Owing to the departure for New Guinea of the Rev. A. A. Maclaren and his colleagues, who are to inaugurate the first Church of England mission to the great Island of Papua, ...
Article : 2,111 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Trades Hall Council was held lost night; Mr. J. Winter, president, in the chair. THE TRADES AND THE BOARD OF WORKS. ...
Article : 1,666 wordsThe annual meeting of the contributors to the Victorian Asylum for the Blind was held in No. 10 room of the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, Alderman Lang presiding. ...
Article : 345 wordsOur Ballarat correspondent writes:--A public meeting was held at the Alfred Hall this (Friday) evening to raise funds for the assistance of the sufferers by the Melbourne floods. The ...
Article : 959 wordsThe various theories which have been propounded to show that the earth, the sun and the rest of the solar system are now in a state of decrepitude are much in want of a few facts to ...
Article : 1,605 wordsA letter carrier attached to the St. Kilda post office, named William Dwyer, appeared on remand before the St. Kilda police court yesterday on charges of stealing two £1 notes and six ...
Article : 456 wordsAt the Bijou Theatre last night the comedy entitled Peril was performed. A different version of the same piece, entitled Friends, was performed by the London Comedy Company in ...
Article : 948 wordsTwo letter receivers at Newtown were broken open and sacked a few nights ago. Amongst a large number of letters taken wore several cheques posted by the local branch of the Union ...
Article : 228 wordsA meeting of the friends and supporters of Cr. M'Mahon, who is a candidate for reflection in the north ward, Fitzroy, was held at the Temperance Hall, Rac-street, on Friday ...
Article : 154 wordsThe seventeenth annual meeting of the members and subscribers of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia was held yesterday afternoon, at the offices of the society, ...
Article : 483 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,293 wordsIt is rumored the Treasurer is in arrear, and that in his financial statement he will simply recommend the issue of Treasury bills to cover the deficit, the amount to be afterwards recouped ...
Article : 88 wordsGreat interest was taken to-day in the annual election in connection with the Ballarat Hospital. Dr. R. Scott was elected hon. physician, defeating Drs. C.H.W. Hardy and W. Morrison. ...
Article : 737 wordsLast evening Professor E. E. Morris delivered a lecture in St. Mary's schoolroom, North Melbourne, on titled The Various Names in English and French for the Man who is now Called a ...
Article : 477 wordsThe condition of a lad named William Clark, aged 11, was yesterday brought under the notice of the South Yarra police by some members of the local Ladies' Benevolent Society. Young ...
Article : 239 wordsAt the Carlton police court yesterday a foreigner, named Joseph Williams, was charged with unlawfully assaulting a woman named Charlotte Thomas. The evidence of the ...
Article : 215 wordsGustav Beckman, who made good his escape from Melbourne Gaol on Thursday afternoon, did not enjoy his liberty [?]ong. It was ascertained yesterday morning that he was in the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Victorian Early Closing Association was held in the Trades Hall on Wednesday evening; the president, Mr. G. Steeper, in the chair. A lengthy discusssion ...
Article : 317 wordsIt has been reported to the police that Mr. Benjamin E. Myers, who for some time carried on the business of a furniture warehouseman in Smith-street, Fitzroy, has been missing since ...
Article : 103 wordsAt the Carlton police court yesterday a woman named Mary Lysaght was charged with stealing an ulster, a silver cross and a purse containing 26s., from a servant girl named Mary ...
Article : 190 wordsIn consequence of the vigorous notion being taken by the temperance party, a meeting of brewers, wine and spirit merchants, cordial manufacturers and others interested was held ...
Article : 191 wordsArrangements have been made for carrying on a topography class at the artillery barracks, St. Kilda-road, under Captain Reynolds, the garrison instructor, at which elementary ...
Article : 173 wordsTwo gentlemen named Denton and Barton were driving along Lonsdale-street yesterday afternoon, when the former, who held the reins, lost control of the horse through one of the ...
Article : 167 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 32 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 29 wordsSIR,--As it is desirable that a true statement of the affairs of the company should at the earliest possible moment be placed before the public, I would, with your permission, correct ...
Article : 274 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 1 Aug 1891, Page 10
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: