Yesterday the bush fires travelled in this neighborhood to all parts of the compass. Green timber burned as quick as the dry. The alarming information was brought into ...
Article : 1,389 wordsYesterday was, comparatively speaking, an "off" day of the weather programme, though not everybody realised it. Many, for instance, would have been slow to believe ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,338 wordsJudgment was given in the Land Appeal Court in an appeal by John Cooper against assessment for land tax on properties known as the John Cooper Estate. The original ...
Article : 98 wordsThe bush fires of yesterday raged up till 2 a. m., this morning, causing terrible devastation. The wind increased at sunset and drove the flames before it with great ...
Article : 367 wordsThe sunken brigantine Waitemata was insured for £1250. ...
Article : 10 wordsIn connection with the decision of the boot manufacturers to raise the price of boots, Mr. M'Murtric, representing the head manufacturing firm, speaking to-day ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 236 wordsThe bush fires in the Panmure district have been checked, though increasing vigilance is still necessary to prevent further destruction. A line of workers are engaged ...
Article : 354 wordsThe executive committee of the newly formed political party, called the Progressive Reform League, has adopted a platform. It includes one adult one vote; ...
Article : 73 wordsTwo prisoners, Sydney John Harris and Harry Brown, who were captured at Malvern a couple of weeks ago, escaped from custody in the Detective office in a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsAmongst other parts of the district the township of Lang Lang was the scene of a conflagration which nearly destroyed the butter factory and stores there. The fire ...
Article : 236 wordsIn consequence of devastation by the bush fires it has been decided to postpone the annual show of the Korumburra Agricultural Society, which was to have been ...
Article : 100 wordsBy the English mail to- day was received the text of Mr. Pritchard Morgan's letter to Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in which the proposal is ...
Article : 159 wordsAt a meeting of the Karkarooe council yesterday, Cr. Marshman moved that a further loan of £1000 be requested from the Government for the purpose of sinking ...
Article : 83 wordsColac and district has been clouded, in smoke since Saturday, the result of the bush fires raging in the Stony Rises, Otway Forest and the vicinity of the town. A ...
Article : 211 wordsEnormous damage has been done by the bush fires to- day. Messrs. O'Neil, Sutherland and H. Fincher have lost everything. Messrs. C. Fincher and Fincher, sen., ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsFires are burning still at Mirboo, Mardan and Allambee. Terrible destruction is taking place. Several homesteads have been lost. Miles of pasture and fencing have ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. French, the Government Entomologist, made an inspection on Monday of the hop fields on both sides of the River Mitchell, and found that while there is hardly ...
Article : 533 wordsThe capture of the highway robbers by train officials, as reported in "The Age" to- day, caused considerable sensation. The prisoners were brought before Mr. H. Morrison, P. M., and Mr. Jno. ...
Article : 154 wordsThrilling accounts continue to be sent of the devastation being wrought at Moondarra. As was expected, the struggle against the flames last night proved ...
Article : 436 wordsDevastating fires are burning in the township and district. The Athenaeum Hall and Library, containing 1100 volumes and a valuable piano, has been destroyed, as well ...
Article : 81 wordsWhen day broke yesterday in Hobson's Bay the smoke pall was of such increased density that shipping was hardly discernible a cable's length from the shore. The ...
Article : 587 wordsA renewed spell of hot weather has led to a second series of destructive bush fires in this locality. The buildings at the Curtin- Davis Proprietary mine were destroyed ...
Article : 132 wordsOn Saturday the fires that had been smouldering ever since the memorable 11th and 12th of January broke out again here. On Mr. T. S. Dickinson's holding ...
Article : 126 wordsThe proposal of the markets committee of the Melbourne City Council to change the market [?] at Queen Victoria Market from Wednesday and Saturday to Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ...
Article : 241 wordsA meeting of the Early Closing Association, called to take steps towards securing a universal weekly half holiday for shopkeepers in the metropolitan area, was held at Parer's Crystal Cafe last ...
Article : 348 wordsRain fell generally yesterday and to- day, but not heavy enough to prevent bush fires doing serious damage' to the township of Kaituna, near Fielding. The whole ...
Article : 60 wordsThe most severe fire in this district yesterday occurred at Poowong East, a rich dairying district, about 10 miles south of this town. About 20 farms were affected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsThe wages and salaries question was before the Melbourne Harbor Trust again yesterday, at its fortnightly meeting, when a number of applications for more pay were received. The chairman ...
Article : 232 wordsThe body of a young man named Michael Monaghan, who is believed to have committed suicide, was found yesterday morning in the Saltwater River, near Lynch's- bridge. He was 32 years of ...
Article : 249 wordsThe fire mentioned in yestrday's "Age" continued to burn with great fierceness all night, and many of the townspeople stayed out in order to fight the flames, and keep ...
Article : 320 wordsA meeting of Fitzroy citizens was held in the local town hall last evening to consider the desirability of holding the usual school children's annual picnic. The mayor (Cr. W. R. Bennetts) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsAt the Collingwood court yesterday Charles Christen Cramer was charged with bigamy. Martha Sarah Cramer deposed that in 1886 she entered the service of the accused as his ...
Article : 180 wordsAt the meeting of the Prahran branch of the A. N. A. last evening Mr. A. Douglas moved --"That the board of directors be requested to wait upon the Government and ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 3 Feb 1898, Page 6
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