One of the largest parcels of smuggled opium ever taken in Melbourne was discovered by a Harbour Trust employee yesterday morning at Victoria Dock. The ...
Article : 586 wordsAn important event in the history of the Anglican Church in Victoria will take place to-day, when in accordance with the provisions of the St. Arnaud Diocese ...
Article : 922 wordsThe unusual spectacle of horses working with a plough along the track of the cable tramway caused much interest in Chapel street, Prahran, yesterday. To prepare tha bed of the roadway for the electric tram rails the earth had to be dug with ploughs. So far, the operations of the contractor for the conversion of the system extend from Toorak road to beyond the Prahran Town Hall, at the corner of Chapel and Greville streets. Transport services are being maintained by motor-'buses. It is expected that the work of conversion will be completed before Christmas. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 101 wordsAmid the rush and bustle of the early morning activities at the wharves along the Yarra yesterday, when swiftly moving vehicles passed along the roadways, a contrast was presented when a [?]ug, drawing this picturesque vessel, passed up the river from an anchorage in Hobson's Bay. The four-masted barque Archibald Russell occupied 125 days in making the trip from Sundsvaal, on the Baltic Sea, to Melbourne, with a cargo of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 150 wordsIndulging his apparent partiality for views of distant landscapes framed by trees, Mr. A. E. Newbury, who is exhibiting at the Athen[?]um Gallery, has captured the spirit of Australian bush scenery in his canvas "Mellowing Light." A feature of the work is the cloud treatment. The hills in the distance are of a delicate blue, with a light over the trees in the foreground, and the work presents a most pleasing pirture. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 wordsOrganised by the Australian Board of Missions, an exhibition of work by school children at the various mission stations in the Pacific islands will be opened to-day by the director of Education, Mr. Frank Tate, at Wirth's Park. The picture shows a stall containing Eastern ouriosities, which will be one of many of a similar type at the exhibition. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 109 wordsHaving pleaded guilly to a charge of having stolen 11 dress and a silver teapot from the Post-office Hotel, Chapel street, Prabran at 6 o'clock on the evening of September 24, Percival Walker, labourer, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 30 Sep 1926, Page 15
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