Mr. G. W. Hall, who arrived here on Saturday, is canvassing for the constituency. He has seen many old supporters and has met with very fair encouragement. He believes his chances ...
Article : 49 wordsA fire at Parkes this morning destroyed four private dwellings and a boarding house, all of wood. Most of the contents wore saved, and all were insured. The dwelling house of Thos. ...
Article : 312 wordsThis theatre was packed from floor to ceiling last night, and Mr. Haddon Chambers's strong and natural play, acted with the greatest skill, was received with every mark of enthusiasm. ...
Article : 588 wordsRecent exposures having drawn public attention to the prevalence of infanticide, it is only natural that the question of providing some means of putting a stop to the crime should ...
Article : 1,992 wordsAll the energies of Victoria would seem to be centred in the desire to be prepared for any notion whatever that might be taken by the Matabele. Miners, merchants, mechanics and ...
Article : 1,259 wordsThe second half yearly meeting of the Broadford Dairying Company was held on Monday evening, Mr. A. M'Leod, chairman of directors, presiding. The balance sheet ...
Article : 194 wordsMr. Jacobs, of Kialla, who has proved himself one of the most successful of our vignerons, has just sold his last vintage to Mr. Irvine, of the Great Western. Mr. Irvine also bought one or two ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Airlie arrived at Townsville from Brisbane to-day, bringing the body of the late Mr. J. R. Burns, member of the Legislative Assembly, which was taken ashore and followed by a large ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Britannia, which sails for London to-morrow, has nearly £50,000 worth of butter on board, the shipment from Adelaide being valued at £2295. ...
Article : 96 wordsIt seems as if the members of the statistical bureau of the Rue de Varennes, Paris, whose business it is to issue a statement from time to time of the progressive action of the phylloxera, ...
Article : 1,127 wordsThe small selectors, who got from 3 to 10 acre blocks on the Toora reserve some three months ago, have been making good use of their time. There are now a large number of them ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe Treasurer has returned from Zeehan, where he visited the Western and other leading mines. He strongly approves of placing the Treasury bills in Hobart, and hopes to float a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsWhen almost the entire community appears to have given itself over to a wild racing saturnalia, when the maddening cry of myriads of urchins with race cards and books besot one at ...
Article : 445 wordsMr. Dunbar, J.P., to-day gave instructions to the local police to shoot a bullock which, since Sunday, has been roaming about the outskirts of the township suffering very badly from pleuro. ...
Article : 101 wordsSIR,--With regard to the paragraph headed "A Pitiful Case," in The Age to day, I happen to know Mrs. Knight as a woman at all times denying herself in her readiness to help the ...
Article : 182 wordsMajor-General Hutton, accompanied by Major-General Tulloch, Colonel Dean Pitt and Colonel Otter, visited the forts on Sunday, inspected the men and guns, also visiting the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe store of Mr. W. A. Dalton, engineer, of Grant-street, South Melbourne, was broken into on Monday night, a heavy padlock securing the front door being wrenched away to afford ...
Article : 74 wordsSIR,--As the summer time is coming I am anxiously awaiting the action of the Executive on the asked for extension of the present Sunday train service, the matter has been well threshed ...
Article : 207 wordsAt a meeting held at Bair's Hotel, Leongatha, on Friday evening, to consider the future of the local labor colony, Mr. E. Hancorne presiding, it was resolved-- ...
Article : 433 wordsSIR,--That a Government, facing a large and increasing financial deficit and driven perforce to the unpleasant task of a general reduction of salaries, should be in danger of adopting some ...
Article : 639 wordsConstable Falconer yesterday arrested Arthur Towler, a butcher's assistant, on suspicion of being one of a gang of three men who set upon and robbed a man named John Cameron, at ...
Article : 109 wordsSIR,--In your report re the failure of the so-called deep sea fishing industry, it is stated that the public will have to be content with an inferior quality offish. I fail to see where or ...
Article : 162 wordsSIR,--I have always found that your columns are open for the discussion of matters of public import, and I was pleased to see that your correspondent, whose letter appears in this ...
Article : 231 wordsSIR,--You are to be thanked for giving the public of Collingwood the facts that appeared in The Age relative to their financial position--facts that were confirmed by the public meeting on ...
Article : 256 wordsSIR,--Will you allow me to inform your readers that a depot for the distribution of food has been established in 65 Moray-place, South Melbourne. It is being daily thrust ...
Article : 254 wordsA miner named Richard James was killed in the Russell's Amalgamated mine last night. He was employed at the time in the shaft fixing a shiftable water pipe to a chain ladder about 12 ...
Article : 111 wordsSIR,--As I believe that the successful maintenance in our midst of a considerable industry is a matter of the first importance, I beg leave to ask the Minister of Defence, through your ...
Article : 190 wordsNothing of more startling import and significance has occurred for many years than the actual enrolment, and departure for the scone of action, of a body of white mercenaries, whose ...
Article : 752 wordsSIR,--Mr. E. Brockenshire undertakes, in Tuesday's issue of your paper, to challenge the figures supplied by you in a previous issue on the above subject. In his zeal "to remove a ...
Article : 239 wordsIntimation has been received by Mr. D. C. Starry, M.L.A., that the postal authorities have decided to make Marong a telephone station connected with the telegraph system. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 8 Nov 1893, Page 7
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