The whole coast line of Victoria seems to have been swept with gales of exceptional fury during tho past few days, and the steamers that arrived yesterday had very rough passages ...
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Article : 3,872 wordsThe works committee of the town council today revolved to recommend that Mayor Pearce he nominated for one of tho vacancies in the Ballarat Prospecting Board. Hitherto the council ...
Article : 925 wordsAccording to the general statements of the accounts of the city of Fitzroy for the past year the amount of assessments (after reduction on appeals, £514) was £349,607. A rate of 1s. 8d ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Treasurer expects his financial statement to bo quite ready for Wednesday night. It will show very extensive retrenchment. A deputation representing the tobacco ...
Article : 597 wordsAn action by the Bank of South Australia against John Williams, of Raleigh-street, Essendon, was concluded in the First Civil Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice and a jury of ...
Article : 552 wordsThe disputed will case of Israel Arons, 102 Charles-street, Prahran, was decided in the Second Civil Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Hodges. The tostator was ...
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Article : 519 wordsThe individual who placed the amputated human limbs at Hawthorn and South Yarra seams to be beyond the reach of detection, and the police to be effectually baffled. Through ...
Article : 131 wordsSIR,--In your issue of to-day is a letter from Messrs. Bullen and Winter, in which, after referring to us and the question of winding up under the supervision of the court, or ...
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Article : 544 wordsA lad named James Steedman was drowned whilst bathing in Breakfast Greek yesterday. The body of a man, name unknown, was found in the river to-day. ...
Article : 183 wordsASSAULT ON A WIFE.--At the Carlton court yesterday, an elderly man named Zachariah Garbutt was charged with assaulting his wife, Annie. The prisoner had recovered from the effects of a ...
Article : 672 wordsThe trial of John Hyam Nathan, one of the ex-directors of the notorious Australian Banking Company, was opened to-day. Tho charge was that of conspiring to defraud. Nathan ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Petersburg small-pox case continues to progress favorably. Desiccation is nearly complete on the legs and feet, and the scabs are becoming freely detached about the face, body ...
Article : 288 wordsThe heat of the past few days was oppressive, and culminated this evening this a heavy thunderstorm, with small bail. At Toowoomba the thunderstorm was of cyclonic force, ...
Article : 328 wordsA special meeting of the shareholders in the Great South Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company No Liability, Walhalla, was held yesterday afternoon in the board room, Broken Hill-chambers, ...
Article : 139 wordsOn Thursday night last Mr. John Wilson, a very old resident of this town, was willfully thrown from the bridge on the Sydney-road into Hughes's Creek, falling a distance of about 30 ...
Article : 134 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Victoria Gold Mining Association (Charters Towers) No Liability was held yesterday morning at the registered office, 70 Queen-street. On the motion ...
Article : 61 wordsA number of jockeys and horsey men from Caulfield, amongst whom was the rider of Glenloth, tho winner of the last Melbourne Cup, made a march through Prahran yesterday ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Derwent and Tamar Insurance Co. has declared a dividend of 10 per cent, and a bonus of 10 per cent., and curried forward £3000 to the reserve fund. ...
Article : 140 wordsA large fire occurred shortly before 7 o'clock this evening in Moorabool-street, originating at the rear portion of Thear and Bartlett's cabinet making establishment, ...
Article : 184 wordsEarly on Sunday morning Constable Kloster, of the Hawthorn police, had an exciting adventure with a gang of supposed burglars in Power-street, Lower Hawthorn. About 1.30 the ...
Article : 278 wordsYesterday at the Essendon police court John O'Connor, chief inspector of distilleries, proceeded against Jean Constant for having an unlicensed still on his premises at Essendon. ...
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Article : 522 wordsA disturbance, resulting in Mrs. Josephine Sheppard, the wife of the keeper of the International Restaurant, 27 and 29 Bourke-street, being rather badly injured, and in Hugh ...
Article : 389 wordsSir,--Through an article which appeared in your valuable paper some time ago treating of scent farming, my attention was first drawn to this industry, and owing to the continued ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 13 Dec 1892, Page 6
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