Respecting the men injured in the explosion on the H.M.S. Cordelia, the worst case is time of Lee, whose arm was broken. To-day inflammation set in, and an operation was found ...
Article : 108 wordsParliament will be opened by commission tomorrow, and the Governor's speech will be delivered on Wednesday. The usual dinner given prior to the opening of Parliament took ...
Article : 61 wordsThe rescued were in most instances obliged to join those unfortunates who had already taken refuge in the Cremorne-street State school. About 250 persons were thus accommodated, ...
Article : 257 wordsAn adjourned caucus meeting of the Labor party was hold to day. The sitting was a long one, but the pross were not admitted So far as can be gathered, questions of policy and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsA narrow escape was experienced by a small party of volunteers venturing out on a rescue expedition down the Yarra from the Hawthorn bridge yesterday afternoon. The party was ...
Article : 214 wordsSeveral houses in South Richmond were reported last night to have disappeared altogether and others were said to be breaking away before the force of the flood. ...
Article : 330 wordsThe Murray at Albury is rising very tost to-night, and up to dark people wore engaged removing stook from the paddocks adjacent to the river. Several narrow escapes from ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the police court to-day Bruce E. Middleton was charged with embezzling a cheque for £25 drawn on the Federal Bank, on 15th May, and another cheque for a similar amount, drawn on ...
Article : 252 wordsWhen the water stood at its highest yesterday morning there was a distinct connection between the flooded land in South Melbourne and the lake at Albert Park. A thin stream of ...
Article : 143 wordsThe floods throughout the island are general, and the traffic on the mam line has boon stopped, there being several breaches in the permanent way. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe body of a young man named James Taylor, who was reported missing, was last evening discovered in one of the swamped houses of Karlsberg-road, South Yarra. ...
Article : 317 wordsSIR,--My own escape from damage by flood has been such a narrow one that I should show a scanty sense of thankfulness did I not contribute my mite for the relief of others less ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is expected that to-morrow afternoon Mr. Holdor will move a vote of no-confidence in the Government, in order to obtain a reliable opinion concerning the arrangement which the railway ...
Article : 275 wordsThe damage on the northern bank of the river below Princes-bridge is very severe. Tho desiccator works at the Flemington abattoirs are well nigh ruined. The city surveyor had ...
Article : 393 wordsSIR,--The condition of the poorer section of our community who are sufferers by the flood of last night must be something lamentable. My business during the la 10 years has taken ...
Article : 172 wordsThe damage at Flemington Racecourse has been greater than was anticipated. In addition to the flooding of the course the damage has extended to the grand stand enclosure, where ...
Article : 259 wordsA deputation of civil servants waited on the Premier this afternoon, the Attorney-General also being present. The deputation asked the Ministers, in view of the movement to ...
Article : 91 wordsA special meeting of the Trades Hall Council was held last evening for the purpose of finally dealing with the statement of receipts and disbursements in connection with the late ...
Article : 839 wordsFour assaults on females have taken place in the western suburbs during the last few days. On Saturday night, Miss Warron, while walking along the Wharf-road, Concord, about 8.30, was ...
Article : 293 wordsAn enormous quantity of water flowed down the river yesterday, its velocity at the mouth being rather more than eight miles an hour. At 10 o'clook in the morning boats were plying in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsThe state of the Bay continued very high yesterday, and at 8 o'olock the water was rising. Lillington's baths, near the Botanical Gardens, have been almost ...
Article : 596 wordsA bill for establishing a permanent committee to decide on the advisability of undertaking now public works will probably be introduced into the House of Assembly within a fortnight. ...
Article : 66 wordsIt was mentioned in yesterday's Age that a number of men had been engaged throughout Sunday in attempting to keep back the water from the West Melbourne dock works ...
Article : 462 wordsThe body of a man, whoso name is unknown, has been found in a deep ledge between two rocks in the You Yangs. The head and one arm are missing, and the remains are in an ...
Article : 93 wordsSir Henry Parkes to-day sent a letter to the secretary of the Pastoralists' Union asking that body to agree to an open conference with the Shearers' Union with a view if possible of ...
Article : 84 wordsA terrifying spectacle was witnessed at about 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon by the people residing on one of the plateaus of the Dandenong Ranges, near South Mooroolbark, where a huge ...
Article : 362 wordsA shocking and mysterious fatality was reported to the Prahran police last evening as having occurred on the Union-street level crossing, Windsor, at about 6 o'clock. The victim was ...
Article : 183 wordsAs the result of private negotiations it is believed that a settlement will be come to within the next day or two in regard to the shearing in the Bourke district, and that it will ...
Article : 50 wordsNo rain fell to-day in the city, but the weather has been bitterly cold, with a strong wind blowing. Heavy snow is reported from Orange and from parts of the Blue Mountains, ...
Article : 309 wordsMr. Whitely King, the secretary of the Pastoralists' Union, has telegraphed to the mayor of Bourke in answer to a letter' which was published yesterday as follows:-- ...
Article : 117 wordsThe parents of a little girl named Annie Herbert are in great distress at the absence of their daughter from home since 2 p.m. on the 11th inst. The child is 6 years of ...
Article : 151 wordsDavid H. White, a member of the board of directors of the Australian Natives' Association, at to-day's mooting of the local branch of the association spoke at considerable length ...
Article : 153 wordsThe flood in the Saltwater River on Monday morning early reached its highest point. Around Maribyrnong all the flat land was submerged by the overflow of the river. The lower land from ...
Article : 610 wordsThe river is now falling fast. Miles of fencing are destroyed, and the hop gardens are still completely submerged. Repairs to the railway line between here and Lillydale are ...
Article : 116 wordsAn extraordinary accident happened to a girl named Eliza Kennedy, in Drury-lane, yesterday afternoon. The girl is only 16 months old, and was disporting herself on the pavement of the ...
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Advertising : 216 wordsThe postal communications have suffered no derangement worth mentioning, as in all cases where stoppages occurred steps were taken to send on the mail bags as soon as possible. In the ...
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Advertising : 123 wordsA report from Tintaldra to-day states that the river there was within 18 inches of the big flood in 1870, and that the stream was rising rapidly. At Tallangatta the Mitta Mitta to-day ...
Article : 337 wordsThe damage done to the railway lines of the colony has not, so far as has been ascertained, been of a serious character, and the department feel that there is reason for satisfaction that the ...
Article : 1,105 wordsThe stoppage in the traffic between Warragul and Dandenong, and the consequent suspension of communication between hero and Melbourne, is the source of much inconvenience to many ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 14 Jul 1891, Page 6
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