At the nomination for West Sydney to-day, Mr. D. O'Connor, the Postmaster-General, was proposed by Mr. Playfair, and there being no other candidate he was declared re-elected. ...
Article : 217 wordsThe abstract of the receipts and expenditure for the past quarter and year was published today. The quarter's revenue amounted to £2,203,170, showing a decrease of £170 on the ...
Article : 307 wordsSir Bryan O'Loghlen, our Belfast correspondent telegraphs, has consented to content the Belfast electorate, with considerable promise of support. ...
Article : 308 wordsThe first general meeting of shareholders in the Mitcham Brick and Pottery Company was held at the Trade Hall last night: 13 gentlemen present, and Mr Patterson in the chair. ...
Article : 357 wordsA man named Thos. Minogue, aged 52 years, was charged at the polices court to-day with having committed a series of assaults on his mother, Mrs. Kelly, aged 66 years. The ...
Article : 408 wordsOur Sydney correspondent that the principal winners at the Tettersall's Club meeting were Messrs. Jas With, £1079 10s.; J. Strickland, £750; W. Kelso £370; Eagar, ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Arnold White left on Monday, 23rd November for the Continent, on a visit to the capitals of those countries from which emigration takes place. His object is to acquire ...
Article : 1,131 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe geneal health of quarantined immigrants continues good If everything progresses favorably in the meantime they will be released on Saturday week. The steamer Dorunda will ...
Article : 249 wordsThis vessel, which 13 of the purely cargo carrying type, made her first appearance in the Bay yesterday. She is from the dockyard of Messrs. H. S. Edwards and Sons, of Howden on ...
Article : 273 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting of the Melbourne Bicycle club was held last night, and important business transacted with reference to the grand race meeting to be held on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the 30th ...
Article : 96 wordsThe sequel to the alleged conspiracy to defraud the Government Insurance Company and another association in Christchurch, of which the discovery of a severed hand on the beach ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Victorian United Confectioners' Society met last night in the Trades Hall, and decided to adopt their revised laws. The following officers were elected:--Mr. J. Baker, president; ...
Article : 267 wordsA fearfully hot northerly wind prevailed during to-day, the beat registering at half-past two p.m. about 106 degrees in the shade, and 125 degrees in the sun. A change took place in ...
Article : 246 wordsThe entries for the fifth meeting of the Williamstown club, to be held on Saturday, 9th inst., closed last night with ninety entries, including some of the best swimmers from South Melbourne and other localities. ...
Article : 65 wordsA peculiar accident occurred here yesterday evening at the Court House Hotel. A mason named Hetherington dropped his pipe down the well, and as he was being lowered to recover it ...
Article : 105 wordsOur Sydney correspondent telegraphs that Mr. P. J. Clarke, who has for many years held a prominent position in the aquatic world, has definitely retired from active connection with it. ...
Article : 32 wordsShortly before twelve o'clock last night the railway workshops at Williamstown were discovered to be on fire. On the alarm being given the officers and employed quickly mustered on the ...
Article : 102 words[?] destructive fire is raging at Tungkello, near Mount Pleasant. It has already destroyed an immense amount of property, belonging to eight or nine settlers. ...
Article : 223 wordsA peculiar phase of Sunday trading cropped up at the Williamstown police court yesterday, when a Lascar named Kaisoon, belonging to the R.M.S. Valetta, was fined £5 under the ...
Article : 136 wordsAt five o'clock yesterday morning, when the caretaker of the city free baths at Yarra-bank opened the gates for the admission of the public, he was unexpectedly informed by the police ...
Article : 159 wordsA farmer living at Digger's Rest, named Kenneth M'Kenzie, aged 56 years, fell from a dray yesterday, and sustained a fracture of his right thigh, through the wheels passing over him ; ...
Article : 354 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsYesterday Detective Ward arrested at Prahran two men named Charles K. Tidyman and H. A. R. De Rieu, on a charge of stealing a quantity of goods, consisting of woollen mats. ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the St. Kilda court yesterday, Bridget O'Connell, domestic servant, was charged by Dr. Robertson, of Charnwood-crescent, with stealing two coats, one infant's hood, ...
Article : 841 wordsAt the Collingwood court yesterday, the bench, consisting of Mr. Alley, P.M., and Messrs. Field and Shelley, J.P.'s, made an example of two larrikins, named respectively ...
Article : 146 wordsSIR.--Would you kindly allow me point out an injustice to the public servants at the Botanic Gardens, who had to wait till the 4th of this month for last month's pay, when other ...
Article : 101 wordsH.M.S. Dart arrived here to-day. She will stay for a few days, and during that time will proceed to survey the D'Entrecasteaux channel. Two other ships of the Australian squadron are ...
Article : 153 wordsA sad case came under the notice of the Box Hill bench yesterday, when a young lad, very respectably attired and of prepossessing appearance, was placed in the dock on a charge ...
Article : 367 wordsSir,--The very able article of "Natator" in your excellent paper of Saturday last, headed "Baths and Bathers," has caused me to take the liberty of asking you to insert this letter. ...
Article : 772 wordsOn the 10th December last a very suspicions fire occurred at No. 21 Garden-street, South Yarra. The building, a five-roomed wooden house, owned and occupied by William ...
Article : 173 wordsAt the Criminal Sessions at Dunedin. Frederick Kessler pleaded guilty to embezzling £550, the moneys of the Victoria Insurance Company, and was remanded for sentence. ...
Article : 45 wordsA frightful accident happened near Strath[?]lbyn, on Sunday, by which two little boys teamed Prick while playing with matches [?]et fire to a drum of Kerosene, which ...
Article : 98 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of the Melbourne Quartz end Alluvial Gold Mining Company No Liability, Ballarat East, was held on Tuesday at the company's office, 56 Queen-street, to pass a resolution to increase the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe intense heat of yesterday caused several serious casus of sunstroke in the city, one of which, resulted fatally. Shortly after midday, when the heat from the sun was greatest, a young ...
Article : 141 wordsShortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon a telephone message was sent to the Insurance Companies' Fire Station, staling that a fire had broken out on the wharf below the gas works. ...
Article : 66 wordsSIR,--On reading the effusion of your correspondent, "Short Stay" (lucky for some one), which appears in your columns of the 26th ult., I was forcibly reminded of the tactics ...
Article : 614 wordsCity of Melbourne, Hoddle's Creek, 31st Dec.--The tunnel has been driven a further distance of 25 feet; total distance driven, 80 feet. Cornish, Day[?]ford, 2nd Jan,--Operations at ...
Article : 327 wordsMessrs. Campbell, Pratt and Co. sold yesterday, at Kirk's Bazaar the booths and gates for the Victorian Club's race meeting, which is to be held on the Flemington course next Saturday. ...
Article : 140 wordsSIR.-- At the annual dinner of the Chamber of Manufactures given some few months ago, at which, amongst other guests, was the president of the Trades Hall, I had the honor of ...
Article : 293 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,755 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:--TUESDAY, 5TH JANUARY.--Western Australia: No report. South Australia: Generally hot and dusty. ...
Article : 157 wordsHen and Chickens, 19th Dec.--No. 3 vertical shaft east drive is in 11 feet; no increase of water so far; country fairly good for working; smelter underlie is down 56 feet; formation still regular and good, with ...
Article : 327 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 167 wordsThe monthly returns of the City of Melbourne Building Society, 57 Elizabeth-street, show a very large and satisfactory business transacted for the month, the total receipts being £25,122; loans granted on freehold ...
Article : 156 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 128 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 105 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 6 Jan 1886, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: