In the County Court to-day, before Judge Gaunt, an interesting case was heard, which is supposed to be the first of the kind known in the colonial courts. The case arose over a garnishee ...
Article : 353 wordsThe annual meeting of the Langridge Mutual Permanent Building Society was held at the Foresters' Hall, Collingwood, last night, Mr. W. Hunter (chairman) presiding over a large ...
Article : 456 wordsThe announcement of a lecture on the Chinese by Mr. Choong, the well known Chinese missionary, in aid of the Chinese mission in Victoria, drew a large gathering to the ...
Article : 945 wordsAt the South Melbourne town hall, yesterday evening, a lecture was delivered by Archbishop Carr on Early Irish Art, in aid of the South Melbourne stall at the forthcoming St. Patrick's ...
Article : 473 wordsThe revenue of the colony for the week ended 27th October showed a decrease of £13,927 as compared with the corresponding week of lest year. The chief decreases were stamps €5661 ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. H. E. Barnes, chairman of the Irrigation Company, left by the steamer Pearl to-night for Melbourne in connection with the Mildura Trusts Bill, which it is confidently anticipated ...
Article : 109 wordsThe longest session of Parliament on record in this colony is expected to terminate this evening, and why it has lasted so long can only be accounted for by the fact that never before ...
Article : 2,418 wordsAn appeal was made to the Full Court to-day, on behalf of the defendant in the action Smiles v. Head, against the decision of Judge Murray, before whom the case was heard in September ...
Article : 258 wordsAn animal supposed to be a tiger was seen close to Horsham yesterday. This afternoon a farmer coming to town again saw it five miles from where it was seen on the previous day. A ...
Article : 55 wordsAn important statement was made to-night at the meeting of the Castlemaine Horticultural Society by Mr. Warren, one of the most experienced fruit growers in the Harcourt district. ...
Article : 76 wordsThere were two steamer arrivals to-day. The Lancashire Lass, Captain Wilson, from the Murrumbidgee, brought 1371 bales of wool. The leading brands were: Benduck, Cowl Cowl, ...
Article : 86 wordsAn inquest on the body of a child, name unknown, which was found covered over with a bag on a vacant piece of land near the Station Hotel on Thursday last, was held yesterday by ...
Article : 158 wordsThe crew of the steamer Bowra, which foundered off the Seal Rocks on Saturday, arrived at Nelson's Bay to-day in boats. When the vessel foundered she was being headed for the ...
Article : 197 wordsA young man named John Coutts, aged 20, the support of a widowed mother, was killed in the Confidence Extended mine to-day. He was engaged about midday with several mates in the 1270 ...
Article : 125 wordsThe sittings of the Criminal Court for October were concluded yesterday, before Mr. Justice Holroyd. SENTENCES. ...
Article : 176 wordsAt the South Melbourne court yesterday, before Messrs. Glover and Christmas, J's.P., several charges against seamen of the British barque William Fairbairn, arising out of ...
Article : 626 wordsWhen charged on remand with conspiring to obtain £28 and six opals, valued at £10, from Waiter Swinfield, before the City Court yesterday, a pica of guilty was entered by Fredr. ...
Article : 152 wordsA petition to the Minister of Railways, asking for the construction of the above line, has been numerously signed by residents. At a meeting of settlors yesterday, however, the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Marine Board to-day held an inquiry concerning the ketches Trio and Rob Roy, which have been missing since the 24th September. It is supposed they foundered with all hands. The ...
Article : 60 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the Collingwood Bench Constable Coote, of the local division of police, was proceeded against on a charge of trespass, under peculiar circumstances. On the ...
Article : 179 words"JUSTICE," North Macclesfield, complains that an attempt is being made by the inhabitants of the northern portion of the district to remove the post office from its present position. ...
Article : 743 wordsA party of seven young men were fishing at the mouth of the Bega River yesterday, when the boat was swept out to sea. Six of the men jumped out of the boat and swam ashore. ...
Article : 60 wordsA charge against a youth named Bradley Soule of unlawfully wounding Henry Moran, fish hawker, residing in Cubitt-street, was partly heard at yesterday's sitting of the Richmond ...
Article : 233 wordsA boy 4 years of age, the son of a miner named Cannon, at Coalville, was drowned in the Narracan Creek on Saturday afternoon. His body was found on Sunday afternoon by a search ...
Article : 73 wordsThe filling of the Greta Colliery with nonunion labor is still causing considerable trouble. The unionists have all the roads closely picketed, and great trouble is experienced in ...
Article : 93 wordsSlR,--You are deserving of the thanks of the whole community for your exhaustive description and expose in recent issues of your journal of the Victorian village settlement ...
Article : 402 wordsA wooden shop occupied by Mr. John Young, painter, was discovered to be on fire at 11 o'clock last night. The brigade succeeded in saving the building from total destruction. The fire ...
Article : 118 wordsAn experiment with long distance telephony was made yesterday by connecting Toowoomba with Brisbane, a distance of 86 miles. It was highly successful. Several Ministers of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Alberton butter factory was opened today. The machinery was set in motion and christened in the usual manner by Miss Shaw, daughter of the chairman. The president and ...
Article : 1,316 wordsA boy named Rowland Master, aged 6 years, was burned to death at Rockhampton to-day by his clothes igniting at a kitchen fire. A little girl named Fell, aged 5 years, was also burned ...
Article : 53 wordsThe show held on the 24th and 25th inst. was a decided success. A prominent feature was the sheep, both quality and numbers being good. In the merino class the major portion of the On Thursday last the Institute of Engineers, at the invitation of Messrs. Thompson and Co., visited their engineering workshops at Castlemaine to see the engines, which are now nearly ...
Article : 439 wordsThe box plan of the Princess's Theatre for the first seven nights of the Royal Comic Opera Company's season (Cup week) opens this morning at Allan's, at 9 o'clock. ...
Article : 383 wordsSIR,--Your constant and patriotic efforts to regenerate the social and political system of this colony encourages the belief that you will grant a small space in your valuable journal to ...
Article : 288 wordsThe remains of the boy named Nash, who was recently lost in the scrub, near One Tree Hill, were found on Sunday, two miles from a farm house, in the Kersbrook district. Last week a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsFred. Webster, aged 73, a restaurant keeper in George-street, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself to a banister. He left a letter stating that he was tired of life. ...
Article : 65 wordsTwo colored men were drowned last week off Wai-Weer Island by the capsizing of a dingy. One of the bodies has since been washed ashore on Hammond Island, greatly mutilated by ...
Article : 36 wordsSIR,--As the present Government seems to be earnestly desirous of helping village settlers to remain on the land, I beg, through your columns, to point out one way in which they ...
Article : 254 wordsMount Morgan Gold Mining Company has declared a dividend of 6d. per share for October, equal to £25,000. An old man named Richard Spence has been ...
Article : 57 wordsSIR,--Some few weeks back while in conversation with a farmer from New Zealand, he told me "a firm of Yankees" had entered into the above business there, first securing contracts ...
Article : 318 wordsA man named Anthony Sims, 87 years of age, attempted to commit suicide this morning by cutting his abdomen with a carving knife. He is now in the hospital in a serious condition. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsA shocking case of cruelty to a boy 9 years of ago was before the Richmond court yesterday, the accused being Thomas Gorby, described as an "unemployed agitator." The boy was ...
Article : 292 wordsThe council of the Old Colonists' Association held their usual monthly meeting at the offices, 131 William-street, Melbourne, on Friday. Mr. R. Balderson moved the motion standing to his name ...
Article : 164 wordsThe circumstances attending the death of James Fergusson, a lamplighter, 39 years of age, who resided at 59 Little Collins-street, and died in the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday ...
Article : 181 wordsAn important gold reef, 3 feet wide, has been discovered at Langdons, nine miles from Grey, mouth, at a lower level than ever tested before. A rush has set in. ...
Article : 34 wordsSIR,--Your sub-editorial of this date, reviewing the evolution and progress of the modern novel as an active factor in stimulating political thought aud moulding opinion, aptly refers to ...
Article : 163 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of the committee of the above association was held at the head office on Friday. Present: Mr. P. O'Neill, in the chair, A. Hardham, T. Lloyd, W. Stutt, ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Trustees, Executors and Agency Company Limited is applying for probate of the will of Dr. William John Richard Ray, late of Seymour, who died on the 25th September last. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 30 Oct 1894, Page 6
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