Traffic between here and Swan Hill has been suspended owing to the sinking of the punt which plied on the Wakool River. This has resulted in the mails being ...
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Advertising : 185 wordsThe Premier delivered a supplementary policy speech at Cheltenham last night. There was ail attendance of about 200, and the Minister of Lands and the Minister of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsWilliam Martin, who fell over Whitehead's Creek-bridge when going to work on Tuesday morning, and sustained injuries to his spine, died in the Kilmore Hospital ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 419 wordsA revised determination of the shirt board, which deals with shirts, shirt fronts, pyjamas, underpants, collars and cuffs, has been gazetted, and will come into force on ...
Article : 167 wordsAfter touring the Murchison gold fields the Premier and party reached Geraldton today. As this is the head quarters of the Northern Development League, which ...
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Article : 1,026 wordsSurprise is expressed in this locality that the Government has not thrown open the large tract of idle Crown lands on the north side of the Moe country to stock owners ...
Article : 99 wordsA young man named Arthur [?]iggmbotham was riding a bicycle without a brake down a steep hill on the road to Abercrombie River, about five miles from ...
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Article : 264 wordsA deputation from representatives of the painters' trade, accompanied by Messrs. Prendergast, Le[?]non and El[?]slic, M's.L.A., including representatives of the Master Painters' Association ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsAt Carlton yesterday, Florence Dorr charged her husband, Frederick Dorr, butcher, of Drummond-street, with having left her on 4th inst, without means of support. Mr. Ridgway ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsThe sitting of the Licences Deduction Board was continued to-day in the warden's court. Further evidence was given in the case of the Three Tuns Hotel, Arnold-street; owner, W. Bruce; ...
Article : 312 wordsIt is probable that the subsidies now paid by the State towards the outdoor relief granted by charitable aid hoards and other institutions will be withdrawn, the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe third annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons and cage birds held under the auspices of the Brunswick, Coburg and District Poultry Society was opened ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsIn the course of an address in the South Melbourne town hall last night Mr. O. R. Snowball, Grand Master, said one of the aims of Orangeism was to separate the ...
Article : 253 wordsWhen the Metropolitan Board decided to establish a renewals fund it was resolved that the sum set aside should not exceed the anticipated surplus in the net revenue ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 618 wordsThe Glen Huntly train service was discussed at sonic length at Wednesday night's meeting of the Caulfield council. Cr. Wood reported that he and Cr. Thomson had waited on the Railway ...
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Article : 275 wordsThomas Glnu[?]van, laborer, formerly licensed victualler. Causes of insolvency: Losses in business as an hotel keeper, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £553 1610; assets, £1; deficiency, ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the ordinary meeting or the Heidelbary council on Wednesday, Cr. Waddell, chairman of the gas committee, announced that the negotiations which had been going on with the Metropolitan ...
Article : 84 wordsFourteen cases of mandarins that arrived from Sydney per the Westralia today were found infested with fruit fly Practical every shipment recently has ...
Article : 47 wordsA telegram from Bega states that the decision of the Melbourne Shipping Co. to continue to trade on the far southern coast of New South Wales is hailed with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsSeveral local fishermen who went on a visit of inspection to New South Wales, with the intention of settling there should conditions prove satisfactory, have returned ...
Article : 67 wordsA deputation from the residents of Surrey Hills and Fox Hill, introduced by Mr. Madden, M.L.A., waited on the Minister of Education on Wednesday, and stated that the extensions being made to the ...
Article : 96 wordsJohn Ross-Soden, of "Larnook" Orrong-road, Armadale, was yesterday prosecuted at the District Court for having negligently driven a motor car across the intersection of Flinders and ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 12 Jun 1908, Page 6
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