At a land board sitting to-day, presided over by Messrs. Jenkins and Hall, the chief business was to receive objections to the throwing open for selection of the Conoongella Park reserve of ...
Article : 145 wordsWe make the following additional extracts from the evidence given before the Railway Inquiry Board:-- SOMETHING MORE ABOUT ROAD ...
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Article : 4,128 wordsIf the recommendation of the Railway Board that the partitions in carriages should extend to the roof were now in force, Mr. Arthur Ellis, who apparently is what is called "a bit of a sport," ...
Article : 1,215 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive to-day the appointment of Sir George Dibbs as managing trustee of the Savings Bank was confirmed, on the condition, it is understood, that in the event ...
Article : 77 wordsThe trial of Constable Robinson, charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Charles Nelson, in a lookup, was commenced to-day. He was acquitted. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe thirty-eighth annual session of the Municipal Council opened to-day. The president's report made regretful allusion to the fact that the greater portion of the colony was still not ...
Article : 179 wordsRobert M'M. Browne, carrying on business as a financial agent, committed suicide this evening by taking strychnine. He was well known in Warrnambool, where he owns ...
Article : 46 wordsThe men at the Cornstalk mine, Bald Hill Crock, struck work last Saturday on account of their wages being in arrear. The company offered to continue them at work if they would ...
Article : 65 wordsWillie Farr, a lad aged about 17 years, was picked up unconscious yesterday in his father's cane field at North Gairloch, and died just before reaching the hospital. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe R.M.S. Australia, which sails to-morrow for London, will take 375 boxes of best quality South Australian butter. Several of the most prominent factories have not yet shipped any ...
Article : 58 wordsLast night about 11 o'clock W. J. Ryan, saddler, of Broken Hill, left for the Burra by the Adelaide express to attend the bedside of his dying father. He was intoxicated, and when ...
Article : 184 wordsThe first difficulty of the shearing season has occurred at Hynam, in this district. The station offers 13s. 6d. per 100, and the men have struck and formed a camp. ...
Article : 35 wordsThere was again a very large attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the second of the farewell series of concerts by this admirable company of artists took place. Miss ...
Article : 747 wordsMessrs. L. L. Smith, Millard, Sherrard, Moses and Oakley, directors of the Strezlecki mine, accompanied by the legal manager, Mr. Abrahams, visited here to-day for the purpose of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe article entitled Ruined Queensland, which appears in the August number of the Westminster Review, is somewhat of a misnomer. The writer, Mr. W. Boyd Mackay, ...
Article : 1,059 wordsThe tenth Anglican Synod of the diocese of Sydney opened to-day. The Primate, in his opening address, made sympathetic allusion to the recent Chinese missionary massacres, and ...
Article : 123 wordsInteresting analyses of sugar beet grown in the district have been made by Mr. A. N. Pearson. He had samples from five farmers, Messrs. R. Skilbeck, J. W. Anderson, J. Scroggie, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe supporters of the London Missionary Society this year celebrate the centenary of their organisation, which was founded on 25th September, 1795. On 5th March, 1797, its first ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Eaglehawk council to-night let the annual contract for carting. Last year O'Halloran and Sons bad the contract at 6s. 8d. a day, but at its last meeting the council decided ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Intercolonial Oddfellows' Conference was formally opened to-day. The representatives present were Messrs. Brown, Timbrell, Collins, M'Cubben and Moon (New South Wales), Joel ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Castlemaine branch of the A.N.A. gave a return social to its president, Mr. Van Heurck, to-night. The social was very enjoyable, the refreshments being tea and coffee. ...
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Article : 389 words"Mark Twain" delivered his last Sydney lecture to-night to a large and enthusiastic audience. He will start for Melbourne to-morrow. ...
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Article : 143 wordsThe port charges and port accommodation were discussed by the Williamstown council yesterday. A tracing was submitted by the town surveyor, Mr. H. V. Champion, ...
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Article : 156 wordsSIR,—About three weeks ago I dropped a packet, together with a letter of advice regarding the packet, into one of the elegant letter pillars that adorn some of our street corners. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsHannah Mulcahy, licensee of the Cornstalk Hotel, Victoria-street, was charged yesterday at the Collingwood court with having a bar door open during prohibited hours. On Sunday, the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Railway department has accepted the tender of J. C. Coate and Son, at £712 14s. 1d., for the erection of a bridge over the Mordialloc Creek at Mordialloc. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 25 Sep 1895, Page 6
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