The Railway department having supplied the management with a set of wheels for the locomotive now nearing completion, operations have been resumed at the ...
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Advertising : 180 wordsThe nineteenth annual conference of the Victorian State School Teachers' Union opened in the town hall this afternoon. The retiring president, Mr. A. T. Abercrombie, ...
Article : 1,563 wordsAfter the vagrants, degraded women, lunatics and alcoholic wrecks had been disposed of at the City Court yesterday, the baby figure of Albert Conquest, aged eight years, took their place. ...
Article : 394 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society's show was well patronised to-day for an off day. The ground was heavy and slippery, and the jumping events were consequently ...
Article : 121 wordsThe question whether the municipality of Sydney can tax Commonwealth property was argued before the High Court of Australia to-day. It was admitted that if the ...
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Article : 138 wordsThe education conference was continued to-day, when the motion favoring the abolition of the pupil teaching system was further discussed. The motion was amended ...
Article : 131 wordsThe artillery camp broke up to-day. The commanding officer spoke in favorable terms of the practical value of the week's training. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 wordsAt the police court on Wednesday two young men named Martin Tully and Walter Benson were charged on remand with selling spurious gold to Mr. E. Martin, ...
Article : 67 wordsA young man named Reuben Burnett, employed at the East Greta colliery, fell down a jig this morning, a distance of some 300 feet, and was smashed to pieces. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe local customs returns for the month ended 31st March show that the exports amounted to £83,838, and the imports totalled £16,646. Of the imports £6327 ...
Article : 343 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Boucaut, John Kelly, against whom there is a record of 22 charges within fourteen years, was sentenced to 8 years' ...
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Article : 52 words"Elijah" Dowie, who will leave by the R.M.S. Mongolia tomorrow, has chartered a special steam launch to convey him to the steamer. The launch will leave Glenelg ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsWilliam Beaver, whilst out shooting on the Little Billabong, picked up his rifle incautiously by the muzzle, and the piece exploded, sending the charge through his ...
Article : 245 wordsWhilst excavating recently in his paddock, adjoining Cave Hill Estate, Cr. T. E. Kinsella unearthed several crudely sculptured stone vessels, evidently the work of ...
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Article : 253 wordsMr. C. Bastard, of the city baths, who acts as swimming instructor for the State schools, reports that 272 children have been taught to swim during the present summer. ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe gold returns of New South Wales for March totalled 25,950 oz. of fine gold, valued at £110,255. The yield for the quarter was 87,047 oz., valued at £369,755, ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe Queensland gold yield for March was 55,708 oz., an increase of 22 oz. compared with March last year. The yield for the three months was 145,027 oz., a decrease of ...
Article : 42 wordsOfficial returns for March show the population of the State to be 231,743, an increase for the month of 2180. The amount remitted through the postal ...
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Article : 411 wordsThe gold exports from New Zealand tor last month totalled 45,084 oz., value £172,877, compared with 53,099 oz., valued at £202,474, in March last year. The gold ...
Article : 42 wordsThe revenue returns for March totalled £76,896, being an, increase of £6400 over the previous month. The total for the first quarter exceeds the same period of last year ...
Article : 38 wordsA representative deputation from the western districts interviewed the Minister of Works this morning and asked for the construction of a weir across the Lachlan ...
Article : 335 wordsA meeting of the Victorian Institute of Engineers was held at the rooms, 178 Collins-street, last night; the president, Mr. George Turner, being in the chair. ...
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Article : 72 wordsThe number of co-operative workmen in the Government employ at present is 3527, of whom 2110 are on railway and 1417 on road work. ...
Article : 31 wordsAfter repeated attempts to have a visit of inspection paid by the Minister, of Public Works for the purpose of seeing for himself the necessity of having the levee ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 517 wordsOf the London railway "tube" everyone knows. There is now projected a new kind of tube system which will affect the dense street traffic of the world's metropolis in ...
Article : 448 wordsMr. J. H. Rowsam, inspector of fisheries, to-day, at the local court, proceeded against several persons for unlawfully netting in Swan Bay. The offenders were ...
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Article : 218 wordsAt Brunswick court yesterday, before Mr. J. Allard, J.P., William Ritchie, a respectably dressed lad, aged fifteen, was charged with wilfully damaging part of a first class railway carriage at ...
Article : 162 wordsTRAFALGAR.--The stewards of tho Trafalgar Turf Club on Tuesday night meted out severe punishment to a horse and owner for "fraudulent practices." The horse had been entered for the Trial ...
Article : 82 wordsThe annual interstate conference of the Australian Institute of Mining Engineers was held to-day, under the presidency of Mr. F. Danvers Power. The delegates ...
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Article : 53 wordsA rather extraordinary incident in connection with a hospital patient named Steven Hanlahan occurred yesterday. The man was suffering from some disease ...
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Article : 208 wordsCharles Beceham, late of Mont Albert-road, Kew, retired shop fitter, who died on 12th March, leaving real estate valued at £3630 and personal at £1200. By his will, dated 27th February, 1903, he ...
Article : 141 wordsWm. Robb. licensee of the Moonce Valley Hotel Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, was fined 40, with Scosts, at the local court yesterday for trading on Sunday, 20th March. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt Brunswick court yesterday, before Mr. Al-lard, J.P., a young married woman named Jane Miller proceeded against her husband, Hugh Miller, an employe of Carr's bottle works, for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe youth Leslie George, who was arrested at St. Kilda on Tuesday night on a charge of assaulting a girl nine years old, at East Richmond, was brought before ...
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Advertising : 86 wordsCAMPERDOWN.--The milk received at the Camperdown Butter Factory for the week ending 2nd inst. was 32,634 gallons; and at Bostock's Creek, 12,263 gallas. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 7 Apr 1904, Page 6
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