The Maribyrnong Plate field, it will be seen from the above lists, was reduced to 17, and the Derby list to 7, when final acceptances were declared yesterday ...
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Article : 287 wordsThe champion band contests in connection with the annual competitions of the South-street Debating Society opened on Thursday at the city oval under the most ...
Article : 496 wordsA pleasant function took place in the upper reserve on Thursday afternoon, when the mayoress (Mrs. A. Dunstan) held a reception. The grounds presented a most ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day read the Retrenchment Bill a third time. In the Assembly Mr. Leahy moved -- That with the view of lessening the effects of ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice Hodges, addressing Charles John Maitland, who had been found guilty of the Rothsay bomb outrage, said, "The one mitigating ...
Article : 293 wordsAt a conference of delegates from pastures protection boards to-night, a resolution was carried approving of the effort being made to exterminate the rabbit pest ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Hector M'Lennan, the representative in Melbourne of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, proprietors of the Duckenfield and Pelaw-Main Collieries at Newcastle, ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe Tramway Company's notification of its traffic arrangements during the Cup season appears in our advertising columns. Attention is drawn to the economical way of ...
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Article : 873 wordsIt is anticipated that the loop line to form a connection between the Collingwood and Whittlesea lines will be opened for traffic on 1st December. The work is being ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsThe Income Tax Bill has been repealed. The tax on unimproved capital value has been approved, and Ministers are to go into the whole question during recess. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsA boy aged tour years, son of the Rev. E. G. Higgins, of Koroit, narrowly escaped drowning at Heywood yesterday. While playing on the bank of the Fitzroy River ...
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Article : 217 wordsGeorge Horder, a well-known resident, was arrested to-day on a charge of sheep stealing. He was remanded for a week. ...
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Article : 377 wordsCaptain F. Renz, of the German-Australian liner Sonneberg, reported on arrival last evening meeting with the major portion of an immense ice fleet, the outer limits only of which were sighted by ...
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Article : 43 wordsBurnet Tomlinson, aged ten, had a remarkable experience at Menindie. He went bird nesting after school, and while up a tree put his arm into a hollow. He ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 28 Oct 1904, Page 6
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