At a meeting of the Ballarat City branch of the Australian Natives' Association, held on Monday night, the committee submitted a report showing that the funds had ...
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Article : 685 wordsFrom time to time particulars have been published of the efforts being made by the wheal improvement committee to increase the wheat yield of the State. This ...
Article : 776 wordsMr. J. H. Coon, M.P., presided at the meeting of the Anti-Sweating League, held at 66 Bourke-street, yesterday, at which the secretary (Mr. S. Manger, .M.P.) made ...
Article : 704 wordsBy three steamers which arrived last week there came to the State 200 immigrants. The Omrah arrived on Wednesday morning with 105, of whom all but three ...
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Article : 109 wordsNo musical season in this city of Melbourne would be complete did it not include among its closing numbers the annual performance of Handel's Messiah and the ...
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Article : 214 wordsA large and representative gathering of citizens met at the Shamrock Hotel on Monday, when Mr. A. E. Ford, who for some years past has filled the office of ...
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Article : 91 wordsThe pneunoniasis, or miners' complaint, under the new edition of the Workers Compensation Accident Act has been classed as accident, therefore employers ...
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Article : 50 wordsAndre Millet, cere corner Collins and Spencer-streets, pleaded guilty at the District Court yesterday to a charge of furiously driving a motor car at 9.20 a.m., on 3rd inst., in St. Kilda-road. ...
Article : 90 wordsA complaint has been lodged With the hon. secretary of the Anti-Sweating League (Mr. S. Mauger, M.P.) by the hon. secretary of the recently formed Artificial ...
Article : 254 wordsThe town council on Monday evening decided to expend £15 in making investigations into the merits of stone breaking machines. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn interesting case under the Pounds Act was heard at the police court. Quinton Bone sued the Heytesbury shire council for £1 12, sustenance fees paid on ...
Article : 114 wordsThe body of an unknown man was found on the Tarago River, about eight miles from here, by two young men named Cole while they were fishing on Sunday ...
Article : 127 wordsA grass fire, which for some time threatened to destroy the whole business part of Cheltenham, commenced about 9.30 a.m. yesterday in a paddock belonging to the ...
Article : 847 wordsIn the police court to-day a young man named, Wm. White. 18 years of age, was charged with an offence against an elderly married woman named Jane Taylor. The ...
Article : 128 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of Footscray court, before Messrs. W. and D. Mitchell and I. Collins, J's.P., a man a little over middle age, named Thomas Booth, was charged with assaulting a ...
Article : 304 wordsA vaccination case which occupied considerable time was heard at the local court. The evidence showed that the child was twelve months old. Defendant swore ...
Article : 137 wordsHenry Handt, a farmer, residing at Connewnrre, proceeded with a waggon and pair of horses to one of his paddocks to secure a load of hay. Handt, who was ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. L. T. Hepburn, veterinary surgeon, was mixing horse medicines on Saturday and a bottle of chemicals exploded. The liquid set fire to his clothes and other ...
Article : 102 wordsSir,--The well thought letter of Mr. Sugden on the conduct of business in our petty sessions courts has drawn attention to a defect in our legal administration that ...
Article : 391 wordsSir.--What is the City Council doing about the new building regulations? The public would like to know. It is now upwards of twelve months since we were ...
Article : 613 wordsA young man named Charles Pike, a well I known farmer, who resides between Wilkaura and Glenthompson, was arrested on Sunday evening on a charge of stealing ...
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Article : 51 wordsThe Prahran council last night gave its final vote on the election of a representative for the Board of Public Health. Excepting Cr. Densham, the council was unanimously in favor of Cr. ...
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Article : 68 wordsIn unoccupied stables owned by Mr. A. T. Darling. The building was completely destroyed. It was insured for £125 in the Colonial Mutual company. The residence ...
Article : 682 wordsAt the Adelaide police court this morning the city coroner conducted an inquiry into the death of Mary Isabella Owen, wife of John Thomas Owen, a cabinet maker. ...
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Article : 139 wordsJohn King, aged 27, an agricultural laborer, who was a stranger in the Northern district, was cut to pieces by the Goomalling-Dowerin midnight train. It is believed ...
Article : 45 wordsGeorge F. Hazell, miner, single, about 30 years of age, was found dead in bed yesterday morning. Death is believed to be due to injuries received during a fight in which ...
Article : 125 wordsComplains of residents in the Caufield district whose dwellings have been entered and rifled by dayliglit robbers have recently been reaching the Detective office with remarkable frequency. The ...
Article : 234 wordsFurther consideration was given by the Wyndham council on Saturday to the offer made on behalf of the liquidator of the British Bank to settle the council's claim for several hundred pounds ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 22 Dec 1908, Page 11
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