The annual meeting of the Anglican Church Missionary Association was held at the Cathedral Chapter House last evening, the Very Rev. Archdeacon Langley presiding. After a hymn ...
Article : 923 wordsA meeting of the committee appointed to carry out the business management of the farewell banquet tendered Lord Hopetoun by the citizen, of Melbourne on 23rd March was held in ...
Article : 349 wordsThe thirtieth annual report of the work of the Latrobe-street Ragged Children' Mission will shortly be published, when it will be observed that during the past nine months ...
Article : 547 wordsA wine party given yesterday at Longreach in honor of the visit of the Governor and Ministers of the Crown was a great success. The Premier (Mr. Nelson), in responding to the ...
Article : 200 wordsTwo vessels reached port yesterday from Europe whose experiences are unpleasantly remarkable, both having been subjected to fires at sea. In one case also the fortunes of those ...
Article : 428 wordsJudge Walsh presided at the County Court to-day, but only one case was set down for hearing. A boy named William Henry Lewis, aged 9 years, through his father, sued Arthur ...
Article : 191 wordsA case of considerable interest to the commercial community is set down for hearing in the Supreme Court on Tuesday next. The Commissioner of Trade and Customs is ...
Article : 153 wordsRegarding the alleged unsportsmanlike conduct of certain Melbourne residents in shooting quail near Learmonth the day prior to the closing of the season, the Ballarat Gun Club ...
Article : 174 wordsAn influential firm of carriers has put on teams between Swan Hill and Melbourne, to compete against the railway, and is carrying goods at great reductions on railway ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Townsville council to-day discussed the question of giving a public reception to the members of the Ministry. One alderman proposed that a flag, bearing the word ...
Article : 126 wordsThe search party to-day discovered traces of the woman Cleaves in Hogan's paddock, on the Morwell-road. An apron was found as well as the remains of a fire, leading to the belief that ...
Article : 47 wordsAbout 50 men have left the railway works during the last three days, complaining that they were unable to make wages at the prices given. Eight draymen arrived from Melbourne. ...
Article : 200 wordsAt the Circuit Court to-day, Mr. Acting Justice Barton recalled Arthur Riddle, formerly teller and accountant of the Wagga branch of the Bank of Australasia, who had been ...
Article : 105 wordsAt an adjourned sitting of the Avenol police court to-day. before Messr. Dobbin, P.M., and Plummer, J.P., Mounted Constable Hunt proceeded under the Vermin Destruction' Act ...
Article : 100 wordsThe demand for seats for Mario Elster's farewell next Tuesday evening at the Theatre Royal has been so great that it has been found necessary to extend the reserved stalls, the whole of ...
Article : 128 wordsA large cargo carrying steamer of the Blue Anchor line, called the Warrnambool, a frequent visitor to this port, arrived yesterday morning from London via Adelaide. Captain ...
Article : 513 wordsThe favorable reports received of late concerning the goldfields of New Guinea have caused a rush on a small scale. The schooner Ivanho, which is at present in the harbor, will ...
Article : 56 wordsA discussion on the question of selectors' arrears of rent took place at the shire of Gordon meeting yesterday on a circular brought before it from the Lawloit shire, and it was ...
Article : 165 wordsThe scheme for friendly visiting provided by the Charity Organisation Society, at the request of a meeting of charitable workers held on the 21st November last, was submitted to a ...
Article : 420 wordsThe initial meeting of the above society was held in the Upper Hawthorn Hall last night, when upwards of 50 ladies and gentlemen of Upper Hawthorn, Camberwell, Burwood, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsAt the Hay Circuit Court to-day the trial of the persons accused of complicity in the Hillston affray, by which two Chinamen lost their lives and several others were seriously injured, ...
Article : 100 wordsWhen the late Mr. David R. Wyllie, M.L.A., for North Melbourne, was buried, close on two years ago, a movement was started to collect subscriptions to place a fitting headstone over his ...
Article : 112 wordsThere is nothing new to report in connection with the boot makers' strike in Ballarat East. The 20 journeymen are still "out," and Mr. Book, the proprietor of the factory, adheres to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 431 wordsTwo young men named William and James M'Ewan, brothers, were arrested to-day on their farm at Culcairn on a charge of assisting to defeat a mortgagee, with intent to defraud ...
Article : 209 wordsRecently a miner named Alfred Cook, working at the Collmann and Tacchi mine, was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for stealing gelignite and candles from the mine. He was ...
Article : 65 wordsA wooden dwelling, No. 19a Budd-street, Collingwood, owned and occupied by Mr. J. Millions, caught fire about 3.6 a.m. yesterday. The alarm was given by the man on the look ...
Article : 101 wordsA point as to the payment of coats was argued at the North Melbourne police court yesterday, concerning the affiliation case of Rowan v. Brunet. Mr. M'Kean applied for a warrant ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the police court recently H. Credgington, J. R. Kelly and John Price were charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with a presentation to Mounted Constable ...
Article : 76 wordsThe usual monthly committee meeting of the Convalescent Home for Women at Clayton was held in the Melbourne Town Hall on Tuesday, 2nd April. Present--Lady Sargood, Mrs. ...
Article : 207 wordsPeter Voight, 24, was charged before the City Court yesterday with assault and robbery. On the 30th March last, Alfred Williams, a laborer, left Wade's Hotel, Little Bourke ...
Article : 183 wordsA shocking case of misbehavior was proved against Chas. Anderson in the Prahran court yesterday. The offence was committed on the previous day in the presence of a number of ...
Article : 141 wordsAt the Prahran court yesterday John Manders was prosecuted for using a certain room at 228 Chapel-street for the purpose of betting. Constable Lewis and Burns, of Russell-street, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe rabbit conference sat again to-day, when Mr. S. J. Black, chief inspector under the Victorian Vermin Destruction Act, gave a abort explanation of what had been done in Victoria ...
Article : 267 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural Society this forenoon a communication was received from the Secretary for Agriculture inquiring what action ...
Article : 164 wordsSIR,--Mr. Rudduck's letter in reply to mine, published on Tuesday last, requires an answer. He says, "The Charity Organisation Society does not exist to prevent people from starving, ...
Article : 396 wordsA farmer named David Williamson was fined 2s. 6d, with 10s. 6d. coats, in the Prahran court yesterday for travelling from Melbourne to Hawksburn in a first class carriage on a ...
Article : 53 wordsSIR,-- Allow me to correct a statement in your issue of to-day re a theft from the cart of Mr. Koir, tobacconist. I did not buy the tobacco from the two men who were arrested. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 309 wordsThe discovery of the 5 feet of good coal on the Jumbunna Mining Company's ground gives great satisfaction to the Jumbunna people. The mine cable broke last night, as expected some ...
Article : 1,456 wordsA peculiar conflict in documentary evidence occurred in the Prahran court yesterday, when Richard Matthews was prosecuted for neglecting to send his children to school the required ...
Article : 131 wordsSIR,--Your correspondent in to-day's issue, "A New Man," has evidently allowed impulse to sway dominion over reason to such an extent that his literary exercise ridicules no one but ...
Article : 222 wordsA poll for the election of auditor of the above company for the ensuing 12 months was held at the office of the company, No. 162-168 Collins- street, on Wednesday. Mr. John Neill, ...
Article : 75 wordsSIR,--The Bishop of Ballarat, in speaking at South Yarra on Sunday, put forth a "plea for parsons," and in his sermon said, "Those who preach the Gospel should be able to live by ...
Article : 431 wordsA man named Ronald Smith was to day committed for trial for the alleged embezzlement of £200 from Peabody and Co. An improved allotment in George-street sold ...
Article : 160 wordsThe tenth annual meeting of the Union Terminating Building Society was held last evening; Mr. C. J. Ham, M.L.C., president, in the chair. The committee's report of the ...
Article : 179 wordsSome particulars are published in our special columns illustrative of the advantages derivable from the "5 per cent, debenture policy" and the "continuous instalment policy " lately ...
Article : 207 wordsSIR,--Your correspondents, "Action" and the Rev. J. B. Rudduck, have done well in calling the attention of the public to the necessity of organised charity in the various centres ...
Article : 343 wordsPetitions have been filed for the liquidation of the estates of Charles Highfield, of Brisbane, merchant, liabilities £6987, and Thomas A. Ryan, of Clifton, grazier; liabilities, £26,118. ...
Article : 138 wordsSIR,--Notwithstanding the fact that the Essendon train leaving Flinders-street at 6 p.m. does not exactly suit your two correspondents, "Monthly Ticket Holder " and " Constant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 wordsSIR,--I notice in your issue of to-day a letter signed "Action," in which the writer states that my father, John Henry Burney, committed suicide at Camberwell through sheer poverty. ...
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Advertising : 124 wordsA proclamation by the Lieutenant-Governor appears in the Government Gazelle to-day, referring the tanners' dispute at Hindmarsh to a State board of conciliation. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 5 Apr 1895, Page 6
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