At 2.55 this morning the firing of a gun from the signal hill denoted that a vessel was in distress. The weather was showery at the time, and owing to the intense darkness and ...
Article : 864 wordsThe question has again arisen as to whether it will be advisable or not to have an interval of two hours—from 5 until 7 o'clock — between the times during ...
Article : 2,450 wordsAt a meeting of the finance committee of the City Council to-day, the Mayor pointed out that at the end of the year, in spite of severe retrenchment, they would be £45,000 in debt, ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the Custom House yesterday, Mr. Walker, Commissioner of Customs, sat to hear representations from deputations in regard to alterations that are desired in the tariff. ...
Article : 1,390 wordsIn view of the rapid development of the eastern portion of the borough of Kew, the upper district of Hawthorn and the northern part of the shire of ...
Article : 370 wordsThis morning the Collector of Customs was served with a writ of habeas corpus calling upon him to release 15 Chinese passengers on board the steamer Changsha. Later in the day ...
Article : 567 wordsA report has again again been re[?]ved in Camperdown from Prince Town to the [?]ffect that gold has been discovered in the ranger near the latter place. The prospectors, Messrs. M'Phall ...
Article : 509 wordsHis Excellency the Governor made a tour of inspection amongst the fire brigades last evening, with the view of taking the stations by surprise and observing their efficiency in ...
Article : 552 wordsThe Full Court to-day sustained the conviction of embezzlement against Abraham Street, whom a jury found guilty on Friday last, and prisoner will be sentenced to-morrow. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Adelaide-arcade has been sold to a Melbourne syndicate for £26,000. The acquisition will probably be floated into a company in Melbourne. ...
Article : 28 wordsNegotiations for the acquisition of all the principal kauri mills by Bushe's Melbourne syndicate have been concluded, and it is intended to float a company to work them, with ...
Article : 144 wordsA PONTIC HOUSE QUARREL.—A man named George Blackburn was charged at the Carlton court on Monday with assaulting P. Mayne, the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, ...
Article : 977 wordsIn the Assembly this evening the Minister of Land and Works delivered his statement of the public works for the ensuing year, of which the following is a summary:—Main roads, £11,250; ...
Article : 108 wordsThere was very little done in the way of galloping this morning at Randwick Several smart showere fell, and to some extent interfered with the work of training. The first ...
Article : 263 wordsAt the Box Hill court yesterday, before Messrs. Lovering, Ellingworth and Garside, J.P.'s, Thomas Boanass, proprietor of the Canterbury Wine Hall, in Canterbury-road, ...
Article : 205 wordsThe members of the Port Adelaide Working Men's Association are taking extreme measures with those that have dealings with Chinese. A local butcher has been boycotted by them, ...
Article : 51 wordsA party of gentlemen, invited by Messrs. A. and R. W. Gillespie, W. Aitken and Mr. Scott, proprietors of the newly erected roller flour mills at Dight's Falls, ...
Article : 939 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the adoption of the address in reply was moved by Mr. J. H. Gordon. He condemned the action of the Government in imposing a poll tax of £10 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 731 wordsAt the Hawthorn court yesterday Agnes Jackson, landlady of the Terminus Family Hotel, in Burwood-road, was charged with not having the door leading to the bar of her hotel ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Chinese agitation has died out here since the election, and the gardens are now being worked full handed by Chinese. Although every person believes in the ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. T. A. Sidders, secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, brought an action in the County Court yesterday, before Judge Quinlan and a jury of four, against Messrs. R. ...
Article : 440 wordsA meeting of the members of the New South Wales commission for the Melbourne Exhibition was held in the Colonial Secretary's Office yesterday afternoon. A letter ...
Article : 198 wordsA very sudden death took place at Port Melbourne yesterday morning. A man named James Thompson had been out making some purchases, and on his return, and while about ...
Article : 66 wordsA serious accident occurred at Spottiswoode yesterday to a man named Thomas Evans, a quarryman, aged 65 years. Evans was engaged stripping the stone, and while ...
Article : 115 wordsBusiness in the Legislative Assembly to-day was mostly of an unimportant character. The Diseases Act was taken through committee and passed with a few verbal amendments made ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Government Resident of the Northern Territory telegraphs that specimens of tin ore from By[?] Harbor tin field have been obtained for the Melbourne Exhibition. One of the ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. F. Langham, chairman of Wesleyan Missions, writes to correct the statement that only children of school age attend the Wesleyan schools in Fiji, adult schools on Sabbath and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 423 wordsThos. Hudson, well known in connection with Hudson's Minstrel Surprise Party, which has been playing a season of about nine months in Adelaide, was sued for £200, wages ...
Article : 142 wordsA man named William Overton, 52 years of age, residing at Martin's-lane, Brunswick, was brought to the Melbourne Hospital at noon yesterday, suffering from severe injuries to his ...
Article : 137 wordsSIR,--I received this evening the following letter from Dr. Webb, hon. secretary of the medical and surgical staff at the Melbourne Hospital. Would you be good enough to insert ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting of the Cigar Makers' Society was held at the Trades Hall yesterday evening; Mr. P. Edersham in the chair. The sum of £1 1s. was voted to the funds of the Auti-Chinese ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsMr. Y[?]tland, the Parsonage, St. Philip's Church Hoddie-street, E. Collingwood--Sir,--At a meeting of the medical and surgical staff of the Melbourne Hospital a communication was placed before them having ...
Article : 145 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:--TUESDAY, 5TH JUNE.—Western Australia: No report. South Australia: Fine south of Peak; raining between ...
Article : 286 wordsA singular case of attempted burglary, accompanied by violence, is reported to the police from West Melbourne. An elderly woman named Mary Harrington, who resides ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsSIR,—I beg to acknowlege the receipt of your letter, dated 4th June, which has come to hand by this evening's post. This letter states that a meeting of the medical and surgical d staff took place last Friday ...
Article : 295 wordsSIR,—As my name has been published as one of the directors of the Glenroy Estate Company Limited, will you kindly allow me to announce—by publication of this note—that I am not a ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 6 Jun 1888, Page 6
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