The quarterly meeting of the City Council was held yesterday morning, the Mayor, Cr. M'Eacharn, presiding. THE MELBOURNE-COLLINGWOOD ...
Article : 1,241 wordsThe usual quarterly luncheon given by the Mayor of Melbourne took place yesterday in the Town Hall. Cr. M'Eacharn was supported on his right by the Chief Secretary ...
Article : 1,746 wordsThe next of kin of the late James Tyson, the Australian millionaire, held a meeting at Sydney in December last, at which it was decided that five of their number should ...
Article : 779 wordsTwo days ago a man named Fenton, while out getting ferns in a gully 3 miles from Helensburgh, found the body of a man who had evidently been dead for two or three ...
Article : 112 wordsAt Caulfield shire council meeting last evening Cr. Riddell was re-elected representative on the Metropolitan Board, and in returning thanks, ...
Article : 263 wordsThe wodonga arrived from Cooktown today, and reports fair weather to Townsville, but thence to Bowen there were strong easterly, veering to north-easterly, winds, ...
Article : 213 wordsYesterday three young Quantong settlers went to bathe in the Wimmera River, and shortly after entering the water, Mr. Herbert Charles Thorpe, aged 34 years, who was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe expenditure for the seven months of the financial year has been £1,533,370, being £49,465 less than was estimated. The story told by Hershall to the Adelaide ...
Article : 81 wordsThe case of the stone carters whose conditions of labor have just been revised with some display of benevolence by the City Council is sufficiently important-- or ...
Article : 855 wordsRichard Hickson, aged 43 years, a laborer, recently employed in the railway yard, was found dead in his tent this morning with a wound in his throat, which had been done ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the request of the Council of Agriculture, the Premier has written to the respective Ministers of Agriculture of the various colonies, asking them to arrange for ...
Article : 150 wordsTrouble has arisen at Bourke between the Carrying Company and their Afghan employes. The Afghans, it appears, signed a contract to work for six years, at £24 per ...
Article : 149 wordsA very old resident of this district, named Richard Hunter, 87 years of age, made an attempt to commit suicide this afternoon. He cut his throat, indicting two wounds ...
Article : 59 wordsYesterday the thermometer at the Melbourne Observatory topped the shade record of the previous day, but only by one-fifth of a degree. Starting from 9 a.m. with a ...
Article : 370 wordsMr. W. Little, of the Trustees, Executors and Agency Company, reports that the, late Mrs. Eleanor Hotham, who died a few days ago, has bequeathed to the Ballarat ...
Article : 135 wordsThe letter from the secretary to the Premier, asking whether the local council favored the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into the proceedings of the ...
Article : 274 wordsMr. David M'Canghey, owner of the Coree Station, Riverina, died this morning, after a very short illness. Deceased belonged to the well-known M'Caughey family, and was ...
Article : 50 wordsWhile the Tarawera, from Sydney, was berthing, her hawser slipped off the pilehead, and knocked down it dozen people. A man named Lorning was killed, and five ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. W. H. Osborn, watch maker, formerly of Bairnsdale and Chiltern, attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver about 8 p.m. yesterday. He was placed ...
Article : 91 wordsThe telegram published recently, stating that the notorious Yu Mantze, that is, Yu the savage, who has been identified with previous anti-Christian and anti-foreign ...
Article : 1,026 wordsThe sanitary arrangements here are in a very bad state, and prompt action is urgently necessary. Yesterday seven typhoid patients left here for the Bendigo Hospital, ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the police court to-day a person was sued for water rates due, but it was proved that the construction and constitution of the trust, aud everything in connection with ...
Article : 81 wordsA meeting of lessees in the Hay irrigation area was held last night. It was decided that the Department of Agriculture be requested to send an expert in irrigation ...
Article : 445 wordsA petition was forwarded to the minister of Mines and Water Supply to-day, strongly protesting against the granting of any privileges to dredge or sluice the Mitchell River ...
Article : 185 wordsDuring the journey of the morning train from Geelong to Queenseliff yesterday, the engine ran over a cow at the crossing adjacent to the Drysdale railway station. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister of Mines, accompanied by Miss Foster, arrived here this evening. Tomorrow morning Mr. Foster will go to Barker's Creek to investigate a complaint ...
Article : 93 wordsThe wife of Mr. Charles Kingston died from heat apoplexy last night, and Mrs. Austin, wife of John Austin, expired this afternoon from exhaustion, accelerated by the intense heat of to-day. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:--VICTORIA (Thursday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Continued hot weather, especially inland. Light winds from N. and E., and sea breezes on ...
Article : 313 wordsDuring January, 20,088 bags of wheat were sent away from the local railway station. All the stores are full, and considerable quantities are still arriving. ...
Article : 88 wordsIn anticipation of a large attendance at the Princess's Theatre on the occasion of the final performance of The Geisha on Friday last, a number of pickpockets hung about there, and at the ...
Article : 239 wordsArthur Melrose, against whom there were 20 previous convictions, was fined £5, or one month's imprisonment, at the South Melbourne court yesterday for using obscene language in City-road on ...
Article : 604 wordsRecently the president of the Echuca branch of the A.N.A. drew attention to the destruction of the wattle by bark strippers on the Goulburn River, and pointed out to ...
Article : 95 wordsSome confusion was created in the Carlton court yesterday by the extraordinary behavior of a baker named Charles Thomas Bowden, during the hearing of a case in ...
Article : 340 wordsAt the Port Melbourne court yesterday several dairymen were charged, at the instance of the local council, with having failed to register in that town. In the case ...
Article : 371 wordsA deputation of master, printers to-day urged upon the Minister of Public Instruction to have all State school books compiled and printed in the colony. Mr. Dairympie, ...
Article : 255 wordsAt the local land board yesterday, before Mr. J. Lardner, the following applications were beard, and, unless otherwise stated, recommended:--Section 42: Michael Ward, ...
Article : 1,415 wordsJames Kilkenny, the licensee of the Railway Club Hotel, Elizabeth-street, was fined £2 at the District Court yesterday for permitting drunken persons to be upon his licensed premises on Sunday, ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:--Weather Chart, Thursday, 9th February, at 9 a.m.--High atmospheric pressure (above 30.2 ...
Article : 290 wordsAlbert Patterson, aged 15, was charged at the South Melbourne court yesterday with assaulting a lad named George Goodall on 12th ult. Defendant's brother, "Buff" Patterson, and a youth ...
Article : 181 wordsThe investigation by the Court of Marino Inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamers Arawatta and Chingtu in the River Yarra on 24th ...
Article : 384 wordsAn incident of the Austral Wheel Carnival at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 10th December last, was investigated before Judge Hamilton and a jury at the General ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the Williamstown police court yesterday, Alfred Green, Walter Johnson, James Quinn, John Ashton, James Quinn John Drummond and Antonia Silva were charged with wilful ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Commissioner of Police, after examining William Farey and his son, Ernest, has come to the conclusion that neither had anything to do with the mysterious death of the ...
Article : 286 wordsThe shade heat to-day was 09 deg. HAY, Thursday. The weather continues very dry and hot, and there is no appearance of a change. ...
Article : 31 wordsWilliam Wilson, of Buckley-street, Footscray, laborer. Causes of insolvency: Loss on contracts, insufficient employment and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £82 5s. 10d.; assets, 5s.; deficiency, ...
Article : 34 wordsProbate of the will and codicil of the late Hugh Montgomery, Thomson, late of Balaclava-road, St. Kilda, but formerly of Cocketgedong Station, New South Wales, was recently granted in Victoria to ...
Article : 226 wordsThe heat was 104 in the shade to-day. ...
Article : 14 wordsIn the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice a'Beekett, on the motion of Mr. Duffy, made an order absolute for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of E. S. Martin and W. H. Westaway, ...
Article : 64 wordsReceived by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.:--Weribone Station, Surat, Queensland: 2 inches 50 points steady rain; appears general; drought broken. ...
Article : 25 wordsA tall, saffron-hued celestial, who rejoices in the significant title of Hang On, was before Mr. Dobbin, P.M., at the District Court on 8th inst., charged on the information of ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Public Works department has accepted the following tenders:--Victorian Defences-- Painting orderly room, Castlemaine, G. Pullan, £19; new workshops for Postal department, Sturt-street, ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the last meeting of the Queenseliff borough council the mayor stated that during the month seaweed and kelp had lodged in large quantities in the ladies baths, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsThe supply of milk at the local factory continues to fall off, being only 99,980 gallons for the last month, as compared with 138,381 for December, and 179,794 during November. The ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 10 Feb 1899, Page 6
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