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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsAn infant, 17 months old, named William Smith, was so severely sealded by falling into a copper filled with boiling water at his parents' residence, Albert-street, Footscray, ...
Article : 179 wordsAn elderly man, who gave the name of Arthur Coleridge, appeared in the Town Court on Saturday to answer to a charge of having been drunk and disorderly. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 277 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Australian Investment Company, the chairman of directors (Mr. G. T. Rait) said that drought in Riverina had entailed a ...
Article : 65 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—Crops in the Wimmera are well forward, and it is possible to gauge with fair accuracy what the harvest will be. Not since 1903 has the ...
Article : 467 wordsFigures relating to the pig-breeding industry show that the number of pigs is steadily declining, not only in Victoria, but in all the Australian states and in New ...
Article : 1,267 wordsThe Otway, the second of the now 12,000ton steamers which are being built to the order of the Orient Steam Navigation Company for the Australian mail service, was ...
Article : 61 wordsYesterday afternoon a maid-servant named Elsie Smith, about 16 years of age, employed by Captain Masters, Gibson-road, Sandringham, went into a paddock at the rear of ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following prices represent the lowest and highest range of values on the Stock Exchange yesterday, and from them the middle prices may be computed: ...
Article : 112 wordsWalter Knight, 79 years of age, a resident of Ballarat, came to Melbourne a few days ago with a horse and waggon to dispose of hams and bacon, in which he was a dealer. ...
Article : 86 wordsBALLARAT, Saturday.—This afternoon over an inch of rain fell in half an hour, and it is considered that quite half of that quantity came down in 10 minutes. The ...
Article : 538 wordsA well-known character named Alfred Richardson was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by the City Bench on Saturday on a charge of vagrancy. ...
Article : 331 wordsJan Kohlman, a music-hall comedian, was leading a horse along Lord-street, Richmond, when it tossed its head and struck Mr. Kohlman's knee. He was taken by ...
Article : 61 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 : 551 wordsOwing to the fact that there was rain on Saturday morning and that the chance of fine weather later on did not appear favourable, it was decided to postpone to ...
Article : 1,010 wordsGeorge Baker, 44 years of age, 211 Roden-street, West Melbourne, while working in the hold of the Wodonga, fell over a case and broke his leg. He was admitted for ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—During a thunderstorm at Braidwood yesterday afternoon John Allen, a well-known resident of the district, was struck dead by lightning while ...
Article : 28 wordsWELLINGTON, Saturday. — Thoma[?] Wallace, who is supposed to have relations in Newcastle (N.S.W.), was found dead in the harbour this morning. ...
Article : 29 wordsBRISBANE, Saturday.—The Gayndah murder case was continued to-day. Evidence was given by Mrs. Bucholz as to hearing someone come in the bank by the ...
Article : 187 wordsPYRAMID HILL, Saturday.—A little girl, named Hill, of Macorna, 4½ years old, fell out of a train through the carriage door swinging open near Raywood. ...
Article : 77 wordsOn Saturday Plainclothes- Constable Gleeson arrested a man named Thomas Musgrove, who was wanted for the theft of a bicycle, valued at £15, from Victor ...
Article : 157 wordsWANGARATTA, Saturday.—A remarkable combination of circumstance's contributed to a fatal accident to a boy named Sydney Gale, aged 11 years, son of Walter ...
Article : 187 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday. — A thunderstorm passed over the city on Sunday, after midday, and in about an hour and a half 149 Points were registered. Beyond the ...
Article : 73 wordsConstable Lockhart, who has been stationed at Guildford for five years, has been promoted to the rank of senior-constable, and transferred to St. Kilda. Prior to his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) was asked to-day what he thought of the movement which has been revived in New Caledonia for ...
Article : 178 wordsST. ARNAUD, Saturday.—During the recent duststorm Mr. W. E. Trollope, of Swanwater West, had the roof blown off his kitchen and verandah. It was carried in pieces a quarter of a mile away. ...
Article : 75 wordsARARAT, Friday.—A buggy, in which Mr. and Mrs. James Owen, of Jackson's Creek, were driving, was overturned yesterday, on the Port Fairy road. Both ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — A large portion of New South Wales experienced rain on Friday. It was general, and fairly heavy in the northern half, with the exception ...
Article : 407 wordsNARANDERA, Sunday.—The foundation-stone of St. Mel's Roman Catholic Church was laid and blessed to-day by Bishop Gullagher, of Goulburn, There ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following private advices have been received:- By Dalgety and Company Limited:—"Basils, light—The market is unchanged. Leather—The ...
Article : 58 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Friday.—A sensational incident occurred at Turpin Falls, at East Metcalfe, on the occasion of the Presbyterian Sunday-school picnic there on ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Department of Agriculture has recently been urged to recommend the introduction of legislation for the prevention of fraud in the packing of fruit for sale. The ...
Article : 216 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—At a representative temperance meeting in the Albert-hall, on Saturday evening to welcome home from abroad four prominent members of the ...
Article : 382 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The Bobadil mare Boastful changed hands of Saturday, when E. Simms sold her to W. L. Watkins for 350 guineas, and 50 guineas out of her ...
Article : 227 wordsIt is anticipated that the net piofits of the carnival in aid of the local hospital will amount to £500. Fine hauls of breem are being taken in ...
Article : 109 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — Simon Harold Kaye, aged 18 years, essayed to put a belt on a set of shafting on Saturday morning, when his arm got caught in the revolving ...
Article : 54 wordsKALGOORLIE, Sunday. — A shocking burning fatality happened at Kalgoorlie yesterday morning, when the son of Mr. R. G. C. Shaw, of Kalgoorlie, the town treasurer, ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Lands department has agreed to the reservation of certain lands fronting Lake Linlithgow, which the progress association purpose planting with trees, and making a ...
Article : 168 wordsSADNEY, Sunday. —The island steamer Malaita brought news that the punitive expedition from H.M.S. Prometheus, which landed at Santo to investigate the massacre ...
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Advertising : 251 wordsALBURY, Sunday. — The heaviest rainstorm known here for years occurred at about half-past 5 p.m. yesterday. The rain poured in torrents, 104 points being ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The ketch Wheatsheaf, which arrived at Byron Bay from the Islands yesterday, had on board the body of a seaman named Mason, who, it ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Premier (Sir Thomas Bent) has received from Miss Vida Goldstein, president of the Women's Political Association of Victoria, a copy of the following ...
Article : 207 wordsKALGOORLIE, Sunday—The cages are now running to 1,550ft in the KALGOORLIE, and driving on the lode has been resumed at that point. The west crosscut at 1,450ft. is now out 70ft., while ...
Article : 229 wordsLISMORE, Friday.—Dalgety and Co. Ltd. offered for sale here to-day about 33,000 sheep, and sold over 32,000 at prices in advance of any "off shears" sale held ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,050 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.— The Scottish fishermen will begin operations this week in South Australian waters. Although their settlement of Kangaroo Island will not ...
Article : 122 wordsThe absence from his home at 216 Rouse-street, Port Melbourne, of a young man named Hebert Bish is causing his friends a good deal of anxiety. The missing man ...
Article : 162 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. —Arthur Nash establisbed a reputation for himself as a hard hitter at Carcoar. He fought four different men one after the other, and knocked them ...
Article : 158 wordsMessrs. Young Bros. report the following sales of land effected during last week, amounting to 2,001 acrss, for the sum of £10,314. Account Charles Farmers, Nhill, 950 acres, at £5/17/6 per ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsWELLINGTON. Sunday.—Armstrong, a gaoler in the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, was stabbed in the neck with a chisel by a convict named Norman. Armstrong is in a ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 23 Nov 1908, Page 8
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