For the fourth time in succession in less than four years the Orbost flats have been devastated by floods, and the scene which now presents itself to view is one calculated to excite the ...
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Article : 1,093 wordsMr, Barton, the late Attorney-General, returned from Melbourne to-night,, and in the course of an interview said, regarding federation in Victoria, that the feeling in the southern ...
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Article : 148 wordsAs the barque Terre Neuve, a French vessel bound for the Marshall Islands, was leaving the harbor to-day, and when about nine miles off, she was seen to heave to, and a ...
Article : 124 wordsAn old digger named Michael Moriarty was burnt to death to the tent in which he lived by himself at Black Horse Gully, Marong, yesterday. It is not known how the fire originated, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe surveyors have now completed another section of the Mount Fatigue. Reserve, amounting to about 80 blocks, which has been cut up into areas ranging from 50 to 100 acres, and ...
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Article : 213 wordsThe search for the bodies of the men Jones and Richardson, who were buried by a fall of earth brought about by a creep in the Proprietary mine on Tuesday, was continued all ...
Article : 127 wordsA meeting of the political association called "The People's Party " was held to-night, when it was decided to agitate for one man one vote, an income tax, a tax on land exempting ...
Article : 2,651 wordsMuch interest was attached to the police court proceedings to-day, when 52 bookmakers were charged with an infringement of the Totalisator Repeal Act, by betting on certain races. The ...
Article : 302 wordsThe aboriginal "Willie," or Tinamburra, was charged at the police court to-day with the murder of Severyn Mursozkawitz at Basin Creek, Dora Dora, on 2nd May, 1891. ...
Article : 500 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Young branch of the Shearers' Union, it was announced that the plebiscite question, submitted to the members of the union, as to whether the branch funds ...
Article : 106 wordsA young man named Budzar, a resident of Wellington, has been seized with symptoms of poisoning. It was supposed that he had taken poison accidentally, but a letter has been found ...
Article : 94 wordsThe decision of the jury in the celebrated libel case is not satisfactory to the people, the three-quarter legal verdict is in Mr. Speight's favor, but the moral verdict is emphatically ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Country Fire Board held a meeting here to-day. There were present—Mossrs. T. Casey (chairman), J. B. Burton and H. Foster, M's.L. A.; J. Sternberg, M.L.C.; ...
Article : 389 wordsWhile the prisoner Halliday was being tried at Nyngan police court on a charge of wounding Rouben Randolph, he collapsed, and was removed from the court, but died two hours ...
Article : 47 wordsOur Melbourne correspondent writes :—The principal topic of conversation continues to be— The verdict. Wherever two or three men meet together they rarely separate without holding ...
Article : 785 wordsUnder the Betting Houses Suppression Act, to-day, two men were each fined £5 and £2 costs for laying doubles. A man whose name is supposed to be Payne, ...
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Article : 299 wordsThe Governor visited Waratah to-day, goes to Ulverstone to-morrow, and returns to Hobart on Friday to meet Admiral Bowden-Smith, who is expected on Tuesday. ...
Article : 126 wordsPrior to reporting to the Phylloxera Board the resolution which they had arrived at in reference to the outbreak at Bendigo, the members of the Viticultural Board held a meeting ...
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Article : 74 wordsA number of lads were playing cricket in Aiden-street, North Melbourne, late yesterday afternoon, and in the course of the game the ball was hit some distance down the street. ...
Article : 104 wordsBishop Hill, who is reported to have died in West Africa, on the Niger, spent eight years in evangelistic work in Auckland, and was universally respected. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 11 Jan 1894, Page 6
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