Mr. Andrew M'Cully, State school teacher at Walwa East, was found yesterday morning on the bank of the Murray River shot through the head. The deceased went out shooting early ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Premier of an adjoining colony is being soundly rated at the present time for using loan money for revenue purposes, and an inspection of his expenditure shows that ...
Article : 1,386 wordsA memorial monument to the late Mr. Goodchap, M.L.C., was unveiled in the Waverley Cemetery this afternoon. It stands 19 feet high, and is inscribed as follows:--"Hon. Charles ...
Article : 107 wordsTowards the end of the year 1837, where what is now the colony of Victoria was but an infant "mewling and puking in its nurse's arms"--New South Wales being the ...
Article : 1,804 wordsA great sensation was caused, in King William-street on Saturday by an assault on the Premier. Mr. C. C. Kingston was walking from his office in Piric-street when he was ...
Article : 510 wordsA big fire occurred here this evening, when 10 well built wood and iron shops were destroyed in a little over 10 minutes. The buildings were the property of Wilkie Bros., ...
Article : 219 wordsIt having been decided to rearrange the Presbyterian charges in the districts of Heidelberg, Templestowe and Kangaroo Ground, the necessity has arisen for the ...
Article : 452 wordsThe body of an old fossicker was to-day found by two constables in the bush, lying in a kind of hut made of boughs. Death had evidently taken place several days ago, and the body was ...
Article : 46 wordsCaptain Blair Hamilton, retired naval officer, fell down the stairs of the Grosvenor Hotel this afternoon, and fractured the base of his skull. He was taken to the Sydney ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the afternoon service the Right Rev. the Moderator; Revs. G. Tait, M.A,; D. M. Stewart; D. A. Macdougall, M.A.; Professor MacDonald, D.D; Rev. A. Marshall, ...
Article : 1,640 wordsA bush fire at Bowtell's Creek on Thursday afternoon destroyed a quantity of wattles in Mr. F. Coulson's paddock, besides fencing, &c. The State school, of which Mr. Cochrane ...
Article : 92 wordsA patient in the Sydney Hospital named David Darcey, aged 57, fell from a ward balcony to-day, and sustained injuries which proved fatal. The fall was over 40 feet. Deceased ...
Article : 228 wordsOn Sunday morning last a fire occurred in the cemetery reserve, and did considerable damage. It appear that Mr. John Dunbar, lessee of a farm adjoining, seeing a snake glide into a ...
Article : 119 wordsAt 3.50 p.m. on Friday Constable Hardiman took to the North Melbourne watch house a young woman whom he had occasion to arrest on a charge of being drunk ...
Article : 963 wordsAt the Ballarat West Wesleyan quarterly meeting last night it was resolved to invite the annual conference of 1899 to meet in Ballarat. Messrs. W. Little and W. Coltman wore elected ...
Article : 102 wordsA sensational shooting affair is reported to have taken place in a nursery at Dobroyd this morning. Four boys wore in an orchard, it is stated, stealing apples, and the owner is alleged ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. William Finlayson, an old colonist, and father of one of the proprietors of the "Register," died on Friday night. ...
Article : 25 wordsA fire at Hokitika has destroyed an important business block, comprising eight buildings. The damage is estimated at £10,000. The insurances amount to £4000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe sale is reported of 2055 acres of Mr. C. Riddoch's Glencoe Estate (South Australia), at £8 7s. per acre, the total purchase money being £17,147. The buyer is largely interested in ...
Article : 1,450 wordsThe R.M.S. Orizaba, Captain A. W .Clarke commander, arrived from Colombo at 10a.m. Passengers in saloon:--Messrs. Allum, wife and child, Anbertin, Bartlett, Boseni, Bell, ...
Article : 172 wordsAn honorable record of over 44 years' commercial life in Melbourne, dating from the palmy days of the gold diggings, when the city was still in its teens, was closed on ...
Article : 319 wordsThe English cricketers left to-night for Melbourne, from where they go on to the Gipptsland Lakes on a holiday excursion. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. James Russell, a well known mining investor, died at his country residence, Drummond, to-day, after a short illness. During last week he was actively engaged in ...
Article : 327 wordsMuch local feeling is manifested with regard to an intimation that the directors of the Black Diamond Colliery Company intend to resign in a body at the half yearly meeting on Tuesday ...
Article : 155 wordsOn Friday a laborer named George Marsh reported to the Brighton police that whilst he was working in the Brighton Beach reserve his silver watch and chain were stolen from his ...
Article : 163 wordsMatters in connection with the alleged discovery of coal have now assumed a very different aspect. About four weeks ago a contract was let for sinking a shaft, three ...
Article : 213 wordsAn extraordinary number of children have lost their lives through burning during the past few months, and the list is still being added to. Two fresh cases have now to be chronicled. In ...
Article : 255 wordsA remarkable fiction was concocted on Saturday by a lad named Eastaugh, aged 11, and related by him to the Richmond police. The lad, who is the son of an overseer of works under the Hawthorn ...
Article : 287 wordsThere are in the employ of the Metropolitan Board, as laborers, 396 men, and in addition to these 785 persons of all grades are employed directly by the board. The officers ...
Article : 265 wordsA meeting of the South Gippsland Agricultural Society was held on Thursday to consider the financial position. The bank overdraft is £260 and the total liabilities about £500. The ...
Article : 273 wordsMr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A. for Albury, addressed a meeting here last night. He said the Upper House had thrown out a distinct challenge to the country on its right ...
Article : 186 wordsAn elderly man named Mark Mills died at his lodgings, 333 Spencer-street, West Melbourne, yesterday, about 1 o'clock. Deceased, who was about 65 years of age, was a sea cook by vocation, but ...
Article : 133 wordsJames Carter, a seaman on board the steamer Despatch, was drowned in the Yarra on Saturday afternoon, near the Queen's Wharf. He was hauling in a fender when he overbalanced ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,--May I draw the attention of your readers to the deleterious effects of milk adulterated with salicylic and boric acids? These acids are largely used in milk ...
Article : 306 wordsSir,--Brevity is the soul of wit, and so out of your condensed report of what I said in the Trades Hall Council on Friday night arose the little joke of my being stated to ...
Article : 181 wordsMary Jane Davidson. St. Arnaud, widow. Causes of insolvency: Ill-health, lack of employment and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £51 16s. 6d.; assets, £6 1s. 6d.; deficiency, £45 15s. Mr. Howse ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. G. Reynoldson, member of an auctioneering firm in a Victorian town, bat residing permanently on his farm, three miles from Berrigan, has applied for an auctioneer's licence in ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Assembly on Friday granted an annuity of £150 to the widow of the late Sir F. N. Broome, who was Governor of the colony from 1883 to 1890. The Premier at one time carried ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 20 Dec 1897, Page 6
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