The vast audience which filled the Melbourne Town Hall last evening in the expectation of hearing Dr. Talmage at his best in his lecture entitled The School of Scandal was not ...
Article : 832 wordsA largely attended meeting was held in the Collingwood town hall last evening to discuss the question of sweating in the boot trade. The mayor, Cr. Gahan, occupied the chair. ...
Article : 1,035 wordsThe hearing of the action for divorce, Dutton v. Dutton, was continued in the Second Civil Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a jury of 12. The petitioner, Mrs. Mary ...
Article : 2,560 wordsThe Rev. Edward O'Callaghan, a Catholic priest at Erskineville, was fined 40s. and coats to-day for assaulting a boy named Huggard. The accused admitted striking the boy several ...
Article : 82 wordsIt will be remembered that in November last a youth named Burke was blown to pieces through the explosion of the powder magazine at the mine of the Little's Defiance Company, ...
Article : 286 wordsAt the Fitzroy town hall yesterday evening a very large gathering of ladies and gentlemen met to discuss the women's suffrage question. Cr. M'Mahon occupied the chair. ...
Article : 761 wordsHenry Dean, a sub-contracter for the new sea wall at Mort's Bay, Balmain, was killed to-day by the jib of a crane falling on him. Sir Alfred Stephen to-day celebrated his ...
Article : 123 wordsA miner named Richard Barrett was to-day arrested on a charge of having in his possession £200 worth of amalgam, supposed to have been stolen from the Aladdin's Lamp Gold Mining ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Government intends to propose amendments in the Tobacoo Bill, fixing the amount of the licences to be paid by manufacturers according to the yearly quantity of leaf they make up. ...
Article : 98 wordsA fire occurred here about 11 o'clock this morning in the office of the National Bank. The manager, Mr. Daley, who was in sole charge at the time, had occasion to leave the promises, and ...
Article : 136 wordsA deputation representing 70 unemployed waited on the Premier this morning and asked that the Government might provide work for those out of employment. Mr. Kingston said ...
Article : 77 wordsThe president and secretary of the Victorian commission for the Tasmanian Exhibition Arrived on Saturday, visited the Exhibition buildings, and expressed surprise at their ...
Article : 110 wordsSir Edward Braddon has been notified from Sydney that the three children sent to him had been received on their return, and that the mother would be prosecuted for desertion. ...
Article : 165 wordsOn Friday evening last Constable Arthur, of Longwarry, was accosted by a middle aged woman on the arrival of the evening train at Longwarry from Melbourne, who wished him ...
Article : 158 wordsAn appeal is to be made to the Chief Secretary for a commutation of the sentence of death passed on William Brown for the murder of George Narowsky. Brown has now overcome ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Australian banks have, reduced the interest on 12 months' deposits to 4 per cent., and the New Zealand banks to 4½ per cent. Advices from Fiji dated 15th August state ...
Article : 65 wordsA five-roomed cottage in Vickers-street, Sebastopol, belonging to a Mrs. Barnett, a widow, was burnt down at 2 o'clock this morning. The property was insured. ...
Article : 419 wordsAs an instance of the popularity of the Governor, it may be mentioned that when he attended the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, and when the orchestra, as usual on his arrival, ...
Article : 76 wordsSIR,-The secretary of the Reaper and Binder Importers' Association in your issue of Saturday challenges the correctness of your editorial of the 14th inst. We request permission to ...
Article : 914 wordsThe awards In connection with the wine exhibits at the forthcoming Royal Agricultural Show were made known yesterday. Numerous on trick had been received, and the wines as a ...
Article : 653 wordsA conference of ministers representing the Presbyterian Ministerial Association was held to-night on the subject of amusements. Several leading divines declared strongly in favor of the ...
Article : 142 wordsA great deal of the doubt and uncertainty enshrouding the death of Fireman Patridge, on the St. Kilda railway line on Saturday night last, have been cleared away in a great ...
Article : 680 wordsIn connection with the shearing trouble, Warrah station, in the Murrurundi district, Cadow, in the Forbes district and Mercadool, in the Walgett district, have to be added to the ...
Article : 217 wordsSome recriminatory correspondence between the Premier (Mr, Kingston) and the leader of the Opposition (Sir John Downer) concerning private donations to village settlements is ...
Article : 117 wordsA public meeting was held in the South Melbourne town hall last night to discuss the suppression of sweating and the branding of furniture made by Chinese. ...
Article : 678 wordsAfter a spell of fine weather, steady rain set in to-night, with the appearance of a protracted downfall. ...
Article : 19 wordsNews has arrived from Port Moresby, New Guinea, of the death of the Rev. Frank Lawes on Sunday week from liver complaint. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe following are the forecasts, of to-day's weather :— VICTORIA (by Mr. Ellery — Monday, 6 p.m.): Moderately fine, but becoming cloudy to gloomy, ...
Article : 286 wordsThe New South Wales Railway Commissioners are apparently leaving no stone unturned in the effort to attract the wool from the district stations Sydney wards this year, and ...
Article : 190 wordsA wire from Louth to-day states that when the police fired on the unionists who attempted to set fire to the Kallara wool shed two men were wounded, and they are now on their way ...
Article : 68 wordsSIR,-Dr. Talmage, as an experienced lecturer, knows well enough that it is easy to raise a laugh about anything, so that the guffaws with which his very clumsy ...
Article : 379 wordsThe secretary of the Pastoralists' Association reports that Netallie station, near Wilcannia, Coree, near Deniliquin, and Gonn near Kerang, have all made satisfactory starts with free ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the police court to-day a Kanaka was charged with the murder of Mrs. Baumgartin on the 6th inst. A revolver and cartridges were found in accused's but corresponding with ...
Article : 60 wordsWe have received the following report from the Melbourne Observatory:- Rain has fallen in previous 24 hours to 9 a.m. 20th August:—Light on coast of New South Wales. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe two days' incessant work, which the officers of the Criminal Investigation department have devoted to the search for the burglars who made a murderous assault on Mr. ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the divorce court to-day, before Mr. Justice Chubb, and in the case Parker v. Parker, a Chinese named Ah Sam being co-respondent, the jury found the respondent, who was ...
Article : 116 wordsA telegram has been received by the manager of the Electric Telegraph Office from Launceston notifying the receipt of a message from Burnie reporting that a very large green buoy ...
Article : 57 wordsYesterday afternoon at about 4 o'clock a young man entered the Mont de Piété establishment at the corner of Drummond and Elgin streets, and offered a black sac coat for pawn. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 21 Aug 1894, Page 6
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