The Dandenong races will be held to-day on the Eumemmering course. For the convenience of visitors it has been arranged to run two special trains from Princes-bridge, South Yarra, Caufield ...
Article : 66 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Mount Macedon Grand Hotel Company Limited was held at the Waterman's A[?]s [?]tel, Little Collins-street, yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 629 wordsTo-morrow being the anniversary of the birth of her Majesty the Queen, who has now completed her 70th year, will be observed as a public holiday throughout the colony. ...
Article : 840 wordsSergeant Ward and plainclothes-constable M'Manamy, members of the detective police force, were successful yesterday evening in cleverly arresting two young men who are ...
Article : 746 wordsThe Minister of Mines his reiterated his statement that the Government friend to introduce a new Mining Bill, and also to issue regulations which will re[?]ead many [?] of the prestent ...
Article : 677 wordsAt the District Court yesterday, Mr. Geo. C. [?] appeared, in answer to a summons at the [?]tanes of the Central Board of Health, charging him, he being the lessee and occupier of the ...
Article : 746 wordsThe fourth half yearly ordinary general meeting of the Broken Hill Proprietary Block 14 Company was held yesterday afternoon at the City Bank Hall, City Bank chambers, Elizabeth-street. Mr. Harvey ...
Article : 1,210 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Chas. Henry, a resident of 45 years' standing. He drove the first coach through to Camperdown. At the annual meeting of the Camperdown ...
Article : 641 wordsAn important deputation from the Williamstown town council introduced by Dr. Le Fevre, M.L.C., and Mr. W. T. Carter, M.L.A., had audience of the Railway Commissioners ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsA number of residents of Morwell represented to the Railway Commissioners yesterday that the Chief Secretary was prepared to grant the use of a machine to them to bore for water to ...
Article : 155 wordsThe South Tasmanian footballers made their second appearance yesterday on the East Melbourne cricket ground, against a team from the St. Kilda club, Unfortunately the weather was cold and showery, ...
Article : 1,011 wordsThe large auction premises occupied by Messrs. Greig and Murray, in Queen-street were crowded all day yesterday with persons who attended the sale of landed property in the ...
Article : 401 wordsIn response to overtures made to them by deputations, the Railway Commissioners yesterday made the following announcements in reference to the Oakleigh, Dandenong and ...
Article : 168 wordsSince Sunday night up to late last night it rained almost without intermission, and up to this morning 3 inches 69 points of rain has been registered, and the Broken River has risen to 10 ...
Article : 389 wordsMr. Gosehen has scored a success by his budget. The Liberals at least have no reason to grumble, as the additional taxation will fall heaviest on Tory shoulders, the only murmur ...
Article : 1,071 wordsArrived: South Australian, from Melbourne. Sailed: Marie Lawrie, for Port Esperance. ...
Article : 25 wordsPlain-clothes constables Canty and Wardley apprehended a man named Edward Woodruffe, a cab driver, late last night on a charge of burglariously entering the house of John ...
Article : 169 wordsProfessor Black, of Dunedin, has telegraphed that the result of his assay of specimens of silver ore that he recently took from Godkin's find, Tasmania, is 187 oz. of silver per ton. He ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Postmaster-General yesterday informed a deputation from Morwell that provision had been made on the last estimates for the erection of a new post office there. An officer would be ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Justice A'Beckett yesterday delivered His reserved judgment in Hitchins v. the Mayor of Port Melbourne, in the Equity Court. The widow of James V. M. Hitchins, a local ...
Article : 886 wordsAt about 10.50 last night a fire, that threatened at the outset to be very serious, occurred at the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Clauseen and Co., Gertrude-street, Fitzroy. ...
Article : 622 wordsYesterday afternoon the Clifton Hill police were notified of a sudden death which occurred at the Inform Actors' Almshouses, established in connection with the Old Colonists' Home. ...
Article : 208 wordsA meeting of pastoralists in the Albury district was held to-day, with the object of forming a branch of the New South "Wales Pastoralists' Association. The chair was occupied by ...
Article : 452 wordsThe third half yearly meeting of this company was held at the office, 47 Market-street, yesterday afternoon. The chairman of directors, Mr. W. Essington King occupied the chair. The directors reported ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsDr. Youl, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Limerick Arms Hotel, Park-street, South Melbourne, yesterday morning, into the cause of death of Mrs. Helen Boyd, the wife ...
Article : 296 wordsSome time ago the Fitzroy municipal chamber received a letter from the Union Electric Light Company suggesting that the council should authorise the writers to light a portion of the ...
Article : 90 wordsSIR,--Your issue of last Saturday contains a literary contribution from "The Vagabond," in which, amongst his flippant and unjust observations upon the Catholic priesthood as a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 473 wordsYesterday afternoon the boys of the Scotch College and a number of the friends of the institution assembled at the boat sheds at Princes bridge to witness the ceremony of christening a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 411 wordsIt has been arranged with the Government to extend the telephone system from Geelong to Melbourne on the understanding that a guarantee of £400 per annum is given. One firm in ...
Article : 122 wordsMichael Maloney, the boy who was so successful in victimising tradesmen in Carlton a few weeks ago by what has come to he known as the "change" swindle, and who was arrested in ...
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Advertising : 197 wordsOn Monday night the Yarrawonga train which leaves here at 8.50, had a very narrow escape of being wrecked, and but for the vigilance of a ganger named Sargeant it would ...
Article : 140 wordsA match between the above club and the Sydney School of Arts Chess Club (seven a side) will be played by telegraph to-morrow. The team to represent the Victorian Club will be chosen from ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 23 May 1889, Page 6
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