A mass meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and non-society men was held in the old Trades Hall last evening, to consider the position in regard to the action proposed to be ...
Article : 1,146 wordsHis Imperial Majesty the Mikado of Japan who so recently granted an audience to the travelling commissioner of the Pall Mall Gazette has just created an honorary consul in Great ...
Article : 1,842 wordsNine out of the ten representatives for the Australian colonies now in the Federal Onion were present at the opening ceremony of the Council this day, Fiji alone being ...
Article : 1,088 wordsThe sixth span of the Hawkesbury railway bridge was successfully placed in position today. There is now only one span to place to complete the bridge. ...
Article : 322 wordsYesterday morning the body of a young man was found floating in the Little Dock, Flindersstreet. The deceased, who was identified by Francis Burton, mate of the ketch Little ...
Article : 343 wordsThere were 25,992 visitors to the Exhibition yesterday, 24,000 paying at the turnstiles, while 1992 were admitted on exhibitors' or attendants' passes ; 24[?]8 poisons visited the fernery ...
Article : 789 wordsThe Minister of Lands has been furnished by Mr. Perrin, conservator of forests, with an interim report of an extended inspection made by him of the Macedon ...
Article : 886 wordsThe foundation stone of a new barracks for the Salvation Army at Chilwell was laid to-day by his worship the mayor, in the presence of a large number of soldiers and friends. The ...
Article : 177 wordsAll the men working at the Duke Company's mine, Timor, numbering about 120, were discharged to-day. The mine, which is very expensive to Work, has not been ...
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Article : 254 wordsVery rich specimens of gold bearing quartz have been submitted to the Mines department. The quartz was discovered in Victoria Park, Brisbane, and a number of claims have been ...
Article : 91 wordsThe schooner Maldon Lewis, which ran on the rocks at Point Morrison on Saturday during a stiff gale, and which it was feared would become a total wreck, was floated off this ...
Article : 140 wordsAt a meeting of the Grocers' Assistants' Mutual Improvement Association, held last evening, in the Melbourne Coffee Palace, Bourke-street, Mr. T. Byars in the chair, there ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have caused a pay clerk in the Railway department to be suspended for allowing notes with which he was to pay the railway employes at Lithgow to ...
Article : 93 wordsThe last of the special orchestral concerts was given yesterday afternoon, commencing with Schubert's unfinished symphony in B minor, which consists of two movements, allegro ...
Article : 302 wordsUnder the elastic charge of "insulting behaviour," five young men, named Walter Hughes, Richard Fitzsmmons, Percy Dwyer, Jos. Malcolm and Peter Bennett, were ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Launceston Marine Board has appointed a committee to report upon the best means of protecting the wharves, and pending such report, additional lights will be placed thereon. ...
Article : 32 wordsAbout 70 officers of the naval forces met last night in the supper room at the Town Hall, and entertained at dinner Captain Thomas and Lieutenant Hely-Hutchinson, who will shortly leave ...
Article : 424 wordsThreshing returns ate demonstrating yields to be much fighter than usual this year, aud many will only average about 3 bags of wheat and 4 of oats to the acre, though a good number of the ...
Article : 110 wordsKILLED ON THE RAILWAY.--The City Coroner, Dr. Youl, heldaninquest on Thursday [?] the body of John Phillips, who was run over [?] the Flinders-street railway line on Tuesday [?]ght, ...
Article : 591 wordsIn the matter of the recent fire brigades' dispute, the Kew council, a fortnight since, decided to give the control of all fires occurring within the district to the captain of the local fire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 680 wordsAn extraordinary case of alleged false pretences by a young woman came on for hearing at the Hawthorn court on Tuesday, when Ada Grant, alias Mary Robinson, alias Mary Ann ...
Article : 335 wordsThe following are the awards of the jury on the exhibits of flour, meal, &c., at the last special grain show, viz.:--FLOUR MEAL. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Mistletoe Lodge of Druids held their half yearly meeting on Monday last. The auditors' report showed the lodge to be making rapid progress, the amount to credit being £1300. The ...
Article : 151 wordsConsequent upon receiving a communication from Mr. A. Little, of New-street, Brighton, in which he made grievous complaint of the indecency of grown up persons bathing in the ...
Article : 290 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match, Victoria v. New South Wales, was resumed to-day. The weather was fine, but a high southerly wind proved rather disagreeable, and the attendance was very small, ...
Article : 479 wordsA young man named Patrick M'Namara got the worse of liquor on Saturday and went home and abused his wife and beat her. She went in search of a constable, and succeeded in finding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsAt the Collingwood court on Tuesday, John Nolan, the licenses of the Glass House Hotel, Gipps-street, was charged under section 112 of the Licensing Act with having, on Sunday, 13th ...
Article : 336 wordsSIR,--Would you please grant me a small space to call the attention of the shareholders in this company to the following facts ?--First, that decided action on their part is necessary. ...
Article : 107 wordsTw[?]fowling pieces, valued at £50, belonging to Mr. J. G. Smith, a gentleman stopping at the Geo[?] Hotel, St. Kilda, were stolen from the bill[?]d room connected with the hotel on the ...
Article : 258 wordsSIR,—In answer to your correspondent "Fair Play," who writes under the above heading, referring to my letter to you of the 22nd inst., I have to say that in the case I cited the two ...
Article : 128 wordsA sad case was investigated before a full bench of justices at the Hawthorn court on Tuesday. A young girl of rather prepossessing appearance, named Helen Maud ...
Article : 164 wordsEmit Denis, the man who was arrested some little time ago in connection with the payment by the Bank of Victoria of three forged cheques, purporting to hear the signature of Mr. John ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 30 Jan 1889, Page 6
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