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Article : 996 wordsThe Banking Commission took evidence in the shire hall at Numurkah to-day, Messrs. Winter, Cook, Kennedy, Sachse and Beasley being present. Mr. E. Richardson Miller, ...
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Article : 194 wordsMr. Justice Hood in the Practice Court yesterday, made an order for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of Thomas Newton, of Moorabool, grazier, on the motion of Mr. Woolf. ...
Article : 99 wordsA new water tube marine boiler, invented and patented by Mr. Montague Shann, of Melbourne, underwent a successful test last evening at Fry's Flour Mills, Lake Wendouree. ...
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Article : 286 wordsCharles August Mortison, a Swede, following the occupation of a fish hawker, was charged at the Flemington court yesterday, before Mr. Keogh, P.M., with inflicting grievous bodily ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 17 May 1895, Page 6
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