The recent flood has destroyed the weir and the local water storage on which 250 families depend for their summer supply. A water famine is certain unless the weir is repaired. ...
Article : 71 wordsAs you have already learned by telegraph, the new tariff measure became law through the lapse of 10 days from its passage without any action by the President. The bill was so ...
Article : 3,363 wordsA mass meeting of between 500 and 600 of the unemployed was held yesterday morning on a vacant piece of land in Russell-street. Mr. Hamer, whom the men se[?]emed to look ...
Article : 342 wordsMr. F. B. Suttor, who was Minister of Education in the Dibbs Government, arrived at Adelaide in the Austral this morning, after representing New South Wales at the Ottawa ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is of vital importance to the material interests of the colony that the health of the live stock should be carefully guarded. An epidemic of contagious diseases in the herds of the ...
Article : 1,009 wordsThe opening of the Annual wool sales took place yesterday with the customary [?]lat, for there was a very large attendance of buyers, and, although prices were not so favorable ...
Article : 1,881 wordsThe funeral of Ferdinand Tregear and his son, drowned in the lake, took place to-day and was largely attended. From the evidence given at the inquest it appears that Buckle, one of the five ...
Article : 66 wordsTwo men named Abraham Kaganski and Leon Knenwaski, both members of the boot makers' union, were last night arrested and lodged in the Carlton lockup charged with ...
Article : 248 wordsA fire broke out on the Mararoa in dock at Port Chalmers last night while the steamer was undergoing her periodical overhaul. The fire had got a good hold when it was discovered, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 399 wordsMessrs.DENNYS, LASCELLES, AUSTIN AND CO. will hold their opening wool sale the season to-morrow, when they will offer about 2200 bales wool, amongst, other the following brands:-Seanwater, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe annual sitting of the Congregational Union and Mission of Victoria was resumed at the council chamber, Russell-street, yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. Willmott (chairman) ...
Article : 489 wordsA deputation from Newcastle waited on the Minister of Lands to-day, and asked that a village settlement be established in that district. It was stated that owing to the slackness of ...
Article : 107 wordsThe last eight performances of tho musical extravaganza, Morocco Bound, which has proved so popular at the Princess's Theatre, are now announced, as the management have arranged ...
Article : 593 wordsWhat was regarded as a test case as to the right of men to stand about in the public shoots came on for hearing in the City Court yesterday, when two young men, named John Driscoll ...
Article : 146 wordsA special meeting of the miners' delegate board was held at Newcastle to-day to consider the present unsatisfactory condition of the coal trade. The closing of the Sea and Back ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the local police court this afternoon, G. Bond, J.P., and Sunday school superintendent, aud T. S. Wright, editor of the Casterton News, were charged with insulting behavior in a ...
Article : 121 wordsThe ballot of the Boot Makers' Union of Ballarat in respect to the proposal of the employers that the log or statement system be abolished, and a wages scale substituted, was announced ...
Article : 159 wordsAn awfully sudden death occurred in the Lyceum Theatre to-night. Shortly after 8 o'clock Alex. Brodie, aged 65, the big drummer of the orchestra, while engaged playing in the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe football match Constabulary v. Postmen, played recently on the Eastern Oval in aid of the charities, and in which the Melbourne police hand assisted, has given a clear profit of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Master Printers Association has issued notice to members affected by the strike that arrangements have been made by which the vacancies which still exist can be filled. ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the Carlton court yesterday, a Chinese named Ah Fook was prosecuted for non-compliance with the provisions of the Registration of Firms Statute 1892. Detective Duncan, ...
Article : 356 wordsAlexander M'Kenzie, the man who was arrested last Thursday on a charge of alleged criminal assault on a girl named Feras, aged 10 ...
Article : 76 wordsA meeting was held at tho Collins-street Congregational Church in the evening, at which Mr. Willmott presided. The proceedings were devoted of public interest, being devoted to the ...
Article : 107 wordsThomas Heavey, the watchman shot by a burglar on Saturday night, has taken a tarn for the worse. Inflammation of the lungs has set in, and his position is critical. His dying ...
Article : 43 wordsThomas Patterson, the Crimean veteran, who fell down a shaft at Red Hill last Friday, died in the hospital to-day. John Sherritt, father of Aaron Sherritt who ...
Article : 434 wordsReports from Wagra indicate that a further rise in the Murray may be anticipated during the next two days. The Railway Commissioners have intimated ...
Article : 68 wordsAs the general secretary of the Australian Board of Missions, the Rev. C. Bice is thoroughly acquainted with the history of the missions established by the Church of England ...
Article : 287 wordsThe question of the maintenance of the Queen's-bridge has apparently been at length settled. The Melbourne council and the South Melbourne council are to share the burden of its ...
Article : 86 wordsA seaman named Edward Thompson, employed on Aplin, Brown and Co.'s lighter, Lalla Rookh, at Townsville, is missing. He was assisting to lighter the steamer Chingtu in the ...
Article : 46 wordsShortly before 8 o'clock last night a report was made to the police at Collingwood, by Mr. Thomas Dunn, of Graham-street, Clifton Hill, that the body of a boy was floating in the Yarra, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe R.M.S Austral arrived this morning, and her English mails for the eastern colonies left by the express this afternoon for Melbourne. ...
Article : 40 wordsSir,--The sensible and well considered letter in this morning's Age was read by me, and I feel sure by many other heartbroken and sorrowing wives and mothers, with the deepest interest ...
Article : 365 wordsThe consideration of the estimates for the current financial year and the question of providing against the deficiency of nearly £8000, the apparent difference between the balance ...
Article : 486 wordsArchbishop Murphy was presented with an address at St. Francis Xavier's Seminary, Launceston, to-day, on the occasion of completing his forty-eighth episcopal year. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir,--I was rather disappointed on Friday evening at the meeting of the Sericultural Association, to which I was invited by a member of the society, to hear a paper read on the ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand to-day the deed of settlement was approved. Mr. Robt. Martin, editor of the Napier ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,--I am pleased to read the appeal of your correspondent, John G. Davies, on behalf of the widow and children of Llewellyn Ambler, it being a most deserving case. We have ...
Article : 176 wordsA deputation from the sluicers at Barker's Creek, Castlemaine, was introduced to the Minister of Water Supply yesterday by Sir James Patterson and Mr. Williams, in regard ...
Article : 153 wordsWhile digging in a sandpit in the Moonee Ponds reserve on Saturday Thomas Chard, a laborer, unearthed a portion of a human skeleton, consisting of shin bones, leg bones and a ...
Article : 143 wordsJohn Hamilton, of King-street, Melbourne, butcher. Causes of insolvency: Losses through bad debts and being sold off under a writ of f[?] Liabilities, £301 5s.; assets, 10s.; deficiency ...
Article : 226 wordsSir,--As there is every probability of the present Government adopting the narrow gauge system I should like to bring under the notice of the Minister of Railways, through the ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,--It may serve a useful purpose to look into the real cause of the present strike in the boot trade. It is undisputed that colonial makers are quite able to produce any class of goods ...
Article : 225 wordsSIR,--During the great labor strike the Metropolitan Gas Company had the sympathetic support of the public. The price of gas was then lower than at present. Soon after the strike ...
Article : 210 wordsEXAMINATION FOR COMMISSION IN THE BRITISH ARMY.--Geometrical Drawing.--Passed : No. 555. NOTICES. CLINICAL SURGERY.--The clinical examination ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 18 Oct 1894, Page 6
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