The thermometer to-day registered 106 in the shade. A hot wind prevailed, and the air was full of smoke from bush fires. At Gerogery East on Saturday a large area of ...
Article : 1,318 wordsCardinal Moran delivered the first of a series of advent addresses at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday, 27th November. In the course of his remarks be strongly ...
Article : 900 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon. Alderman Bayles was voted to the chair, in the absence of the Mayor. ...
Article : 897 wordsThe action brought by Rothwell Richard Grundy, contractor, of Goburg, and an ex-councillor of the Coburg shire, against Cr. John M'Crory, grocer, of the same place, to ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Chamber of Manufactures last evening resumed consideration of the recent reports of general sweating in metropolitan manufacturing trades. Mr. F. T. Derham presided. ...
Article : 996 wordsA meeting of the council of the University of Melbourne was held yesterday, at the Law Courts. Present—Sir John Madden, Chancellor, in the chair; Sir Henry Wrlxon, ...
Article : 1,007 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, John Manuel, bookmaker, was charged with the larceny of money deposited with him in bets, and was acquitted, none of the prosecutors ...
Article : 88 wordsAt a meeting of the Traders Association council and representatives of the Stock Exchange and city council to-night, the following resolution was carried:— ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. Justice Owen, the commissioner appointed by the Government to inquire into the conduct of the recent Hastings and Macleay election, to-day took the evidence of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 234 wordsAn old resident of Warrenmang, Mr. George Tuck, while out shooting caught the trigger of his gun in the scrub. The charge exploded, entering his abdomen. It was ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-night, the proposal of the Government to establish a factory for the uniforms of the Government employes was discussed, ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. Joseph Arthur, one of the oldest local preachers in the Primitive Methodist Church' in this district, died suddenly last night from inflammation of the lungs. He was 63 years ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the local branch of the A.M.A. on Saturday night, the vice-president, Mr. J. Harris, wanted to know how to deal with non-unionists working ...
Article : 116 wordsThe customs officers have confiscated a quantity of jewellery, the property of Hensen and Smith, trading as the Australian Jewellery Co., on which it is alleged duty ...
Article : 187 wordsA couple of trucks were derailed at the local station this morning, and blocked the down line. The first passenger train from the metropolis was very late in reaching ...
Article : 48 wordsThe sittings of the Divorce Court were resumed yesterday before Mr. Justice a'Beckett. PAGE V. PAGE. Albert Chas. Page, wharf laborer, told the court ...
Article : 879 wordsWilliam Grimley, an old Ballarat identity, died in the Benevolent Asylum last night, aged 70 years. D[?]sed, who was engaged in the manufacture of bricks at North Geelong ...
Article : 656 wordsThe annual cricket match between Prince Alfred and Saint Peter's Colleges was concluded this afternoon, when a disgraceful scene occurred. The St. Peter's boys were ...
Article : 109 wordsNo fewer than 20 alarms of fire were received at the central station of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade yesterday, and the firemen had an exceptionally anxious time. The ...
Article : 215 wordsClouds of dust and smoke all day. Thermometer, 107 in the shade. BROKEN HILL. Monday. The shade heat to-day was 108. The hot ...
Article : 98 wordsThe detectives to-day arrested two men, said to have stolen 1000 feet of galvanised iron and several thousand feet of timber from Honey and Co.'s timber yard, Adelaide, ...
Article : 133 wordsIt was [?] degrees in the shade at 9 o'clock this morning, but shortly afterwards a cool change set in from the west. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe heaviest earthquake experienced in Gisborne for years occurred at 6 o'clock last evening, being one of a series of eight felt between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. The direction of ...
Article : 196 wordsTo-day, a photographer in Murray-street was burning rubbish at the back of his premises, when the strong wind blew the burning papers about, and the adjoining buildings ...
Article : 971 wordsA disaster which befel, a party of cyclists returning from Mordialloc via the Brighton Beach-road on Hospital Sunday was investigated by Judge Hamilton in the County ...
Article : 446 wordsIn cycling circles nothing was more talked about yesterday than the difficulty that has arisen between the Melbourne Bicycle Club and the L.V.W. in connection with the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe South Melbourne court was occupied nearly the whole of yesterday in the hearing of cases, in which Edward John Bartlett, manufacturer, of Grant-street, was charged with employing, persons ...
Article : 515 wordsA petition was presented to the Premier to-day, numerously signed by representative men of foreign mining companies operating in the eastern gold fields, asking the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Prahran Women's Franchise League has issued circulars, to various suburban municipal councils, drawing attention to a section in the Local Government Act ...
Article : 143 wordsIn reference to the robbery from the telegraph office, the Government has appointed a board, independent of telegraph officials, to hold a departmental inquiry. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe circular was discussed by the Prahran council at its meeting last night. Cr. Turner moved to the effect that the letter be received, and that the council disapprove of the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe exporters of Sydney doing business with Queensland complain that undue preference is being given to Melbourne as an export port in the matter of freights. A ...
Article : 230 wordsSir,—The M.B.C. wish the public to thoroughly understand that the necessity for the cancellation of L. B. Scharp's entry, which arose in connection with the Austral ...
Article : 229 wordsChapman, a letter carrier at Christchurch, has been arrested on a charge of stealing 720 letters. A man's boot, with part of the bones of a ...
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Advertising : 471 wordsThe circular was considered by the Fitzroy council also last night. Cr. Millis thought municipal councils might be improved by the admission of women. He proposed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 wordsThe case in which a resident of Prahran, named Lucy Alice Saxe, was alleged to have stabbed her daughter, Lucy Alice Saxe, was brought before Judge Gaunt in the Melbourne General Sessions ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThe local, auditor for Prahran having, along with the Government auditor, completed the examination of the accounts, presented the council last night with a report. He said that comparing estimates ...
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Advertising : 155 wordsThe intercolonial selection committee, Messrs. Charlton, M'Kenzie and Gregory, to-day selected the following team to represent New South Wales in the match to be commenced on Friday, on the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 6 Dec 1898, Page 6
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