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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsAmongst the many exciting scenes witness on the south side of the Yarra yesterday war the drowning of a horse in a cart used f or resou[?] purposes, and the narrow escape from drow[?]g ...
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Article : 363 wordsSIR,--Although among the unfortunates, we feel there are others still more unfortunate, and undoubtedly our good fellow citizens will start a fund for the sufferers in this most ...
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Article : 730 wordsA number of unionist coal lumpers employed on Hoffnung's wharf struck on Friday night, refusing to work with free laborers. The work was resumed on Saturday morning entirely by ...
Article : 407 wordsThe damage at South Melbourne has been very great and numbers of families are rendered houseless. The police on duty in the lower lying parts of the city took the precaution ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 wordsOn Saturday the Moonee Ponds Creek overflowed its banks and flooded Kensington Flat to a considerable distance west of the Coburg railway line. Houses in portions of Robertson and ...
Article : 245 wordsThe mayor of Bourke has forwarded Mr. W. King, secretary of the Pastoralists' Association, the set of resolutions passed at that town on Wednesday last, urging that a conference be ...
Article : 184 wordsA landslip occurred yesterday on the Bacohus Marsh line. About 3.000 tons of earth have fallen across the track near Bacohus Marsh, which will cause the suspension of the through ...
Article : 55 wordsRain has fallen almost incessantly during the past 30 hours, and a heavy flood is regarded as imminent. Yesterday the Murray was 9 feet 6 inches above summer level, but to-day it is rising ...
Article : 176 wordsA tree fell on a woman named Rhoda Bavis and her two infant children near Dugondan today, killing one child and inflicting terrible injuries on the woman and the other child. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsParliament will be opened on Tuesday at noon by commission. The Governor will deliver his speech on Wednesday. Sir Henry Parkes and Messrs. M'Millan and Brunker have been ...
Article : 69 wordsIt has been raining continuously since 11 o'clock on Friday night, and still continues. All the river flats for miles are covered. The flood is the largest since that of 1870. Families ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 683 wordsIfanna-street as a thoroughfare has been rather [?]ted in the past for a large drain that flows along it, but large as it is it was quite inadequate to the task of carrying off the large ...
Article : 337 wordsNews was received by the police on Friday that Chas. Sanders, a reservoir keeper at Thornden Park, hod committed suicide. The information was supplied by Juo. Austin, a laborer, ...
Article : 232 wordsA heavier rainfall than the present has not been experienced in the Tatura district for many years. Many old residents maintain that there has not been a similar downpour since 1870. ...
Article : 216 wordsAs the Naval Defence Bill necessitates an alteration in the constitution of the Naval Defence here, the whole of the officers of the force, from senior naval officer down to ...
Article : 153 wordsRain has been falling at Lillydale since Friday night. Early to-day the downpour became a perfect waterspout. The streams were soon swollen, great volumes of water flowing through ...
Article : 417 wordsAs a result of the extraordinary downpour on Saturday a serious accident occurred early on Sunday morning in connection with the building operations in progress on a portion of the site ...
Article : 355 wordsA press representative has just returned from the Ediacara Consols, a silver mine on the Beltana field. He writes in high terms of the mine, and states that there are 12,000 tons of ...
Article : 176 wordsAt the annual banquet of the Railway Mutual Service Association bold at the trades hall on Saturday night 100 delegates wore present from various parts of the colony. The banquet was a ...
Article : 494 wordsAfter a break of 24 hours in the weather, heavy rains were experienced at an early hour this morning, and have continued since. The flat areas having been thoroughly saturated ...
Article : 304 wordsThe sight at the orderly room last night was a painful one. The large room was well filled with people, who had parcelled out the floor space into squares, spread their mattresses ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 wordsIn the elections for a seat in the Southern District in the Legislative Council, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. West Erskine, the figures so far as known are:--J. L. Stirling, ...
Article : 48 wordsA poorly attended meeting of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association was held here on Thursday afternoon to consider how federation with intercolonial free-trade will affect the ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. R. L. J. Ellery, the Government astronomer, when Been last night, stated that the rainfall since 1 o'clock on Saturday morning was the heaviest he has known in Melbourne ...
Article : 773 wordsThe heavy rains and floods along the Glen Iris line on Saturday and yesterday resulted in the washing away in several places of portions of the embankments, necessitating the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 469 wordsA strong westerly gale blew over the city and harbor all last night, and to-day the weather has also been intensely cold, and snow is reported from the country. Heavy rains have ...
Article : 69 wordsThe damage Port Melbourne is not so great as at other places. Gladstone-place from about 200 yards south of Montague railway station to Ferrars-street is, [?]owever, under water, and the ...
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Advertising : 86 wordsSIR,--The disaster which has so suddenly overtaken hundreds of fellow citizens should not only awaken the sympathy of each member of the community, but command that practical aid ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 13 Jul 1891, Page 6
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