A serious buggy accident occurred in Market-square on Monday. Mr. H. Walton, dairyman and market gardener, of Grassy Flat, was driving a horse and double-seated ...
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Article : 843 wordsTo-morrow the first Governor-General of United Australia will proclaim the birth of the Commonwealth, and inaugurate a whirl of festivities framed on a scale which will ...
Article : 3,423 wordsMessrs. D. Cohen and Co.'s bulk stores and bond, on the Sandhills, Newcastle, were destroyed by fire this morning. The fire brigades, owing to their inadequate ...
Article : 148 wordsThe fears of heavy rain entertained by the residents in and visitors to Sydney were justified at 7.15 p.m., when a heavy thunderstorm passed over the city, and for half ...
Article : 272 wordsTo-morrow Lord Tennyson will be sworn in as Governor of the State in the town hall. Military sports will be held on the Jubilee Oval. A Continental concert, under the ...
Article : 237 wordsA fire broke out in Mr. W. H. Crowe's crop, six miles south of Finley, this evening, and burnt up to Mr. T. Loughman's boundary fence. The fire is now burning fiercely ...
Article : 59 wordsMrs. Drummond, widow of the late J. C. Drummond, a selector at Naraghi, last night, it is reported, in a fit of frenzy, murdered one of her children with an axe. Mr. ...
Article : 231 wordsI. Lot 'tis the light of the morn Over the mountains breaking. And our Empire's day is born, ...
Article : 1,024 wordsIt is reported in London that the Earl of Carrington, formerly Governor of New South Wales, has been offered the position of High Commissioner in England for the ...
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Article : 96 wordsThough the Stock Exchange remained closed to-day, most of the principal brokers put in an appearance to talk over the collapse of the market in Lake View Consols. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe novelty of a cremation ceremony drew nearly 200 people together on Sunday morning at a spot in the bush about a mile from the town. The body to be cremated ...
Article : 162 wordsIn another column Mr. E. Joske, barrister and solicitor, announces that he will be a candidate in the Liberal and protectionist interest for the representation of Southern ...
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Article : 93 wordsSir Philip O. Fysh has announced himself as a candidate for the Federal House of Representatives. ...
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Article : 94 wordsThe Japanese contingent in Tien Tsin lately held a memorial service for those of their number who were killed in the assault on the Chinese ...
Article : 898 wordsSir Samuel Griffith to-night declined to express any opinion on anything connected with Federation. "There was a time," he said, "when I was interested in everything ...
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Article : 1,539 wordsThe distribution of prizes of the University College, Shepparton, was held in the public hall, Shepparton, on Friday evening, 21st December. Mr. Geo. Gordon, ...
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Article : 80 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Madden yesterday received the following telegrams in reply to the massages of congratulation which he on Saturday sent to Mr. ...
Article : 149 wordsAt South Melbourne court yesterday a young man named Frederick Robertson was charged with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, value 20, at the Dove Hotel on Sunday morning. Evidence was ...
Article : 161 wordsA violent storm at Narrabri this evening did considerable damage to buildings. A brick parapet in course of erection at Locke's Hotel was blown over, and Stephen Burns, a carter, was seriously injured ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Imperial and intercolonial military officers were to-day entertained by the Government on the Hawkesbury River. A special train conveyed the guests to the ...
Article : 290 wordsA hailstorm at Bombala has destroyed almost the whole of the wheat crops, which were recently estimated to represent 15,000 bushels. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsAt Collingwood court yesterday a youth named Alfred Allen was charged with wilful damage to property and also using abusive words. His father, James Allen, of Stanley-street, explained to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThe Customs department's figures for the year are not very satisfactory from the productive standpoint. During the year the value of imports was £22,559,915, showing ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the course of an interview to-day, Sir George Turner said he had heard nothing so far to lead him to believe that General Pole-Carew was to be appointed commandant of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsBallarat was ablaze last night with Government, municipal and private illuminations in honor of the inauguration of the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 745 wordsMrs. R. M'Kay has given a Union Jack to the Violet Town State school. Arrangements have been made by the board of advice and the commemoration committee for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsIn the Richmond police court last Saturday, William Ferguson was charged with assaulting Annie Angus, a young woman living with him as housekeeper, on 4th December last. Mr. Scheele ...
Article : 146 wordsDuring the past week 24 special trains, conveying federation visitors to Sydney, passed through here. About 250 persons went from Albury and district, and many ...
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Article : 132 wordsA correspondent writes to us complaining that the shire of Coburg pays only 6 per day to the laborers in its employ, whilst other municipalities pay 7. He thinks it time that the Coburg ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 1 Jan 1901, Page 6
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