The board appointed by the Government to inquire into certain matters relating to the Metropolitan Board of Works continued its sittings yesterday at the Crown ...
Article : 883 wordsIn the Assembly this evening, Mr. Cook drew attention to a published statement that "unemployed" gangs were industriously ringbarking dead trees on the stock ...
Article : 350 wordsThe final sitting of the intercolonial conference of fruit experts was held yesterday at the Agricultural department. The members present were Messrs. W. ...
Article : 678 wordsThe Municipal Association to-day reviewed the Municipalities Act Amending Bill, which was generally approved, though the extension of the franchise to lodgers ...
Article : 67 wordsTo judge by the numerical array of reverend gentlemen in Mr. Justice a T[?]ckett's court yesterday, a keen denominational interest is evinced in an action brought by ...
Article : 578 wordsMrs. Newton Wanliss, daughter-in-law of Mr. T. D. Wanliss, ex-M.L.C., died on Thursday, aged 33. She was a daughter of Mr. John Boyd, grazier, of Nambool, and ...
Article : 331 wordsThe exhaustive inquiry into the causes of the ballast train fatality at Fairfield on 9th August was brought to a termination at the Law Courts yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,285 wordsA well-attended meeting of residents was held here yesterday to form a branch of the Berrigan-Barooga Railway Extension League. Mr. T. M'Farland presided. It ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Governor in Council has approved of permission being given to the Chillagoe Company to construct a further section (25 miles) of the Mareeba to Chillagoe railway ...
Article : 81 wordsThe police have been advised that a black cutter, from seaward, dropped anchor at Seaforth Island, 50 miles south of Bowen, on 10th September. She is supposed to ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Princess Royal Station, close to the Burra, containing 19,000 acres of freehold, with 11,700 sheep, besides horses, &c., has been sold at auction to Mr. John Tennant, ...
Article : 229 wordsA fire occurred in the hay and corn store owned and occupied by Mr. Ralph Jones, at Golden Square, on Thursday night. When discovered the fire had a good hold, and the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe conference occupied over six hours, and failed to arrive at an amicable settlement. When this announcement was made in the Assembly, the Opposition demanded ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Rifle, and How to Use It, was the subject of a lecture given by Piper W. Ison, of the Scottish Regiment, in connection with an entertainment, under the auspices of the Carlton Rifle Club, ...
Article : 255 wordsAt a special meeting on Thursday of the committee of the Geelong Agricultural Society to devise some means of making up the loss on the recent show, as the result of ...
Article : 103 wordsSir,--At the election at the University on Friday last, when the candidates were the Rev. Mr. Sugden and Judge Molesworth, the Rev. R. Stephen, who is ...
Article : 1,107 wordsThe Empire Bazaar finished its week's run on Wednesday evening, when it was well patronised, £93 being taken. The net result from the bazaar is £655, which is ...
Article : 59 wordsNews from Albany to-day states that the steamer Windsor has not sailed for Durban, as all the sailors and firemen have refused to go to sea in her owing to the manner in ...
Article : 234 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Premier, in reply to a question, said that the power of the State Parliament to impose duties of customs and excise does not cease on the ...
Article : 104 wordsIt was mentioned the other day that Mr. Pearson, the great London publisher, had been endeavoring to arrange a series of international Morris tube matches, and that the colony of Victoria had ...
Article : 957 wordsThe dead body of an elderly married woman named Elizabeth Mehaffey, wife of John Mehaffey, living at North Portland, was found this morning at the foot of a cliff ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsAt Lochiel, four miles and a half from Dimboola, on Tuesday, Julia Sugg, aged 15, daughter of a well-known farmer, had her right hand shattered by the explosion of a ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Lewis has telegraphed Sir Richard Baker, of Adelaide, as follows, in connection with the Great Western railway scheme:-I have received the ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly, the Premier introduced a bill for the construction of a railway from Coolgardie to Norseman. The second reading was fixed for Tuesday next. ...
Article : 204 wordsEarly this morning a man named Wm. Grieve, aged about 60, who had been in the district for a fortnight, was found dead at the bottom of a quarry near Gisborne. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsThe coupon entrance system, tried for the first time on Wednesday at the Children's Hospital bazaar, proved so successful that the stall takings were improved by over £150 for that day alone. ...
Article : 266 wordsAt the criminal sitting of the Supreme Court to-day, Ralph Watson was charged with maliciously wounding James Scaletti, at Mount William, on 3rd August last. The ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Rev. George Gladstone announces that on Sunday next he will take as his subject, Do the Officers of the I.O.O.F. Justly Represent Their Society? The Oddfellows of ...
Article : 126 wordsMrs. Davies, licensee of the Sydney Hotel, Elizabeth-street, the oldest publican in the city, died to-day, after a brief illness. ...
Article : 43 wordsAs the outcome of the recent disclosures before the royal commission appointed to inquire into the management of the Stoke Industrial School, a Roman Catholic ...
Article : 142 wordsA meeting of railway employes and public servants holding policies in the Australian Mutual Provident Life Assurance Society was held in the supper room of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsA gardener named Thomas Paul was charged at Prahran yesterday with having indecently assaulted his stepdaughter, Edith Richards, aged 13. The wife of accused explained to the bench that ...
Article : 226 wordsA man named Rody O'Neill, aged 74, was charged at the court of petty sessions today with having attempted to take his life by means of strychnine. Accused, who has ...
Article : 192 wordsAt the City Court yesterday five seamen, named Robert Purvis, Alexander Counday, Richard Lambelt, Arnut Andersen and Conrad Thorsen, and Arthur Young, an English barrister, were charged ...
Article : 314 wordsSeveral residents of Elsternwick asked the Caulfield council on Wednesday evening to provide means by which they could reach the Elsternwick station from the neighborhood of Orrong-road. Mr. ...
Article : 162 wordsBIRCHIP.--The first match between the Birchip and Hopetoun clubs was shot off on Wednesday, each team shooting on its own ground. The conditions were seven shots at 400 and 500 yards, 12 ...
Article : 419 wordsAt the City Court yesterday, Herbert Wiggins was charged with unlawfully wounding Mr. James Moloney, solicitor. Mr. Gillott, at the outset, asked the bench to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsSergeant Hore received advice to-day that Mrs. Carnie, who stands charged with the murder of her two children in connection with the recent poisoning case at Naring ...
Article : 1,548 wordsTwo candidates have been nominated for the extraordinary vacancy in the North ward of the Kew borough caused by the resignation of Cr. William Howieson, viz., H. C. A. Harrison and T. G. ...
Article : 45 wordsA few days ago Mr. W. Marsh, proprietor of a bicycle business, left his own bicycle outside a shop in Elizabeth-street for a few minutes, and on returning saw a man riding away on it at a great ...
Article : 208 wordsThe inquest regarding the death of John Thompson, aged 19, apprentice on the ship Loch Katrine, who was drowned at 2 a.m. on Sunday during the fight between members of the crew of his ship and ...
Article : 204 wordsKALGOORLIE.--The South Kalgurli is raising high grade ore from the south drive on Consols lode at 600 feet. The are supplies coming to the surface from the various levels are more ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 21 Sep 1900, Page 6
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