At the meeting of the city council to-day the mayor reported that the gas company had refused to reduce the cost of the general lighting of the city, but were willing to allow 10 per ...
Article : 400 wordsThe usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held in the council chamber yesterday. There were present—The Mayor (Ald. Stewart), Ald. Amess, Benjamin, Bayles, ...
Article : 1,147 wordsAt a special meeting of the Simpson's-road branch of the Victorian Brick Makers' and Brick Makers Laborers' Union held on Friday last, at which Messrs. A Boot and Allen, of the ...
Article : 1,455 wordsWhen I laid down my pen, at the end of April, in deference to the invasion by footballers of the turf which we cricketers used once to call our own, I flattered myself that I was ...
Article : 1,537 wordsThe tramway system of Melbourne, now closping the city and its environs like the tentacles of an cotopus, is making far more rapid progress than was even hoped for ...
Article : 376 wordsA deputation of carpenters and joiners waited on the Premier this morning to complain of certain proposals in connection with the new tariff. They suggested that an ...
Article : 327 wordsAt the meeting of the city council to-day a resolution was adopted authorising the town clerk to draft a bill for presentation to Parliament, regulating the sale of newspapers in the ...
Article : 473 wordsThe new Malvern shire hall was formally opened yesterday afternoon by the president, Mr. R. G. Benson. The building, a handsome structure, is situated about ton minutes' walk ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 466 wordsThe schooner Aratapu, from Newcastle, was driven ashore from the anchorage at Gisborne yesterday. It is expected to get her off. Meetings of the unemployed in Auckland and ...
Article : 104 wordsInquiries are being made respecting the disappearance and continued absence from home of William Nixon, of 8 White-street, Windsor, who is said to be of unsound mind. He left his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,311 wordsThe polling for the general elections took place to-day, but owing to the operations of the Corrupt Practices Act passed last session, prohibiting candidates from conveying the electors ...
Article : 169 wordsThe following tenders were accepted by the Commissioners of Railways yesterday:—Bridge of brickwork, ironwork, &c., over Rosstown railway on Caulfield to Frankston line, Mr. W. ...
Article : 159 wordsAt the City Court yesterday seventy-five charges brought forward by the police were dealt with, of which thirty were cases of drunkenness, Twenty persons, named ...
Article : 1,983 wordsA public meeting was held to-night in the town hall, at which there was a good attendance. The following resolutions wore adopted:— ...
Article : 185 wordsSeveral fresh burglaries and attempts at housebreaking some of which were committed on Saturday or on Sunday night, have bean reported to the police. The Royal-Saxon Hotel, ...
Article : 193 wordsSIR. I beg again to trespass on your columns, the postscript of Mr. Fronde's letter to me (a copy of which I enclose) leaves me no alternative but to obey his desire that it ...
Article : 501 wordsAn adjourned summons was held in the case of Christopher Mummery, of Bowman's Forest, storekeeper. The insolvent was examined, but his evidence was devoid of public interest. ...
Article : 148 wordsA meeting in reference to the Grampians freestone was held in the town hall to-night, when the following resolutions were adopted:—That this mailing would respectfully urge upon the ...
Article : 260 wordsThe 189th monthly meeting of the Melbourne [?] Building Society was held on Tuesday, the [?] inst., at the [?], No. 18 collins-street east [?] Law Old[?] J.P., the voice-president in the chair. ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Felix Ledge G.U.O.C.F. held their usual meeting on Tuesday evening. when there warm large attendance. The balance sheets and reports of the previous quarter were read, and showed a satisfactory result both as to ...
Article : 117 wordsThree applications for letters patent were heard and granted yesterday by the Attorney-General at the Patents office, viz., that of Mr. B. Verity, of London, engineer, for "improved ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 27 Jul 1886, Page 6
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