The Commission of Assembly met at noon yesterday. BRODIE BEQUEST.--The Rev. W. Ross, as convener of the committee appointed to receive [?] ...
Article : 401 wordsYesterday the Government received a telegram from Mr. Cashel Hoey, who is acting in the place of Mr. Yardley, who recently left the office of the Agent- General. The telegram ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 450 wordsA meeting of the members of this society was held last night, Mr. Ellery presiding. Messrs. J. E. Edwards and C. M. Mapleson were elected associates. A committee brought ...
Article : 2,198 wordsMr. Panton, P.M., and Mr. C. A. Smyth, Crown prosecutor, arrived here last night, and to-day visited the scene of the alleged shooting at Edward Monk on 26th ult. The ...
Article : 699 wordsA petition has been presented to the House of Lords from New South Wales, asking their Lordships to pass the bill legalising marriage with a deceased ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Agricultural Show was a moderate success. Great numbers of working bullocks died recently while crossing the desert between ...
Article : 91 wordsThe London-Colonial wool sales opened this evening. The total arrival of wool to date is reported to be over 300,000 bales. ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Attorney-General visits the Northern districts next week to report on the best place for holding a court of extended jurisdiction. A deputation, representing the lessees of ...
Article : 178 wordsAttention is directed to the entries for the Melbourne Hunt Club Steeplechases, which close to-day with the secretary, at the office of Mr. R. C. Bagot, 100 Bourke-street west. As this will, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe receipt of nominations for the forthcoming stakes of the Australian Coursing Club has been postponed until Monday next. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words" Victorian" advocates the offering a Prize for the best poem in commemoration of the Victorian Exhibition.--" Employer" thinks that apprentices should be given an excursion to the ...
Article : 77 wordsSIR,--Permit me to express my concurrence with the leader in your issue of to-day with regard to the recent election for secretary to the Melbourne Athenæ[?]. The blame appears to me ...
Article : 269 wordsThe wreck on the West Coast is supposed to be the brig Cock of the North. The coast is strewn with cocoanuts, rope, &c. There is much public enthusiasm about the ...
Article : 81 wordsBy the steamers Rotorua and Claud Hamilton we have New Zealand files to the 2nd inst., from which we extract the following :-- It seems generally understood that the ...
Article : 267 wordsMaddox's patent-safety cage was tried at a public test to-day, at the Queen's Birthday mine shaft, before a select body of experts. The rope was cut four times. The result was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsSIR,--As an old member of the Melbourne Athenæ[?], I beg to thank you for your leading article in this day's Age anent the recent election of a secretary for that institution. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsA meeting of the local bodies' gas conference was held yesterday, in the Town Hall, Mr. Clarke being in the chair. It was agreed to ask the local bodies interested to sign a ...
Article : 555 wordsThe Mobile, from New York for Sydney, took 9 locomotives, 99 organs, 503 packages blocks, &c., for the Sydney Exhibition. Another ship will follow shortly. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe commission on closed roads met to-day at the courthouse, Echuca, to inquire into the question in connection with the Shires of Echuca and Waranga, and more particularly ...
Article : 429 wordsSIR,--Referring to your leader in yesterday's issue, in which you advance cogent reasons for open voting in the election of paid officers by the committees of public institutions, I beg to point ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsThe Guldregn, Norwegian bq., which sailed from Newcastle on 15th March, for Java, went ashore in Bally Straits, but afterwards got off without ...
Article : 40 wordsA fire broke out at an early hour this morning at the wine and spirit stores of Mr. C. A. Hodgson, in the Market-square, which totally destroyed the back portion of the building. It ...
Article : 146 wordsThe members of the Commission of the Presbyterian Assembly waited upon his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, to present him with the address agreed upon ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Government have accepted the tender of Amos Bros. for constructing the extension of the Great Northern Line Railway from Tamworth to Uralla, sixty- three and a half ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsThe Emerald-hill school children arrived in four trains to-day, to the number of over 3000, accompanied by the Emerald-hill Artillery Band. Our visitors bad a glorious day for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 435 wordsOn Monday last, at eleven o'clock in the morning, as Mr. James Perks was passing a deserted but two miles from Pyalong, he saw a man hanging from the tie beam of the hut. ...
Article : 333 wordsAn assault case, arising out of an underground dispute between the Prince of Wales and Victoria United Companies, Ballarat East, as to boundaries, was heard this ...
Article : 292 wordsThe continuous rains for the past four days have interfered with the progress of the Exhibition-building. The whole of the southern end of the nave is nearly ready for the ...
Article : 88 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday by Dr. Youl upon the body of William Allen, nineteen years of age, who died in the Alfred Hospital on the night of the 6th of May. Thomas ...
Article : 206 wordsAll Nations, Mattock, 6th May.--Removal of machinery progressing satisfactorily, frame of machine house being securely put together ; the horses and cam shaft are in situ ; the bed logs are being fitted, and ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Inspector-General of Police has received a telegram from Deniliquin stating that a man named Thomas Turner was bailed up by two [?]med men who represented themselves as ...
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Advertising : 75 wordsThe magistrates disagreed in the case against the owner of the totalizator. Three were in favor of a conviction, and three against. Four other charges arising out of the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 9 May 1879, Page 3
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