What should prove a very pleasant race meeting is to take place to-day on the Richfield course, Mordialloc. The programme of events is a substantial one, and, as the entries ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Colonial Treasurer to-day received a deputation of oyster merchants who requested tho Government to remove the royalty on the oyster fisheries. Mr. Burns replied that he ...
Article : 192 wordsA deputation from the residents of Frankston waited upon the Minister of Justice yesterday, and pointed out that the accommodation provided for the court of petty sessions ...
Article : 168 wordsTwilight was just deepening into night when the unfortunate catastrophe occurred, and the chaos of shattered timber and contorted iron which marked the spot where the two trains ...
Article : 1,220 wordsThe suburban railways are worked upon what is known and pretty well understood as the block system. The value of the system is stated to be the impossibility for trains ...
Article : 1,145 wordsFrederick Maskell, the engine driver of the express train, and who appears to have met with instantaneous death, resided in Albert- street, Sandridge. The deceased, who was in ...
Article : 174 wordsT. Kyme, a resident of Porter-street, Prahran, near the scene of the accident, makes the following statement:--I was standing about 100 yards South of the High-street-bridge ...
Article : 646 wordsThe great aquatic struggle for the blue ribbon of the Thames took place on Saturday last, the weather being favorable and consequently the attendance enormous, although it ...
Article : 793 wordsMessrs. A. Harris and M'Lean yesterday introduced a deputation from tho shire council of Maffra and the residents of Wandililong and Briagolong to the Railway ...
Article : 135 wordsGuard Lang, of the 5.30 ordinary train from Flinders-street, states :--We left Prahran station at 5.41 on time. Everything went right until we got under the ...
Article : 478 wordsAt the Chamber of Commerce to-day a letter was read from the East Moreton Farmers' Association disapproving of the proposals of the Melbourne Chamber of Manufactures for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 299 wordsMr. Morgan, solicitor, of St. Kilda, had one of his legs broken at the ankle, and was otherwise badly injured. Mr. James Upton, contractor, of 57 ...
Article : 753 wordsA deputation from the residents of Berwick, Harkaway and Narre Warren yesterday asked the Postmaster-General not to make any change in the postal service between Berwick ...
Article : 158 wordsThe decoration of the Victorian Court at the Adelaide Exhibition is now completed. Some difficulty has arisen owing to the Victorian Commission not having declared the value of ...
Article : 237 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- WEDNESDAY, 11TH MAY.--Western Australia: Fine; scattered clouds; easterly winds on west; W. [?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 wordsThe schooner Julia Price, from Raratonga with a cargo of island produce, was wrecked at Mangawai, north of Auckland, a point beyond Little Barrier Island. All on board were saved. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following report of the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the executive of the Victorian Employers' Union, held on Monday evening, has been supplied to us by the ...
Article : 377 wordsSIR,--In your Friday a issue you mention that the Central Board of Health has issued a circular dealing with the disposal of town refuse, &c., and that the assistant inspector of ...
Article : 356 wordsThe guard of the express, Michael Quialan, has been upwards of 15 years in the service, and has always borne a most excellent character. As an old servant of the Hobson's ...
Article : 756 wordsPlain-clothes Constable Stannage says:-- I was in Chapel-street near the Town Hall, when I heard the firebell ringing. I came to the conclusion that something was wrong. I ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 277 wordsSIR,--The daily press has had several contributions levied upon it daring tho last few days respecting the condition of Adam Lindsay Gordon's grave. It appears to ...
Article : 504 wordsTwo daring cases of housebreaking perpetrated in Prahran during Sunday evening have been reported to the local police. The first took place between half-past 7 and ...
Article : 178 wordsThe usual quarterly meeting of the Working Band Lodge No, 8, I.O.G.T., was held in the Mission Hall, Wellington-street, Co[?]ngwood, on Thursday evening last 5th instant. The reports of the various officers ...
Article : 270 wordsI was in Chapel-street when the crash took place. I rushed to the railway line, and on seeing the nature of the accident I went to the South Yarra Fire Brigade, of which I am ...
Article : 219 wordsAs soon as the news of the disaster spread throughout the city and suburbs, the Alfred Hospital was beseiged by anxious inquirers, some socking Information for the whereabouts ...
Article : 320 wordsThe young man who committed suicide in the Flagstaff Gardens on Tuesday, has been identified as J. Appleton, who came to Victoria about four years ago from Natal. He was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsThe most extensive athletic gathering that has ev[?] been promulgated in any part of the Australian colonics is to be held in the Exhibition Building and grounds next month, in connection with the general ...
Article : 178 wordsThe monthly report of the City of Melbourne Building society, 57 Elizabeth-street, for April, 1887 [?]. During the month 278 new investing shares of £25 each had been ...
Article : 202 wordsSIR,--Having lately returned from the principal centres of mining, I have been struck by the many complaints of unsatisfactory distribution of the prospecting vote. In most places ...
Article : 302 wordsThe snatch to be played between the Alms[?]ses and Wander[?], for the benefit of Mr. Groom's Excel[?]or Home, on the Last Melbourne groud to-day, is causing great interest, and if the weather is fine there should be ...
Article : 217 wordsThe unfortunate driver of the express train, Frederick Maskell, leaves a widow and nine children. He was an old employs of the Railway department, and was greatly respected by ...
Article : 115 wordsBroken Hill North Silver Mining Co. 29th April-- Have started to sink about 180 feet north of south shaft, and about the same distance south of where the chloride was found on a shoot of ore, showing on the ...
Article : 207 wordsSIR.--It seems to bo a puzzle with the bankers and others how to secure the payment of notes in case a bank falls. Permit me briefly to inform the public, through your widely ...
Article : 197 wordsI was riding in the van immediately behind the engine of the express train. Mr. Greene, my colleague, was sitting alongside of me, and we were conversing together when the crash ...
Article : 195 wordsSIR,--Being on the scene of the railway accident before the passengers had time to leave the train I had full opportunity of witnessing ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Victorian railways were singularly free from fatal accidents up to the 31st August, 1881, when a terrible accident occurred on the Brighton line. The six minutes to 9 a.m. ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsAmongst the passengers who were badly injured in the ill fated train was Mr. E. S. Parkes, the superintendent of the Melbourne branch of the Bank of Australasia. Mr. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 12 May 1887, Page 6
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