A bazaar and garden fete in aid of St. Agenes's Church of England, Glenbuntlty, is to be opened by Sir Frank Madden this afternoon, at 3 o'clock at the residence of Mr. A. ...
Article : 569 wordsThe commissioners will leave the city on Monday on a tour of inspection of the North-Eastern and branch lines. Besides inspecting station along the main ...
Article : 99 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Thursday.—Before the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden), at the Maryborough Supreme Court to-day Thomas John Toohey was presented on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsA meeting of the employees of the ba[?] wire and nail making trades was held on Wednesday night, at Connell's Hotel, Elizabeth-street, to disenss the state of the trade caused by the competition of ...
Article : 192 wordsBy the end of December 25 new country corridor cars will be available for service, and an additional 25 will be delivered from the Newport workshops by the end of the ...
Article : 213 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday.—A clerks' union has been formed here. It demands equal pay for men and woman, a working week of 39 hours, overtime at the rate of hail a crown per hour, and a ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the Essendon City Council meeting on Monday a letter was received from the Public Health department, intimation that, in the openion of the board, during the spring months of the year, cases ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A decision of consederable importance to wholesale warehousemen was given by the Full Court to-day. ...
Article : 200 wordsFurther complaints have beenmade by grain buyers and farmers that the supply of trucks does not cope with the demand for them, and railway officials at last admit ...
Article : 141 wordsThe shareholders of the Mount Zeehan (Tasmania) Silver-Lead Mines Ltd. have sanetioned the acceptence of the ZeehanDundas option of the company. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. H. Vivash, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Rural Workers' Union, reports that active organising work, on behalf of the union, his been going on during the past fortnight around ...
Article : 163 wordsThe P. and O. S.N. Co. has declared a dividend on the deferred stock for the halfyear ended September 30 of 6½ per cent., and a bonds of 3 per cent., making, with ...
Article : 67 wordsCAMPERBOWN, Wednesday.—At the meeting of the committee of the Camperdown Turf Club a letter was [?]ad from the Bena[?]a Turf Club urging racing clubs to apporach the department, ...
Article : 73 wordsA ltd named A. Rice was charged in the Kew Court on Wednesday with having taken a seat in a first class railway carriage without having a ticket entitling him to do so. ...
Article : 160 wordsRepresentatives of potato merchants yesterday brought under the notice of the commissioners the disabilities which they had experienced since the department reduced ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsWONTILAGGI, Thursday.—A strike of wheelers employed at the State mine occurred this afternoon. at the change of shifts. ...
Article : 242 wordsAt the prahran Court yesterday, before Messrs. Chambers (chairmen). Flintoff, and CurwenWalker, J.P.'s, Timothy Leigh, dairyman, of 32 Wright-street, East Prahram, was charged, on the ...
Article : 139 wordsWhen the Tanners' Wages Board completed its award it was agreed that it should take effect from July 11. The rates of pay provided for are being observed by the employers, though the ...
Article : 448 wordsSir,—I beg to direct attention to the serious overerowding of first-class carriages on the Williamstown line. Last night, on boarding the 10.54 down train (engine end), I found one first-class ...
Article : 149 wordsA request was made to the commissioners yesterday from the Nurserymen's Association that fruit and shelter trees should be included among the items in connection ...
Article : 113 wordsOn a charge of having forwarded for sale to the Metropolitan Meat Market three ca[?]ses of pork which were diseased, William T. Treadwell was proceeded against at the District Court ...
Article : 90 wordsThe official receiver appointed for the Thamas Irenworks, Shipbuilding, and Engineering Co. Ltd. assures the workmen, of whom 3,500 are employed, that they will be ...
Article : 131 wordsSir,—I wonder when the Railway Commisstoners will give us a better service? It takes nearly five hours to reach here from Bendigo, about [?] miles, and it is getting wor[?] and worse. During ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsThe hearing of the eleim the Seamen's Union of Australia against the Commonwealth Steamship-owners' Association and others was concluded yesterday in the ...
Article : 1,360 wordsThe Essendon Council has agreed to urge the department to make better provision in connection with the Essendon service during race days. It has been stated ...
Article : 337 wordsA. Spalding, commercial traveller, was brought before the City Court on Tuesday on a charge that he, being a clerk and servant of the Austral [?]g Co. Prop. Ltd., ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Thursday.—In the Licensing Court the licence of the Whea[?] Hotel, terang, was transferred from H. P. Callan to D. Lawrence; and that of the Cobden Hotel from A. ...
Article : 50 wordsA statement appears in the press to the effect that the Hungarian Government has signed an agreement with the Hungarian Levant Steamship Co. Ltd., of ...
Article : 117 wordsClaims have been made on the Commonwealth Stramship-owners' Association by the Federated Enginedrivere and Firemen's Association on behalf of enginedrivers and lightermen working on lighters ...
Article : 209 wordsSir,—Now that the Christmas holidays will be with as shortly, might I suggest in reference to Dean's Marsh and Forest railway line, that the Railway department might see its way to revert ...
Article : 331 wordsSir,—On going to record my vote to-day the polling clerk handed me a ballot-paper on the back of which be had marked my number on the electoral roll. Is this legal? ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the District court yesterday, Inspection Farcan proceeded against Alfred Summers. Heensee of the Old England Hotel, Bourke-street, on a charge of selling liquer on Sunday, Octomber 20. Summers ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Federal Council of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia continued its fifteenth biennual session at the Protesterat-hall, Exhibition-street, yesterday. ...
Article : 547 wordsRegarding the action of the Metropolitan Gas Company in having accepted a tender outside A[?][?]a for the supply of [?] tons of irregular pipes [?] was stated, at the meeting of the Iron T[?] ...
Article : 363 wordsAt the City Court yesterday James Denyer and joseph [?]nes were charged with having broken into the shop of Samuel Snider, Scaler, 56 Spencerstreet, on August 29, and with having stolen ...
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Advertising : 575 wordsAt the St. Kilda Council meeting on Wednesday evening complaints were received from the Prince George Oraoge Lodge and Mr. James Lewis, of [?]7 The Avenue, [?]aclava, of Sunday picture shows ...
Article : 160 wordsMessrs. H. [?] [?]rough, conductor, St. Kilda; [?] V. O'Connor, conductor, Richmond; [?] Watt, [?]pman, St. Kilda; L. Carr, track oiler, Toorak; and R. Haynes, ele[?]le motorman, Ballarat, have ...
Article : 178 wordsA letter from the Williamstown Ministers' [?] sociation was received by the Williamstown Com[?] on Wednesday night, [?]hing that body, on moral grounds thi[?], to pass a by-law to ...
Article : 109 wordsFurther re[?] was made at the meeting of the South Melbourne City Council on Wednesday night to the council's determination to bring in a bylaw, compelling all places of [?]ment to close ...
Article : 178 wordsSYDNEY, Thurday.—The strike of boys employed by the City Council for street sweeping is over. This morning all the matoontenis turned up for duty as usual except one of their number, ...
Article : 56 wordsA closen [?] motor-car was driven into the crowd in Collins-street shortly after 9 o'clock, and but for police protection the chapuffeur would have been maltreated and ...
Article : 185 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The Plumbers' Union adopted resolutions protestion against the attitude of the Minister for Railways (Mr. Collier) and the Comm[?] for Railways (Mr. S[?] in [?]ing ...
Article : 138 wordsSir,—Quite recently the South Melbourne City Council adopted a by-law to prohibit the showing of animated pictures on Sunday in South Melbourne. I presume that ...
Article : 134 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. Seaddan) has [?] instructions to the Government departments that all Government loading must be given to white cartiers af camebowners, except in ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—As one who takes a great interest in children and children's courts, I commend the mayor and council of South Melbourne in thier actions in closing the ...
Article : 76 wordsCRESWICK, Thursday.—John Drake, who entered the premises of Me. Thomas Lenthall in sensational circumstances, deseribed in "The Argus" of Tuesday, was ...
Article : 137 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The president of the Arbitration Court (the Chief justice, Sir Henry Parker) to-day gave a ruling that the Court has no powre to make awards for [?]detinite periods. The point ...
Article : 159 wordsSir,—By what right does the mayor of South Melbourne refuse the requisition of the ratepayers, and deny them the use of their town-hall, to dis[?]ss the proposed ...
Article : 207 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—A telegram from Whim Creek sta[?]that [?]0 men have caused work because the mine owners refuse to pay a living wage and [?] on shovellers working 10-hours shifts [?] ...
Article : 48 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The Arbiration Court has announcd its Award in the case of case of barmaids and barmen. The wage for barmen and barmaids was fixed at [?] week with board and [?]dence. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 17 Nov 1911, Page 10
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