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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsYesterday morning a lad named Alphonsus Asker, 14 years of age, residing in Melrose-street, Hotham Hill, while bird-nesting in the Royal-park, fell from a tree 20ft. ...
Article : 56 wordsMelbourne Cup Day bookings at Prince's-bridge on Tuesday totalled 9,412, representing a revenue of £855/4/3, as against 9,331, representing £790/0/11, on Cup Day, 1908. ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—If the profits from poker-machines are anything approaching what the police say they are, it is not surprising that occasionally ...
Article : 792 wordsThe annual dinner of the Loval Orange Institution was held in the Masonic-hall yesterday evening. Brother J. E. Andrews (District Grand Master) presided, and the ...
Article : 1,652 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Premier (Mr. Wade) made a number of amendments pro forma in the Defamation Bill, the ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. R. A. Brown, of Ballarat, is the successful tenderer for the erection of the Exchange Hotel, a two stoned building, at Horsham. The contract price is £3,000. ...
Article : 649 wordsThe bustle and crowding and excitement of Cup Day being over, lovers of racing will be able to enjoy their sport with more comfort to-day, when the V.R.C. Spring ...
Article : 272 wordsThe South Wharf police dragged the river yesterday without finding the body of the man who was reported in yesterday's issue of "The Argus" to have tried to swim ...
Article : 87 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Parliament was officially opened at noon to-day. The Governor's Speech referred only to the financial agreement, and expressed the ...
Article : 300 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Railways (Mr. A. A. Billson) intends moving that the question of connecting the Wyuna district by means of a ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, Clarence Rogers, about 17 years of age, employed at the blacksmith and wheelwright establishment of Mr. C. Ebeling, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 567 wordsThe Railway department has accepted the following tenders:—Erection of Moe station buildings, H. W. Sutcliffe, £1,392 16/3; supply of chemical fire-extinguishers, ...
Article : 72 wordsMOE, Wednesday.—Mr. Andrew Templeton, while transferring the goods from the narrow-gauge railway trucks to the broadgauge trucks, on Monday, mounted a truck ...
Article : 78 wordsF. M'Grath, the trainer of Prince Foote, stated yesterday that the colt took not the least harm from his run in the Cup, and was yesterday as fresh as a daisy. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsA deputation representing the residents of the Kiewa Valley and the neighbouring districts waited on the Minister for Railways (Mr. A. A. Billson) yesterday, and ...
Article : 293 wordsBEULAH, Tuesday.—Whilst endeavouring to secure a stallion which had broken away from him. Mr. H. Lear, of Rosebery, fell heavily on his shoulder, splintering the ...
Article : 31 wordsBRUTHEN, Wednesday.—Mr. Stracey, of Maffra, and Mr. Stevenson, of Trafalgar, were driving in a buggy drawn by a pair of horses down a steep hill about a mile ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 881 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Council the debate on the motion regarding the conservation of native forests and the provision being made for the ...
Article : 245 wordsCASTERTON, Wednesday.—To-day a pair of horses [?]ted with a conveyance, in which were Mr. [?]all, draper, and his wife and child. The buggy capsized in turning ...
Article : 73 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—While engaged painting the steps of the Hyderabad at Port Adelaide to-day, W. Black, an apprentice, lost his balance and fell off a ...
Article : 109 wordsInspector T. Leahy, of the tramways, who, in reprimanding three youths on Monday evening for breaches of the company's regulations, was roughly handled, has been ...
Article : 138 wordsA meeting of various country football associations and clubs was held at Young and Jackson's Hotel yesterday morning with the object of considering the cost of travelling by special trains ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsDAYLESFORD, Wednesday.—George H. Drew, enginedriver at the Daylesford Gold Mines claim, was, early this morning, accidentally killed by being struck on the ...
Article : 125 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—The proposals of the Government in relation to taxation for the ensuing year are set forth in a resolution which the Premier (Sir Elliot Lewis), ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsST. ARNAUD, Wednesday.—A public meeting was held at Marnoo on Monday to draw the attention of the district Parliamentary represen tatives to the present unsatisfactory state of the train ...
Article : 59 wordsBROKEN" HILL, Wednesday.—The City Council last night decided not to endorse the proposal of the Chamber of Commerce to send delegates from the chamber to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsThe Women's Protectionist Association on Wednesday night carried a resolution urging the Federal Government to pass legislation giving effect to the new ...
Article : 305 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Senator M'Coll had a long interview with the Minister of Agriculture on fodder planting in arid districts. He asked to be supplied with ...
Article : 78 wordsThe case against John Ryan and Frederick Howes, who were charged with shop-breaking and receiving, was concluded. The charge arose in conncetion with a robbery at the shop of Messrs. Davis ...
Article : 594 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—Mr. H. P. Baly, Crown lands agent at Wagga for many years, who has been in the service for 40 years, has retired.—William Williams, a ...
Article : 106 wordsThe work at Flemington yesterday morning was of very little interest the majority of the horses that ran on Tuesday being given a day off. At Caulfield, Lord ...
Article : 134 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The Rev. Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander, after a successful series of meetings on the goldfields, opened their Perth mission last night at His ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—Haymaking has commenced this week throughout the district Owing to the unprecedented season, record yields of both hay and grain are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 wordsMr. Harrie C. Dod, eldest son of Mr. H. C. Dod, postmaster, of Castlemaine, who is completing the final year of his course in mining engineering at the University of ...
Article : 71 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—The hearing of the appeal by the Australian Mortgage and Investment Company, owners of Brookong Estate, against the price fixed for an area ...
Article : 468 wordsFour etchings by J. Pennell—"Rouen Cathedral." "Skyscrapers," "Londonbridge," and "St. Martin's Bridge, Toledo" —which were recently exhibited in ...
Article : 517 wordsCouncillor O'Brien has been nominated by the shire council to represent the Western district group of municipalities on the Board of Public Health. ...
Article : 262 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.—In a recent case Mr. Stringer, K.C., Crown prosecutor in Christchurch, was awarded £2,000 damages against John Norton, the ...
Article : 144 wordsRecently the Kew Council wrote to the Hawthorn Council seeking information as to the proportionate cost of main drain construction. In connection therewith the following apportionment ...
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Advertising : 382 wordsMalt King was yesterday able to put his injured foot to the ground for the first time for some days. He will probably be sent back to Sydney next week, the journey ...
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Advertising : 315 wordsAt the Victorian Club and Bowes's Tattersall's Club yesterday, settling over the Melbourne Cup and other races run on Tuesday passed off satisfactorily. The bookmakers ...
Article : 160 wordsIn speaking on the question of the abatement of the dust nuisance last night at the Hawthorn Council, Councillor M'Donald said that recently he had visited Adelaide, ...
Article : 179 wordsCASTERTON, Wednesday.—The County Court was continued to-day, before acting Judge Neighbour. In the case of O'Rourke v. M'Donnell, a claim for £33 for alleged ...
Article : 121 wordsIn connection with the Williamstown Cup meeting on Friday, Mr. H. P. Sutton, the secretary, wishes it mentioned that members, with two ladies, are entitled to ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the various sporting resorts yesterday, the Cup race and its incidents provided food for animated conversation. There were no two opinions in regard to the ...
Article : 451 wordsAt the meeting of the Coburgf Council on Wednesday evening a letter was received from Messrs. Hodgson and Finlayson, solicitors to Mr. W. H. Junker, the new proprietor of the Coburg trams, ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A shocking fatality took place at the Commonwealth Cement Works, at Portland, to,day. A fitter named Francis Bierbaum, a German, ...
Article : 80 wordsCASTERTON, Wednesday.—Archdeacon Peacock was giving a lantern lecture in Christ Church Hall last night when an explosion occurred in the lantern, and the hall ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 4 Nov 1909, Page 8
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