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Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 wordsThe offer by the Melbourne Bicycle Club of a prize of £100 for the best flight of a model aeroplane at the forthcoming Austral Meeting has excited a keen spirit of ...
Article : 151 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The sun shone brightly when the match between South Australia and Victoria was resumed on the Adelaide Oval to-day. ...
Article : 574 wordsAuthority has been given by the Postmaster-General (Sir John Quick) to call tenders for the supply of 215 telegraph-poles at Bendigo, the estimated cost being £393 ...
Article : 266 wordsFor a considerable time past the military authorities of the Commonwealth have had under consideration various proposals for attaching, in one fashion or another, dental ...
Article : 306 wordsA question on the pay of seventh-class teachers put by Mr. M'Lachlan in the Legislative Assembly yesterday gave Mr. A. A. Billson an opportunity to read an answer ...
Article : 322 wordsYesterday morning a deputation representing the social questions committee of the Anglican Synod, was introduced to the prime Minister (Mr. DEAKIN) by the ...
Article : 728 wordsMr. George H. M'Conachy, a well-known land salesman carrying on business at "The Olderfleet," Collins-street, shot himself yesterday afternoon in his office. A clerk ...
Article : 227 wordsA strike on a small scale, which took place at Bowden's leather-dressing works, Murphystreet, Richmonnd, on Saturday, was spcedily, settled by other men taking the strikers' ...
Article : 89 wordsA general meeting of the Groccrs, Tea, and Dairy Produce Employees' Union was held yesterday evening, Mr. Johnson (president) in the chair. Correspondence was ...
Article : 65 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday. — William Alford, a well-known resident and the owner of boats on the Goulburn River, was proceeded against under the Invalid and ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Water Supply Commission has, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, accepted the tender of Murphy Bros., of Korop, for the construction of the ...
Article : 78 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—In the Court of Petty Sessions to-day, A. E. Watson, head master of the Agricultural High School, proceeded against H. W. Kirk, a ...
Article : 238 wordsThe body of a man was yesterday found floating in the Yarra near Prince's-bridge by Constable M'Pherson. It was removed to the Morgue, and was subsequently ...
Article : 59 wordsAdvices have been received from Sydney which show that the arrangements for the visit of Mr. Will Crooks to Victoria have been altered. Mr. Crooks will not arrive ...
Article : 82 wordsROMSEY, Monday,—At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Ramsey Shire Council the president (Councillor Dowling) stated that a most unsatisfactory arrangement was caused at the local ...
Article : 198 wordsWALHALLA, Tuesday.—The lad James Boyd, who was bitten by a tiger snake at Upper Moondarn, died in the hospital this afternoon. It appears that deceased, who ...
Article : 65 wordsA frank expression of American opinion on Australian legislation, as printed in the "New York Tribune" of September 25, has been brought under the notice of the Prime ...
Article : 216 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — The High Court was again occupied all day to-day hearing the appeal case in which the Incorporated Law Institute applied for a reversal of the ...
Article : 135 wordsThere appears to be some fear among landholders in the Wimmera district, who are at present afforded a fairly good supply of water by the commission, that they will ...
Article : 240 wordsWANDIN, Tuesday.—A young man named William Hooten, employed carting charcoal to the railway station, was knocked down while trving to put the brake ...
Article : 45 wordsWANGARATTA, Tuesday.—Ernest W. Hulme, son of Mr. W. C. Hulme, storekeeper of Moyhu, was accidentally drowned yesterday, near his parents' residence, while ...
Article : 51 wordsThe secretary of Railways wrote to the Port Melbourne Council on Tuesday evening, notifying that the commissioners had decided that on and after December 1 the train leaving port Melbourne at ...
Article : 68 wordsBRISEBANE, Tuesday.—The Home Secretary, referring to a paragraph in the police report, said a scheme was under consideration by which the State would be divided ...
Article : 149 wordsHOBART, Tuesday. — A conference of fruitgrowers and shippers was held to-day in Hobart. It was stated that space for 430,000 cases had been engaged, but the ...
Article : 361 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The street-sweepers went on strike to-day, because two lads about 12 years of age had been engaged. The strikers argued that no boys under 16 ...
Article : 32 wordsHAY, Tuesday.—A serious accident happened to-day to John Kirkwood, son of Mr. John Kirkwood, mail contractor. Young Kirkwood went to a paddock to ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,—It my misfortune on king's Birthday (Monday, November 15) to take a second-classs return ticket to Sunbury in a boudoir car. I left Melbourne by the 6.15 a.m. train; had to stand ...
Article : 185 wordsSitting in the criminal jurisdiction of the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Cussen dealt with a remarkable bigamy case. A young woman named Olive Lister Cooper, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsThe only excuse for singing a ballad at all, says Madame Melba, is to sing it perfectly; and assuredly the only excuse for performing opera in camera—and especially opera ...
Article : 425 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The coroner held an inquiry at Coolamon to-day into the circumstances attending the death of Charles Sellens alias Herbert Graham, a labourer, ...
Article : 109 wordsWhen the recommendation of the officers' and servants committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works to call for applications for the position of bookkeeper on the ...
Article : 254 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The R.M.S. Macedonia, which sailed from Fremantle yesterday for London, took away gold comprising 22 boxes, containing 110,000 sovereigns, and ...
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Advertising : 263 wordsWEDDERBURN, Tuesday.—Frank Kelly, son of Mr. Martin Kelly, farmer, of Gowar, was thrown from a horse on Sunday. He walked four miles to the house ...
Article : 61 wordsSTAWELL, Tuesday.—A youth named Victor Swalwell, 17 years, fell out of a swing-boat attached to a merry-go-round on Monday evening. He landed on his ...
Article : 61 wordsBy direction of the Ministry, Mr. J. H. Owen, an officer or the Parliamentary staff, will shortly proceed to Sydney, in older to study the work of the New South Wales ...
Article : 149 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—John Lewis, wharf labourer, aged about 35 years, was working on the steamer Courier on Tuesday, slinging wool into the hold. He was ...
Article : 92 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday. — The District Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Victoria, E. C., held its quarterly communication at Ballarat yesterday evening, and ...
Article : 377 wordsThe determination of the Ice Trade Wages Board, which came into force on November 1, fixed the following minimum rates of pay:—Chamber hands, 1/3 per ...
Article : 150 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday.—There is an evident determination on the part of the Government to carry out the whole policy disclosed in the Budget. A caucus of the ...
Article : 214 wordsA sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court was held yesterday, when Judge Moule presided, and Mr. Dwver, P.M., and Mr. Cresswell, P. M., were present. The following transfers were granted: ...
Article : 175 wordsAt Her Majesty's Theatre this evening "The Merry Midow" enters upon the last three nights of its revival. "The Lady Dandies" will be staged for the first time in Melbourne nest Saturday ...
Article : 624 wordsA return which has been prepared for the information of the Minister for Customs (Sir Robert Best) shows particulars of the opium seized by the department during the ...
Article : 124 wordsA conference of Victorian branches of the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Union has just concluded sittings extending over several days at the Trades-hall. The business ...
Article : 131 wordsPORT FAIRY, Tuesday.—The members of the Licenses Reduction Board (Messrs. Andrews, Barr, and Cumming) dealt to-day with the cases of the Victoria Hotel, Port Fairy, Margaret Bermingham ...
Article : 90 wordsCOLAC, Tuesday.—Two Chinese who were arrested were to-day fined £10 each for smoking opium and for having the drug in their possession. Two others were ...
Article : 40 wordsA six-roomed cottage at Greensborough, occupied by Mr. J. Bosch, was burned on Monday Mr. Bosch's housekeeper, who was prepaung dinner, heard a peculiar ...
Article : 132 wordsSir,—In an article by Mr. Donald Macdonald on Satuiday relating to the lost explorer Gellibrand he states that it is doubtful if the remains of Gellibrand were ever ...
Article : 262 wordsA meeting of the Shop Assistants Federation was held last night, Mr. P. J. Loughnan presiding for the Purpose of discussing the bill to amend the Factories and Shops ...
Article : 135 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Early this morning thieves entered the railway stations at Alberton, Woodville, and Kilkenny, and used dynamite at each place in an effort to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 255 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—The two yachts, Spirit and Erminic, which on Monday scored equal points in the annual races for the Shoppee Cup, to-day had a race of 12 miles, to decide the ownership ...
Article : 167 wordsDOOKIE, Tuesday.—A destructive fire last night destroyed the drapery and boot shop occupied by Mr. R. B. Bradley, together with almost the whole of the stock. It is believed the fire was ...
Article : 192 wordsIn September last a report of political meeting held on a Sunday at the Working Men's Club, Johnston-street, Collingwood, was Published in one of the daily na[?]ers ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 17 Nov 1909, Page 11
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