Notwithstanding the recent additions to the local railway station, the yard is now so congested with traffic that considerable delay results in working the trains. On ...
Article : 61 wordsEarly this morning, while the wind was blowing a gale and heavy rain was falling, smoke was noticed issuing from a stack of chaff on the wharf occupied by ...
Article : 95 wordsA well-known criminal of most dangerous type, named William King, a man of extraordinary physique, who had been arrested on a charge of burglary and stealing at the dwelling of Mr. E. ...
Article : 839 wordsThomas Richarda, aged 50, seaman on the brig Edward, sustained a fractured leg skylarking in the Sir Charles [?]tham Hotel, Flinders-street, yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsSo far 21 brass bands have entered for the South-street competitions. They are Wide Bay (Queensland), Gympie (Queensland). Kiakuragi (New Zealand), Inverell ...
Article : 186 wordsAt the local sale yards a line of 20 pure bred Lincoln wethers, sold by Messrs. Sweeney Bros, and Connor, bred by Mr. P. Brennan, of Yarram, realised £2 06 ...
Article : 46 wordsA young man named Mark Pitt, aged 24, was brought to Melbourne from Yarragon by train yesterday and conveyed to the Melbourne Hospital [?] an unconscious ...
Article : 136 wordsTwo youths, named Harry and Leonard Cox, aged 20 and 16 years, have been arrested on a charge of sheep stealing at Mincha West. The father of the accused, ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the meeting of the shire council the following resolutions were passed:— That the chairman make the necessary arrangements with the National Bank for the money ...
Article : 128 wordsShortly before midnight on Friday, Alfred Olsen, seaman, employed on the barque, Solgram, was picked up in Sussex-street in an unconscious condition. He was ...
Article : 118 wordsThere were over four inches of rain in the Bega district during the twenty-four hours. This caused the liver to run a banker. The mail driver, David Lambert, ...
Article : 107 wordsWriting to the Shepparton Water Works Trust with reference to the proposal to add to its district the area to be served by the proposed new system for supplying ...
Article : 115 wordsA burning accident happened at Sandford on Saturday night, which resulted in the death of an elderly woman named Mary Rigney, and serious injuries to her ...
Article : 321 wordsIn reference to the resolution recently passed by the Malvern council condemning the practice of the Railway Commissioners in running the Glen Iris train without a fireman to assist in the engine ...
Article : 272 wordsA hitch has occurred in the arrangements between the Wagga municipal council and the Public Health Board concerning the appointment of a qualified sanitary officer for ...
Article : 189 wordsThe adjourned cases against Johanna Fitzgibbon and Elizabeth Kenoir, two women who were found in a wre[?] state of squalor in an old tenement at Back ...
Article : 507 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Port Fairy Hospital and Benevolent Asylum objection was taken by the chairman (Mr. Boyd) to Mr. T. A. Graham, manager of the Bank ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General (Mr. Waddy) has received the following telegram from Charlotte Waters:—"Mails from Adelaide and Oodnadatta due Charlotte ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsRecently the police at Kiewa were informed that the house of R. E. M'Intosh, at Red Bluff, had been broken into, and £45 in notes and gold had been stolen. ...
Article : 67 wordsA number of the residents of the shire of Phillip Island and Woolamai who are opposed to the proposed Nyora to Woolamal railway having protested against the formation of a railway trust, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Director of Agriculture, Mr. Angus, will leave for Kangaroo Island on Wednesday with the object of arranging with the farmers for the establishment of At the opening of the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to-day there were fifteen men and one woman arraigned on charges of housebreaking, larceny or ...
Article : 168 wordsKORUMBURRA. At 4 a.m. on Sunday a four-roomed dwelling in Guy's-road was burnt to the ground with all its contents. The occupier was Mr. Geo. Gillam, ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Chas. Kettle, hotelkeeper, Milawa, was cleaning out the generator of an acetyline gas machine, with the assistance of another man. The former was smoking a ...
Article : 69 wordsAt last evening's sitting of the Prahran council a circular letter from the Municipal Association on the Motor Car Bill was read. The association was of opinion that an additional clause should ...
Article : 410 wordsUp to 4 p.m. on Monday the sky in the city was mostly clouded, with large masses of cumulus form clouds moving over rapidly from south-east, but later the clouds began to disperse, and by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsPercy Milliken, aged twenty years, who was employed at Humble's Foundry, was crushed to-day by a heavy mass of iron. He was admitted to the hospital suffering ...
Article : 52 wordsKew Club. The first round for the club championship and handicap was played on Saturday. There were 12 entries for the first and 29 for the second event. For the championship, F. B. Waters ...
Article : 230 wordsSPRINGHURST. The twenty-ninth half yearly meeting of shareholders of the Ovens and Murray Dairy Company Limited was held on Friday last. Mr. J. H. Sandford, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsAt the Adjourned inquest relating to the death of Arthur Rodgers, who was killed while attending to the crabwinch at the New Dempsey's mine on Wednesday last. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the unemployed to-day it was stated that there were 90 men on the Government Labor Bureau books, and 200 unemployed at Perth. It was resolved to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsA long letter from Mr. J. S. B. Orr was read at the chamber of commerce on Monday, pointing out that while the revenue produced by the local railway station ...
Article : 277 wordsA man named Morris sustained a compound fracture of the leg this morning in the Long Tunnel mine. He was working in a stope that had just been mullocked ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsA claim for £1 for damages and loss of time was made to the Prahran council last night by the proprietors, Messrs. Dyer and Russell, of Moonee Ponds, of the furniture van which was ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY. Bad weather prevented any baseball games being played on Monday, and after a most unpleasant trip the members of the Melbourne club left for Melbourne in the evening. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe gold received at the Perth Mint during July was 125,646 oz., valued at £450,758. A deputation waited on the Treasurer and requested that the Government, if it ...
Article : 147 wordsADELAIDE. At the Central Hall on Monday night. G. Rennert, the South Australian champion exponent of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, met F. Ball, now a South of England champion, who ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Queensland revenue for July was £407,504, compared with £360,347 for the same month last year. The railways show an increase of £7638. The expenditure for ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Postal Commission resumed its sittings to-day. Mr. H. B. Tempieton,' Acting Deputy Postmaster-General of Queensland, was ...
Article : 214 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Footscray council the circular letter from the Municipal Association was discussed. On the motion of Cr. Toohey, seconded by Cr. Gallant, it was decided that the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe annual meeting of the Collingwood and Fitzroy United Friendly Societies' Dispensary was held on Thursday evening in the Dispensary Hall, at the corner Gore and Greeves streets, Fitzroy. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsA protest against the alleged secret methods of the High street Tramway Trust in transacting business was made by Cr. Nicelson at the meeting of the Prahran council last night. By a mere ...
Article : 157 wordsWriting to the Footseray council last night on behalf of the Rating Reform League, W. H. Renwick said the institution named had arranged with various councillors, including Cr. Cornwall, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe members of Parliament proceed from Wellington to Auckland by rail on Friday, for the Fleet Week. The Union Company has commenced an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsFrank Kenyon, one of the co-operative party working the Golden Gully hydraulic sluicing plant at Fryestown, who was charged with being in illegal possession of ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Premier, Sir Thomas Bent, With the Minister of Education, Mr. Sachse, and Mr. D. Mackinnon, Attorney-General, visited the Wilson-street State school. Brighton, yesterday, to open a Sloyd ...
Article : 361 wordsThe Prahran council last night gave consideration to the series of questions recently placed before that body by a deputation of residents interested in a tramway along Dandcnong-road, viz:— ...
Article : 248 wordsThe twenty-fourth annual report just issued by the Footscray and Yarraville Friendly Societies' Dispensary, shows that the institution has a membership of 4025, an increase of 83 members for the ...
Article : 102 wordsA meeting of the above club was held at the club rooms, 317 Collins-street; the president, Mr. G. Keyzer, in the chair. There was a full muster of members. The rules and standards were ...
Article : 130 wordsARARAT. Owing to the continued cold weather grass is growing very slowly in this district, and stock are suffering considerably. A large number of cattle has succumbed. Lambing has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 wordsThe 39th annual report of the Richmond Dispensary shows that a satisfactory years was experienced. There was a substantial decrease in the number of patients as compared with the previous ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY. Splendid general rains have been recorded throughout the State, the south coast districts receiving the greatest amount. The falls there ranged from 231 to 499 points. In the ...
Article : 396 wordsAt the Malvern council on Monday night a communication was received from Mr. Norman Bayles, M.L.A., forwarding a copy of the Government Valuation of Lands Bill, and soliciting the ...
Article : 319 wordsSYDNEY. At Homebush on Monday 29,000 sheep and lambs were penned. The sheep comprised a large proportion of good useful quality merino wethers and ewes, with a fair proportion of prime ...
Article : 246 wordsA message was received at the Electric Telegraph department this morning stating that the steamer Konoowarra was aground five miles north of Inskip Point. ...
Article : 69 wordsDissatisfaction is expressed by a section of the ratepayers of Footseray at the proposal of the local council to install a municipal system of electric lighting. The council has at present a ...
Article : 179 wordsBRISBANE. Arrived, August 3. Peregrine. Er and Airlie, from Sydney. Sailed, August 3. Salamis for London. CAPE CAPRICORN. Passed, August 3. Cooma ...
Article : 183 wordsThe half yearly meeting of shareholders in the Brighton Gas Company was held last night at the offices, Brighton. Mr. W. M. Hyndman, chairman of directors, in ...
Article : 256 wordsA young man, named Clarence Wilson, was charged at South Melbourne yesterday with having behaved in an offensive manner. Constables Sullivan and [?]ore said defendant ...
Article : 204 wordsThe postal grievances of the residents of Tahara were ventilated at a public meeting here on Saturday afternoon. It is generally desired by the residents of ...
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY. Wet weather interfered with business in the produce market. The demand for chaff was chiefly for prime, which was scarce, and sold to £7; Tasmanian, £6 5 to £7; New Zealand, to ...
Article : 173 wordsThe report of the building surveyor of the city of Hawthorn for the half year ended 30th June last states that 81 new buildings have been erected during that period. During the past quarter fees ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Prahran council last night decided to convene a public meeting of citizens to consider the Land Valuation Bill. Cr. Bangs said that municipal valuation of land in the country was ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 4 Aug 1908, Page 6
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