The Gaiety Company give a matinee at tho Princess's Theatre this afternoon, when the curtain rises at 2 o'clock. They appear again in the evening. Buy Blas affords numberless ...
Article : 946 wordsThe memorial stone of the tower of St. Peter's Church Sturt-street, was laid this afternoon at 4 o'clock by Dr. Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, on behalf of Mr. J. H. Fry, who is bearing the whole ...
Article : 476 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have decided on a revised tariff for parcels to come into operation on 1st August. This includes the system of stamping instead of booking parcels. ...
Article : 312 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Trades Hall Council was held last evening, Mr. J. T. Sitch presiding. THE RETIRING PRESIDENT. ...
Article : 1,278 wordsA long manifesto has been issued by the Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales in reference to the shearing question. The manifesto opens by stating that in view of the approaching ...
Article : 613 wordsThe floods generally are now falling, the weather having cleared. Young reports that while a herd of 14,000 of Badgery's wethers wore crossing the Balabla Creek 3000 were swept ...
Article : 329 wordsA public meeting was held in the board room at Prell's buildings yesterday afternoon, to ser forth the objects of apolitical association recently formed and called the National Association. ...
Article : 3,703 wordsThe mysterious disappearance of the threemasted schooner Chittoor from the scene of the wreck of the W. B. Godfrey caused considerable anxiety, as it was ...
Article : 721 wordsArchibald Mackie, gentleman; Walter Mizon, mechanic; and John Lanncelot Stirling, sheep farmer, were to-day nominated as candidates for the vacancy in the Legislative Council. ...
Article : 64 wordsNews has been received that the New Hebrides mission synod was hold at Aneityum from 28th May to 6th June. The position of the British settlers in tho group was again ...
Article : 189 wordsJ. J. Griffin, the postmaster of Geraldton, is dead. The Government have resumed the town lots between William-street and Melbourne-road for the extension of the railway reserve and for the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- FRIDAY, 3RD JULY.--West Australia: Cloudy with light to heavy rain, with moderate and strong ...
Article : 262 wordsThe No. 2 sectional committee on railways arrived from Melbourne by the express train tonight, and subsequently heard evidence at the City Hall respecting the proposed line from the ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the Equity Court to-day an important case of the Brush Electrical Engineering Company v. Kingsbury was heard. This was an application by the defendant that the company should ...
Article : 176 wordsA telegram received from Young to-night states that Mr. Toomey and the executive councillors of the Shearfers' Union arrived to-day from Melbourne, where they have ...
Article : 210 wordsWith reference to the impending trial of the man Colston, on the charge of murdering Mr. and Mrs. Davis, we are informed that the plea of insanity is not likely to be persevered ...
Article : 87 wordsA special forecast issued to-night in the shipping interest advised that dangerous barometric disturbances now exists off Cape Leuwin, the centre of which is south-west from Albany. ...
Article : 118 wordsThe body of Joseph Tilley, until recently engaged as machinist in the office of a morning contemporary, was yesterday afternoon found in the Yarra, near the Hawthorn Tea Gardens, ...
Article : 80 wordsNo news having been received of the missing ketch Prince Alfred, it is now considered almost certain that she has been lost with all hands. ...
Article : 39 wordsNews has been received in Sydney from New Guinea of the wreck of the German steamer Ottilie, owned by the German New Guinea Company, and employed by the company ...
Article : 191 wordsDISTURBING A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.--Jno. Quigley, a farmer from Morwell, who was arrested for using insulting language at the ...
Article : 1,161 wordsA Russian correspondent of the Methodist Times gives some recent cases of persecution of the sect of Stundist Methodists in Southern and Western Russia. Vassily Petroff (he writes) is a ...
Article : 454 wordsThere have been 147 convictions in connection with the shearers' strike, of which over 100 are still in gaol, some for Sentences as high as seven years. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe mission schooner Southern Cross has arrived from a cruise amongst the islands. She brings as a passenger from Norfolk Island the Rev. H. Briton. Mr. Briton states that the ...
Article : 68 wordsI went last evening (says the Paris correspondent of the Times, under date 28th May) to the central office of the new company which is interested in the instrument known as the ...
Article : 734 wordsA party of shearers, with their cook, under the pastoralists' agreement, were despatched by train this morning to Oaden Hills and Andamooka for W. B. Soils and Co. Another batch ...
Article : 84 wordsThe mayor to-day received a letter from Earl Jersey, stating he and Lady Jersey accepted the invitation to visit Albury during the show week in September next. The mayor ...
Article : 64 wordsAn influential meeting of pastoralists was held at Moulamein to-day, nearly every station in the district being represented. About 40 shearers and station hands were also present. Mr. ...
Article : 81 wordsA telegram from Ashburton states that a man named Hannan was found in a well yesterday, where he had been for 19 days with very little food and water. When taken out of the well ...
Article : 57 wordsA Lien Bill has been introduced in the Assembly providing that contractor's, sub-contractors, or workmen who do work on any land are entitled to a lien on the whole of their employer's ...
Article : 70 wordsAt a meeting of the shearers at the Melbourne Trades Hall last evening, Mr. Poynton, who presided, stated that encouraging information had been received from different parts of the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe secretary to the Intercolonial Trades and Labor Congress has received the following letter from Chief Justice Lilley, of Queensland:-- Brisbane, 29th June, 1891.--I have to ...
Article : 169 wordsThe metropolitan police yesterday received intelligence from Senior-constablo Glenny, officer in charge of tho district, that a daring burglary had been perpetrated at Romsey some time ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Marine Board presecuted at tho Williamstown police court yesterday William John Hall, master of the steamship Hope, for three breaches of the Marino Act, 1890, committed by ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Elections Amendment Bill introduced by Sir S. Griffith in the Assembly last night provides that the term "absolute majority of votes" shall mean a majority of all the votes ...
Article : 146 wordsA man named Timothy O'Brien, 29 years of age, residing at 88 Oxford-street, Collingwood, met with a serious accident late yesterday evening. lie was driving in a vehicle, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 wordsA rather serious collision between a cab and nightcart took place on the St. Kilda-road about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The cab, driven by James Labato, was proceeding in the ...
Article : 203 wordsThe ordinary general meeting of the Clickers' Society was hold at the Trades Hall on Thursday last, when Mr. W. Mahoney occupied the chair. Several new members were enrolled. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Government have introduced a loan expenditure bill, legalising the payment by the Treasurer of certain sums for railways and other works, which sums have never been legally ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 4 Jul 1891, Page 10
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