SYDNEY, Thursday.—The gold robbery at Tumberumba is still a mystery. Up to a late hour this afternoon no clue had been obtained as to the thief or ...
Article : 253 wordsHORSHAM.—Upwards of 100 farmers attended a meeting at the show-ground on Wednesday afternoon, at the instance of the Horsham Agricultural and Pastoral Society, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsAn elderly man named John Linton. a resident of Ascotvale, set out yesterday morning to drive in a pha[?]ton from Ascotvale to Yan Yean. While going down a ...
Article : 88 wordsWhen the Supplementary Estimates were under discussion in the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. WATT called attention to the items ...
Article : 2,202 wordsThe collector of Customs (Mr. A. W. Smart) held a public inquiry yesterday into certain matters regarding entries. &c. Connibere, Grieve, and Connibere ...
Article : 311 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Entertaining evidence was given to-day in an equity suit, in which Edward Charles Close Campbell claimed that he was entitled to a share in ...
Article : 754 wordsThe body found on the South Yarra railway line on Wednesday morning was identified yesterday as that of William Crewe, a painter, aged 50 years, who had lived in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 344 wordsBOORT, Tuesday.—Mr. William Guy, a well-known farmer, while driving home from Boort on Saturday night, met with an unfortunate mishap. He was driving a spirited ...
Article : 104 wordsCOROWA, Thursday.—Mr. J. S. Larke, High Commissioner of Canada, was entertained by the Court Kiaora, the local branch of the I.O.F., yesterday at dinner at the ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A sub-contractor named John Gerstad was killed at St. Mary's Cathedral to-day. He was at work on the roof of a temporary building, when ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Mahon, in reply to a question by Mr. Hume Cook (V.) regarding the overtime work of post-office officials in sorting ...
Article : 73 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Messrs. R. B. Burns, Canning, and W. H. Forwood,[?] of South Australia, waited on the Premier to-day, with a letter from the Premier of South ...
Article : 463 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—An elderly man named Charles Lutz attempted to cross the line this morning near the Domain Shipyards. He was overtaken by a mail train, ...
Article : 77 wordsA petition from residents of King Island was presented to the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. O'Malley (T.), asking for the establishment of telegraphic and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following nominations have been received:— ALEXANDRA (Shire), Three Seats.—James Scale, John Wylie, and C. Hamilton. BACCHUS MARSH (Shire). — Bacchus Marsh ...
Article : 974 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—An inquest was on Thursday held by Mr. W. Dickson, P.M., upon the infant Queenie Gordon, who died as the result of scalds received at her ...
Article : 44 wordsA quantity of miscellaneous information about the cost of converting and manufacturing field guns was supplied to the Senate yesterday by Senator Dawson (Minister for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—As anticipated, Henry Ernest Hooper, who has been missing for a fortnight or more from Corona Station, was found dead by the police and ...
Article : 168 wordsA question was asked by Mr. Crouch (V.), in the House of Representatives yesterday, with reference to a statement made by Major-General Sir Edward Hutton, to the ...
Article : 121 wordsBOORT, Thurday.—At a meeting of the Boort Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held on Saturday last, it was resolved to ask other societies in wheat areas, and through members of Parliament ...
Article : 191 wordsThe annual conference of the Melbourne School Boards Union was concluded in the Town-hall last night. Mr. E. Edwards, the retiring president, occupied the chair. ...
Article : 773 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—Mr. J. S. Stanley, clerk at the Eaglehawk branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was cycling from the city to the borough this morning, when his ...
Article : 135 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—Sir J. G. Ward stated in the House of Representatives that the Government had been led to believe that Canada objected to the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe twentieth annual meeting of the Caledonian Society of Melbourne was held it the Masonic-hall last night. The president (Mr. George Gibb) presided. ...
Article : 803 wordsADELAIDE Thursday.—On Tuesday the city coroner sentenced to seven days' imprisonment Edwin Charles Philipps for having at the inquest on the Rundle-street ...
Article : 100 wordsWODONGA, Thursday.—The long-standing dispute between the Railway Commissioners and the Wodonga Waterworks Trust has at last been settled. ...
Article : 23 wordsSORRENTO, Thursday.—A magisterial inquiry, touching the death of Catherine Amelia Blyth, whose body was washed up on the back beach on Tuesday last, was held ...
Article : 251 wordsSir,—In suggesting that the 5.25 and 5.45 p.m. down trains should not stop at and consequently not take passengers for Glenferrie or Auburn, I did not forget that a ...
Article : 200 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—A sub-committee was recently appointed by the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A. to draw up a scale of wages for miners, the object being to ...
Article : 422 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday.—Efforts are being made to expeditiously get the timber cargo off the steamer Nubeena, now grounded at Pig Island, and it is expected ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The celebrations in connection with the jubilee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Australasia were brought to a close to-night by a social ...
Article : 311 wordsNAGAMBIE, Thursday.—A handicap pigeon match was shot-off yesterday. There were 21 nominations. Hamilton (Doogalook), Watson (Melbourne), Halpin (Shepparton), A. M'Leod ...
Article : 63 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—A report was received at Ipswich to-night to the effect that a house on the Fassifern line had been destroyed by fire, and a child burnt to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe brothers, Charles and Arthur Wilkinson, whose mysterious disappearance from their home in Easy-street, Collingwood, was reported in "The Argus" of yesterday, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 239 wordsThe adjourned meeting of shareholders in the Albert-park Coffee Palace Company held for the purpose of taking a poll on a motion carried at the last meeting, affirming that the directors of ...
Article : 363 wordsSir,—The letter of "L.T.M.C." in to-day's issue, in answer to Mr. Luxton's remarks regarding tram fares, is straight and to the point. As Mr. Luxton contends that the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe committee of the Benevolent Asylum met yesterday, there being present Mr. P. B. M'Master (in the chair), Mesdames Zichy-Woinarski and Masters, and Messrs. S. Lancashire, W. H. Purris, ...
Article : 269 wordsWALHALLA, Thursday.—It was reported to the police to-day that the locomotive belonging to the North Long Tunnel Company, and housed at the Walhalla ...
Article : 186 wordsA grey-bearded wanderer, carrying as a stick the trunk of a peeled sapling about 8ft. long, placed himself in front of Constable Jones in Lonsdale-street last night, ...
Article : 102 wordsSEYMOUR, Wednesday.—A petition is being signed here to have the dates altered in regard to the close season for fishing. Under the new regulations the season does ...
Article : 61 wordsThe competitions were continued on Wednesday night, and the following secured highest points in their respective divisions:—Class 18, Piano Solo —Alice Wood (Port Melbourne). Class 3, Soprano ...
Article : 121 wordsDuring Wednesday two brass candle-sticks, value 20/. were stolen from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Fitzgerald-street, South Yarra, and yesterday morning ...
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