The weather has been, like the world, "too much with us" lately. One rises in disgust every morning to see the grey light at the window, to hear the beat of rain ...
Article : 765 wordsThe annual municipal ball will be given by the mayor and mayoress of Ballarat East (Mr. and Mrs. A. Levy) on Thursday night. Some 800 invitations to be present have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 wordsAn organising meeting of plumbers and gasfitters was held at the Trades-hall on Tuesday night. Mr. W. M. Cooper presided, and addresses were given by Messrs. ...
Article : 110 wordsRepresentatives of all the ladies' benevolent societies of the metropolitan district had a conference with the state Treasurer (Mr. Watt) yesterday regarding a proposal ...
Article : 365 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—Mr. Billson (Minister for Education) spent to-day inquiring into various matters affecting his department. He was accompanied by Mr. ...
Article : 545 wordsRepresentatives of the Nunawading Shire Council, introduced by Mr. Frank Madden, M.L.A., and Mr. Keast, M.L.A., yesterday asked the Acting Minister for Public Works ...
Article : 516 wordsSome good results, it is stated in a report submitted to the Commonwealth Parliament by Mr. John Cooke, are likely to follow from a "Refrigeration Congress" held ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 348 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. Murray) proposes to submit the following resolution when the state Parliament meets next session:— ...
Article : 128 wordsThe second trial of Arthur Wilkinson, the youth of 18, who was charged with having "held up" the clerk at Victoria-park station on April 14, was concluded in the ...
Article : 265 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Messrs. Bowman and M'Lachian, M.L.A.'s, interviewed the Minister of Railways this morning with the object of inducing the department to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 535 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—The combined unions' committee proposes that the present strike fund be replaced by a "lockout unemployed fund" after June 28, the ...
Article : 71 wordsKOROIT, Wednesday. — Yesterday Dr. Cherry (director of Agriculture) and Mr. Knight (inspector under the Vegetable Diseases Act), met the members of the ...
Article : 423 wordsA carriage attached to the waggon of a theatrical company was being drawn up in Mitchell-street when it became detached. Turning right round it ran over a ...
Article : 368 wordsST. ARNAUD, Wednesday.—The case of Richard Brown v. Nathan Bear, of Melbourne, which has created special interest, was called on again to-day, Bear being ...
Article : 228 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Robert Masey, who, on the night of the 16th inst., shot himself in Hyde-park after ...
Article : 311 wordsSHEPPARTON, Wednesday.—An action for breach of promise of marriage, in which —5,000 damages were claimed, was commenced to-day in the County Court, before ...
Article : 271 wordsAn important and extensive sale of art objects will take place to-morrow in the art gallery of Tuckett-chambers, Collins-street. The collection is the property of ...
Article : 1,050 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Howard Freeman, otherwise Rosenberg, applied to the registrar in bankruptcy to-day for a certificate of discharge. The application was ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Justice Cussen yesterday delivered a reserved judgment in the divorce case Kelty v. Kelty, heard at the last sittings of the Divorce Court. In this case Elizabeth Alice ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Geelong Progress Association has received a cheque for £25 from the Minister of Lands, to be expended in beautifying the public resort at Heard's Hill, but now ...
Article : 257 wordsA proposal to alter the time of departure of the train from Melbourne to Healesville is being considered by the Railway Commissioners. It is suggested that the time of ...
Article : 93 wordsMessrs. Tuckett and Styles, 359 Collins-street, report a successful sale of suburban and country properties at their rooms, on Wednesday. The first lot offered was 160 acres, situated at ...
Article : 171 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—In the course of an interview to-day the Chinese Consul-General Liang Kian Hean said, with regard to the opium traffic, that he could state ...
Article : 66 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—In the police court to-day Alfred H. Woollett, a telegraph operator, was charged with having misappropriated £65/10/ of public ...
Article : 77 wordsNATHALIA, Wednesday.—Land-owners in the vicinity of the unfinished Goublurn levee are alarmed at the height of the river. It is feared that thousands of acres of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 752 wordsA mishap occurred to the 2.15 p.m. up train from Bairnsdale on Tuesday, afternoon. The side-rod of the engine broke at Nar-Nar-Goon, and the train had to be ...
Article : 102 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Captain R. F. Douton, marine superintendent of the Howard Smith Company, has hit on an idea for the successful carriage of bananas from ...
Article : 157 wordsA letter was received at Thursday night's meeting of the South Melbourne Council from the secretary to the Premier, stating that the Premier had received a letter from ...
Article : 160 wordsToyne Bros, and Walsh, stock and land agents, Geelong, report having sold, on account of Mr. W. H. Capron, his property at St. leonards, comprising 56 acres 2 roods 18 perches, to mr. John ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsThe Sydney express was again late in arriving in Melbourne yesterday. It reached Spencer-street 40 minutes behind time. The delay was due to loss of time ...
Article : 39 wordsMessrs. Charles M'Meekin and Co. have sold a township property of half an acre, with cottage thereon, to Mr. W. Houston, of Wangoom, for £167. ...
Article : 158 wordsDROUIN, Wednesday.—The passenger train to Melbourne, due here at 8 o'clock, did not reach Drouin last night till an hour later, owing to a breakdown of the engine. The driver effected ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—Archbishop Carr's reported interview yesterday with the Minister and director of Education, with suggestions for incorporation in the new Education Bill ...
Article : 581 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Herbert, Government resident of the Northern Territory, who is at present at Camooweal, has telegraphed to the acting ...
Article : 123 wordsSir,—Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., is reported in your issue of this morning as saying, at the Essendon Town-hall meeting last night, that "Senators Chataway and St. ...
Article : 216 wordsMr. W. Seillingbeck, who has for the past three years been assistant stationmaster at the Pier station, Williamstown, has received promotion, and is being transferred to Stony Point station. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—I have been reading with considerable interest the correspondence you have published regarding the Saturday half-holiday, which has been for the most part ...
Article : 223 wordsThis Australian Woman who was Completely Crippled found a Permanent Cure. It you are having trouble in curing your Rheumatism—curing it permancently—curing ...
Article : 574 wordsPORTLAND, Tuesday.—At the quarterly sittings of the general sessions on Tuesday, at which Judge Johnston presided, Hedley Palmer Pitcher, a young man, was ...
Article : 116 wordsShipping movements in Port Phillip had to be conducted with extreme caution yesterday morning owing to a dense fog. Until a comparatively late hour of the forenoo[?] ...
Article : 206 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—In view of the construction of the dock now in progress at Fremantle, the Harbour Trust has decided that a harbour improvement rate shall be ...
Article : 267 wordsThousands of people suffer at this period from constipation, and no ailment leads to so much distress and so many diseases of the body. Constipation should not be ...
Article : 358 wordsSUNBURY, Wednesday. — The feud between the council and the Railway department as to the flow of storm water in Evans-street, Sunbury, continues. At ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—My friend Mr. Lavater makes my letter of the 17th inst. the occasion of some warmth. The name Dr. Ewes was a misprint for Dewes or D'Ewes. I never knew ...
Article : 206 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—Yesterday's rain gave a total of 56 points in Broken Hill. The fall was heavier to the south. All the dams in and around the city ...
Article : 68 wordsDROUIN, Wednesday. — The case of Robert John Box, a well-known farmer of Longwarry East, whose disappearance was reported some weeks ago, is still causing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—One of the best northern rains ever experienced in South Australia fell last night and this morning. It chiefly benefited the upper ...
Article : 104 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday. — It is understood that the Timber Commission has found that the importation of Oregon has not menaced the industry here. On the ...
Article : 125 wordsIs the time when Colds are contracted. Always keep a bottle of "Bonnington's Irish Moss" in the house. The safest and best cure for a cold.—[Advt.] The timely use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Largest Variety of New and Secondhad in the World at Cole's Book Arcade, Bourke and Collins streets Melbourne.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Largest Variety of Music, New and Secondhand, in Australasia, at Cole's Book Arcade, Bourke and Collins streets, Melbourne.—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 24 Jun 1909, Page 6
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