Soon after the Legislative Assembly met today Mr. Walker, as chairman, brought up the progress report from the select committee appointed on 15th November to inquire into and ...
Article : 883 wordsMr. Job Mills, one of the pioneers of this distrist, died yesterday, at the advanced age of 83 years. Mr. Mills was the first selector of land at Natte Yallocke, and during the early days ...
Article : 579 wordsSir Arthur Sullivan delivered his inaugural address, as president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, at the town hall, Birmingham, last evening, to a large gathering of ...
Article : 1,199 wordsThe Chicago correspondent of the New York World, telegraphing on the 17th November, says:--Kyrle Bellow told your correspondent to-day some things about himself and his folk ...
Article : 805 wordsIn connection with the registration of foreigners in France some interesting particulars have just been published respecting the low life members of the largo Russian colony ...
Article : 520 wordsWe have recently published from English newspapers accounts of the extraordinary influence which has been exercised over the King of Wurtemberg by a party of Americans who are ...
Article : 1,058 wordsThe secretary of Bowes's Tattersall's Club Sotities that setting over the Williamstown, Elsternwick and Caulfield meeting will take place at 11 O'clock on Thursday, the 27th inst. ...
Article : 89 wordsThere is every probability of the Australian game of football being established in America, and with this end in view an exhibition match will take place between Carlton and St. Kilda, on the St. ...
Article : 119 wordsA race meeting will be held at Williamstown today, when a programme of six Events will be run through. Racing will commence at 1.30 with the Hurdle Race, of 75 sors., one mile and a half; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsTrial pairs were held during the past week amongst the members of the above club for trophies presented by the captain (Mr. G. E. Upward). The following were the results:-- ...
Article : 117 wordsBAD CHARACTERS.-- Three women named Matilda Barclay, Elizabeth Prior and Ellcn Clark, and two men, named Wm. Shaw and Charles Carlson, were charged yesterday before ...
Article : 1,236 wordsThe lance which is about to be reintroduced in the German service (says the Broad Arrow), for both medium and heavy cavalry, is a weapon materially different from former types. Besides ...
Article : 224 wordsA very cool robbery took place at an early hour yesterday morning at the Court House Hotel, Nicbolson-street, Footscray. About 11 O'Clock William Muir, who acts as barman for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsBelmont and Saxby, 21st Dec.--69 tons crashed from the stones on south boundary at No. 1 level yield 153 oz, 10 dwt. gold. Srane continues to show payable gold, but have only about 5 feet to ...
Article : 1,223 wordsIt was hoped some time ago (says the hospital) that the fashion of wearing the dead bodies of birds as trimmings for bonnets and hats was going out. Such a hope, apparently, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 643 wordsAccording to the report of the British Consul at Trieste, which has just been issued by the Foreign Office, the principal question of the day there is the cessation of its freedom as a ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Californian Thistle Commission Board have during the week been holding meetings in the surrounding districts, and the evidence brought forward showed that the evil is likely ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 772 wordsThe Mansion House conference on the condition of the unemployed have (says the Times) issued the following memorandum:-- At the conclusion of the term of ...
Article : 549 wordsThe second half yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Melbourne Discount and Guarantee Company Limited, was held at the City Hall, on Tuesday, the 18th inst., Mr. W. H. ...
Article : 448 wordsSIR,--As a constant reader of your paper I would beg to be allowed to make some remarks relative to an establishment which is growing up amongst us, and is mentioned by ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Electric Telegraph Rowing Club commenced a pair oar competition on Wednesday afternoon for trophies resenting two handsome pewters bearing two flags showing the club's colors nicely ...
Article : 278 wordsSIR,--In glancing over your widely circulated columns my attention was attracted to a letter signed "Engineman." I may tell you that I was not the least surprised that such a state of ...
Article : 308 wordsA special meeting of the Victorian Football Association was held last evening at Young and Jack son's Hotel for the purpose of reconsidering the arrangements of matches for next season. Mr. P. ...
Article : 193 wordsSIR,--Yesterday, at about 6 p.m., I went with two ladies,, into the first class dining rooms on the south side of the lake. After partaking of mutton chops, tea and bread and butter, I looked ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 22 Dec 1888, Page 11
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