On Tuesday two cases of typhoid fever were reported to the city health authorities as having occurred in Raglan-street north Talbot-street south. A case of ...
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Article : 927 wordsThe death of a girl named Eva M'Kay, aged 22, who died yesterday morning at the Melbourne Hospital, has been reported to the coroner. Deceased, who was of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe weather was still very hot yesterday, but on the whole it was a little less severe than on Monday, being about 2 deg. less. The maximum heat yesterday was 96.3 deg. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe four Teralba collieries—Rhondda, Pacific, Northern Extended and Northumberland—were again to-day, the men declining to turn to unless given an ...
Article : 60 wordsThough the City Council can do nothing in the way of enforcing the demolition of the dangerous, tottering ruins of Wallachs'- buildings till the expiry of the fourteen ...
Article : 784 wordsThe special mining tribunal presided over by Judge Heydon to-day continued its hearing of the complaint made regarding the action of the shooters and fillers at the ...
Article : 438 wordsA terrible tragedy occurred at Wyola Place, about seven miles from Cunderdin, on the gold fields railway. A man named John M'Guigan, in charge of the pipe line ...
Article : 451 wordsWarm and sultry conditions are still being experienced in the south-eastern portion of Australia. The maximum temperature in the city today was 96.3 deg., as compared with 97.2 deg. ...
Article : 234 wordsThe young man William Chappell, who attempted to kill his employer, Henry Beach, with a rip saw at his workshop on Christmas eve, was brought before the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe body of a colored man, identified as Charles Lewis, was yesterday found floating in the river on the south side of Princes- bridge by Constable Lampard, who ...
Article : 156 wordsAt the court of petty sessions on Tuesday, a peculiar vaccination case was heard. Mr. G. E. Jewell was summoned for not having his child vaccinated. Defendant ...
Article : 121 wordsThe inquest on the body of Thomas C. Thomas, aged 42, who in December was killed in the shaft of the Duke of Wellington mine near Meredith, where he was ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Rev. H. Scurr, Methodist minister, of Egerton, lodged a complaint with the Ballan shire council respecting an alleged desecration of the Sabbath on the part of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe annual valuation of the Warrnambool shire has been completed, and shows an increase of £1502 on last year's valuation. The value of ratable property in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsReports from Canterbury state that unless the drought breaks soon the effect on the grain crops will be disastrous. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe wheelers employed at the Seaham No. 2 Colliery struck work this morning. The manager, however, was able to procure several of the shiftmen and other mine ...
Article : 181 wordsA narrow escape from drowning is reported from Barren Jack. Two girls, Misses Newling and MacIntyre, were bathing in the Murrumbidgee, and the former ...
Article : 90 wordsSamuel Hill, aged 55 years, who resided with his wife and family at High-street, was to-day arrested by Sergeant Corby and charged with a criminal offence against his ...
Article : 71 wordsAn extensive bush fire broke out on Sunday at Stony Creek, between Glenluce and Glenlyon, on the east side of the River Loddon. The flames spread rapidly, and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe adjourned coroner's inquiry was resumed to-day into the fatality that occurred at the North Shore railway crossing on 30th December, when William Palmer and ...
Article : 462 wordsFor using "fixed engines" in the Loddon River for the purpose of catching fish, James Wigham and William Dow, of Wedderburn, were fined £3 and £2 respectively ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the meeting of the shire council held yesterday something like a crisis occurred, as the council finds itself in the unfortunate position of being overdrawn to the ...
Article : 241 wordsThe new Federal arrangements under which weather forecasts for this State are supplied from the Federal Bureau, Melbourne, have excited nothing but ...
Article : 131 wordsJames Richards, a drover, was charged at the local court yesterday with having in his possession a sheep skin belonging to the executors of the late Samuel Kinder. ...
Article : 1,332 wordsThe Lord Mayor desires that the following statement of the action taken by the City Council be published for the information of the public:— ...
Article : 613 wordsHenry Young, a well dressed young man, who some months ago was convicted on a charge of larceny at the City Court, and recently at the Prahran court, where he was sentenced to three ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Minister of Labor has received an amended determination from the Tinsmiths' Board. It provides for the following increases based on a 48 hours' week:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsAt Her Majesty's Theatre this afternoon the usual matinee performance of Humpty Dumpty will be given. The enthusiasm which greeted the pantomime on its opening night seems rather to ...
Article : 549 wordsIn accordance with the Prime Minister's wish that all ranks of the defense forces should be permitted to criticise the new defence policy and submit suggestions to the ...
Article : 342 wordsFarmers throughout this district are complaining of the scarcity of harvest men this season, and almost every farmer is working short handed. The wages being paid to ...
Article : 43 wordsWhen the G.M.S. Gueisenau reached Fremantle this morning from the eastern States Commander Bolte stated that about 8.30 a.m. to-day a member of the crew, ...
Article : 101 wordsA conference between the Coastal Steamship Owners' Association and the Sydney Wharf Laborers was held to-day to consider the demand made by the union to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsTwo well dressed young men named Ernest Neal and Joseph Irvine were charged at South Melbourne court yesterday with behaving in a riotous manner in a public place. There were also ...
Article : 524 wordsTo two children of tender years belongs a remarkable record of reckless and temporarily successful robberies, committed in different suburbs with an apparent utter ...
Article : 432 wordsA largely attended public meeting, presided over by the mayor, Alderman Watkinson, was held in the council chambers last night, to consider the position of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsNow that the Inspector-General of Military Forces, Major-General Hoad, is in Melbourne once more after a year's activities, in the course of which he has inspected ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—A thinking public, without doubt, thank you for the watchfulness and for the broad-minded spirit exercised in their interest, and hope the cause of progress will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsIt is the intention of the Government to introduce an amending Defence Act before the end of the present session incorporating some of the main changes in the law ...
Article : 59 wordsOn Monday no fewer than 35 tons of tomatoes were, sent away from the Echuca railway station by local growers. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 8 Jan 1908, Page 8
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