There was a lively discussion in the Presbyterian Assembly yesterday when a remit from the General Assembly of Australia[?] regarding the eligibility of women for the ...
Article : 470 wordsF. McCracken, the present schoolboy tennis champion is defending his title at the Kooyong courts, where the public schools championship matches are being played. This is the first time that the schools have themselves controlled the competition. McCracken defeated J. Bryse yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsThe Full Court of Victoria, consisting of the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), Mr. Justice McArthur, and Mr. Justice Weigall, in the Banco Court yesterday, heard ...
Article : 595 wordsComment was made by the Minister for Railways (Mr. Eggleston) on the leading article which appeared in "The Argus" yesterday dealing with the proposal of the ...
Article : 614 wordsOn Wednesday the traffic and building regulations committee of the City Council decided to ask the police to take the names of persons loitering on "The Block," Collins street, with a view to prosecution. No change was noticeable yesterday in the congestion of the footpath, at lunch hour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsOwing to the frightoning of one horse, a team of four horses attached to a timber Jinker plunged Into Victoria D[?]k yesterday morning, near No. 3 berth. A crowd gathered later in the day to watch the salvage operations, carried on from a barge. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsMr. J. V. Holt, a native of Cheshire, reached Melbourne yesterday by the steamer Beltana with his family of seven. They are all experienced in farm work, and Intend to settle in Victoria. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsAlleging that Miss Lucy Beech, a baker, of Footscray, was being boycotted by flourmillers because she was selling bread at 10d. a loaf, a deputation from the ...
Article : 179 wordsUpon an application for an adjournment being refused by Judge Dethridge in General Sessions yesterday, Frederick Else, aged 32 years, formerly a police constable, of ...
Article : 306 wordsThe depth of the Yan Yean reservoir [?] Wednesday morning was 14ft. 7in., which [?] the lowest figure recorded on this date for many years. It is only 3¾in. above ...
Article : 393 wordsW. S. Browning, of Geelong College, who [?]d J. Wren in the first round of the public schools tennis championships, played yesterday at Kooyong. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsAn unusual view of one of the new towers erected by the Electricity Commission to carry Yallourn power cables across the Yarra from Spotswood to South Melbourne. The towers are 250ft. high, as the cables have to be stretched above the water at a height sufficient to give elerance for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsSir John Higgins, chairman of the British Australasian Wool Realisation Association, arrving at Anzac House yesterday, where the annual meeting of shareholders of the company was held. After heated discussion at the ordinary meeting, an informal meeting of shareholders signified its disapproval of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria a paper was read by Mr. A. J. Tadgell, entitled "Mount Fainter and Beyond." Mount Fainter is ...
Article : 270 wordsThe general secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Victoria (Mr. James Davies) states that by a unanimous decision of the executive ...
Article : 161 wordsAn unsual application was made to Mr. Justice Macfarlan in the Practice Court yesterday. Henry Parkinson, of Coulstock street, Wa[?]rnambool, agent, applied ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Dr. Argyle) has referred to the Licensing Court a petition praying that an additional licence area be created at Sunshine. A sitting of the Court ...
Article : 153 wordsArrangements have been completed for a message from the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) to be transmitted by wireless to the British Prime Minister (Mr. Bladwin) ...
Article : 137 wordsBecause it was found that the noise of shunting [?] [?] disturbed pattents in the Melbourne Hospital, the Tramways Board is removing the shunting-[?] of a [?] opposite the City [?] [?] will be shunted on the new strip of line shown on the right so [?] than [?] from [?] [?] [?] will not be delayed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 76 wordsWhile on an excursion cruise in the Mediterranean Sea the Orient liner Otranto struck a rock south of Cape Matapan, Greece, and was forced to put into Plraus, the port of Athens, In a damaged condition. The above photograph was taken when the Otranto reached Melbourne on her ma[?]n voyage last February. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsThe city coroner (Mr. D. Berr[?]man, P.M.) on Wednesday held an inquest into the death of [?] P[?]an, aged 16 years, of F[?] street, North Fitzory. ...
Article : 415 wordsAt an entertainment arranged by the Hawthorn Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites on Wednesday night, in the Hawthorn Town Hall, Mr. John Vale, ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Presbyterian Assembly on Wednesday evening had under discussion the question of the [?]nsorship of films, and the following resolution, moved by the Rev. ...
Article : 120 wordsAt the Fitzroy Court on Thursday, before Mr. P. J. Conlon, P.M., and Messrs. A. Rosen and [?] McMahen, J.P.'s. Cecil Christensen, aged 26 years, [?] [?] of Mahoney street, Fitzroy, was charged ...
Article : 116 wordsAs part of the campaign to popularise tourist resorts in Victoria, the Railways Commissioners have prepared several [?] exhibiting in an attactive manner the beauties of Victorian ...
Article : 67 wordsOn charges of having [?]ld or exposed [?] for sale without a licence, Charles Walter, Antony [?]ono, William M[?], Thomas Raymer, Ben O'Rourke (two charges). Alfred Williams, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 14 May 1926, Page 9
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