In connection with the disqualification of Lawson, the American cyclist, by the League of Victorian Wheelmen, on the ground of interfering with Major Taylor ...
Article : 203 wordsThe locomotive contract was freely mentioned at the luncheon in connection with the Mort's dock employes annual picnic on Saturday. Reference was made to the fact ...
Article : 210 wordsOn Sunday the residence of Dr. De Ravin, in Queen-street, was broken into, and a quantity of jewellery, valued at £50, and a Massey-Harris bicycle, belonging to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Autumn meeting of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club came to a conclusion at Caulfield on Saturday. The weather was very favorable, and the attendance, ...
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Advertising : 152 wordsThe revenue of the department continues to show buoyancy, arising from haulage of the heaviest harvest ever gathered in the State. The weekly return prepared on ...
Article : 140 wordsA boating accident occurred in Moreton Bay on Saturday, and it resulted in the death of Leila Drury, aged nine years, daughter of Mr. Victor Drury, a ...
Article : 242 wordsThe report read at the annual meeting of the Geelong United Friendly Societies' dispensary on Friday night was of a very satisfactory character. It showed that the ...
Article : 354 wordsThe steamer Flinders got into an awkward predicament yesterday morning when approaching the breakwater after entering the bay. She arrived from Melbourne just ...
Article : 662 wordsIn reference to the reduction in the number of men employed in the truck shops at Newport, about which complaint was made at the meeting of the Trades Hall ...
Article : 312 wordsOn the Oval on Saturday the Adelaide Wheel Race and International Championship meeting was begun, under favorable weather conditions. The attendance, ...
Article : 980 wordsThe steamer Buerania, which cleared at customs yesterday for New[?]astle-on-Tyne, has on board the largest wheat cargo that has been exported from Sydney in one ...
Article : 77 wordsA miner named Jas. M'Ewan met with a sad end at the Ivanhoe mine on Saturday through a piece of stone falling on him while he was working at the 850 feet level ...
Article : 101 wordsSeveral minor robberies were reported on Friday night, and this morning, shortly before daylight, Constable Condie encountered a man coming from private property ...
Article : 67 wordsA serious accident happened to Mr. John Mowatt, of Tragowel, on Friday while driving a mob of cattle to the Kerang sales. His horse, usually a quiet one, began to ...
Article : 92 wordsThe committee of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association has elected Mr. E. Ingram as president. The treasurer's report states that when the ...
Article : 52 wordsA conference of delegates of shires constituting the Wimmera United Water Works Trust has been held at the trust's offices, Murtoa. Commissioner Hewitt, of Borung, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe members of the recently formed Loyalist Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association held a meeting in the North Melbourne mechanics' institute yesterday. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 396 wordsMr. "Elijah" Dowie arrived at Mount Lofty on Saturday. He did not come to the city. He intends to rest for a week before returning to Melbourne. ...
Article : 36 wordsA serious accident occurred to a young girl named Harriet Smith, aged twelve, on Friday afternoon while returning home from school. She fell into an abandoned ...
Article : 79 wordsDr. Ramsay Smith, president of the Central Board of Health, yesterday visited the ship Benmore, on which the outbreak of enteric occurred during a voyage from ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the brass band sports here one of the leading cyclists, D. J. M'Namara, fell over another fallen cyclist and collided violently with the fence. His face and head were cut ...
Article : 78 wordsThe conference of the Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association commenced its sittings yesterday at the office of the association, The Rialto, Collins-street. There ...
Article : 233 wordsA new programme at the Opera House on Saturday night was welcomed by a crowded audience. The principal feature was the first appearance of Professor Dewar with a ...
Article : 1,012 wordsA young man named William Albert Stephens, employed at the Wallaroo Smelting Works, committed suicide by hanging in the Wallaroo Park lands on Saturday ...
Article : 62 wordsA return just issued by Messrs. Thornton. Palmer and Co. shows that the firm sold during 1903, privately and at auction, 73,022 acres [?] rood 25 perches of land, ...
Article : 56 wordsNews brought by the steamer Ysabel from the islands yesterday tells of considerable activity on the part of the French in the New Hebrides. When the Ysabel called in ...
Article : 128 wordsA young man named Collins, who is deaf and dumb, was practising at cricket when he suddenly stopped, and placed a finger to one of his ears, at the same time ...
Article : 63 wordsOn Saturday midnight some shoremen at Wallaroo had a serious row with seamen after a drinking bout. Neils Dreive, a Norwegian seaman on the barque Eagle Crag, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe inaugural run of the newly formed Automobile Club of Victoria was held at Aspendale Park on Saturday afternoon, and was a great success. The weather was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsOn Wednesday or Thursday night the communion vessels of the Anglican Church were stolen. Entrance to the church had been effected by cutting one of the ...
Article : 75 wordsTwo sailors of the barque Chili, of Port Adelaide, were charged on Saturday with stealing from the cargo. The goods taken consisted of twelve oil skin coats, valued ...
Article : 52 wordsComplaints are made locally that trucks ordered days ahead do not come to hand. The people are put to great inconvenience, and the department is losing revenue ...
Article : 71 wordsThe farmers are anxiously awaiting the thrashing machines, which seem to be very searee this year. Though some of the stacks were finished before the heavy rain, the ...
Article : 216 wordsThe directors of the Adelaide Steamship Company have decided to declare an interim dividend of 5 per share, payable after the general meeting on 9th March. ...
Article : 30 wordsThrough the operations of the sluicing claims in the Upper Murray district, the Murray is slowly but surely being destroyed. Where a few years ago there was deep water ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsAt Fremantic on Saturday Reuben Smith was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for neglecting his child. The evidence showed that Smith allowed the child, a boy ...
Article : 103 wordsThe following transfers of station masters were announced on Saturday:--Mr. P. Whelan from Warracknabeal to Camperdown; Mr. W. J. Strangwood, from Box ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsQuite a sensation was caused oil the Gem pier. Williamstown, yesterday, by the apparition of 20 Hindu sailors camped in the vicinity of the customs office, in front ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 wordsThe money in the hands of the mayor for the Carrington funds totals £803. Major-General Hutton held a parade of the northern defence forces here on ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,--At a meeting of the residents of Mordialloc and surrounding district, held last evening to consider and devise means to relieve the distress at Carrum, an ...
Article : 506 wordsThe schooner Elliston went ashore on the South Spit, at Bellinger river, on Friday, and is likely to become a wreck. The vessel was bound from the river for ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. T. Livingston, M.L.A., of the Melbourne Chilled Butter Company, addressed a meeting here on Friday evening, and explained the proposed reconstruction ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsThe manager of the mutoscope, exhibited in Swanston-street, has been summoned by Detective-Sergeant M'Manam[?]y to show cause why certain pictures seized should not be confiscated. Acting ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 22 Feb 1904, Page 6
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