A meeting, convened by the mayor of Essendon, of ratepayers " who view with alarm the present state of the finances and sanitary condition or the town," was hold in the town ...
Article : 391 wordsAn important meeting of the Cabinet will be held tomorrow to discues the retrenchment proposals. The Minister for Works to-day accepted a tonder for 20,000 tons of 3 to 8 inch iron piping, ...
Article : 283 wordsAt the meeting of the Mining Board, yesterday afternoon, it was unanimously decided to request the mining department to enforce the labor covenants on the mining leason in the ...
Article : 320 wordsWoolloomooloo was tho scene this forenoon of a terrible tragedy. A man named Van Kospelin, a well known crayon artist, shot and killed a Mrs. Wilson, and then shot and killed himself. ...
Article : 680 wordsDuring the last twelve months Dr. Gresswell, the chief medical officer of the Board of Public Health, has repontodly assorted that the water supply of Melbourne is dangerously fouled by ...
Article : 1,012 wordsAlthough the names of the 13 cricketers chosen to form the eighth Australian team for England have not been officially announced, it is generally understood that the list of names ...
Article : 545 wordsA special meeting of the shareholders in L. Stevenson and Sons Limited, Flinders lane, was held yesterday afternoon at The Oldorfleet to consider a proposal made by the directors to ...
Article : 4,105 wordsThe Earl of Hopotoun, Governor of Victoria, is to visit Brisbane at the end of March, and make an extensive tour through Western and Northern Queensland. ...
Article : 218 wordsThe steamer Star of Hope, from Townsville, has arrived at Cairns, and reports having picked up a man on a raft in an exhausted condition. He stated that ho had shipped on a lugger at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsThe New Zealand Rifle Association meeting at Wellington was commenced to-day. The number competing is 162, the smallest number that ever contested, and consequently the prize ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Premier is considering a report from the comminissioner's of Railways with reference to the Service ton station difficulty, together with the suggestion of Mr. Shiels as to South ...
Article : 251 wordsAn angry scene took place at the meeting of the Brighton councillors on Monday night, during the consideration of some 30 tenders for the year's scavenging. Cr. Francis moved that ...
Article : 236 wordsThe annual meeting of county cricket representatives was held at Lords on the 6th inst. The visit of an Australian eleven next season was fully discussed, and the general feeling was ...
Article : 386 wordsAn arbitration case, which is attracting a deal of attention in the northern districts, was opened in the Supreme Court here this morning in connection with the dispute between Messrs. ...
Article : 311 wordsAt the Prahran court yesterday James Lindsay was charged with defrauding the railway revenue. Defendant on 1st December was found at Prahran in a first class compartment ...
Article : 335 wordsGunsler's Cafe, an hotel in Pitt-street, near King-street, was the scene of a disturbance to-day. Since Monday, affairs at this hotel have been in a very unsettled state. Nominally the ...
Article : 554 wordsMr. Bird, who returned from his visit to Sydney to-day, speaks highly of the arrangements being made for the shipment of fruit from Tasmania. ...
Article : 77 wordsAt Tuesday night's meeting of the Port Melbourne council a letter was received from the secretary of the Public Works department stating that the Minister of Public Works had decided ...
Article : 176 wordsFive young men, who were arrested on a charge of assaulting and robbing a man in Peel street, Collingwood, on the 1st inst., were on Tuesday placed in the dock at tho local court. ...
Article : 386 wordsA DEPRAVED FELLOW,--A young man named John Ohlsen, a resident of Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy, was yesterday presented at the local court, charged with misconduct. Evidence was ...
Article : 379 wordsMr.Lamplugh, solicitor, was served with a criminal summons to-day by Dotective Mahony, of Bendigo, charging him with forging a will. The allegation is that a year ago a Chinaman, ...
Article : 113 wordsAt the last meeting of the Kow council, Mr. Gillies, M.L.A., was taken, to task for absenting himself from a deputation to the Minister of Railways to urge the importance of the ...
Article : 165 wordsIn the Richmond council yesterday Cr. Charman directed attention to the existence of a number of totalisator shops in that suburb. He said that gambling was carried on with ...
Article : 193 wordsThe bogus telegrams despatched to Ballarat yesterday regarding the striking of rich dirt in the madame Berry West mine again formed a topic of discussion this afternoon at the last ...
Article : 469 wordsThe judging of prize vineyards for the Tatura Agricultural Society was completed to-day. The awards are as follow :-- Best vineyard, 10 acres or over, age of vines over ...
Article : 103 wordsBrokon Hill South, Broken Hill,9th Jan--winze below 400 lovel sunk total 80 feet, blottom stlil in sulphldes. Stoping continued usual, with average result; dry ore faces in South central working are much the same. ...
Article : 716 wordsA young man named Daniel Dally died while oholoform was being administered to him in the operating theater of the Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon. He had been a lodger at ...
Article : 128 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Mildura shire council the following resolution was unanimously adopted :-- That having been informed by Mr. Taverner, ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,--As any matter which may tend to assist the colony at the present juncture will, I am sure, receive the support of your valuable journal, I would desire to point out to you in ...
Article : 404 wordsA number of licensed victuallers were proceeded against yesterday at the District Court for breaches of the Licensing Act. For Sunday trading on 25th December, Christmas day. ...
Article : 109 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on an old man, O. Wood, who was gored to death by a bull at the Reedbed. An open verdict was returned. It appeared that when Wood was found life ...
Article : 159 wordsThe friends of an elderly man named Samuel Gay, who left his homo, Tennyson-street, Kensington, last Tuesday morning, are very anxious to ascertain his whereabouts. Information will ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the meeting of tho Royal Horticultural Society, held on Tuesday at the Athenaeum, Mr. C. Draper showed a collection of seedlings, yet unnamed, of tuberous rooted Begonias, some ...
Article : 167 wordsThe children's pantomime of the Babes in the Wood, Bold Robin Hood and His Foresters Good will be given at the Theater Royal tomorrow afternoon. The doors will be open at ...
Article : 84 wordsStripping in the districts north of Donald to the mallee is nearly finished. The probable general average is 12 bushels. The returns from mallee land are remarkably good, better ...
Article : 101 wordsThe licensee of Her Majesty's Hotel, Swan ston streot, F. H. Pollock, was proceeded against at the District Court yesterday for falsely applying a label to a wine bottle. Inspector Raidy, ...
Article : 118 wordsSir,--At the last meeting the above league, held in the School of Arts, North Sydney, the following resolution was carried unanimously :-- ...
Article : 113 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the above society was held on Tuesday, 10th inst., Professor Morris in the chair. It was resolved to make a further reduction in the staff. The hon. treasurer ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 13 Jan 1893, Page 6
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