Parliament, was opened this afternoon. His Excellency, in his speech, remarked that the cordial spirit in which the proposal to hold exhibitions in New South Wales and Victoria ...
Article : 651 wordsYakoob Khan, the new Ameer of Afghanistan, is to receive a subsidy of six lacs of rupees (£60,000) per annum from the British Government. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Government have issued instructions for inquiries to be instituted into the discrepancy between the actual number of notes of the Provincial and Suburban Bank found to ...
Article : 3,848 wordsThe ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the building to be erected for a Coffee Palace and Working Men's Club took place yesterday afternoon. The site chaser is on the ...
Article : 1,949 wordsOn Tuesday, the 27th inst, a youth, eighteen years of age, was brought before Mr. Panton, P.M., and several local magistrates, in the Eltham Police Court, and charged with having ...
Article : 1,980 wordsAn ordinary weekly meeting of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum was held yesterday afternoon: Mr. J. T. Harcourt in tho chair. REPORTS.--The medical officer reported that ...
Article : 1,550 wordsIt has been raining heavily nearly all day, and from the appearance of the clouds this evening there is a prospect of a further downpour. Fanners in the district are well satisfied, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsThere is little probability of any additional distance of the overland line to Albury being completed before the opening of the Exhibition. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe first half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Coffee Taverns Company (limited) was held yesterday afternoon, at Ham's rooms, Swanston-street. There was an ...
Article : 903 wordsLast night a conrcrsazione was held at the Masonic Hall in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, at which the Rev. Duncan Fraser gave a very interesting ...
Article : 115 wordsAnother inspection of ground deemed suitable for cemetery purposes was made yesterday the representatives of the corporation of the city of Melbourne, of several adjacent ...
Article : 515 wordsThe great conspiracy case which has been occupying the attention of the Central Criminal Court for six days has resulted in a verdict of guilty against the prisoners Israel and ...
Article : 93 wordsThe long season of dry weather appears to have ended at last, a soaking rain having commenced this morning, and continued up till this evening without the slightest intermission. ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Bailey moved that the seat of Mr. Beer, the member for Bowen, be declared vacant, through his having taken an office of profit under the Crown by accepting fees daring the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Acting Chief Secretary has received the following report, through the Chief Commissioner of Police, from Mr. William Johnson, the Government Analyst:--" 26th May, ...
Article : 427 wordsMr. Ross gave notice in the Assembly of a series of questions in reference to the financial operations of the Government. Upon the answers given the action to be taken by the ...
Article : 175 wordsAfter au absence of about six months Mr. Joseph Bragge Slack, the well-known litigant, made his reappearance in Mr. Justice Barry's court yesterday afternoon, and caused some ...
Article : 887 wordsDr. Youl held an inquest yesterday upon the body of a child, three years of age, that died in the Children's Hospital. The wife of a laborer named Joseph Melville, residing in ...
Article : 409 wordsThe Tararna, s., sailed to-day for Melbourne vid Hobart Town. ...
Article : 16 wordsA meeting of manufacturers was held at the Town Hall yesterday for the purpose of considering the provisions of a proposed bill for the registration, supervision and regulation ...
Article : 433 wordsThe Grand National Committee met to-day to prepare a list for the coming show. There was a full meeting; Mr. E. Baird was in the chair. The committee sat all day, and the list ...
Article : 170 wordsA meeting of the manufacturers of Richmond was held last evening in the Town Hall. There were about twenty persons present, including Messrs. Bannister, Bosisto, Vale and ...
Article : 443 wordsThe report that Richmond was scratched is untrue. He continues second favorite. Viceroy is third favorite at 100 to 12. Banter is first favorite, and is in very' good health. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe tenth annual meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday afternoon, at Stutt's Hotel. There was a good attendance of members. Mr. Boland, the president of ...
Article : 341 wordsSIR,--The Melbourne Harbor Trust have cast a reflection upon the Victorian artisans by deciding to send home for a new steam launch, stating that it is to be a model for Victorian shipbuilders ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsIt is notified that some of the finest land in the colony is now declared open for selection at Rental Island, near Swan-hill, and will shortly be gazetted. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsJust in Time, Gobur, 27th May.--Mining manager has this day purchased the Robinson Reef claim on behalf of the company, which so far is prospected has been proved to be 3 feet thick; the stone has very ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 30 May 1879, Page 3
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