With reference to the recent report that the Kelly gang was expected to visit Mount Gambier, the S. A, Register has ascertained the following particulars from the police authorities : ...
Article : 636 wordsThe Barwon Regatta takes place to-day, on the Barwon. Since the regatta last year the course has been very greatly improved by widening the river near tho bridge, a place where there was ...
Article : 284 wordsSIR,--For the last year I have not, though a member, taken any active part in the affairs of the Reform and Protection League, but seeing that the struggle for a radical change of our unworkable ...
Article : 662 wordsThe band of Greeks who recently invaded Thessaly and demolished a Turkish village was attacked and dispersed by the Sultan's troops, who ...
Article : 65 wordsCommunication with Port Darwin was reestablished at half-post two o'clock yesterday afternoon. European messages were received shortly afterwards, but the line did not work ...
Article : 4,765 wordsBy the steamer Claud Hamilton we have received New Zealand papers up to 5th inst., from which the following extracts are made :-- The threatened split in the Cabinet ...
Article : 691 wordsThe Polytechnic Institution, Portland place, London, has been totally destroyed by fire. ...
Article : 23 wordsA premeditated and most determined attempt to commit murder took place in Stevedore-street, Williamstown, yesterday afternoon, about a quarter to four o'clock. A young ...
Article : 665 wordsIntelligence has been received from, the Cape that the first column of the British and friendly native troops, which had advanced from Natal by the Lower ...
Article : 83 wordsThe committee of the Victorian Rowing Association met last evening, at Young and Jackson's Hotel, for the purpose of completing the necessary arrangements in connection with the ...
Article : 259 wordsThe medical board visited the racecourse yesterday, and pronounced it a suitable place on which to hold the Easter encampment of volunteers. ...
Article : 99 wordsRoss has defeated Emmett in the sculling match on the River Thames. ...
Article : 22 wordsProposals for the cessation of hostilities in order to enter upon the consideration of terms of peace, have passed between the British commander and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsThe whole of the single women by the Loch Fyne have been engaged. Twenty-one candidates presented themselves for the University matriculation ...
Article : 125 wordsH.M. corvette Thetis has been destroyed by fire while anchored in Ply mouth harbor. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Royal Commission Lands Inquiry left Beechworth on Thursday, stayed at Kiowa for tho night, and came on to this point on Friday. Talangatta, consists of two publichouses, a store, ...
Article : 1,291 wordsThe evacuation of the Turkish territory by the Russian forces has been so far accomplished that the British fleet has been ordered to withdraw to ...
Article : 37 wordsKEW TOWN COUNCIL (11th March).--A circular was received from the Warrnambool Borough Council, stating that the Government having demanded the fees received from licensees ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 514 wordsThe attendance of both home and foreign buyers at to-day's wool sales has been only moderate, and prices have slightly given way. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe steamer Chariton sailed for Hong Kong to-day with seventy Chinese. Charlie Walker arrived with a boat of fourteen tons register from Cape York in fifty ...
Article : 34 wordsA dramatic version of Tennyson's tragedy, Queen Alary, was presented at the Theatre Royal last evening, the principal character being taken by Miss Augusta Dargon, the ...
Article : 286 wordsArrived : Rotorua, s., from Now Zealand, Sailed ; Rotorua, s., for Melbourne. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsOn Sunday evening last a man named William Reynolds was found hanging to the rafters of his residence. Deceased had been suffering from delirium tremens, and had ...
Article : 105 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission on the working of the Lands department states that a want of harmony is existing between the several heads of the department. They ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsSix Queensland black troopers, accompanied by a body of Victorian police, started on an expedition this morning. Their destination is a secret. If the Kellys are in this part of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 306 wordsLast September a census was taken of the Japanese islands. The total population of the empire was 34,338,404. Of these. 1,030,774 dwell in Yeddo, or, as the ...
Article : 488 wordsYesterday a bush fire broke out at Musk Creek. On the east side of the road from Musk Creek, the burning trees completely surrounded the farms of Messrs. Bremner Bros. ...
Article : 458 wordsThe weather is again very warm, the thermometer showing 100 deg. in the shade to-day, and, unfortunately for the farmers, the probability of a rainfall seems far off. ...
Article : 208 wordsThe steamer Barrabool arrived here from Newcastle this morning, and reported that she had been in collision with the s. Bonnie Dundee, a vessel of 193 tons, owned by B. B. and ...
Article : 734 wordsThe Kelly sympathisers were to-day again brought before Mr. Foster, P.M. Superintendent Furnell conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Zincke appeared for the whole of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsMeetings in the insolvent estates of Sheppard J. Reeves, wine and spirit merchant, Geelong, and Daniel Power, hotelkeeper, of Geelong, were held to-day. In the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsA match will be played to-day, on the Carlton ground, between eleven non-players of the East Melbourne and Carlton clubs. Play to commence at noon. ...
Article : 26 wordsYesterday a meeting of the show committee was held at Clements's Cafe. Present: Messrs. Toon (in the chair), Jackson, Boyce and Hepburn. Amongst the correspondence was a ...
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Advertising : 216 wordsSIR,--In your leader of this day you refer to the health officer's report, relative to the Melbourne General Cemetery, which was laid before the City Council yesterday, and say " If we are ...
Article : 139 wordsThe sittings of the annual movable committee of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, commenced hero this morning, fifty-one deputies being present. ...
Article : 1,533 wordsChiltern Valley Gold Mines, Chiltern, 10th March.-- Driven 993 feet of main drive down lead, now 904 feet below shaft, and cross drives cutting ground up for blocking purposes, besides usual blocking faces, in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 12 Mar 1879, Page 3
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