Although the compulsory Saturday halfholiday has been in operation for only three and a half months in Victoria, there are already indications of a widespread ...
Article : 1,183 wordsThe two men. George Watson, 27 years of age, groom, and Charles Wilson, 23 years of age, labourer, who were arrested at Wangaratta on Monday on a charge of vagraney, ...
Article : 271 wordsMadame Melba has given a gold medal for the winner of the champion soprano solo at the South street, competitions this year, which will be the society's silver jubliee. ...
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Article : 1,320 wordsCharles Joseph Bray, a steward, was arrested at Port Melbourne by Detectives Mulfahey and Sainsbury on Sunday on a charge of having stolen £700 at Cape Town ...
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Article : 330 wordsThe fourteenth annual federal conference of the Timber Workers's Society has concluded its sittings in Melbourne, and many subjects of interest to the industry were ...
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Article : 313 wordsIt was slated at an inquiry yesterday at the Morgue that Aubrey Bryce Douglas, the young man who was drowned in the Yarra after saving the life of a little girl on Easter ...
Article : 227 wordsMadame Melba's last appearance in Melbourne this season will be in aid of the above fund. The concert will be given at the Town Hall on Tuesday, April 27. The ...
Article : 74 wordsThe following artists have given their services for the King Albert Book concert to he held in the Town Hall on Thursday, May 13:—Misses Margery Grey, ivy Philips, Elsa ...
Article : 124 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—It is reported from Wanganui that the previous negotiations having fallen through, Hannan has issued another challenge to Webb for a match for £200 a-side and ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Rev. S. J. Hoban, for the past 12 months in charge of the Yarra street Methodist Church, but who has been appointed to the charge of the Sydney Methodist Mission, was on Tuesday ...
Article : 250 wordsThe annual meeting of the Carlton Harriers was held at the Amateur Sports Club on Monday, Mr. C. D. Henderson (vice-president) being in the chair. The annula report stated that all the teams ...
Article : 358 wordsBENDIGO.—The mayoress (Mrs. W. Wilkie) received a letter from Mr. R. Nunn offering a quarter of an acre of land at Sebastian to be disposed of in aid of the mayoress's fund for the relief of ...
Article : 363 wordsWhile riding on horseback at Preston on March 30 Norman Embleton, 20 years of age, a navy paymaster, was unseated, and received terrible injuries through ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the annual federal conference of the Furniture Trade Society, held in Adelaide, consideration was given to the need for an increased tariff on imported furniture to ...
Article : 195 wordsWhen bathing off a raft near the foreshore at Elwood on April 4 Arthur Nightingale, aged 14 years, of Regent street, Elsternwick, went out of his depth, and was ...
Article : 101 wordsThe question of coal from the State mine being sold to the public was again advocated by the borough council on Monday night, and with a view to furthering a movement in this direction a ...
Article : 70 wordsDALYSTON, Tuesday.—This morning, when riding to school, J. Carew, aged 13 years, had his leg broken above the ankle through his pony falling with him. He ...
Article : 66 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—Carl Hauff and Otto Hauff, two young blockholders on the Closer Settlement at Shepparton, were proceeded against by the State Rivers and Water Supply ...
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Article : 78 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—A meeting of textile workers at the trades hall to-night was addressed by Mr. McLaughlin, general secretary of the Textile Workers' ...
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Article : 190 wordsCharles Turnbull, a young man, was charged at the Coburg Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. Waters, Roberts, and Norman, J.P.'s. with having broken into the premises of Mrs. Scully, in Walsh ...
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Article : 65 wordsCHILTERY, Tuesday.—At the Chiltern Police Court to-day, before Mr. J. W. W. Beave[?] P.M., Frank James Bowyer, who was arrested in Queensland by Detective Sullivan, and remanded to ...
Article : 127 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The Plambers' Union complains that the arrangement made by the Federal Government with the State Public Works department for the sewering ...
Article : 127 wordsWe have received the following additional contributions:—Previously acknowledged, £7,556/4/11; A. H. Williams, £1; and Cocos, 10/; total, £7,557/14/11. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 284 wordsKORUMBURRA, Tuesday.—At the Country Court to-day, before Judge Eagleson and a jury of four, Louisa Leishman, of Dollar, sued Richard Greenwood Moyes for £60/18/9, for alleged breach of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—Membrs of the Board of Public Health visited Geelong today to make an inspection of the Barwon River, about which many complaints have ...
Article : 153 wordsSWAN HILL, Tuesday.—Yarraby farmers who had ordered seed wheat from the Government have had an unenviable experience. Receiving a notice that the wheat ...
Article : 284 wordsBROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—The labour unions are considering the matter of the agreement with mining companies, which expires at the end of June. It is known ...
Article : 50 wordsThomas Smith and Henry Cass, two young trimmers on the s.s. Afric, were charged at the Port Melbourne Court on Tuesday morning with assaulting the chief engineer of the vessel P. A. M. ...
Article : 185 wordsHer Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson has consented to open the autumn show of the Malvern and District Horticultural Socieyt on Saturday, 17th inst., in the Malvern Town Hall. ...
Article : 280 wordsIt has been decided to amalgamate the separate funds now being organised by the women and men tennis players of Victoira, by means of each of which it had been intended to present a ...
Article : 252 wordsBROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—The trouble between the hotelkeepers and the employees union is now restricted to nine hotels. ...
Article : 21 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—A conference of country municipalitics was held at the town hall to-day for the purpose of discussing the advisability of forming a Northern District Municipal Association. ...
Article : 304 wordsAt the meeting of the West St. Kilda Progress Association last evening, at the Beaconsfield Hotel, Mr. J. Rowan presiding, Mr. W. H. Matthews moved:—"That the ...
Article : 337 wordsA large quantity of cotton has been destroyed by fire in Naples. Six thousand bales were consumed, valued at £80,000. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsGeorge William Coote, painter, a resident of Newmarket, was yesterday, at the Williamstown Court, charged with the larceny of 4/6, the property of the Williamstown Racing Club, on April ...
Article : 438 wordsFREMANTLE (1,880 Miles).—Arrived.—April 13 —R.M.S. Omrab, from London. ...
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Article : 148 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—As the result of the recent beneficial rains in the country the Wheat Acquisition Board has received numerous applications for seed wheat. The ...
Article : 112 wordsSWAN HILL, Tuesday.—A large number of men are at present engaged in the work of clearing the bed of the Murray in the vicinity of Nyah. It is hoped that they will be able to cut a ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsHugh McLachlan was charged at the Hawthorn Court yesterday with having ridden a motor-cycle at a dangerous speed on March 27. Constable Dunn said that he saw defendant riding a motor-cycle ...
Article : 94 wordsCOLERAINE, Tuesday.—For many months the brick wall of one of the rooms of the Coleraine State school has been cracked, and lately the [?]ssure has [?] widened that the health officer condemned the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 14 Apr 1915, Page 10
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