Coloured lead lights are to be used in five windows on the eastern end of the chapter-house of the Anglican Cathedral. These will show the coat of arms of the ...
Article : 1,100 wordsReference was made at the meeting of the state Cabinet held yesterday to the question of the minimum-wage provision in Railway department contracts. It was ...
Article : 89 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—At a meeting of the Town Council this afternoon a return was submitted by the town clerk (Mr. J. Gent) in regard to the proposal to alter ...
Article : 229 wordsA building was being pulled down at Brighton on June 11, and Samuel Dart, a bricklayer, was removing the bricks from a chimney and throwing them to the ...
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Advertising : 6,752 wordsMr. [?] H. Turnbull, manager of the Colonial Bank, has been promoted to Ballarat. The ramnants of over 46 watches were ...
Article : 74 wordsKOROIT, Friday.—A few days ago, while making additions to the post-office, the workmen unearthed a bottle which had been placed under the foundation-stone of the ...
Article : 152 wordsA deputation composed of residents from Diamond Creek Valley, waited on the Premier (Mr. Bent) yesterday with a request for the extension of the Eltham railway ...
Article : 367 wordsA painful accident happened yesterday to Peter kennedy, who is employed at the Dunlop Tyre Co.'s works, South Melbourne. He was working at a rolling-machine, when ...
Article : 93 wordsAs the term of office for the Ovenmakers' Wages Board has expired, the Minister for Labour (Sir Alexander Peacock) will be glad to receive the names of three ...
Article : 62 wordsBRISBANE Friday.—A miner named William Cain has been smothered by a fall of earth in his claim at Mount Spurgeon, in the Mount Molloy district. ...
Article : 34 wordsLINTON, Friday.—At the Grenvilleshire Council meeting on Thursday it was decided, on the motion of Councillor Kennedy, that a letter be written to the Minister of ...
Article : 111 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—When the 3.15 a.m. goods train from Roma-street to Ipswich stopped at Goodna this mroning the driver reported that a man was lying on ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A conference between the delegates of the Western, Southern, and Northern coal-miners' associations of New South Wales, and the Victorian ...
Article : 215 wordsCOBDEN, Friday.—Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have just sold the following land for Mr. H. A. Meagher, at prices which constitute a record for this district:—36 acres ...
Article : 1,425 wordsROCHESTER, Friday.—Mrs. Ryan, of Rochester East, who was the victim of a severe burning accident a fortnight ago, died on Thursday from the effects. ...
Article : 30 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—A lad named Albert Percy Gerlach, seven years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. L. Gerlach, of O'Callaghan's-parade, died in the hospital ...
Article : 129 wordsDetailed reports regarding the proposal to extend the railway line which at present ends at Ultima to Eureka were before state Ministers at their Cabinet ...
Article : 99 wordsARARAT, Friday.—A boy named John Ellison, a son of a well-known local railway employee, was accidently struck on the head by another lad with a golf-stick. ...
Article : 68 wordsCHILTERN, Friday.—The ballot taken by the Chiltern, Rutherglen, and Indigo branch of the A.M.A., regarding affiliation with political organisations, and to strike ...
Article : 42 wordsIn view of the early completion of the road between Bright and the summit of the Buffalo Plateau, arrangements have been made by the Railway department ...
Article : 219 wordsSHEPPARTON, Friday.—Mounted-constable Kennedy died this morning in the Mooroopna Hospital from an injury sustained on Wednesday evening. He was ...
Article : 105 wordsA meeting under the auspices of the Northcote branch of the Women's National League was held at the local town-hall on Friday afternoon, the ...
Article : 168 wordsWALHALLA, Friday.—Once more the Stringer's Creek cutting has proved itself a danger to the navvies returning from Walhalla to the railway works at the Thompson ...
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Advertising : 146 wordsSir,—Mr. Dodgshun hits the nail on the head when he says. "All that merchants want is the certainty that they are not being charged a higher rate of duty than their ...
Article : 225 wordsCASTERTON, Friday.—The wife of Alex. Patterson was this morning found dead by her son. He went home at about 11 o'clock and discovered his mother at the cow-bail. ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—Referring to your comments in "The Argus" of to-day affecting the position of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants, I would ask you to be good ...
Article : 385 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—The Licenses Reduction Board to-day took evidence in connection with the Orient Hotel, Pall Mall, and the Town Hall Hotel, Market-square, which it is proposed to delicense. ...
Article : 99 wordsARCHIE'S CREEK, Thursday.—John Smith, employed by Mr. E. Love as enginedriver on a travelling chaff-cutter, was on Wednesday attending to the pump of the traction engine when his right arm ...
Article : 305 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Harris Freeman, who shot himself at his residence, Forest-street, on June 12, after shooting at his wife, was continued, before ...
Article : 218 wordsPARTARLINGTON, Friday.—An important discovery in connection with the onion disease in this district has been made by Mr. Robert Willey, of Avondale Farm, ...
Article : 206 wordsThe thirteenth annual show of the North Suburban Canary Improvement Society was opened in the Brunswick Town-hall on Thursday afternoon by the mayoress of Brunswick (Mrs. A. Dick) ...
Article : 389 wordsAt the fortnightly committee meeting of the Women's Hospital on Friday, a letter was received from the Salvation Army, asking that members of the League of Mercy ...
Article : 252 wordsA district pioneer, Mr. Peter M'Cann, died suddenly at his residence, Ceres, on Friday morning. Deceased, who was 80 years of age, was born at Parramatta, New ...
Article : 452 wordsAt the meeting of the Hawthorn Council on Wednesdat night, Councillor Riddell brought up a report of a special committee on electric lighting, recommending that the ...
Article : 554 wordsSir,—The officials of the Carriers' Association seek to draw a red herring across the trail in their defence of the extraordinary action of the Railway Commissioners ...
Article : 222 wordsAt the St. Kilda Court yesterday, before Messrs. Stedeford (chairman), Morrah, and O'Donnell, J.P.'s, a young man, named George Dugard, was charged with having furiously driven a motor-car. ...
Article : 321 wordsSit,—Will you kindly allow me a little of your valuable space to make an appeal to the mothers of this state for any infants' clothing that they may have, and for which ...
Article : 159 wordsTHORPDALE, Friday.—A fire occurred at midnight on Wednesday, in the residence of Mr. John Howard, of Thorpdale South. The building was a wooden one, and when the fire was discovered ...
Article : 173 wordsMURCHISON (June 17).—With a splendid steady, soaking rain of 199 points last week, mild weather, and the absence of frosts since the grass is coming on nicely. Sheep are able to get a picking, ...
Article : 80 wordsIn response to a petition presented to him, the mayor has convened a public meeting to discuss the continued non-equipment of the local battery, Australian Field ...
Article : 130 wordsCecilia Fell, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Queen-street, and Helen Gregory, licensee of the Duke of Kent Hotel, Latrobe-street, were each fined £5 at the District Court on Thursday for having had ...
Article : 47 wordsThe people's Cough Remedy; always cures. But be sure you get "BONNINGTON'S," as imitations are [?]less and waste precious time and money.— [Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 20 Jun 1908, Page 16
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