Alexander Pollock, of the Permanent Artillery, was charged at the Ballarat Assizes to-day, before the Chief Justice and a jury of 12, with the wilful murder of a comrade ...
Article : 602 wordsAt the meeting of the Heidelberg council on Wednesday afternoon letters were read from the municipalities comprising the northern suburbs, in reply to a circular issued by ...
Article : 531 wordsMr. R. W. Best, minister of Lands, left Melbourne by the express train for Sydney yesterday on his way to New Zealand, to make Inquiries on behalf of the Government. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsMrs. and Miss Bryan, the wife and daughter of a mallee settler near Swan Hill, were yesterday driving to Swan Hill in a buggy, when the horse bolted and the buggy was ...
Article : 70 wordsIt was stated yesterday that Mr. Pentland chief inspector of stock, and Mr. Cameron Veterinary inspector to the Health department, had visited Alphington and inspected ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Standing Committee on Railways met yesterday at Parliament House to consider the question of the Coliban system of water works. The members sat in camera. It was ...
Article : 1,763 wordsIt was in many ways a strange gathering that assembled last night in the Town Hall. The whole of the body of the hall was occupied by men and women, who, for the most ...
Article : 853 wordsIn regard to the sudden death, in peculiar circumstances, at Mount Mercer, on Easter Monday, of the girl Alice Baynes, the Government Analyst, It is reported, has ...
Article : 110 wordsFour Chinese who appeared a week ago for attempting to evade poll tax were brought up in the police court to-day. Evidence was given that the men were seen on ...
Article : 69 wordsThe dentil is announced of Mr. John Wheian, Warrenhelp. Deceased, who was between 70 .and SO years of age, was. one of the original shareholders In the famous ...
Article : 96 wordsThe commissioner of Railways visited here yesterday, He was met at the station by the mayor, Cr. J. n. Daymond, and several other councillors, who brought under his ...
Article : 271 wordsIn the Bankruptcy Court to-day, Thomas Allan, late of Albury, bankrupt, said lie was Captain Allan, and one of the oldest magistrates in the colony. He was bankrupt in ...
Article : 201 wordsThe scheme for the establishment of the Australasian Labor Federation, which has been under consideration at several recent meetings of the Trades Hail Council, was ...
Article : 357 wordsJudge Gaunt has forwarded his reserved decision in the recent County Court case. Land Mortgage Bank v.. Warrnambool shire council, damages £10, and an ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Federal Assembly of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia and Tasmania concluded Its sessions to-day. The report of the committee on union of the Presbyterian ...
Article : 128 wordsThe local Mechanics‘ Institute recently called for applications for a librarian, the salary being males 30 per week, with 10 per cent, commission on new subscribers; ...
Article : 103 wordsA meeting of Miss Pattie Browne's friends, convened by Sir. Harry Rickards, was held at the Bijou Theatre yesterday afternoon for the purpose of arranging to give her a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe letters from the secretary to the Premier to the town clerk of Richmond, as secretary of the Municipal Conference, called to consider the question of an inquiry into ...
Article : 783 wordsThere is serious congestion of traffic at the local station, owing to lack of trucks; enough produce was brought In this morning to fill 15 trucks; but only one was ...
Article : 84 wordsAt Kiama to-day, Miss B. A. O'Keefe, aged 21, while walking in a paddock, was bitten on the leg by a brown snake. A doctor injected strychnine, but the patient expired 9 ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. W. O. Young, P.G.C.T., and Sir. C. A. Berglund, G.V.T., have been appointed to represent the Independent Order of Good Templars at the conference re the unemployed ...
Article : 43 wordsAfter a long inquiry into the positions of the civil servants, the Public Service Reclassification Board will probably have its first list of decisions ready for publication in ...
Article : 348 wordsSir,--I beg leave, through the medium of your columns, to call the attention of those endeavoring to find work for the unemployed to the following facts:---Instead of ...
Article : 370 wordsThe flood water, in the Tambo River is fulling fast. Large areas of maize crop have been destroyed in the Tambo Valley, and it is feared through the water remaining so ...
Article : 87 wordsThe hearing of the charge against. E. C. Wilson of the murder of the boy Hill at Oxley was continued to-day at the South Brisbane court house. .The evidence was ...
Article : 250 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (Thursday, 6 p.m.)--By Mr. Baracchi: Generally fine, with scattered clouds and light E and N.E. winds; smooth sea. ...
Article : 358 wordsThe executors of the estate of the late Cr. Michael. Quinn, J.P. of Port..Melbourne, were sued by Maria Kerr, at the South Melbourne court yesterday, for the recovery of ...
Article : 302 wordsLocal orchardists complain concerning the method of inspection of orchards. It Is stated that while every effort is being used on their part to stamp out or check Insect ...
Article : 65 wordsThe assizes opened to-day, before the Chief Justice, and probably will not conclude until Tuesday or Wednesday. The following pleaded guilty:--Roger Ahearn, ...
Article : 115 wordsA suit for nullity of marriage, which has been commenced by Sydie Solomons, of Beaconsfield-parade, South Melbourne, watch maker and jeweller, was mentioned in the ...
Article : 378 wordsLord Tennyson has received the following cablegram from the Queen, at Nice:--"Glad to hear of your safe arrival and loyal reception" ...
Article : 105 wordsMlldura Horticultural Society has pointed out the danger of the introduction of phylloxera into the settlement through old fruit cases, and ask the Agricultural department ...
Article : 153 wordsJames Tumor, grazier, of Caillgnec, was yesterday proceeded against in, the police court on a charge of perjury. On the 15th ult. Turner was ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Glen Lyell has cut rich ore in No. 2 tunnel south–east crosscut, and also on the surface in a trench. At the point in the drive where the ore was cut,11S feet of backs ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 298 wordsA young man named Norman Perrier, residing at Footscray, was before the Port Melbourne court yesterday on the charge of wilfully injuring a person by negligence in ...
Article : 182 wordsOwing to the recent heavy rain, the cartage of roots had to be suspended for a few days. Operations at the factory will be resumed on Monday, when, a good supply of ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. William Forrest. the eldest brother of the Premier, died at Dualaganup last night. Deceased, who was 57 years of age, met with an accident while trucking some horses ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the month of August, 1896 the Glasgow barque Gogoburn entered Hobson's Bay almost a derelict, with barely sufficient spars standing to spread a table cloth. Her maser, captain ...
Article : 501 wordsThree miners, named respectively Patrick Doherty, Michael Higgins and -- Crogan, were killed by a fall of earth at the Wes-traila mount Morgan mine to-day ...
Article : 36 wordsLast Monday the Prahran city council passed a resolution, on the motion of Cr. Skinner, consenting to furnish half the funds to establish a cabmen's shelter at South Yarra, near the railway station. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsThe R.M.S, Arcadia, A. C. Loggin commander, arrived from Colombo at 6.40 a.m. to-day. Passengers in saloon:--For Adelaide: Mr. Phillips, daughters(2) and child, Mr. Wills, Mr. and Mrs. ...
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Article : 128 wordsA food in Junee is a novelty, but," writes the "Evening News," Sydney, of 12th inst., "such an extra ordinary event was experienced on On Saturday night the thunder and lightning were ...
Article : 208 wordsA meeting of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board held yesterday was attended by Mr. S. Mauger (in the chair), Messrs. Ballenger. Stein, Keele, Buttle, Kellett and ...
Article : 193 wordsLaying the rails of the Birchip-Oronomby railway is proceeding favorably. It Is estimated that, if the weather is favorable. In about four, weeks the rails will be laid to ...
Article : 78 wordsAbout 40 men of the Victorian Permanent Artillery have been removed to Fort Franklin, where they will be stationed for six months. This change means that the men ...
Article : 203 wordsThe following notice was posted on the University notice board yesterday:-- "New regulations in respect of the Supreme Court prizes awarded in connection with the University ...
Article : 235 wordsMessrs. Blight and Co., proprietors of the Harcourt granite quarry, have received a large order from the contractor for Mort's new graving dock at Sydney. The blocks of ...
Article : 840 wordsMr. Foster, Minister for Mines, who was taken 111 this morning on the way to Bright, was attended to here by Dr. Sutton, and then proceeded to Bright by train. A wire ...
Article : 49 wordsThe railway employe Carter, charged with manslaughter in connection with the Rakala railway collision, was to-day committed for trial, his bail, on the coroner's warrant, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 14 Apr 1899, Page 6
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