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Advertising : 167 wordsThe task of moving the grand stand from the old grounds of the Geelong Agricultural Society to the new Show Grounds is one of the biggest yet undertaken in Victoria. The stand is 125 feet long, 45 feet wide, and weighs about 100 tons. The contractors, Messrs. M'Coy and Sons, expect to he some days before completing the removal. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsThe Secretary for Agriculture has received a cablegram from the AgentGeneral, stating that the War Office are inviting tenders for 1250 tons of pressed ...
Article : 67 wordsA recent letter in one of the papers from a shipping agent ridicules the action of the Department of Agriculture in so rigidly inspecting fruit imported by sea ...
Article : 116 wordsThe recently formed walking association of Victoria inaugurated its career to-day with a four miles road race. The course was the track round the Albeit Park Lake, which ...
Article : 120 wordsRecently a revenue officer declined to receive the contribution towards the licensing compensation fund for hotels, because it was tendered by the owner and ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Bent, the Premier, has written to Mr. Rogers, secretary of his department, stating that he has received many letters and telegrams wishing him bon ...
Article : 51 wordsA match will be played at Osborne House on Wednesday, 27th inst., between Colac and Geelong. The team representing Colac will bo—A. C. Calvert, Tom M'Kellar, A. Murray ...
Article : 85 wordsEntries for the Williamstown meeting are duo to-day. General entries also close to-day for the Onkaparinga Easter meeting, the Adelaide Racing Club's autumn meeting, and tho ...
Article : 306 wordsThe following gentlemen hare been successful in passing the examination of the Municipal Clerks' Board, viz.- Messrs. J. J. Ahern. F. W. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Collingwood tote and City Tattersall's Club are at last to become things of the past. For some considerable time the police have been unsuccessful in ...
Article : 162 wordsBee farming is fast Becoming a prosperous industry in this district. A few years ago a few residents started bee farming, and as the results were highly ...
Article : 90 wordsThe football season will open in earnest next month, and for the next few weeks the players will be working themselves into form for the campaign. The committee of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsMr. Levien, Government agent in the East, in a further report to the Minister of Agriculture, again deals with the question of direct shipment of produce from ...
Article : 164 wordsIn order to alleviate the sufferings of their countrymen in China, where great distress has occurred through famine, the Chinese of Melbourne have ...
Article : 37 wordsHow an argument between two men about San Francisco led to blows was today related in the City Court, when John Gibson was charged with assaulting ...
Article : 116 wordsThe approaching departure of MrOliver Blayney from Warrnambool is viewed with regret by the clients of the Commercial Bank and the townspeople ...
Article : 150 wordsSome good play was witnessed on Saturday afternoon on the west ends, when the final for Mr. M. Ryan's trophy was played off. Some keen games resulted, and Mr. F. ...
Article : 42 wordsA collision which resulted in the death of Fleming Pickett, a cyclist, was further enquired into by the City Coroner to-day. The cyclist collided with a jinker ...
Article : 165 wordsPercy Mawson, aged about 16 years, a son of Sergeant-Major Mawson, was drowned at the Town baths to-day. Mawson, who told the attendant that ...
Article : 108 wordsA serious accident this afternoon befel a man named Alfred Heathcote, 36 years, of Courtney-street. North Melbourne. It appears that he was in some ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsThe awakening of China is evidently beginning in real earnest, judging by the last report of Mr. Levien, the Government agent, to the Minister of ...
Article : 74 wordsA sports meeting will be held at Airey's Inlet on Easter Saturday, and a varied programme has been framed for the occasion. The log chopping events in particular should ...
Article : 54 wordsAn important investigation was opened by Dr. Cole to-day concerning the death of John Patrick Bell, who was taken ill whilst working at the Mt. Lyell ...
Article : 483 wordsUnder the above clause of the Licensing Act, the hotelkeepers have to pay 3 per cent. on their gross purchases for the year, and as the amounts were to be ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Chinese boycott of American goods seems to be increasing according to a statement contained in Mr. Levien's report to the Minister of Agriculture. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 385 wordsIntense interest is being manifested throughout this State in the fate of the entombed miner Varischetti, and in the strenuous attempts being made to rescue ...
Article : 308 wordsA carriage cleaner named William Bartlett, 30 years of age, met with a shocking death at Sydney railway station this morning. ...
Article : 69 wordsA mild attack of Rousevehism seems to have seized the conference of State school inspectors which has just closed. During the sitting Inspector Gates made ...
Article : 144 wordsThe disgraceful state of the Cemetery Road State school was the subject of a very outspoken report by the visiting committee of the school board of advice ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 662 wordsThe announcement that something is to be done at last in the direction of providing a Commonwealth postage stamp is a welcome one to the philatelic ...
Article : 144 wordsThe State school swimming matches will be held in the Western baths on Wednesday afternoon, commencing at 2.30 o'clock. A long programme of events will be carried out, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsMr. Charles Waldron, leading actor in the "Squaw Man" Company, was married this afternoon at St. John's Church, Darlington, to Miss Alfie May King, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe annual business meeting of the Geelong and District Coursing Club will be held this evening at the Prince of Wales Hotel, at 8 o'clock. The balance-sheet will be ...
Article : 43 wordsA vacancy has been caused in the detective police force by the resignation of Detective Carey, a popular and energetic member of the service. A ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 734 wordsIt may be unnecessary to proceed with the application to quarantine the premises of the City Tattcrsall's Chili and the Collingwood Tote. The hearing of ...
Article : 127 wordsIsabella Cochrane, a woman of about 35 years of age, was picked up on a vacant piece of ground in Latrobe-street on Wednesday. She was in a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsDr. Cole, the district coroner, was today engaged in holding an inonest touching upon the death of an infant, 11 months old, which had died on ...
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Advertising : 301 wordsUnder the auspices of the Victorian Launch Club, a motor launch race this afternoon took place at St. Kilda. The course, which was a distance of about eight miles, was from ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 25 Mar 1907, Page 4
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