The annual general meeting of governors and members of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria was held yesterday at the Rialto. Collins-street; the president, Mr. T. Brunton. ...
Article : 535 wordsSir John B. Thurston, Governor of Fiji, and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, is benefiting greatly in health by his stay in Sydney. He proposes to leave for the islands ...
Article : 75 wordsThe adjourned inquiry into the cause of the death of the late Donald M'Pherson, whose body was found at the rear of his residence, Park-street, on Saturday morning last, was ...
Article : 656 wordsA respectably dressed man, named James Hill, was placed on trial before Mr. Justice Hodges, in the Criminal Court, yesterday, on a charge of having shot at his wife Alice, with ...
Article : 618 wordsThe inquiry before the Guunedah Land Board into the bona sides of James Wilson's selection on Mercadool run was continued to-day at Sydney. ...
Article : 783 wordsThe manner in which a serious charge which recently came before the City Court was disposed of by the magistrates war severely commonted upon by the Chief Justice in the ...
Article : 681 wordsMr. GRAVES, by leave of the House drew attention to a statement made at a banquet to Sir Frederick Sargood the other evening which, he felt sure, must have been misreported. ...
Article : 4,015 wordsSeveral private meetings of a political character were held yesterday, and these, with other rumors, point to an early dissolution of Parliament. It is rumored that Parliament will be ...
Article : 72 wordsA strong deputation waited on the Premier to-day to protest against the appointment of the Board of Exports. The board, it was stated, was interfering in a most unjust ifiable ...
Article : 155 wordsThe sequel to the Talgaruo elopement case to-day proved satisfactory to all parties. The young man Brown, who was charged with horse stealing, having " borrowed " a horse for the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe SOLICITOR-GENERAL, answering Sir FREDERIOK SARGOOD, said the total amount of the advances made to municipalities for the purchase of wire Dotting was £150,000 in 1890, ...
Article : 890 wordsThe annual meeting of shareholders in the Sydney and Suburban Hydraulic Power Company was held this afternoon. The report showed a steady growth in the company's ...
Article : 130 wordsThe first of the "quarterly lunoheons" promoted by the Royal Agricultural Society was inaugurated successfully last evening, the object of these gatherings being to promote ...
Article : 873 wordsThomas Beauvoison appeared before the North Melbourne bench yesterday to answer a charge of threatening to take the life of his wife. ...
Article : 586 wordsKate Henderson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having married George Robert Henderson, a minor, without the consent of his father, was to-day sentenced to six months ...
Article : 90 wordsThe sittings were resumed ou Thursday morning, when the consideration of the proposed alterations in general laws was continued after the preliminary routine business. A proposition ...
Article : 445 wordsAn important decision bearing on the point whether income tax is properly chargeable on money received by the next of kin in an intestate estate was given yesterday by the Full Court, ...
Article : 510 wordsA libel case arising out of the tragic death of Jesaie Nieholls was before the Full Court today, M. A. Niehells being the plaintiff and the Star newspaper defendants. Plaintilf alleged ...
Article : 285 wordsThe barque Ophelia, which arrived from Norway on Thursday, had a very rough experience after she had passed the Cape of Good Hope. The barometer fell suddenly and ...
Article : 125 wordsBy cable from Noumea the Minister of Lands has learned that the Norfolk Island commission arrived safely at the island in H.M.S. Royalist. A public meeting of islanders was held, and the ...
Article : 333 wordsAt the Fitzroy court yesterday Robert Mills alias Reeves or Kyle was charged with forgery and uttering and obtaining 10s. by false representation. It was alleged that the accused ...
Article : 184 wordsA respectable looking young man named Frank Forwood was brought before Mr. Panton, P.M., at the City Court, yesterday, charged with obtaining 30s. by false pretences. ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Richmond council yesterday appointed Councillors White and Laity as delegates on the conerence which some time since drew up a series of resolutions for insertion in the bill to amend the ...
Article : 185 wordsA deputation from the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Women's League waited on the Promier to-day and asked that amendment of the laws affecting the ...
Article : 427 wordsA sad case of injudicious marriage was brought to light at the Carlton court yesterday morning, when a young woman, aged 20, named Jane Ely, charged her husband, ...
Article : 248 wordsA diver has ascertained definitely that the obstruction found last night in the river is the wreek of the Pearl. No bodies have yet been found among the wreckage, and the diver is ...
Article : 180 wordsIn the early hours of yesterday morning Constables Gribben and Hooley arrested two men, named James Tinpenny and Wiliiam Ryan, who were in the act of removing a quantity of ...
Article : 120 wordsA special meeting of the Footscray council was held on Wednesday for the purpose of adopting a rate for the current year. Cr. Tucker moved, and Cr. Gallant seconded, " That the resolution fixing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsTbe directors' roport submitted at the twentyfourth half yearly meeting of the Victoria Estate Company yesterday (Mr. T. Alston, president) showed that during the half year the ...
Article : 127 wordsOn Monday night last a man, who has not yet been identified, was found dead on the railway line between St. Kilda and Middle Park. It had been supposed that the deceased had been ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the police court to-day Henry Young and Harry Brown were committed for trial for breaking into the house of Mr. George Skinner at the semaphore and stealing jewellery, &c., ...
Article : 155 wordsAt a meeting of the financial committee of the Footscray council yesterday, the reports of the auditors were dealt with. The Government Auditor adversely commented on the method adopted by ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 21 Feb 1896, Page 7
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