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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsForecast by the acting Commonwealth meteorolegist (Mr. Grif[?]iths), 9 p.m. Friday:— Still generally fine and warm to hot throughout, with E. to N. winds, but ...
Article : 890 wordsHOBART, Friday. — Arrangements for the shipment of apples to the United Kingdom and Germany have now been completed. The programme provides for only ...
Article : 443 wordsIt was decided by the water commissioners on Friday to restrict the use of water for gardening purposes to two days a week. The quantity now stored in the ...
Article : 266 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Friday. — The inquiry into the death of Dagmar Louisa Scott, the victim of the tragedy at Spring Gully on December 14, was resumed, before the ...
Article : 523 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Something like a freight war is being indulged in by the shipping lines diong trade with the Commonwealth, and there is keen competition for ...
Article : 174 wordsOppositiion by the Tobacco Workers' Union to the admission of delegates of the Cigaratte-makers' Union to the Trades-hall Council was considered at a meeting of the ...
Article : 786 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—An inquest concerning the death of May Hall, a trapeze artist, known professionally as St. Leon, formerly employed in Wirth's Circus, was held ...
Article : 84 wordsArrangements were made some time ago by the Closer Settlement Board to visit Eastern Gippsland next week for the purpose of selecting an area of about 40,000 ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — George Gray, playing in the four-banded billiard match, Smiths v. Grays, this afternoon carried his unfinished break of 430 (423 off red) of 545. Included in the break were 145 ...
Article : 59 wordsThe chemistry branch of the Agricultural department has been asked to send an officer to take samples of the water in the mains. ...
Article : 153 wordsSYNEY, Friday.—Joseph Godfrey and James Jones were before the Bathurst Police Court to-day, charged with having left an unextinguished fire in the open air. ...
Article : 94 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—In the fire which occurred at the residence of Mr. H. Baker, Sheepwash-road, £75 in bank notes were destroyed. During the previous week Mr. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Board has had a number of properties offered to it of late by private owners, and these are under consideration. Several have already been declined, on the ground ...
Article : 58 wordsThe South Barwon Shire Council on Friday struck a rate of 1/6 in the £1, which is an increase of 3d. on that of the previous year. ...
Article : 37 wordsWAGGA, Thursday.—Despite the adverse weather conditions, some phenomenal yields of wheat have been recorded around the Marrar closer settlement area this season, ...
Article : 133 wordsSince the Land Board sat to deal with applications for the Heart Estate, near Sale, the Closer Settlement Board has sold eight additional farming blocks on the ...
Article : 81 wordsKYNETON, Friday. — On Sunday, 3rd inst., Mary MacDonald, of Barfold aged 70, disappeared from her hut. She was reputed to be eccentric. On the morning of the ...
Article : 191 wordsAt the police court on Friday morning, before Mr. Goldsmith, P.M., T. N. Mewburn, tailor, ws charged under the Factories and Shops Act with not providing ...
Article : 98 wordsKYNETON (Jan. 7).—Messrs. W. H. Fyst and Co. report:—"Total yarding 152 cattle and 1,910 sheep. Competition for rat cattle brisk at decidedly advanced rates. Forward conditioned ...
Article : 358 wordsSerious cracks have appeared in the walls in various portions of the Thompson street Courthouse, Williamstown, during the last few weeks, and these have gradually become ...
Article : 786 wordsSir,—I sympathise with your several correspondents in the matter of ringing of church bells. But I would not advocate its abolition but its reform. The ...
Article : 203 wordsHAMILTON, Friday.—At the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. E. E. Williams P.M., a young man named Charles William Pike, of Glenthompson, farmer, ...
Article : 325 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The approximate estimate of the export of butter last year is: — Oversea, 9,200,6691b., valued at £403,407; interstate, value £595,482; total ...
Article : 383 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The inquest on the body of Leslie M'Dougall, jockey, who was killed through falling from a horse during the running of a race at the Perth course ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—Why this peaceful neighbourhood should suffer this infliction is beyond my comprehension. Just fancy this bell starting at 4 o'clock on New Year's morning, ...
Article : 263 wordsDANDENONG, Jan. 8.—Harvesting operations are now completed, and large, neatly-built stacks of sheaf hay are to be seen dotted all over the homesteads, from Ferntree Gully to the Heads, and ...
Article : 89 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Friday.—A well-known farmer at Sutton Grange named J. Howarth was shooting birds with a pea-rifle in his fruit garden on Friday morning, not ...
Article : 103 wordsSir,—If we want young Victorians to have a soul above a prize-fight, for heaven's sake let us try the Bible on them. The Bible is never on the side of selfishness. ...
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Advertising : 419 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Thursday.—At a meeting of the hospital committee yesterday the hon. secretary (Mr. J. C. Manifold) stated that the three local doctors had intimated ...
Article : 185 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The trouble concerning the mining industry, arising throngh the demand for a medical inspection to discover what miners are affected ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,—I never felt more thankful that I am a Jew, than I did when I read the letters of "Churchman" and "A.D." If their Christianity can be taken as a type, ...
Article : 370 wordsHuddart Parker, and Co. Propy. Limited notify that passengers leaving Queen's Wharf by the Excelsior at 2.30 p.m. to-day may return from Portarlington by the Courier. To-morrow the Courier ...
Article : 280 wordsPERTH, Friday. — The inquest on the body of J. B. Wright, the fireman who Was drowned when the launch Susan went down in Fremantle harbour, through ...
Article : 61 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The miners at Waihi threaten to come out on strike on Monday unless certain men who failed to pass the medical examination required by ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—Mr. J. G. Latham points that the majority of 16 in favour of a referendum on the religious instruction question in the last Parliament has been reduced to "a ...
Article : 154 wordsDONALD, Friday.—At the local police court, before Messrs. Greene, P.M., A. Hepworth, and T. W. Cantwell, J.P.'s, James Stephens was fined £2/12/, with ...
Article : 843 wordsGEELONG, Friday. — Mr. C. P. Lavender, of Candover-street, found the head of a newly-born child in the copper grate at his residence this morning. In the ...
Article : 178 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—To-night the Premier (Captain Evans) met the Government supporters representing the northern constituencies, and discussed with them the ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,—Mr. Nicholson asks me to "try and realise the standpoint of supporters of Scripture education." I have endeavoured to do as he wishes, and their final ...
Article : 352 wordsWANGARATTA. — A four-roomed cottage owned and occupied by Mr. Wm. Steel on the outskirts of the town was destroyed by fire on Friday. The whole of the contents were also consumed. Mrs. ...
Article : 94 wordsWe are answering a very important question to-day, viz., Do the people who say they have been cured by Doan's Backache Kidney Pills stay cured? A medicine which ...
Article : 409 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday. — At a representative gathering of sawmillers it was decided to close the mills down indefinitely. A hundred mills were represented, ...
Article : 187 wordsBALLARAT Friday.—The Trades and Labour Council has decided to ask the Ballarat East Council to increase the rate of wages for employees in connection with ...
Article : 61 wordsSir,—It is refreshing to read that some do not object to the pious signal of the church bells. Surely they remind us that worship is not a diversion for Sundays, but ...
Article : 146 wordsA young lady from Troy was nick-named "Grape-Nuts," but she has been so greatly benefited by this world-famed food that she did not object to the sobriquet given ...
Article : 261 wordsAt Box Hill on Friday a girl named Ellen Tyndale was charged by Detective Borsum with travelling on the railway between Tunstall and Box Hill on an expired ticket, on October 10. A ...
Article : 48 wordsSir, — "Churchman" and "A.D." have surely made a very weak defence for the continuance of ringing the bell at East St. Kilda. It seems strange to me that one ...
Article : 242 wordsW. Banford, a business man in Box Hill, was charged at the local court with trespassing on the railway at Box Hill station. Tired of waiting for the wicket-gates to open, he jumped over ...
Article : 157 wordsBROKEN HILL, Friday. — Notice was given to-day that the Water Supply Co. is reducing the price of water from 5/ to 4/2 per 2,000 gallons. The water ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company Limited, at No. 412 Collins-street, is applying for probate of the will of the late Henry Wicks, of NO. 17 Grandview-street, Moonce Ponds, formerly ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Jan 1909, Page 20
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