The number of paid admissions yesterday was 319. The executive committee met yesterday forenoon, and a letter was read from Sir Herbert ...
Article : 338 wordsA deputation waited on the Minister of Railways on Wednesday to urge that tho proposal station at Ringwood, on the Hawthorn and Lillydale line, should be placed at Parker's corner, a point ...
Article : 83 wordsW[?] SHIRE (9th May).--A circular was read from South Balwon shire in re tolls. The council agreed to support the proposed Permissive Tolls Bill; and Cr. Thomas was appointed delegate to the ...
Article : 257 wordsAt the recent election for Knaresborough, a Conservative member was returned. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M. P. for Carlisle, has intimated that as a practical ...
Article : 111 wordsThe second of the Boema farewell concerts was given last night, at the Town Hall, with a fine programme of operatic music, in which Madame Boema, Miss Palma, Signor Coy, and ...
Article : 403 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair at half-past four o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. In reply to Mr. GAUNSON, Mr. BERRY stated ...
Article : 5,580 wordsMr. Barron, Chief Clerk of the Police department, has been suspended on the ground of his accounts being complicated, which is attributed to overwork. ...
Article : 61 wordsA deputation, introduced by Mr. M'Lean, M.L.A., waited on the Postmaster-General on Wednesday to urge that the mail arriving at Bairnsdale from Sale should be due at half-past ...
Article : 108 wordsA banquet was given to the late members for Light, Messrs. Moody, White and Shannon, at Kapunda last night, and was a great success. The Commissioner of Public Works, ...
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Advertising : 1,164 wordsA numerous deputation of members of Parliament waited on the Chief Secretary on Wednesday, and suggested that a sum of £50,000 should be transferred from the railway loan account to the ...
Article : 335 wordsMr. O'Halloran has been appointed paid assistant secretary to the Royal Colonial Institute. ...
Article : 19 wordsIntelligence from India states that the latest information concerning the movements of Ayoub Khan at Herat is disquieting. Having succeeded in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsDuring the present wool sales there has been a good demand from the continent, the French buyers being particularly active. ...
Article : 24 wordsA serious shooting affray, the outcome of a heavy drinking bout by two men named Dennis Sullivan and Walter Sullivan, occurred early yesterday morning at Flemington. From what can ...
Article : 562 wordsMr. Gladstone, despite his indisposition, has not yet refrained from work. He attended at the Treasury yesterday, and transacted some ...
Article : 32 wordsA deputation from Bolan was introduced to the Minister of Mines on Wednesday by Messrs. Rees and Lalor, Ms.L.A., to ask for assistance in constructing a reservoir. The work is estimated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsGeneral Ignatieff, the newly-appointed Minister of the Interior, has to-day issued a circular dealing chiefly with the internal policy of the empire. The ...
Article : 155 wordsA deputation from the Shepparton shire council waited on the Commissioner of Public Works on Wednesday, to urge that the water conservancy board be instructed to visit the district to ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Jika shire council waited on the Commissioner of Public Works on Wednesday to request the sub-division of the north riding into two ridings, in order to give the council three ...
Article : 58 wordsA temperance demonstration in connection with the Wesleyan general conference was held at the town hall this evening, under the presidency of his Excellency the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,068 wordsMr. Hall, M.L.A., presented a petition to the Deputy Postmaster-General on Wednesday, praying that a mail service might be established to Karramomus, in the North-Eastern district, and a ...
Article : 55 wordsA deputation from Shepparton and Euroa shires waited on the Commissioner of Public Works yesterday, in reference to the annexation of the north-western portion of the Euroa shire to ...
Article : 60 wordsFollowing the deposition of Midhat Pasha from the Governorship of Smyrna, which was formally announced yesterday, the Sultan gave orders for his immediate ...
Article : 84 wordsThe census returns show that the European population of New Zealand is 486,861, showing an increase of 75,149 in three years. ...
Article : 29 wordsA deputation from the Echuca Hospital committee waited on the Chief Secretary yesterday, to inquire whether the grant promised to the hospital was to be curtailed. Mr. Berry said the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Bacchante s rudder will be unshipped to-morrow for repairs. If the detention should be extended, it is probable that the Rev. Mr. Dalto[?] and the Princes will come on to ...
Article : 79 wordsThe case against Elizabeth Ann Smith, who on Tuesday was tried for arson, when the jury, failing to agree, were discharged, was reheard, and occupied nearly the whole day. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Harbor Trust Commissioners was held at the office, Queen-street, on Wednesday. DREDGING.--The chairman said he had had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsOne hundred and fifty-six ounces of gold was brought in this evening from Langridge's claim, which was obtained from about fifty loads. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsThe Newcastle deputation waited on the Colonial Secretary to-day to present the resolutions passed at the anti-Chinese meeting. Sir Henry Parkes said the question was a difficult one, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 325 wordsA patient in the local hospital, named Robertson, attempted to commit suicide last night by cutting his throat with a razor. He inflicted a dreadful gash, running from the left ...
Article : 103 wordsOur Geelong correspondent, writing under yesterday's date, says :-- This evening Mr. Martin Treacey, J.P., who is leaving the town in order to enter business as a brewer at ...
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Family Notices : 236 wordsThe PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-five minutes to five o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING COMMITTEE. Mr. REID moved that Mr. MacBain be a ...
Article : 144 wordsParker's Extended, 14th May.--Prospecting is being carried on vigorously. The north drive is in 27-feet from the shaft; lode about the same in appearance as last reported. A winze has also been sunk 12 feet on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsIn the Bulletin [?] case the judge charged the jury ably and impartially, allowing the press far greater privileges than were conceded in the previous press trials. The press ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Candler held an inquest yesterday, at the morgue, on the body of a young woman named Margaret Clifford, a domestic servant. The deceased was observed on Tuesday ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 20 May 1881, Page 3
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