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  2. REWARD FOR REFORM.

    After deliberating for about half an hour, the jury yesterday returned a verdiet in favour of Victor E. Cheshire, of Holbrook, New South Wales drover in ...

    Article : 337 words
  3. TENNIS PLAYER FOR FRENCH CONTESTS.

    Mr. R. W. Heath (left), the Melbourne tennis player, sailed by the Mooltan yesterday on a business trip to Europe. He will compete in the South of France tennis championships. His young brother, Mr. Gowfrey Heath (right) bade him farewell. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  4. MOOLTAN LEAVES FOR LONDON.

    Animated scenes on Princes Pier yesterday marked the departure for Colombo, Egypt, Marseilles, and London of the P. and O. liner Mooltan (20.847 tons). She sailed with every available berth booked (allowing for reservations for passengers joining at Colombo and Aden), and her departure marks the opening of the tourist season for the company this year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  5. FATAL MOTOR MISHAP.

    Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas, vice-captain of the English cricket team, was a witness at the morgue on Tuesday, when the coroner (Mr. D. Berriman, P.M.) ...

    Article : 886 words
  6. VIENNA LOAVES.

    Arising out of a municipal prosecution, a special case stated by Judge Dethridge for the opinion of the Supreme Court, in relation to the weight of Vienna loaves, ...

    Article : 470 words
  7. TRAMWAYS DIRECTOR FOR THE LONDON SEASON.

    MR. COLIN TEMPLETON, MRS. FELIX W. LLOYD, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 54 words
  8. STABBED WITH KNIFE.

    Versions given for the prosecution and for the defence in a case at the city Court on Tuesday differed widely in every material respect. Beryl Findley, of Scotchmer street. North Fitrzoy, was ...

    Article : 419 words
  9. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL DESIGNS: INTERESTING COMPARISON.

    With a view to improving the original design by Mr. W. Butterfield, the St. Paul's Cathedral Erection Board, with the co-operation of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects arranged a competition, of which the assessors selected the design of Mr. John Barr, of Sydney (reproduced on the left), to win the first prize of £400. This design, with the other premiated and the unsuccessful designs, are now on exhibition in the Chapter House, Cathedral Buildings, but the exhibition does not Include the original design of Mr. Butterfield (reproduced on the right). These illustrations offer an interesting comparison of what the first architect Intended and what the cathedral authorities propose to add to the existing structure. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  10. DRUNKEN MAN ON TRAM.

    A sensation was caused on a tramcar bound for Keilor road on Thursday evening, when passengers, seeing a man brandishing a beer bottle above his head on the tram, scattered in all directions ...

    Article : 552 words
  11. WOMEN FIGHT.

    At the Carlton Court on Tuesday. Mollie Ellrington Mollie McCarty, and Lily Stevenson, three middle-aged women were charged with having behaved in a riotous manner. Mr. D. ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. WOMAN POISONED.

    Arrangements have been made by the police for the hearing of the charge against William Marshall, of Heyfield, of having caused poison to be administered to his ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. MAN FROM SOUTH SEAS.

    Reference to sailing the South Seas and drawing the cutlass was made at the Flemington Court on Tuesday when Frederick Clayton, aged 29 years, fireman, of Finsbury street, ...

    Article : 402 words
  14. COLLISION NEAR BRIDGE.

    Whether the alleged high speed of an Essex motor-car, driven by W. A. Terdich, manufacturer, of Gipps street, Abbotsford, and the application of his brakes when he saw that he 'could ...

    Article : 479 words
  15. ST. KILDA ROBBERIES.

    Six charges arising out of a series of robberies from Messrs. Galliers and Klaerr's engineering work,s Inkerman street, St. Kilda, and the shop of Busst and Bills Brothers Pty. Ltd., Mattress and ...

    Article : 368 words
  16. TRAMWAYS SECRETARY ON HOLIDAY.

    Mr. W. O. Strangward, secretary and former general manager of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Strangward, left Melbourne yesterday by the Mooltan for a six months tour of Europe and America. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  17. LOOKING DOWN THE GULLET OF A WHALE.

    On the Sorrento Portes road is a gateway made of the jawbones of a stranded whale. That leviathan, however could not compare in size with the 60-ton monster, 63ft. in length, which was recently washed ashore in a high tide off the lettles near Sabine, Texas. This extraordinary photograph (by "Wide World") shows the whale's mouth open and the remarkable fringe of whalsbone through which it strains its food. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 81 words
  18. ROBBERY ON CHRISTMAS EVE.

    Alfred Frederick Pearson was tried before Judge Woinarski, In General Sessions yesterday, on a charge of having, in company with other persons to the Attorney-General unknown, robbed George ...

    Article : 189 words
  19. LOITERING SUSPECTED.

    Merwin George McLellan aged 22 years, and John O'Brien aged 23 years, appeared at the City Court on Tuesday to answer a charge of having, as suspected persons, loitered in a public ...

    Article : 221 words
  20. PAWNBROKER'S VIGILANCE.

    In response to a telephone message yesterday from a pawnbroker in Elizabeth street near Latrobe street. Detective Webster and Plain-clothes Constables Dunn ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. LOADING WHEAT AT PORTLAND.

    (M.E. Andrews, Portland photo.) The first steamer to load wheat at Portland this season was the Cornish City, which on February 8 began to take on board a ca[?] of 90,000 bags for the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation Ltd. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. FIRE AT CLARINDA.

    About half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morning a fire completely destroyed a four-roomed house and its contents at Stuart road. Clarinda. The cause of the fire is not known. In response to ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. YOUNG MAN'S LAPSE.

    Roy McLeod, a young man, pleaded guilty in General sessions yesterday, to charges of having forged and uttered an order for £4, and of having obtained £1 by false pretences. ...

    Article : 187 words
  24. UNPROTECTED MEAT.

    Richard Rowe, butcher, of Glenlyon road, Brunswick appeared at the North Melbourne Court on Monday before Mr. D. Grant P.M. and Messrs. D.G. Carter and W. Hewitt, J.P.'s [?] ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED.

    Inquiries are being made by senior-detective R. P. Brennan into the destruction by fire of a haystack on the property of Mr. E. Fritsch, orchardist, at Red Hill. On Saturday morning ...

    Article : 74 words
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