In the police court Charles Foster, ex-warder of the Geelong gaol, was charged with accepting bribes from a prisoner's friends and with having had skeleton keys in his possession. ...
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Article : 116 wordsAt the Collingwood court yesterday, John Hayes, licensee of the Village Belle Hotel, Abbotsford-street, Abbotsford, was charged with Sunday trading. Constables Armstrong ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsBenjamin Walker, 23 years of age was arrested at Collingwood by Constable Huntchinson last evening charged with the larceny of a quantity of appeal which he was carrying in a ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the Hobart criminal sittings to-day, Frederick Hudson, aged 28 years, was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment for abducting Emily Jane Gragg, a girl under the age of 15 ...
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Article : 215 wordsSIR,--Our City Council called for tenders for 350,000 wood paving blocks in redgum, tallow wood, jarrah or karri. The tenderers for redgum here would or could only take 80,000, the ...
Article : 184 wordsMessrs. Gemmell, Tuckett and Co. held a sale of oil paintings and water colors at their Fine Art Gallery yesterday, and disposed of most of them at fair prices considering the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 20 May 1896, Page 6
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