The farther trial of the railway libel action, Speight v. Syme, on the undecided issues which were previously under consideration of a jury, who could not agree upon them, was continued ...
Article : 2,091 wordsThe Water Commission sat again today, when the details of the proposed Mildura Trusts Bill were explained by Mr. H. E. Barnes, chairman of the Mildura Irrigation Company. ...
Article : 121 wordsLast month we had the " O," or Copenhagen scandal, having for aim to extract more complete ideas by indirect means from the Czar touching his intentions in the event of certain ...
Article : 2,115 wordsMarcella, Mrs. Humphry Ward's new book is written round Socialism. The heroine is the daughter of a ganger, son of a wealthy family, who goes away in early life ...
Article : 763 wordsIn connection with the outbreak of small-pox on the steamer Taiyuan, the two men who Attended to the Chinaman who yesterday succumbed to the disease have been specially ...
Article : 164 wordsAlfred Douglas and James Charles Watson were arraigned in the Criminal Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a jury of 12 for having murdered Eugene Posset, in ...
Article : 367 wordsThe executive has decided that the death sentence on the Japanese Abbe, for the murder of a Japanese woman on Thursday Island, shall be carried out. The date of the execution is not ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. J. G. Affleck, the well known sporting man, met with a painful accident this Afternoon at the Bonshaw paddock, in the neighborhood of Buninyong. As master of the Ballarat ...
Article : 123 wordsTwo deputations today waited on the Minister of Justice, one to ask the release of Francis Abigail, a late director of the Australian Banking Company, who in 1392 was ...
Article : 148 wordsA deficiency of £50 has been discovered in the Burniel Institute accounts of the secretary, Allen Herbert Edgar, And the committee has authorised criminal proceedings. It is reported ...
Article : 134 wordsA magisterial inquiry into the death of Joseph Tait Carpenter was held today. It appeared the deceased was boiling his billy, when he fell back dead. He once was the proprietor of the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Labor Electoral League tonight further considered the trouble concerning the sitting members and the electoral pledge. They agreed to rescind a resolution passed at last week's ...
Article : 93 wordsToday Mrs. Cameron, mother of Mr. D. S. Cameron, a local produce merchant, committed suicide by hanging herself. An inquiry will be hold tomorrow. ...
Article : 29 wordsA telegram received from Mr. W. A. Horn this afternoon states that the exploring expedition has arrived at Goyder, and that the party are all well and doing good work. ...
Article : 35 wordsA heavy amount was entered at the Fitzroy court yesterday against a man named Jas. Shaw, who was called before the court on warrant to show why he should not contribute ...
Article : 253 wordsA stranger deliberately shot himself in Portarlington this afternoon, dying instantly. Documents found on the body indicate that the name of the deceased was Graves, and that he ...
Article : 645 wordsA man named Charles Swallow, who appeared with his right arm in splints, was charged on bail at the South Melbourne court yesterday with using insulting language in a public place. ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Wesleyan Conference was continued today. It was resolved that the Rev. L. Fison, of Victoria, should represent the conference at the British Conference, and Mr. Fison was ...
Article : 687 wordsAt a meeting of the Workers' Liberal Labor Convention today it was decided to recommend all Liberal and labor organisations to form a workers' political league. formulate a, platform. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe official journal of the "New Australia" movement today publishes tho following:— "We are informed by cable from the chairman that the constitution was declared on the 1st ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Prodigal Daughter will be performed for the last time but one this evening at the Princess's Theatre, and the exciting sporting incidents of this drama will give place to another ...
Article : 450 wordsA pitiful case of distress, caused primarily by the long prevailing scarcity of work, was dealt with by the South Melbourne bench yesterday. Elizabeth Moore, recently a resident of ...
Article : 297 wordsA German named Albert Detmar, by profession a jeweller, residing at 150 Murphy-street, North Richmond, was charged at the local court yesterday, under section 133 of the Customs ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Public Works Committee today began an inquiry into the proposed railway to the Wyalong goldfield. The Railway Commissioners, whose views were stated by their ...
Article : 79 wordsM'Ewan, Davis and party have been prospecting at Fryingpan, midway between Avoca and Homebush, for a rich reef reported to have yielded from 15 to 20 oz. to the ton 30 years ...
Article : 184 wordsWilliam Allen alias Brown, who was arrested yesterday evening for the murder of his mate, George Moriski, at Lovely Gully, about 12th April, will be taken by the police tomorrow to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsA special general meeting of the shareholders in the above society was held yesterday at the offices, 416 Little Collins-street; Mr. T. W. Mason presiding. The chairman explained ...
Article : 143 wordsOwing to the recent valuable discoveries made by the diamond drill in the neighborhood of Kilmore, where an alluvial wash of 4 feet in depth and 300 feet in width was recently ...
Article : 140 wordsAt the meeting of the South Melbourne city council last night a letter was received from Messrs. Lyons and Turner, solicitors, for Messrs. Hall and Alexander. ...
Article : 373 wordsSIR,—As one who has watched and admired your efforts in the direction of railway reform, I wish to point out that there must still be room for your continued efforts towards the ...
Article : 580 wordsConsiderable excitement has been caused by specimens of gold from Horn Island. The prospectors speak sanguinely of the alluvial prospects. They found payable around for two ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—In your cable news of today I notice certain strictures on Australia by Mr. Finch Hatton in tho House of Commons. About 15 years ago I read a rather entertaining and fairly ...
Article : 440 wordsAt the Brunswick town hall last evening, a public meeting was held for the purpose of considering the best means for relieving distress among the unemployed of Brunswick during the winter. ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Exhibition trustees met at the Exhibition on Tuesday afternoon, when there were present: —Mr. L. L. Smith, M.L.A., in the chair; Messrs. J. Boristo, M.L.A., and G. R. Fincham. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Mackay Sugar Journal states that the floods in the north have only done damage to plantations on the Johnstone River, and that estimates of the yield are generally adhered to. ...
Article : 99 wordsDr. Youl, City Coroner, held an inquest at the Melbourne Hospital yesterday on the body of Thomas Hooper, aged 28, a railway porter, who died in the hospital on Tuesday night from ...
Article : 148 wordsIn connection with the supposed case of leprosy at Port Augusta, at a meeting of the the local board of health today the medical officer reported that the Chinese hawker, Lee ...
Article : 86 wordsIn response to invitation a number of gentlemen yesterday afternoon visited the Rotunda Hall, in Bourke-street, for a private inspection of an animal of the gorilla species, which was ...
Article : 238 wordsSydney Thomas Muir, of Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, accountant. Causes of insolvency : Loss of capital in the firm of Eggleston and Muir, owing to a partner having drawn seven-tenths of the profits ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. E. M. Fisher, chairman, and M. Jules Joubert, manager of the committee of control of the Tasmanian Exhibition, will interview the Premier tomorrow as to the proposal to have ...
Article : 74 wordsLast evening a fire broke out in one of three semi-detached weatherboard shops, situated in Sydney-road, North Brunswick, through the occupier, a Mrs. E. Rohlk, a dress maker ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 17 May 1894, Page 6
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