The bidding at the wool sales to-day was spirited, but prices remained unchanged. The following prices were realised for the fleece portion of the clip named:—Mardie, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—In addition to his frequent conferences at the War Office with the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Haldane; General Sir William Nicholson, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 618 wordsCommenting on the statement of the Adelaide telegraph operatives published in "The Argus" on Saturday, the secretary, to the Central Postal Administration (Mr. ...
Article : 307 wordsSDNEY, Sunday. — At Clifton-gardens yesterday a gathering of the Orange body was held to welcome the Rev. Dill Mucky. Interest was centred in the appearance of ...
Article : 316 wordsElizabeth Freer, aged 70 aged 70 years, a nurse, was arrested on Saturday by Sergeant Britt and Plain-clothes Constable Montague on a charge of having committed an illegal ...
Article : 380 wordsIn connection with the A.N.A. Exhibition and fete, to open on Monday next, special efforts are being made to cater for the comfort and amusement of families. In the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Messrs. John Sanderson and Co., from their London firm, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray, and Co., ...
Article : 69 wordsThe principles laid down in the proposed "Orange" political platform are— 1. So far, and just so far, as Continental socialism denies religion and works for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsA fire occurred at Ryan's refrigerating works, Hyden's Hill, on Saturday night, and before it was extinguished £300 damage was done. The place was insured for ...
Article : 170 wordsBROKEN HILL, Sunday.—The Water League is reviving the agitation for a Government water supply, preferably at the Umberumberka. The Stephens Creek ...
Article : 179 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The aged Chinese Lee Gooly Suey is again in trouble. Some time ago he walked from Deniliq[?]in (N.S.W.) to Bendigo, for the most part ...
Article : 334 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The city coroner (Mr. Stephen Murphy) conducted an inquiry yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of William John Parker, ...
Article : 347 wordsThe following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...
Article : 526 wordsDuring the past fortnight Geelong traders and farmers have sent very heavy consignments of chaff to the Sydney market, the rates offering there being in advance of ...
Article : 116 wordsALBURY Sunday.—Applications for the Walla Walla lands, resumed by Government for closer settlement, closed yesterday. The number of applicants did not come ...
Article : 245 wordsA finding of "accidentally burned to death" was recorded by the coroner (Dr. R.H. Cole), at the inquest held by him on Suturday morning in the case of Mrs. Annie ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 823 wordsA lodger it the Metropolitan Hotel was reading in bed on Friday night, and fell asleep without extinguishing the candle. The bed curtain ignited as wall as the ...
Article : 163 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday. — The trouble at Huntly between the Tuufiri Coal Company and its employees remains unsettled. A conference between the Minister for Mines ...
Article : 67 wordsOn the night of January 21, George Sydney Owers, aged 58 years, salesman, residing it Preston with his wife and family, was run over and killed at the West ...
Article : 213 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — When the steamer Wotan arrived at Port Pirie from Western Australia a fortnight age there was a fire in her bunker coal. After the ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The official trial trip of the Commonwealth Fisheries Investigation vessel, the Endeavour, took place yesterday afternoon. Mr. Tudor ...
Article : 364 wordsThe death occurred on Friday of Mrs. John M'Grath, of Purnim, as the result of injuries sustained in a buggy accident recently, when the horse bloted, and she was ...
Article : 151 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday. — It is understood that the industrial trouble at Blayney (N.S.W.) has occurred at the Last Chance mine, which is a Bendigo company. The ...
Article : 51 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The agreement between the railway employees and the Railway Commissioner was signed yesterday. It embraces the terms arrived at by the ...
Article : 54 wordsSIDNEY, Sunday.—A disagreement has arisen at the timber yard of H. M'Kenzie Limited, between the management and the casual labourers. Eighty of the casual ...
Article : 69 wordsConstable Ralston, who was found near the railway line, between Sunbury and Digger's Rest, on Thursday, died early on Saturday morning, at the police depot ...
Article : 77 wordsThe question of taking steps to have an agricultural high school established here is engaging the attention of the borough council and progress association. Definite action ...
Article : 110 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday. — Mr. Morris Fox, the Government life insurance actuary, represents New Zealand at the international conference of actuaries in in Vienna ...
Article : 123 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Between 20 and 30 men employed on the Pingarrah-Marradong railway line, taken from the Government Labour Bureau, are on strike. They ...
Article : 43 wordsJames Dott, a packer, aged 56, residing with his wife at 76 Dryburgh-street, West Melbourne, was admitted yesterday morning to the Melbourne Hospital suffering ...
Article : 79 wordsPORTARLINGON, Sunday.—the published return of the sales in the Melbourne Corporation Fish Market during 1908 proved of more than ordinary interest to fishermen. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe following private advices have been recevied:— By Dalgety and Co., Lted. dated 22nd inst.:— "Frozen meat.—Beef.—The market is weak, but ...
Article : 141 wordsTOORA, Saturday.—A largely-attended meeting of ratepayers was held on Friday to protest against the action of the shire council in levying a special rate of 1/ in ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A squally west and southwesterly blow which swept the harbour yesterday afternoon played havoc with the boats which took part in the interstate dinghy contest. In the ...
Article : 182 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Mr. Robert Woodrow, a well-known resident of Crow's Nest, met with a tragic death on Saturday last. Accompanied by his wife, he was driving ...
Article : 81 wordsPERTH, Sunday. — Between midnight and 1 o'clock this morning a shooting affair occurred at the house of a family named Edwards, in Norfolk-street, Fremantle. ...
Article : 222 wordsA showery afternoon enhanced the attraction of the billiard match at Alcock's rooms, Elizabethstreet, in the first session on Saturday. The second sessioin was well attended, as a matter of ...
Article : 593 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Sunday. — The dead body of Mrs.Henderson, the old lady, who had been missing from her home in Derbyroad since January 6, was found in an ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—While the German steamer Prinz Waldemar was at Simpson's Hafen, New Britain, a thorough search was made for stowaways, and seven ...
Article : 59 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Telegrams from Onslow concerning the cyclone there state that the lighter Flat and the cutter May are high and dry in the mangrove. The local ...
Article : 226 wordsTALBOT, Sunday.—A fire was discovered at the ironmongery and grocery establishment of Mr.G. Robinson, in the Crescent, about half-past 6 o'clock on Saturday ...
Article : 138 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—A trial of three test races to decide which boats shall meet the Australian on Saturday next for the 18-footer championship of Australasa, was sailed on the Swan yesterday. ...
Article : 81 wordsWhen, on the arrivl of the s.s. Loongana from Launceston, on Friday morning Latimer Thomas, a licensed carrier, was putting a passenger's portmantcan into a cab, not into his own cart, he was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsA constipated condition of the bowers is the commonest cause of ill-health. If the waste matter, which the bowels should regularly remove is retained for an unusual ...
Article : 222 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—The yields of the Longerenong Agricultural College experimental plots were:—Federation, 24.2 bushels per acre; Dart's Imperial, 23.10 ...
Article : 1,623 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—At the railway wharf, Rockhampton, yesterday, Charles Riley, chief engineer of the s.s. Queensland, was crushed between the buffers of two ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsHORSHAM, Saturday.—For some time past the wheat traffic from the south has been so great that fears were entertained for the security of the bridge over the ...
Article : 197 wordsIn referring yesterday evening, in the course of his sermon a St. Paul's Cathedral, to the eighteenth anniversary of the dedication of the building, Archbishop ...
Article : 199 wordsKATAMATITE, Sunday.—A wooden building occupied by Mr. J. Wilkinson was destroyed by fire yesterday. A strong wind was blowing but the fire was not allowed to spread. ...
Article : 224 wordsThe proposal to beautify the River Yarra between Melbourne and Templestowe, and to form a national park, will be discussed at a meeting of the residents of the ...
Article : 86 wordsIt was announced on Saturday night that Wei[?] who is returning from England, in to play F. Lindrum in Western Australia in March. The two will subsequently be matched against each other ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 25 Jan 1909, Page 8
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