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Detailed lists, results, guides : 966 wordsFor some time Major Boam, secretary for rifle clubs, has been in indifferent health. He has been granted two months' leave of absence from official duties. ...
Article : 1,378 wordsA Melbourne syndicate recently purchased four of the steamers which have been running on Lake Wendource for removal to Melbourne. Three of the vessels ...
Article : 267 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Mr. Harry Rickards returned from a six months' trip to Great Britain by the R.M.S. India, which arrived at Largs Bay on Saturday. In the ...
Article : 533 wordsPERTH, Sunday. — Three men, named Gavin M'Callum, aged 19, single; Stewart Harris, aged 24, single; and Frederick Patterson, aged 35, married, were drowned in ...
Article : 223 wordsStrained as were the resources of the brigade on Saturday night, there was another call to be made on them. At 27 minutes past 11 o'clock, while the blaze in ...
Article : 457 wordsIf reforms in the telegraph and telephone service are to be brought about preliminary inquiry must not overlook what is known as the outdoor work of both branches. The ...
Article : 2,207 wordsA mass meeting of employes in tea warehouses was held at the Trades-hall on Saturday evening for the purpose of forming a union. Mr. J. Hyman presided, and ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The police made a successful raid yesterday afternoon on a Chinese gaming-house in Goulbourn street, and found fan-tan in full swing. ...
Article : 384 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Bendigo Vine and Fruitgrowing Association on Saturday, Mr. H. Keek (president) in the chair, a discussion took place on the ...
Article : 162 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The special tribunal to deal with the matters in dispute between the northern colliery owners and the miners will consist of Judge Heydon, Mr. H. S. ...
Article : 110 wordsFor the month of November goods were imported to Geelong reaching a value of £27,319, bringing the total for the eleven months of the year to £268,152. The ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Delegates from the Amalgamated Glass-bottle Makers' Society recently visited Melbourne, and found that the employes there were being paid better ...
Article : 99 wordsThe inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Hubert R. Dixon, who was found in a dying state on Monday evening in the railway reserve near ...
Article : 137 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. —Matters are now comparatively quiet in political circles. It is generally anticipated that polling will take place during the last week in January ...
Article : 170 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—An interim report has been received by the Minister of Mines from the special committee appointed to inquire into the dispute respecting the ...
Article : 386 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The revenue for November last was £253,420, as against £264,427 for November, 1906. The expenditure was £239,275, against £310,473 for the ...
Article : 154 wordsA new steel fire-bell tower 75ft. high has been erected. Mr. Cheyne, the local postmaster, has had a sudden seizure of illness, and has ...
Article : 31 wordsTOCUMWAL, Saturday.£At an inquiry held at Barooga Hotel to-day before the coroner, Mr. F. W. Garstang. Thomas John Allan was committed for trial for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe death has been reported to the coroner of the infant child of Martha M'Grath, a married woman, residing with her husband at 708 Sydney-road, Brunswick. ...
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Advertising : 945 wordsROCHESTER, Sunday. — Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the Water Commission, accompanied by Mr. Stuart Murray, engineer in chief: Mr. Dethbridge, deputy ...
Article : 220 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—It is reported on good authority that the Tasmanian Copper Company's Blinman mines will be closed down at an early date, in consequenc of the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Caledonian Society held its annual gathering in honour of St. Andrew's Day in the Masome-hall on Saturday evening. The celebration took the form of a Haggis ...
Article : 423 wordsWODONGA, Saturday.—Mr. J. Rowan, the coroner, on Saturday resumed the magisterial inquiry concerning the death of Michael Francis Cronin, mining manager, ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The steamer Oscar 11. arrived at Port Adelaide yesterday with a cargo of timber from Japan. This is said to be the first shipment of ...
Article : 97 wordsGRANYA, Saturday.—James Herdsman, a labourer at Collin's Burrowye Station, who had been drinking heavily lately, shot himself with a pea-rifle. He left the station ...
Article : 81 wordsKILMORE, Sunday.—A goods train between Pyalong and High Camp was stuck up on Friday afternoon on a steep bank by grasshoppers, which covered the rails, ...
Article : 60 wordsBENDIGO, Saturday.—To use the words of a miner, "the first shot" in connection with the trouble between the Virginia Company and their employes over the searching ...
Article : 254 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The quartermaster of the R.M.S. Oroya, named Charles Emmerson, was found outside an hotel in Loftus-street, in the vicinity of Circular ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Nov. 1.—This week the market is de[?] and depressed. Everybody is suffering from cold feet. Everything is too dear— tops, wool, coals, labour, rates, and, above all, ...
Article : 1,155 wordsDAYLESFORD, Saturday.—James Danstan and Thomas Caddy, miners, who had taken a tribute from the Daylesford Gold Mines Limited, to-day commenced cleaning ...
Article : 212 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The Sandy Bay golf links, with their fine new putting greens, have been opened for play. The Government have refused to take any ...
Article : 242 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Three men were working in a shaft at the 210ft. at the Paringa mine, Callington, when the rope broke. A heavy bucket fell, and struck ...
Article : 59 wordsA revival of the favourite Irish drama, "Arrahna-Pogue" brought Mr. Andrew Mack's successful season, at the Princess's Theatre, to a close on Saturday evening. In his delineation of the ...
Article : 825 wordsDIMBOOLA, Friday.— Yesterday a young married man named Walter Smith was carting hay at Gerang. While he was on top of a load a sheaf fell on the horses' backs. ...
Article : 129 wordsSTAWELL, Sunday.—The police station at Glenorchy was burnt to the ground on Saturday evening. The station was in charge of Constable Sergeant. Shortly after 6 ...
Article : 153 wordsKALGOORLIE, Sunday.—The special constables appointed to suppress gold stealing on the fields have lost no time getting to work. Yesterday morning Constables ...
Article : 177 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Saturday. On August 9 a man named George Gaynes was fined £5 for travelling in a railway carriage without a ticket. The warrant of distress being returned unsatisfied, he was ...
Article : 31 wordsSir,—As a citizen of Melbourne I beg to protest against the time-wasting tactics of the City Council, as exemplified by the Lord Mayor's complaint published in the "The ...
Article : 362 wordsOn Saturday evening Detectives Bannon, Howard and Murray arrested two men, Herbert Clarke, alias Thomas Edgar Jobling, 18 years of age, hawker, and Richard ...
Article : 430 wordsThe Australian Mortgage, land, and Finance Company Limited will hold their usual weekly wool sale at the B[?], Collins-street, on Tuesday next, at 3 p.m., when they will submit a catalogue of ...
Article : 601 wordsSALE, Sunday. —"Captain" Greene and "Lieutenant" Dennis, both female officers of the Salvation Army, sent to carry on work here in place of "Captains" Egan and ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Coburg extraordin v election, to fill the vacancy caused by the re[?]ment of Councillor A. Voice, will take place on Wednesday next. The two candidate who will go to the poll are ...
Article : 122 wordsBENDIGO, Nov. 28. Mr. F. A. Hill reports:— "221 pigs penned. Supply was below requirements, and prices slightly in advance last week. Porkers[?] Firm demanded existed throughout, and prices ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 2 Dec 1907, Page 5
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