Mr. Samuel, chairman of the Taranaki Oil Company, reports that the flow at the bore is at present small, only 627 gallons being obtained at the last test per diem, about 67 galions ...
Article : 104 wordsThe trial of Dr. Jameson and his followers resulted as everyone foresaw it would so soon as the judges showed that they would not pay any attention to the technical points raised by Sir ...
Article : 2,828 wordsThe select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the various clauses of the bill submitted by the Metropolitan Board to amend the act under which it is ...
Article : 1,608 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Mr. Carroll announced his intention to resign and seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court, and his seat was declared vacant. ...
Article : 244 wordsA well attended public meeting was held at the South Melbourne town hall last night to discuss the half holiday question. The mayor (Cr. W. H. Owen) presided. A communication ...
Article : 457 wordsAt the Hotel Metropole yesterday evening the annual meeting of the Victorian Dairymen's Association was held, Mr. R. J. Argyle, president, in the chair. There was a large ...
Article : 1,638 wordsIn the County Court to-day, before Judge Casey, the executors of W. and J. Thomson, deceased, sought to recover £230 damages for the conversion of wheat from William C. ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the banking committee to-day, Mr. Murray's answers to the questions put to him in the Legislative Council's banking committee were received, and consideration of them was ...
Article : 57 wordsJohn Greene was to-day charged with attempting to carnally abuse his daughter Annie, 5 years of age. The bench consisted of Messrs. W. Leader, P.M., R. W. Tanner and P. ...
Article : 152 wordsAt the Glebe police court to-day, Edward George Williams, inspector of the Animals Protection Society, proceeded against Edward Wass, horse dealer, for ill treating horses ...
Article : 135 wordsIn the Assembly to-day in reply to Mr. Sim, Mr. Tozer said he was aware that the Chinese from the Northern Territory of South Australia were still entering the colony in small ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Dandenong shire council has received a complaint from the secretary of the League of Victorian Wheelmen that some persons on Sunday last had placed obstructions of ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. J. G. Carroll, M.L.A. for the Lachlan, has resigned his sent on account of insolvency, caused by a law case. ...
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Article : 90 wordsA public meeting was held here yesterday to consider the mail service south of Bairnsdale, the president of the shire presiding. Delegates from Bengworden, Goon Nure, Forge Creek, ...
Article : 131 wordsA substantial majority of the shopkeepors of Hawthorn have, it is stated, decided to close their premises oil Wednesday afternoon. Two petitions have been largely signed, that in favor ...
Article : 295 wordsEight men employed on the Combe-Martin station, near Ilfracombe, have been seized with symptoms of irritant poisoning. One man has been conveyed to the hospital, but no fatal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 320 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, Mr. Waddell asked the Premier how long Sir Saul Samuel had occupied the position of Agent-General for the colony, and whether he ...
Article : 153 wordsOnly the Assembly sat to-day. The Premier promised to introduce bills to extend the Legislative Council franchise, to introduce reforms in the civil service and to establish a ...
Article : 406 wordsMartin, the American cyclist, on the exhibition track this afternoon performed some record lowering. He was paced alternately by two triplets and a tandem. He did 2 miles in ...
Article : 95 wordsThe unsettled condition of the weather which has prevailed during the past week still continues, and though yesterday morning "breathed promise of merry ...
Article : 144 wordsIn connection with the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench through the retirement of Mr. Justice Windeyer, it is believed that Acting Justice Cohen has been offered the position. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Ballarat Wesleyan Ministers Association to-night passed a resolution expressing disapproval of the action of the Rev. H. Howard, Wesleyan clergyman, in ...
Article : 80 wordsLord Hampden will pay an official visit to Norfolk Island in November in the cruiser Katoomba. The acting Government statistician gives the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsA deputation of residents waited on the Minister of Justice yesterday to ask that a county court be established at Korumburra. It was stated that the district to be served ...
Article : 89 wordsIn the Assembly the report of the joint committee on meat supply was presented. It recommends the establishment of abattoirs. Mr. Harper moved to-day that it is desirable ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 wordsAn old miner named James Pollock has been refused admittance to the local hospital because he is suffering from a malignant form of erysipelas, and there are no isolated wards. ...
Article : 464 wordsThe Government has received a communication from the authorities of Natal asking for quotations for 10,000 railway sleepers. The Governor returned to-day from his visit ...
Article : 75 wordsThe whole time of the Assembly to-day was occupied in discussing the Gambling Bill. In committee, clause 2 was amended, providing against betting from a business point of view, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe customs revenue still shows a decrease, but the drawbacks have been exceptionally heavy this year. To 29th August the receipts were £107,078, compared with £114,786 to 31st ...
Article : 104 wordsThe bill embodying the Government's financial proposals passed its final stage in the House of Representatives to-day by a majority of 10 votes. ...
Article : 46 wordsAn inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday by Mr. Candler, coroner for Bourke, on the body of Thomas James Marsball, 35 years, who, as already reported, was found in a dying ...
Article : 235 wordsSIR,--That there should be found one in this district to question the correctness of your remarks in reference to the party feeling existing during the late contests will come as a ...
Article : 239 wordsAt a public meeting in Perth to-night a unanimous vote of confidence was passed in the scheme to establish a chilled meat company in the colony. ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. W. Kiddle, of Walbundrie Station, recently suggested an increase of the dog tax as a means of restricting the damages caused by dogs among flocks. A few days ago he received ...
Article : 252 wordsThe man Short, arrested on suspicion of having committed the double murder for plunder at Petone, was brought before the police court to-day, and evidence taken at length. It is ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 4 Sep 1896, Page 6
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