The rising wind which came up on Friday started several fires moving through the eastern portion of this district, and some further losses have been added to the list ...
Article : 1,000 wordsOn Saturday the steamer Lindus, when leaving Newcastle, was carried by a strong flood tide against the ship Temuco, carrying away the latter's jibboom, cutwater and head gear. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Government on Saturday gave consideration to the complaints of the distressing scarcity of water at Berriwillock, in the mallee country. Attention had been drawn ...
Article : 192 wordsInspired by jealousy, a man named Edward Henry Sheen, residing at Malvern, made a murderous attack on his wife. Sheen had been in West Australia, where rumors ...
Article : 1,308 wordsNever was a change more welcome than that which swept across Melbourne early on Saturday morning, and, cooling down the sun-baked city, brought relief to a ...
Article : 335 wordsThere is less incongruity than might be supposed in Mr. Harry Rickards's production of a Christmas pantomime in February. Jack the Giant Killer is a pantomime only ...
Article : 531 wordsInquiries made into the recent selling of brummagem gold shows that it has been carried on certainly for the past six months, and has assumed extensive proportions. ...
Article : 833 wordsAlthough the weather is much cooler the bush fires are in active operation, fanned by the strong westerly wind which has been blowing all day. At Lardner the fire has ...
Article : 471 wordsThe Murray at Albury now presents a remarkable spectacle owing to the lowness of the stream. It is possible at many places to wade across the channel without the water reaching ...
Article : 128 wordsThe condition of affairs in some of the mallee districts is becoming very serious. Owing to the half bushel average, it can be easily imagined that some of the settlers ...
Article : 252 wordsAt Newtown on Friday night a number of larrikins belonging to a gang known as the St. Peter's push set on a man named Clothier, and so maltreated him that it was deemed ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Tokio Maru arrived at Townsville early this morning from Brisbane. Captain Haswell reports having experienced fearful weather along the coast, necessitating ...
Article : 117 wordsDuring Friday night there was a cool change, and what was important to many people in this locality, the wind veered to the south. We have still, however, two bad ...
Article : 472 wordsThrough the extreme heat of the last week, the daily average of which has been 102 degrees in the shade, the few bush fires that are raging in the North-east have ...
Article : 312 wordsSir,—Any suggestion which may have a tendency to moderate the severity of droughts in Australia may be worth a place in "The Age," consequently the following ...
Article : 430 wordsYesterday and to-day a smoky haze crept over Sydney, and this evening a heavy cloud of smoke penetrated to all parts of the city. There are bush fires along the south coast, ...
Article : 393 wordsOpen air concerts, such as are so prominent a feature of almost every small provincial town in Germany during the summer months, never seem to have "caught on" in ...
Article : 688 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Claxton died to-day, aged 65, For many years he had been connected with the Defence Force, and for the last five years acted as assistant superintendent of the ...
Article : 37 wordsAt noon to-day a fire broke out in the clothing establishment of Messrs. J. R. Johnston and Company, Murray-street. Considerable damage was done. The stock was insured in ...
Article : 65 wordsA fire broke out to-day in a paddock owned by Mr. W. Axford, through the carelessness of a carrier from the metropolis. On arrival in the township he lit a fire to boil ...
Article : 152 wordsAt the Richmond court on Saturday Christy Reilly, fellmonger, was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon with felonious intent, and also with assaulting his wife, Mary Reilly, and Constable Robinson, ...
Article : 220 wordsThe two men arrested for selling spurious gold at Taradale were brought on to Castlemaine yesterday afternoon and lodged in the gaol. They had, before arrest, ...
Article : 159 wordsSome important reports, prepared by Queensland Government experts, with reference to the characteristics and treatment of the tick fever, which has done so much ...
Article : 768 wordsOn Friday night another big fire was discovered raging at the Yallock village settlement, on the cast side of the Yallock Creek, near Monomeith. In an incredibly ...
Article : 212 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Co. Limited:—Magenta, Capella, Q., 5th: 2½ inches of rain yesterday and to-day; still raining. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe test race to determine the representatives of this colony in the five mile Australasian Cycling Championship, to be run at Adelaide, took place at the Agricultural ground to day. The starters were ...
Article : 71 wordsA serious fire broke out in the neighborhood of Woolsthorpe on Friday, and before it could be successfully combatted, overran a wide extent of country. Mr. Jos. ...
Article : 204 wordsAt the Port Melbourne court on Thursday, Mrs. Janet Niven, Graham-street, was fined 5s. for selling groceries on Sunday, 23rd January. ...
Article : 27 wordsMrs. Margaret M'Innes, of Miram Piram, was prostrated by the late severe heat, and never rallied. She died on Tuesday morning, aged 75 years. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe annual report and balance sheet of the Winton Butter Manufacturing Company has been issued. The total receipts, including an overdraft of £161 odd, amounted to £4435. The profit and ...
Article : 547 wordsMr. Trenwith, M.L.A., was the speaker at yesterday's meeting of the Prahran Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Association, held in the Independent Church. His subject was How to ...
Article : 221 wordsAn inquest was held on Saturday afternoon by Mr. Morrison into the death of Herbert James Smith, 11 years, whose body was found floating in the Yarra, near the Victoria-street-bridge, on the ...
Article : 94 wordsAt an inquest held on Friday by Mr. Morrison, the jury found that David Fenwick, fruiterer, of Prahran, committed suicide by drinking an irritant poison, but they were unable to determine the state ...
Article : 123 wordsGreat indignation is felt here with the Mayor of Melbourne's party of visitors representing the central relief committee, now in the district. It never came into the ...
Article : 80 wordsAn elderly woman named Margaret Fullard was found lying dead early yesterday morning on the back doorstep of a house in Wright's-lane, off Little Lonsdale-street, occupied ...
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Article : 88 wordsRealising that enterprise to be comprehensively charming must be variegated Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove are following up their long list of "imported" dramatic and ...
Article : 1,456 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held on Saturday morning, at No. 7 Gillman-street, Auburn, before Mr. Chas. Dalley, J.P., into the cause of death of Mrs. Julia Henrietta Needham, 39, who died suddenly ...
Article : 155 wordsEarly this morning a fire broke out in a grocer's shop in 105 Lord-street, Richmond, owned and occupied by J. Nennear, grocer. The firemen were called by a paser by, and ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne, Cr. M'Eacharn, with Mr. J. M'Whae and Mr. Clayton, town clerk, representing the central relief committee, arrived here last night, and ...
Article : 333 wordsAn old resident of Brighton named William Maskell was found dead in his house, in Maskell-street, on Saturday afternoon. The old man, who was 80 years of age, lived alone, and ...
Article : 136 wordsBush fires broke out at Mount Arthur and in the neighboring hills yesterday, and on the wind changing to the south the city was enveloped in smoke. To-day a fire ...
Article : 79 wordsLast night between 7 and 11 o'clock burglars visited a house at 233 Fitzroy-street. Fitzroy, occupied by Mr. Louis Bell, overseer of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Entrance was gained through ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsThe will and codicil of Ferdinand Schlesinger late of Gore-street, Fitzroy, clerk, has been filed for probate. Testator died on 19th December, and by his will which was made on 27th August, 1896, and codicil, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union has arranged for despatching another bale of clothing for the relief of those distressed by the bush fires. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 7 Feb 1898, Page 6
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