On the occasion of the recent inspection of the new premises and printing presses of "The Age" by a large gathering of representative citizens, a general desire was ...
Article : 4,144 wordsThe select federal committee sat yesterday, Mr. Morgans withdrew his motion concerning the trans-Australian railway and substituted the following:--"That in view of ...
Article : 209 wordsReports received from various sources with respect to President Kruger's reply to Mr. Chamberlain's despatch on the franchise reform question, making fresh proposals ...
Article : 232 wordsIt is only a few weeks since the people of Melbourne were complaining, with good reason,at the disgracefully muddy condition of the streets. The mud has changed to ...
Article : 784 wordsYesterday's sitting of the Want of Employment Board, presided over by Mr. W. T. Reay, was occupied by the evidence of Mr. Joseph Knight, expert belonging to the ...
Article : 858 wordsThe death of Mr. Robert Walsh, Q.C., an event which will cause deep regret in legal and political circles, occurred yesterday at "Hoffnug," Chapel-street, East St. Kilda. ...
Article : 503 wordsIn the Rennes court martial the evidence given by ex-Major Esterhazy, the self-confessed author of the Dreyfus bordereau, at the previous investigations, was yesterday ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Australian Eleven this morning commenced a match at Taunton, against the Somerset County Cricket Club. The weather was brilliant, the wicket in ...
Article : 114 wordsThe municipal elections throughout the colony, with the exception of Melbourne and Geelong, which are under special acts, took place yesterday, and as usual the ...
Article : 414 wordsJudging by his most recent utterance on the subject, the Premier is not keen for federation, but there are many members of Parliament who are, and who have ...
Article : 816 wordsDuring the present cricket season in England Ranjitsinhji has established a batting record by making 2837 runs in first class cricket matches. ...
Article : 32 wordsFurther details of the murder of Colonel Klobb, and Lieutenant Meunier by Captains Voulet and Chanoine, whom Colonel Klobb was directed to supersede and arrest on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsIn the Assembly it was decided, after mid-night on Wednesday, that the matter of Mr. Nield's receiving £350 from the Government be referred to a select committee consisting ...
Article : 678 wordsThe port statistics of Delagon Bay, the terminus in Portuguese territory at the Transvaal railway, where the Reichstag and Koenig shipments of Mauser rifles and ...
Article : 182 wordsOnly one councillor was opposed in this city, the representative for Abbotsford ward being challenged by Mr. T. Wood. In this ward a great amount of feeling has been ...
Article : 190 wordsIn pursuance of advice given to him by M. Monard, Captain Dreyfus yesterday took a much more active part than he had previously done in the proceedings of the court ...
Article : 86 wordsGeneral Otis, the American commander in chief in the Philippine Islands, has enforced the American law for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines group. ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a meeting of representatives of the bowling clubs of Great Britain, held to-day, Major Wardill, manager of the Australian Eleven and secretary of the Melbourne ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily News" at Rennes telegraphs that it is evident the Army Staff generals are wavering in their attacks on Dreyfus. ...
Article : 116 wordsTelegrams from Mafeking, on the Beohuanaiand railway, west of Johannesburg report that a body of 300 armed Boers has formed a laager on the Transvaal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA committee of the Benevolent Asylum yesterday investigated a case in which an immate under the "pass out" system, has been playing music in the streets for alms ...
Article : 175 wordsA largely attended public meeting was held at Netherby yesterday in support of the agitation for railway extension from Nhill to Netherby, Cr. W. Stockings, president ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsLieutenant-General Sir William Butler, commander in chief of the Imperial forces in South Africa, who has been recalled to England, and is superseded by Lieutenant ...
Article : 77 wordsThe notorious Major Esterbazy, who has again called public attention to himself in England by publishing a criticism of the evidence given ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsSir,--As it has been frequently asked why the recent, trial of Mr. Ashton's Invention for firing high explosives out of ordinary ordnance took place in Russia instead of in ...
Article : 476 wordsA branch of the Australian Natives' Association has been formed in Auckland, with Mayor Goldie as president. The Left Wing party in the House of ...
Article : 91 wordsYesterday a very successful ploughing match took place at Brandy Creek. Results:--Champion-- Double furrow: Trotman, also special prize for furrow. Champion-- Single furrow: D. Quinn, 1; ...
Article : 184 wordsThough quietly conducted, there was a good deal of spirit in the elections at Footscray for the seats in the north and south wards. The chief question has been the ...
Article : 210 wordsSir,--The news that the Boer residents in British colonies in South Africa have been supplied with arms by the Transvaal Government is no matter of surprise to anyone who ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Treasurer, Mr. Holder, delivered his eighth budget to-day, it being his sixth consecutive annual statement. He mentioned that before the next budget federation would ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Minister for Lands states that the new Land Bill contains some important provisions, among which is a proposal for the appraisement of the values of conditional ...
Article : 180 wordsFour apprentices on board the British ship Slieve Rowe, lying in Victoria Dock, were yesterday arrested by Detective Sexton and Customs Inspector Christie on the charge of ...
Article : 190 wordsShipping in port had a lively time to-day owing to heavy gales. Fierce squalls caused several vessels to drag their anchors, and tugs were sent out during the day to ...
Article : 88 wordsThe house which MM. Guerin and Max Regis and a number of other anti-Semitic followers have barricaded against the officers of the Republic, threatening to fire on and ...
Article : 182 wordsA series of petty larcenies have been reported to the Brunswick police. On the 22nd inst., Mr. J. Fisher, residing in Mitchell-street, left an Acme cycle, No. 11,050, outside the Sarah Sands Hotel, ...
Article : 130 wordsSir,-- What you say in "The Age" of this morning about "Another Extraordinary Blunder" of the sewerage authorities in a five-storied building in Queen-street is ...
Article : 181 wordsThe adjourned Opposition caucus was held this afternoon, when the political situation, especially with regard to last night's debate, and Mr. Reid's position, were fully ...
Article : 97 wordsNews has been received from Port Darwin to the effect that Constable Kingston was attacked by blacks at the head off the Flora River, while returning to the Victoria River ...
Article : 123 wordsThe following were the results for the borough of Kew:--Central Ward: P. J. Ridgeway (elected), 145; E. F. Shapley, 97. College Ward: C. Gardner (elected), 30S ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsAt North Melbourne court yesterday a fanner named Martin White was charged with deserting his child. A warrant had been taken out by the Child's mother in ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the Malvern shire the voting was:--T. Carroll, 518; C. G. Hembrow, 121; the retiring councillor thus being returned by a majority of 397. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Justice Cozens Hardy, Judge in the Chancery division of the High Court of Justice, yesterday made an order for the compulsory winding up of the Coolgardie Gold ...
Article : 42 wordsThere was a contest in only one of the five wards of the town of Northcote. This was in the south, where the re-election of the retiring councillor (Mr. R. Balley) was ...
Article : 125 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Premier stated that the Ministry had not come to any decision in the event of the Household Suffrage Bill being rejected, and they did not ...
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