The fact that Sir John Forrest, the Premier of West Australia, was desirous of inspecting the arrangements in vogue in Melbourne for the expeditious handling of sea borne cargo having ...
Article : 868 wordsYesterday morning the Acting Surveyor-General, Mr. H. S. Ranford, received the following telegram from Mr. W. F. Rudall concerning the search for the missing members of ...
Article : 819 wordsA criticism of the metropolitan sewerage scheme was indulged in by Cr. Styles, M.L.A., at the Williamstown council meeting yesterday afternoon. He praised the work done by the ...
Article : 421 wordsThe principal weir at Dooen, under the control of the Western Wimmera Irrigation and Water Supply Trust, that conserves the water from which the whole of the northern plains are ...
Article : 292 wordsThe indefatigable Mr. T. R. Ashworth lifted up his voice again last night, at the Wesleyan Schoolroom, Albert Park, in defence of the glorious truths of free-trade. For once he ...
Article : 1,184 wordsThe statement that the river traffic as far as Corowa would probably be revived, and large quantities of wheat purchased on Adelaide account forwarded by boat to Kingston, South ...
Article : 87 wordsFully 5000 persons attended the Town Hall to-night to witness the presentation by Lady Hampton of the National Shipwreck Relief Society's awards to Captain Inskip, Chief Officer ...
Article : 151 wordsA boy named Roland M'Arthur was arrested this afternoon by Constable Gallagher and charged with habitually wandering about the streets. When crossing Pyrmont-bridge the ...
Article : 501 wordsA serious accident occurred yesterday evening near Buckrabanyule to the 5-year-old son of Mr. Adam Laidlaw. The boy was kicked by a horse at his father's place. The right leg was ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following is the return of irrigation operations of the North Macorna trust for the half year ending 31st December,, 1898:- Quantity of land irrigated, 16,262 acres. Crops irrigated : ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Flemington and Kensington council last night, in an indirect way, resented the invitation of the Australasian Federation League to give their serious attention to the need of ...
Article : 326 wordsA most interesting paper on England's Work in Control Africa, by Sir Harry H. Johnston, British Administrator of that region, was read by him to a meeting of the Royal Colonial ...
Article : 2,948 wordsAn interesting case under the mining on private property provisions of the Mines. Act engaged the attention of the warden's court this afternoon. Chalk's No. 1 Company applied for ...
Article : 230 wordsThe mayor of Flemington and Kensington (Cr. Pridham) reported to the local council last night the conclusion arrived at by the recent conference of municipalities re the above ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Treasurer has received a telegram from Thursday Island that the pearling lugger Leopold was sunk by a waterspout 5 miles off Nagheer Island. One man was drowned. ...
Article : 196 wordsThis morning an elderly man named Charles Davis, an old resident of the town, had a singular experience, which it is thought was a deliberate attempt to commit suicide. From ...
Article : 157 wordsArrangements have been completed with a view to obtaining for Coburg a suitable recreation reserve. A piece of land, some 5 acres in extent, was some years ago granted to a local ...
Article : 421 wordsAt the Collingwood court yesterday, George Hugman was charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm upon Eva Blake, a woman with whom he was living. Prosecutor appeared ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Lake View return for last month is 1505 tons, yielding 3939 oz. The average is low owing to the quantity of gold in the telluride concentrates. It is probable that shipments of ...
Article : 285 wordsAh Mow, a Chinese fossicker, 72 years of age, was charged at the police court to-day, with having fraudulently offered for sale as gold in its natural state certain metal partly ...
Article : 89 wordsIt was reported that a heavy parcel of Riverina wheat had been bought in the Melbourne market on Saturday for Adelaide. Apparently this refers to a parcel of seed wheat ...
Article : 167 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsJohn M'Namara, baker, South Preston, was charged by the inspector, J. F. White, with selling light weight bread. Six large loaves he had taken from his cart proved to be 28 oz. short. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the Sale police court this morning, before Messrs. Johnstone and Harkness, J's.P., a youth about 19 years of age, named James Bent, was charged with carnally knowing his ...
Article : 76 wordsWilliam Harwood, licensee of the Duke of York Hotel, Prahran, pleaded guilty in the local court on Monday to a charge of falsely applying a trade mark to whisky. The ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the meeting of this association last night the question of sterilised or pasteurised milk was under consideration in connection with Mr. Millard Johnson, analyst of the association. ...
Article : 343 wordsAll trains arriving at Kalgoorlie are heavily laden with passengers. Hundreds of persons arrive daily. Last night Hessian House, belonging to Mary ...
Article : 99 wordsThe adjourned arson case, in which Andrew Pontin was charged with having set fire to his dwelling house, with intent to defraud the Manchester Assurance Company, was concluded ...
Article : 96 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 wordsThe annual meeting of the parishioners of the above church was held under the presidency of the Rev. Canon Tucker, incumbent, on Monday evening. The report stated that the revenue ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the Malvern court on Monday a sporting writer, R. J. Gough, proceeded against Joe Gardiner, horse trainer, for the recovery of £7, bring the balance due for the preparation of the ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the Flemington court yesterday, Mr. G. A. Gibbs, on behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Works, proceeded against several persons for using water for other than domestic purposes ...
Article : 174 wordsA good deal of attention is being devoted to sanitary matters by the newly elected lady members of the Hawthorn board of advice. At yesterday's meeting Mrs. Pearce adversely ...
Article : 128 wordsMary Harrington was charged to-day with ill-treating her stop-daughter, aged 8. The child's body snowed a mass of bruises from head to foot. Harrington was fined £10, or three ...
Article : 46 wordsThis evening, about 5 o'clock, Edward Frewin, aged about 60, a native of England, committed suicide by throwing himself over the end of the pier into about 20 feet of water. ...
Article : 1,239 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Coburg shire council, on Monday night, the question of striking a rate was dealt with. The valuation was much less than that of the ...
Article : 804 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Working Men's College the report of the returning officer, Mr. J. Nixon, was read, stating that Messrs. Robt. Hayes and J. L. Bagley had ...
Article : 257 wordsFive shops were destroyed by fire at Hastings to-day. They were insured for £1225, but the damage is much heavier. The Government intends to establish a ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the Hawthorn court yesterday Sub-Inspector Duncan, attached to the Crown Law department, proceeded against Edward H. Buckley for a breach of the Registration of Firms Act ...
Article : 187 wordsSIR, A paragraph in this day's issue of The Age seems to throw a doubt over the effective supervision of the excise officer in respect to the rebate on sugar duty. ...
Article : 169 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsJewellery valued at £20 was stolen on Monday from the premises of Mr. Hugh Wallace Cook, foreman for Messrs. Felton, Grimwade and Co. Mrs. Cook left the house, which is ...
Article : 83 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 20 Jan 1897, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: