The University Council recently forwarded a letter through the Governor of South Australia to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, asking that special facilities ...
Article : 726 wordsTho celebration of the anniversary of Eight Hours day had to be postponed yesterday owing to the heavy rain. At an early hour it was evident that nothing ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Watson, secretary to the Victorian Cabinet Celebrations Committee, stated yesterday that 10,000 invitations to the festivities had been issued by his staff to ...
Article : 56 wordsThe State Premier has received a proposal from Natal that 24th May be made a special holiday. Mr. See does not favor the idea, being of opinion that already there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsThe trial of Mrs. Jane Smith, charged with the murder of Patrick Conway on board the Talune, on 19th February, was commenced to-day before Mr. Acting-Justice ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsThe railway authorities promise that the service of suburban trains during the festivities incidental to the Royal visit will be much quicker than the ordinary Saturday ...
Article : 139 wordsPrivate enterprise has not been backward in providing means for the public to view the procession on the occasion of the Royal visit. For weeks past carpenters ...
Article : 670 wordsThe adjourned inquest concerning the death of the infant Ellen Perry, or Kent, the victim of the Mudgee tragedy, was concluded to-day. The jury returned a verdict ...
Article : 128 wordsIt was suggested in "The Age" on Saturday that some concessions should be made in the way of cheap railway fares for suburban sightseers travelling to and from ...
Article : 127 wordsAt 8 p.m. a dinner to commemorate the anniversary of the day was held at the Trades Hall. Mr. E. Warde, M.L.A., presided, and there was a very large ...
Article : 788 wordsThe large snip Pass of Balmaha performed the unusual feat yesterday of sailing from Moreton Bay to Brisbane. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe arrangements for the stockmen's display on Tuesday, 7th May, and Saturday, 11th May, are well advanced. The manufacture of the special uniforms is proceeding ...
Article : 114 wordsAustralians in England must have been vastly amused at the amount of "gush" that has lately appeared in the London daily papers over what an ingenious ...
Article : 604 wordsAt a meeting of the University Council yesterday, a recommendation was submitted from the professorial board regarding the University holidays to be proclaimed in ...
Article : 178 wordsSupplementing the information with regard to the non-military side of the Flemington Military Review, published in "The Age" of yesterday, the V.R.C. committee ...
Article : 445 wordsAn altercation took place on board the ketch Gambier Lass at Port Pirie to-night between the captain and one of the crew, and during the scuffle that ensued the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Commonwealth choir organised in connection with the parade of 35,000 Sunday school children in the Domain to witness the Royal welcome procession on 6th ...
Article : 303 wordsAn ornate time table is being prepared for use on the Royal train on the journey to Ballarat. The cover is of a lilac tint with red and blue borders, and the lettering ...
Article : 57 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition was held at the town hall this evening; Mr. S. H. M'Gowan presiding. It was decided ...
Article : 203 wordsAn inquest was held to-day concerning the fire which occurred at the shop of Messrs. Peterson and Ross, general carpenters and mechanical agents, in ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Wm. Gurr, Minister of Education, has had an interview with his Excellency the Governor-General, with the object of arranging for the stay of the Royal visitors ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sir Terence O'Rourke, is a passenger in the Waikare from Auckland for Sydney. The total export of green fruit last year ...
Article : 52 wordsIn his production of Wallace's best known opera, Mr. George Musgrove has evidently aid to heart the adage that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. We ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsIt has been decided that 1077 officers and men, together with a 4-gun battery of artillery, will visit Melbourne from New South Wales during the celebrations, ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Minister of Lands (Mr. Duggan) received at the Wimmera shire hall a joint deputation from the shire of Arapiles and Lowan, introduced by Mr. Stanley, M.L.A., ...
Article : 483 wordsWhen the Victorian Cabinet Celebrations Committee foresaw the possibility of the Trades and Friendly Societies' Processions, fixed for Saturday, 11th May, clashing with ...
Article : 448 wordsMdlle. Antonia Dolores, Madame Belle Cole and Mr. Philip Newbury have been engaged as vocal soloists for the civic concert to the Royal visitors, to be given in Sydney ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsFootscray.--Mr. Jacob Fotheringham will address the electors of Footscray in the Royal Hall, at 8 o'clock this evening. South-Eastern Province.--Mr. Wm. W. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe compilation of the traffic regulations to be enforced during the Royal festivities has not been completed yet, but the police and civic authorities have fixed the night ...
Article : 1,087 wordsThough the Corporation Arch on Princes-bridge will be the most dignified, none of the Melbourne arches will be more striking than that named after the late Queen, ...
Article : 181 wordsAt Parramatha police court to-day, two young men named Samuel and Joseph Arundale were charged with burglary, two other young men named Richard Shanahan and ...
Article : 241 wordsBALLARAT.--Consequent upon the heavy and continuous rain, which completely soddened the Eastern Oval, the local Eight Hours sports to have been held on Monday were postponed until ...
Article : 307 wordsThe State Premier has telegraphed Sir John Forrest, Federal Minister of Defence, suggesting that the Federal Government should pay the expenses of the troops ...
Article : 46 wordsKALGOORLIE.--The Queen Margaret, Bulong, has cleaned up for G. Hyland 10 tons for 170 oz., and for J. Menzies 22½ tons for 412 oz. The Queen Margaret are now running five head of ...
Article : 78 wordsElder, Smith and Co. state that they have received instructions from Lloyd's London office, as the result of a command from the King, to cable news of the arrival ...
Article : 139 wordsCOBDEN.--At the half yearly meeting of shareholders of the Cobden Butter Factory the chairman announced that an estimated profit of £1782 had The milk purchased amounted to ...
Article : 251 wordsA sub-committee, consisting of the representatives of the various wards of the municipality of Collingwood and members of the school board of ...
Article : 131 wordsAt a very large meeting of the Roman Catholic residents on Sunday last the following resolution were carried unanimously: ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Postmaster-General of Canada, who will represent the Dominion at the opening of the Federal Parliament; Major-General Sir H. H. Collen, K.C., member of the ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. Wm. Wilson, one of the candidates for Yarra electorate at the late Commonwealth elections, was entertained in the Collingwood town hall by members of his ...
Article : 299 wordsIn connection with its project for providing "a good square meal" for the poor of Melbourne during the Royal festivities, Mr. Watson, secretary to the Government ...
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Advertising : 394 wordsThe Victorian Government is evidently determined that the fireworks display to be given in the Domain on Friday evening, 10th May, shall eclipse anything of the kind ...
Article : 588 wordsSir,--Mr. Hinde, secretary of the Metropolitan Gas Company, challenges my statement in your issue of Friday last as to the quantity of gas that a two inch pipe will ...
Article : 79 wordsHenry Brett, chief cook of the steamer Westralia, complained to the police last night that he had been garroted in Little Bourke-street. He stated that two men met him and asked him to ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 23 Apr 1901, Page 6
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