A number of public works will be put in band immediately, in order to relieve tho widespread distress that prevails owing to, the scarcity of employment. The State ...
Article : 135 wordsIn order to facilitate the hearing of applications for old age pensions,the Treasurer yesterday issued instructions to the Crown Law department to appoint temporarily six ...
Article : 75 wordsA six-roomed unoccupied cottage in Pleasaiit-street, South Ballarat West, owned by Mrs. J. Anderson, of Lonsdale-street, has been destroyed by fire. The building was ...
Article : 224 wordsI he protectionist campaign was opened in Launceston to-night under the auspices of the Tasmanian Federal Protection' League. The mechanics' hall was crowded ...
Article : 136 wordsAlthough the Melbourne coal importers arc not yet prepared to indicate a date upon which they will renew their suspended contracts with consumers, they yesterday ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Minister o£ Defence yesterday sent a telegram to Colonel Wyndham at Brisbne, informing him of the decision of the Cabinet in favor of holding a review of ...
Article : 359 wordsThe predominating note of Mr. Reid's humorous and entertaining speech at the Albert Hall last night was of a regrettably provincial character. Mr. Reid summed it ...
Article : 628 wordsFollowing Dire first rush of applications for old age pensions, which was over before the end of last week, a steady stream, averaging about thirty or forty a ...
Article : 166 wordsAt last night's meeting of the South Melbourne council the mayor (Cr. Donald M'Arthur) said that on the occasion of the first council meeting of the new century, ...
Article : 304 wordsAnother accident, which illustrates the dangerous character of the "Zigzag" over the Blue Mountains, occurred to the up mail last week. The matter has been kept very ...
Article : 222 wordsAn infant a few days old was brought before the city bench on Wednesday, charged with being a neglected child. The little waif was found during the previous night on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 563 wordsA select committee of tho Jumbunna coal miners has been sitting for the past two days, drawing up and revising rules and conditions on which the increase of wages is to ...
Article : 193 wordsAt the coining mining board election Mr. Felstead is to be opposed in the Castlemaine division by Mr. J. Hauser and for the Fryerstown division Mr. J. Williams has three ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Bailee, M.L.A., yesterday interviewed the Minister of Defence for the purpose of ascertaining whether arrangements could be made for the Imperial Contingent to visit ...
Article : 63 wordsThe secretaries of the Thoona Bush Fire Relief Fund, Messrs. J. B. Higgins and W. J. Tonkin, report that subscriptions continue to come in. Today they estimate ...
Article : 161 wordsThe execution of Jimmy Governor, the Breelong murderer, will take place on Friday morning at Darlinghurst Gaol. The condemned man does not evince much ...
Article : 231 wordsAt the meeting of the Evangelical Council of New South Wales the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:-- 1. This council declares that under the ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Britannic, with the Imperial troops, and the Orient, with tho returned Queens- landers, arrived in Moreton Bay early this morning. The Government steam yacht ...
Article : 314 wordsThere is a complete block for want of trucks at the local railway station. The goods shed and platform are packed with grain. Wood carters are not able to fulfil ...
Article : 331 wordsThe two Gordon Institute boys--Charles Lemner, charged with indecent assault, and William Trudgeon, charged with careless use of fire--were brought before .Mr. H. ...
Article : 146 wordsIn view of the fact that no cases of plague or suspicious illness have been reported for 32 days, the port of Brisbane is to be declared clean on Monday next. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn order in the following terms was issued by the Governor in Council to day:-- The Executive Council recommend his Excellency to issue an Order, in Council varying the ...
Article : 195 wordsAn elderly woman named Mary Humphreys has been arrested on a oharge of perjury arising out of the hearing of a charge of selling liquor without a licence ...
Article : 142 wordsThis is what a Sydney paper thinks of the free-trade champion and his intercolonial tour:--"The apostle of a tariff that is neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herring ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsWith reference to the suggested postponement of the visit of the Imperial troops to South Australia, in order to allow them to proceed to New Zealand, the Premier says ...
Article : 50 wordsSir,--That the qualification for electors for the Legislative Council is too restricted is admitted, and that a wider basis should be substituted is imperative. In the case ...
Article : 351 wordsThe work of effecting the necessary repairs to the boiler which exploded on Monday morning, is being pushed on with by the Alain Leads Company, and will be ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Secretary for the Colonies, has cabled the. Aeting-Governor that the War Office has agreed that the Imperial troops now in Australia shall visit New Zealand. It is ...
Article : 209 wordsThe first of the inter-State cheap excursion trains from Adelaide to Melbourne this year was despatched' to-night, when the barrier system was introduced for the first ...
Article : 123 wordsA Nhill jockey--Harry Lavery-- has put un what must surely be a record. lie rode at the Bordertown races, and swept the card, winning' the whole six events. Seeing that his mounts were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsMr. Kingston, Federal Minister of Customs, who is now on his way to Brisbane, is expected in Melbourne next week, lie has as yet given no inkling as to which of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 318 wordsA young man named John Greenbank, aged 20, on Tuesday attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor rend hitting himself on the head with an ...
Article : 50 wordsThere was a large attendance of farmer at the court to-day when the cases aris[?] out of the prosecutions under the Versa Destruction Act were called. Mr. C. W. ...
Article : 361 wordsThe steamer Australian arrived from Hong Kong on Sunday and sailed on Monday morning. The steamer Eastern arrived on Monday from southern ports, and sailed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsThe action of the Charlton Water Works Trust commissioners in refusing to avail themselves of the water supply conserved in the railway dam now that the town supply ...
Article : 1,940 wordsA sensational shooting accident took place about 8.30 o'clock to-night at Langwarrin Camp, when Miss Hunter was shot. Several boys had been out shooting, and were ...
Article : 130 wordsIn acknowledgment of a letter of congratulation, the South Melbourne council has received a reply from the Governor-General, the concluding paragraph of which ...
Article : 104 wordsA well attended meeting of shopkeepers in the, Malvern and Armadale districts was held at the Malvern Tradesmen's Club last night, with a view to organising for tho protection of the interests ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsSir,--As a New South Wales protectionist who has watched closely the course of events during the last few weeks, I desire through you to tell the protectionists of ...
Article : 459 wordsCr. John Doeg, of the Prahran city council, was assaulted and robbed by footpads in The Avenue, Windsor, at 1.45 a.m. yesterday as he was returning home from an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsAlt the meeting of tho general purposes committee of the city council yesterday two of the mayor's private cheques were presented, the amounts totalling about £75. These ...
Article : 116 wordsA young laundress named Caroline Emmerson, who was suspected of having stolen articles of clothing and jewellery from Mr. J. Rowe, of Highett-street, Richmond, in whose house she had ...
Article : 285 wordsIn opening the recently formed Ot[?] Lodge, to be known as the "Lord Roberts, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Simon Fraser M.L.C., grandmaster of the order in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 17 Jan 1901, Page 6
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