A specially convened meeting of the University Council was held yesterday afternoon; the Chancellor (Bishop Moorhouse) presiding. The Vice-Chancellor (Dr. A. C. Brownless), Dr. ...
Article : 823 wordsThe Colonial Secretary has decided to destroy the vineyards infected by phylloxera at Camden, and to grant compensation to the proprietors on the basis of a year's profits, ...
Article : 208 wordsAt the Essendon court yesterday Mr. George Parsons, an ex mayor of the borough, was fined £5 for failing to comply with an order of the local Board of Health, directing him to ...
Article : 105 wordsOur Warrnambool correspondent telegraphs that the annual election of officers for the Warrnambool Racing Club was held on Saturday evening. Mr. E. D. Evans was re-elected president, and Mr. Hugh Murray was ...
Article : 168 wordsA public meeting was held last evening in the supper room of the Melbourne Town Hall for the purpose of adopting measures to perpetuate the memory of Sir Moses Montefiore. The ...
Article : 699 wordsThe following is an extract from a letter dated As[?]ouan, 2nd November :--"The Mahdi's death, instead of decreasing his prestige, has increased it. His tomb has become ...
Article : 620 wordsThe School of Mines' authorities have just received an extra £1000 from the Government for the building fund and towards defraying the cost of new apparatus. ...
Article : 181 wordsWe have received from Messrs. Blackie and Sons, of London and Edinburgh, through their Melbourne representative, Mr. S. Mullen, a selection of their books for young people, ...
Article : 1,547 wordsIt was reported in The Age of the 8th inst. that at the annual licensing meeting for the city of Filzroy, held on the day previous, the applications of Clifford Garth for a renewal of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 528 wordsA welcome change occurred in the weather on Saturday evening, when a thunderstorm broke over the town. Intermittent showers afterwards fell throughout the night. During ...
Article : 239 wordsOnly two of the eighty circulars some time ago despatched by the destitute board to various district councils and local bodies, asking whether work was available in their respective ...
Article : 325 wordsChristmas Reef, Yandoit.--A special meeting of the company was held on Thursday last, when the directors reported that this month's [?]ll will place the company out of debt, with the present winding and pumping ...
Article : 133 wordsCornish, Daylesford. 19th Dec.--[?]umed work again in main and north this week, and have driven 8 feet. Have been engaged principally in driving east and opening out on the shoat, which is a strong healthy looking ...
Article : 1,031 wordsA carrier named Martin Ryan was arrested yesterday by Sergeant Mahony, for uttering a valueless cheque for £6 on the Bank of Victoria, Lancefield, to Patrick Fitzgerald Ryan, ...
Article : 378 wordsSailed.--4 p.m.: Tarawera, s., for Melbourne [?]ia Hobart. BLUFF HARBOR, MONDAY. Arrived.--5 a.m.: To Auau, s., from ...
Article : 32 wordsA public meeting for the advocacy of the principles of total ab[?]nence, under the [?]pices of the Good inten[?] Lodge, No. 4. I.O.G.T., was held in the Temperance Hall, Napier-street, South Melbourne, last ...
Article : 133 wordsThe employés of the tanners and carriers in this district, and who are members of the union, decided on Saturday night not to work on and after the first Monday in next month, unless ...
Article : 88 words(Before Mr. C. P. Williams, Chief Clerk.) General meetings were held and closed in the following estates:--Win. George Hadlow, of Fitzroy, contractor ; James O'Sullivan, of ...
Article : 106 wordsSIR,--Knowing that your columns are always open for the ventilation of a working man's a grievance, we, the members of the Corporation Laborers' Union, beg space in which to thank ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 wordsThe body of a man has been found hanging to a sapling at the foot of Kelly's Hill, about 150 yards from the Yarra track. It is supposed to have been hanging there about three or four ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the City Court yesterday there were seventy-seven charges dealt with by the Bench, over which Mr. Call, P.M., presided. William Howard, a young man, was charged with ...
Article : 849 wordsA meeting of the council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society was held yesterday at the office, 69 Temple-court. There were present--Messrs. Robert Simson ...
Article : 216 wordsThunderstorms, accompanied by a rainfall, unprecedented during the past twelve years, passed over the Woosang district and southern portion of Wychitella since Thursday last. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the committee of the Alfred Hospital was held on Friday afternoon. Present--Mr. D. Benjamin (in the chair), J. Blyth, J. H. Flack and T. Alston. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsSIR,--My attention has just been directed to a letter under the above heading, which appears in your influential and widely circulated paper of the 28th ult., signed "One Who Has Just ...
Article : 655 wordsSIR.--I was greatly surprised at reading in your issue of to-day that both the Orient and P. and O. Companies have decided that they will not reduce the passage money to England ...
Article : 171 wordsSIR,--Would it not be both prudent and right for the Rifle Association to clearly explain the Martin episode, as there was a considerable number of spectators who saw the mark of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsAn adjourned meeting of the council was held this afternoon, when, in addition to some other business, the matter of the telegram in last Tuesday's Age was referred to, wherein Cr. ...
Article : 249 wordsSIR,--The conditions of this contract as to time of completion nominates the 31st day of December, 1877, as the day the line shall be open for traffic. This, I think, is not a ...
Article : 225 wordsSIR.--"Where are our public urinals?" Certainly not in the public thoroughfares, cross roads, or principal streets, where they might be seen by the stranger visiting our large city, as ...
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Advertising : 323 wordsThe half yearly meeting of the North Melbourne and Carlton Building and Investment Society was held yesterday, the president, Ald. T. O'Grady, J.P., in the chair. The report ...
Article : 139 wordsSIR,--Some days ago a petition from the inhabitants of Warrnambool, praying Parliament to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Education, was presented, ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Hawthorn club, in answer to an invitation from the Geelong club, on Saturday [?]nt down a team to play the latter on their green. The trip on the Excel[?]or was a welcome respite from the intense heat ...
Article : 183 wordsSIR,--The Education department has invited teachers to study the subjects of the new course of instruction, in order to make lessons thereon a success. A large amount of extra ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsThe Norma[?]by have a moonlight run to Alphington to-night. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 22 Dec 1885, Page 6
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