At a meeting of the Railways Committee yesterday, further evidence was taken on the project to construct a cross country railway to connect the Northern, the ...
Article : 188 wordsA very sad accident happened yesterday evening in Mount Alexander-road, Moonee Ponds, resulting in the death of Miss Mary M'Gregor, aged eighteen years. In the ...
Article : 302 wordsA powerful looking negro named Thomas Anderson was placed on trial to-day for the abduction of a girl named Jessie May. M'Kay, aged fifteen years and ten months, ...
Article : 164 wordsOne of the most interesting fixtures on -the Government programme for the Royal festivities is the great State school children's fete, to he given at the Exhibition Oval on ...
Article : 562 wordsIn the absence from Melbourne of three members of the Federal Cabinet, nothing was decided yesterday with regard to any of the more important questions now ...
Article : 945 wordsSir,--It is announced that tho new riverside drive is to boast the euphonious [?] title of ''Boulevard Taverner," a verbal atrocity Worthy of "Stratford-atte- Bowe" ...
Article : 101 wordsThe citizens committee has received a donation of £10 from the Mayor of Melbourne towards its arch fund. ...
Article : 22 wordsPreliminary steps are being taken towards the formation of a combination of millers, flour merchants, manufacturers and others for the purpose of regularly ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Chamber of Manufactures, as already intimated, is to be represented at the forthcoming celebrations by a column which is to be erected at the corner of ...
Article : 85 wordsConsiderable interest centres in the composition of and regulations governing the Royal train which is to convey the Duke and Duchess of York to Ballarat on ...
Article : 528 wordsAn appeal for money for the equipment of the Queen Victoria memorial pavilions of the Prince Alfred Hospital, the foundation stone of which will be laid by the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe committee will meet again next Tuesday to take evidence with regard to the proposed narrow gauge railway to Tolmic. The witnesses to be examined on that ...
Article : 217 wordsAction has been taken on a letters from the Federal Cabinet in regard to the Federal capital site, suggesting that a larger area than ten miles square should be ...
Article : 112 wordsOwing to the somewhat irksome stringency of the regulations for sea traffic on 6th May, issued by the office of Ports raid Harbors, the proposed demonstration of ...
Article : 114 wordsA largely attended meeting of the Railway League of Wentworth was held lust evening. the mayor presiding. The following motion was carried:-- ...
Article : 432 wordsThe case of plague discovered at the Beatrice Coffee Palace, Murray-street, yesterday, has been succeeded by a second case in the same building. The patient is Henry ...
Article : 190 wordsThe riotous scene at tho Clarence United mine at Englehawk was the general subject of conversation to-day, and in anticipation of a further outbreak several constables ...
Article : 267 wordsThe complete returns of the Senatorial elections disclose some interesting and peculiar features. The largest vote secured by a candidate in any one electorate was ...
Article : 122 wordsFor the purpose of relieving itself of responsibility, the Government instituted early in its festivities preparations a press committee to deal with newspaper ...
Article : 144 wordsThe situation with regard to the water famine here is rapidly becoming more serious. The whole supply of the town is now as salt us the ocean. Throughout ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsIn reply to Mr. R. Thos. Chenoweth, the District Chief, Ruler of the Independent Order of Rechabites, the general secretary of the Commonwealth celebrations states ...
Article : 53 wordsSince the terrible disaster occurred to the steamer Federal and the schooner Louisa Lamont, every scrap of wreckage washed up on the Victorian coast has been specially ...
Article : 301 wordsThe constituents of Mr. J. M. Chanter, M.P. for Riverina, are arranging to tender to that gentleman a complimentary banquet at Moama. Several members of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe American warship [?], which is proceeding to Melbourne to take part in the naval demonstration on the arrival of the Duke of Cornwall and York, passed Goode ...
Article : 38 wordsThe R.M.S. Orizaba arrived from London at 1 a.m. to-day, with the following first saloon passengers on board:--For Fremantle--Mr. and Mrs. Israel, Messrs. Mephan Ferguson and J. W. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe celebrations committee having decided that veterans of the navy and army who have war medals are to be accommodated with a place on the Parliament House ...
Article : 123 wordsA preliminary meeting of Mr. Duncan M'Bryde's supporters was held at Scott's Hotel, on Wednesday. There were upwards of 80 gentlemen present, the chair being ...
Article : 108 wordsA family dispute regarding the interpretation of the null of the late John Edgar Huggard, formerly of Murchison, farmer, was brought before the Chief Justice in the ...
Article : 505 wordsNearly six hours close attention was given yesterday and on Wednesday by the Town Clerk of Melbourne and Chief Inspector O'Callaghan to tho traffic regulations ...
Article : 125 wordsA writ has been issued for the election at Mackay to fill the lute Mr. Chataway's seat. Polling will take place on 11th May. A disastrous fire took place at ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Californian mail steamer Sonoma arrived to-day from Sun Francisco. During the passage the port engine broke down on three occasions, owing to the pistons cracking, and tho vessel was ...
Article : 212 wordsA meeting was Held m the mechanics institute last night to arrange for a monster picnic for the school children to celebrate the arrival of the Duke of York and the ...
Article : 320 wordsAn inquiry into the collision between the steamer Investigator and the schooner Mary Webster, near Port Adelaide lighthouse, on 13th April, was commenced ...
Article : 286 wordsMore timber has been cut up and sent out of the yards during the past four weeks than during any similar period in the history of Victoria," remarked a timber ...
Article : 194 wordsThe fitzroy Labor League last night finally selected Mr. P. J. O'Connor as the candidate to run in the Labor interest for the Fitzroy seat which will be vacated ...
Article : 60 wordsThe committee appointed at Wednesday's meeting to collect subscriptions on behalf of the sufferers from the wreck of the Federal and the Louisa Lamont will meet at ...
Article : 167 wordsA petition to the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, is in course of signature in Fiji, praying for an elective Legislative Council, that a royal ...
Article : 99 wordsThe [?] man steamer Sonoma brings the following American commercial news:--SAN FRANCISCO, 20th March.--Since the Sierra left, 17,865 tons of coal have been delivered from ...
Article : 305 wordsThe board of management of the Young Men's Christian Association has forwarded the following letter to the Premier:--Sir,--The board of management of the Young ...
Article : 211 wordsA conference of the land owners of Riverina was held at Nurandera yesterday to consider the rabbit pest. It was resolved that the whole State of New South Wales ...
Article : 209 wordsSir,--I see in your list of Tuesday's issue re the Federal a statement that Sydney Harris, chief steward, leaves no children. I beg state he leaves a widow and one ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Premier, accompanied by Mr. F. C. Mason, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and several members of Parliament, visited the Exhibition Building yesterday. ...
Article : 219 wordsSir,--I am pleased that my letter has helped to bring the aboriginal question prominently before the public. Regarding Sir John Forrest, as reported in "The ...
Article : 482 wordsThe ease of Anthony Best v. King, a claim for £1000 damages for alleged wrongful imprisonment and injury, was concluded to-day, when the jury returned a verdict ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Rutledge has received a telegram from Melbourne, stating that 250 representative persons have been invited as special guests of the Victorian Government to ...
Article : 133 wordsA meeting of Fitzroy ratepayers was held at the Brunswick Family Hotel, Brunswick-street, last night, to discuss the action of the local council in connection with the ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the course of a sermon delivered by the Rev. Father O'Farrell, Superior of the Redemptorist Fathers in Australia, at St. Kilian's pro-Cathedral this evening, the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe first monotype set up in Australia has been established at the Government Printing Office, and has proved to be very successful. ...
Article : 88 wordsINGLEWOOD.--At the invitation of Mr. Jas. Hedley, of Bendigo, chairman of the Great Columbian Company, a number of residents, including the mayor (Mr. Geo, Nixon), visited the mine to ...
Article : 165 wordsErnest Montgomery Jones was tried at Turn worth to-day for the murder of Alfred Pitman on 1st November last at Whelan's Creek. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Under-Secretary will leave for Melbourne next week in connection with the Federal Parliament festivities. In honor of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 171 wordsA decree nisi has been granted in the case of Simms v. Simms and Martin. The husband, petitioner, is a Christchurch merchant, and the co-respondent is an ex-judge ...
Article : 65 wordsThe latest move of the foreign trader and his journalistic supporters is to make the fiscal issue a live question at the forthcoming State elections. The junior morning ...
Article : 493 wordsOrders for the compulsory sequestration of the estates of the following were signed yesterday in the Practice Court by Mr. Justice Hood, on the motion of Mr. Woolf:-- ...
Article : 49 wordsA rumor gained currency this morning that the fishing ketch Elsinore had been lost in the gales which proved so disastrous to tho Federal and Louisa Lamont. The ...
Article : 170 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of. the executive committee of the Duchess of York's Women's welcome was held in the Town Hall on Thursday morning. Miss Chomley ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 wordsADELAIDE,--The following are the scratchings in connection with the S.A.J.C, Autumn meeting:--Goodwood Handicap: Dumps, Nita, Carlyon, The Watch Dog. Steeplchase; The Sheik, All ...
Article : 52 wordsAn annoying railway mock occurred on the Box Hill lino,last night, and theatregoers returning by late trains were seriously inconvenienced. The 11.5 p.m. train to ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,--Allow me to call your attention to the Gas Company's charges for illumination purposes on the occasion of the approaching visit of the Duke and Duchess of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsIt is probable that the majority of people in the city who desire to erect stands for the accommodation of sightseers during the festivities have already obtained the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 19 Apr 1901, Page 6
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