Another large gathering of ladies and gentlemen assembled yesterday at Wesley Church, Lonsdale-street, to listen to the proceedings of the Victorian and Tasmanian Wesleyan ...
Article : 1,424 wordsTowards the close of last year the aid of the Criminal Investigation department was sought to trace the perpetrator of a clever forgery of the name of one of the customers of a city bank. ...
Article : 834 wordsA Chinese hop picker attacked a poler named Coggan at the Mossiface hop gardens this morning, stabbing him twice. A number of the pickers witnessed the affray, and attempted to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Mercadool land cases were before the Gunnedah land board to-day for the 26th time. It is stated that there is some hope of the first case being concluded this month, but no one is ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Autumn meeting of the Victoria Racing Club, which was inaugurated suspiciously at Flemington on Saturday and continued under equally favorable conditions on Tuesday, was ...
Article : 4,203 wordsThe Wesleyan Conference to-day discussed the question of celebrating the jubilee of Methodism in Queensland, It was recommended that the celebration be held between June and ...
Article : 69 wordsAn attempt was made to burn down Gillick's Commercial Hotel this morning. About 3 o'clock Mr. Gillick, jun., heard a crackling noise, and gave an alarm, fortunately in time to ...
Article : 59 wordsAn old swagman was discovered dead this morning by Mr. Hooper, farmer, in his paddock, where he had apparently fallen down. Death appears to have taken place a day or two ...
Article : 87 wordsThe mail boat Macgregor is still missing, and there now little doubt that she has come to grief somewhere between here and Fanny's Cove, '60 miles away. She was expected to ...
Article : 287 wordsThe wheelers of the Hetton Colliery ceased work to-day. The miners had decided, if asked to do their own wheeling, to refuse; and if any man is discharged for refusing all the miners ...
Article : 131 wordsA case which created great interest came on for hearing at the police court yesterday. Cheri Mars, proprietor of the Mount Hope Hotel, was the plaintiff, and swore be lent a horse and ...
Article : 219 wordsThis afternoon Detectives Hoskison and Jones executed a warrant for the arrest of William Richard Sterling, who until Tuesday last was accountant at the Government Labor Bureau. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe hearing of the appeal of Richard Meagher and George Dean against their conviction for conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice in connection with the Dean ...
Article : 396 wordsMr. G. W. Knight, of Bendigo, has exhibited some new varieties of grapes hybridised by him. One is a splendid black grape, its distinctive characteristic being a well defined ...
Article : 80 wordsThe bearing of the charges against directors and officials of the Daily Post, a labor newspaper, was continued to-day, but not concluded. The accused are being kept in custody as the ...
Article : 240 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural Society to-day, a circular was received from the Agricultural department in regard to the allocation of the ...
Article : 241 wordsThe wreck of the Pearl was raised to-day, but no more bodies were found. The Queensland banks to-day discussed the question of a reduction in the rates of interest ...
Article : 84 wordsAn incident which occurred in the Supreme Court yesterday served to illustrate the fact that notwithstanding legislative enactment providing for the amalgamation,of the legal ...
Article : 499 wordsThe remarks regarding diseases in stook made by Dr. Cherry on Tuesday, when addressing the students at the Veterinary School, were taken exception to ...
Article : 150 wordsA land sale to-day of new lots, in the Sand Hills, realised £1400, The purchasers were Fremantle, Melbourne, Perth and Coolgardie people. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the railway station yard at Spencer-street, close to what is known as the "island platform," a man named James Woods, an iron moulder residing at Ascot Vale, was run over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 428 wordsDuring the past half-year the deposits in the Launceston Savings Bank increased by £3929, and the balance to the credit of depositors now stands at £211,460. The assets at the end of ...
Article : 150 wordsA meeting of representative fruit growers from fruit settlements of Tatura, Kyabram, Lancasters, Merrigum, Pomona, Ardmona, Mooroopna, Toolamba, Harston, Ontario ...
Article : 146 wordsThe resignation of the honorary medical and surgical staff of the Adelaide Hospital, which was sent last night to Mr. Holder, who is Acting Premier, in the absence of Mr. Kingston in ...
Article : 138 wordsIn December last Mr. F. W. Commons complained to the city board of advice that his son, who was a pupil at the Pleasant-street State school, Ballarat West, had been cruelly ...
Article : 524 wordsDr. Goe, Bishop of Melbourne, yesterday held confirmation service in Holy Trinity Church of England. Last night Dr. Goe presided at an entertainment held in the mechanics' hall in ...
Article : 56 wordsA woman named Norah Kingate, alias "Romping Nora," was brought up at the City Court yesterday charged with stone throwing, to the danger of the public. According to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsA disastrous fire broke out at M'Cann's Hotel, Dean, about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The building, furniture and stock were totally destroyed. No idea can be formed as to the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe pay sheet of the Yea Dairy Company for the 28 days ending 22nd February was £1193 5s. 11d., out of which £972 2s. 3d. was paid for milk and cream. Owing to the continued dry ...
Article : 280 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (by Mr. Baracchi--Thursday, 6 p.m.): Generally fine, light E. winds inland, sea breezes on coast: smooth or moderate sea. ...
Article : 122 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Wesleyan Conference to-day, when the question of Methodist union was under consideration. The Rev. J. B. Stephenson moved a resolution that a ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 6 Mar 1896, Page 6
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