A great amount of damage has been done by the floods to the roads and bridges beyond here. In many places the trunk roads have been rendered impassable, either ...
Article : 402 wordsTo-day there were two more cases of plague, viz., Fredk. Price, aged 74, living at Paddington, and Jno. Rendall, aged 6, living at Manly. ...
Article : 83 wordsTelegrams from Pekin report that the Chinese secret society known as "The Boxers," which has lately created great disturbance in the province of Shantung, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe worst fire in the history of this district is raging at Hull. It started in a part inhabited by poor families, and owing to the high wind prevailing soon swept the ...
Article : 1,139 wordsA strange shooting accident has occurred at Spieer's Creek, 20 miles from Wellington. Two young men, Patrick Sullivan and Harry Hughes, were practising with a rifle, ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,--Your strictures on the pusillanimous discouragement of enthusiastic riflemen is not a whit too severe. In fact, it rather errs on the side of undue leniency. Listen ...
Article : 669 wordsThe military commandant, Major General Downes, has furnished a report to the Minister of Defence in which he supports the notion taken by the officer commanding the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe underwriters received news by the mail to-day of the wreck of the four masted barque Iranian, a fine vessel of 2958 tons, off the coast of Idzu, on 3rd April. The ...
Article : 119 wordsAnother case of plague is reported in Brisbane, the patient being an elderly man, William Bachman, residing in a boarding house in Charlotte street. There are 11 contacts. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe recent gales on the coast are responsible for the loss of a large number of cattle from the steamer Anerley. When passing Jervis Bay this morning the Anerley ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, having announced that, in view of developments under The New Electoral Act in Western Australia, and of the colony ...
Article : 107 wordsThe he Queensland Government is desirous of extending the railway from Morang to the New South Wales border near Tweed, and wishes to know whether New South ...
Article : 106 wordsInquiry into the two rumored cases mentioned in "The Age" of yesterday demonstrated that neither of them was a case of bubonic plague. Another rumor arose ...
Article : 258 wordsAt the police court to-day, before Mr. C. A. Cresswell, P.M., the child for cruelly illtreating which a woman named Groshen was recently fined £10 at Neerim, was ...
Article : 307 wordsAll doubts as to the fate of Murphy, the second of the two men buried by the fall of earth at the Lyell Tharsis mine on Sunday morning, were set at rest this ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Colonial Secretary was on Monday asked to provide £45,550 for the purpose of extending Prince Alfred Hospital by the' erection of ...
Article : 258 wordsMr. Copeland, Agent General for New South Wales, has addressed a letter to the leading London newspapers, warmly advocating the adoption by the Imperial ...
Article : 71 wordsThe second overflow of the Snowy River did more damage than the flood of the 19th inst., especially on the Newmerella fiats. A greater area of maize was submerged and ...
Article : 191 wordsAnother revolt has occurred in British North Borneo. News received by the steamer Eastern, dated Labuan, 3rd May, Says that Kudat was attacked by about 200 ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the House of Lords last Strathcona's bill legalising in England marriage with a deceased wife's sister was read a second time. The division was a ...
Article : 57 wordsIn Kensington, the uneasy feeling experienced by residents a week ago has subsided, since no further suspicious eases have occurred. Dr. Sinclair, at the Kensington ...
Article : 159 wordsMrs. Catherine Gladstone, widow of the late Prime Minister, to whom she was married in 1839, and eldest daughter of the late Sir Stephen Glynne, bart., is so seriously ...
Article : 48 wordsThe work done during the year by the Victorian auxiliary of the London Missionary Society was reviewed at the annual convention held in the Congregational Hall, ...
Article : 374 wordsSir,--On Saturday last the employes of Messrs. Murray and Crowe, builders and joiners, Victboria parade, had a pleasant surprise. Of course, Mafeking day was kept as ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Murrumbidgee River is in high flood at Gundagai, being 27 feet above summer level. It is three-quarters of a mile wide, and when the Cooma flood water comes ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Crown has issued a writ against the Queensland Trustees Limited, as administrators of the estate of the late James Tyson, claiming £68,472 for succession duty on ...
Article : 108 wordsThe market has opened. Prices for panyongs are rather higher than last season. Only a moderate business is doing. The first steamer will be the Guthrie, ...
Article : 59 wordsWith regard to the attack upon the Health department made by the Kensington council on Monday in connection with the Larsen cases, Dr. Gresswell maintains ...
Article : 185 wordsSpeaking at Riverton last night, Mr. Ward, the acting Premier, outlined the policy of the Government in railways. It is proposed to make changes amounting to a ...
Article : 387 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (Tuesday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Moderately fine, but cloudy inland generally, with light variable winds, clearing up at intervals. ...
Article : 397 wordsThe Port Melbourne council has discovered that a Crown allotment situate near Fishermen's Bend possesses exceptional advantages for the establishment of a rifle range, ...
Article : 650 wordsA deputation from the Trades and Labor Council waited on the Commissioner of Public Works to-day, and asked him to see if it were possible to raise the minimum rate ...
Article : 447 wordsSir,--I Beg to Bring under your notice the unfairness of the Railway department to its employes in regard to overtime worked during the rejoicings of Mafeking. On ...
Article : 272 wordsAt the meeting of the Essendon council on Monday Cr. Mountain said it had been rumored that a case of plague had been discovered at Moonee Ponds. It appeared that ...
Article : 189 wordsThe second trial of Isabella Elizabeth Downey, on the charge of murdering Ellen Butler by performing an illegal operation upon her, was proceeded with at the Criminal Court yesterday. Mr. ...
Article : 763 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:--Weather Chart, Tuesday, 29th May, at 9 a.m.--.An extensive urea of high atmospheric pressure ...
Article : 285 wordsSir,--At a meeting of the Newport shops employes, held last Tuesday, it was resolved that if the Government did not grant a holiday for the Wednesday (Mafeking day), ...
Article : 203 wordsThe mayor of Port Melbourne, at last night's meeting of the local council, drew attention to the insanitary condition of the railway pier under the Custom House ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Premier, on being asked to-day what attitude the Government had assumed with regard to the Cape cable question, replied that as Mr. Warren, the representative of ...
Article : 69 wordsUp to date over 2500 rats have been paid for and destroyed by the Port Melbourne council. Since the price was raised to 6d. per head there has been a steady increase in ...
Article : 40 wordsA protracted meeting of the local bubonic plague conference was held last evening at the town ball to consider matters generally in connection with the prevention of the ...
Article : 419 wordsIn the Dominion House of Commons today, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, called attention to the Ottawa and Hull fire, which had made at least 12,000 people ...
Article : 249 wordsOn Sunday night, while Patrick Veale, a member of the Bunbury rifle volunteers, was proceeding to Bunbury for the review, he was "stuck up" by two men, who ...
Article : 194 wordsThe question of substituting Fremantle for Perth as a port of call for the English mail steamers is still being discussed. The latest development is that Mr. ...
Article : 175 wordsA wood splitter named Joseph Hylands met with a fatal accident at Fish Creek, South Gippsland, yesterday. He was engaged in preparing timber required for mining purposes at pit[?]eld, and while ...
Article : 163 wordsA carpenter nooned Alfred Clark, residing at Hanover street, Fiizroy, was plaintiff yesterday in a County Court action against J. B. M'Cubbin, police constable, of North Fitzroy. He claimed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsMr. Morrison opened an inquest at the Morgue yesterday in the case of Thomas Fricker, aged 35, booking clerk at the Glenferrie railway station, who fell between the platform and a train in ...
Article : 163 wordsThe body of an elderly man named Michael O'Brien was yesterday found in Moonee Ponds Creek. Deceased was 70 years of age, and lived at 20 Robb street, Moonee Ponds. He left home at 6 ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is the intention of the Government to keep the telegraph offices in the principal towns open continuously day and night. A school of electric engineering is to be ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. Martha Davies, of Marlborough street, Balaclava, was prosecuted in the St. Kilda police court yesterday on a charge of cruelty to a dog. The evidence disclosed that on 15th inst. defendant ...
Article : 145 wordsA very enjoyable evening was spent at the Qeen's-bridge Hotel at a banquet tendered by the employes of Messrs. Busst and Bills Bros, to the senior partner, Mr. W. A. Busst, prior to his ...
Article : 130 wordsMURTOA.--The season is one of the most propitious ever known in the Wimmera district. The early sown wheat crops look splendid, and sowing operations arc being continued with all possible ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 30 May 1900, Page 8
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