An interesting statement is given below, showing the rate of pay received by marine officers on board intercolonial steamers, both previous to the strike, those at present paid, and the ...
Article : 341 wordsOn Saturday a numerous party assembled on board the s.s. Coogee, at the invitation of the proprietors, Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co., the occasion being the first run of the vessel ...
Article : 1,792 wordsMAINTENANCE.--At the North Melbourne court yesterday Rachel Essley sued a lad named George Pearson for maintenance. Complainant, who was represented by Mr. Grylls, said ...
Article : 322 wordsMr. Alfred Lamb, M.P., for West Sydney, and head of the firm of Alfred Lamb and Co., wool warehousemen, died to-day from inflammation of the bowels, after a short illness. ...
Article : 275 wordsA Drapers' Assistants' Union has been formed in Ballarat. At a preliminary meeting on Friday night 50 assistants expressed their intention of joining the new society, which, when fully ...
Article : 369 wordsThe procession of strikers on Saturday was contrary to the orders of the mayor. The labor party on Saturday morning wrote to the mayor asking permission to hold a procession, and the ...
Article : 177 wordsAt the meeting of the North Melbourne council held last evening a petition was received asking the mayor to convene a meeting in connection with the strike on Wednesday. It was ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Buninyong, which arrived on Sunday, commenced discharging by non-union labor this morning. The engine driver, Jennings, who is the only person employed on the launch Ariel beside ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsA large public meeting was held yesterday evening at the town hall, Footscray, for the purpose of Considering the position of affairs in relation to the existing strike. The mayor of ...
Article : 612 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Oroya got away to-day to contract time with a large cargo. The ships Aristides and Patriarch continue to take in wool and are fast filling up. Several ...
Article : 366 wordsThe British-India Steamship Company's s. Merkara, from London, was being towed up the river this morning, when the hawser parted. The vessel, drifted on the rocks near the old ...
Article : 63 wordsThe annual general meeting of the Victoria Coursing Club will be bold at the club's office on Friday, the 17th inst., at 4 o'clock. Members wishing to act on the committee must send in their names to ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Governor and party returned from Renmark to-day. At the inquest on the bodies of Arthur Webb and Harold Michael, who were drowned through ...
Article : 135 wordsA railway mishap occurred on the line between Braybrook and Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, by which a shunter employed at the gate house at the latter station met with rather ...
Article : 333 wordsIn a supplement to the Government Gazette, published yesterday, a proclamation by the Governor announces that Wednesday (to-morrow) is to be observed as a public holiday at ...
Article : 95 wordsMonday morning's work was of a particularly quiet character, conducted under a lowering sky and cutting wind. M'Kenna was astir early with Singapore, Don Giovan and Whakawai, but they did nothing beyond a ...
Article : 220 wordsA stock drover, named John Walton, was seriously injured on board the steamer Flora this morning, while getting sheep ashore, by a heavy staging falling upon him. ...
Article : 60 wordsA peculiar case was heard at the District Court yesterday, when a well dressed man named John E. Mitchell appeared to answer a charge of being wilfully guilty of not allowing ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. Christy, Sub-Collector of Customs, seized 100 head of cattle, from a report by the officer of customs stationed upon the Murray-bridge. The stock have been paddocked pending the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsMonday morning turned out fearfully cold, and the tracks, in consequence of the heavy rain which fell, were in a bad state The usual off morning's work, in spite of the near approach of the Caulfield Cup, was not ...
Article : 201 wordsLast week the mill owners sent to the Amalgamated Millers' Society a request that a certain number of its members should be chosen to meet an equal number of members from the ...
Article : 163 wordsTelegraphic communication with the Southern colliery districts has been restored, and the news to hand to-day is of a somewhat serious character. Late on Saturday night considerable ...
Article : 663 wordsThe hearing of the case, Lewis (husband and wife) v. the Railway Commissioners, was continued this morning before Mr. Justice Williams and a jury of six. Messrs. Bryant and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsSettling over the first day's racing at Caulfield was accomplished yesterday, the result being generally much in favor of the ring, and the subsequent betting was of a much more spirited character than on any previous day ...
Article : 654 wordsAbout 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Senior-Constable Comins and Plain Clothes Constable Fitzgerald proceeded to No. 4 Abinger-street, East Richmond, and there arrested a young ...
Article : 335 wordsAn inquiry is being instituted amongst members of the Pastoralists' Union, in consequence of a number of communications having been received by individual station owners from ...
Article : 890 wordsThe Railway Commissioners yesterday accepted the following tenders:--Erection of sheep and cattle yards at Tottington, Reid and Bayles, £307 16s. 6d.; erection of goods shed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThe sixth annual meeting of the Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association was held at the offices, 46 Queen-street, yesterday. The chairman of the board of directors, Mr. Thomas Loader, ...
Article : 204 wordsJames Martner, of Victoria-street, Fast Brunswick, gripman. Causes of insolvency: Adverse verdict in County Court and sickness in family. Liabilities, £100 13s. 6d.; assets, £10; deficiency, £90 ...
Article : 43 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Victorian Rowing Association was held last night at Messrs. Young and Jackson's Hotel, Flinders-street, Mr. P. O'Neill in the chair. A communication was read from the private secretary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsThe fifteenth annual meeting of the South Melbourne Permanent Building and Investment Society was held at the office of the society. Clarendon-street, on Friday night. Mr. Joseph Stead, president, ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Fitzroy city bench of magistrates were occupied for some time yesterday morning in investigating a charge of assault preferred against a middle aged man named Robert Brazel. The ...
Article : 219 wordsThe criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will be opened before Mr. Justice Hood and juries of 12 to-morrow. The list of prisoners for trial is as follows:-- ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 507 wordsThe selection committee of the V.J.C.A., for the forthcoming Intercolonial Junior Cricket Match, met last night to select 18 juniors to practice, but owing to some of the associated clubs not being notified of the meeting, it was ...
Article : 144 wordsThe sixteenth ordinary general meeting of the Freehold Investment and Banking Company of Australia Limited was held at the company's offices, Collins-street, on Friday. Sir M. H. Davies ...
Article : 416 wordsSIR,--Will you permit me through your columns to ask the committee of the South Melbourne Football Club whether they intend to curry out a resolution which they passed unanimously on the 11th ult., to the effect that ...
Article : 444 wordsMore trouble has arisen in connection with supplies for the Proprietary mine. It will be remembered that some time ago delegates were sent down to Port Adelaide from the unions ...
Article : 344 wordsMrs. Margaret Munro, a widow, residing in George-street, Box Hill, attended the St. Kilda watch house yesterday afternoon, and reported having been robbed of £40 in gold and notes, ...
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Advertising : 111 wordsSIR,--As a change from strike letters might I inquire through you when the liquidator of the Premier Permanent intends to throw some light on this unfortunate business, and give the poor ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the Port Melbourne police court yesterday Pablo Frank was charged with assaulting Henry Burgess; and Daniel Wilson, Maurice Wilson, George Robertson and James Role were charged ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 14 Oct 1890, Page 6
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