A meeting was held at the Public Hall, Elsternwick, last night, attended by representatives of Elsternwick, Brighton, Caulfield and St. Kilda, for the purpose of conferring as to the ...
Article : 846 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce has set an inquiry afoot as to the reliability of our public weighbridges. It appears that a merchant discovered that, owing to an error of subtraction by one of ...
Article : 1,820 wordsCertain serious statements having been made in a report which has boen received by the Minister of Works,. Mr. Bruce Smith, from the board lately appointed to investigate the charges ...
Article : 144 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Country Fire Brigades' Association was held yesterday at Temperance-buildings, Little Collins-street, to consider the Fire Protection Bill ...
Article : 894 wordsAn application was made to Judge Moles worth in the Insolvency Court yesterday on behalf of Mrs. Emily E. Dobson, the widow and sole executrix of the late Mr. Percy Dobson, to ...
Article : 1,383 wordsA motion to reject, expunge or reduce a proof of debt by David Munro and Co. Limited for £31,154 11s. 10d. upon the insolvent estate of David Munro, engineer, of Queen street, was ...
Article : 1,615 wordsThe hearing of the Pilley maintenance case was concluded in the Second Nisi Prius Court, before Mr. Justice "Williams and a jury of six, yesterday. ...
Article : 828 wordsThe Government has appointed Mr. Lamb as an expert in tobacco growing, and he will travel the colony to tench farmers and others how to grow tobacco and cure the leaf for the market. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 391 wordsAt the meeting of the select committee on intercolonial free-trade to-day, the Treasurer, Mr. Holder, was appointed chairman and Mr. R. Rees secretary. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe libel action, Levien v. Fox, in which R. H. Levien, M.P., sought to recover £2000 from C. J. Fox, editor and proprietor of the Northern. Argus, Narrabri, was decided to day. The ...
Article : 127 wordsThe inauguration of the United Grand Lodge of Tasmania took place to-day, the Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris being installed as first Grand Master by Lord Carrington, assisted by the Earl ...
Article : 104 wordsParliament meets on Tuesday next. Mr. A. Page and Mr. A. E. Lord will move and second the address in reply to the Governor's speech in the Legislative Council, and Colonel St. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe balance sheet of the Union Insurance Company shows an available balance of £17,269 7s. 2d., from which the directors recommend £10,000 to payment of the usual dividend of ...
Article : 44 wordsAt tho Assize Court to-day the jury, after being looked up all day, returned a verdict of guilty of stealing against Sydney Varney in the Lindenow pig stealing case. Biggs was acquitted. ...
Article : 179 wordsDr. Youl, City Coroner, held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the Women's Hospital, respecting the death of an infant named Thomas Byrne Gilmour, the infant child ...
Article : 257 wordsDetective Sergeant E. O'Donneil and Detective Freyer made a raid last night on a house of ill fame in Heffernan's-lane, and apprehended several person on various charges. Ah You. a ...
Article : 226 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day questions were asked relative to the statements made yesterday by the Commissioner of Lands, Mr. Burgoyne, in speaking on Mr. ...
Article : 267 wordsA public meeting was held yesterday evening at the Malvern shire hall to consider the best means of obtaining the inclusion of a line in the new Railway Construction Bill, running from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 wordsTho body of a middlo aged man was disoovered yesterday morning floating in the River Yarra, near to the Queen's-bridgo. Tho discovery was first mado at about 10 a.m. by a boatman, who, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsSir,--" Time payment Victim" (in your issue of Saturday) is perhaps not aware that however carefully worded agreements may be, if the customer's rent is not paid the goods can be ...
Article : 231 wordsIn connection with the wharf laborers trouble, both sides seem determined not to recede from the stand they have taken. The men say they will certainly come out on Tuesday morning if ...
Article : 208 wordsSir,--I am directed by the committee of the Salvation Army Free Labor Bureau to report that they have succeeded in securing employment for some 90 men. The names of 530 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsAt the meeting of the Brewers' Employes Eight Hours Association, held at the Trades Hall on Wednesday evening, a communication was received from the brewers' employes in ...
Article : 327 wordsSIR,--We wish to lay before you a grievance which we, as railway navvies, have been put under through misleading advertisements which have been inserted in The Age by railway contractors ...
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Advertising : 326 wordsSir,--The very extraordinary statement of Mr. M'Lean that appears in The Age of the 24th inst. is somewhat sensational, if not alarming, viz., that "the Government may as ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Trades and Labor Council to-night passed a resolution endorsing the action of the wharf laborers, and calling upon trades unionists as a body, and the public generally, to support ...
Article : 116 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of court Marion, No. 3521, A.O.F., was held at the Foresters' Hall, Chapel-street, South yarra, on Monday evening, C.R. Bro. Manning presiding. Four new members ...
Article : 283 wordsGenerally, satisfaction is being expressed at the proposal to extend the railway line vid Colquhoun to Orbost, as at present on the schedule it terminates in a wilderness. At a ...
Article : 640 wordsA volley firing competition between the sections of B Company, 1st Battalion, commanded by Captain Lazarus, took place on Saturday at Williams- town. The match was a volley firing event by ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 27 Jun 1890, Page 6
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