The annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was held in the Town Hall last night. The hall was packed half an hour before the advertised ...
Article : 1,017 wordsThe Board of Lands and Works-yesterday accepted a tender for the construction of the third group of the new rifle ranges at Williamstown, the contract price being ...
Article : 141 wordsTwo cases of plague were reported today, viz., Mrs. Monaghan, living at Darlington, and Patrick Butler, living and employed in the city. Butler is dead. He is ...
Article : 102 wordsThe terms arranged-by the market, committee of the City Council with the Government for increased accommodation at the Flinders-street Freezing Works were the ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Premier, Sir William Lyne, received news from Tasmania to-day of the serious illness of his futher, who is in his 91st year. The telegrams urged Sir William to come ...
Article : 125 wordsThe court of marine inquiry, consisting of Mr. Panton (chairman), Captain Goodrham and Mr. Dunbar, M.I.M.E., yesterday continued the taking of evidence as to the ...
Article : 731 wordsThe miner, James Hicks, who, according to his own statement, was some weeks ago "brutally assaulted" by two men in Skipton-street, died on Thursday in the ...
Article : 294 wordsThe local riflemen are becoming disheartened at the uniform, badness of the ammunition supplied to them, and regulation musketry is greatly delayed in consequence, as ...
Article : 383 wordsAt the local court of petty sessions, before Mr. W. W. Greene, P.M., and Cr. Sutcliff, J.P., John Gleeson, farmer, of Kaneira, was charged on the information of ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is gratifying to be still able to report that no further cases of bubonic plague have been reported in this colony. Dr. Greswell yesterday received information of a ...
Article : 282 wordsCirculars have been issued by the Justice department to benches of magistrates throughout the country stating that good grounds exise for believing that honorary ...
Article : 97 wordsThe suggestion was made by Cr. Russell at the meeting of the Hawthorn council on Wednesday that the Government should apply to the British War Office for some ...
Article : 146 wordsOwing to the increase of foxes in the district, fox hunting is again popular, and at a meet at Corndale two foxes were run down. Amongst the party was Mr. E. B. ...
Article : 54 wordsQuite a commotion was created in King-street this evening when some officers of the city council proceeded to fence off a large hotel in that thoroughfare. It was at first ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. R. B. Sibley, an old resident, died on Thursday morning from shock and injuries sustained through being thrown from his buggy while returning to his home from the ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, on the second reading of the Federal Enabling Bill, Mr. Harper said that last session he opposed the referendum, as the people at that ...
Article : 329 wordsIt is reported that the forest ranger and the police have seized over 500 telegraph poles, which have been cut by a resident of this town, who, it is alleged, has not the ...
Article : 60 wordsSome weeks ago the Government decided to increase the establishment of the Victorian Mounted Rides, and set apart a sum of about £'2000 for that purpose. Such ...
Article : 169 wordsIn Parramatta. Asylum for the Infirm is an old man named Nathan Young, who served in the Mormon battalion of the United States army in the Mexican war of ...
Article : 502 wordsIn connection with the recent sad burning fatality at Mr. Hans Irvine's vineyard, Great Western, when Mr. H. V. Radcliff was burnt to death, owing to some spirit ...
Article : 1,107 wordsJames Brown, the fireman on the steamer South Australian, who developed bubonic plague during a recent voyage of that vessel from New South Wales ports, and who was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsOn Thursday evening Mr. Shelton, president; Mr. Roberts, vice-president, and Mr. Wise, of the board of directors of the A.N.A., arrived in Bendigo to attend a ...
Article : 335 wordsAn impression is said to prevail in certain quarters that the Health department's ship berthing regulations apply only to Melbourne. The regulations apply to every ...
Article : 32 wordsBefore leaving for England, the Railway Commissioner, Mr. Mathieson, drafted regulations dealing with the facilities to be afforded members of rifle clubs for travelling ...
Article : 196 wordsSir,--In reference to your article in to-day's issue on Our Lunatic Asylums, I would like to point out that, although our Lunacy Act 1890 does not provide the ...
Article : 211 wordsThe clinician of the Central Board of Health informed the board at its meeting on Wednesday that the Minister of Health had sanctioned the appointment of a public ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the Essendon council on Monday, complaint was made that Dr. Gresswell had visited a house at Moonee Ponds re an alleged plague ease, and had not ...
Article : 163 wordsAfter the football match between Williamstown and Port Melbourne last .Saturday, it was reported that one of the Port Melbourne supporters who had accompanied the team to Williamstown on ...
Article : 318 wordsTwo men, named John D. Dyke and J. D. Kruse, fell into the hands of the police in an unexpected manner yesterday, and were locked up at the City Watch House ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Minister of Defence states that the department has in its possession about 7000 rifles available for distribution amongst the clubs, and a further parcel of 1500 ...
Article : 335 wordsOn Thursday a large number of prominent townspeople gathered at the town hall to witness the formal opening of the Geelong Art Gallery. Mr. S. Austin, M.L.C. ...
Article : 365 wordsTO-DAY'S FORECASTS. ...
Article : 347 wordsMatters m Brisbane remain quiet. The suspicious case of sickness aboard the Peregrine has been pronounced not to be plague, but probably typhoid, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 634 wordsA deputation of business men waited on the managers of the three principal steamship companies to-day to protest against the proposal to charge 1 per ton outward ...
Article : 140 wordsWhat Happened to Jones, which has enjoyed the most successful run of any farce comedy yet produced in Melbourne, will be performed for the Inst time to-night, at tlie ...
Article : 245 wordsThe new abattoirs which have been erected by the South Melbourne city council are now practically completed, and operations commence today, under the superintendence of Mr. A. Cameron. ...
Article : 203 wordsAt the Caulfield council on Wednesday, Cr. Wood Stated that he had seen Mr. Mathieson, Commissioner of Railways, before the latter's departure for Europe and ...
Article : 205 wordsNearly every executive action that has yet been taken in connection with the rifle clubs lias had some objectionable feature. Readers are already acquainted with the ...
Article : 472 wordsMr. W. F. Rudall, of Western Australia, who did such splendid work in searching for the ill-fated Calvert expedition in tho Great Sandy Desert, is spending a holiday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- Weather Chart, Thursday, 31st May, at 9 a.m. High [?] pressure (above 30.3 in.) covers ...
Article : 245 wordsAt the inquest on the death of John Hayman, station master at Walhaway, the jury found that death was due to a revolver shot, self inflicted in fit of temporary insanity. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe adjourned inquest on the body of Samuel Rolleston, found in a cutting on the railway line between Guildford and Yapeen, was resumed on Thursday evening. The ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,--I have no wish to further prolong this correspondence and take up your yaluable space. The whole facts having been brought out, the public can form their own ...
Article : 279 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man named William Robinson of the charge of imposition, connected with which are some singular circumstances. A few ...
Article : 305 wordsThe monthly meeting of the council was held at the college on Monday evening; Mr. J. Nixon in the chair. It was decided, in view of the increase in numbers attending the coach ...
Article : 139 wordsAn unfortunate accident on Tuesday resulted in the death by drowning of a fine little boy named John Saunders Cook, the son of Mr. Walter Cook, of Hallam's-road. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Minister of Education has in contemplation the introduction of a District High School Bill. The effect of the measure, if adopted, will be to revolutionise the present ...
Article : 153 wordsSince yesterday morning nearly 1 inch of rain has been recorded. ...
Article : 17 wordsA large and varied collection of pictures will be sold this afternoon at the gallery of Messrs. Robert A. Forbes and Son, 364 Collins-street. Among the oil paintings, and of more than passing ...
Article : 244 wordsA meeting of ladies was held at the town hall, S(. Hilda, yesterday (the mayor of St. Kilda presiding), for the purpose of arranging for a St. Hilda and Caulfield refreshment stall at the bazaar ...
Article : 104 wordsNews has been received from Wyalong, New South Wales, of the death of Mrs. Thos. Jones, mother of the little girl Reta Jones, who was murdered here on Boxing ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Benevolent Asylum committee met yesterday; Mr. Ridley presiding. The house committee reported, relative to a statement in the press recently that bodies wore obtained from charitable ...
Article : 143 wordsA combined depuration from the Bendigo and Strathfieldsaye councils interviewed the Minister of Lands yesterday, and urged that the old rifle range at Back Creek, Bendigo ...
Article : 222 wordsAt the Caulfield council on Wednesday a return was presented by the Metropolitan Board of Works allowing that the water consumed by the various Government departments was valued at £219,496. ...
Article : 121 wordsThomas Stevens, aged 36, describing himself as a cook, was locked up yesterday by Detective Sergeant O'Donnell and Detective Hawkins on a charge of stealing a monkey, the property of John ...
Article : 109 wordsThe City Council on Wednesday asked the Caulfield council's co-operation in adopting a uniform method of exterminating rats. Cr. Lloyd moved that the City Council be informed that the ...
Article : 105 wordsMrs J. M. Hall, licensee of the American Hotel, in Swahston-street, yesterday reported to the Russell-street police a robbery committed in a mysterious manner at her house. Entrance was in some ...
Article : 85 wordsAn elderly man named Stirling met with a peculiar accident at Pine Lodge. While engaged in ploughing he was seized with a fit, and falling forward he struck his face with ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 1 Jun 1900, Page 6
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