Melbourne has yet to solve several municipal problems in regard to which the experience of Manchester, as related to a representative of "The Age" by Mr. C. Batty, ...
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Article : 152 wordsOn Friday night a big bush fire broke out on Mitchell's Bowna station, and destroyed fencing, and a large area of grass. During the past four days a big fire has ...
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Article : 153 wordsA meeting of the municipal councils of North and South Brisbane was held yesterday, to appoint the respective mayors. Each resulted in a deadlock. The rival candidates ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe domestic troubles of the Lennon family occupied a considerable share of attention in the Carlton court on Friday. An elderly man named Edward Lennon, long resident of the district, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe body of a man named Albert Scott Robin was found in a reservoir in Waterfall Gully, which supplies Magill and neighborhood. The body, which is in a much ...
Article : 123 wordsAs the result of an orgie which took place at a wine saloon in Little Collins-street cast, on the 21st January, the licensee, Antonio Lessi, was before the District Court bench on Friday, charged ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. Zebina Lane's engagement as consulting and superintending engineer of the Great Boulder ends on 31st March, and will not be renewed. Mr., Lane Intends proceeding ...
Article : 291 wordsR. Miller, W. Burton and W. Mellor were proceeded against, at the Brighton court on Friday, by the Metropolitan Board of Works, for affixing hoses to their water pipes. Mr. Hall appeared ...
Article : 74 wordsA German fireman named Carl Abriss, employed on the British ship Queen of Adelaide, berthed at the Breakwater pier, Williamstown, was presented on two charges of assault at the ...
Article : 230 wordsMr. William Joseph Wood, an owner and trainer of horses, well-known and well liked by his comrades of the turf, closed his career in a singularly sad manner last Saturday. ...
Article : 610 wordsThe Minister of Mines on Saturday visited the extensive sites on the River Loddon, which have been applied for by various syndicates for dredging and hydraulic sluicing ...
Article : 177 wordsThere was increased activity in the local wheat market yesterday and to-day. A good demand has set in up to 2s. 2½d.. and large consignments have come to hand. ...
Article : 111 wordsFriday being the beginning of the Chinese New Year accounted for the absence of Tuck Foon and Ah Fin from the Brighton court when their names were called for having exercised the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Horseshoe Bend railway bridge, on the main line between Bridgewater and Brighton, about 16 miles from Hobart, was destroyed by fire this afternoon, ...
Article : 57 wordsAt Box Hill court on Friday, a German named Fritz Volkerung, 23 years of age, and a colonist of only three months' standing, was charged with feloniously taking away from the house of his ...
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Article : 227 wordsJ. Darling, when seen on Saturday in reference to the difficulty which has arisen between Mr. Wardill and the New South Wales Cricket Association said:-- "The ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe Government steamer Tutanekal has left the Bluff to search the Macquarie. Islands for the schooner Gratitude, which has been missing for four months. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. O'Meara, P.M., opened the Collingwood revision court on Saturday. The electoral registrars, Messrs. Rain, Beard and Wilson, preferred 1119 objections to names appearing on the several ...
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Article : 246 wordsMr. George Ruthven le Hunte, who was, in August last, appointed Governor of British New Guinea in succession to Sir William MacGregor, is a passenger by the R.M.S. ...
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Article : 124 wordsAs Constable Canty was doing duty at Beaumaris on Thursday, be came across a man in an exhausted and incapable condition, and therefore arrested him on a charge ...
Article : 108 wordsOn Friday Mr. George Hodgkinson locked the wheel of his spring cart, and left his horse standing in Blair-street, Brunswick. The horse, which was a ...
Article : 96 wordsThe shade heat yesterday was 105. To-day was cooler. ...
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Article : 21 wordsConstable Canty, at Dandenong-road, Dingley, near Cheltenham, on Friday found a woman in a deplorable condition. She said she was suffering from a cancer in the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Tasmania mine crushed 2590 tons for 32491 oz., valued at £12,416. A dividend of 1s. has been declared. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe heat during the past two days has been exceptionally severe. Yesterday it was 110 deg. in the shade; and to-day 113.8, and 168 in the sun. ...
Article : 35 wordsFor January the Brown Hill crushed 3539 tons for 7355 oz. The Paddington Consols crushed 2500 tons for 1020 oz. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 13 Feb 1899, Page 6
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