After considerable discussion, the Glenelg Shire Council, owing to the difficulty in getting competition for works, has decided to give a trial to the butty ...
Article : 50 wordsThe work of the South Street Society reached an interesting stage to-day, when the competitions in the musical section for brass instruments commenced. These were the [?] ...
Article : 636 wordsMr. Justice Higgins is still engaged considering the application by Hugh Victor M'Kay, proprietor of the Sunshine Harvester Works, for exemption ...
Article : 451 wordsMatters were again very dull to-day in both Federal and State departmental circles. Most of the Minister were out of town and the majority of State ...
Article : 71 wordsA meeting of the public works committee of the Town Council was held last evening, and was attended by Cr. Hodges (chairman), Ald. Brownbill, Philpolt and Higgins, Crs. ...
Article : 841 wordsThe Glenelg Shire Council were waited on at the last meeting by a deputation from the Freezing Works and Electric Lighting Company with proposals for ...
Article : 57 wordsThe young man, John Poster, 29 years old, who was yesterday arrested at Brighton on a charge of having murdered his father, Thomas appeared before the local ...
Article : 143 wordsThere was a large attendance at the meeting at Beech Forest to consider the question of the forest being severed from the Colae shire. After a lot of discussion ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Swinburne, the Minister of Agriculture, has telegraphed to Melbourne suggesting that the State Parliament should not meet till after dinner, so that ...
Article : 65 wordsThe town clerk has received a telegram from Mr. Thomson, M.L.A., intimating that the scheme for taking in a portion of the streets surrounding Market-square ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is reported that Mr. J. C. Watson insists on resigning the leadership of the Federal Labor party, and that he will retire from Parliament at the [?]nd of the ...
Article : 83 wordsA movement is in progress to erect a new fence around the botanical gardens, and already a large sum towards that end has been received in donations and as the ...
Article : 111 wordsA young man named Michael C. Calfrey figured to-day in the North Melbourne court on a charge of having committed a capital offence on Marion ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Rev. T. A. Colebrook, commissioner of the Cathedral fund, recently visited Coleraine, and has received promises of support amounting to between ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—I see by this morning's paper that the bakers have raised the price of bread to 6½d., which means that a small loa[?] costs 3½d., a big jump. Now, Mr. Editor, don't you ...
Article : 145 wordsEarly this morning a fire broke out on the Hobson's Bay ferry boat Queen. which was moored at the new p[?]er. Williamstown. The watchman. William ...
Article : 163 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Joseph Phillips took place this afternoon, the remains being interred in the Ballarat Old Cemetery. The cortege was a very ...
Article : 132 wordsA sensational occurrence took place in connection with what had been advertised as a free show of horse feats on Broncho buckjumpers. The invitation was accepted by ...
Article : 276 wordsAt the City Court to-day a boy named Thomas Cox was fined 20/- with £2/2/-costs, for having tied an empty kerosene tin to the rear of a horse tram on the ...
Article : 95 wordsA fatal mistake was made on Friday by Albert Walter Cox. son of a resident of North Fitzroy. A cup of caustic soda had been left on the table, and before ...
Article : 83 wordsThe meeting of the markets committee was attended by Ald. Brownbill (in the chair), Higgins. and Philpot[?], and Crs. Storrer, Williams and Hodges. ...
Article : 256 wordsThe recent sports meeting of behalf of the worn-out miners' fund, promoted by the Ballarat police and postmen, has so far resulted in a profit of £72, but ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Chinaman who has long been addicted to the opium habit finds the same difficulty in discontinuing it aa is experienced by the dipsomaniae when [?] ...
Article : 158 wordsA farm laborer named William James sho[?] himself dead in a hut on the farm on which he was employed at Sisters' Creek, near Wynyard on the West ...
Article : 145 wordsThe steamer Tambo, of the Burns, Philp line, which arrived in Port Jackson this morning, from the islands, brought additional news regarding the French steamer Meurthe. ...
Article : 268 wordsA big black-bearded man named William Farraway was complained against at the City Court to-day for having demolished the window of the House of ...
Article : 180 wordsThe meeting of the finance committee was attended by Cr. Storrer (chairman). Ald. Brownbill and Philpott, Crs. Doyle, Austin and Holden. ...
Article : 156 wordsWhile pulling down an old building at Darlington, a suburb of Sydney, a few days ago, the workmen discovered some old bones beneath the hearthstone. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe amount of money won over Poseidon's victory in the Caulfield Cup by the owner and the public amounted to over £50,000. That is a result of a calculation made by a ...
Article : 58 wordsThe continued drought is viewed with dire apprehension by Northern district pastoralists. Stock are literally swarming from dry districts to more favored parts, and to ...
Article : 75 wordsA shocking disaster occurred to a fishing party at Whangape yesterday evening. The party, which numbered 12 persons, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsA courageous rescue was effected by Mr. John M'Lachlan at Double Bay this morning. Mr. M'Lachlan was on the beach, when he saw a girl who had fallen off the pier ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Empire rifle meeting was continued at the Randwick rifle range to-day. The weather in the morning wis ideal for shooting, there being not a breath of air to ...
Article : 121 wordsMost valuable things m the world are compressed into small compass, such as diamonds, precious stones, gold, etc. Small packets of these commodities mean big ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 22 Oct 1907, Page 4
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