A half-holiday for State school children in the city has been arranged for Friday next. The mayor (Councillor W. D. Hill) purposes' giving the children a ...
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Advertising : 6,734 wordsNeil Francis M'Namara, 26 years of age, came early yesterday morning to his brother's bedside at his parents' house, in Mary-street, Richmond. His brother, ...
Article : 95 wordsOn Thursday afternoon Emily Burton, 11 years of age, was lighting the fire at her parents' residence, Reid-street, Northcote, when her clothes caught fire. She ran ...
Article : 91 wordsThe hearing was continued before the industrial registrar (Mr. A. M. Stewart) yesterday of the application to register the Australian Choristers' Association as an ...
Article : 188 wordsIn Holland at least the people are true to their national costumes, both men's and women's. In the larger towns, like Rotterdam and Amsterdam, it is true that most ...
Article : 2,229 wordsAn endeavour is being made to amalgamate the wharf-workers' unions. These comprise the Port Phillip Stevedores' Association, the Wharf Labourers' Union, ...
Article : 647 wordsAnnie Bennetto, a young married woman, had a narrow escape from death last night in Swanston-street, near the Town-hall. She had gone across to speak to a friend on ...
Article : 93 wordsBernhardt Hansen reeled out of a carriage of the Coburg 2.16 train yesterday afternoon, and collapsed on the platform at Moreland railway station. His throat was horribly ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Electric Supply Company informed the city council on Friday that the whole of the additional lamps had been erected. From July 7 to July 31, 18 lamps were ...
Article : 409 wordsA case under the amended Factories Act came before the Caulfield Court yesterday. Messrs. Lloyd, Long, M'Gann, Seagrave, and German adjudicated, and Mr. Freeman ...
Article : 101 wordsSALE, Friday.—On Wednesday a little girl named Morris, daughter of an officer in the post-office, was severely burnt through her nightdress becoming ignited. She was ...
Article : 38 wordsThe National Parks "Association has sent a circular letter to the members of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council pointing out that the association has ...
Article : 561 wordsSALE, Friday.—William James Guy, a miner, aged 45 years, living at Talbotvale, in the mountains, near Grant, was admitted to the Gippsland Hospital to-day, suffering ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the meeting of the Imperal Federation League held in the Town-hall yesterday afternoon a motion was agreed to that the Premier (Mr. Murray) be requested to ...
Article : 285 wordsThe recent award of the electro-platers wages board, which was summarised in "The Argus" on July 6, has been amended. Its provisions relating to the employment of ...
Article : 57 wordsBROKEN HILL, Friday.—The inquest on the body of Emily F. Martin was resumed to-day, and further adjourned until Tuesday. Two women swore to having seen a ...
Article : 61 wordsLOCKHART, Friday.—The navvies on the railway construction works here have struck for a minimum wage of 9/ per day. Contractors are paying 8/, which is the ...
Article : 35 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Twenty girls, employed in the straw-hat making department of Messrs. Goode, Durrant, and Company's factory ceased work to-day, on account of ...
Article : 82 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—A deputation waited upon the city council on Friday requesting that the movement for an agricultural college, with the addition of an intense-culture ...
Article : 121 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The annual conference of the Certificated Enginedrivers' Association has passed a resolution that no Federal Navigation Act would be acceptable to the ...
Article : 71 wordsReference was made yesterday by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) to the negotiations proceeding with the New South Wales Premier (Mr. Wade) as ...
Article : 186 wordsThe complete results of the ballot for the appointment of honorary medical officers at the Geelong Hospital are:—Dr. M'Callum, 295 votes; Dr. Kennedy, 288 votes; Dr. ...
Article : 398 wordsOnce again the bar window of the Port Melbourne Bowling Club's house has been smashed, and 15/ in cash and 130 cigars were stolen. Twelve days ago thieves broke into ...
Article : 49 wordsA well-attended meeting of applicants for enrolment in the proposed Irish-Australian regiment was held in'the'Cathedral-hall, Brunswick-street, last night. The Rev. ...
Article : 310 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Glebe Island carcase butchers held a meeting to-day, and after discussing the situation, decided to make a liberal offer to the men on strike, ...
Article : 246 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—"Most of these things are sent out by the Imperial authorities," said Lord Dudley. "This is a personal gift of the King." The occasion was ...
Article : 226 words[?]Peculiar circumstances have arisen in connection with the case of Detective Manning, whose conviction by the Court of Petty Sessions was quashed on appeal. ...
Article : 91 wordsTenders are shortly to be called by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Baillieu) for the erection of the Mansfield Agricultural High School. It will be built on The ...
Article : 88 wordsThe exhibition of Mr. Walter Withers, pictures, in the new art gallery, at the Melbourne Athenaeum, opposite "The Argus" office, was opened yesterday by His ...
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Advertising : 681 wordsA new weed, Dipsacus ferox, which may be translated as the "fierce teazel," has appeared a few miles beyond Ballarat, and ...
Article : 87 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Owing to the intervention of the mayor (Councillor Cohen) and Mr. R. P. Blundell, M.L.A., the strike of 400 operators at Messrs. Simpson and ...
Article : 166 wordsSir,—May I be allowed a few brief Words in your crowded columns to call attention of those having control of the Fitzroy-gardens to the continued existence ...
Article : 246 wordsPERTH, Friday.—While at the Railway Hotel during the week, Boarding-inspector Smith, of the Customs department, detected a likeness between the cook at ...
Article : 84 wordsPERTH, Friday. — The trial of the accountant John Wrixon Black, who is charged with having stolen three sums of £30 each, the property of his former employers, ...
Article : 134 wordsArrangements have been made for a visit of the Victorian Police Band to Castlemaine on October 5, when a series of entertainments will be given in aid of the ...
Article : 39 wordsC0LAC, Aug. 11.—For the month of July the Colac Dairying Company received 396,312 gallons of milk, for which £180/3/11 was paid, together with £5,568/1/9 for cream, making a total for the ...
Article : 836 wordsA boy of 12, named Percy James Manning, pleaded guilty at the recent sittings of the General Sessions to five separate charges of housebreaking. He came up for ...
Article : 245 wordsTALLANGATTA, Friday. — On June 8 Michael Webster, a drover on the information of William Henry Gadd, grazier, of Burrowye, was fined £5, with £3/2/ costs, ...
Article : 273 wordsSir,—At the quarterly meeting of the Association of Proprietors of Private Secondary Schools, held on Friday, 12th inst., a discussion took place upon the Education ...
Article : 531 wordsPERTH, Friday. — The Perth, tramway men, who have now been on strike for three weeks, to-day decided to return to work immediately if the company would ...
Article : 75 wordsAn inspection of the site at Cheltenham for the new consumption hospital was made yesterday by the chairman of the Board of Health (Dr. Burnett Ham) and the chief ...
Article : 144 wordsBUNYIP, Aug. 12.—The oat and other crops at North Bunyip are very backward, owing to the dry season. being only a few Indies above the ground. They will be a total failure unless heavy ...
Article : 551 wordsThree weeks ago a man, for whom Mr. W. R. Vale appeared, applied at the Collingwood Court for a Hense to collect marine stores. As it was stated that the applicant had been convicted 14 ...
Article : 223 wordsWilliam Alfred Lawrence (aged 48), of Rathdown-street, Carlton, wool-classer, [?] for a dissolution of his marriage with Mary Eva Lawrence (44), of sthe Beaconstield Hotel, St. Kilda, on ...
Article : 427 wordsThe report submitted at the thirty third annual meeting of the Foundling Hospital and Infants' Home at East Melbourne yesterday showed that the number of children cared for by the institution ...
Article : 351 wordsST. ARNAUD, Friday.—At the meeting of the Agricultural Society yesterday the question of appointing judges for the farm competitions was considered. Dr. Cherry ...
Article : 50 wordsPERTH, Friday.—On the arrival of the s.s. Paroo at Derby the Customs officers starched the steamer and secured 85oz. of opium, valued at £50, which was traced ...
Article : 95 wordsKILMORE, Friday.—At a meeting of the Kilmore Shire Council it was agreed to asphalt a footpath in Bourke-street, which is a bye-street. Strong exception was taken ...
Article : 762 wordsSALE, Friday.—The president of the Sale Golf Club (Mr. W. Pearson, M.L.A.), was yesterday presented by the members with a gold Yale key. in recognition of his ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 13 Aug 1910, Page 14
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