 
    An examination was held in the Insolvency Court yesterday, before Judge Molesworth, in the estate of the Real Estate, Mortgage and Deposit Bank Limited, in liquidation. Mr. T. ...
Article : 614 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 : 1,606 wordsMr. Thomas Corp, an old resident of Benalla, and a colonist of 43 years' standing, died at his residence here yesterday, the cause of death being diarrhoea. Deceased, a native of London. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe new Railway Commissioners have made administrative changes effecting a saving of £4000 a year. A reduction of the hours in the railway workshops down to five days weekly also affects ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Bromley, M.L.A., member for Carlton, addressed a meeting of his constituents at the Carlton Hall, Princes–street, last night. There was a fair attendance, Mr. George Davies, J.P. ...
Article : 1,006 wordsThe police received a report on Sunday night by telegram from Euroa that a man named John Henry Blackett had hired a horse and buggy from Mr. E. Challenger, a livery stable ...
Article : 613 wordsConsiderable attention has been directed in this district to the proving of a new run of gold bearing country near Barnawartha, about 5 miles from Chiltern. This new gold field is ...
Article : 713 wordsThe Chief Justice, who on Saturday reserved decision on the application to strike off the roll of solicitors George Harper and Thomas William Maude, of the late firm of Harper and Co., ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Hobart trams are reported to be paying well. For over eight months the average receipts were £45 a day. Sir Edward Braddon suggests weekly ...
Article : 183 wordsAn indignation meeting of residents was held in the Theatre Royal to–night, to protest against the action of the Commissioner of Railways in running the Melbourne train 120 miles, and then ...
Article : 1,229 wordsAbbe, the Japanese who was sentenced to death for the murder of a countrywoman at Thursday Island, was executed in the Brisbane gaol at 8 o'clock this morning. The prisoner ...
Article : 192 wordsThe mayor of Perth, Mr. Alexander Forrest, Mr. Panton, police magistrate, of Melbourne, and Mr. Charles Miller left for Coolgardie today. ...
Article : 82 wordsA brother and sister named Hackett have been committed for trial at Wellington on a charge of conspiring to defraud by means of spiritualistic seances. ...
Article : 59 wordsAt a late hour to–night a woman named Agnes Hiles, aged 39, was shot at Redfern, under circumstances which, so far, have not been elucidated. Hiles was nursing a Mrs. Bowbery, who ...
Article : 154 wordsA public meeting, presided over by the Mayor of Melbourne, was held yesterday afternoon in the Mayor's room of the Town Hall, when an appeal was made on behalf of the Victorian ...
Article : 962 wordsThe Premier was to–day besieged by deputations which came to urge a commutation of the death sentences passed on Montgomery and Williams, the Bridge–street burglars. The first ...
Article : 591 wordsThe hearing of the divorce case, Wolsley v. Wolsley, in which Margaret Alice Wolsley sues for a judicial separation from her husband, Francis Vivian Wolsley, a clerk in the employ ...
Article : 195 wordsA public meeting, convened by Mr. James Hoare, one of the principal graziers in this district, was held on Saturday evening to discuss the proposed reduction in the stock tax. Mr. Hoare ...
Article : 348 wordsTo–day was kept as a public holiday in honor of the Queen's birthday instead of 24th May, the object being to allow civil servants and others a holiday extending over Saturday afternoon, ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the conclusion of the ordinary business at the Fern Treo Gully council last Saturday, Cr. J. J. Miller, who is well known in sporting circles as a racehorse owner and the promoter of ...
Article : 404 wordsThe results of the election for two members for the Northern district of the Legislative Council are not yet known. The figures so far as has been ascertained are:—J. O'Loghlin (Liberal). ...
Article : 51 wordsFined amounting to £50 were imposed yesterday by the Richmond magistrates on two youths, named John Sheehan and Patrick Pearce, aged respectively 21 and 19 years, the former ...
Article : 191 wordsAn explosion, caused by extraordinary carelessness in dealing with gunpowder, took place at Carlton last night. It was just 7 o'clock when Mr. J. Brooks, who resides in a three-roomed ...
Article : 175 wordsTwo Japanese sailors belonging to the Taiyuan, quarantined along with other members of the crew and passengers owing to the outbreak of small–pox on the steamer, escaped from the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe rouseabouts on Avon Downs have refused to accept the reduced wages, and shearing has been delayed in consequence for two months. A majority of the shearers have also gone ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Colonial Secretary is about to take steps to carry out the spirit of the Totalisator Act by reducing the number of permits for the use of that machine. Within the next few days a ...
Article : 122 wordsA Cabinet meeting was held this afternoon, all the Ministers being present, and for three hours the case of the condemned men Montgomery and Williams was discussed. It ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the Port Melbourne court yesterday a gang of larrikins was dealt with. Their names were Joseph Kirby, Robert Kennedy, John Ralston, James Wilson and Hugh D' Aubigne, ...
Article : 154 wordsA prosecution, which is said to be the first of several proposed to be instituted against midwives for alleged breaches of the Medical Act, was before the Prahran bench yesterday. The ...
Article : 287 wordsMr. Alfred Nation, who resides at 172 Albert–street, East Melbourne, has reported to the police that on the 19th inst., between 7 and 8 p.m., his place was entered by robbers and a ...
Article : 89 wordsThe second year scholarships in connection with the subjects taught in technical schools have been awarded to the following candidates:— ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the police court to–day, Patrick Walsh was charged with the attempted murder of Mary Bourke. The medical evidence as to the nature and extent of the wounds, inflicted by ...
Article : 138 wordsNils Gustav Nilsson, of No. 1 Phoenix–street, South Yarra, ropeman. Causes of insolvency: sickness and death in family, having to pay interest on borrowed money and reduction in salary. ...
Article : 128 wordsSerious trouble has occurred in the baking trade. Some time ago one or two bakers were boycotted by the Operative Bakers' Union for employing non–union workmen. This led to a ...
Article : 257 wordsSIR,—The above heading appears in your issue of to–day. It is the old tale over again. A man arrives in Melbourne with a considerable sum of money about him. The first thing he ...
Article : 236 wordsA general order issued from headquarters announces that a War Game will be played at the United Service Institution on Thursday evening next, at 7.45 p.m. All officers are ...
Article : 167 wordsSIR,—Your leader to–day on the limited vision of the advocate of free–trade for the trader and producer of agricultural produce being really in its result protection for these as against the ...
Article : 193 wordsWhilst the steamer Taiyuan was preparing for sea to–day the main steam pipe burst. Two engineers and two firemen were rather severely scalded, and the despatch of the vessel will be ...
Article : 140 wordsFULL COURT.—Simpson v. Narracan Shire Council, Jenkins and others v. Jenkins, Oates v. Bartram and Son, Bank of Victoria (in liquidation) v. Smith. Tinning v. Prince of Wales and Boushaw ...
Article : 153 wordsOn Sunday two lady members of the Fitzroy Bicycle Club, Miss Wilson and Mrs. O'Connell, together with some of the members of the sterner sex of the club, journeyed on their ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 29 May 1894, Page 6
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