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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsPYRAMID HILL, Monday.—William Phillips, of Mitiamo, 28 years of age, was bitten by a tiger snake on Friday. He was apparently recovering, when he collapsed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsCouncillor F. T. S. Dobson, the mayorelect for the city of Prahran for six months, being the unexpired term of office of the ex-mayor, Coucillor Upton, was ...
Article : 398 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Lewis Litton, aged 61, and Hugh Miller, aged 68, two of the directors of the Emu Gravel Company, came to blows on the corner of Martin-place ...
Article : 238 wordsFOSTER, Monday.—On Friday a big fire started on the racecourse, and Jones's paddock, on the south side of the railway line, was swept. Mr. H. Pile lost a stack of hay, ...
Article : 333 wordsA committee appointed by the unemployed, who assembled to the number of several hundreds in the vicinity of the state public offices on Friday, again waited on the ...
Article : 411 wordsIn answer to inquiries made by direction of the Minister for Customs (Mr. Austin Chapman), the assistant comptrollergeneral (Mr. Lockyer) has received a ...
Article : 342 wordsThe State commandant (Colonel Stanley) has arranged the programme of work for the troops taking part in the Easter encampment. Owing to the failure of the ...
Article : 528 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Sunday.—A teacher at the Carabol public school was bitten on the finger by a snake. He was reading in the schoolroom, and the reptile was ...
Article : 59 wordsWARRACKNABEAL, Monday.—Isaac Stevens, the hotelkeeper who took chlorodyne and then attempted to hang himself on Friday last, died yesterday, and was ...
Article : 61 wordsWANGARATTA, Monday.—The body of Elsie Woodberry, an unmarried woman 22 years of age, who disappeared on Wednesday night, was discovered yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 386 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A somewhat important judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Street in the Probate jurisdiction to-day bearing upon the rights in this state ...
Article : 393 wordsRIDDELL, Monday.—Mr. Richard Raftis, proprietor of the Riddell's Creek Hotel, was playing cricket on Saturday, and was wearing a helmet, in the rim of which was sewn ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsARARAT, Monday.—The largest bush fires ever seen on the Grampians have been burning for over a week, devastating miles of forest. The fires are in an almost ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Mr. Oakes (honorary Minister), speaking at the opening of the Bondi Surf and Social Club-rooms on Saturday, said that the establishment of ...
Article : 183 wordsALBURY, Monday. — Charles Lampitt, aged 13, accompanied by another lad, was shooting rabbits with a pea-rifle, and had laid the rifle on the ground. His companion ...
Article : 191 wordsYARRAGON, Monday.—Bush fires have been burning in parts of this district since Wednesday, when one broke out to the east of the town, and destroyed a lot of valuable ...
Article : 99 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The special Mining Court at Newcastle has again been paralysed. When the Court met this morning counsel for the proprietors mentioned that ...
Article : 99 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The shipping inspector (captain Forrester) commenced an inquiry this morning into the stranding of the steamer Maranoa, on Chapman Island, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThere was a good attendance last night at the annual meeting of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society, held in the Temperancehall. Mr. Ma[?]ger, M.H.R., president, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—At a meeting of the Paddington Coucnil to-night, a motion was submitted in favour of scavenging work being done by day labour. The mover said ...
Article : 101 wordsTwo mail steamers, which arrived in the port of Melbourne yesterday, received special attention at the hands of the health officers, owing to cases of illness, suspicious ...
Article : 123 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A sensational incident occurred on the Wallcrawang-Mudgee line last night. A young man, who was sleeping in a first-class carriage, suddenly ...
Article : 82 wordsDAYLESFORD, Monday.—Mr. H. Ross on Saturday sold by auction the farm lands of Messrs. D'Alton Bros., comprising 40 acres, near the Daylesford railway station. ...
Article : 56 wordsOne of the matters to which attention was directed at yesterday's meeting of the state Cabinet was the fixing of the standard size fro cornsacks, referred to by an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThe following players have been selected to represent Victoria in the match against Tasmania, commencing on the Melbourne Cricket-ground on Friday next, 28th, at ...
Article : 98 wordsALBURY, Monthly.—At the meeting of the Closer Settlement League to-night it was decided to suggest that the following estates be brought under the notice of the southern ...
Article : 83 wordsWAGGA, Sunday.—At the State Forestry Commission sittings at Wagga a number of witnesses were examined having practical knowledge, and from them was elicited the ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Cyclists' Union championship meeting has had to be postponed for the fourth time, owing to the wet weather. An effort will be made to hold ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 390 wordsEacg dat the urgent need of rain becomes more and more manifest in the condition of the Yan Yean reservoir. At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the water was down to ...
Article : 96 wordsThe question of the weight of wheat that can be carried in the new standard cornsack has been raised in Sydney, and a desire is expressed in Melbourne that the ...
Article : 122 wordsROCHESTER, Monday.—There was a large attendance at the public meeting at the Shire-hall on Saturday evening. Mr. D. Bourke, who presided said that ...
Article : 329 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The Howard Smith Co.'s steamer Bombala collided with the dredge barge Dolphin in the river, in the vicinity of Pinkenba, to-day. The barge ...
Article : 76 wordsJust as the boxing match between Williams and Nelson was about to commence at the Cyclorama yesterday evening John W. M'Namara, who had been engaged by the ...
Article : 419 wordsThe best means of increasing the water supply of Melbourne was discussed at the meeting of the Collingwood Council last evening. ...
Article : 236 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—John Hocking, one of the victims of the South Broken Hill tragedy, is doing well in the hospital. The bullet which entered his jaw has been ...
Article : 229 wordsAmongst the suggestions made to the Government before the issue of the proclamation fixing the new standard were that, instead of defining the dimensions, &c., of ...
Article : 281 wordsLast night, at the Footseray Council a letter was read from the Williamstown Council stating that Councillors M'Neilage and M'Donald had been elected as delegates to a conference between ...
Article : 72 wordsSir,—The voices of "Cut the Painter" party have been hushed for some years; ever since, in fact, the foolish persons of which it was composed discovered that it is ...
Article : 634 wordsSALE, Monday.—At a meeting of the Sale branch of the Yarram Railway League representations were made by the league at Yarram requesting that Sale should become the central league ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 300 wordsSir,—A railway regulation gives to the officials, authority to demand full adult fare from persons travelling in a smoking compartment. One wonders why this power is ...
Article : 144 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—A fire early this morning destroyed a four-roomed house and a cool drink shop at Radway Town. occupied by Mr. Thomas Goss, and owned ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Thomas Shortill writes urging that the water supply for Mount Macedon should be dealt with in a manner which makes allowance for the variations due to the ...
Article : 205 wordsJEPARIT, Monday.—The coroner's inquest on the body of John Joseph Tilley was held in the Court-house to-day, Mr. Edward Harrison presiding. Sub-inspector ...
Article : 83 wordsLast week it was announced in "The Argus" that a number of farmers had proposed to form a strong syndicate to develop the 150,000 acres of grass tree land ...
Article : 184 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—It is stated that Dr. Maxwell, the Queensland sugar expert, will probably be appointed expert to the Federal Agricultural Bureau. ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the Prahran Court yesterday, before Messrs. Kent (chairman). Phipps, and hyslop, J.P.'s, Isabella Mackey, of 66 Commercial-road, was charged, on the information of Henry Rider, city inspector, ...
Article : 180 wordsSir,—A report appeared in "The Argus" of Saturday regarding a statement made by Mr. D. Stephen, president of the Certificated Enginedrivers' Association, at the ...
Article : 157 wordsAn interesting match, in which Williams had a little the better of it all through, and finally knocked his opponent out in the twentieth round, took place at the Cyclorama yesterday evening ...
Article : 419 wordsSir,—In the attractive article on "Batman's Treaty," the remark is made:— "Times without number this assertion of our historians (that Batman's treaty with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsA special meeting of the members of the Victorian division of the Society of Accountants and Auditors of England, to discuss and decide upon the policy of the division in relation to other ...
Article : 353 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. L. O'Loughlin) and the chief inspector of fruit (Mr. Quinn) left Adelaide to-day to attend the conference in ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Prahran Court yesterday 11 hawkers were fined 10/ and another 5/, with one guinea costs in each case, for having failed to protest the fruit, they were selling from dust and [?]ies. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsFrederick Galbraith, chauffeur to Dr. Reid, of Toorak, was charged in the District Court yesterday with having negligently driven a motor-car along St. Kilda road on February 5. ...
Article : 59 wordsPERTH, Monday.—The R.M.S. Britannia took for London this afternoon 30 bars of silver, valned at £4,252, and for Colombo, from the Commercial Bank, 50,000 ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—The pregnant little letter of "Malvern" in Friday's issue on the religious spirit hits the bull's-eye. The official heads of the Catholic Church are delightfully ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 284 wordsSir,—I have completed arrangements for my reply to Mr. Dillon, and engaged the Temperance-hall, Russell-street, for Friday night, the 28th inst., as advertised in your ...
Article : 164 wordsA similar charge was preferred against Clive Smith, chauffcur to Dr. Keogh, of Kew. It was stated that on February 8 defendant drove across the intersection of Swanston and Flinders streets ...
Article : 222 wordsTHE BLUFF.—Arrived.—Feb. 24—[?]rak[?] from Melbourne. Sailed.—Feb. 24—Maheno, for Melbourne. ...
Article : 11 wordsGeorge Dickason, coachbuilder and undertaker, of Bridge-road, Richmond, was charged at the local court yesterday, before Messrs. Nathan and A[?]ber, J.P.'s, with having neglected to supply the ...
Article : 115 wordsCouncillor Co[?]e moved, at the E[?]don Town Council meeting last night, that the matter of securing junction of the E[?]don dectric tramway and the North Melbourne cable tramway be ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 25 Feb 1908, Page 6
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