In a recent controversy, arising out of a speech delivered at Portland by Mr. J. L. Dow, various comparisons were drawn between Victoria and New South Wales with regard to the ...
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Article : 88 wordsFollowing upon the recent retirements and promotions in the police force, Superintendent Parkinson, of Ballerat, to-morrow proceeds to the metropolis to assume charge of the Bourke ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsA destructive fire occurred here last night, about £4000 worth of property being destroyed. The buildings consumed were Mrs. S. Tyrer's drapery establishment, Mrs, Dow's fruit and ...
Article : 139 wordsA seaman named Charles Johnson, employed on the ketch Tyro lying at the Little Dock, was accidentally drowned in the Yarra on Thursday afternoon. It is stated ...
Article : 127 wordsHarvesting operations in this district are far advanced, and most of the farmers are now in a position to judge as to results. The returns have been fair, with the exception of Waitchie. ...
Article : 177 wordsA fire originated in a dentist's shop at Bourke yesterday, by which St, Stephen's hall, a weatherboard building, the Church of England and the dentist's premises were destroyed. The ...
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Article : 798 wordsRiver steamers have reported from the Lower Darling that the Mindoo's barge, laden with wool, has got a hole knocked in her bottom, and that all her lower tier of wool is damaged by ...
Article : 123 wordsThe premises Of Mr. Charles M'Intyre, at the rear of his business places in Conness-street, were broken into on Christmas Day during the absence of the family, and jewellery to the ...
Article : 1,169 wordsAt Balmain this morning Mr. W. H. Lever, head of the firm of Lever Bros., Sunlight soap manufacturers, turned the first sod of the excavations of the first oil mill in New South Wales. ...
Article : 124 wordsAs a result of the refusal of the Hawthorn council to recognise the minimum wage principle, "sweating " in a bad form is alleged to be rampant in connection with certain municipal ...
Article : 193 wordsThe barque Grasmere, from Newcastle, bound for Wellington with coal, has been totally wrecked at Terawhiti, near Wellington Heads. All hands aboard were saved, and brought to ...
Article : 140 wordsA sad fatality occurred to a young lad named Frederick Valentine Trawin, at Deer Park, yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. Trawin was bathing in the Kororoit Creek with another ...
Article : 130 wordsYesterday evening three wrecked castaways were brought from the North Shore by the George Walmsley. The men were sailing from Thursday Island to Cooktown in the cutter ...
Article : 107 wordsDavid Lee, or Gipsy Lee as his mates called him, died in Parramatta Poor Asylum on Christmas eve, at the ripe old age of 102 years. From records in the institution, ...
Article : 83 wordsSIR,--In The Age of to-day it is stated the probability is that Mr. Turner's anticipations of revenue will fall short by about £100,000. The decrease daring the first three ...
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Article : 111 wordsMrs. Aria writes as follows to the London Daily Chronicle:--" Cycling is the order of the morning of the idle woman. The crowds in Hyde Park testify to the popularity of this means ...
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Article : 198 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, with a view to fostering the federal spirit, and perhaps, also with an eye on gate money, has decided to invite the Governors of all the ...
Article : 96 wordsJ. T. Barton, Echuca, makes a complaint against the department having charge of neglected children. He states that some time ago, with his own consent, a female child of his was ...
Article : 198 wordsThe annual competitions of the Tasmanian Rifle Association commenced to-day on the Launceston ranges. The shooting was good. Lieutenant Gatty won the championship with ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Railway department has accepted the tender of James Love for the supply of 319 tons of firewood for Camperdown at 2s. 9d. a ton, delivered at Cudgee. ...
Article : 31 wordsOn Boxing day Ada Mackay, aged 11 years, and Minnie Mackay, aged 8 years, sisters, were drowned in the Clarence River at Ulmarra. They went to the river to bathe, and it is ...
Article : 64 wordsTwo inquests were held at the Morgue yesterday by the City Coroner, Dr. Youl. The first related to the death of Crighton Strachan, a man of the vagrant class. Deceased, who was ...
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Advertising : 189 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of Naomi Ethel Billett, a child who died on Christmas day from the effects of burns caused by a little brother of deceased, aged 3 years, igniting ...
Article : 294 wordsA laborer named William Ray, 21 years of age, met with a painful accident yesterday while employed in the sewerage works in Elizabeth-street. Bay was working in a shaft about ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1895, Page 8
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