Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page
-
Please wait. Loading browse data...
-
"TYPHOID CARRIER."
At a deputation to the Premier at Nhill on Wednesday the president of the Nhill Hospital, Mr. A. S. Rusden, referred to the presence in the hospital of a [?] ...
Article : 695 words -
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
The Women's Labour Convention resumed its sittings at the Trades-hall yesterday afternoon, when questions affecting child life were discussed principally. Mrs. ...
Article : 459 words -
BENT LAND COMMISSION.
The Royal commission appointed to inquire into the purchase of certain properties for the state during the time that Sir Thomas Bent was[?] Premier took further ...
Article : 1,608 words -
QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR.
We have to acknowledge receipt during the past week of the following letters, for which we regret we have been unable to find room:— "Loser," Learmonth; T. L. Riley, Waratah, ...
Article : 110 words -
NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES.
There seems to be no affinity between these two subjects, but an interesting coincidence, at any rate, is mentioned by Mr. H. W. Ford, who writes:—"In my boyhood ...
Article : 1,802 words -
NEW BOOKS, &c. GENERAL LITERATURE.
"Oxford Lectures on Poetry," by A. C. Bradley, LL.D., Litt. D. (London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.) "Lola Montez, an Adventuress of the 'Forties,'" ...
Article : 259 words -
EUREKA STOCKADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Sir,—Mr. ex-Police-Superintendent Sadleir's letter on this subject in "The Argus" of last Saturday was good in tone. But it did not at all bear down Mr. Percy de ...
Article : 785 words -
PROTECTION OF NATIVE BEARS.
Sir,—It shows what a mockery the so[?] called protection of our native fauna is when a boot-polish company can, for the sake of advertisement, publicly exhibit a decorated ...
Article : 111 words -
AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH.
A Series of books on the development and present condition of the various states and dominions of the British Empire is being published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons ...
Article : 2,471 words -
FICTION OF THE DAY.
From every point of view Frank Danby's new novel. "An Incompleat Etonian" (London: Heinemann; Melbourne; Melville and Mullen) must certainly be regarded as ...
Article : 1,451 words -
SOCIAL REFORM.
Several committee reports were presented to the meeting of the Council of Churches yesterday on questions of Sunday observance and social reform. ...
Article : 419 words -
BEEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE.
The conference of apiarists was concluded at the Federal Coffee Palace yesterday, when the business was chiefly of a routine character. Mr. R. Be[?] (the president) ...
Article : 163 words -
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Sir,—Permit me a little space to reply to "Loyalist's" effusion dated the 19th inst. In the first place the stockade was not constructed of saplings, but chiefly of old ...
Article : 437 words -
UNION OF THE CHURCHES.
At the last general Presbyterian Assembly conference in Adelaide, the question of the union of the Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist churches was given much ...
Article : 327 words -
DISEASES AND BOX HIVES.
Representatives of the Victorian Aplarists' Association yesterday afternoon interviewed the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) and the Minister for Lands (Mr. ...
Article : 377 words -
NAVAL AND MILITARY. FITZROY BOYS' NAVAL BRIGADE.
About 12 months ago Captain Steele, of the Scottish Regiment formed a boys naval brigade in connection with the Napier-street Presbyterian Church, Fitzroy. ...
Article : 157 words -
COORMILL TRAINING GROUND.
Arrangements have been made, at the request of Mr. Crouch, M.H.R., for a visit to be paid by the chief of general staff (Major-General Hoad) to visit the proposod site for ...
Article : 92 words -
ORIGIN OF "PUNCH AND JUDY."
Sir,—A discussion on the "Origin of Punch and Judy" is quoted in last Saturday's issue of "The Argus[?]" under the heading "In the Papers." The following[?] ...
Article : 389 words -
BIBLE IN STATE SCHOOLS.
The Seripture in State Schools Campaign Council held a meeting in the Chapter-house at St. Paul's yesterday. Dr. Pain (Angliean Bishop of Gippsland) presided. Mr. ...
Article : 429 words -
WILLIAMSTOWN DOG AND POULTRY SHOW.
The fourteenth annual show of the Williamstown and Footscray Poultry and Dog Society was opened yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. Lemmon, M.L.A. There are about 900 entries. These ...
Article : 435 words -
ARBOR DAY.
The grounds of the model state school at Canterbury presented an animated appearance yesterday afternoon, when the state Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael) ...
Article : 146 words -
KAURI TIMBER CO.
The half-yearly meeting of the Kauri Timber Company was held at Broken Hill Chambers, Queen-street, yesterday afternoon. The chairman stated that the meeting was called in compliance ...
Article : 177 words -
NAPOLEON AND THE BELLEROPHON.
Sir,—I would draw attention to an authority which is not often quoted nowadays, no doubt because it is not readily accessible to the ordinary reader, viz., the " ...
Article : 380 words -
BONNINGTON'S IRISH MOSS.
A marvellous remedy for the cure of Coughs and Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, &c. The good it does is permanent. Sold everywhere.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 25 words -
PICTURES. PICTURES. PICTURES.
The Largest Variety of Pictures, Framed and Unframed, in Australasia at Cole's Book Arcade, Bourke and Collins streets, Melb.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 26 words
Buy
Download
Please choose from the following download options:
Print page as...