The following account of the Ladysmith "Birthday Battle" was published "The Age" of 21st November, in a London cablegram of 20th:--News has been received ...
Article : 566 wordsYesterday work on the Collingwood line remained, as far as the draymen were concerned, absolutely at a standstill. The officers of the railway construction branch ...
Article : 502 wordsThe small-pox patient who was taken ill soon after the Nineveh's passengers into quarantine is still lying in a critical condition at the small-pox station. ...
Article : 133 wordsUpon a scrutiny of the votes it has been found that the reduction in liquor licences was not carried in either Dunedin or Wellington suburbs. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Solomon Ministry held a Cabinet meeting this morning, when the question of asking for a dissolution was debated; but it was decided not to ask. Three Ministers ...
Article : 683 wordsMr. Lyne says that the £4,000,000 Treasury bills which he proposes to issue will be placed, for the most part, in London. No steps, however, can he taken until ...
Article : 47 wordsAn inquest was held to-day, before Mr. T. Odgers, J.P. on the infant child of Sir. Binns, station master, Guildford. Mr. Binns gave evidence that he was awakened ...
Article : 176 wordsA case of a distressingly painful nature came before the Tamworth police court to-day. A deaf and dumb girl, unable to read or write, or ...
Article : 167 wordsThe reduction of licences has been carried in the following electorates:--Bruce, Okinemuri, Oamaru and Karapoi, and possibly one or two others. The prohibitionists polled ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Naval brigade landed at Durban from her Majesty's ship Powerful arrived on the scene towards the end of the Ladysmith fight, and at once brought their heavy guns ...
Article : 590 wordsThe condition of the small-pox patient, Mouldsdale, who is in No. 5 hospital, under the care of Dr. James, has been such during the last couple of days as to occasion ...
Article : 145 wordsFrederick Aird, aged 11, was drowned at Redan to-day, and his playmate, named Arthur Sadlier, narrowly escaped the same fate in an heroic attempt to rescue him. ...
Article : 126 wordsDetective Christie, of the Victorian Customs department, is here in connection with the recent seizure of 55 bullocks by the customs officers at Wodonga on the ...
Article : 336 wordsOn the deck of the Glaucus yesterday morning, Captain Bennett, at present the oldest ship master of the port, referred to the dilatoriness shown in Melbourne in ...
Article : 259 wordsWith reference to the New Zealand general elections, which took place on Wednesday last, resulting in Mr. Seddon claiming a majority, our Wellington correspondent, ...
Article : 724 wordsThe bush fire reported in "The Age" to-day to be raging on "The Ridge" Station proved to be more extensive than was first reported. It was raging for six hours ...
Article : 206 wordsA married man named James Boag, 26 years of age, met with a fatal accident at the puddling plant of the Duke United this morning. He started work at 8 a.m., being ...
Article : 133 wordsA telegram received from Mr. Tarerner was read at to-day's meeting of the shire council, stating that the Railways Committee would inspect one of the rival routes ...
Article : 83 wordsWith the advent of warm weather snakes are beginning to make their appearance. One day this week the 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Miles, Drouin South-road, was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Law Journal" points out, in a timely note, that the proclamations of annexation issued by the Transvaal over British territories probably have their origin in a ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Bairnsdale council to-day received a a letter from the Southern Monaro Railway League, stating that Mr. Wood, the New South Wales Minister for Justice, thought ...
Article : 256 wordsIn the district court to-day Edward Howard Wallace Whitehouse, a Congregational minister, was charged with bigamy. The evidence for the prosecution showed that ...
Article : 201 wordsThe new engineer has condemned the bridge over the Mitchell, as it is likely to collapse at any moment, and he recommends that strict surveillance be kept over ...
Article : 166 wordsThere was a large attendance at the meeting of the North Melbourne branch of the A.N.A. last evening, when the ceremony of installing the newly elected officers was ...
Article : 384 wordsMr. Kingston, who has been suffering from overwork for some time, will take a rest. He intends in may next to contest a seat at the periodical elections for the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Cape "Argus" published (said a Monday's telegram) the following from Ladysmith:--"Great excitement has been caused in the artillery camp by the capture of a ...
Article : 196 wordsDuring the time of the construction of the Woomelang line, land holders adjoining were subjected to much annoyance and inconvenience owing to their fencing being ...
Article : 151 wordsThat modern Dugald Dalgetty, Colonel Schiel, has been paying a tribute to the British shooting. According to the special correspondent of the "Times," he says that ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. M'Gowan asked the Premier whether he had devised any scheme of reproductive works to give the unemployed something to do during ...
Article : 414 wordsWhile the prisoners of Yatala prison stockade were at dinner on Monday, the boiler of the stone crusher exploded, and did much damage. No men were in the ...
Article : 39 wordsSome weeks ago the committee of the Benevolent Asylum made the discovery that nearly every woman in the institution smoked tobacco. At least that was the inference to be drawn from the ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. Justice Hensman to-day admitted all the alluvial miners who are awaiting trial to bail on entering into recognisances of £100 each and three sureties of £50 each ...
Article : 122 wordsLarge quantities of goods arrived here to-day by team for local storekeepers, who state they effect a considerable saving by having their goods sent by team in ...
Article : 38 wordsA recent decision by the City Court magistrates was upset yesterday by Mr. Justice Hood, in chambers, when the case of Hall v. Harris was under review. On 18th October last Nathan ...
Article : 231 wordsTelegrams have been published regarding a lion which was said to have been presented by Mr. Cecil Rhodes to President Kruger, and which was sent back. A Cape paper, ...
Article : 389 wordsMr. Hugh Gordon, of Lee Farm, Bally-rogan, one of "The Leader" prize takers, has been officially notified that he has been awarded a first class diploma, equivalent to ...
Article : 80 wordsA monster meeting, convened by the Federal League, was held in the town hall last night. The mayor of Coolgardie moved--"That this meeting deplores the action of ...
Article : 199 wordsOrange River, 9th November (per despatch rider from Kimberley, 3rd November).--The Boers have been exceedingly busy to-day, looting cattle within a few ...
Article : 568 wordsSome months ago considerable public interest was displayed in regard to a sensational daylight robbery of diamond rings from the establishment of Messrs. Denis Bros., of Elizabeth-street, and ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Benevolent Asylum committee yesterday dealt with the case of an inmate who was alleged to have attempted to steal the coat of a fellow inmate. He was intercepted at the front gates when ...
Article : 89 wordsThe death is announced, from influenza, of the Rev. E. Doddrell, Congregational minister at Newtown, Wellington, who recently came from Richmond, Victoria. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe committee of the local branch of the A.M.A., at its meeting to-night, decided to ask the Minister of Mines to appoint an efficient officer to inspect and report upon ...
Article : 46 wordsThe desire of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to assist the trade of the colony by holding an exhibition in 1901 was expressed in a resolution which it recently ...
Article : 170 wordsVacancies for women at the Benevolent Asylum rarely exist. There was a single vacancy yesterday, the first for several weeks, and as there were about a dozen applicants the committee had some ...
Article : 137 wordsWhile the members of the 3rd Battalion Infantry Brigade were on parade to-night, Colonel Williams, commanding officer, presented Privates Hurst and M'Kissock. who ...
Article : 53 wordsAt Prahran court yesterday, M. Espinasse, dress maker, 127 Chapel-street, Windsor, was charged with working five of her employes over 48 hours during week ending 18th November, contrary to ...
Article : 108 wordsThe December sittings of the Supreme Court were commenced this morning, before the Chief Justice, Sir John Madden. Albert George Gray, aged 16, pleaded ...
Article : 1,268 wordsNotwithstanding the great heat, the Royal Hall, Footscray, was crowded last evening to hear an address from Mr. Manger on the Future of Labor. The address was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsA corporation laborer, named Charles Moule, was accused in the Prahran court yesterday of having on 27th November been unlawfully intimate with Ida L. Wicks, a girl under 16 years of age. ...
Article : 217 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, the Speaker announced the resignation of Mr. Drake as member for Enoggera, and the seat was declared vacant. ...
Article : 227 wordsThere was a large attendance of Chinese at a meeting held last night in the Temperance Hall, in celebration of the anniversary of the Church Mission to Chinese in Victoria. Although the very ...
Article : 239 wordsA telegram from Kimberley, dated 27th October, says:--" We have definite information here that the Boers have strict orders to pick off officers in each engagement. So ...
Article : 85 wordsA few minutes before midnight on 6th inst., Francis Thomas Drew, a wharf laborer, was seen by Constable Dawkins standing in Flinders-street with a caddy of tea in his hand. When questioned by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria Hospital was held at the institution on Wednesday. There were present:--Lady Sargood (in the chair), Mesdames Fox, Harrison; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsAn unoccupied 4-roomed wooden house, the property of Mr. R. Walker, situate No. 427 Hoddle-street, Coilingwood, was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Nothing is known as to ...
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Advertising : 129 wordsOn Wednesday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, Mrs. Mary Catherine Fisher, aged 37 years, died suddenly at No. 1 Albert-street, South Melbourne. No doctor was in attendance. Deceased had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsAccording to a statement made by the Premier last night, it is expected that the session will close at the end of next week. Parliament has been sitting about six ...
Article : 37 wordsOne department of the army upon which the present war in South Africa seems likely to cast a severe strain is the Royal Army Medical Corps. Mr. Wyndham has recently ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 8 Dec 1899, Page 6
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