The greater portion of the business of the Board of Public Health yesterday was in relation to infectious diseases, and the trend of all the discussions was towards ...
Article : 814 wordsA case of determined suicide is reported from Mount Gambier. A shoeing smith, named Walter Thurman, hung himself in his shop with some bridle reins, having ...
Article : 66 wordsThe central committee of the fund report that they are still receiving numbers of applications for assistance from the fund, all of which are receiving attention as ...
Article : 900 wordsThe Salvation Army Barracks at South Melbourne was yesterday evening the scene of a pleasing ceremony, the marriage according to Salvation Army rites of two local ...
Article : 595 wordsThe analyst of the city of Hawthorn having reported that several samples of milk submitted to him contained boracic acid, the local council last night decided to appeal to Dr. Gresswell as to the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Academy of Music, the property of the late Sir W. J. Clarke. was offered for sale at auction to-day. Bidding was started at £4000, and when £5750—a figure ...
Article : 146 wordsAfter an interval of moderate weather another heat wave rolled over the colony yesterday. The temperature in the sun soared to 153.7 at 1 o'clock, which was ...
Article : 99 wordsThe port of call in West Australia of the North German Lloyd mail steamers will in future be Fremantle. In connection with the mail boat traffic to and from the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe health officers for the shire of Caulfield (Drs. Griffiths and Webster) submitted their annual report at a meeting of the council yesterday. The health of the shire had been generally satisfactory ...
Article : 136 wordsJames Wilkie, aged 68, was found dead at the side of his bed at 6.30 this morning. A medical certificate has been given that death was due to senile decay, accelerated ...
Article : 40 wordsA "Gazette" notice was issued to-day further proroguing Parliament to Tuesday, 5th April. It is understood that the position of ...
Article : 59 wordsA public meeting convened by the shire council was held here last night to consider the proposed co-operative exportation by the farmers of their surplus wheat. All ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 314 wordsThe question of providing baths for the inhabitants of and visitors,to Beaumaris was again argued at the meeting of the Moorabbin shire council on Monday evening, when a petition was ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the supreme Court to-day Josef Pedro and Johann Andersen, who were charged with murdering Jno. Lee, at Port Adelaide, on 25th December last, were found guilty ...
Article : 229 wordsThis morning a large fire broke out, from some unaccountable cause, in a grass paddock of Mr. Grover's, situate about 2 miles east of Dandenong, and spread with ...
Article : 491 wordsAt Fern Tree Gully police court yesterday, a village settler named James M'Alister prosecuted Archie M'Gill, a neighboring settler, on a charge of having on 31st ult. ...
Article : 181 wordsCr. Gipps has for some time past endeavored to induce the Moorabbin shire council to vote a sum of money for the purpose of erecting a windmill and pump on the Government bore for the purpose ...
Article : 322 wordsAt the Brunswick court yesterday, a woman named Bridget Baxter was proceeded against for having used insulting language to Mr. Dannahir, a resident of Munro-street, Brunswick. Evidence ...
Article : 75 wordsA boy named Charles Turpenny was charged at the Carlton Court yesterday with stealing a pair of boots, valued at 4s. 11d., from the shop of J. H. Ford, in Lygon-street. The boy and a companion ...
Article : 116 wordsAt a Meeting of the Perth Gas Company to-day it was decided to forfeit the deposit of £1000 put up by Zebina Lane in connection with the proposed purchase of the ...
Article : 405 wordsFor some considerable time past sheep farmers on the Leigh River, near Mount Mercer, have been losing sheep from their paddocks. Suspicion fell upon a man named ...
Article : 139 wordsAt about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, two men named James Scanion and M'Carthy, entered the grocer's shop of Mr. M'Leod, in Queensberry-street, Carlton, and challenged the proprietor to fight. He ...
Article : 130 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:— Weather Chart, Wednesday, 23rd February, at 9 a.m.—High atmospheric pressure (above 30.2 inches) ...
Article : 340 wordsThe complaints or wholesale dealers in firewood in respect to railway freights were ventilated at a largely attended meeting at Young and Jackson's Hotel last night. ...
Article : 436 wordsA revision court was held ut Brunswick yesterday, before Mr. Morrison, P.M., when the general roll for the Brunswick division of East Bourke Boroughs was revised. The number of names ...
Article : 571 wordsThe police at Carlton require an owner for a waterproof check lined horse rug, found by Constable Robertson in the possession of a man named Joseph Ward on Tuesday evening. Ward admitted ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the Court of General Sessions, before his Honor Judge Casey and a jury of 12, today, J no. White and Archibald Cameron were presented on a charge of having, on ...
Article : 923 wordsAt the Flemington court on Tuesday a young woman named Dora Gray was prosecuted by Inspector Borsurn, of the Railway department, for making use of an expired ticket on the 21st ult. ...
Article : 175 wordsIn the usual course, the Lands department has sent out circulars reminding Crown lessees of the arrears of their rent, and requesting payment. As the officers of the ...
Article : 350 wordsThe fire which broke out on J. Mechan's property, about 2 miles south of Warragul, has been travelling ever since. No serious damage was done until this afternoon, when ...
Article : 172 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Melbourne Harbor Trust was held at the offices yesterday; Commissioner Cowper, the chairman, presiding. ...
Article : 542 wordsAt the Collingwood court on Tuesday a young man named Ambrose M'Grath was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Walter Daigleish. Accused had been arrested at 2 o'clock that ...
Article : 140 wordsThe local land board to-day continued the hearing of the Brookong supplementary exchange proposal. Mr. Barlow, Government surveyor, said the continuity of ...
Article : 624 wordsBoring at the petroleum works, New Plymouth, has reached 2000 feet. Oil is showing freely, and a good result is anticipated. The city elections are fixed for 9th March. ...
Article : 64 wordsYesterday morning a large bush fire broke out at M'Donald's Crossings about 11 miles from Echuca, and at latest accounts it was burning furiously and making great ...
Article : 270 wordsAt the St. Kilda court on Tuesday, Maurice Drummy was charged with assaulting a boy named George M'Quade. On 10th inst., when M'Quade with defendant's younger brother and several ...
Article : 102 wordsAn important case under the Street Betting Suppression Act engaged the attention of Mr. Justice A'Beckett, in the Supreme Court, yesterday, on an appeal from the ...
Article : 596 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Milawa Dairy Company, the returns of milk and butter for January last were given as 136,683 gallons, which produced barely 24 tons of butter. For the month of ...
Article : 552 wordsSir,—In reference to several paragraphs appearing in "The Age," and which stated that Mr. Sidney Batley repudiated the sentiments of the company's letter to the ...
Article : 243 wordsArthur Markillie, licensee of the Laurel Hotel, Mount Alexander-road, Ascot Vale, was summoned for assault by Richard Chamberlain at the Essendon court on Monday. Complainant said he was ...
Article : 166 wordsAt the meeting of the Hawthorn council last night Cr. Dalley drew attention to the delay in distributing the funds subscribed for the relief of the sufferers from the recent ...
Article : 137 wordsA young man named Thomas Henry Dillon was charged at the Carlton court on Monday with insulting behavior and with assaulting Plain Clothes Constable Booth. The evidence of the constable ...
Article : 202 wordsThe whole district, of which Allansford is the centre, has been encircled by a ring of fire to-day. At four different points great devastation has been effected. Miles of ...
Article : 665 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon a considerable extent of country about East Brighton and Oakleigh was swept by a grass fire, and a lot of grass and fencing was destroyed. ...
Article : 237 wordsJunes Parker Westmoreland, 118 Reilly-street. Fitzroy. Cause of insolvency: Insufficient capital, excessive competition and pressure of creditors. Liabilites, £195 4s. lld.; assets, 5s.; deficiency ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—Are we all asleep? I enclose a letter received by my firm to-day from the French Consul here, which speaks for itself. Kerguelen Island is within 10 days' steam of ...
Article : 234 wordsDuring last week, at the City Court, a night watchman, named Martin Fagan, charged a man named Little with assault, alleged to have been committed near Kirk's Bazaar Hotel, in little ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsAt the Criminal Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Hodges, a young man named Thos. Horley was convicted on three counts of receiving wool stolen from the warehouse of Messrs. William Murray ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 24 Feb 1898, Page 6
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