The principal matter before the Melbourne City Council at its usual fortnightly meeting yesterday was the consideration of an order from the public works committee in regard ...
Article : 1,878 wordsThe further 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 : 1,565 wordsFour men were shooting yesterday at Mundoolan station, near Beenleigh. One of them, named Hiram Smith, had discharged one shot from a double–barrelled gun, and put his mouth ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Minister of Mines, accompanied by Mr. Craven, M.L.A., last night returned from Corryong, where he was tendered a grand banquet on Saturday night. The Minister ...
Article : 356 wordsThe smoke concert given by the above society at the Athenæum last night proved thoroughly, enjoyable, and though it is not necessary to discuss the whole programme in detail, there are ...
Article : 598 wordsMr. J. H. Graves addressed his constituents in the public hall here on Saturday. There was a good attendance, and Mr. Graves was well received. He severely criticised the present ...
Article : 125 wordsWithin the last few months there has been quite a revival in alluvial mining at South Heathcote, and a rush has taken place for the right to prospect on private property in the ...
Article : 923 wordsJohn Affleck Robertson proceeded against two of the seeding settlers to–day for an unlawful assault on 1st May, when Messrs. Robertson and Weimer tried to take over some property, the ...
Article : 88 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to–night letters were received from the Victorian Cricketers' Association stating that at the instance ...
Article : 147 wordsA case of cremation occurred in the Kerang district on Friday, when, by permission of the Central Board of Health, the body of a Hindoo hawker named Boota Singh, who had succumbed ...
Article : 1,379 wordsThe outcrops of coal inland from Kilcunda and the Powlett have induced the finders to dig to determine their thickness. One seam has been found to be 3 feet 9 inches thick and is three ...
Article : 154 wordsA meeting of the Melbourne City Council was held yesterday, the Mayor (Cr. A. Snowden) presiding. Cr. James E. Dynon took his seat as member ...
Article : 279 wordsThe gunboat Karrakatta, which arrived today from Sydney, reports that Chief Engineer Snell disappeared mysteriously on Saturday. It is supposed that he fell overboard and was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe news of the death in Melbourne of Mr. Joseph Roff, has caused much regret in Ballarat, where he arrived in the early fifties. Mr. Roff, who carried on business up to the time ...
Article : 233 wordsThe counting of votes in connection with the Legislative Council elections was continued today, and a small return has to be received in each of the two districts; but the figures to come ...
Article : 145 wordsA monster public meeting was held in the Temperance Hall to–night, Alderman Simmons presiding, to initiate a movement for obtaining a reprieve of Montgomery and Williams, the ...
Article : 98 wordsConsiderable sensation was caused in Moama this afternoon by the arrest of the proprietor of Bellevue House, Thomas Chambers, on a charge of stealing a keg of sulphur from the cattle ...
Article : 107 wordsAt a meeting of the Warracknabeal Agricultural and Pastoral Society on Saturday it was decided to invite Mr. J. L. Dow to lecture to the farmers of the district on the Credit Foncier ...
Article : 78 wordsJames, Love, who was arrested at Nirranda, pleaded guilty this morning to a charge of being in possession of an unlicensed still. Detective Christie narrated the particulars of the seizure ...
Article : 118 wordsThe complete schedule of Mr. Law Oldfield, formerly of Elgin and Nicholson streets, Carlton, merchant, trading as Law Oldfield and Son, but now of James–street, Northcote, out of ...
Article : 452 wordsA largely attended meeting of the leading residents of Richmond, including Mr. G. H. Bennett, M.L.A., and the mayor and councillors, was held last night at the local town hall to make ...
Article : 169 wordsRepresentations were recently made to the Minister of Agriculture with respect to special encouragement being afforded by the Government to the beet sugar industry in the colony. ...
Article : 103 wordsOn 22nd April a laborer named Patrick Killen slept in the barn on Mr. Kelly's farm at Narre Warren. Killen was under the influence of liquor, and during the night managed to set ...
Article : 109 wordsOne of the most serious fires ever known in this district occurred last night at Wallace, when Mr. Thos. Holden's massive hay shed, containing several hundreds of tons of hay, was ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Burrangong Argus newspaper office at Young was raided bu burglars on Saturday night. They carted the safe bodily away to a piece of vacant ground, where they burst it open with a ...
Article : 360 wordsBetween 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday morning, one of the female servants at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Bridge–road, Richmond, was disturbed by someone attempting to force open her ...
Article : 174 wordsA paper on the Currency Question was read before the Port Melbourne Debating Society last night by Mr. J. Ross. Mr. D. C. Armstrong occupied the chair. The lecturer dwelt at ...
Article : 513 wordsA football "barracker" named Henry Thur good came before the City Court yesterday charged with having used insulting language towards the well known umpire Mr. Trait, ...
Article : 122 wordsLate on Saturday night it was reported to the police that at Moondara a man named William Marks had met with a fatal accident. This morning a magisterial inquiry was held by Mr. ...
Article : 244 wordsIt has been raining nearly all day, and this evening the downpour was very heavy. The following reports have been received from the Melbourne Observatory :— ...
Article : 339 wordsAnother case of incendiarism, being the third within a month, took place in Richmond on Saturday night, when an attempt was made to burn down a weatherboard cottage belonging to ...
Article : 163 wordsAn unrehearsed comedy was presented at the City Court yesterday,when an eccentric Irish comedienne, Mary M'Carthy by name, played the lead. It was in the cross–examination of Constable ...
Article : 488 wordsA telegram from Camooweal states that Chinese are still flocking in from the Northern Territory of South Australia. GEORGE TOWN, MONDAY. ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Sydney Stubbs, traveller for Messrs. John Danks and Co., met with a serious accident to–day. He was in a first class carriage in a train arriving here this afternoon. When at ...
Article : 84 wordsThe residence of Mrs. N. Greenwood, widow, 47 Lingwell–road, Upper Hawthorn, was operated on by thieves last Saturday. About £10 worth of property was carried away, including ...
Article : 50 wordsOne hundred and sixty–one mallee allotments previously disposed of by the land boards have been inspected by the applicants, who declare them worthless, and have abandoned them. Out ...
Article : 115 wordsFULL COURT.—(Before Justices Holroyd, A'Beckett and Hood.)—Dairymple v. Prince of Wales and Bonshaw United Company (part heard), Neustettel v. same, Wm. Howard Smith and Sons v. Huddart ...
Article : 128 wordsThe sittings of the general conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australasia were resumed to–day, when it was resolved to ...
Article : 50 wordsOn midnight of Saturday the neighborhood of the Glasgow Arms Hotel, Clarendon–street, South Melbourne, was the scene of a disgraceful exhibition by a gang of roughs, two of whom ...
Article : 268 wordsSIR,—The question of whether the malled shall become the granary of Australia or remain, a desert is one of sufficient importance to engage the attention of the Legislature. There is no ...
Article : 241 wordsAt a meeting of the Warracknabeal A.P. Society held on Saturday the president reported that the conference of delegates held at Horsham had arranged that the Wimmera ...
Article : 148 wordsBridget Timmons, of Carlisle–street, Balaclava, grocer. Complete schedule, Liabilities, £1932 1s. 8d; assets, £1481 15s. 4d.; deficiency, £447 6s. 4d. Mr. M'Gibbon, trustee. ...
Article : 227 wordsReginald Pell was charged at the police court, Perth, on Saturday, with absconding from South Australia while owing £30 to Edmund Oldham, and was remanded for ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Launceston Hospital Board is strongly opposed to the proposed reduction in the maintenance vote, and resents the omission of the Government to consult the board. The Premier ...
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Advertising : 109 wordsDr. Youl, the City Coroner, held an inquest at the Morgue yesterday on the body of John Crozier, who died in the Melbourne Hospital on Sunday last from the effects of injuries received ...
Article : 66 wordsTwo boys, named Clancy and Jacobson, were out shooting to–day, and Clancy's gun became choked with a paper wad. Jacobson attempted to blow the wad out, and the gun burst, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 22 May 1894, Page 6
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