. Rattray, inspector of explosives, in the District Court yesterday, before Messrs. W. Barnett (chairman), J. J. Rogers, and T. K. Bennet, proceeded against a number of persons ...
Article : 154 wordsWYCHEPROOF, Monday.—A public meeting, convened by Messrs. Mangan and J. Warburton, was held in the Mechanies'-hall, Ninyeunook, on Saturday night. Mr. ...
Article : 176 wordsAUCKLAND, Monday.—Mr. Crick, Minister of Lands in the Government of New South Wales, who arrived last night, proceeded to Rotorua to-day, ...
Article : 221 wordsA public meeting was held on Friday at Hawthorn to urge the Government to widen without delay the Elgin-street railway bridge. Councillor R. T. Barbour presided. Councillor J. S. Riddell ...
Article : 147 wordsThe barque Ethel, which was stranded some weeks ago near Yorke's Peninsula, seems, after all attempts to save her, likely to be lost. She was refloated, but a heavy ...
Article : 291 wordsW. H. Sowden, of 892 High-street, Armadale, was charged, before Messrs. Witt. Clipperton, Godley, and Young, J.P.'s. at Prahran Court yesterday, with having carried on a registry office ...
Article : 166 wordsFERNTREE GULLY, Saturday.—The Railway Commissioners were recently asked to receive a deputation from the shire council and residents with a view to securing an improved train service ...
Article : 110 wordsGreat trouble was caused in several West Melbourne hotels on Saturday night by a gang of ruffians with sticks, who went from one hotel to another creating disturbances and terrifying the ...
Article : 152 wordsFERNTREE GULLY, Saturday.—At the last court of petty sessions, on a summons for the recovery of a current rate, the Bench disallowed a claim for interest ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—The Customs authorities in, as you say, joining issue with me, do not controvert the statements in my letter to you one tittle, but make the case as to their own ...
Article : 632 wordsThree or four weeks ago a railway "gasman" named Charles Eastburn, living in Little Lennox-street, Richmond, was run down by a night suburban train while he ...
Article : 144 wordsMOE, Monday.—The first batch of unemployed, numbering 48 men, who are to be employed in the clearing of the track for the proposed railway to Walhalla, arrived ...
Article : 2,588 wordsHARROW, May 12.—The recent splendid rains were most opportune in this district. The slight fall of about a fortnight ago has started the grass, and it is now all that could be desired for the ...
Article : 72 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—His Excellency the Governor will open Parliament at noon to-morrow. The Address in Reply will be moved in the Legislative Council by Messrs. ...
Article : 300 wordsFrederick Irving and John Geoghegan, aged 15 and 16 years respectively, were charged on three counts with housebreaking and stealing at the Richmond Court yesterday. The charges were as ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Theatre Royal, Hobart, which has been closed for some weeks for alterations and improvements ordered by the health authorities, was reopened this evening by ...
Article : 99 wordsEUROA, May 13.—The board of directors of the Euroa Butter and Ice Factory report that, owing to the splendid season, the quantity of milk bandled, viz., 1,585,000 gallons, showed the ...
Article : 491 wordsSir,—It was with a feeling of pleasure that I read "An Outsider's" letter in your issue of to-day in reference to the executive of the late railway strike. I fully concur ...
Article : 133 wordsA woman named Lina Muller was committed for trial by Mr. Panton, P.M., at the City Court yesterday, on a charge of unlawfully wounding Edith Hinkling. The evidence showed that these two ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Union Steamship Company, owners of the collier Kamona, was fined £20 at Wellington to-day for having allowed the vessel to proceed to sea on divers voyages ...
Article : 52 wordsSir,—"Pro Bono Publico's" letter in "The Argus" of to-day reveals his poverty of knowledge and the frail grasp he has of the subject he has reviewed. The pension ...
Article : 225 wordsAt the Malvern Court yesterday, before Messrs. Jackson, Parslow, and Kiddle, J.P.'s, Samuel Alexander, labourer, Glen Iris, charged Charles Smith, also of Glen Iris. with assaulting his wife, ...
Article : 267 wordsA squabble about beer resulted in two young men, William Utting and John W. Griffiths, appearing before Messrs. Hanslow, Eade, Peters, and Tait, J.P.'s, at the Collingwood Court on Monday ...
Article : 175 wordsYesterday afternoon a fire broke out in a seven-roomed cottage in Thompson-street, South Williamstown, owned by Mr. J. Torry, and occupied by Mr. J. Maclaren. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 17 May 1904, Page 6
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