A railway accident, which unhappily was attended with loss of life, occurred about 50 yards from Oakleigh station at 1.30 yesterday morning. A milk train, bound from ...
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Article : 164 wordsFor the third time within the past 12 months Sunday night has been marked by a great city fire. Soon after 9 o'clock yesterday evening the premises of Messrs. Levy Bros. and Co., 273 ...
Article : 1,689 wordsThe railway service, which is alleged to be equal to the best in the world, has again given evidence of its quality by a collision hit off in its own free and ...
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Article : 35 wordsIn a despatch received by the Italian Government from the Russian Foreign Office it is declared that the Czar refuses to recognise the protectorate proclaimed over ...
Article : 45 wordsThe whole strength of the fire brigades of the city and suburbs was brought to hear on the fire last evening, but it was clearly apparent to all spectators that there was something very ...
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Article : 58 wordsA strike is threatened amongst the railway employes of Great Britain. They are demanding a reduction in the number of working hours to 10 each day for the ...
Article : 63 wordsJohn Stritch says he was coming from Dandenong by the milk train which left there at 12.45 a.m., and was pulled up a short distance outside Oakleigh station. He was sitting on a high ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. Parnell intends at the opening of the next Parliamentary session to indict the Government for conspiring against him, and being the instigators of the frauds ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Nihilists are manifesting renewed activity at St. Petersburg, and rumors of plots against the Czar's life are again current. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe shipment of Victorian butter despatched in the R.M.S. Ormuz has arrived in excellent condition. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe influenza epidemic is dying out on the Continent, though a large number of cases are still reported. The contagion is spreading rapidly in ...
Article : 96 wordsThe remains of the ex-Empress of Brazil, which were buried at Oporto, have been removed for interment at Lisbon. ...
Article : 29 wordsDr. Dollinger, the eminent Bavarian theologian and historian is reported to be dying. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe estate of Mr. Ernest Benzon, the jubilee plunger, has been compulsorily sequestrated. The insolvent has refused to appear in court, and the judge has ...
Article : 41 wordsDr. Cutts, of Oakleigh, who was called as soon as possible after the accident, gives a very clear account of what occurred after he reached the spot, though of course he is unable to say ...
Article : 449 wordsThe date of the departure of English mail steamers from Adelaide has finally been fixed by the Imperial authorities for Wednesday in each week, in accordance ...
Article : 60 wordsThe London Missionary Society's barque John Williams, which returned to Port Jackson yesterday from her usual periodical cruise among the islands of the South Pacific, has been ...
Article : 315 wordsThe building was erected some six or seven years ago from the designs of Mr. Salway, architect, for Mr. Hugo Worthei[?], of sewing machine celebrity. It was originally three ...
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Article : 67 wordsThe first number of the Daily Graphic was issued to-day. ...
Article : 16 wordsAustralian wheat, ex warehouse, is unchanged at 39s. 6d. to 40s. New Zealand long berried is also unchanged at 37s. 6d. to 38s. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe abolition of slavery has been formally proclaimed in Turkey. ...
Article : 19 wordsPrince Victor of Wales is visiting Calcutta, and received an ovation. It is estimated that 100,000 natives assembled to welcome him. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe s. Zealandia, with the American mails from San Francisco, 14th ult., arrived here yesterday. The following are the saloon passengers:--Mesdames Austin, Waxman, Mason, ...
Article : 80 wordsScotch pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. on Clyde, is quoted at from 64s. to 65s. 11d. per ton. ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., who visited India in order to attend the native conference, has sailed from Bombay for London. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe collapsed Volunteer Artillery Hotel, in Lower George-street, was the centre of much attraction yesterday and to-day. The body of the barmaid, Susan Hogan, was extricated from the ...
Article : 139 wordsTwo more cases of drowning are reported, both victims being young men. Frank Graves, a member of the crew of the half-decker Irene, helped to sail the boat to Manly this afternoon, ...
Article : 107 wordsA fire broke out at about 1.40 yesterday afternoon in a three-roomed brick and weatherboard cottage, occupied by a blacksmith, named John Reynolds, at 193 Princes-street, Carlton. ...
Article : 260 wordsBy the arrival of the s. Zealandia the following news has been received from Samoa:--An important meeting has been held at Apia, between Malictoa and the leading Tamasese ...
Article : 67 wordsThe wrecked guard's van contained a number of tins of milk, while the other trucks on the train held lime, sleepers and general produce. When the engine of the second train crashed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsThe steamer Guthrie brings news of the foundering of the steamer Daburg, a China trader, and the loss of over 400 lives. The Daburg left Singapore on 25th October for ...
Article : 91 wordsA accident occurred near Holmwood, 4 miles from Cowra, very early on Saturday morning, when a passenger train ran off the rails and over an embankment. The driver and fireman of ...
Article : 85 wordsA fatal accident occurred at tho Proprietary mine yesterday morning. A man named Hy. Brame, engaged in wheeling slag at the new furnaces, had been away for a month's holidays, ...
Article : 147 wordsA young girl named Fanny Louisa Whitehead committed suicide in the Yarra at Richmond on Saturday morning under peculiarly distressing circumstances. She had for some time been ...
Article : 241 wordsA terrific thunderstorm, with heavy rain and hail, broke over the metropolis about 6.30 to-night, continuing till 9 o'clock. Many of the city sewers became blocked, and the streets ...
Article : 77 wordsThe absconding clerk, John A. Jones, aged 18 years, formerly in the service of the Empire Building Society of Melbourne, was lodged in the City watch house early on Sunday morning ...
Article : 187 wordsThe floods in the north are doing great damage. Over 36 inches of rain has fallen in the Herbert River district since Christmas Eve. The lands office at Ingham is submerged, and ...
Article : 98 wordsThe following news has been received from Port Moresby:--The Government expedition has ascended the Fly River 180 miles and established a coal depot. On the 14th December, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe fireman of the up goods train that ran into the one standing at the Oakleigh railway station was George Round, 29 years of age. He is a married man and resides in ...
Article : 665 wordsINSOLVENCY COURT.--(Before the Chief Clerk, at 10.30.)--General meetings re C. Barnicoat, W. Russell and G. S. B. Bonney. ...
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