In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Dibbs referred to last night's fire. He thought the Government should bring in a bill to provide for storage of explosives and inflammable oils in ...
Article : 199 wordsBetween destructive bush fires and rabbits, the latter having increased beyond all bounds, several station holders in the Cobar' district, have decided to throw up their holdings. Stock ...
Article : 634 wordsThe sittings of the Supremo Court in the divorce and matrimonial causes jurisdiction were opened in the Equity Court. TURNBULL V. TURNBULL.. ...
Article : 873 wordsA meeting of the council of the Victorian Rifle Association was held last night at the Port Phillip Club Hotel ; Captain Fullarton in the chair. A letter was received from Commander ...
Article : 666 wordsThe fire which broke out at Gibbs, Bright and Co.'s kerosene bonded stores last night is still smouldering among Scott and Henderson's timber piles, which contained 750,000 feet of ...
Article : 189 wordsSporting men generally and cricketers in particular will regret to hear that William Midwinter, the well known and popular cricketer, died in the Kew Lunatic Asylum at 11 o'clock ...
Article : 535 wordsA special meeting of the Slaughtarmen's Union was held at the Trades Hall yesterday morning, at which the details of the proposed Slaughtermen's Cooperative Society were discussed. Mr. ...
Article : 270 words[?]and holders of water rights this district was held here to-day for rights against the threatened intention of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsIn the Assembly to-night it was decided to accept the Legislative Council's amendment in clause 9 of the Stamp Bill. The clause originally empowered the inspector to demand ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the Flemington police court on Tuesday the summonses against certain of the slaughtermen who had struck work without notice were made returnable. The magistrates on the bench were ...
Article : 713 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the galleries were crowded with visitors to hear the no confidence debate, which went rather tamely. Sir Jno. Downer, who tabled the motion, said the House ...
Article : 365 wordsNo reply has been yet received by the Mill Owners and Flour Agents' Association to the letter sent by them to the Amalgamated Millers' Association on 5th November, giving ...
Article : 478 wordsA large deputation, representing the northern suburban municipalities, in addition to St. Kilda, interviewed the Premier yesterday for the purpose of urging that legislative notion be ...
Article : 1,010 wordsA fire broke out in an oyster shop. No. 75 Bourke-street east, at a late hour last night, but the amount of damage done was not serious, and it is more than covered by insurance. The ...
Article : 267 wordsThe British India and Queensland Agency Company yesterday distributed bonuses amounting to £600 amongst the clerks and other employes who remained with them during the ...
Article : 85 wordsNews has been received from Balannah of a case of cruelty on the part of a husband to his wife of a most revolting nature. Lately a man named Cloaholm leased a garden in the Tiers, ...
Article : 300 wordsA deputation representative of the volunteer fire brigades of the colony waited on the Chief Secretary yesterday to request him to place a sum of £2000 on the estimates to meet the ...
Article : 291 wordsIn connection with the robbery of Commercial Bank notes, tho property of C. Proud, on 31st March last, a reward of £500 has already been offered for the conviction of the offender and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsThe Premier was asked yesterday by a deputation from the Western district to have a sum of £2500 placed on the supplementary estimates as an addition to tho £5000 provided on the ...
Article : 350 wordsA meeting of the Victorian Aborigines Board was held yesterday, in the office of the secretary, City Bank-chambers. The members present were:--Messrs. C. M. Officer, M.L.A. (in the chair), W. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThe sludge difficulty at Huntly, near Sandhurst, was brought under the notice of the Commissioner of Public Works yesterday by the members of the local shire council, who urged ...
Article : 183 wordsThomas Avison, who attempted to kill his wife's paramour at Dry Diggings yesterday, was brought up at the police court to-day and remanded for a week. The injured man, Hoare, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe electors generally endorse Mr. Forrest's views on West Australia's position and progress, and the outlook was never more satisfactory, chiefly owing to the success-of the Yielgarn fields. ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a meeting of the Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society to-day, a communication was read from the Department of Agriculture, suggesting that a sub-committee should be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsAt the City Court yesterday (little court room) James Donohue was charged with perjury, an information sworn by Walter Cadman, of Bethanga, This is one of a series of cross ...
Article : 114 wordsThe To Aroha Mining Company's plant and leases, owned by an Australian company, were offered at auction to-day, but were withdrawn at £3000. ...
Article : 98 wordsAt the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the South Melbourne council yesterday afternoon, a letter was received from the Harbor Trust Commissioners, intimating to the ...
Article : 252 wordsA terribly sudden death occurred at Hallen. stein's tannery, Footscray, shortly after noon on Tuesday. A man named James Duggan, 35 years of age, a resident of South Melbourne, ...
Article : 122 wordsUpwards of 60 public men, members of the Melbourne Corporation and representatives of other public bodies, including Mr. James Service, M.L.C., who presided, and Mr. G. D. Carter, ...
Article : 384 wordsMURDEROUS ATTACK ON A WOMAN.--The Richmond magistrates on Wednesday meted out severe punishment to two young married men, named Charles Bishop and Henry White, accused of grossly ...
Article : 522 wordsThe other day Mr. Charles Foulds, the South Melbourne city inspector, made a seizure of a large quantity of articles of food, consisting of rice, raisins, currants, dates, mustard, &c., ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Riverina locusts arrived in this district yesterday morning, and haws been flying over this town in one incessant cloud ever since. Today so thick was tho swarm passing by that the ...
Article : 310 wordsThe wool shed attached to the promises of Messrs. Darton, Reeves and Co., wool and produce brokers, was destroyed by fire this evening shortly after 6 o'clock. The premises had been ...
Article : 112 wordsThe twelfth annual meeting of this society was held yesterday evening Mr. John Holtom, the president, occupied the chair, and moved the adoption of the report', which stated that the year had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsThe inquiry into the burning of the lighter Restless at Port Melbourne on the morning of the 7th ult. was renewed yesterday at the Marine Board offices (Mr. Nicholson in the ...
Article : 202 wordsArmed with a warrant, issued by Mr. W. P. Bechervaisc, post and telegraph master, in Ballarat West, the police to-day seized the printing plant of a local weekly "society" paper known as Sport. It appears that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 239 wordsA conference of delegates from the various mining unions throughout the Australian colonies was opened at the Trades Hall yesterday to draw up a code of rules for the guidance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsSIR,--I enclose sample of union diagonal stuff now being hawked about Melbourne by two very innocent looking young men. No less than 50s. was got from one man for about 7 yards of this ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 4 Dec 1890, Page 6
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