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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsAt a meeting of the State council of the Australian Catholic Federation, held last evening, the following resolution was carried unanimously.— ...
Article : 69 wordsA few previous owners of the Melbourne Cup winners are again represented this year. In the first place, Mr. J. Chambers, who took the race last year with Posinatus, ...
Article : 303 wordsIt is interesting to note that the two original top weights for the Melbourne Cup (Cagou, 9st. 6lb., and Lilyveil, 9st. 3lb.) are amongst the ...
Article : 223 wordsSir Solo ran half a mile in 55sec. on the sand at Caulfield yesterday morning. Most of the other Cup candidates trained on this course were out for various useful tasks. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Royal Mail P. and O. liner Medina should arrive at Port Melbourne this morning. She is on one of her usual visits from London, and carries a large number of passengers. The liner will resume ...
Article : 749 wordsSir,—It may save a good deal of misconception if you will permit me to make it quite clear that this federation does not ask for a "separate grant," a ...
Article : 495 wordsFinal acceptances for the Ascot Thousand and weights for the Richmond Cup appear in another column. ...
Article : 23 wordsA horse considered good enough to win a Derby is usually given a Melbourne Cup chance. Woorak has still to win a Derby, but it is quite on the cards that he will turn the tables on his A.J.C. ...
Article : 635 wordsTwo races were won last season by Arist[?]us—the Maiden Hack Race at Panmure, and the Myross Two-year-old Handicap, seven furlongs, 7st. 13lb., at Flemington. He is usually regarded as likely ...
Article : 103 wordsFor the half-year just closed the Ballarat Woollen and Worsted Company made a net profit of £5,000/13/8. An interim dividend of 4½d. per share was made six months ago, ...
Article : 336 wordsSailed.—Oct. 28.—6.30 p.m., Loongana, for Launceston: 6.40 p.m., R.M.S. Osterley, for London via ports. CAPE SCHANCK (53 Miles).—Inward.—Oct. 28 ...
Article : 295 wordsMountain Knight is to run in the Derby and Moonbria in the Melbourne Cup in the nomination of Sir William Cooper. The owner of these horses, Mr. E. J. Watt, has, ...
Article : 92 wordsThough he shaped well once or twice, Naxbery last season, as a two-year-old, failed out of seven starts to secure a place. He showed some promise early this season by carrying 8st., and ...
Article : 200 wordsFinal, acceptances are due before 4 o'clock this afternoon for the Maribyrnong Plate, and also for the Derby. The record time for the Maribyrnong Plate is 1min. 2sec., ...
Article : 235 wordsThough no jockey who rode in the first Melbourne Cup, run in 1861, is, as far as is known, alive, Joseph Carter, who had the mount on Flatcatcher in the Melbourne Cup ...
Article : 56 wordsR. Lewis, who is to ride Eltham next Tuesday, has had more Melbourne Cup mounts than any other jockey. His ride on Eye Glass in 1912 was his seventeenth ...
Article : 163 wordsIn the Collingwood Court on Wednesday, before Mr. S. J. Goldsmith. P.M., 19 persons were proceeded against for failing to send in a claim for registration on the Federal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsSir,—Allow me to support the views expressed in Mr. Howard Ashton's most sensible letter to-day especially his suggestion that a Bathers' League be formed to ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Women's Missionary Union in connection with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church held its annual sale of gifts in the Sunday-school on Wednesday. The ...
Article : 220 wordsSir,—Mr. H. Gyles Turner is naturally attached to rigidly "secular" education, and wishes to be "left alone" in the enjoyment of the "privileged position" of ...
Article : 502 wordsAll Engagements—Voyageur, Beccassin, Patricia, and Silver Streak. Coburg Stakes—Greek Fire. Maribyrnong Plate—Citus, Likely, Beetol. ...
Article : 23 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday. — The superintendent of the life-saving service at Port Adelaide (Mr. Arthur Searcy) received the following telegram from the head-keeper of the Cape Borda ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsThe chance of Mountain Knight for the Derby was almost as freely discussed yesterday as Woorak's. Nothing else was much spoken of. Ulva's Isle continued the ...
Article : 59 wordsJ. Quigley (who is to ride Posinatus in the Melbourne Cup), W. Black, and J. Townsend have arrived from Sydney, and H. D. Campbell from Adelaide. Quigley has ...
Article : 53 wordsThe subject of the Melbourne Hospital management was introduced at the meeting of the Board of Public Health yesterday by Mr F. G. Wood. ...
Article : 324 wordsMarathon, s.s. (Aberdeen line), left Durban Oct. 26. ...
Article : 12 wordsIn his time Sir Solo has done a good deal of racing, and has met with a fair amount of success. He was foaled in New Zealand, where as a two-yard-old he won a Maiden Plate, at ...
Article : 455 wordsNo fewer than four of the acceptors for the Melbourne Cup, viz., Sir Alwynton, Gladwyn, St. Carwyne, and Allingamite claim St. Alwyne (imp.) as sire. Lady ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 395 wordsG. Meddick, who is associated with W. Kelso's statble, has been engaged to ride Kingsburgh in the Melbourne Cup. Negotiations were in progress with a view to ...
Article : 66 wordsErected at a cost of £600, a new kindergarden hall was publicly opened on Wednesday evening by Mr. Howard Hitchcock, who was presented by the trustees with a ...
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Advertising : 35 wordsThe annual collection for the Warrnambool Hospital at St. John's Presbyterian Church amounted to £28/6/2, which was an increase over last year's amount of more ...
Article : 225 wordsSir,—According to Mr. Nicholson, Archbishop Clarke is capable of the remarkable feat of supporting at one and the same time—(1) The secular Education Act, which ...
Article : 178 wordsHAY, Wednesday.—Mrs. Browne, wife of Mr. A. E. Browne, general manager for Messrs. Permewan, Wright, and Company at Hay, died very suddenly yesterday ...
Article : 87 wordsSEYMOUR, Wednesday. — On Monday afternoon a man, giving the name of John Carr, endeavoured to secure a railway voucher, signed by the president of the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe billiard match of 16,000 up, between George Gray the Australian, and TomRecce was continued to-day Gray made a break of 730 off the red. The scores at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsRepresentatives from the Colae Shire Council, accompanied by Mr. Johnstone, M.L.A., waited on the Minister for Public Works (Mr.Hagelthoran) yesterday, and ...
Article : 293 wordsSEYMOUR. Wednesday.—At the police court to-day John Spehrs was charged, by Constable Asker, of Tallarook, with having behaved in an offensive manner. The ...
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Article : 687 wordsGLENROWAN, Wednesday. — An Indian hawker named Siva Singh, of Benalla, while in the vicinity of the Glenrowan quarry, was notified by the men ...
Article : 78 wordsLEIGH CREEK, Wednesday. —It is asserted by some of the men engaged on the new Moorabool reservoir construction that heavy leakages are now taking place from ...
Article : 125 wordsCouncillor W. Brunton, the retiring represetative of Victoria Ward, announces by advertisement that he will be a candidate for re-election. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 29 Oct 1914, Page 9
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